Simplicity is much better, try preserving seaweeds instead of build expensive CO2 extractors and planting trees.
Nature is NOT simple. Have a look at how simple glucose metabolism is, and then consider it's one of the most basic processes for the majority of animal life.
Oh, and don't forget about the Hydrogen-cells engine, now a days it can be produced, but due to financial problems it is not as popular as it should be.
I'll give you credit and say, "There's one more troll sated."
woof.
I'll bet his answer to the Middle East situation is situation is, "If you guys would simply stop fighting, everyone will be happier." The world is not a simple place, despite being filled with simple people.
So I'm a troll now? And me not even mentioning operating systems.
You need to read the moderator guidelines, lobsterBoy. I gave up my chance to mod this thread by posting.
FACT: The previous story was about the push to move to digital TV in order to force pay-per-view.
FACT: Jim Henson productions is owned by one of the conglomerates paying legislators to force digital TV and pay-per-view on us.
FACT: People here bitch and moan about DeCSS and DMCA and then a couple stories later gush about some upcoming DVD release from AOL-T-W or a new toy from Sony. "BOYCOTT THEM... after I get my memory stick, that is!"
This makes me a troll? Bite me. You can't handle the truth.
If you can be bothered to click past the merchandise and episode reviews (and you can deal with some Flash), you find out a bit more. Like that Jim Henson Productions is owned by EM.TV & Merchandising AG.
Look just a couple screens deeper and you find out that they're deeply involved in pushing digital rollouts and pay-to-view, from the story posted an hour earlier.
Due to media digitalisation, which is multiplying the number of stations and broadcasting platforms and the progressive establishment of Pay-TV and Pay-Per-View programs on offer, more and more market players from the areas of communications and the media are looking for high-quality children's and family programs. EM.TV has placed the majority of its portfolio under the umbrella brand Junior... This umbrella trademark includes classics such as Pippi Langstrumpf
["Longstocking" in English] and up-to-date programs such as Pigs Next Door, which also have the potential to become classics... The Junior umbrella brand is being marketed nationally and internationally on various platforms. Using cooperation agreements with TV stations, the Junior program nowadays is being marketed in numerous countries.
Typical day at Slashdot, just like when you look see one story bitching about DVD encryption, DMCA and DeCSS followed by the next story about the latest geek-targeted DVD release (from AOL-Time-Warner or Sony) that everyone here has just gotta go out and buy.
The reason Sam Adams is such a name is because it was one of the first "micro-brews" to break out and gain popularity (first on the North- and Mid-Atlantic Coast). Back in 1987, no one in the Midwest even believed me that there was such a thing. Worse still, the Midwest I'm talking about is Cincinnati, where you can still get Christian Moerlein and Hudepohl (Hudy Lite -- ugh), both local beers with a long history.[1]
Sam Adams is known as the independent beer the same way that Anheuser-Busch Budweiser is known as the American beer[2] the same way that Heineken is still the US import beer.
woof.
[1] Don't give me a hard time about not mentioning Oldenburg, which only started brewing in 1990 or 1991.
[2]Of course, it doesn't hurt that reputation when you consider that about 20% of all beer brewed in the US is Budweiser (regular, not including Bud Light), and that Budweiser alone accounts for more barrelage than the next largest brewery (Miller brands).
Umm... Taco? The drunk people are the customers, who are rarely called upon to wash their own glasses, and most bars don't let the staff drink (bah!).
This might be kinda interesting for Oktoberfest, but the cost for more than 1M of the 1-liter mugs would be incredible. Speaking of Oktoberfest, I'll let you all in on how it all works here:
Put your butt on a bench and they'll bring you a beer. You will NOT be served at Oktoberfest unless you are seated. Everyone will let you sit down for the two or three minutes necessary to order a beer if you ask nicely and tell them that's what you're doing.
Tourists go to the HB (Hofbräuhaus); the best beer is Augustiner.
To be sure to get faster service, fuller beer steins and better food, tip 15% or more. The women work HARD (and if you had to listen to the "Hey, Baby" song 3 times an hour, 13 hours a day for 2 1/2 weeks straight, you'd understand).
woof.
What I need is not a beer mug that tells the staff I need another. I need one that tells me I don't!
Great. So you have to PAY to be left alone. Do you not see the problem with this? The word is "extortion". Think "Italian 'protection' schemes in New York City".
woof.
There may indeed be an oversight in the GPL
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Abusing the GPL?
