Hey now, that's Imperial Beach, not San Diego-- the cops down there are definitly more Roscoe P. Coltrane than in San Diego. If you don't look local, they'll pull you over (if you're driving a car that uses unleaded gas and/or has its original paint job, you're not a local). Or were you pulled over by the MPs at the radio station? Either way, every time I go down the strand I see a ton of cops. Not a good place to speed. And don't even get me started about the idiots on Coronodo;>
'...if I had to deal with the "real" physics of acceleration (and near-limitless velocity), the game would not be as much fun to play'
There was a space fighter sim, maybe 10 years ago, called Mantis. It used realistic acceleration and velocity physics. You had to actually think about how you and your enemy were moving, and how applying thrust at your current heading would affect things. The story line sucked, but it was fun to play if you want a more realistic experience.
At least if the parent poster is smart enough to use a credit card that returns some sort of reward, Discover, Amex, or a reward-paying visa/mc. I pay for everything using mine, and so effectively receive a 1% discount everywhere I shop. Over time, it really adds up. If the stores don't like it, they can refuse to honor credit cards-- I go to a couple of great restaurants that are cash only and are well worth it. If a merchant doesn't want to pay the fees, they don't have to accept credit cards.
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A couple of points-- in dammed rivers, the water temperature is warmer, not colder, than in the free flowing river pre-dam (except maybe in the immediate vicinitity of the dam). See this report on the columbia river warming as an example. Dams slow the river, slow==warm. The warmer water has a dramatic effect on the wildlife, just in another direction.
As far as the water loss, the dams make it possible to use the water from the seasonal floods year round for irrigation. If you take water from a large single channel (i.e. a river) and spread it out over a vast area (i.e. millions of acres of farmland), your loss due to evaporation is going to be hellacious. That's why the colorado is a trickle when it hits the sea of cortez, and the area around it is an incredible salt desert.
I keep it within reason based on the quick-moving traffic around me, so my insurance is just fine (despite driving a late-model rear-wheel sports car), as is my driving record (no moving violations or accidents, knock on wood).
What really annoys me is that the police enforce the speed limits, but don't enforce statues like California's V.C. 21654, which reqires you to be as far to the right as practicable when travelling at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic. That's a moving violation, too. Idiots camped out in the left lane going slow are just as dangerous as speeders, and deserve to have moving violations and insurance hikes for their behavior as well.
The 90 mph was hyperbole; I normally keep it to 5-10mph over the speed limit (On freeway, yes. In the city, yes. Comparable to other fast traffic, yes.) Yes, I have good brakes and tires and a car that handles very well (on dry pavement, not normally a problem in So. Cal; when it rains I NEVER go over the speed limit. Rear wheel drive cars spin out just a bit too easily).
I don't weave, either-- but from what I've seen, the weavers do so mainly because drives in So. Cal. are complete and utter idiots that never get to the right, even when they're going below the speed limit. I kid you not, last night I was going down I-8 at 8:30, going 70mph. I completely blew past an old junker that was camped in the FAR LEFT lane. WTF??!! He had to have been going under 55mph, in a 65mph zone. Get the F$#@ over!That is the sort of thing I'm talking about; that is just as dangerous to the people around you as speeding, and ought to be dealt with (traffic fines and insurance hikes) in the same way.
Yes, sneaking into a theater to avoid paying is theft, at least in some jurisdictions. The legal term for what you're doing when you sneak into a theater to avoid paying is Theft of Services, at least in New York. If I got an RIAA subpoena, I'd be a lot more worried about the legal definiton of theft than the slashdot definition of theft.
(see also here for other examples of theft of services, including telephone and other telecom servcies).
IBM as a cute little girl? More like the 180 pound mastiff finally biting the head off of the stupid little boy that's been poking him for the last hour.
No, it's the idiots puttering along going 65 in a 65 mph zone that are dangerous when I whip by them at 90. I get along with the other idiots just fine...
Somebody modded this as overrated? Must be on crack. The mere suggestion that anybody's trying to get into the pants of a slashdotter is hilarious (if a bit overused...)
Get a $60 apex player with component outs and flash the ROM-- no region coding, no macrovision, and you can put in your own graphics with a little bit of work.
My interpretation's not the same as the questioner-- it's not that the perjury is in affirming that the recording is illegal, the perjury is in claiming that they are "authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner" when they're not. Because they're not. Open and shut.
