ianal - I think you're right, since ISPs are protected by safe harbour provisions, and the MPAA has to file lawsuits against individuals, even if it's a jane/john doe discovery thing. Of course, if they can't identify who did it, which the article seems to indicate, they can't sue anybody, but that never seems to stop them from baseless threats and bluster.
(Or for that matter, lack of accuracy doesn't slow those rabid vultures down either...)
My understanding is that the destabilization talk isn't about overloading a circuit breaker on one day, it's about massive fluxuation in available power over the entire generation time.
Just think of this. You've now made something like 80% of your grid powered by wind. (They all have problems, but let's just look at wind.) You have a doldrum for a day or two, now you've gone for that time period with only 20% of your normal power, that's destabilizing. What if your windfarms are spead out over vast distances so they tend to have different local conditions. (Something like if you have them all over the USA.) In some ways that will help since no location is expected to be the same as the other, so there is an averaging effect going on. However, that averaging effect is limited by long distance power transmission issues. The grid isn't just a pull & dump system. It uses power to send power, and it needs to maintain what you could think of as electrical pressure, (V.W.A. formulas.) which is why you have all those transformers and sub-stations all over the place, they are one part of that system. So even in the distributed scenario, what if you get a situation like high-wind on the east coast, and calm conditions mid-continent, and dead west coast. Funny thing, the need for power didn't decrease anywhere, but only the east coast is generating enough for their area, some of the mid will be ok, others in brown-outs or black-outs, and the west coast would be mostly black-out conditions, except near the few remaining alternate power sources, assuming the grid demand didn't leach it out completely and blow the circuits. (The entire east coast USA was blacked out by a cascade grid failure, and it might happen again.) Of course having multiple sources of power helps offset this kind of issue. For instance, solar. But that would only help during the hours of light, and again, it needs to be within a reasonable distance of it's market/users.
All this stuff is why intelligent power managers advocate a number of different generation schemes distributed over the area with clustering (when possible) near high draw locations (like big cities). And no power manager can rationally turn a blind eye to those methods that run 24 hours on demand.
I agree that we need to expand our renewable resources type power generation, as well as move away from fossil fuels, but it's a tricky balancing act with huge penalties for dropping the ball, so don't trivialize it.
A few comments if you don't mind. FIrst, other games have made allowances for disabled. Not really, most of that wasn't done for the disabled, it was just serendipity that it was usable for such purposes.
Second, modifying a game like Everquest to allow 3rd party addons like World of Warcraft does is a MAJOR pain in the @55. It would probably be about the same as designing a completely new game/client at this point. Not too mention there are downsides to having those functions from a security viewpoint.
Third, since the store he's talking about is for selling items from the game Everquest, his selling or not selling is completely pointless. It's much like saying that since he can't get a passport, he's suing the 'My Experiences in Foreign Countries Lecture Club' for loss of income because he can't be paid to lecture about his visits to other countries because he's never left his home.
In short, he's full of it, up to the eyeballs... Maybe that's why he's intellectually impaired... errr, I meant to say visually impared.
I think you mean 'Hidden Nightelf' since they are the ones with Shadowmeld.
Don't have a problem with the Crouching Tauren thing, since they keep having to duck down to get through most doorways without wedging their horns in the frame...:)
Or maybe there are few people/organizations willing to put up with the many millions of dollars and multiple years that such a lawsuit would inevitably entail, especially when they can just load windows or linux on whatever box they like.
Except you are ignoring the fact that in many of those cases, the users are getting hit with charges that were either obfuscated or not even mentioned. The 'hidden charges' might just qualify as fraud (ianal), but the unstated charges most certainly are fraud.
Additionally, in this day and age, all kinds of information that in the past would never have been divulged or even asked for are now a requirement for almost everything, especially on the internet. How often do businesses 'require' you social security number? How about your job interview where they run a credit check?
In short, it is a scam that normal people fall for, and not because they are stupid or careless. (Though that happens as well.) And as long as we're on the subject, thank you for agreeing to join our rant/anti-rant discussion system, you will be automatically billed one hundred and forty nine dollars annually, if you wish to dispute these charges please call 785-786-2968.
