The problem is that the fair use rights (which you admit are the proper exemption here) are blocked by movie studios using encryption on released video. The use of the clip may be legal, but the decrypting the video to get the clip is illegal under the DMCA.
It's not a question of the amount of footage. Even taking one frame from a Blu-Ray movie to use in a review of that movie is a violation of the DMCA because you have to break the encryption to get hat frame.
The group is asking for an exception to allow decryption for clips that would be legally usable under fair use laws if they weren't encrypted.
The paper is an obvious, albeit very nerdy, joke. What made you think it should be taken seriously and used to determine the competency of the people who wrote it?
IP67 is no match for even the mild pressure from a garden hose, let alone a pressure cleaner.
That's because IP67 is rated for immersion, not water jets. If you need to use a pressure cleaner, you should be buying sensors rated IP66 or IP69K. IPx7 (immersion) does not imply that it meets IPx6 (high pressure water jet) protection.
It's more likely that this is case of bored geeks than paranoia.
The two astrophysicists who wrote the paper probably started with a half-drunk discussion of the virus scene in Independence Day which mutated into a discussion of whether aliens could do the same to us. Being geeks, the logical thing was to write it up as a humorous paper positing an alien AI bent on the destruction of humanity and use some hand-wavy math to make it sound possible.
Unfortunately, there are stupid people who don't recognize humor if there's no laugh track, so some people are taking is as a serious paper.
Stop trying to be pedantic. The goal was still cause problems for the victim by having the police show up their home, which is what swatting refers to, not your narrowly defined "it's only swatting if the police actually send a SWAT team."
I know it's a flippant comment, but you can find the answer here
Basically anyone with an IQ over about 20 can be taught simple tasks and can probably walk, although possibly not well because there are frequently motor control issues and physical deformities.
It's like an instagram food critic who has never tasted any of the food he's criticized based on pictures decided to start commenting on the overall appearance of tech articles without ever reading the words.
The problem with that is that they still wouldn't look at gun laws. They'd either say games and movies are still too violent or they'd build up another strawman to blame.
The only way congress will change their minds about gun laws is if anti-gun lobbying starts outspending the NRA.
Using your logic we should not be able to find uranium 235 anywhere since its half life is 700million years old. that means it would be completely gone in 3.5 billion years.
5 half lives of decay leaves just a bit over 3% left. That isn't "completely gone."
You just need to follow through. Head for the seediest part of the town you live in, wrap a $100 bill around the stems and give the bundle to the woman with the shortest skirt you can find.
It was approved for use by the FDA in 1978 and is considered one of the safer chemotherapy drugs, so it is definitely a viable drug for cancer patients.
The study isn't about discovering a new drug. It's is about gaining a better understanding what the existing drug does so that we can use it more effectively.
Microsoft used to be alone in throwing good money after bad.
Really? You don't remember the.com bubble and the subsequent collapse of thousands of idiotic startups which never had a chance of being profitable despite VCs throwing good money at them? Or do you think Microsoft somehow was behind the funding of all those things?
What makes you think that the intelligence agencies that monitor virtually all unencrypted internet traffic even though 99.99999% of it is useless wouldn't wet their pants at the thought of doing the same to everyone's brains?
Roughly 100% of the population has either died or is in line to die, so it is by far the most popular thing the human race has ever discovered! Even more popular than Windows 10!
One customer asked for a backdoor and they added it to all their products, giving that customer access to all of their customers' systems? Who the hell would authorize that?
No no... we don't bail out every farmer that can't keep a crop alive. Only the big corporate farms that have failures get bailouts because they're too big to fail. Small farms run by actual families are actually pushed toward bankruptcy so that their land can be bought up cheaply by corporations.
I remember how The NSA's mass surveillance started coming to light in 2013 with the exposure of the PRISM program, then Edward Snowden revealed a shitload more in 2014. Almost everyone, including many members of congress, lost their shit over it and the NSA actually backed off on some of the mass surveillance they'd been doing.
I also remember how the people were in favor of the mass surveillance insisted it was necessary to stop al-Qaeda from another attack like 9-11. And how those people kept claiming Obama was a Muslim and kept demanding his birth certificate even after it had been released.
Funny how you're painting those people as Obama supporters now.
The 1950s were a time when the middle class was relatively well off and wealth disparity had dropped sharply from it's height in the late 20s. Everything Trump and his cronies are doing is to benefit the 1% and increase that disparity by taking everything they can away from the rest of society.
Concerned advocates should conserve their outrage for when it's really needed.
So... don't contact your congressional representatives now when your voice might stand out and be heard? Wait until the last minute flood so that your comments can be drowned out more easily by the anti-neutrality bot spam?
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The problem is that the fair use rights (which you admit are the proper exemption here) are blocked by movie studios using encryption on released video. The use of the clip may be legal, but the decrypting the video to get the clip is illegal under the DMCA.