If you really think that the RIAA is totally free & clear in this, then why did they issue a formal apology, give the poor Prof. an Usher T-shirt and CD, and claim that it was an error by a temp worker? So if they are in the wrong on this, why wouldn't Penn State (the copyright holder) want to go after the RIAA? Well, it might have something to do with:
"Penn State President Graham Spanier, who testified before Congress in February about online piracy, is the co-chairman of a working group that includes the entertainment industry." Story from News.com Seems kind of obvious (if a bit smelly) to me...
No, they didn't have the right to make the attempt. They claimed they had authorization to take down a copyrighted work. Re-read the answer, very carefully.
"In other words, the perjury clause may be violated if you seek a DMCA subpoena without the authorization of the copyright owner.
We are unaware of any prosecutions for violating this provision of the DMCA at this time."
He's not saying the takedown didn't violate the DMCA, he's saying they haven't prosecuted yet. OF course, that might have something to do with the RIAA and their lapdogs Bush and Berman keeping the DOJ on a leash.
Yeah, I did read the answer. Several times. You might try it, it's kinda cool to do so.
The copyright holder of the recording in question, the lecture, is either Prof. Usher or his University. The RIAA issued a takedown notice under the DMCA. To issue this notice, they have to swear, under penalty of perjury, that they are either the copyright holder, or the authorized agent of the copyright holder, for the work in question. They are not.
They screwed up, they thought the recording in question belonged to someone (Usher the singer) for whom they are the authorized agent to make takedown notices.
Notice that the DOJ attorney ended his answer with "In other words, the perjury clause may be violated if you seek a DMCA subpoena without the authorization of the copyright owner.
We are unaware of any prosecutions for violating this provision of the DMCA at this time."
He's clearly not saying that this action wasn't a DMCA violation, he's saying that he's unaware of a prosecution for violating the perjury clause.
Doesn't matter. If the RIAA issues a takedown notice under the DMCA, they have to swear, under penalty of perjury, that they are either the copyright holder, or the authorized agent of the copyright holder. While they may be the authorized agent of Mr. Usher the R&B singer, they are probably not the authorized agent of Dr. Usher the professor. Therefore their sworn statement under which they issued the DMCA takedown notice is perjured.
Whether Dr. Usher presses charges or not should be irrellevant; perjury is an offense against the court, not an offense against a person. Not sure how this works under the DMCA.
What I want to know is, why hasn't there been a prosecution for violation of the perjury clause of the DMCA on the Usher lecuture? It seems pretty cut and dried-- Professor Usher obviously never authorized the RIAA to act as his agent, and whomever issued the takedown letter swore under penalty of perjury that they were acting as his agent. So why hasn't this ended up in court?
No question that that's how the system works-- some of us just get a little tired of the fact that the founding fathers (who did an incredible job in so many ways) designed a system that was appropriate to a time when the average citizen was an isolated subsistance farmer with essentially zero education (pre-public schools, at least outside of Mass.) or knowledge of current world events, and so lacked the information necessary to make a decision on who should be president.
Totally reasonable at the time, but do you really think that the state legislatures, controlled as they are by career politicians totally on the take from special interests, are more able than the general public to make decisions on who should be president today? I know I don't. I'm pretty happy about the Gray Davis recall, partly because I've watched him run our state into the ground full-speed ahead, and partly because it sends a good strong message to the politicians that if you piss the people off badly enough, they eventually will smack you down.
If you're going to make the effort to go to a Fry's, pick one with a cool theme, like Anaheim (space shuttle) or San Marcos (North San Diego county, with an Atlantis theme). Don't go to the San Diego Fry's-- it's pretty much like a big costco.
Totally true-- I grew up in Manhattan (KS, that is). Going from my parent's back yard straight up the hill is a ~16% grade, about 200ft vertical climb. Compare that to the Los Angeles basin, where you can look out from the Getty and see friggin' Orange County with nary a hill in between (well, alright. You could see Orange County if it wasn't for the smog). Central KS is flat, but anybody who thinks the flint hills are flat should have to jog up & down Manhattan Ave from Kimball to Anderson a few times!
that can spell worth a damn? Or who can get they're, their, and there right? (obviously not many slashdotters, to read a few posts) Or, for that matter, two, to, and too? Or than and then? Or affect or effect?
