Actually, you are a double pirate: First, you download (illegally, I assume) a season.
Well, file sharing is for now legal in my country. Of course we're part of the world population that MAFIAA has in the watch list.
Then, you buy a Blueray or DVD with a region code that does not allow to play it in your country,
It does. I had to import a US Blueray player though, for which I have the invoice from the seller, and the VAT and the custom duties invoice from the custom office. So if they are saying that it's illegal for me to use something I bought abroad they should have their head checked.
I often download the first season of TV shows, and then buy the blu-ray of the rest - which I have to ship from a different continent because they won't sell them in my country. Well, they often don't air the TV shows here (in any channel), and of course web access is country restricted.
So I go out of my way to pay. If you still think I'm a pirate, fuck off.
Google hired the guy that made the original decision to use 2 digits for the year in dates back in the 60.
When asked, Joe Dinousaur said: "Well, if you think I saved memory then and it was 2 bytes per date, imagine what I can do now with millions of URLs. Back in the day I weren't able to convince Tim that he should stick to Pascal compatible strings in URLs, and now we're stuck with Kb long string in the URL. I believe with google's support I will be able to fix that horror."
3) Copyright is a human social construct that prevents the exploitation of creativity to the detriment of authors. Does this have any meaning in whatever system of exchange impresses monkeys?
This is the most relevant part. Copyright's intention is to encourage works by providing the author with certain privileges. When there is no human author and no intentionality behind it, there is no reason for copyright.
What's wrong with encouraging the million monkeys to write another Shakespeare quality novel?
Probably they didn't want to ask him about this particular project, but maybe he setup something similar before? Maybe he's got some other interesting pictures of people together with location and timestamp. Bonus point for someone else's in the surroundings (or sharing the computer).
In Europe, companies are not allowed to sell your data on to other people
I live in Spain and I must tell you, I'm 38 and I've never received a single commercial letter from anyone I didn't explicitly allowed to. So much that every day I'm waiting for the mailman to ask him to let me take a peek at whatever envelopes he's carrying - out of pure envy. Some neighbors are still in their 20s and they already lost they snail spam cherry.
Ah, if any of this was actually true... one can dream:-)
Try buying a house. If you're really going to read the entire stack of morgage papers, you're going to need a few days.
I did (house in Spain), there were two papers: One of the mortgage itself, 22 pages, and one for the sale itself, 15 pages. Nothing difficult to understand in either. The mortgage basically says how much you get, how much and for how long you will pay, applicable interest, and it makes it very clear that if you don't pay you are out. The sale has complete details of the house (size, what's in each of the sides, parking spaces and so on), full personal info of all parties, price, etc.
I'm curious, how many stacks do you have to sign and what's each of them?
Officially on paper we have more freedoms than anyone in the world
Well, your media (movies, news, TV shows) keeps saying that and most of you seem to believe it, but it's not the perception most of us in Western Europe have about this matter...
Well, for starters those sane laws you mention are usually just the traffic code, so those would apply equally. If a car doesn't yield when it has to then it doesn't make a difference if it was driven by a computer or a human driver.
So probably no difference when it comes to other responsibility towards other drivers.
Most interesting questions:
- Would it be OK to be drunk in a fully computer driven car? (where the driver seat is just occupied by a passenger)
- Would it be OK for someone without a driven license to use one of these cars?
- In case of accident, assuming the computer was driving, do car owners take a hit in their driving license if they have one?
- If the car is a rental or loan, how's the responsibility divided between car owner / insurance company / car driver / etc?
- While we are at it, if cars are really able to drive themselves, do they actually need to have a human passenger at all? Can I send my car to my mom's to pick something up and come back?
Anyway, obviously self driving cars would have a shitload of system getting data from external sensors, so it would actually be easier to find out exactly what happened in case of accident, particularly if more than one car is involved and you have two sets of data to compare.
About mixing human and computer drivers, I'm not worried about it. I have no reason to believe that if the guy in the next lane is driving drunk and suddenly steers towards me I would have a better chance of solving it than a computer. I'd say the computer would actually react faster and with better control than I would. Sometimes accidents are inevitable by the way, and under some external circumstances there's no way at all to prevent them (even if you could replay the thing over and over). If I'm involved in one, I prefer to make sure its effects are minimized by a computer that knows what its doing.
Me: "Hmmm - I think I'll have a mars bar"
Vending Machine: "Are you sure? You look like you need a razor, a box of tampons, and a coke"
That would be annoying but at least in your example it's not insulting you. However if I go to the vending machine and based on my face it
- Suggests a Mars => I'm gonna think the algorithm was something along the lines "Costco was closed and you will settle with just one, you fatso? Here, have a Mars".