Yes, the moron that leaked it was, without a doubt, in violation of numerous standard security policies the government has in place. Yet the lying scum want to blame anything and everything except the buffoon that screwed up.
Twenty years ago, they'd have been blaming the Xerox machine instead of the person that accidentally left copies at Kinkos after making unauthorized copies on an unsecured Xerox machine.
Would the author consider this as some form of plagiarization? After all, the author has probably only given them permission to distribute his work, not to distribute numerous altered versions.
For that matter, using synonyms can actually change the feel and meaning of a sentence when viewed in context of the whole. And for documents relying on factual materials, quotes, and many sciences, swapping out words for synonyms will completely destroy the statements. Just imagine this for your research, "Fermilabs has discovered a new capture that has a reel -3/4".
That just doesn't work, it's completely wrong, and should never be done, but is a real possibility with an inane patent like this one. If Amazon actually starts doing that, they can kiss goodbye to sales from anyone who desires unmangled books.
I'll admit that I'd like a bigger screen, but that's just eyecandy, what it needs is controls that weren't made for undersized adolescent hobbits. Let's face it, the shoulder buttons are virtually useless, and all four of the diamond buttons (ABXY) just disappear under my thumb. Try making a model for adult size hands. Better yet, adult sized Western or European/American hands...
For the obvious reason that stealing takes something away, while software piracy, aka - copyright infringement for personal use, only results in a duplication of a pre-existing piece of software. Instead of taking it away from it's ip holder, someone other than the ip holder now has a duplicate of the same thing.
It's very similar to taking a picture of the mona lisa for your scrapbook. The museum still has the original, but they may be annoyed at you not buying their postcards, but in no way have you stolen the painting. Of course, they have no way of knowing if you would have bought their postcards in the first place...
And as to that thing about restaurants not having "demos", there are two things you are missing. First, some do have free samples or tastes available. Second, getting food from a restaurant actually reduces the quantity of food they have, while copying software in no way reduces the quantity of software...
So if you'd get you're nose out of that ip lobbyists pamphlet and look around, you might stop spouting the fundamentally flawed rhetoric from the copyright clowns and realize that there's a lot more to the situation. It doesn't mean you have to agree software piracy (and music copying, etc), but at least you might not be blindly suckered by what amounts to nothing but propaganda and outright lies.
that would be Selenites. Named after the ancient greek goddess of the moon, Selene. This name has been used for the inhabitants of the moon for more than a century.
War has always been about killing the other guys with as little risk to yourself as possible. Why do you think, spears, bows, guns, armor, missles, aircraft, and for that matter, just about everything else used in warfare was invented? It certainly wasn't to give the other guy a fair chance to kill you...
Oh, and ask a Navy Seal about the Air Forces Combat Controllers. Even the Seals think those guys with the fluorescent orange hats have an unbelievable amount of courage, and talk of them in awe. Funny what you learn being on a multi-forces base for a few years...
The proportions on the model in that picture are in the range that makes her disturbingly repulsive.
She is totally in the bottom of "Uncanny Valley" looking up and waving from her picnic there. Ick.
I wouldn't have sex with her even if I used a 10' condom and your penis. Not even in a dark room with blindfolds, 2 paper bags and a wetsuit. I guess the only way to end this is to just say, Eeewwwwww:O===|
I agree with aztektum, there is no reason for a Canadian ISP to obey laws from the USA, they need to obey Canadian laws, and Canada doesn't have the DMCA. (They have a different set of laws dealing with copyright issues.)
Or in this case, your official update compromised and/or disabled my console. Therefore you are going to fix it, and smile as you say "no charge - sorry for the inconvenience" while you pray to the marketing gods that I continue to support your company...
Now that I reread that, it sounds somewhat egotistical and condescending. Of course, this is Sony, so it's probably best to use language they understand...
when you start getting down to the actual rights that are transferred with a purchase of goods, if you leave it to the states, you will cause massive damage to interstate commerce. Those boobs can't even come up with consistent sentencing for crimes, there's no way they'll voluntarily adopt a single consistent set of rules over this unless it's done at the federal level.