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· Score: 2
After looking through the GPL, I can't find any requirement to leave author comments and other information in the source, nor anything that forbids obfuscation.
My guess is that Section 2a is the only thing that may help here:
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
This may allow someone to at least track down what the code was before obfuscation, but I see no requirement to name the source of the original code.
Worse, Section 3 -- which allows distribution in binary -- only requires the source to be "machine readable". Again, nothing against obfuscation. Section 1 only says you have to keep the copyright notices and references to such as well as the disclaimers in your code.
I'd like to see what the FSF has to say on this.
woof.
Source without comments is like a joke without the punchline.
If I was a pick pocket who could reach from Britain to France to pick a Pocket, where does the crime take place?
Great analogy, actually. Nice thought experiment. I had to go over it a couple times.
The base crime -- theft of property -- occurs in France. There are UK laws and treaties which may cover your general participation in a crime. However, the central crime took place in France and, but for the EU, the UK police wouldn't give a rat's ass/arse... at least until France made an extradition request. If you don't agree, consider that without the pickpocketing, no other charges can or do exist, except perhaps Excessive Flexibility and Grievous and Malicious Reaching.
At this point, your extradition trial should ideally take into consideration whether or not what you did in France is also illegal in France. However, the UK & France are both in the EU and would have to extradite. So let's try this a bit differently:
Say you also stand in Norway and instead of dipping your hand in a Frog pocket, you go one country over and there, raise your right arm about 30-40 degrees above horizontal while yell the old mid-20th century chant. Germany has strict laws against this and would scream for extradition. Norway is not in the EU, so they are not bound to extradite, as would be the UK. This is certainly not illegal in Norway and Norway may well refuse to extradite you for the crime committed in Germany.
This is where we already have precedents in the US, and specifically with these laws. Where Denmark was required by the EU to extradite Gary Lauck to Germany even though they (Denmark) have no anti-Nazi laws of their own, the US could and did not extradite Lauck. They wouldn't even run him for mail fraud because what he was sending (he was the central source of neo-Nazi propaganda) was perfectly legal to send in and from the USA. No extradition. There's also no shutting down of neo-Nazi sites hosted in the US depite Germany's repeated requests, so all the little bastards get cheap and legal US hosting. They can only then be tried in Germany if it can be proved that they, within German (or EU) borders, were responsible for the site. ISPs don't give out customer info, not in the US and not in Germany.
Because this is the US' official position on this subject, they cannot claim that a Russian and/or his company can be held liable for doing something which is legal within their own country's borders , even if doing so violates the laws of the US, Q.E.D.
woof.
This took too long to write and no one's gonna see it. Bah.
You forgot "CowboyNeal trend"! Damn you Poll writers! Damn you all to HELL!!!
woof.
Yeah, go on and mod it as Off-Topic. It's a Karma-cap perk (or perq[uisite], if you wish). I left the +1 Score because I agree with the parent -- I'm sick of all these hackneyed phrases, too. They seem to be about 50% of the content of any student paper I've ever had the displeasure of reading, so now I'm back on-topic and Insightful, as well. Even more Insightful when you consider that the use of the same tired phrases, jargon and pseudo-English business-speak will result in a lot of positive results for "plagiarism". I'm guessing they're using some simple heuristics to defeat bad spelling, and if that ain't Interesting, what is? (I mean besidesshoving a cheap hub up a stuffed animal's ass.)
...and me without mod points. My favourite DoJ troll so far: Comment Number MTC-00008437 from "Gates, Billy and Elizabeth". At least, I hope it's a troll. But then I see Comment Number MTC-00008427 from "Allen, Paul". Paul J Allen, according to the comment. With a home number in Winter Garden, Florida.
Seems everything in the 8,000 range is from MS employees and other non-living entities. I thought some random twit slipped through at comment 8432 (AOL address), but no, that's from MS as well, and from obviously someone good at public writing (read: propaganda).
I'm still hunting for the case-widening and case-lengthening posts, along with the pr0n link they admitted receiving, Ashcroft-snotting posts and other crap from the people here.
Haven't found a Taco OR Hemos post yet (nor Rusty or Ino). Found mine, though. Also found some Ayn Rand-spewing nutter with the same name as my father who wrote a rather disjointed diatribe but I think was pro-MS.
Anyone smelling a hoax? It looks good and even possible, but the dartboard shown looks like a standard horsehair board and not one of those electronic pegboard types, so how does a hit register? A normal dartboard is a damned good insulator with a wireframe over it. Sections don't move, so switches can't be pressed.
