The second is because Joe's Corner Mom & Pop isn't going to invest the thousands of dollar it's going to take to set up a burner, printer, and shrink wrap system and then spend the money to stock up on blank media, decent printer stock, and empty cases/jewel boxes and *then* pay someone to burn, print, and wrap in order to make a buck (or less) a copy.
That may well be true, but here in the UK I've noticed DVD vending machines have started popping up (sometimes in the unlikeliest places - e.g. Fenchurch Street railway station). I've never used one so I can't attest to the quality or process, but I'd be amazed if they have a stock of each individual film; I very strongly suspect it burns a disc, prints a sleeve, wraps the disc in it and spits it out.
Apart from that I agree with you. So many people here seem to think that data transfer is free just because their home broadband doesn't bill them for it. Serious data transfer is expensive.
quite often behind the scenes staff work for far longer and far harder to produce a movie and yet they get paid a pittance compared to the big name actors
But, people will go to see a film specifically because it has $bigNameActor#34 in it - who goes to see a film because of (one of the members of) the production crew? With the exception of a few high-profile writers, producers and directors, these people are unknown outside of their own circles.
I'm not justifying it, just explaining it - big names get big cheques because they're able to help draw in the crowds.
Yes of course; your digestive system extracts nutrients from what you eat. It's almost certainly not 100% efficient so you may well be able to get more out if you ingest it again (once it's been suitably processed to make it ingestible/palatable), but eventually you'll have removed all that you can remove. Once you reach that point eating it again won't do you any good.
Might be used to discriminate against you on the next job hunt
Good. I wouldn't want to work for a company that did that, so by doing it, they're saving me the trouble of interviewing with them (and perhaps even taking a job then having to quit when I find out what monumental arseholes they are).
Frankly I've seen no evidence either way - almost everyone is claiming either that it was mostly pirated, or that it wasn't, but no one is putting up any evidence.
That's all well and good, but it doesn't help the employees in the country in question. They have to either follow the laws of that country, or risk arrest. If Google wants a physical presence in that country (and that includes hosting servers there) then they do indeed have to follow the rules.
On the other hand, if I do like the music, who's to say I won't buy the CD?
No one. However, my gut feel (from talking to friends and acquaintances) is that most people will think "Well, I've already got the mp3s, so... why buy the CD?". Hell, I've seen people swap hard drives of music, movies, etc around between themselves.
I'm sure a lot of people do use it as a means to try before they buy; but I know that a lot of people just use it as a means to skip the buying part altogether.
Sounds like you're still running a Windows version from 1993...;)
Seriously though, while my wireless dongle works out of the box with Windows 7 I can't get it to work properly with Linux Mint 12; I manually load the drivers using ndiswrapper, the machine can see it, it can see the network, but it refuses to connect. It just sits there trying and timing out - repeat ad nauseum.
...until the US (or the UK, China, etc, or in a truly dystopian future a corporation) decides to take the installation by force.
If you're going to piss people off that have guns and the willingness to use them, you'd better have access to enough guns of your own to dissuade them from using theirs.
Well, even assuming that Sealand's claim to sovereignty is legitimate, history has shown us time and again what happens when a sovereign nation sufficiently annoys another, more powerful sovereign nation and doesn't have enough powerful-enough friends willing and able to back it up.
Ultimately sovereignty, like everything else, depends upon you having enough force on your side to prevent other people from messing with you. If Sealand pisses off the wrong government enough they're not going to enjoy the experience.
You have the right, but that doesn't mean that anyone is obligated to provide you with the means to exercise the right (though arguably simply pulling your trousers down in public is not expression, it's merely childish lewdness and so not deserving of such lofty protection - but that's a different matter). They're just not entitled to prevent you (where "They" in this case means "the government" or similar entity). If you can't convince an existing broadcaster to give you your 15 minutes of fame, you are free to find a wealthy-enough sponsor (or self-fund) to buy the necessary equipment and permits to run your own station, or to buy an advertising slot, etc.
Okay... so it has to download a map from a server somewhere. That's a pretty far cry from being able to direct it to whereever you want to go.
If the vehicle uses the map for navigation, then all you have to do is feed it a map that shows only the roads you want it to take and you will force it to take that path. In other words, yes, you most certainly can direct it wherever you want it to go. (Or potentially stop it dead, by feeding it a map showing it to be boxed in).