I work in an industry with a considerable population of well-educated persons from India-- and I know a heck of a lot of Americans (being one myself, and having grown up here, ya know). One of my co-workers' children has far better grammer and spelling than the average slashdotter (i.e. knows and understands the above grammer items, and can spell very well). He obviously hasn't been studying English for 10 years, given that he's only nine.
My point is that people in the US whine and moan about jobs going overseas to "less educated" people-- while the average American high school student can't even find Iraq on a world map. If Americans want to compete globally, they have to do more than just go back to school to get a degree for "life experiences"; they're going to have to actually get smarter and work harder. If stating that bluntly makes me an asshole, so be it;>
Copies of the copyrighted work; I'd guess (without the benefit of legal training, of course) that it's tied to any version of a copy of a work. The relevant text reads:
"For purposes of section 2319(b) of title 18, the placing of a copyrighted work, without the authorization of the copyright owner, on a computer network accessible to members of the public who are able to copy the work through such access shall be considered to be the distribution, during a 180-day period, of at least 10 copies of that work with a retail value of more than $2,500."
Not only that, but it specifically defines the illegal act as distributing the file more than 10 times in a 180 day period (page 4, line 23 to page 5, line 2). Sounds like it should be super-easy to work around-- just implement a counter in the software that removes a file from the upload queue after nine uploads in 180 days. If even half of the downloaders share the file 9 times each, the file supply increases exponentially-- as long as people share nice, nobody should ever go to jail even if this bill goes through.
To my mind, it legitmizes sharing your files a few times each, since it provides a hard definition of illegal distribution. Of course, leachers will ruin things as always.
SGI has always had wild colored cases, weird form factors, etc. Check out the original indigos (big blue boat anchor-style cases), the sweet purple indigo2s, the octane with the light stripe in the front, or the funky little round O2 (hate that machine, can't balance a coffee cup on top). Weird cases are nothing new for SGIs-- not usually as pretty as the apple cases, but they always catch people's attention. And the old CRT monitors can be really, really great-- of course, they weigh 100 lbs each and take up your entire desk, but working on a 24" superwide CRT is true bliss...
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Hey now, that's Imperial Beach, not San Diego-- the cops down there are definitly more Roscoe P. Coltrane than in San Diego. If you don't look local, they'll pull you over (if you're driving a car that uses unleaded gas and/or has its original paint job, you're not a local). Or were you pulled over by the MPs at the radio station? Either way, every time I go down the strand I see a ton of cops. Not a good place to speed. And don't even get me started about the idiots on Coronodo ;>
'...if I had to deal with the "real" physics of acceleration (and near-limitless velocity), the game would not be as much fun to play'
There was a space fighter sim, maybe 10 years ago, called Mantis. It used realistic acceleration and velocity physics. You had to actually think about how you and your enemy were moving, and how applying thrust at your current heading would affect things. The story line sucked, but it was fun to play if you want a more realistic experience.
At least if the parent poster is smart enough to use a credit card that returns some sort of reward, Discover, Amex, or a reward-paying visa/mc. I pay for everything using mine, and so effectively receive a 1% discount everywhere I shop. Over time, it really adds up. If the stores don't like it, they can refuse to honor credit cards-- I go to a couple of great restaurants that are cash only and are well worth it. If a merchant doesn't want to pay the fees, they don't have to accept credit cards.
Some day when I get bored, I'll build myself an STM...
You mean like here?
A couple of points-- in dammed rivers, the water temperature is warmer, not colder, than in the free flowing river pre-dam (except maybe in the immediate vicinitity of the dam). See this report on the columbia river warming as an example. Dams slow the river, slow==warm. The warmer water has a dramatic effect on the wildlife, just in another direction.
As far as the water loss, the dams make it possible to use the water from the seasonal floods year round for irrigation. If you take water from a large single channel (i.e. a river) and spread it out over a vast area (i.e. millions of acres of farmland), your loss due to evaporation is going to be hellacious. That's why the colorado is a trickle when it hits the sea of cortez, and the area around it is an incredible salt desert.
I keep it within reason based on the quick-moving traffic around me, so my insurance is just fine (despite driving a late-model rear-wheel sports car), as is my driving record (no moving violations or accidents, knock on wood).
