I don't mind them having better tools, as long as it doesn't usurp due process. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That is why there are checks and balances, and they MUST be kept. If there is a good reason for needing the information, then getting a warrant should not be a problem.
The chance of getting killed by a car when crossing the road is orders of magnitude larger than the chance of getting killed by an asteroid.
The odds of winning big in the lottery aren't very high either, but guess what? It happens to someone on a fairly regular basis.
As for an asteroid striking the Earth... maybe not likely in the short term (where it is almost infinitely unlikely), but in the long term the likelihood becomes very high (long enough term and it becomes infinitely probable).
And maybe, just maybe, you'll win the lottery and be struck by a car while the driver is looking up at an incoming asteroid.
Our weather satellites are dying, Senator. We must do something quickly to stop the loss of long term forecasts.
Mesa day startin pretty okee-day with a brisky morning munchy, then BOOM! Gettin very scared and runnin from that lightning, and POW! Mesa here! Mesa gettin' very very scared! Flashy lightning not insa forecast!
So NOAA made an agreement with the government of Germany to borrow a Meteosat Weather Satellite as a backup
Are you sure about this? Trusting our fate to a satellite we hardly know?
The mismanagement of the $13 billion program to build the next generation weather satellites was recently described as a 'national embarrassment'
“American politics. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
“These forecasts — too accurate for Farmer's Almanacs. Only weather satellites are so precise.”
“If this is a weather station, where is the meteorologist? — Commander, tear this place apart until you’ve found those satellite plans.”
The tricky part is whether that first-sale doctrine applies to material both manufactured and first purchased outside the United States. Does "this title" apply to any copyrighted work — whether manufactured all or in part in the United States and around the world?
The "tricky part" is that maybe it doesn't. The straightforward part is that it should. If it doesn't, fix the law so that it works as it should.
If my 3 years old son can learn Windows 8 through very moderate usage, anybody with half a brain can do so too.
What I get out of that is that it is a toy operating system, and only someone with half a brain would use Windows 8, or at least use it for something other than a toy. With this news, it finally all makes sense now, I just never knew the target market for Win8.
I'm pretty sure there's a joke in there somewhere.
Only a half brain operating? I know people who... ...drive like that. ...talk like that. ...code like that. ...make decisions at Microsoft like that. ...decide to buy Apple products like that.
So, umm... I would have to run an internet connection out to my workshop to get a DRM enabled printer to work out there. And if my internet connection was out, I'd have to stop working on my project.
Since DRM adds no value to the end consumer, actually costing them money (to pay for the DRM implementation), and causing inconvenience when it doesn't work right, then nobody is going to want this "feature". Therefore DRM for 3D printers would have to be legislated into existence.
We need laws passed to make it illegal to make things that are designed to NOT work by default!
You are right, there is a sense of entitlement. Most people think they are entitled to things for free, data, music, books, movies.
It's not just the "freetards" that this sentence applies to you know...
What about the entertainment industry that thinks it deserves content for free? They moan about the poor artists, but they moan even louder when they have to pay one. (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091207/1201017234.shtml)
Funny how a person infringing for no profit is should have to pay exorbitant penalties ($20,000 per song?), while the music companies can use content for profit and not pay the artists, and somehow it is okay?
Look up "Hollywood Accounting".
www.techdirt.com/search.php?q=hollywood+accounting&sa=Search&siteurl=www.techdirt.com
Don't forget the blank media levy in Canada that I have had to pay for years despite not putting music on the blank media. Or that the industry wants to outlaw any copying at all, and still keep the levy.
The current model allows you to turn off ads just fine while still being able to read content for free.
My analogy and my issue with their entitlement is about spying, not advertising or blocking ads. I'm not saying they don't have the right to put an ad on their page. Ads were in newspapers (since you mention them) long before the internet came about. Did people follow me around all day watching me to determine what ads to place in the newspaper? No they didn't. And I don't think they should now either, just because they can (technology made it both possible and cheap enough).
I personally endured ads on the net and everywhere else for a long time. (Why is it that free over the air TV was supported by ads, and cable TV that you pay for still has ads?) Mostly I ignored them. More pain-in-the-butt ads flashing/appearing on top of content/and so on tested my limits. Started blocking only recently in an attempt to maintain some small perceived sense of privacy.