Who needs the FBI and a warrant to shut down a site? Post the URL here and the effect will toast the place. We kill sites for an entire month when they have transfer limits, even when we like them.
He often asks personally, but other times, the record company secures the rights. Whether or not the copyright owner agrees, Al can still parody the song and release it. He just has to pay. Not because he's doing a parody but because he's re-using the music. He'd have to pay for the lyrics (but not the music) if he did a version of Madonna's "Material Girl" using the original lyrics but playing it to the tune of Handel's "Messiah" on his accordion.
Coolio and the Red Hot Chili Peppers did not agree to the parodies he did of their songs ("Amish Paradise" [parody of "Gangster's Paradise"] and "The Flintstones" [parody primarily of "Suck My Kiss"]). Coolio's people made threats, but those were as empty as Jack Valenti's rants.
And as Al said of Coolio's anger over the parody, "It didn't stop him cashing the cheque." Or don't you watch MTV "Rockumentaries"?
The Docklands Light Railway [dlr.co.uk] in London has driverless, computer controlled trains (not cars, yet, unfortunately).
So do a lot of places, like the Atlanta-Hartsfield Airport (ATL) and Tampa International Airport (TPA) terminal transportation systems. Hell, the entire U-Bahn in Germany is automatically controlled, with the "conductors" or "engineers" or "drivers" or whatever the hell they are only there for safety and in case of emergency.
Unfortunately, this system idea is a bit more complex: The dozens of paths and crossings on each line of the Munich U-Bahn system are still nothing compared with the complexity of a 20-square-block street area, much less the implementation for an entire town or even subdivision.
Nice idea, but reality says, "No dice." People want cars, even when they're expensive to own, operate and maintain. They're convenient (except for parking), can be personalised/customised, and they're private.
woof.
Screw this system --I want the flying cars they promised me when I was a kid!
While everyone here will point out that the "cost of Linux" is almost nothing, that ain't the case. There's the change-over, rollout, administrators, etc. However, you point out that these costs exist with Microsoft as well, so that you have the same costs. What you do NOT have is the culpability. With Linux and Open Source software, no one can come in and make demands. Microsoft can't come in and demand $130K like they did in Virginia Beach.
Furthermore, you can explain briefly how with the source code available, special changes to the software for specific needs can be done by any programmer and the city won't have to buy $100K of custom software -- $100K will easily get you a couple full-time programmers in Charlottesville for a year.
Just remember, voters don't want things complex, and TV and papers will almost never let you discuss anything in detail, so it's got to be something simple and quick. "If we change to Linux, our base costs will be less and our long term costs will save the city X dollars over Y years." "Remember Virginia Beach and the Microsoft audit! One hundred twenty-nine THOUSAND dollars for software the city already bought!!!" You get the idea, otherwise, give up politics. (:
An anonymous
reader's submission linked to a PC which fits in your car's stereo slot. It's a bit spendy at $1k, but it's got CD/DVD, PCMCIA, USB, Keyboard, Mic, Headphones, VGA and more. Besides being powered by your car, it also has built-in GPS. Lots of interesting hacking ideas here for people who prefer to spend more time in their cars than me.;)
There's people out there who have to "fish" this site and come up with garbage when you write "then" instead of "than". IIRC, you were supposed to learn the difference in 2nd or 3rd grade in the US.
woof.
Spelling doesn't matter? So where do I get a compiler that can handle IF...THAN statements and won't bitch that some variable hasn't been declared simply because I misspelled it on second use? Sheesh!
For the stileproject and porn pop-up cowards, the direct link is http://static.stileproject.com/rnd/img/pom5.jpg. It's a scan of a Weekly World News item some time ago with the headline, "Hackers Can Turn Your Home Computer Into a BOMB!"
The article starts out thusly:
Washington -- Right now, computer hackers have the ability to turn your home computer into a bomb and blow you to Kingdom Come -- and they can do it anonymously from thousands of miles away!
Experts say the recent "break-ins" that paralyzed Amazon.com, Buy.com and eBay websites are tame compared to what will happen in the near future.
It only gets better from there.
For the uninitiated, WWN is THE cheesiest, worst supermarket tabloid ever. It's always good for a laugh or two, and sometimes I miss it here in Europe. It makes the Sun and the National Enquirer both look like the pinnacles of objective and researched journalism. Lots of stories on two-headed cyclops cannibal babies with 280 IQs and the ability to channel Nostradamus.
woof.