I'm all in favor of checking whether a commercial site has an identifiable, legitimate business behind it.
That's fine, but what about legitimate, non-commercial sites that want to use HTTPS but neither can afford nor need an EV cert? Why downgrade them because they're not certified as something that they're not even pretending to be?
Sure I have a choice - I can buy myself out of my mobile phone contract and pay the early termination fees (which is the monthly tariff times the number of months left on the contract, several hundred pounds) and get a non-Android based phone, or I can put up with it.
Oh yes, the "hate the game not the player" argument.
It's bullshit when applied to relationships and it's bullshit here. If the players all stopped, there'd be no game; just because you can do something, doesn't mean that you should (and definitely doesn't mean that you must).
Seriously? I can't speak for the US, but here in the UK you're perfectly within your rights to walk around your house naked, with only a few restrictions - mostly relating to intent. E.g. if it can be demonstrated that you intended for your neighbours to see you then you may be in trouble; if they merely happened to catch sight of you through a window, well, they shouldn't have been looking. (Of course, regularly being naked near windows when you live opposite a school will most likely get you in trouble; as with most things in life, the unofficial rule is "don't take the piss")
Well, you can't, and that's long been one of my many objections to RIPA here in the UK. All you can really do is hope that you're able to convince the court/judge that "honestly yer onner, I ain't used that in donkeys years, I can't remember it!".
To be honest, unless someone actually has it in for you I'd imagine that most people (especially non-techies) would be fairly sympathetic to a claim of having forgotten a password given how often they probably do it themselves, but I'd rather not have to rely on that...
On the other hand, if I lend a friend something I own, and they get busted for drug dealing, I'd still expect to get my property back (assuming it's not impounded as evidence).
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The second is because Joe's Corner Mom & Pop isn't going to invest the thousands of dollar it's going to take to set up a burner, printer, and shrink wrap system and then spend the money to stock up on blank media, decent printer stock, and empty cases/jewel boxes and *then* pay someone to burn, print, and wrap in order to make a buck (or less) a copy.
That may well be true, but here in the UK I've noticed DVD vending machines have started popping up (sometimes in the unlikeliest places - e.g. Fenchurch Street railway station). I've never used one so I can't attest to the quality or process, but I'd be amazed if they have a stock of each individual film; I very strongly suspect it burns a disc, prints a sleeve, wraps the disc in it and spits it out.
Apart from that I agree with you. So many people here seem to think that data transfer is free just because their home broadband doesn't bill them for it. Serious data transfer is expensive.
quite often behind the scenes staff work for far longer and far harder to produce a movie and yet they get paid a pittance compared to the big name actors
But, people will go to see a film specifically because it has $bigNameActor#34 in it - who goes to see a film because of (one of the members of) the production crew? With the exception of a few high-profile writers, producers and directors, these people are unknown outside of their own circles.
I'm not justifying it, just explaining it - big names get big cheques because they're able to help draw in the crowds.
Yes of course; your digestive system extracts nutrients from what you eat. It's almost certainly not 100% efficient so you may well be able to get more out if you ingest it again (once it's been suitably processed to make it ingestible/palatable), but eventually you'll have removed all that you can remove. Once you reach that point eating it again won't do you any good.
Also, g, not G (which is the gravitational constant, not the acceleration due to gravity at the Earth's surface).
Might be used to discriminate against you on the next job hunt
Good. I wouldn't want to work for a company that did that, so by doing it, they're saving me the trouble of interviewing with them (and perhaps even taking a job then having to quit when I find out what monumental arseholes they are).
I agree with you on this, but it is not yet illegal to "Profit from Piracy".
Well obviously IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that in most if not all jurisdictions, profiting from an illegal activity is in itself illegal.
Frankly I've seen no evidence either way - almost everyone is claiming either that it was mostly pirated, or that it wasn't, but no one is putting up any evidence.
I'll wait for the court case.
That's all well and good, but it doesn't help the employees in the country in question. They have to either follow the laws of that country, or risk arrest. If Google wants a physical presence in that country (and that includes hosting servers there) then they do indeed have to follow the rules.
On the other hand, if I do like the music, who's to say I won't buy the CD?
No one. However, my gut feel (from talking to friends and acquaintances) is that most people will think "Well, I've already got the mp3s, so... why buy the CD?". Hell, I've seen people swap hard drives of music, movies, etc around between themselves.