- Does NOT suggest a Mars => I'm gonna think the play here is "What about a change? This diet bar is what you need. Plus some water from E4"
Honestly, if these vending machines ever come here I'll make sure to start a brick vending machine to place right by these ones. Instant hit (pun intended)
Yes, and banning double parking will ensure that only assholes will double park. I think we should globally allow it since otherwise just a few will do it which seems unfair.
The only ones that are being called fascists are those who compose the government and have taken the decision of militarizing the air controllers, after pushing them to a wild strike by approving a law taking rights away from then precisely the day before the longest long weekend in
Spain, not the people.
They published that law (which was just a clarification of terms) that day precisely because the ATCs said they were going home for the rest of the year since they had already "worked" all the hours. The administration just told them how to do the math.
. Calling in sick when you're not sick is not justification for enslaving you
Yes. Paying you 300 euros per hour and not letting you calling sick when you are not sick is slavery, no doubt.
Well, calling in sick if you are not sick is grounds for layoff. Yes, they can't lay off all ATCs yet, because there are no replacement for now, but hopefully they made a list of all these people that wanted to get a paid free day in the middle of the longest weekend of the year and leave 600,000 people without vacations.
I guess going from a salary of 900,000 euros a year to something like 1000-1500 if you are lucky and find a job doing something else will put things in perspective.
3. Well, getting paid more doesn't make you immune to tiredness and the harm to conentration caused by working excessive hours.
Well, it seems to be that way, because ATC are happy to work as many hours as needed as long as they are paid 3x the regular rate. So it seems that money helps with tiredness.
The thing is, the administration says "You have to WORK 1600 hours a year". And the ATCs says, "OK, but that's not real work hours, we'll take our vacations from there, our union hours from there, if we meet with a representation we'll take it from there too...". So instead of 1600, some wanted to work 1200 or so. And then, because more hours are needed, they say "sure, we'll do it, but this is overtime".
Well, fuck you. The administration did the right thing by saying, "It's 1600 hours of actual controlling, not fooling around".
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, you are a double pirate: First, you download (illegally, I assume) a season.
Well, file sharing is for now legal in my country. Of course we're part of the world population that MAFIAA has in the watch list.
Then, you buy a Blueray or DVD with a region code that does not allow to play it in your country,
It does. I had to import a US Blueray player though, for which I have the invoice from the seller, and the VAT and the custom duties invoice from the custom office. So if they are saying that it's illegal for me to use something I bought abroad they should have their head checked.
I often download the first season of TV shows, and then buy the blu-ray of the rest - which I have to ship from a different continent because they won't sell them in my country. Well, they often don't air the TV shows here (in any channel), and of course web access is country restricted.
So I go out of my way to pay. If you still think I'm a pirate, fuck off.
Well, if you can see a slashdot ready RTFA *twice* (even if one he didn't pay attention) you're definitely going to make the news yourself soon :-)
He found the gadget [...] on top of a building about a half-mile away from where he landed with his parachute.
This, from TFA seems much more newsworthy.
By the way, the tag 'yeahright' is missing.
Slashdot. Domains for the one-handed. Links for the bored.
Wouldn't that be m.sn ? I believe itreplaced g.cx long ago...
I'm only confident that I will be tracked, photographed, my wifi details leaked and/or x-rayed.
Yes. So nothing new really added to the system, it's just the convenience.
Google hired the guy that made the original decision to use 2 digits for the year in dates back in the 60.
When asked, Joe Dinousaur said: "Well, if you think I saved memory then and it was 2 bytes per date, imagine what I can do now with millions of URLs. Back in the day I weren't able to convince Tim that he should stick to Pascal compatible strings in URLs, and now we're stuck with Kb long string in the URL. I believe with google's support I will be able to fix that horror."
Is anyone technical even working at Slashdot anymore?
Yes, but but we still don't RTFA.
3) Copyright is a human social construct that prevents the exploitation of creativity to the detriment of authors. Does this have any meaning in whatever system of exchange impresses monkeys?
This is the most relevant part. Copyright's intention is to encourage works by providing the author with certain privileges. When there is no human author and no intentionality behind it, there is no reason for copyright.
What's wrong with encouraging the million monkeys to write another Shakespeare quality novel?
I'm sure lots of people gets admitted thinking they are able to program.
Probably they didn't want to ask him about this particular project, but maybe he setup something similar before? Maybe he's got some other interesting pictures of people together with location and timestamp. Bonus point for someone else's in the surroundings (or sharing the computer).
:-)
Or not, but well, they want to make sure
Well, I can see a problem with sexual activity if my wife's FitBit's numbers aren't equal or a subset or mine. And I'm not religious.
Does this apply to books, too?
In Europe, companies are not allowed to sell your data on to other people
I live in Spain and I must tell you, I'm 38 and I've never received a single commercial letter from anyone I didn't explicitly allowed to. So much that every day I'm waiting for the mailman to ask him to let me take a peek at whatever envelopes he's carrying - out of pure envy. Some neighbors are still in their 20s and they already lost they snail spam cherry. :-)
Ah, if any of this was actually true... one can dream
Try buying a house. If you're really going to read the entire stack of morgage papers, you're going to need a few days.
