Ad People are missing the boat by trying to hold back progress. I virtually never watch DVD's now, mainly because it's so cumbersome to find the right remote to navigate through the nested play menu's and the required coming attraction ads.
The GE micro-ads are worth pausing to consider. I've stopped every one of those ads to read the hidden text, even though none of them has been particulary interesting (with a grudging cynical chuckle to the dead train people ad.) I even noticed a late night talk show host scroll jokes in fast forward in lieu of the monologue. The jokes weren't any funnier, but it did feel like I was getting something extra.
P.S. Wouldn't it be fairer to say Disney is trying to figure out how to disable ff on commercials? Somehow I doubt they would only use the technology on their ABC affiliates, and not Disney Channel and the other 15% of basic cable channels they own.
Apparently to most of my fellow Americans, Holland is just a magical place filled with Pot, wooden shoes, dikes (Is levy the new PC word?) and Windmills.
I don't want any part of their religious cult kookery! I'll stick with my Washington Times and FOX news for Fair and Balanced coverage, thank you very much.
Seriously, though, you gotta respect that they at least let you in on the potential bias. I wish Rev. Moon and Rupert Murdoch would have let us know up front what brand of crazy they were selling.
It's surprising to me. Didn't I read recently, here on/. that some huge % of spam was originating from China? Unless that's where all the unsecured windows boxen are, I have to think that someone is spewing fear, uncertainty, confusion and deception to get some attention.
Here's my statistic, 100% of spam is originating from spammers.
Since your email resolves to a florida university, my advice would be to check here. Someone on this list of Florida WISPs will probably be able to help, or point you to someone that can.
Forget satellite, find a wireless isp that will rent you the gear and handle the setup. The complexity of the project is too high to ebay and figure it out yourself, especially for a short-term event. In regards to cost, a minimum expectation is $2000, with a reasonable ceiling being $6000. Your results may vary.
~For example, with a single search you can find that 'Abbey Road' by the Beatles is not available for legal download at iTunes, Napster, or anywhere else.
Just what I always wanted, a search engine that would tell me where I couldn't find what I was looking for...
It seems to me that it would make a lot more sense if ponied up for a data connection from TowerStream or some other pre-802.16 (WIMAX ) provider, and bridged that over to 802.11. Maybe he could mount the antenna on an industrial strength version of those dorky looking bicycle flags.
I don't know his cell provider, but where I'm from, thats some expensive bandwidth, so $500 a month for T1 connectivity doesn't sound too unreasonable. Be better if there were a Navini provider or someone else that does better with non-fixed signals, but hey, you take what you can get.
I don't know why I bother, as this is already an old thread, but I'm assuming you might check on your post, even if it's an AC post.
First, it's not to save one child. Hundreds of millions of children are exploited for sexual purposes every year.
Second, there is no "Freedom to Download Movies" to be infringed. There are valid legal reasons to rip a CD to MP3. There is no valid legal reason to take a camcorder into a movie theater and post the video for download. It might fun. It might be easy. But, it's not defensible as a liberty.
The constitution guarantees those rights not reserved by law to the people. Copyright, however, is a right that is enumerated to the creator of the work.
I would guess this must be a very common response to illegal file trading charges. It's also about the worst, logically. The trading of child pornography is probably the best argument out there to encourage service provider cooperation to monitor file sharing.
The spidering/monitoring technology that MPAA develops today to take their movies off the net will eventually be used to cut off the streams of exploitive material. It's not like law enforcement has the budget to independently develop technology tools to do this stuff. Honestly, I would happily trade my ability to anonymously download theater-filmed "Walking Tall" files today, if it helps stop the exploitation of children in the future. That's a great trade-off.
I remember this post where the/. crowd was really happy about monitored cafes that caught a serial spammer. Just thinking that maybe we should be consistent with our knee-jerk reactions... Myself, I'm not convinced that anonymous access is the treasured right it's being made out to be.
Here's my scorecard...
