2016 is drawing near, so expect a massive lobby for extending copyright expiry to go beyond 50 years after author's death (probably to 70, even 100 years or more). Why is 2016 significant? Because that is the year marking the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney's death, and I do not expect the House of Mouse to let go of the keys to its money printing business without a long, drawn out fight.
How long before people start using this new tech to make bogus insurance claims??
If most people can watch a staged youtube clip and call it out as a sham, I think the cops will be even better equipped at spotting a faked clip. And making a false statement to the police is itself a crime, so their 15 minutes of youtube fame will run out pretty fast...
I enjoyed this one... "Your honor, don't grant the appeal, they have no chance of winning. It would be silly to even honor their request. BTW, if you do what we say they WILL have no chance of winning and that makes us right, so you need to do as we say because we are right and you would not want to be on the side of wrong, because we are right."
This is basically the lawyer-to-english translation of the RIAA legal strategy.
Mass stupidity routed back to the corner, swears revenge and runs off into the sunset with 'Yackety Sax' music in background to return at a later court date.
I found that opting out of an illegitimate email spam is somewhat akin to rejecting the love of an unrequited psychotic lover - it only makes them want you more. Once they figure out you're home, expect to find the email equivalent to boiled bunnies in your inbox. Remember that Penny Arcade strip about Gabe receiving email for chinese farm equipment? I actually *got* one of those. Shortly after that, things got weirder as my address was spoofed by a spammer and I started getting bounced message notices and "please check your computer for viruses" requests by the hundreds. Ditching that address for a different one was the only way out... yes, sometimes the only way to escape those people is to move to another place in the middle of the night, leaving no contact info behind.
Cybernetic experiments have proven that a monkey can control an arm through brain electrodes exactly like he could move his own arm. The future of prosthetics and articulated replacement limbs lies in this control scheme for certain and is promised to a bright future. And possibly a league of android sport teams remote controlled by geeks with headsets!
If their lawyers are good and sneaky (and I expect they are) they simply kept that fact like an ace up their sleeve to use if they lost and easily get an appeal. If they had won and got acquitted, you probably never would have heard of this little fact. It would have been pretty hard for the prosecution to try the same trick, as it would have been tantamount to admitting that they made sure to have the first trial in front of a judge biased in their favor, talk about embarassing...
Ungodly load times is what drove me slowly away from my PSP, like a vodka bender slowly being unraveled making last night's "beautiful girl" looking a lot less attractive and leaving you looking for ways to escape and leave a fake phone number.
I've lied plenty of times to my parents about not having played dungeons and dragons, but then again she used to think that it would drive me insane and make me dress up in plate mail armor before jumping off a building. She would have freaked if she'd ever found out.
Unfortunately self-righteous people like mister Thomson are on both sides of these issues and they continue to validate the existence of their counterparts.
That's a lot like South Park's Mister Mackey doing more to encourage drug use than to discourage it. Anti-games activists would do better to somehow convince Thompson to join the pro-violence side so that he would get people to rethink their positions about the free availability of GTA games.
Before we start blaming the latest Scapegoat Flavor of the Month (games, television, comics, that devil invention radio, the interwebs, those swinging rock n' roller Elvis hips) we need to ask ourselves this: when someone becomes addicted to [something], is there something missing in their lives that this addiction happens to be artificially replacing? If the cause of the addiction is not explored, treating the symptoms becomes that much harder - if not impossible. Now excuse me while I go farm more gold for my level 80 mage.
It's pretty easy to circumvent the restriction. All korean users have to do to keep uploading and commenting is to go in their profile and change their country of origin to something different than Korea.
The problem with naming the node "Serenity" instead of the popular voted choice "Colbert" is that it sends the following message: When NASA asks people to vote on a name, they've already made up their minds and will give it whatever name they've decided in advance and will dump the winning choice in the toilet (or permanently stamp it on its side, depending on their mood)
"In keeping up it's good standing with morality, Amazon is proud to unveil its new adult book ranking policy which will strip out offensive boo- what? You disagree? You think it's censorship? BOYCOTTS?!? Wait, did we say policy? We meant hum.... GLITCH! Yeah, it was a glitch, let's go with that!"
I'm not claiming it's anything new - only that they probably never would have gone into that kind of business if the music industry hadn't strong-armed the swedish courts into trying to throw them in jail.
I hope that the RIAA and all the other IP zealots realize the delicious irony that if they hadn't come down so hard on the pirate bay to begin with, they might never have even though of offering such a strong way for its users to cover their own asses. Looks like the Copyright Overlords may have unintentionally done something right by trying to do something wrong!
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2016 is drawing near, so expect a massive lobby for extending copyright expiry to go beyond 50 years after author's death (probably to 70, even 100 years or more). Why is 2016 significant? Because that is the year marking the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney's death, and I do not expect the House of Mouse to let go of the keys to its money printing business without a long, drawn out fight.
How long before people start using this new tech to make bogus insurance claims??