I think you each have valid views, but the issue as I see it, isn't quite what either of your points are about.
It's the sense of entitlement.
Some folks seem to think that because they create content, or enable others to create content, on the internet, that they are entitled to make money.
(Sounds like some people from the music industry.)
You can try to make money, or don't try to make money. But if you are trying, and fail, don't blame anyone else, and don't bitch and moan that we're a bunch of no-gooders ruining your fun because we don't want you looking over our shoulders and following us around recording what we do.
Not sure who decided the internet population is there to provide income. It's not.
I'm pretty sure if I was standing following one of these people around all day in 'the real world' taking video and notes of everything they did, they would be pretty upset. And when I said "You have to let me, I am making money doing this," I doubt that would make them okay with it.
At least in the real world, when someone is peeking in your windows, or reading over your shoulder, sooner or later you'll notice them, and possibly have them charged. Why is it different on the internet? Because most people can't see you snooping around, it's okay?
EA exec out of touch. That's probably a better phrasing.
Or EA exec won't green light anything I would pay them for.
Multiplayer is cool for some things, but I don't much care for it. In this phase of life, I don't have the time to set aside to play online with friends, and like some other posters, I have no desire to play with a random stranger.
Also avoid "always on" crap, on principle, and due to the fact I work in a remote place (where I have to stay for extended periods) and have no internet that I can use to be "always on" while there.
If you can get your ass sued for infringing, shouldn't they get sued for censoring something that is not infringing? After all, that infringes on our rights.
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They should all be charged and fired.
Probably won't be that big a deal... they'll likely be as disappointed with their "unlimited internet access" as I am with mine.
I don't mind them having better tools, as long as it doesn't usurp due process. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That is why there are checks and balances, and they MUST be kept. If there is a good reason for needing the information, then getting a warrant should not be a problem.
The chance of getting killed by a car when crossing the road is orders of magnitude larger than the chance of getting killed by an asteroid.
The odds of winning big in the lottery aren't very high either, but guess what? It happens to someone on a fairly regular basis.
As for an asteroid striking the Earth... maybe not likely in the short term (where it is almost infinitely unlikely), but in the long term the likelihood becomes very high (long enough term and it becomes infinitely probable).
And maybe, just maybe, you'll win the lottery and be struck by a car while the driver is looking up at an incoming asteroid.
Our weather satellites are dying, Senator. We must do something quickly to stop the loss of long term forecasts.
Mesa day startin pretty okee-day with a brisky morning munchy, then BOOM! Gettin very scared and runnin from that lightning, and POW! Mesa here! Mesa gettin' very very scared! Flashy lightning not insa forecast!
So NOAA made an agreement with the government of Germany to borrow a Meteosat Weather Satellite as a backup
Are you sure about this? Trusting our fate to a satellite we hardly know?
The mismanagement of the $13 billion program to build the next generation weather satellites was recently described as a 'national embarrassment'
“American politics. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
“These forecasts — too accurate for Farmer's Almanacs. Only weather satellites are so precise.”
“If this is a weather station, where is the meteorologist? — Commander, tear this place apart until you’ve found those satellite plans.”
The tricky part is whether that first-sale doctrine applies to material both manufactured and first purchased outside the United States.
Does "this title" apply to any copyrighted work — whether manufactured all or in part in the United States and around the world?
The "tricky part" is that maybe it doesn't. The straightforward part is that it should. If it doesn't, fix the law so that it works as it should.
yeah, but what happens when there's a generation of kids who grew up playing angry birds as their first game instead of super mario?
Poor parenting has been an ongoing issue for generations!
BTW it was my understanding America used to be the major provider over a decade ago and we simply stopped. Shows this was a bad idea.
Not if your intention is to let the competition use up their supply while ensuring your own in the the future.
If my 3 years old son can learn Windows 8 through very moderate usage, anybody with half a brain can do so too.
What I get out of that is that it is a toy operating system, and only someone with half a brain would use Windows 8, or at least use it for something other than a toy. With this news, it finally all makes sense now, I just never knew the target market for Win8.
I'm pretty sure there's a joke in there somewhere.
Only a half brain operating? I know people who...
...drive like that.
...talk like that.
...code like that.
...make decisions at Microsoft like that.