What really annoys me is that the police enforce the speed limits, but don't enforce statues like California's V.C. 21654, which reqires you to be as far to the right as practicable when travelling at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic. That's a moving violation, too. Idiots camped out in the left lane going slow are just as dangerous as speeders, and deserve to have moving violations and insurance hikes for their behavior as well.
The 90 mph was hyperbole; I normally keep it to 5-10mph over the speed limit (On freeway, yes. In the city, yes. Comparable to other fast traffic, yes.) Yes, I have good brakes and tires and a car that handles very well (on dry pavement, not normally a problem in So. Cal; when it rains I NEVER go over the speed limit. Rear wheel drive cars spin out just a bit too easily).
I don't weave, either-- but from what I've seen, the weavers do so mainly because drives in So. Cal. are complete and utter idiots that never get to the right, even when they're going below the speed limit. I kid you not, last night I was going down I-8 at 8:30, going 70mph. I completely blew past an old junker that was camped in the FAR LEFT lane. WTF??!! He had to have been going under 55mph, in a 65mph zone. Get the F$#@ over! That is the sort of thing I'm talking about; that is just as dangerous to the people around you as speeding, and ought to be dealt with (traffic fines and insurance hikes) in the same way.
Yes, sneaking into a theater to avoid paying is theft, at least in some jurisdictions. The legal term for what you're doing when you sneak into a theater to avoid paying is Theft of Services , at least in New York. If I got an RIAA subpoena, I'd be a lot more worried about the legal definiton of theft than the slashdot definition of theft.
(see also here for other examples of theft of services, including telephone and other telecom servcies).
IBM as a cute little girl? More like the 180 pound mastiff finally biting the head off of the stupid little boy that's been poking him for the last hour.
No, it's the idiots puttering along going 65 in a 65 mph zone that are dangerous when I whip by them at 90. I get along with the other idiots just fine...
Somebody modded this as overrated? Must be on crack. The mere suggestion that anybody's trying to get into the pants of a slashdotter is hilarious (if a bit overused...)
Get a $60 apex player with component outs and flash the ROM-- no region coding, no macrovision, and you can put in your own graphics with a little bit of work.
My interpretation's not the same as the questioner-- it's not that the perjury is in affirming that the recording is illegal, the perjury is in claiming that they are "authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner" when they're not. Because they're not. Open and shut.
If you really think that the RIAA is totally free & clear in this, then why did they issue a formal apology, give the poor Prof. an Usher T-shirt and CD, and claim that it was an error by a temp worker? So if they are in the wrong on this, why wouldn't Penn State (the copyright holder) want to go after the RIAA? Well, it might have something to do with:
"Penn State President Graham Spanier, who testified before Congress in February about online piracy, is the co-chairman of a working group that includes the entertainment industry." Story from News.com Seems kind of obvious (if a bit smelly) to me...
No, they didn't have the right to make the attempt. They claimed they had authorization to take down a copyrighted work. Re-read the answer, very carefully.
"In other words, the perjury clause may be violated if you seek a DMCA subpoena without the authorization of the copyright owner.
We are unaware of any prosecutions for violating this provision of the DMCA at this time."
He's not saying the takedown didn't violate the DMCA, he's saying they haven't prosecuted yet. OF course, that might have something to do with the RIAA and their lapdogs Bush and Berman keeping the DOJ on a leash.
Yeah, I did read the answer. Several times. You might try it, it's kinda cool to do so.
The copyright holder of the recording in question, the lecture, is either Prof. Usher or his University. The RIAA issued a takedown notice under the DMCA. To issue this notice, they have to swear, under penalty of perjury, that they are either the copyright holder, or the authorized agent of the copyright holder, for the work in question. They are not.
They screwed up, they thought the recording in question belonged to someone (Usher the singer) for whom they are the authorized agent to make takedown notices.
Notice that the DOJ attorney ended his answer with "In other words, the perjury clause may be violated if you seek a DMCA subpoena without the authorization of the copyright owner.
We are unaware of any prosecutions for violating this provision of the DMCA at this time."
He's clearly not saying that this action wasn't a DMCA violation, he's saying that he's unaware of a prosecution for violating the perjury clause.
Doesn't matter. If the RIAA issues a takedown notice under the DMCA, they have to swear, under penalty of perjury, that they are either the copyright holder, or the authorized agent of the copyright holder. While they may be the authorized agent of Mr. Usher the R&B singer, they are probably not the authorized agent of Dr. Usher the professor. Therefore their sworn statement under which they issued the DMCA takedown notice is perjured.
