there are simply companies seeing to make money off timeshifting who made sure it will continue to stay possible. If there was no economic interest in timeshifting it wouldnt have been protected, simple as that.
No, timeshifting was found to be protected "fair use" or something like that during the great crusade of Hollywood to outlaw the VCR. Any law that doesn't specifically ensure that timeshifting will still be possible will almost certainly be struck down. No one who is pushing for these bills wants that to happen. They may not like the fact that timeshifting's protected, but they have to deal with it.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure that the companies that would love to stop timeshifting have more clout than the ones that make money off of timeshifting equipment.
I challenge the statement that an external tuner won't work. One thing that Congress has actually been pretty decent about is that it still has to be possible to time-shift programming. (See the SSSCA and CBBTPA for details.) So somewhere in this mess it's still gonna have to be possible to hook up a recording device. Unless Congress mandates that all TVs come with recording equipment internalized as well, that "trusted display chain" is nothing but a pipedream, and deep down even Eisner realizes it.
What's more, they probably want to make it possible to use existing VHS recorders, because otherwise people will go out & get TiVos and DVD recorders and other things that will make it very easy to exchange Content with all their eyepatch-wearing friends. If the VCR works, the TV will too. I wouldn't worry about throwing out that tube just yet...
According to the official rules (yes, I actually took the time to read them) carriers can "launch" airplanes as projectiles, and they score points if the plane hits an enemy ship. Carriers can also carry guns in lieu of airplanes. Realism occasionally has to bend to reality...
I don't know what's more amazing, the amount of work & time they've put into these ships, or the fact that such a graphics-heavy page is still viewable after having been posted on/. for almost an hour...
Pardon my ignorance, but I haven't encountered this concept of "Design Patterns" (capitalized) before, and I wonder if one of you wonderful helpful egalitarian types (I know there have to be at least a couple on/.) would actually be willing to explain it for me so that I don't have to try to work it out from hints & snatches in this discussion. Please?
As I understand it, one of the more important pieces of information considered in constitutionality cases like this is the "intent of the signers"---why it is that those guys wrote what they wrote. In this case, copyright- & patent-granting powers were given to the Congress "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". Like the article says, retroactively extending old copyrights will do nothing toward this end. On the contrary, extending copyrights will just make life more difficult for everyone who actively uses public-domain stuff, from Project Gutenberg to Moby (I assume. IANA Moby expert).
...time passes...
Damn. Just read the first few pages of the government's brief. I guess I should've realized that they've extended copyright terms before. All times but one, it seems, the extended term applied to all works currently under copyright. I guess that could count as precedent...
In the House, groups could funnel their communications through the "Write Your Representative" Web form,
It sounds like you have to be a special interest group who has paid for the system to use it. This system might be used to filter all email, but if the general public aren't informed of how to use it, then their email will be sent to/dev/null.
I think the point of the quote in question is that special-interest groups that wish to set up "E-mail your Congresscritter" forms should, instead of rolling their own, simply point their "constituents" to this one, so that the reps get as much information about who's writing to them as they can.
Slashdot (AP, wire reports) -- Officials at Slashdot are denying reports that a systemwide karma shortage is causing them to encourage badly-written posts, in hopes of baiting Slashdot's ubiquitous 'speling nahtzees' into donating a few karma points back to the global pool.
"Yeah, there's a bit of a karma squeeze just now," admitted CmdrTaco by phone early Tuesday morning. "I've taken a few steps, like getting rid of the numerical karma reports so that those damned karma whores near the cap won't notice if I siphon off a few points here and there, but it's still a little tight. We're hoping to get in a new karma shipment from the White House---they're burning it by the ton over there, you notice that? in by Friday, but until then we might have to cut down on interesting stories to make sure not too many users get (5, Insightful)s until that comes in."
When asked about the recent outburst from packeteer, Taco laughed nervously and denied any connection. "Yeah, I won't deny that he's helping, baiting the nahtzees into posting offtopic, but I swear I didn't put him up to it." Line noise sounding suspiciously like someone blowing into a phone mouthpiece prevented further conversation, and CmdrTaco did not return any later calls.