If most people can watch a staged youtube clip and call it out as a sham, I think the cops will be even better equipped at spotting a faked clip. And making a false statement to the police is itself a crime, so their 15 minutes of youtube fame will run out pretty fast...
I enjoyed this one... "Your honor, don't grant the appeal, they have no chance of winning. It would be silly to even honor their request. BTW, if you do what we say they WILL have no chance of winning and that makes us right, so you need to do as we say because we are right and you would not want to be on the side of wrong, because we are right."
This is basically the lawyer-to-english translation of the RIAA legal strategy.
Mass stupidity routed back to the corner, swears revenge and runs off into the sunset with 'Yackety Sax' music in background to return at a later court date.
I found that opting out of an illegitimate email spam is somewhat akin to rejecting the love of an unrequited psychotic lover - it only makes them want you more. Once they figure out you're home, expect to find the email equivalent to boiled bunnies in your inbox. Remember that Penny Arcade strip about Gabe receiving email for chinese farm equipment? I actually *got* one of those. Shortly after that, things got weirder as my address was spoofed by a spammer and I started getting bounced message notices and "please check your computer for viruses" requests by the hundreds. Ditching that address for a different one was the only way out... yes, sometimes the only way to escape those people is to move to another place in the middle of the night, leaving no contact info behind.
and who the hell would want a monkey to control their arms?
The various arms of government are already controlled by monkeys. Mechanical cyborg arms don't seem like much of a stretch of the imagination.
Cybernetic experiments have proven that a monkey can control an arm through brain electrodes exactly like he could move his own arm. The future of prosthetics and articulated replacement limbs lies in this control scheme for certain and is promised to a bright future. And possibly a league of android sport teams remote controlled by geeks with headsets!
"The defense rests, your honor." "Mister Hutz, why aren't you wearing any pants?!?"
If their lawyers are good and sneaky (and I expect they are) they simply kept that fact like an ace up their sleeve to use if they lost and easily get an appeal. If they had won and got acquitted, you probably never would have heard of this little fact. It would have been pretty hard for the prosecution to try the same trick, as it would have been tantamount to admitting that they made sure to have the first trial in front of a judge biased in their favor, talk about embarassing...
"You mean a mistrial?" "That's why you're the judge, and I'm the law... talking... guy."
Ungodly load times is what drove me slowly away from my PSP, like a vodka bender slowly being unraveled making last night's "beautiful girl" looking a lot less attractive and leaving you looking for ways to escape and leave a fake phone number.
Fuck with the food supply, and bad things can happen.
No civilization is ever further than three meals away from an armed civil uprising.
I've lied plenty of times to my parents about not having played dungeons and dragons, but then again she used to think that it would drive me insane and make me dress up in plate mail armor before jumping off a building. She would have freaked if she'd ever found out.
Unfortunately self-righteous people like mister Thomson are on both sides of these issues and they continue to validate the existence of their counterparts.
That's a lot like South Park's Mister Mackey doing more to encourage drug use than to discourage it. Anti-games activists would do better to somehow convince Thompson to join the pro-violence side so that he would get people to rethink their positions about the free availability of GTA games.
One step closer to Ghost in the Shell's brain hacking becoming an everyday reality!
Before we start blaming the latest Scapegoat Flavor of the Month (games, television, comics, that devil invention radio, the interwebs, those swinging rock n' roller Elvis hips) we need to ask ourselves this: when someone becomes addicted to [something], is there something missing in their lives that this addiction happens to be artificially replacing? If the cause of the addiction is not explored, treating the symptoms becomes that much harder - if not impossible. Now excuse me while I go farm more gold for my level 80 mage.
Well, from Utah's Senate Site, we get the picture of what Jack is up to now: spamming his last friends on the planet.
He still has friends?
So... police are seizing computers running Linux as a potential criminal offense. This is Microsoft's erotic dream come true!
It's pretty easy to circumvent the restriction. All korean users have to do to keep uploading and commenting is to go in their profile and change their country of origin to something different than Korea.
The problem with naming the node "Serenity" instead of the popular voted choice "Colbert" is that it sends the following message: When NASA asks people to vote on a name, they've already made up their minds and will give it whatever name they've decided in advance and will dump the winning choice in the toilet (or permanently stamp it on its side, depending on their mood)
"I guess I could give up one of my doomsday devices and still be feared."
"In keeping up it's good standing with morality, Amazon is proud to unveil its new adult book ranking policy which will strip out offensive boo- what? You disagree? You think it's censorship? BOYCOTTS?!? Wait, did we say policy? We meant hum.... GLITCH! Yeah, it was a glitch, let's go with that!"
I'm not claiming it's anything new - only that they probably never would have gone into that kind of business if the music industry hadn't strong-armed the swedish courts into trying to throw them in jail.
I can't believe someone beat the Tsarkon Report guy to the first post!
I hope that the RIAA and all the other IP zealots realize the delicious irony that if they hadn't come down so hard on the pirate bay to begin with, they might never have even though of offering such a strong way for its users to cover their own asses. Looks like the Copyright Overlords may have unintentionally done something right by trying to do something wrong!