New Zealand and rights holders reckon it halved the number of infringements in the first month.
Or just as likely, the heaviest downloaders just found better ways to fly under the radar. If "success" is measured by a drop from eighty percent to forty percent of users "stealing" content, I'd say it's time for the Industry to admit total defeat.
Space Elevators and Arsenic friendly bacteria... These are the examples provided by those who advocate wealth confiscation as superior appropriations of the earth's limited resources than would otherwise be made by the proposed victim of asset forfeiture... Bill Gates, you know? The philanthropist and founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, a charity which has squandered the money in question on such petty causes as CURING MALARIA!
If you were looking you could not find a better example of why social engineered redistribution of wealth is less beneficial to society than leaving it the hands of the people who accumulated it in the first place.
Just in case anyone thought the above morons were on to something, the nationalization of private property would cause an instant market panic which would destabilize the economy and translate in to a DECREASE in government revenues.
Because anyone with the slightest interest knows gravitational microlensing studies are done by measuring the elliptical shapes of galaxies, and presuming a uniform distribution of actual orientations. And anyone who doesn't know it will get annoyed and leave before you finish explaining it.
And round about the podium was darkness, for the points of light had rearrainged themselves at a bar and exerted no gravitational attraction in the lecture hall.
Burgle is a back-formation from burglar. Notice that burgler is not a word, and burglar doesn't come from "one who burgles." While burgle may be a perfectly cromulent word in the sense that it's acknowledged by dictionaries as actually used, it's really less standard and too informal for news reports.
Ferrari... headlights..check, four wheels..check, general rectangular form..check, doors..check... Ford... headlights..check, four wheels..check, general rectangular form..check, doors..check...
Clearly Ferrari has to be banned from the USA. This shameless copy cannot be allowed here...
If Enzo had a flat top haircut, then would he be a flathead Ferrari?
Apple is in danger of triggering Armageddon. Google has been fairly good natured so far, but if they decide to start a war things can only get worse for the consumer.
We need to put a stop to this. Patent reform is the only way.
Patent reform from low earth orbit, its the only way to be sure.
Deadlock: Neither would move until it can determine the intent of the other, which won't be detectable until that other has started to move. So they'd both just wait for the opponent to go first.
A Doctor Who classic episode actually used this theme, with two androids playing RPS against each other. As both AIs were written using the same algorithms, they derived exactly the same strategy in an attempt to predict each other's moves... and every round was a draw, as they always threw the same. The game was played to show why they had sought the Doctor's help in ending an android/Dalek war: As both sides were using computers of near-identical design to determine their actions, every move either side made was preempted and countered by the other to the point that no successful attack could be executed and the war was locked in unbreakable stalemate.
Detects malicious websites, but allows mugshots.com to end up at the top of search results. My own site (with a myfullname.com), my twitter page, my linkedin profile, etc., etc., etc. are all now listed after a mugshots.com page for someone else with the exact same name as me. Mugshots.com is nothing but an extortion attempt. And I get to suffer because someone thug has the same name I do.
Anyone named Anonymous Coward is going to be taunted from grade school onward. Either that or he learns to fight.
It really wasn't a dead mouse. It was a bag of pot he hid under a bush so his wife wouldn't find it. You can't really tell that to the folks at the hospital.
The moral of the story is never mix pot and catnip.
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given that the little buggers can't fly, its kinda hard to spot them on radar
They fly at mach 6 and over a hundred thousand feet. They can pull 40 g in a turn, and they are being trained to protect the planet from spacecraft
Their radar cross section is less than a female mosquito's antenna. They also make a great sandwich.
New Zealand and rights holders reckon it halved the number of infringements in the first month.
Or just as likely, the heaviest downloaders just found better ways to fly under the radar. If "success" is measured by a drop from eighty percent to forty percent of users "stealing" content, I'd say it's time for the Industry to admit total defeat.
Its hard to spot a Kiwi on radar.
Then store it in a small fireproof safe.
A cloudsafe.
Who else was thinking "yet another damn markup language"?
Asynchronous Structured Markup Language : Implements a large decision table.
Space Elevators and Arsenic friendly bacteria... These are the examples provided by those who advocate wealth confiscation as superior appropriations of the earth's limited resources than would otherwise be made by the proposed victim of asset forfeiture... Bill Gates, you know? The philanthropist and founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, a charity which has squandered the money in question on such petty causes as CURING MALARIA!