The use of this information by the chinese goverment to persecute genuine freedoms... bad.
Anonymous access to child porn, terrorism planning, and theft of my credit card numbers... also bad.
It only takes a few hours in an introductory law class to realize that legal systems really are circular logic. Things are illegal because they have been made illegal. Right and wrong are not involved.
What is inherently immoral about not stopping every time you see a red octagonal sign on the road? What is "wrong" with ignoring a red light at an empty intersection?
It's time to realize, decoding a DVD with unauthorized circumvention of it's encryption is simply illegal, regardless of anyone's feeling of right or wrong about the matter. That was made as clear as day by the passage of the DMCA. It's just no longer a legal argument.
What about fair use? Fair use is an affirmative defense. It is an excuse for why you violated a proscribed act. It has never insulated anyone from being accused of copyright violation. It is only a consideration that is available to a court in determining if a copyright violation is excusable. If you like analogies, consider trespassing. It's illegal to trespass, but if you are running for your life and trespass, you won't be prosecuted. You have still violated the original trespassing ordinance.
I would enthusiastically say that the DMCA is "wrong", but that doesn't change it's legal status. Until a court disallows it, or our legal system changes it, it is the law... because it is the law. (Circular logic or not.)
I have a heated keyboard and mouse (touchpad anyway); It's my P4 laptop computer.
It would also keep my legs warm if I actually kept it on my lap, and it puts out enough heated air from the side vent to use as a hand-dryer/blow-dryer. Thanks Intel!
I've come across a few sites that offer rss feeds of bittorrents from SuprNova, and on at least 1 of them, a cease and desist letter from SuprNova complaining about lost ad revenue from diverting users off the main page. While this may be a useful solution for SuprNova users, apparently it's not very handy for SuprNova itself...
Forget metadata. What I want is access to all the cool facial recognition software that the the tin-foil hat people are always claiming the government has. Then I could just search by name in your pictures! Err, I meant my pictures, honest....
Load a virtual world into the hard-drives, attach to brains of populace to turn them into human batteries! Oh, nevermind, that's a really stupid idea, who would believe that?
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Well, duh.... 1, 10, 100!
(don't blame me, it's the lack of coffee!)
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1, 01, 001!
Sure, you get more change, but imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
It had nothing to do with cartoon quality, changing demographics or the alignment of Jupiter and Mars. The FCC used to require a minimum number of hours of children's programming. They stopped requiring it. Hooray for deregulation, sure glad I can watch golf and infomercials on Saturday morning now. I'm not sure which is more boring, btw.
That sounds like a great deal! Make it a million, though! Then, I can do book signings, appear on talk shows, write stories for magazines, and start my own tv reality show where I torment you by repeating every word you say, while you rant that I'm stealing your thoughts. Btw, right now I'm singing myself "Happy Birthday", and stealing some company's hard earned income.
No, No, not even close... Mullah Noah, and that whole Great Flood thing... Come on... even assuming a world population of only, say 10,000 that would mean an extinction on the scale of 99.99% at least, and that's just the humans, nevermind the animals.
(I always wondered though, did they have to load up 2 dolphins, as well, or was it just the land animals that had to pay for man's evil?)
A huge amount of profits from the original trilogy came from product tie-ins, action figures, toys and clothing. Other than a few light-sabers, the newest series hasn't generated the same merchandising. I remember even in the first giddy rush of optimism for ep. 1, finding star wars stuff on the clearance rack.
These cartoons are intended to turn that around, and catch the attention of kids, who frankly think of star wars as their parent's creepy idea of fun, and could care less. Once that fails (miserably), I suspect they will miraculously decide to "restore" the clone wars to Ep. 3, due to overwhelming fan demands, to which I respond...whatever!!!!
At this point, I'd rather see a good Stargate (best movie to show adaptation ever!) or Bladerunner sequel, and finally put Star Wars and Star Trek, out of my misery.