Whether Dr. Usher presses charges or not should be irrellevant; perjury is an offense against the court, not an offense against a person. Not sure how this works under the DMCA.
What I want to know is, why hasn't there been a prosecution for violation of the perjury clause of the DMCA on the Usher lecuture? It seems pretty cut and dried-- Professor Usher obviously never authorized the RIAA to act as his agent, and whomever issued the takedown letter swore under penalty of perjury that they were acting as his agent. So why hasn't this ended up in court?
No question that that's how the system works-- some of us just get a little tired of the fact that the founding fathers (who did an incredible job in so many ways) designed a system that was appropriate to a time when the average citizen was an isolated subsistance farmer with essentially zero education (pre-public schools, at least outside of Mass.) or knowledge of current world events, and so lacked the information necessary to make a decision on who should be president.
Totally reasonable at the time, but do you really think that the state legislatures, controlled as they are by career politicians totally on the take from special interests, are more able than the general public to make decisions on who should be president today? I know I don't. I'm pretty happy about the Gray Davis recall, partly because I've watched him run our state into the ground full-speed ahead, and partly because it sends a good strong message to the politicians that if you piss the people off badly enough, they eventually will smack you down.
If you're going to make the effort to go to a Fry's, pick one with a cool theme, like Anaheim (space shuttle) or San Marcos (North San Diego county, with an Atlantis theme). Don't go to the San Diego Fry's-- it's pretty much like a big costco.
Totally true-- I grew up in Manhattan (KS, that is). Going from my parent's back yard straight up the hill is a ~16% grade, about 200ft vertical climb. Compare that to the Los Angeles basin, where you can look out from the Getty and see friggin' Orange County with nary a hill in between (well, alright. You could see Orange County if it wasn't for the smog). Central KS is flat, but anybody who thinks the flint hills are flat should have to jog up & down Manhattan Ave from Kimball to Anderson a few times!
that can spell worth a damn? Or who can get they're, their, and there right? (obviously not many slashdotters, to read a few posts) Or, for that matter, two, to, and too? Or than and then? Or affect or effect?
;>
I work in an industry with a considerable population of well-educated persons from India-- and I know a heck of a lot of Americans (being one myself, and having grown up here, ya know). One of my co-workers' children has far better grammer and spelling than the average slashdotter (i.e. knows and understands the above grammer items, and can spell very well). He obviously hasn't been studying English for 10 years, given that he's only nine.
My point is that people in the US whine and moan about jobs going overseas to "less educated" people-- while the average American high school student can't even find Iraq on a world map. If Americans want to compete globally, they have to do more than just go back to school to get a degree for "life experiences"; they're going to have to actually get smarter and work harder. If stating that bluntly makes me an asshole, so be it
Most educated Indians (that I know) can actually write way better in English than most Americans...
Copies of the copyrighted work; I'd guess (without the benefit of legal training, of course) that it's tied to any version of a copy of a work. The relevant text reads:
"For purposes of section 2319(b) of title 18, the placing of a copyrighted work, without the authorization of the copyright owner, on a computer network accessible to members of the public who are able to copy the work through such access shall be considered to be the distribution, during a 180-day period, of at least 10 copies of that work with a retail value of more than $2,500."
Not only that, but it specifically defines the illegal act as distributing the file more than 10 times in a 180 day period (page 4, line 23 to page 5, line 2). Sounds like it should be super-easy to work around-- just implement a counter in the software that removes a file from the upload queue after nine uploads in 180 days. If even half of the downloaders share the file 9 times each, the file supply increases exponentially-- as long as people share nice, nobody should ever go to jail even if this bill goes through.
To my mind, it legitmizes sharing your files a few times each, since it provides a hard definition of illegal distribution. Of course, leachers will ruin things as always.
SGI has always had wild colored cases, weird form factors, etc. Check out the original indigos (big blue boat anchor-style cases), the sweet purple indigo2s, the octane with the light stripe in the front, or the funky little round O2 (hate that machine, can't balance a coffee cup on top). Weird cases are nothing new for SGIs-- not usually as pretty as the apple cases, but they always catch people's attention. And the old CRT monitors can be really, really great-- of course, they weigh 100 lbs each and take up your entire desk, but working on a 24" superwide CRT is true bliss...