...decide to buy Apple products like that.
and so on...
the country is 'facing the possibility of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor"
Hawaii is going to lose their internet connection and won't be able to play Ubisoft games.
Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation
Yeah, until it's practical to start doing it...
So, umm... I would have to run an internet connection out to my workshop to get a DRM enabled printer to work out there. And if my internet connection was out, I'd have to stop working on my project.
Since DRM adds no value to the end consumer, actually costing them money (to pay for the DRM implementation), and causing inconvenience when it doesn't work right, then nobody is going to want this "feature". Therefore DRM for 3D printers would have to be legislated into existence.
We need laws passed to make it illegal to make things that are designed to NOT work by default!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm6EH5YRONc
Shut up and take it fanboi. It's not a fault, it's a feature.
You are right, there is a sense of entitlement. Most people think they are entitled to things for free, data, music, books, movies.
It's not just the "freetards" that this sentence applies to you know...
What about the entertainment industry that thinks it deserves content for free? They moan about the poor artists, but they moan even louder when they have to pay one.
(http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091207/1201017234.shtml)
Funny how a person infringing for no profit is should have to pay exorbitant penalties ($20,000 per song?), while the music companies can use content for profit and not pay the artists, and somehow it is okay?
Look up "Hollywood Accounting".
www.techdirt.com/search.php?q=hollywood+accounting&sa=Search&siteurl=www.techdirt.com
Don't forget the blank media levy in Canada that I have had to pay for years despite not putting music on the blank media. Or that the industry wants to outlaw any copying at all, and still keep the levy.
The current model allows you to turn off ads just fine while still being able to read content for free.
My analogy and my issue with their entitlement is about spying, not advertising or blocking ads. I'm not saying they don't have the right to put an ad on their page. Ads were in newspapers (since you mention them) long before the internet came about. Did people follow me around all day watching me to determine what ads to place in the newspaper? No they didn't. And I don't think they should now either, just because they can (technology made it both possible and cheap enough).
I personally endured ads on the net and everywhere else for a long time. (Why is it that free over the air TV was supported by ads, and cable TV that you pay for still has ads?) Mostly I ignored them. More pain-in-the-butt ads flashing/appearing on top of content/and so on tested my limits. Started blocking only recently in an attempt to maintain some small perceived sense of privacy.
Hopefully a family member of someone from the RIAJ, or maybe a politician's kid will be the first one caught.
I think you each have valid views, but the issue as I see it, isn't quite what either of your points are about.
It's the sense of entitlement.
Some folks seem to think that because they create content, or enable others to create content, on the internet, that they are entitled to make money.
(Sounds like some people from the music industry.)
You can try to make money, or don't try to make money. But if you are trying, and fail, don't blame anyone else, and don't bitch and moan that we're a bunch of no-gooders ruining your fun because we don't want you looking over our shoulders and following us around recording what we do.
Not sure who decided the internet population is there to provide income. It's not.
I'm pretty sure if I was standing following one of these people around all day in 'the real world' taking video and notes of everything they did, they would be pretty upset. And when I said "You have to let me, I am making money doing this," I doubt that would make them okay with it.
At least in the real world, when someone is peeking in your windows, or reading over your shoulder, sooner or later you'll notice them, and possibly have them charged. Why is it different on the internet? Because most people can't see you snooping around, it's okay?
Meanwhile, in America, the NZ Prime Minister is declared a terrorist and an enemy of the state.
Do away with the patent system.
Get rid of copyright while you're at it.
"MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Libre Office".
There, I fixed that for you.
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
EA exec out of touch. That's probably a better phrasing.
Or EA exec won't green light anything I would pay them for.
Multiplayer is cool for some things, but I don't much care for it. In this phase of life, I don't have the time to set aside to play online with friends, and like some other posters, I have no desire to play with a random stranger.
Also avoid "always on" crap, on principle, and due to the fact I work in a remote place (where I have to stay for extended periods) and have no internet that I can use to be "always on" while there.
So they don't want my money.
If you can get your ass sued for infringing, shouldn't they get sued for censoring something that is not infringing? After all, that infringes on our rights.
My conclusion is that I AM AS SMART AS ALBERT EINSTEIN.
My reality is a wonderful reality, care to visit?
I suspect that if you were subjected to the "Total Perspective Vortex", you would come out feeling pretty good.