Well, I can't find 'selling a bridge' in any permutation there, but that's a well-beaten dead horse already... anyway, there's an idiom reference here that you might try out.
While your cable company has to provide you with the actual cable line to your premises, you may be surprised to find that you have a choice in your broadband provider.
I think (IANA Broadband Expert) that in most areas where such choice exists, what's taking place is called "rebranding"... it's the same service, you're just paying different people for it. I remember seeing a paper on this mentioned on/. at one point... umm... <clicky clicky> ah, here's the article. Slightly different emphasis (does the obvious monopoly hurt freedom (yet)?) but makes my point.
In Canada, is there any sort of competition to offer that broadband? On this side of the border, pretty much the only company that can offer broadband is the cable company. This is called (local) monopoly, and the usual price-ramping effects can be assumed to apply.
I know squat about DSL, so I can't say why that isn't being widely adopted, but I think this explains why cable broadband is going so slowly...
Ok, normally I wouldn't bother with a reply to this, but you attacked my intelligence, so I'm gonna have at you. The situation that I described took place when I was using SOMEONE ELSE'S COMPUTER. I was not at liberty to set 'show file extensions' to True.
For another example... say Grandma has created her first web page, and because I was the one talking her through it, she did it in Notepad. Now, she can't see the file extension, but Notepad, being its usual *cough* helpful self, saved it as index.txt or something like that. So she goes and changes the filename (all of which she sees is 'index') to 'index.html'. Mac OS X does the Right Thing here: changes 'index.txt' to 'index.html'. Windows does the simpler, but Wrong thing: changes the filename to 'index.html.txt'. Double-clicking on it will still bring it up in Notepad.
There's one simple, slightly contrived, example. I'm sure others could be provided. Pray cease to comment on my intelligence, unless you actually know what I'm talking about.
Y'all can shut up now. I have been duly advised that I had the wrong TLA person writing Emacs, and that Emacs is the One True Editor. I was trying to make a point, but I missed horribly. At the time, a lisp interpreter in a text editor was a horrendously big thing to do. I use and love Emacs, I just think that, at first look, it's a ridiculous concept.
It was complicated. It included an entire theorem prover. This was sort of cool in that it would not allow you to generate a non-working configuration, but really more than was required for the job.
What do you expect from someone who put a LISP interpreter into a text editor? "When in doubt, make it as general as possible" seems to be the motto...
They seem to have taken some pains to make sure it Does The Right Thing. At least, check out this part about file extensions from here...
Any file with the hide extension flag set and a known extension has that extension hidden in the Finder. When users edit the name of such a file, they edit only the user-visible portion. If they explicitly type in a known file name extension for the file, either the Finder warns them that what they're doing may change the type of the file (if they enter a different file name extension), or the Finder changes the state of the hide extension flag to show the extension (if they enter a new file name with the proper, currently hidden extension for the file). In all cases, the Finder allows users to make the changes if they wish. What users see in the Finder is what they typed when renaming the file, whether or not they included an extension.
In other words, if you want to see a file extension, you'll see a file extension. If you don't see a file extension, and you type one, you'll see the new one, and it will be used, and the old discarded if necessary. Contranst Windows, where if extension-hiding is on, and you type the name "index.html" for a file currently named "index.htm", the result is a file named "index.html.htm"... that is to say, the Wrong Thing.
I don't believe China would have the balls to block Sourceforge and OSDN.
Huh? What does that mean? Why would this take "balls"?
Y'see, whenever someone in China opens up a pipe to a blocked site, they have to run over really fast and stuff a ball in one end of the pipe so that the information can't get through. They can retrieve the ball after a timeout convinces the browser that the site doesn't exist, but if a site is really popular and a lot of people request it in a short time, they can actually run out of balls to stuff in pipes, the firewall breaks down, and they all burn to death. So they have to be very careful which sites they block.
http://slashdot.org - Reported as inaccessible in China
http://www.slashdot.org - Reported as accessible in China
Throw your result in (slashdot.org accessible), and what we get is either a filter on the fritz, or else this tester still has some bugs to be worked out of it. According to the FAQ, China's filter is based on IP address. Does slashdot's homepage have multiple IPs? (sorry, too lazy to check).