Don't bother modding this. It ain't funnier than the parent, it ain't that informative and there's enough other comments out there more deserving of your mod points. Oh, and I'm capped. And 25% of my last 24 comments are already Score:5.
Could someone please tell me how the flag on some file will stop my buddy taping, then ripping South Park, chopping it into 15MB RARs and placing it on an FTP so that some us over in Europe who are sick of the 2-year delay and piss-poor overdubs can watch? Or how it could stop me DLing those files?
I hear you yelling. They want to flag a lot of videos that are being transmitted through file-sharing networks like Kazaa and Gnutella, right? It's gonna be tough to get some marker or flag to remain in place through the various compressions and wrappers (mpg, div-x, asf, avi, wmf, etc.).
Of course, if they do flag files, then it may b possible to use the DMCA as another method to sue the rippers, since the loss of the flag would be circumventing a "copyright protection mechanism".
Just my 0.02 [1]
woof.
About that.02 Euro: The plural of the Euro-cent is also "cent", giving you "Just my two cent". We have prices like "Fifteen Euro and twenty-seven cent". I already miss the Deutschmark (but not the Franc).
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Cite that 90%.
I've heard that NASA spent 2 years developing a pen capable of writing in 0g. The russians used a pencil. Cite that 90%.
A lot of people have heard that. It's wrong.
That's exactly the point, don't just start acting, try the simplicity, haven't we learned anything with the fight Windows vs. Unix?
What does Win v. *nix have to do with removing CO2 from the atmosphere?
In case you missed it, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide is rising exponentially, seaweed is limited in where it can grow, and growth is held in balance with the animals the eat it. Oh, something interesting about seaweed.
Simplicity is much better, try preserving seaweeds instead of build expensive CO2 extractors and planting trees.
Nature is NOT simple. Have a look at how simple glucose metabolism is, and then consider it's one of the most basic processes for the majority of animal life.
Oh, and don't forget about the Hydrogen-cells engine, now a days it can be produced, but due to financial problems it is not as popular as it should be.
It's called a "fuel cell", and it's not extremely simple, either.
I'll give you credit and say, "There's one more troll sated."
woof.
I'll bet his answer to the Middle East situation is situation is, "If you guys would simply stop fighting, everyone will be happier."
The world is not a simple place, despite being filled with simple people.
You need to read the moderator guidelines, lobsterBoy. I gave up my chance to mod this thread by posting.
FACT: The previous story was about the push to move to digital TV in order to force pay-per-view.
FACT: Jim Henson productions is owned by one of the conglomerates paying legislators to force digital TV and pay-per-view on us.
FACT: People here bitch and moan about DeCSS and DMCA and then a couple stories later gush about some upcoming DVD release from AOL-T-W or a new toy from Sony. "BOYCOTT THEM... after I get my memory stick, that is!"
This makes me a troll? Bite me. You can't handle the truth.
woof.
I'm correct, just not politically correct.
Look just a couple screens deeper and you find out that they're deeply involved in pushing digital rollouts and pay-to-view, from the story posted an hour earlier.
Typical day at Slashdot, just like when you look see one story bitching about DVD encryption, DMCA and DeCSS followed by the next story about the latest geek-targeted DVD release (from AOL-Time-Warner or Sony) that everyone here has just gotta go out and buy.Excuse me while I vomit.
woof.
Sam Adams is known as the independent beer the same way that Anheuser-Busch Budweiser is known as the American beer[2] the same way that Heineken is still the US import beer.
woof.
[1] Don't give me a hard time about not mentioning Oldenburg, which only started brewing in 1990 or 1991.
[2]Of course, it doesn't hurt that reputation when you consider that about 20% of all beer brewed in the US is Budweiser (regular, not including Bud Light), and that Budweiser alone accounts for more barrelage than the next largest brewery (Miller brands).
This might be kinda interesting for Oktoberfest, but the cost for more than 1M of the 1-liter mugs would be incredible. Speaking of Oktoberfest, I'll let you all in on how it all works here:
- Put your butt on a bench and they'll bring you a beer. You will NOT be served at Oktoberfest unless you are seated. Everyone will let you sit down for the two or three minutes necessary to order a beer if you ask nicely and tell them that's what you're doing.
- Tourists go to the HB (Hofbräuhaus); the best beer is Augustiner.