If you were looking you could not find a better example of why social engineered redistribution of wealth is less beneficial to society than leaving it the hands of the people who accumulated it in the first place.
Just in case anyone thought the above morons were on to something, the nationalization of private property would cause an instant market panic which would destabilize the economy and translate in to a DECREASE in government revenues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
He should have called it the Arthur curve.
yes
Will ISPs Be Driven To Spy On Their Customers?
That's not a drive, that's a putt.
I was hoping for some double-slit experiment type revelation so we could have our own groundhog day.
The groundhog slit our hands twice each time we tried to grab one. Should we try gloves?
You've never tried to implement the Bluetooth speck.
Its not a speck. It is the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth.
A Raspberry pie article! I haven't seen one in days, already had withdrawal symptoms.
How do you tell? Is the victim curled up in a Pi shape?
Because anyone with the slightest interest knows gravitational microlensing studies are done by measuring the elliptical shapes of galaxies, and presuming a uniform distribution of actual orientations. And anyone who doesn't know it will get annoyed and leave before you finish explaining it.
And round about the podium was darkness, for the points of light had rearrainged themselves at a bar and exerted no gravitational attraction in the lecture hall.
first post
Dark post; doesn't matter.
Burgle is a back-formation from burglar. Notice that burgler is not a word, and burglar doesn't come from "one who burgles."
While burgle may be a perfectly cromulent word in the sense that it's acknowledged by dictionaries as actually used, it's really less standard and too informal for news reports.
At least the cromulescence is clear.
I want something like this for home use.
Cheap, effective, safe : Pick two.
Me tinks there is a 99.99% chance they found zilch
Then they can keep the zilch mines and bupkis factories going.
Hmm... let's see...
Ferrari... headlights..check, four wheels..check, general rectangular form..check, doors..check...
Ford... headlights..check, four wheels..check, general rectangular form..check, doors..check...
Clearly Ferrari has to be banned from the USA. This shameless copy cannot be allowed here...
If Enzo had a flat top haircut, then would he be a flathead Ferrari?
Apple is in danger of triggering Armageddon. Google has been fairly good natured so far, but if they decide to start a war things can only get worse for the consumer.
We need to put a stop to this. Patent reform is the only way.
Patent reform from low earth orbit, its the only way to be sure.
Pah! Just wait until Apple catches wind that I own the patent for rectangular boxes!
Hence the rounded corners.
Make oracle pay. Larry Ellison doesn't need to buy Lana'i.
It is home to a Deep Underground Military Base which is a center for Structured High Intensity Training.
I've got karma to burn
On Slashdot, saying that pretty much guarantees you'll be modded up to +5, no matter what else you said.
. I'VE GOT KARMA TO BURN
Don't look now. But if your karma is shaped like a cross, then someone just lit your karma.
Deadlock: Neither would move until it can determine the intent of the other, which won't be detectable until that other has started to move. So they'd both just wait for the opponent to go first.
A Doctor Who classic episode actually used this theme, with two androids playing RPS against each other. As both AIs were written using the same algorithms, they derived exactly the same strategy in an attempt to predict each other's moves... and every round was a draw, as they always threw the same. The game was played to show why they had sought the Doctor's help in ending an android/Dalek war: As both sides were using computers of near-identical design to determine their actions, every move either side made was preempted and countered by the other to the point that no successful attack could be executed and the war was locked in unbreakable stalemate.
Rock paper scissors tardis?
So will the new Oracle headquarters be inside the vulcano on Lanai? Next thing you know, he'll be putting lasers on the moon.
Not yet, but there are arrays of corner reflectors on the moon if you want to try out yours.
...there was no control group.
They can't find the duct tape control group.
Detects malicious websites, but allows mugshots.com to end up at the top of search results. My own site (with a myfullname.com), my twitter page, my linkedin profile, etc., etc., etc. are all now listed after a mugshots.com page for someone else with the exact same name as me. Mugshots.com is nothing but an extortion attempt. And I get to suffer because someone thug has the same name I do.
Anyone named Anonymous Coward is going to be taunted from grade school onward. Either that or he learns to fight.
Only on Slashdot could a news article about the Black Death turn into an argument about the relative merits of legalising/punishing pot usage.
The thread's out of control. She's going to blow.
It really wasn't a dead mouse. It was a bag of pot he hid under a bush so his wife wouldn't find it. You can't really tell that to the folks at the hospital.
The moral of the story is never mix pot and catnip.