If any readers still can't imagine what the problem is with that, think about it for a bit. Here's a few hints, imagine if a company in Maine sold software to people in all the states. In Texas they might be forced to provide updates for free for a period of 3 years, while in Ohio updates have a cost $1.00 but they only have to be available for 6 months. Now in Colorado you can resell your software, but in Florida you don't own it - it's all leased for a period of no more than 4 years. Getting messy already, and we've only covered 4 states. (Maine didn't count because I never said anything about their local laws on ownership/sales.)
By the way, if you are buying land in a state other than your own, check what the state laws are where you are buying it. Some states you get the works. Others, you don't get mineral rights. Some, you get water rights, and you might get mineral rights, but not oil rights, that's a seperate thing altogether. (Can you guess which states I'm talking about?)
In California you can buy beachfront property, and you get the beach. In Oregon (same coast, just farther north) you can still buy beachfront property, but the beach always has, and always will, belong to 'the people'. (Lots of Californian developers have gotten massively pissed over that when they tried to put up walls or fences...) The coast belonging to the people of Oregon is essential native traditions that were adopted into laws for Oregon. This is just a small example the differences that already occur, and you don't ship real estate across state lines, imagine how screwed up that would be.
Due to bizarre circumstances that were not under my control, I changed High Schools 8 times. Every time I changed schools, a teacher forced me to reread Dune, even though I was able to quote page and paragraph. (After a while, I just started putting other books in the Dune jacket cover.)
Let's say Itunes is a Record store, the mp3s are records (you know, those ancient vinyl disks), and the Ipod and the Pre are both types of record players.
As a consumer, you fully expect these suckers to play on any player you have. You paid your money for the record, you can play it on anything you want. Now the Apple record store decides that they want to limit you to playing any records you bought from them only on the record player that they sell. So Apple changes the holes on their records so they only fit on the record players that Apple 'approves'. Palm on the other hand, doesn't like this, and start providing it's users with a replacement spindle that will make your Pre's spindle the same as the Apple one. Suddenly you can play your records again and Apple doesn't like that. So the tit for tat war begins. Apple changes spindles, Palm copies it, Apple threatens with lawyers, Palm laughs and keeps on making their players work.
This is a bit of an oversimplification of the situation, but for the consumer, this is pretty much correct. Is what Apple doing legal? Inal, but I find it very questionable. (The government has busted lots of products by lots of companies for other similar things.) And lets face it, we customers don't really care how it works, we just want it to do so. After all, we really don't expect what amounts to little more than a record store to limit what device we can play that music on. (Yeah, I know, Itunes can do a little more than just let you buy music, but that's a relatively minor point. Like I said, this is an oversimplification of the full situation, but still effectively accurate.)
The author sounds like a programmer. Which explains why he used logic, reason, and lots of dev terms. Of course, this is also the main problem. All those things are anathema to politicians, especially when they realize it might actually increase the publics understanding of what the politicians are actually doing.
So even though slashdotters probably love the idea, the politicians will never implement it.
"Oh, you can deliver an injunction anywhere...." I think it might be a little more correct to say that you can SEND an injunction anywhere, delivery assumes it's been received. That's the problem with dumping official stuff on blogs or twitters, you have no idea if the intended recipient ever got it.
It's kind of like when the UPS dumped a new computer I'd ordered somewhere near the house, I never got it. 3 weeks later I got a brand new computer, and UPS not only payed the bill, but this time they actually rang the doorbell and ensured it was received.:)
Like so many cheesy shows on tv: the moral is, if you can't verify that the recipient actually got it, you didn't really send it... (eww... I just got a bad flashback to Harvey Birdman.... "Did you get that thing I sent you?".... ACK!)
So they are using paint that includes a highly volatile substance. I wonder what else is in there to act as a stabilizer to negate the massive fire hazard.
Copyright was originally for 14 years. That way the authors had plenty of time to make money on their creations, but not so much that they could sit on their laurels. The current length of copyright is utterly insane! How does 90 years in any way encourage someone to write more? Especially after death!
Stupid Mickey Mouse laws... (Or should that be Disney lobbied laws...)
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ianal - I think you're right, since ISPs are protected by safe harbour provisions, and the MPAA has to file lawsuits against individuals, even if it's a jane/john doe discovery thing. Of course, if they can't identify who did it, which the article seems to indicate, they can't sue anybody, but that never seems to stop them from baseless threats and bluster.