- To be sure to get faster service, fuller beer steins and better food, tip 15% or more. The women work HARD (and if you had to listen to the "Hey, Baby" song 3 times an hour, 13 hours a day for 2 1/2 weeks straight, you'd understand).
woof.What I need is not a beer mug that tells the staff I need another. I need one that tells me I don't!
Perhaps because LCDs are already polarised.
Really.
It's true.
woof.
woof.
My guess is that Section 2a is the only thing that may help here:
This may allow someone to at least track down what the code was before obfuscation, but I see no requirement to name the source of the original code.Worse, Section 3 -- which allows distribution in binary -- only requires the source to be "machine readable". Again, nothing against obfuscation. Section 1 only says you have to keep the copyright notices and references to such as well as the disclaimers in your code.
I'd like to see what the FSF has to say on this.
woof.
Source without comments is like a joke without the punchline.
Great analogy, actually. Nice thought experiment. I had to go over it a couple times.
The base crime -- theft of property -- occurs in France. There are UK laws and treaties which may cover your general participation in a crime. However, the central crime took place in France and, but for the EU, the UK police wouldn't give a rat's ass/arse... at least until France made an extradition request. If you don't agree, consider that without the pickpocketing, no other charges can or do exist, except perhaps Excessive Flexibility and Grievous and Malicious Reaching.
At this point, your extradition trial should ideally take into consideration whether or not what you did in France is also illegal in France. However, the UK & France are both in the EU and would have to extradite. So let's try this a bit differently:
Say you also stand in Norway and instead of dipping your hand in a Frog pocket, you go one country over and there, raise your right arm about 30-40 degrees above horizontal while yell the old mid-20th century chant. Germany has strict laws against this and would scream for extradition. Norway is not in the EU, so they are not bound to extradite, as would be the UK. This is certainly not illegal in Norway and Norway may well refuse to extradite you for the crime committed in Germany.
This is where we already have precedents in the US, and specifically with these laws. Where Denmark was required by the EU to extradite Gary Lauck to Germany even though they (Denmark) have no anti-Nazi laws of their own, the US could and did not extradite Lauck. They wouldn't even run him for mail fraud because what he was sending (he was the central source of neo-Nazi propaganda) was perfectly legal to send in and from the USA. No extradition. There's also no shutting down of neo-Nazi sites hosted in the US depite Germany's repeated requests, so all the little bastards get cheap and legal US hosting. They can only then be tried in Germany if it can be proved that they, within German (or EU) borders, were responsible for the site. ISPs don't give out customer info, not in the US and not in Germany.
Because this is the US' official position on this subject, they cannot claim that a Russian and/or his company can be held liable for doing something which is legal within their own country's borders , even if doing so violates the laws of the US, Q.E.D.
woof.
This took too long to write and no one's gonna see it. Bah.
woof.
Yeah, go on and mod it as Off-Topic. It's a Karma-cap perk (or perq[uisite], if you wish). I left the +1 Score because I agree with the parent -- I'm sick of all these hackneyed phrases, too. They seem to be about 50% of the content of any student paper I've ever had the displeasure of reading, so now I'm back on-topic and Insightful, as well. Even more Insightful when you consider that the use of the same tired phrases, jargon and pseudo-English business-speak will result in a lot of positive results for "plagiarism". I'm guessing they're using some simple heuristics to defeat bad spelling, and if that ain't Interesting, what is? (I mean besides shoving a cheap hub up a stuffed animal's ass.)
Seems everything in the 8,000 range is from MS employees and other non-living entities. I thought some random twit slipped through at comment 8432 (AOL address), but no, that's from MS as well, and from obviously someone good at public writing (read: propaganda).
I'm still hunting for the case-widening and case-lengthening posts, along with the pr0n link they admitted receiving, Ashcroft-snotting posts and other crap from the people here.
Haven't found a Taco OR Hemos post yet (nor Rusty or Ino). Found mine, though. Also found some Ayn Rand-spewing nutter with the same name as my father who wrote a rather disjointed diatribe but I think was pro-MS.
woof.
Anyone smelling a hoax? It looks good and even possible, but the dartboard shown looks like a standard horsehair board and not one of those electronic pegboard types, so how does a hit register? A normal dartboard is a damned good insulator with a wireframe over it. Sections don't move, so switches can't be pressed.
woof.
woof.
woof.
woof.
Move along now, nothing to moderate here.
woof.