I did (house in Spain), there were two papers: One of the mortgage itself, 22 pages, and one for the sale itself, 15 pages. Nothing difficult to understand in either. The mortgage basically says how much you get, how much and for how long you will pay, applicable interest, and it makes it very clear that if you don't pay you are out. The sale has complete details of the house (size, what's in each of the sides, parking spaces and so on), full personal info of all parties, price, etc. I'm curious, how many stacks do you have to sign and what's each of them?
It is good practice to use multiple passwords for different services.
What good is that when you can reset/recover all passwords using the same email account?
Officially on paper we have more freedoms than anyone in the world
Well, your media (movies, news, TV shows) keeps saying that and most of you seem to believe it, but it's not the perception most of us in Western Europe have about this matter...
Well, for starters those sane laws you mention are usually just the traffic code, so those would apply equally. If a car doesn't yield when it has to then it doesn't make a difference if it was driven by a computer or a human driver.
So probably no difference when it comes to other responsibility towards other drivers.
Most interesting questions:
- Would it be OK to be drunk in a fully computer driven car? (where the driver seat is just occupied by a passenger)
- Would it be OK for someone without a driven license to use one of these cars?
- In case of accident, assuming the computer was driving, do car owners take a hit in their driving license if they have one?
- If the car is a rental or loan, how's the responsibility divided between car owner / insurance company / car driver / etc?
- While we are at it, if cars are really able to drive themselves, do they actually need to have a human passenger at all? Can I send my car to my mom's to pick something up and come back?
Anyway, obviously self driving cars would have a shitload of system getting data from external sensors, so it would actually be easier to find out exactly what happened in case of accident, particularly if more than one car is involved and you have two sets of data to compare.
About mixing human and computer drivers, I'm not worried about it. I have no reason to believe that if the guy in the next lane is driving drunk and suddenly steers towards me I would have a better chance of solving it than a computer. I'd say the computer would actually react faster and with better control than I would. Sometimes accidents are inevitable by the way, and under some external circumstances there's no way at all to prevent them (even if you could replay the thing over and over). If I'm involved in one, I prefer to make sure its effects are minimized by a computer that knows what its doing.
Me: "Hmmm - I think I'll have a mars bar" Vending Machine: "Are you sure? You look like you need a razor, a box of tampons, and a coke"
That would be annoying but at least in your example it's not insulting you. However if I go to the vending machine and based on my face it
- Suggests a Mars => I'm gonna think the algorithm was something along the lines "Costco was closed and you will settle with just one, you fatso? Here, have a Mars".
- Does NOT suggest a Mars => I'm gonna think the play here is "What about a change? This diet bar is what you need. Plus some water from E4"
Honestly, if these vending machines ever come here I'll make sure to start a brick vending machine to place right by these ones. Instant hit (pun intended)
Yes, and banning double parking will ensure that only assholes will double park. I think we should globally allow it since otherwise just a few will do it which seems unfair.
File sharing IS legal. Let's not invent things.
The only ones that are being called fascists are those who compose the government and have taken the decision of militarizing the air controllers, after pushing them to a wild strike by approving a law taking rights away from then precisely the day before the longest long weekend in Spain, not the people.
They published that law (which was just a clarification of terms) that day precisely because the ATCs said they were going home for the rest of the year since they had already "worked" all the hours. The administration just told them how to do the math.
. Calling in sick when you're not sick is not justification for enslaving you
Yes. Paying you 300 euros per hour and not letting you calling sick when you are not sick is slavery, no doubt.
Well, calling in sick if you are not sick is grounds for layoff. Yes, they can't lay off all ATCs yet, because there are no replacement for now, but hopefully they made a list of all these people that wanted to get a paid free day in the middle of the longest weekend of the year and leave 600,000 people without vacations.
I guess going from a salary of 900,000 euros a year to something like 1000-1500 if you are lucky and find a job doing something else will put things in perspective.
3. Well, getting paid more doesn't make you immune to tiredness and the harm to conentration caused by working excessive hours.
Well, it seems to be that way, because ATC are happy to work as many hours as needed as long as they are paid 3x the regular rate. So it seems that money helps with tiredness.
The thing is, the administration says "You have to WORK 1600 hours a year". And the ATCs says, "OK, but that's not real work hours, we'll take our vacations from there, our union hours from there, if we meet with a representation we'll take it from there too...". So instead of 1600, some wanted to work 1200 or so. And then, because more hours are needed, they say "sure, we'll do it, but this is overtime".
Well, fuck you. The administration did the right thing by saying, "It's 1600 hours of actual controlling, not fooling around".