(Or for that matter, lack of accuracy doesn't slow those rabid vultures down either...)
My understanding is that the destabilization talk isn't about overloading a circuit breaker on one day, it's about massive fluxuation in available power over the entire generation time.
Just think of this. You've now made something like 80% of your grid powered by wind. (They all have problems, but let's just look at wind.) You have a doldrum for a day or two, now you've gone for that time period with only 20% of your normal power, that's destabilizing.
What if your windfarms are spead out over vast distances so they tend to have different local conditions. (Something like if you have them all over the USA.) In some ways that will help since no location is expected to be the same as the other, so there is an averaging effect going on. However, that averaging effect is limited by long distance power transmission issues. The grid isn't just a pull & dump system. It uses power to send power, and it needs to maintain what you could think of as electrical pressure, (V.W.A. formulas.) which is why you have all those transformers and sub-stations all over the place, they are one part of that system. So even in the distributed scenario, what if you get a situation like high-wind on the east coast, and calm conditions mid-continent, and dead west coast. Funny thing, the need for power didn't decrease anywhere, but only the east coast is generating enough for their area, some of the mid will be ok, others in brown-outs or black-outs, and the west coast would be mostly black-out conditions, except near the few remaining alternate power sources, assuming the grid demand didn't leach it out completely and blow the circuits. (The entire east coast USA was blacked out by a cascade grid failure, and it might happen again.)
Of course having multiple sources of power helps offset this kind of issue. For instance, solar. But that would only help during the hours of light, and again, it needs to be within a reasonable distance of it's market/users.
All this stuff is why intelligent power managers advocate a number of different generation schemes distributed over the area with clustering (when possible) near high draw locations (like big cities). And no power manager can rationally turn a blind eye to those methods that run 24 hours on demand.
I agree that we need to expand our renewable resources type power generation, as well as move away from fossil fuels, but it's a tricky balancing act with huge penalties for dropping the ball, so don't trivialize it.
A few comments if you don't mind.
FIrst, other games have made allowances for disabled. Not really, most of that wasn't done for the disabled, it was just serendipity that it was usable for such purposes.
Second, modifying a game like Everquest to allow 3rd party addons like World of Warcraft does is a MAJOR pain in the @55. It would probably be about the same as designing a completely new game/client at this point. Not too mention there are downsides to having those functions from a security viewpoint.
Third, since the store he's talking about is for selling items from the game Everquest, his selling or not selling is completely pointless. It's much like saying that since he can't get a passport, he's suing the 'My Experiences in Foreign Countries Lecture Club' for loss of income because he can't be paid to lecture about his visits to other countries because he's never left his home.
In short, he's full of it, up to the eyeballs... Maybe that's why he's intellectually impaired... errr, I meant to say visually impared.
At least if it's a job that entails a position of power...
(Those who want the power, are almost always those you don't want obtaining it...)
I think you mean 'Hidden Nightelf' since they are the ones with Shadowmeld.
:)
Don't have a problem with the Crouching Tauren thing, since they keep having to duck down to get through most doorways without wedging their horns in the frame...
Or maybe there are few people/organizations willing to put up with the many millions of dollars and multiple years that such a lawsuit would inevitably entail, especially when they can just load windows or linux on whatever box they like.
Except you are ignoring the fact that in many of those cases, the users are getting hit with charges that were either obfuscated or not even mentioned. The 'hidden charges' might just qualify as fraud (ianal), but the unstated charges most certainly are fraud.
Additionally, in this day and age, all kinds of information that in the past would never have been divulged or even asked for are now a requirement for almost everything, especially on the internet. How often do businesses 'require' you social security number? How about your job interview where they run a credit check?
In short, it is a scam that normal people fall for, and not because they are stupid or careless. (Though that happens as well.) And as long as we're on the subject, thank you for agreeing to join our rant/anti-rant discussion system, you will be automatically billed one hundred and forty nine dollars annually, if you wish to dispute these charges please call 785-786-2968.
Yes, the moron that leaked it was, without a doubt, in violation of numerous standard security policies the government has in place.