He often asks personally, but other times, the record company secures the rights. Whether or not the copyright owner agrees, Al can still parody the song and release it. He just has to pay. Not because he's doing a parody but because he's re-using the music. He'd have to pay for the lyrics (but not the music) if he did a version of Madonna's "Material Girl" using the original lyrics but playing it to the tune of Handel's "Messiah" on his accordion.
Coolio and the Red Hot Chili Peppers did not agree to the parodies he did of their songs ("Amish Paradise" [parody of "Gangster's Paradise"] and "The Flintstones" [parody primarily of "Suck My Kiss"]). Coolio's people made threats, but those were as empty as Jack Valenti's rants.
And as Al said of Coolio's anger over the parody, "It didn't stop him cashing the cheque." Or don't you watch MTV "Rockumentaries"?
woof.
I didn't want to moderate this thread anyway.
OK, something to see here, but not that much. The US Supreme Court decided this not long enough ago that the current Court could change it easily.
woof.
Yes, the movie was pretty accurate.
So do a lot of places, like the Atlanta-Hartsfield Airport (ATL) and Tampa International Airport (TPA) terminal transportation systems. Hell, the entire U-Bahn in Germany is automatically controlled, with the "conductors" or "engineers" or "drivers" or whatever the hell they are only there for safety and in case of emergency.
Unfortunately, this system idea is a bit more complex: The dozens of paths and crossings on each line of the Munich U-Bahn system are still nothing compared with the complexity of a 20-square-block street area, much less the implementation for an entire town or even subdivision.
Nice idea, but reality says, "No dice." People want cars, even when they're expensive to own, operate and maintain. They're convenient (except for parking), can be personalised/customised, and they're private.
woof.
Screw this system --I want the flying cars they promised me when I was a kid!
Furthermore, you can explain briefly how with the source code available, special changes to the software for specific needs can be done by any programmer and the city won't have to buy $100K of custom software -- $100K will easily get you a couple full-time programmers in Charlottesville for a year.
Just remember, voters don't want things complex, and TV and papers will almost never let you discuss anything in detail, so it's got to be something simple and quick. "If we change to Linux, our base costs will be less and our long term costs will save the city X dollars over Y years." "Remember Virginia Beach and the Microsoft audit! One hundred twenty-nine THOUSAND dollars for software the city already bought!!!" You get the idea, otherwise, give up politics. (:
woof.
There's people out there who have to "fish" this site and come up with garbage when you write "then" instead of "than". IIRC, you were supposed to learn the difference in 2nd or 3rd grade in the US.
woof.
Spelling doesn't matter? So where do I get a compiler that can handle IF...THAN statements and won't bitch that some variable hasn't been declared simply because I misspelled it on second use? Sheesh!
Wasn't that Iridium's business model? It didn't do Motorola a whole lotta good, either, even after they bought a $2B system from $25M.
woof.
If we all save the money we aren't spending on condoms, we could buy AOL/T-W next year! Or not, when you look at the bucks Rusty's raking in.
The article starts out thusly:
It only gets better from there.
For the uninitiated, WWN is THE cheesiest, worst supermarket tabloid ever. It's always good for a laugh or two, and sometimes I miss it here in Europe. It makes the Sun and the National Enquirer both look like the pinnacles of objective and researched journalism. Lots of stories on two-headed cyclops cannibal babies with 280 IQs and the ability to channel Nostradamus.
woof.
Don't bother modding this. It ain't funnier than the parent, it ain't that informative and there's enough other comments out there more deserving of your mod points. Oh, and I'm capped. And 25% of my last 24 comments are already Score:5.
I hear you yelling. They want to flag a lot of videos that are being transmitted through file-sharing networks like Kazaa and Gnutella, right? It's gonna be tough to get some marker or flag to remain in place through the various compressions and wrappers (mpg, div-x, asf, avi, wmf, etc.).
Of course, if they do flag files, then it may b possible to use the DMCA as another method to sue the rippers, since the loss of the flag would be circumventing a "copyright protection mechanism".
Just my 0.02 [1]
woof.
About that .02 Euro: The plural of the Euro-cent is also "cent", giving you "Just my two cent". We have prices like "Fifteen Euro and twenty-seven cent". I already miss the Deutschmark (but not the Franc).
"KJustice", also known as "Kourt" all SuSE release prior to 14.2, before a certain criminal German lawyer got busy and caused another K-app name change.
woof.
Please note I wrote "criminal German lawyer", not "German criminal lawyer": this particular German lawyer is a criminal.