I think the idea is to catch it far enough away that an "almost unchanged" path is changed just enough to miss the earth. After all You may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist's, but that's peanuts to space - the earth is actually a pretty small target, and a relatively small deflection, applied far enough out, would be enough to make a potentially deadly rock go whizzing right by.
Nevermind that...
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The anti-geeks at Macalester (liberal arts, St. Paul, MN) did it a couple years ago too. Monitoring isn't possible, but we did pay by swiping our student ID cards, and whole system was connected to the ethernet.
There was one eensy tiny problem when they set it up, though... somebody misconfigured the machines, so that they tried to set themselves up as router/gateways for our network... no Internet for Mac for about a week until they figured out what was going on...
Actually, I think that "RPM" has been officially retconned to now stand for RPM Package Manager. At least, in the file browser, last I saw, the icon for a.rpm was a little tachometer...
SLASHDOT (AP) -- In response to what is being described as a "severe shortage" in the global karma pool, CmdrTaco and other Slashdot administrators are taking the unprecedented step of deliberately posting duplicate, pointless, and just-plain-stupid stories, with a goal of encouraging slashdotizens to increase their output of "Redundant", "Flamebait", and "Troll" posts.
"It's about all we can do right now," CmdrTaco said in an interview Monday morning. "We're hoping to get a new shipment of karma in within the next few days, but until then we're gonna have to just keep posting trollbait." Mr. Taco refused to comment on rumors that the low-quality postings were in any way related to the recent spate of coffee-machine breakdowns at slashdot.
You can still use perl5 regexes, even if you're doing a perl6 script:
:p5 or:perl5
This modifier causes Perl 6 to interpret the contents of a rule as a regular expression in Perl 5 syntax. This is mainly provided as a transitional aid for porting Perl 5 code. And to mollify the curmudgeonly.
But yeah, the new llama book is going to be an absolute necessity. First technical book to hit the NYT bestseller list...?
/me continues reading...
Gotta love the sense of humour. After describing one, two, and three colon rules (read the article, page three), they get to the potential fourth...
Four colons...would just be silly. So, instead, there's a special named directive: commit>. Backtracking through a <commit> causes the entire match to immediately fail. And if the current rule is being matched as part of a larger rule, that larger rule will fail as well. In other words, it's the "Blow up this Entire Planet and Possibly One or Two Others We Noticed on our Way Out Here" operator.
Basically the new rule (not 'regex') syntax seems to be bent on destroying Perl's "Line noise with a purpose" reputation...
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Fine. Doesn't change the fact that both bills have specifically protected timeshifting.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure that the companies that would love to stop timeshifting have more clout than the ones that make money off of timeshifting equipment.
What's more, they probably want to make it possible to use existing VHS recorders, because otherwise people will go out & get TiVos and DVD recorders and other things that will make it very easy to exchange Content with all their eyepatch-wearing friends. If the VCR works, the TV will too. I wouldn't worry about throwing out that tube just yet...
According to the official rules (yes, I actually took the time to read them) carriers can "launch" airplanes as projectiles, and they score points if the plane hits an enemy ship. Carriers can also carry guns in lieu of airplanes. Realism occasionally has to bend to reality...
I don't know what's more amazing, the amount of work & time they've put into these ships, or the fact that such a graphics-heavy page is still viewable after having been posted on /. for almost an hour...
Pardon my ignorance, but I haven't encountered this concept of "Design Patterns" (capitalized) before, and I wonder if one of you wonderful helpful egalitarian types (I know there have to be at least a couple on /.) would actually be willing to explain it for me so that I don't have to try to work it out from hints & snatches in this discussion. Please?
As I understand it, one of the more important pieces of information considered in constitutionality cases like this is the "intent of the signers"---why it is that those guys wrote what they wrote. In this case, copyright- & patent-granting powers were given to the Congress "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". Like the article says, retroactively extending old copyrights will do nothing toward this end. On the contrary, extending copyrights will just make life more difficult for everyone who actively uses public-domain stuff, from Project Gutenberg to Moby (I assume. IANA Moby expert).