Yet the lying scum want to blame anything and everything except the buffoon that screwed up.
Twenty years ago, they'd have been blaming the Xerox machine instead of the person that accidentally left copies at Kinkos after making unauthorized copies on an unsecured Xerox machine.
Would the author consider this as some form of plagiarization?
After all, the author has probably only given them permission to distribute his work, not to distribute numerous altered versions.
For that matter, using synonyms can actually change the feel and meaning of a sentence when viewed in context of the whole.
And for documents relying on factual materials, quotes, and many sciences, swapping out words for synonyms will completely destroy the statements.
Just imagine this for your research, "Fermilabs has discovered a new capture that has a reel -3/4".
That just doesn't work, it's completely wrong, and should never be done, but is a real possibility with an inane patent like this one.
If Amazon actually starts doing that, they can kiss goodbye to sales from anyone who desires unmangled books.
I'll admit that I'd like a bigger screen, but that's just eyecandy, what it needs is controls that weren't made for undersized adolescent hobbits.
Let's face it, the shoulder buttons are virtually useless, and all four of the diamond buttons (ABXY) just disappear under my thumb.
Try making a model for adult size hands. Better yet, adult sized Western or European/American hands...
For the obvious reason that stealing takes something away, while software piracy, aka - copyright infringement for personal use, only results in a duplication of a pre-existing piece of software.
Instead of taking it away from it's ip holder, someone other than the ip holder now has a duplicate of the same thing.
It's very similar to taking a picture of the mona lisa for your scrapbook. The museum still has the original, but they may be annoyed at you not buying their postcards, but in no way have you stolen the painting. Of course, they have no way of knowing if you would have bought their postcards in the first place...
And as to that thing about restaurants not having "demos", there are two things you are missing. First, some do have free samples or tastes available. Second, getting food from a restaurant actually reduces the quantity of food they have, while copying software in no way reduces the quantity of software...
So if you'd get you're nose out of that ip lobbyists pamphlet and look around, you might stop spouting the fundamentally flawed rhetoric from the copyright clowns and realize that there's a lot more to the situation. It doesn't mean you have to agree software piracy (and music copying, etc), but at least you might not be blindly suckered by what amounts to nothing but propaganda and outright lies.
that would be Selenites.
:)
Named after the ancient greek goddess of the moon, Selene.
This name has been used for the inhabitants of the moon for more than a century.
Just thought I'd let you know.
Seems to me that asking for a trial by jury may very well backfire on them.
They don't have a big enough cannon. :)
War has always been about killing the other guys with as little risk to yourself as possible. Why do you think, spears, bows, guns, armor, missles, aircraft, and for that matter, just about everything else used in warfare was invented? It certainly wasn't to give the other guy a fair chance to kill you...
Oh, and ask a Navy Seal about the Air Forces Combat Controllers. Even the Seals think those guys with the fluorescent orange hats have an unbelievable amount of courage, and talk of them in awe. Funny what you learn being on a multi-forces base for a few years...
The proportions on the model in that picture are in the range that makes her disturbingly repulsive.
:O===|
She is totally in the bottom of "Uncanny Valley" looking up and waving from her picnic there. Ick.
I wouldn't have sex with her even if I used a 10' condom and your penis.
Not even in a dark room with blindfolds, 2 paper bags and a wetsuit.
I guess the only way to end this is to just say, Eeewwwwww
I agree with aztektum, there is no reason for a Canadian ISP to obey laws from the USA, they need to obey Canadian laws, and Canada doesn't have the DMCA. (They have a different set of laws dealing with copyright issues.)
Or in this case, your official update compromised and/or disabled my console.
Therefore you are going to fix it, and smile as you say "no charge - sorry for the inconvenience" while you pray to the marketing gods that I continue to support your company...
Now that I reread that, it sounds somewhat egotistical and condescending. Of course, this is Sony, so it's probably best to use language they understand...
when you start getting down to the actual rights that are transferred with a purchase of goods, if you leave it to the states, you will cause massive damage to interstate commerce. Those boobs can't even come up with consistent sentencing for crimes, there's no way they'll voluntarily adopt a single consistent set of rules over this unless it's done at the federal level.
