Now that you mention it, it does seem like my Evo Shift has the same problem -- it's a lot softer on speaker phone on max volume than you would think it could be.
I don't think what you said agrees with what he said that all.
Neither is okay, but only one is really successful, and it involves the little guy getting shafted hard. Competition and innovation sufferr in both cases.
Absurd. You can't run so much as a small radio station or newspaper like that, much less a school, bank, or almost any other vital institution of modern civilization.
Absolutely would not help. Copyrights allow little guys to get into a business. Without copyright, this wouldn't be a leaked memo; it'd be a public memo. There would be no reason for Zynga not to copy indie games if not for copyrights, and they would have the resources to market their product far better than most indie producers will.
Removing patents and copyrights is not the solution to people exploiting a loophole in the patent/copyright system.
They might not have an unlimited plan anymore, but they're offering more than a single $10/hour plan. There are 3 GB and 5 GB plans in addition to the 300 MB plan, which are perfectly reasonable choices if you plan on watching a ton of Netflix.
No one streaming Netflix 24/7 is going to be on the 300 MB plan, so the fact that it would cost $68K to do so on that plan is as stupid as claiming 100,000 instances of a song pirated is $300K in damages.
...it become our God-given right to stream Netflix 24-7? And to get outraged that there is a bulk discount? AT&T has many, many issues already, so do you really need to contrive a completely unrealistic one to make a point?
What is your point? The question is that if you could stream, would you still bother pirating, even if streaming costs money and the alternatives did not?
People tend to be honest, but they tend to be lazy before they are honest.
Netflix and Hulu did amazingly well. The problem is, not only is there NOT a video rental every 1 block like you suggest, even if there were, there is a good chance I would rather pay $2 to not have to leave the house for a movie, then to walk to the rental place, even if the movie were free there.
All the DoJ is doing is punishing someone for earning money while breaking the law, not making him repay "theft." This isn't a civil suit; it's a white collar crime.
No, I don't agree with the penalties currently associated with copyright violations cases, but it doesn't help anyone for you to mis-represent the situation and get riled-up over that.
The hilarious aspect of this all is that the environmentalists herald this as an achievement for the environment when in reality the greenhouse gas emmissions from increased rail and truck transport of crude oil will probably have a more detrimental impact on the environment.
I'd say it's a little more complicated than that. In the short term, the pipeline would save on emissions, but making it easier to transport oil into the country is obviously going to lower prices and increase usage in the long run.
If you know anywhere NEAR enough dealers to have a significant sample size, you are already an addict, and there is no reason to give YOU anything for free...
Why did the government deny AT&T's merger request with T-Mobile, even with the $millions AT&T spends on lobbying?
Because those that really put up the roadblocks were not elected officials (FCC and DoJ).
Why do Federal and state governments keep laying taxes on tobacco, even with the $millions the tobacco companies spend on lobbying?
For every tobacco industry company, there is a United Fruit Company or a California prison worker's union. It's also not reassuring that it took tobacco losing it's image of "coolness" and gained a reputation for giving Americans cancer before Congressmen/women and presidents were willing to publically stand against the industry. . . AFTER state attorney generals sued them.
Why did the Sarbanes-Oxley act pass when all big corporations absolutely hate it and lobbied against it?
A number of huge scandals occurred, and this would help the public image of the representatives who votes for such a high-profile act. The fact that SOPA and PIPA got as far as they did should indicate clearly that Congress was chasing publicity, not public good.
Why did the government reject the Keystone Pipeline from Canada to the US when the oil industry spent $millions lobbying for it?
The truth is that corporations or other interest groups that spend a lot on lobbying often get their way. But they don't always get their way or "own" the government - when enough people speak out against it, it does actually make a difference. We do have a democracy in the United States... even if you don't like the outcomes sometimes. That means you should convince your fellow Americans to make smarter voting choices, not blithely dismiss the system as corrupt.
The system is very corrupt. Our elected officials have very little loyalty to the well-being of the people they are supposed to represent, at least as far as "All men are created equal" is concerned. It doesn't matter if it's the best or the worst in the world; we can do much better, and we should. And it doesn't get better without the sharp, blood-raising criticism that we're finally seeing these days.
Leave it to slashdotters to come up with such a hack!
It's too bad this would be more likely to suceed than trying to pass legistlation that tries to keep our representatives from voting based on donations rather than votes.
I know you're joking, but I can't help but think, "Wait. That wouldn't work. Unless his spaceship is absolutely tiny, he'd be too far away to realize that we've started looking for planets in this manner in the time it takes to for the light from our planet to reach him. At least for most of the stars involved."
It's "its" and "you're"!! There are various other grammar errors that aren't as a big a deal in an informal situation like this, but those two mistakes already drive me crazy.
More on-topic: NYPD is not frisking just tanybody, but neither is Azuaron saying that they should "abandon presumption of innocence." Don't put words into his/her mouth: obviously he/she is saying that scanning someone you're about to frisk is perfectly legal, not that everyone the police pulls over is a criminal.
Slashdot Mirror
So basically PGP for facebook?
Now that you mention it, it does seem like my Evo Shift has the same problem -- it's a lot softer on speaker phone on max volume than you would think it could be.
Oh stop being melodramatic. How are they even close to the first to get hacked? Nearly every other industry has already been hacked.
That looks exactly like a link I should click on.