Damn. Just read the first few pages of the government's brief. I guess I should've realized that they've extended copyright terms before. All times but one, it seems, the extended term applied to all works currently under copyright. I guess that could count as precedent...
"Yeah, there's a bit of a karma squeeze just now," admitted CmdrTaco by phone early Tuesday morning. "I've taken a few steps, like getting rid of the numerical karma reports so that those damned karma whores near the cap won't notice if I siphon off a few points here and there, but it's still a little tight. We're hoping to get in a new karma shipment from the White House---they're burning it by the ton over there, you notice that? in by Friday, but until then we might have to cut down on interesting stories to make sure not too many users get (5, Insightful)s until that comes in."
When asked about the recent outburst from packeteer, Taco laughed nervously and denied any connection. "Yeah, I won't deny that he's helping, baiting the nahtzees into posting offtopic, but I swear I didn't put him up to it." Line noise sounding suspiciously like someone blowing into a phone mouthpiece prevented further conversation, and CmdrTaco did not return any later calls.
Well, I can't find 'selling a bridge' in any permutation there, but that's a well-beaten dead horse already... anyway, there's an idiom reference here that you might try out.
Yes, but there are new developments... specifically, UserFriendly's take on the matter. Clearly this is enough for /. to post the story again...
I know squat about DSL, so I can't say why that isn't being widely adopted, but I think this explains why cable broadband is going so slowly...
For another example... say Grandma has created her first web page, and because I was the one talking her through it, she did it in Notepad. Now, she can't see the file extension, but Notepad, being its usual *cough* helpful self, saved it as index.txt or something like that. So she goes and changes the filename (all of which she sees is 'index') to 'index.html'. Mac OS X does the Right Thing here: changes 'index.txt' to 'index.html'. Windows does the simpler, but Wrong thing: changes the filename to 'index.html.txt'. Double-clicking on it will still bring it up in Notepad.
There's one simple, slightly contrived, example. I'm sure others could be provided. Pray cease to comment on my intelligence, unless you actually know what I'm talking about.
Y'all can shut up now. I have been duly advised that I had the wrong TLA person writing Emacs, and that Emacs is the One True Editor. I was trying to make a point, but I missed horribly. At the time, a lisp interpreter in a text editor was a horrendously big thing to do. I use and love Emacs, I just think that, at first look, it's a ridiculous concept.
http://slashdot.org - Reported as inaccessible in China
http://www.slashdot.org - Reported as accessible in China
Throw your result in (slashdot.org accessible), and what we get is either a filter on the fritz, or else this tester still has some bugs to be worked out of it. According to the FAQ, China's filter is based on IP address. Does slashdot's homepage have multiple IPs? (sorry, too lazy to check).
For whatever it's worth, it seems that Saudi Arabia is not known to block slashdot.
I think the idea is to catch it far enough away that an "almost unchanged" path is changed just enough to miss the earth. After all You may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist's, but that's peanuts to space - the earth is actually a pretty small target, and a relatively small deflection, applied far enough out, would be enough to make a potentially deadly rock go whizzing right by.
There was one eensy tiny problem when they set it up, though... somebody misconfigured the machines, so that they tried to set themselves up as router/gateways for our network... no Internet for Mac for about a week until they figured out what was going on...
"It's about all we can do right now," CmdrTaco said in an interview Monday morning. "We're hoping to get a new shipment of karma in within the next few days, but until then we're gonna have to just keep posting trollbait." Mr. Taco refused to comment on rumors that the low-quality postings were in any way related to the recent spate of coffee-machine breakdowns at slashdot.
Stay tuned for further developments.
This has to be a new record for redundant articles...
Gotta love the sense of humour. After describing one, two, and three colon rules (read the article, page three), they get to the potential fourth...
Basically the new rule (not 'regex') syntax seems to be bent on destroying Perl's "Line noise with a purpose" reputation...