What are you talking about? It is a once every two year audit of privacy practices, probably not unlike audits for SOX compliance, ISO 9000 compliance, etc.
What is your privacy policy? Do users have to opt-in to services that reveal private information? Show me the records of who opted in and who didn't. How do you protect users data? Show me how that is implemented. How do you ensure privacy is protected when new apps are developed? Here is random app 'x' - show me the privacy controls.
To further clarify, EAS alerts are sent to the cable and satellite provides in addition to the TV stations. That is what enables them to take control of the DVR/Tivo.
The difference is that on the alert he got it was probably just something that the station being recorded added. The "Important information from Weather Center 6" type scrolls or break ins. The thing you saw was an actual EAS alert, which is different.
EAS alerts have a distinctive noise they make before the announcement. Station alerts generally just are an overlay they put over the show, with no audio at all.
The EAS is not the whole alert system, just the part that is being tested. From the FCC announcement:
"As such, the EAS will continue to function as one key component of a national alert and warning system that will provide alerts over multiple communications platforms, including mobile communications devices."
"As such, the EAS will continue to function as one key component of a national alert and warning system that will provide alerts over multiple communications platforms, including mobile communications devices."
Did you just pull those numbers out of your ass or what? According to their annual report their average daily circulation (home delivery and news stand) is about 900,000. Where did you get that ridiculous 35 million number from?
I am quite sure that the NYT, unlike you, know what success is. Success is being able to keep the paper operating, and hopefully make a profit.
You're an idiot. Which is better? A foundation that invests in things that make money, and can therefore give the profits of those investments to charities for an extended period of time (forever, if the investments are good), or a foundation that gives away all it's worth at once?
What makes you say that? 'Absorb the loss' is a valid backup plan if the alternatives cost more than the loss being prevented. You wouldn't pay $500/yr for collision insurance on a car worth $300, would you?
Raising prices because you can (ie there is more demand than supply) is not price fixing, no matter how many manufacturers do it. Price fixing generally happens when supply is greater than demand, and the 'competitors' agree not to compete, in order to keep the prices high. A flood wiping out 25% of production is not likely to lead to an oversupply situation, so put your conspiracy theories away.
Uh, yeah, that is what I said: the only thing it would be useful for is communicating times with a remote location, and we already have GMT for that.
I don't know where you are, but where I live businesses don't open 'shortly after the sun rises', they open at a specific time. Today the sun rose at about 7AM, a few months ago it rose at 5AM. Today businesses opened about 2 hours after the sun rose, a few months ago it was 4 hours.
I didn't say I need a watch to tell me it is dark outside. I said that if I read 'It is 3AM' in a book, I know what the author is referring to.
Life is going to continue happening on local time. It does not matter what the time number is, but lunch is still going to be when the sun is overhead, etc. So instead of having to worry about whether your devices are showing the correct time in-flight (something very few people would care about), you have to translate every single reference to time where you are. What time do businesses open? When is lunch? When is it time to go home? This does not seem easier to me.
Furthermore, every single reference to time in all published works would instantly be meaningless. The clock struck twelve? What does that mean, it's time to wake up?
The only problem that a single time zone would help with is communication of time to remote places, and we already have UTC/GMT for that.
Sure, IF you have $10K laying around that you can afford to lose. The whole equation becomes a lot less clear when you realize that not only are you potentially getting all the rewards by self-publishing, you are also assuming all of the risk. Easy to do for someone who has already made it with the help of a publisher, much more difficult for someone just starting out.
Having only one time solves a single problem - communication of time to a remote location. There is already a solution for that - use UTC or GMT. However, for everyday life it would really suck. Local time is better for most things because it is portable.
If I am New York and want to call California, I still need to know what is an appropriate time to do that - a single time zone does not help. As you said, I still need to do some sort of translation. However, what if I actually GO to California? With local time, I have to adjust my watch. Everything else remains familiar to me. Businesses still open at 9AM. Lunch is at noon. Dinner is at six. If it is a workday, meeting someone at 10PM is probably a little late. With a single time zone I would need to translate everything, and there would be absolutely no benefit to it.
Also, with a single time zone, every reference to time would require some sort of reference point so people know what you mean. If I am reading a book, and it says the time is 3AM, I know what that means. It is dark. Most people are asleep. The temperature is about as low as it will get for the day. With a single time zone, what does 03:00 mean?
Having a single time zone would provide an extremely small benefit to an extremely small part of the population (ie people who need to communicate times remotely and can't grasp GMT). For every one else, and every other situation, it would be a big negative.
Transportation is a necessity. They have no problem taking your license away for breaking traffic laws. Housing is a necessity, but your house can be condemned for code violations. Employment is a necessity, but you can become unemployed for any number of reasons.
If you lose your license you are inconvenienced. Maybe you have to take the bus or ask for a ride. Your days of just joyriding are over. You will be making far less trips than you used to.
If you lose your house you find somewhere else to live, or stay with friends or family. Huge inconvenience for everyone.