That's still just Las Vegas.
I don't think what you said agrees with what he said that all.
Neither is okay, but only one is really successful, and it involves the little guy getting shafted hard. Competition and innovation sufferr in both cases.
I wouldn't consider either of those cases "working."
1. Where does it say that?
2. How does that help conserve elephants and rhinos? Isn't that like using whale meat to feed endangered tigers?
Absurd. You can't run so much as a small radio station or newspaper like that, much less a school, bank, or almost any other vital institution of modern civilization.
Absolutely would not help. Copyrights allow little guys to get into a business. Without copyright, this wouldn't be a leaked memo; it'd be a public memo. There would be no reason for Zynga not to copy indie games if not for copyrights, and they would have the resources to market their product far better than most indie producers will.
Removing patents and copyrights is not the solution to people exploiting a loophole in the patent/copyright system.
I mainly take issue with cops lying to suspects about their RIGHTS.
They might not have an unlimited plan anymore, but they're offering more than a single $10/hour plan. There are 3 GB and 5 GB plans in addition to the 300 MB plan, which are perfectly reasonable choices if you plan on watching a ton of Netflix.
No one streaming Netflix 24/7 is going to be on the 300 MB plan, so the fact that it would cost $68K to do so on that plan is as stupid as claiming 100,000 instances of a song pirated is $300K in damages.
Is there some reason not to tell us what country that is?
...it become our God-given right to stream Netflix 24-7? And to get outraged that there is a bulk discount? AT&T has many, many issues already, so do you really need to contrive a completely unrealistic one to make a point?
Suddenly everything makes sense.
What is your point? The question is that if you could stream, would you still bother pirating, even if streaming costs money and the alternatives did not?
People tend to be honest, but they tend to be lazy before they are honest.
Netflix and Hulu did amazingly well. The problem is, not only is there NOT a video rental every 1 block like you suggest, even if there were, there is a good chance I would rather pay $2 to not have to leave the house for a movie, then to walk to the rental place, even if the movie were free there.
All the DoJ is doing is punishing someone for earning money while breaking the law, not making him repay "theft." This isn't a civil suit; it's a white collar crime.
No, I don't agree with the penalties currently associated with copyright violations cases, but it doesn't help anyone for you to mis-represent the situation and get riled-up over that.
The hilarious aspect of this all is that the environmentalists herald this as an achievement for the environment when in reality the greenhouse gas emmissions from increased rail and truck transport of crude oil will probably have a more detrimental impact on the environment.
I'd say it's a little more complicated than that. In the short term, the pipeline would save on emissions, but making it easier to transport oil into the country is obviously going to lower prices and increase usage in the long run.
If you know anywhere NEAR enough dealers to have a significant sample size, you are already an addict, and there is no reason to give YOU anything for free...
Why did the government deny AT&T's merger request with T-Mobile, even with the $millions AT&T spends on lobbying?
Because those that really put up the roadblocks were not elected officials (FCC and DoJ).
Why do Federal and state governments keep laying taxes on tobacco, even with the $millions the tobacco companies spend on lobbying?
For every tobacco industry company, there is a United Fruit Company or a California prison worker's union. It's also not reassuring that it took tobacco losing it's image of "coolness" and gained a reputation for giving Americans cancer before Congressmen/women and presidents were willing to publically stand against the industry. . . AFTER state attorney generals sued them.
Why did the Sarbanes-Oxley act pass when all big corporations absolutely hate it and lobbied against it?
A number of huge scandals occurred, and this would help the public image of the representatives who votes for such a high-profile act. The fact that SOPA and PIPA got as far as they did should indicate clearly that Congress was chasing publicity, not public good.
Why did the government reject the Keystone Pipeline from Canada to the US when the oil industry spent $millions lobbying for it?
The truth is that corporations or other interest groups that spend a lot on lobbying often get their way. But they don't always get their way or "own" the government - when enough people speak out against it, it does actually make a difference. We do have a democracy in the United States ... even if you don't like the outcomes sometimes. That means you should convince your fellow Americans to make smarter voting choices, not blithely dismiss the system as corrupt.
The system is very corrupt. Our elected officials have very little loyalty to the well-being of the people they are supposed to represent, at least as far as "All men are created equal" is concerned. It doesn't matter if it's the best or the worst in the world; we can do much better, and we should. And it doesn't get better without the sharp, blood-raising criticism that we're finally seeing these days.
Leave it to slashdotters to come up with such a hack!
It's too bad this would be more likely to suceed than trying to pass legistlation that tries to keep our representatives from voting based on donations rather than votes.
I know you're joking, but I can't help but think, "Wait. That wouldn't work. Unless his spaceship is absolutely tiny, he'd be too far away to realize that we've started looking for planets in this manner in the time it takes to for the light from our planet to reach him. At least for most of the stars involved."
I don't think you can measure the weight of a planet by its own gravity. Obviously you can't use surface gravity.
It's "its" and "you're"!! There are various other grammar errors that aren't as a big a deal in an informal situation like this, but those two mistakes already drive me crazy.
More on-topic: NYPD is not frisking just tanybody, but neither is Azuaron saying that they should "abandon presumption of innocence." Don't put words into his/her mouth: obviously he/she is saying that scanning someone you're about to frisk is perfectly legal, not that everyone the police pulls over is a criminal.