Maybe they can't win a court case, but they could probably get at least 1 mega$ settlement by suing Walmart, Circuit City, Fry's, Target, and Gamestop.
* black (sometimes Asian) cop, white cop * family man has crisis, family is there for him, or he discovers he doesn't need them * quest to kill bad guy * boy learns he has special gift, and then goes to avenge his parents/guardians * some tragedy strikes a town (such as monster attack), and a small group of people must kill monster, etc, or maybe leave. * hunted man must escape to freedom and kill his hunters * some guy must solve a series of obscure puzzles to find treasure/kidnapped girlfriend or family member/save world
There's actually probably a few dozen movie plots. But I'm pretty none of them are copyrightable.
There's not much we can do about the rotation of the Earth. If you're in the USA, and you call someone in Japan, their schedule is not going to the same as yours. Period. However, I suppose we could move the entire population of Earth to Texas. Then we'd all be in the same time zone.
Because Daylight Saving Time is a method to control people. Without DST, business will start at 8 or 9, and then quit at 5 or 6. By implementing DST, the government can effectively coerce these businesses to start at 7 or 8, and quit at 4 or 5. If DST was permanent, businesses would gradually go back to what their customers want them to do, and start at 8 or 9 (but will be called 9 or 10). Then the government would have to add another hour to force the businesses back another hour.
Basically, the clock is just a label. If the government stops shifting the clock around, and gives every point in time a constant label, then it just becomes an unbiased way to label the day, and no longer a way to control people.
Your argument is entirely moot. There are multiple OS's, long distance service, and washing machine companies. You can take your pick. Apparently, in your area, there are at least two different "broadband" ISPs, and one of them is acceptable to you. However, in general, at least in the USA, there is no competition in regards to TV and ISPs. There are also no reliable cell phone networks, because some people would get mad if we chopped down all the trees and put a repeater on every lamp-post.
Spending money wisely does not mean getting the cheapest thing possible. Quality matters. A rich person can afford an extra $50-100/mo without sweating, and would probably pay it for the convenience and reliability. Plus the fact that the value of a business call for someone with high income is exponentially more valuable than a business call for someone with low income.
A savvy spender doesn't give a damn whether the cell will not get a signal for 50 minutes during the year, instead of five minutes, if the costs he will incur are double.
Well, sure, if you make up numbers, you can make anything look silly. (1 year - 50 min) / 1 year is greater than 99.999%. Cell phone coverage isn't anywhere near that. Even TV and internet don't come close to that. In some areas land-line phones don't even hit that mark. The mark you set is even higher than land-line phones are required to hit.
Saying that there isn't a market at all for reliability is just silly.
I think the answer is, "Because we are cheap." It would cost twice as much to increase reliability from 99% to 99.999%. And most of us just don't need those extra 9's. That being said, there is a market for 99.999. Upper-middle class and higher would pay for it. Businesses would pay for it. It just isn't as big a market, from what I've observed.
Also, no competition in many areas. Cable TV was mentioned. Internet access. I don't know about other countries, but most places in the USA, you get what they give you, and if you want more, you can lay your own fiber.
There is no honesty in advertisement. Some places will advertise 99.9 or higher, but will not deliver. You could probably get your money back. But you would have to spend a couple of hours on the phone every month, just to demand your money back. Eventually, the service provider might drop you as a customer.
Here's the problem. Not everybody who uses a computer is a programmer.
My solution is to wait for these devices to get better. I've used similar, and I highly doubt that this thing is worth it's own weight in salt, at least to an end-user. Eventually, however, these things will be better, and more common. If Linux hasn't gotten more popular yet, then maybe most devices will not have a Linux driver. On the other hand, maybe these will all share a driver. Keyboards and mice, for example, unless really bizarre, all work in Linux.
If these things have the potential I think they do, then one day many companies will be selling them. At least one of them will have a Linux driver. I will buy from one of them.
It is also worth noting that TFA does not mention OS, or drivers. It is possible that this thing already runs in Linux.
As it is now, any number of things can allow someone to impersonate me, most of them involving a thief getting my personal information from somebody else. There is little I can do about it.
With a secure authentication system, the only way someone could impersonate me is if I make a mistake. Much better. The old fashioned "username and password are the same" needs to go.
since in the future everyone's basic needs will be met
As the "western world" has shown us, when a person's basic needs have been met, they just come up with more needs. When a person does not need food, water and shelter, they will need a computer. When a person does not need anything physical at all (replicators) they will still need services. When most of a person's services are performed by robots, they will need a robotic army for power and domination.
Note that sex is one of the few services that will never be done by a robot as well as can be done by a human. We are wired to not accept robots as being as good as humans for sex. In the future, any of us who accept having sex with robots instead of humans will die out.
Stage6 doesn't actually require the plug-in. With a little hoop jumping (getting the link from the "embed" box, you can still download or stream the videos with something like mplayer. However, stage6 doesn't do the little things, like add an HTML download button.
There is certainly no play and download buttons in the center of a video, at least not on my screen. It says instead, "For Linux support try mplayer". These are the little things I'm talking about. Consistency, for one. Also, not trying to control how others use the web. Maybe stage6 could have been a better alternative to youtube. They had the high quality videos going for them.