If you lose your internet service, maybe you have to go to a library or somewhere they have a hotspot you can use. You can certainly see/pay your bills that way. Can't watch movies, surf porn, whatever? Too bad.
They are not subsidizing the business, they are subsidizing customers who would otherwise not have service. The electric/phone/broadband company is not going to run miles of wire to an individual house for the same $40/mo someone in a city is paying. The cost to the customer would be astronomical. So the government (via taxes on your phone/electric bill) pays the companies to do that on behalf of the customers. The alternative is that those customers go without those services, and we as a nation have decided that is not a good alternative.
If you already have broadband it won't lower your fees. The program is to subsidize service in areas where it is currently too expensive for companies to wire (rural areas).
They have poor reading ability, because the rules do not say that. You do not give up your copyright by entering. You agree that if you win, and they pay you, you will either consider your entry a work for hire or you will agree to transfer the copyright to them.
You are talking about two entirely different things. We don't need scribes because we have the printing press. However, we still need (want) authors, editors, etc. The analog in music would be we don't need CD pressing factories. I don't see anyone arguing against that. However, we still need (want) musicians, engineers, etc.
Now, if your argument is that we DON'T need the music, film, whatever industries, that is fine. If you are satisfied with content that is produced outside of the industry you can enjoy that today. No-one needs to do anything. If everyone decides that that content is sufficient the industries will go away, and nothing can be done about that. However, what pirates are saying is that in fact they DO want the product created by the industry, they just don't want to pay for it or otherwise think they are entitled to it on their terms alone.
Except that all this contest is likely to produce is snark and whining. If they really want to 'fix the problem', why don't they have a contest on HOW the 'industry can adapt'. Some real and workable, that does not involved stuff like 'beg' and 'work for free'. They don't have that contest because it is a hard problem, whereas making snark is simple.
Maybe instead of TechDirt running some snarky contest which will achieve nothing they could actually ask people for real, workable, ideas on how the 'industry can adapt'. You know, something that doesn't involve stupid ideas like 'work for free' or 'rely on donations'.
So what? The PSAs are not about things YOU create, they are about things OTHER people create (and own). Of course you own your own work, that is the law. They are not giving you a damn thing you don't already have. On the other hand, their T&C's are about their stuff, not yours. You know, the exact thing they are complaining about.
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What are you talking about? It is a once every two year audit of privacy practices, probably not unlike audits for SOX compliance, ISO 9000 compliance, etc.
What is your privacy policy?
Do users have to opt-in to services that reveal private information? Show me the records of who opted in and who didn't.
How do you protect users data? Show me how that is implemented.
How do you ensure privacy is protected when new apps are developed? Here is random app 'x' - show me the privacy controls.
That sort of thing.
It must depend on your local government. Where I live, they do sometime use the alerts for severe thunderstorms.
To further clarify, EAS alerts are sent to the cable and satellite provides in addition to the TV stations. That is what enables them to take control of the DVR/Tivo.
The difference is that on the alert he got it was probably just something that the station being recorded added. The "Important information from Weather Center 6" type scrolls or break ins. The thing you saw was an actual EAS alert, which is different.
EAS alerts have a distinctive noise they make before the announcement. Station alerts generally just are an overlay they put over the show, with no audio at all.
The EAS is not the whole alert system, just the part that is being tested. From the FCC announcement:
"As such, the EAS will continue to function as one key component of a national alert and warning system that will provide alerts over multiple communications platforms, including mobile communications devices."
From TFA:
"As such, the EAS will continue to function as one key component of a national alert and warning system that will provide alerts over multiple communications platforms, including mobile communications devices."
The EAS is just part of a larger system.
Did you just pull those numbers out of your ass or what? According to their annual report their average daily circulation (home delivery and news stand) is about 900,000. Where did you get that ridiculous 35 million number from?
I am quite sure that the NYT, unlike you, know what success is. Success is being able to keep the paper operating, and hopefully make a profit.
You're an idiot. Which is better? A foundation that invests in things that make money, and can therefore give the profits of those investments to charities for an extended period of time (forever, if the investments are good), or a foundation that gives away all it's worth at once?
All they are posting are links to their own website. What is the problem?
What makes you say that? 'Absorb the loss' is a valid backup plan if the alternatives cost more than the loss being prevented. You wouldn't pay $500/yr for collision insurance on a car worth $300, would you?
Raising prices because you can (ie there is more demand than supply) is not price fixing, no matter how many manufacturers do it. Price fixing generally happens when supply is greater than demand, and the 'competitors' agree not to compete, in order to keep the prices high. A flood wiping out 25% of production is not likely to lead to an oversupply situation, so put your conspiracy theories away.
Uh, yeah, that is what I said: the only thing it would be useful for is communicating times with a remote location, and we already have GMT for that.
I don't know where you are, but where I live businesses don't open 'shortly after the sun rises', they open at a specific time. Today the sun rose at about 7AM, a few months ago it rose at 5AM. Today businesses opened about 2 hours after the sun rose, a few months ago it was 4 hours.