In college, we had yearly tournaments. It really beat any sort of drinking game, or Monopoly (bleh). It was memorable enough, that many of us remembered other people's characters, from year to year, though few survived year to year. Some people played all year long (the same people that ran the yearly tournaments), I tried that for a while, but it wasn't the same. As an occasional vice, with lots of people, and some organization, though, it beats any computer game by a mile.
At my age now, though (30's), I'm stuck with getting friends together to see boxing or ultimate fighting, and following up with the latest silly vaguely naughty party game. I wish I had the courage to suggest D&D, but then my secret past as a geek would be revealed:(
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Ad People are missing the boat by trying to hold back progress. I virtually never watch DVD's now, mainly because it's so cumbersome to find the right remote to navigate through the nested play menu's and the required coming attraction ads.
The GE micro-ads are worth pausing to consider. I've stopped every one of those ads to read the hidden text, even though none of them has been particulary interesting (with a grudging cynical chuckle to the dead train people ad.) I even noticed a late night talk show host scroll jokes in fast forward in lieu of the monologue. The jokes weren't any funnier, but it did feel like I was getting something extra.
P.S. Wouldn't it be fairer to say Disney is trying to figure out how to disable ff on commercials? Somehow I doubt they would only use the technology on their ABC affiliates, and not Disney Channel and the other 15% of basic cable channels they own.
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Apparently to most of my fellow Americans, Holland is just a magical place filled with Pot, wooden shoes, dikes (Is levy the new PC word?) and Windmills.
I don't want any part of their religious cult kookery! I'll stick with my Washington Times and FOX news for Fair and Balanced coverage, thank you very much.
Seriously, though, you gotta respect that they at least let you in on the potential bias. I wish Rev. Moon and Rupert Murdoch would have let us know up front what brand of crazy they were selling.
Wrangler, my ass. I want to be a full-fledged AI psychotherapist.
"Yes, I see, and how does it make you FEEL, when you Cannot access memory at address 0x90909090?"
"Tell me about your motherboard."
"Do you feel anxiety about the size of your hard drive?"
It's surprising to me. Didn't I read recently, here on /. that some huge % of spam was originating from China? Unless that's where all the unsecured windows boxen are, I have to think that someone is spewing fear, uncertainty, confusion and deception to get some attention.
Here's my statistic, 100% of spam is originating from spammers.
Since your email resolves to a florida university, my advice would be to check here. Someone on this list of Florida WISPs will probably be able to help, or point you to someone that can.
Forget satellite, find a wireless isp that will rent you the gear and handle the setup. The complexity of the project is too high to ebay and figure it out yourself, especially for a short-term event. In regards to cost, a minimum expectation is $2000, with a reasonable ceiling being $6000. Your results may vary.
~For example, with a single search you can find that 'Abbey Road' by the Beatles is not available for legal download at iTunes, Napster, or anywhere else.
Just what I always wanted, a search engine that would tell me where I couldn't find what I was looking for...
It seems to me that it would make a lot more sense if ponied up for a data connection from TowerStream or some other pre-802.16 (WIMAX ) provider, and bridged that over to 802.11. Maybe he could mount the antenna on an industrial strength version of those dorky looking bicycle flags.
I don't know his cell provider, but where I'm from, thats some expensive bandwidth, so $500 a month for T1 connectivity doesn't sound too unreasonable. Be better if there were a Navini provider or someone else that does better with non-fixed signals, but hey, you take what you can get.
I don't know why I bother, as this is already an old thread, but I'm assuming you might check on your post, even if it's an AC post.
First, it's not to save one child. Hundreds of millions of children are exploited for sexual purposes every year.
Second, there is no "Freedom to Download Movies" to be infringed. There are valid legal reasons to rip a CD to MP3. There is no valid legal reason to take a camcorder into a movie theater and post the video for download. It might fun. It might be easy. But, it's not defensible as a liberty.
The constitution guarantees those rights not reserved by law to the people. Copyright, however, is a right that is enumerated to the creator of the work.