I repeat, there is no reason that stage6 should have been designed to require a plug-in. An optional plug-in would be alright, but making the UI hard to navigate without the plug-in was a bad idea. They also should have had lower quality versions of their videos, alongside the higher quality ones. Little things like this kill a site. That's just how it is. They should have hired a professional.
Yes, but that only downloads the divx player. If you want to download the videos, you have to jump through one hoop or another.
A download button would have been nice. I never heard of stage6 until this article, but after I just navigated the site a bit, the lack of a simple user interface (such as a download button) is one thing that would have kept me away from it.
there is a perfectly good FISA court still around; you can even wiretap and get a warrant 72 hours later.
But FISA has a paper trail, which might be publicized via "Freedom of Information". They don't want the public to know exactly how fruitful their wiretaps are. Their decision to wiretap is pretty much just guessing. Somewhat intelligent guesses, better than rolling a 10-sided die 10 times, but not much.
Also, they spend a lot of time spying on people critical of the government. They want to be able to blackmail and/or discredit these people. They don't want anyone to know what they are doing.
Gathering a bunch of people and putting them on spaceships shaped like 1950's era jets, shipping them off to the far reaches of the galaxy, and blowing them up with nukes never started any wars either.
The problem is:
a) it still isn't an adequate solution for every problem b) just because it hasn't started any wars in the past, doesn't necessarily mean that it won't start any wars in the future.
All this hand-wringing about "warrantless wiretaps" is wasted energy. Unless you are intentionally planning/doing stuff to harm people, you need not worry about this.
Or if you plan to do drugs. Or if you speak critically of the government. Or if you plan to do anything at all that someone else might find objectionable (which is pretty much everything). Or if you just don't want your dirty laundry in public view.
There have been so many foiled plots from these so-called warrantless wiretaps, plots that if carried would have killed thousands or brought Internet businesses to their knees, that if you knew the full truth, you'd be glad these wiretaps exist.
Name one.
As it is, the general public can't know everything, because it would compromise the very intelligence gathering that saves lives.
That's a little too convenient.
For what it's worth, I believe you when you say you've worked in intelligence. You spout the same things they do.
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Maybe they can't win a court case, but they could probably get at least 1 mega$ settlement by suing Walmart, Circuit City, Fry's, Target, and Gamestop.
I count seven:
* black (sometimes Asian) cop, white cop
* family man has crisis, family is there for him, or he discovers he doesn't need them
* quest to kill bad guy
* boy learns he has special gift, and then goes to avenge his parents/guardians
* some tragedy strikes a town (such as monster attack), and a small group of people must kill monster, etc, or maybe leave.
* hunted man must escape to freedom and kill his hunters
* some guy must solve a series of obscure puzzles to find treasure/kidnapped girlfriend or family member/save world
There's actually probably a few dozen movie plots. But I'm pretty none of them are copyrightable.
Stop moving the sun, you jerk!
To be fair, it is a little surprising to discover that researchers did not completely FUBAR statistics. 83% of all internet statistics are made up.
There's not much we can do about the rotation of the Earth. If you're in the USA, and you call someone in Japan, their schedule is not going to the same as yours. Period. However, I suppose we could move the entire population of Earth to Texas. Then we'd all be in the same time zone.
Because Daylight Saving Time is a method to control people. Without DST, business will start at 8 or 9, and then quit at 5 or 6. By implementing DST, the government can effectively coerce these businesses to start at 7 or 8, and quit at 4 or 5. If DST was permanent, businesses would gradually go back to what their customers want them to do, and start at 8 or 9 (but will be called 9 or 10). Then the government would have to add another hour to force the businesses back another hour.
Basically, the clock is just a label. If the government stops shifting the clock around, and gives every point in time a constant label, then it just becomes an unbiased way to label the day, and no longer a way to control people.
OMG WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO YOUR BROWSER!?!? And how? Whatever it is, I don't think Firefox actually wants your memory that badly.
On the other hand, perhaps you meant, "memory hog."
Your argument is entirely moot. There are multiple OS's, long distance service, and washing machine companies. You can take your pick. Apparently, in your area, there are at least two different "broadband" ISPs, and one of them is acceptable to you. However, in general, at least in the USA, there is no competition in regards to TV and ISPs. There are also no reliable cell phone networks, because some people would get mad if we chopped down all the trees and put a repeater on every lamp-post.
Spending money wisely does not mean getting the cheapest thing possible. Quality matters. A rich person can afford an extra $50-100/mo without sweating, and would probably pay it for the convenience and reliability. Plus the fact that the value of a business call for someone with high income is exponentially more valuable than a business call for someone with low income.
A savvy spender doesn't give a damn whether the cell will not get a signal for 50 minutes during the year, instead of five minutes, if the costs he will incur are double.Well, sure, if you make up numbers, you can make anything look silly. (1 year - 50 min) / 1 year is greater than 99.999%. Cell phone coverage isn't anywhere near that. Even TV and internet don't come close to that. In some areas land-line phones don't even hit that mark. The mark you set is even higher than land-line phones are required to hit.