If any readers still can't imagine what the problem is with that, think about it for a bit. Here's a few hints, imagine if a company in Maine sold software to people in all the states. In Texas they might be forced to provide updates for free for a period of 3 years, while in Ohio updates have a cost $1.00 but they only have to be available for 6 months. Now in Colorado you can resell your software, but in Florida you don't own it - it's all leased for a period of no more than 4 years. Getting messy already, and we've only covered 4 states. (Maine didn't count because I never said anything about their local laws on ownership/sales.)
By the way, if you are buying land in a state other than your own, check what the state laws are where you are buying it. Some states you get the works. Others, you don't get mineral rights. Some, you get water rights, and you might get mineral rights, but not oil rights, that's a seperate thing altogether. (Can you guess which states I'm talking about?)
In California you can buy beachfront property, and you get the beach. In Oregon (same coast, just farther north) you can still buy beachfront property, but the beach always has, and always will, belong to 'the people'. (Lots of Californian developers have gotten massively pissed over that when they tried to put up walls or fences...) The coast belonging to the people of Oregon is essential native traditions that were adopted into laws for Oregon. This is just a small example the differences that already occur, and you don't ship real estate across state lines, imagine how screwed up that would be.
Due to bizarre circumstances that were not under my control, I changed High Schools 8 times.
Every time I changed schools, a teacher forced me to reread Dune, even though I was able to quote page and paragraph.
(After a while, I just started putting other books in the Dune jacket cover.)
Let's say Itunes is a Record store, the mp3s are records (you know, those ancient vinyl disks), and the Ipod and the Pre are both types of record players.
As a consumer, you fully expect these suckers to play on any player you have. You paid your money for the record, you can play it on anything you want.
Now the Apple record store decides that they want to limit you to playing any records you bought from them only on the record player that they sell.
So Apple changes the holes on their records so they only fit on the record players that Apple 'approves'.
Palm on the other hand, doesn't like this, and start providing it's users with a replacement spindle that will make your Pre's spindle the same as the Apple one.
Suddenly you can play your records again and Apple doesn't like that.
So the tit for tat war begins. Apple changes spindles, Palm copies it, Apple threatens with lawyers, Palm laughs and keeps on making their players work.
This is a bit of an oversimplification of the situation, but for the consumer, this is pretty much correct. Is what Apple doing legal? Inal, but I find it very questionable. (The government has busted lots of products by lots of companies for other similar things.) And lets face it, we customers don't really care how it works, we just want it to do so. After all, we really don't expect what amounts to little more than a record store to limit what device we can play that music on. (Yeah, I know, Itunes can do a little more than just let you buy music, but that's a relatively minor point. Like I said, this is an oversimplification of the full situation, but still effectively accurate.)
The author sounds like a programmer. Which explains why he used logic, reason, and lots of dev terms.
Of course, this is also the main problem.
All those things are anathema to politicians, especially when they realize it might actually increase the publics understanding of what the politicians are actually doing.
So even though slashdotters probably love the idea, the politicians will never implement it.
"Oh, you can deliver an injunction anywhere...." I think it might be a little more correct to say that you can SEND an injunction anywhere, delivery assumes it's been received. That's the problem with dumping official stuff on blogs or twitters, you have no idea if the intended recipient ever got it.
:)
It's kind of like when the UPS dumped a new computer I'd ordered somewhere near the house, I never got it. 3 weeks later I got a brand new computer, and UPS not only payed the bill, but this time they actually rang the doorbell and ensured it was received.
Like so many cheesy shows on tv: the moral is, if you can't verify that the recipient actually got it, you didn't really send it...
(eww... I just got a bad flashback to Harvey Birdman.... "Did you get that thing I sent you?".... ACK!)
So they are using paint that includes a highly volatile substance.
I wonder what else is in there to act as a stabilizer to negate the massive fire hazard.
Copyright was originally for 14 years. That way the authors had plenty of time to make money on their creations, but not so much that they could sit on their laurels.
The current length of copyright is utterly insane! How does 90 years in any way encourage someone to write more? Especially after death!
Stupid Mickey Mouse laws... (Or should that be Disney lobbied laws...)