It's not a question of the amount of footage. Even taking one frame from a Blu-Ray movie to use in a review of that movie is a violation of the DMCA because you have to break the encryption to get hat frame.
The group is asking for an exception to allow decryption for clips that would be legally usable under fair use laws if they weren't encrypted.
The paper is an obvious, albeit very nerdy, joke. What made you think it should be taken seriously and used to determine the competency of the people who wrote it?
IP67 is no match for even the mild pressure from a garden hose, let alone a pressure cleaner.
That's because IP67 is rated for immersion, not water jets. If you need to use a pressure cleaner, you should be buying sensors rated IP66 or IP69K. IPx7 (immersion) does not imply that it meets IPx6 (high pressure water jet) protection.
It's more likely that this is case of bored geeks than paranoia.
The two astrophysicists who wrote the paper probably started with a half-drunk discussion of the virus scene in Independence Day which mutated into a discussion of whether aliens could do the same to us. Being geeks, the logical thing was to write it up as a humorous paper positing an alien AI bent on the destruction of humanity and use some hand-wavy math to make it sound possible.
Unfortunately, there are stupid people who don't recognize humor if there's no laugh track, so some people are taking is as a serious paper.
Stop trying to be pedantic. The goal was still cause problems for the victim by having the police show up their home, which is what swatting refers to, not your narrowly defined "it's only swatting if the police actually send a SWAT team."
I know it's a flippant comment, but you can find the answer here
Basically anyone with an IQ over about 20 can be taught simple tasks and can probably walk, although possibly not well because there are frequently motor control issues and physical deformities.
The "quick computation" is probably something along the lines of this:
WhatIWant + GoogleSearch + OilCompanyAstroturfing = GlobalWarningIsFalse
It's like an instagram food critic who has never tasted any of the food he's criticized based on pictures decided to start commenting on the overall appearance of tech articles without ever reading the words.
The problem with that is that they still wouldn't look at gun laws. They'd either say games and movies are still too violent or they'd build up another strawman to blame.
The only way congress will change their minds about gun laws is if anti-gun lobbying starts outspending the NRA.
Using your logic we should not be able to find uranium 235 anywhere since its half life is 700million years old. that means it would be completely gone in 3.5 billion years.
5 half lives of decay leaves just a bit over 3% left. That isn't "completely gone."
The term was in use before George Orwell was even born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You just need to follow through. Head for the seediest part of the town you live in, wrap a $100 bill around the stems and give the bundle to the woman with the shortest skirt you can find.
Here's a link to Anonymous Coward's link.
https://slashdot.org/comments....
It was approved for use by the FDA in 1978 and is considered one of the safer chemotherapy drugs, so it is definitely a viable drug for cancer patients.
The study isn't about discovering a new drug. It's is about gaining a better understanding what the existing drug does so that we can use it more effectively.
Microsoft used to be alone in throwing good money after bad.
Really? You don't remember the .com bubble and the subsequent collapse of thousands of idiotic startups which never had a chance of being profitable despite VCs throwing good money at them? Or do you think Microsoft somehow was behind the funding of all those things?
What makes you think that the intelligence agencies that monitor virtually all unencrypted internet traffic even though 99.99999% of it is useless wouldn't wet their pants at the thought of doing the same to everyone's brains?
Roughly 100% of the population has either died or is in line to die, so it is by far the most popular thing the human race has ever discovered! Even more popular than Windows 10!
Deepthroat vs Godzilla
I mean, yeah, rule 34 and all that, but at some point the physics just get a bit too weird to suspend disbelief
One customer asked for a backdoor and they added it to all their products, giving that customer access to all of their customers' systems? Who the hell would authorize that?
Because it's profitable to harvest customer data and sell it. Duh.
No no... we don't bail out every farmer that can't keep a crop alive. Only the big corporate farms that have failures get bailouts because they're too big to fail. Small farms run by actual families are actually pushed toward bankruptcy so that their land can be bought up cheaply by corporations.
I remember how The NSA's mass surveillance started coming to light in 2013 with the exposure of the PRISM program, then Edward Snowden revealed a shitload more in 2014. Almost everyone, including many members of congress, lost their shit over it and the NSA actually backed off on some of the mass surveillance they'd been doing.
I also remember how the people were in favor of the mass surveillance insisted it was necessary to stop al-Qaeda from another attack like 9-11. And how those people kept claiming Obama was a Muslim and kept demanding his birth certificate even after it had been released.
Funny how you're painting those people as Obama supporters now.
1920s , actually.
The 1950s were a time when the middle class was relatively well off and wealth disparity had dropped sharply from it's height in the late 20s. Everything Trump and his cronies are doing is to benefit the 1% and increase that disparity by taking everything they can away from the rest of society.
Concerned advocates should conserve their outrage for when it's really needed.
So... don't contact your congressional representatives now when your voice might stand out and be heard? Wait until the last minute flood so that your comments can be drowned out more easily by the anti-neutrality bot spam?
I'm sure that'll work well for everyone.