Saying that there isn't a market at all for reliability is just silly.
I think the answer is, "Because we are cheap." It would cost twice as much to increase reliability from 99% to 99.999%. And most of us just don't need those extra 9's. That being said, there is a market for 99.999. Upper-middle class and higher would pay for it. Businesses would pay for it. It just isn't as big a market, from what I've observed.
Also, no competition in many areas. Cable TV was mentioned. Internet access. I don't know about other countries, but most places in the USA, you get what they give you, and if you want more, you can lay your own fiber.
There is no honesty in advertisement. Some places will advertise 99.9 or higher, but will not deliver. You could probably get your money back. But you would have to spend a couple of hours on the phone every month, just to demand your money back. Eventually, the service provider might drop you as a customer.
Here's the problem. Not everybody who uses a computer is a programmer.
My solution is to wait for these devices to get better. I've used similar, and I highly doubt that this thing is worth it's own weight in salt, at least to an end-user. Eventually, however, these things will be better, and more common. If Linux hasn't gotten more popular yet, then maybe most devices will not have a Linux driver. On the other hand, maybe these will all share a driver. Keyboards and mice, for example, unless really bizarre, all work in Linux.
If these things have the potential I think they do, then one day many companies will be selling them. At least one of them will have a Linux driver. I will buy from one of them.
It is also worth noting that TFA does not mention OS, or drivers. It is possible that this thing already runs in Linux.
It says FOX.
There is an obvious moral to this story. Do Drugs! If your friend had stayed at the party, none of this would have happened.
Yeah, but this way is free.
As it is now, any number of things can allow someone to impersonate me, most of them involving a thief getting my personal information from somebody else. There is little I can do about it.
With a secure authentication system, the only way someone could impersonate me is if I make a mistake. Much better. The old fashioned "username and password are the same" needs to go.
As the "western world" has shown us, when a person's basic needs have been met, they just come up with more needs. When a person does not need food, water and shelter, they will need a computer. When a person does not need anything physical at all (replicators) they will still need services. When most of a person's services are performed by robots, they will need a robotic army for power and domination.
Note that sex is one of the few services that will never be done by a robot as well as can be done by a human. We are wired to not accept robots as being as good as humans for sex. In the future, any of us who accept having sex with robots instead of humans will die out.
Stage6 doesn't actually require the plug-in. With a little hoop jumping (getting the link from the "embed" box, you can still download or stream the videos with something like mplayer. However, stage6 doesn't do the little things, like add an HTML download button.
There is certainly no play and download buttons in the center of a video, at least not on my screen. It says instead, "For Linux support try mplayer". These are the little things I'm talking about. Consistency, for one. Also, not trying to control how others use the web. Maybe stage6 could have been a better alternative to youtube. They had the high quality videos going for them.
I repeat, there is no reason that stage6 should have been designed to require a plug-in. An optional plug-in would be alright, but making the UI hard to navigate without the plug-in was a bad idea. They also should have had lower quality versions of their videos, alongside the higher quality ones. Little things like this kill a site. That's just how it is. They should have hired a professional.
It is only a flesh wound!
Yes, but that only downloads the divx player. If you want to download the videos, you have to jump through one hoop or another.
A download button would have been nice. I never heard of stage6 until this article, but after I just navigated the site a bit, the lack of a simple user interface (such as a download button) is one thing that would have kept me away from it.
But FISA has a paper trail, which might be publicized via "Freedom of Information". They don't want the public to know exactly how fruitful their wiretaps are. Their decision to wiretap is pretty much just guessing. Somewhat intelligent guesses, better than rolling a 10-sided die 10 times, but not much.
Also, they spend a lot of time spying on people critical of the government. They want to be able to blackmail and/or discredit these people. They don't want anyone to know what they are doing.
1-3 weeks late? So, I guess it is going to come out last year?
Yes, but we can't use the beevil tag for Microsoft, because that would be redundant.
Gathering a bunch of people and putting them on spaceships shaped like 1950's era jets, shipping them off to the far reaches of the galaxy, and blowing them up with nukes never started any wars either.
The problem is:
a) it still isn't an adequate solution for every problem
b) just because it hasn't started any wars in the past, doesn't necessarily mean that it won't start any wars in the future.
Or if you plan to do drugs. Or if you speak critically of the government. Or if you plan to do anything at all that someone else might find objectionable (which is pretty much everything). Or if you just don't want your dirty laundry in public view.
There have been so many foiled plots from these so-called warrantless wiretaps, plots that if carried would have killed thousands or brought Internet businesses to their knees, that if you knew the full truth, you'd be glad these wiretaps exist.Name one.
As it is, the general public can't know everything, because it would compromise the very intelligence gathering that saves lives.That's a little too convenient.
For what it's worth, I believe you when you say you've worked in intelligence. You spout the same things they do.
Interesting theory. It's too bad that no one has ever done it properly, unless by "properly" you mean that the goal is to extract a confession.
Especially if you keep torturing them until their story remains consistent.If you continue to torture them after they tell you the truth, their story will NOT remain consistent.