I'm sure a lot of people do use it as a means to try before they buy; but I know that a lot of people just use it as a means to skip the buying part altogether.
Sounds like you're still running a Windows version from 1993... ;)
Seriously though, while my wireless dongle works out of the box with Windows 7 I can't get it to work properly with Linux Mint 12; I manually load the drivers using ndiswrapper, the machine can see it, it can see the network, but it refuses to connect. It just sits there trying and timing out - repeat ad nauseum.
...until the US (or the UK, China, etc, or in a truly dystopian future a corporation) decides to take the installation by force.
If you're going to piss people off that have guns and the willingness to use them, you'd better have access to enough guns of your own to dissuade them from using theirs.
Well, even assuming that Sealand's claim to sovereignty is legitimate, history has shown us time and again what happens when a sovereign nation sufficiently annoys another, more powerful sovereign nation and doesn't have enough powerful-enough friends willing and able to back it up.
Ultimately sovereignty, like everything else, depends upon you having enough force on your side to prevent other people from messing with you. If Sealand pisses off the wrong government enough they're not going to enjoy the experience.
You have the right, but that doesn't mean that anyone is obligated to provide you with the means to exercise the right (though arguably simply pulling your trousers down in public is not expression, it's merely childish lewdness and so not deserving of such lofty protection - but that's a different matter). They're just not entitled to prevent you (where "They" in this case means "the government" or similar entity). If you can't convince an existing broadcaster to give you your 15 minutes of fame, you are free to find a wealthy-enough sponsor (or self-fund) to buy the necessary equipment and permits to run your own station, or to buy an advertising slot, etc.
Okay... so it has to download a map from a server somewhere. That's a pretty far cry from being able to direct it to whereever you want to go.
If the vehicle uses the map for navigation, then all you have to do is feed it a map that shows only the roads you want it to take and you will force it to take that path. In other words, yes, you most certainly can direct it wherever you want it to go. (Or potentially stop it dead, by feeding it a map showing it to be boxed in).
I'm all in favor of checking whether a commercial site has an identifiable, legitimate business behind it.
That's fine, but what about legitimate, non-commercial sites that want to use HTTPS but neither can afford nor need an EV cert? Why downgrade them because they're not certified as something that they're not even pretending to be?
Sure I have a choice - I can buy myself out of my mobile phone contract and pay the early termination fees (which is the monthly tariff times the number of months left on the contract, several hundred pounds) and get a non-Android based phone, or I can put up with it.
Not much of a choice if you ask me.
Oh yes, the "hate the game not the player" argument.
It's bullshit when applied to relationships and it's bullshit here. If the players all stopped, there'd be no game; just because you can do something, doesn't mean that you should (and definitely doesn't mean that you must).
Seriously? I can't speak for the US, but here in the UK you're perfectly within your rights to walk around your house naked, with only a few restrictions - mostly relating to intent. E.g. if it can be demonstrated that you intended for your neighbours to see you then you may be in trouble; if they merely happened to catch sight of you through a window, well, they shouldn't have been looking. (Of course, regularly being naked near windows when you live opposite a school will most likely get you in trouble; as with most things in life, the unofficial rule is "don't take the piss")
I thought you also saw (potential) "future articles" in the firehose?
I'd be surprised if it doesn't affect Android users more than that, at least I'd expect them to have problems using the Market.
Then they can't force you to produce the key as doing so would clearly be an incriminating act.
That would be evidence, which they can subpoena, not testimony.
Also, it's "in like Flynn", not in like flint.
Well, you can't, and that's long been one of my many objections to RIPA here in the UK. All you can really do is hope that you're able to convince the court/judge that "honestly yer onner, I ain't used that in donkeys years, I can't remember it!".
To be honest, unless someone actually has it in for you I'd imagine that most people (especially non-techies) would be fairly sympathetic to a claim of having forgotten a password given how often they probably do it themselves, but I'd rather not have to rely on that...
I believe he was referring to RIPA (Wikipedia article)
On the other hand, if I lend a friend something I own, and they get busted for drug dealing, I'd still expect to get my property back (assuming it's not impounded as evidence).
You mean like millions of take down notices filed every day
1,000,000 per day is 11.5 per second all day; millions is thus at least an average of 23/second, every second of the day.
Are you absolutely sure of that?