I didn't say I need a watch to tell me it is dark outside. I said that if I read 'It is 3AM' in a book, I know what the author is referring to.
Life is going to continue happening on local time. It does not matter what the time number is, but lunch is still going to be when the sun is overhead, etc. So instead of having to worry about whether your devices are showing the correct time in-flight (something very few people would care about), you have to translate every single reference to time where you are. What time do businesses open? When is lunch? When is it time to go home? This does not seem easier to me.
Furthermore, every single reference to time in all published works would instantly be meaningless. The clock struck twelve? What does that mean, it's time to wake up?
The only problem that a single time zone would help with is communication of time to remote places, and we already have UTC/GMT for that.
Sure, IF you have $10K laying around that you can afford to lose. The whole equation becomes a lot less clear when you realize that not only are you potentially getting all the rewards by self-publishing, you are also assuming all of the risk. Easy to do for someone who has already made it with the help of a publisher, much more difficult for someone just starting out.
Having only one time solves a single problem - communication of time to a remote location. There is already a solution for that - use UTC or GMT. However, for everyday life it would really suck. Local time is better for most things because it is portable.
If I am New York and want to call California, I still need to know what is an appropriate time to do that - a single time zone does not help. As you said, I still need to do some sort of translation. However, what if I actually GO to California? With local time, I have to adjust my watch. Everything else remains familiar to me. Businesses still open at 9AM. Lunch is at noon. Dinner is at six. If it is a workday, meeting someone at 10PM is probably a little late. With a single time zone I would need to translate everything, and there would be absolutely no benefit to it.
Also, with a single time zone, every reference to time would require some sort of reference point so people know what you mean. If I am reading a book, and it says the time is 3AM, I know what that means. It is dark. Most people are asleep. The temperature is about as low as it will get for the day. With a single time zone, what does 03:00 mean?
Having a single time zone would provide an extremely small benefit to an extremely small part of the population (ie people who need to communicate times remotely and can't grasp GMT). For every one else, and every other situation, it would be a big negative.
Transportation is a necessity. They have no problem taking your license away for breaking traffic laws. Housing is a necessity, but your house can be condemned for code violations. Employment is a necessity, but you can become unemployed for any number of reasons.
If you lose your license you are inconvenienced. Maybe you have to take the bus or ask for a ride. Your days of just joyriding are over. You will be making far less trips than you used to.
If you lose your house you find somewhere else to live, or stay with friends or family. Huge inconvenience for everyone.
If you lose your internet service, maybe you have to go to a library or somewhere they have a hotspot you can use. You can certainly see/pay your bills that way. Can't watch movies, surf porn, whatever? Too bad.
Maybe the country wants food, and figures that the people who grow it ought not have to do without modern necessities in order to do so.
They are not subsidizing the business, they are subsidizing customers who would otherwise not have service. The electric/phone/broadband company is not going to run miles of wire to an individual house for the same $40/mo someone in a city is paying. The cost to the customer would be astronomical. So the government (via taxes on your phone/electric bill) pays the companies to do that on behalf of the customers. The alternative is that those customers go without those services, and we as a nation have decided that is not a good alternative.
If you already have broadband it won't lower your fees. The program is to subsidize service in areas where it is currently too expensive for companies to wire (rural areas).
Yes, and the rules plainly state that if a minor wins their parent or legal guardian must send a notarized letter.
They have poor reading ability, because the rules do not say that. You do not give up your copyright by entering. You agree that if you win, and they pay you, you will either consider your entry a work for hire or you will agree to transfer the copyright to them.
You are talking about two entirely different things. We don't need scribes because we have the printing press. However, we still need (want) authors, editors, etc. The analog in music would be we don't need CD pressing factories. I don't see anyone arguing against that. However, we still need (want) musicians, engineers, etc.
Now, if your argument is that we DON'T need the music, film, whatever industries, that is fine. If you are satisfied with content that is produced outside of the industry you can enjoy that today. No-one needs to do anything. If everyone decides that that content is sufficient the industries will go away, and nothing can be done about that. However, what pirates are saying is that in fact they DO want the product created by the industry, they just don't want to pay for it or otherwise think they are entitled to it on their terms alone.
Except that all this contest is likely to produce is snark and whining. If they really want to 'fix the problem', why don't they have a contest on HOW the 'industry can adapt'. Some real and workable, that does not involved stuff like 'beg' and 'work for free'. They don't have that contest because it is a hard problem, whereas making snark is simple.
Maybe instead of TechDirt running some snarky contest which will achieve nothing they could actually ask people for real, workable, ideas on how the 'industry can adapt'. You know, something that doesn't involve stupid ideas like 'work for free' or 'rely on donations'.
So what? The PSAs are not about things YOU create, they are about things OTHER people create (and own). Of course you own your own work, that is the law. They are not giving you a damn thing you don't already have. On the other hand, their T&C's are about their stuff, not yours. You know, the exact thing they are complaining about.