I would guess this must be a very common response to illegal file trading charges. It's also about the worst, logically. The trading of child pornography is probably the best argument out there to encourage service provider cooperation to monitor file sharing.
The spidering/monitoring technology that MPAA develops today to take their movies off the net will eventually be used to cut off the streams of exploitive material. It's not like law enforcement has the budget to independently develop technology tools to do this stuff. Honestly, I would happily trade my ability to anonymously download theater-filmed "Walking Tall" files today, if it helps stop the exploitation of children in the future. That's a great trade-off.
I remember this post where the /. crowd was really happy about monitored cafes that caught a serial spammer. Just thinking that maybe we should be consistent with our knee-jerk reactions... Myself, I'm not convinced that anonymous access is the treasured right it's being made out to be.
Here's my scorecard...
The use of this information by the chinese goverment to persecute genuine freedoms... bad.
Anonymous access to child porn, terrorism planning, and theft of my credit card numbers... also bad.
It only takes a few hours in an introductory law class to realize that legal systems really are circular logic. Things are illegal because they have been made illegal. Right and wrong are not involved.
What is inherently immoral about not stopping every time you see a red octagonal sign on the road? What is "wrong" with ignoring a red light at an empty intersection?
It's time to realize, decoding a DVD with unauthorized circumvention of it's encryption is simply illegal, regardless of anyone's feeling of right or wrong about the matter. That was made as clear as day by the passage of the DMCA. It's just no longer a legal argument.
What about fair use? Fair use is an affirmative defense. It is an excuse for why you violated a proscribed act. It has never insulated anyone from being accused of copyright violation. It is only a consideration that is available to a court in determining if a copyright violation is excusable. If you like analogies, consider trespassing. It's illegal to trespass, but if you are running for your life and trespass, you won't be prosecuted. You have still violated the original trespassing ordinance.
I would enthusiastically say that the DMCA is "wrong", but that doesn't change it's legal status. Until a court disallows it, or our legal system changes it, it is the law... because it is the law. (Circular logic or not.)
I have a heated keyboard and mouse (touchpad anyway); It's my P4 laptop computer.
It would also keep my legs warm if I actually kept it on my lap, and it puts out enough heated air from the side vent to use as a hand-dryer/blow-dryer. Thanks Intel!
dirt and potatoes play with you!
(sorry, had to be said...)
Forget metadata. What I want is access to all the cool facial recognition software that the the tin-foil hat people are always claiming the government has. Then I could just search by name in your pictures! Err, I meant my pictures, honest....
Load a virtual world into the hard-drives, attach to brains of populace to turn them into human batteries! Oh, nevermind, that's a really stupid idea, who would believe that?
Well, duh....
1, 10, 100!
(don't blame me, it's the lack of coffee!)
1, 01, 001!
Sure, you get more change, but imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
It had nothing to do with cartoon quality, changing demographics or the alignment of Jupiter and Mars. The FCC used to require a minimum number of hours of children's programming. They stopped requiring it. Hooray for deregulation, sure glad I can watch golf and infomercials on Saturday morning now. I'm not sure which is more boring, btw.
What was the mystery again?
Wow,
That sounds like a great deal! Make it a million, though! Then, I can do book signings, appear on talk shows, write stories for magazines, and start my own tv reality show where I torment you by repeating every word you say, while you rant that I'm stealing your thoughts. Btw, right now I'm singing myself "Happy Birthday", and stealing some company's hard earned income.
the photographer has been hired by the Iraqi Government to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal photographer.
No, No, not even close...
Mullah Noah, and that whole Great Flood thing...
Come on... even assuming a world population of only, say 10,000 that would mean an extinction on the scale of 99.99% at least, and that's just the humans, nevermind the animals.
(I always wondered though, did they have to load up 2 dolphins, as well, or was it just the land animals that had to pay for man's evil?)
A huge amount of profits from the original trilogy came from product tie-ins, action figures, toys and clothing. Other than a few light-sabers, the newest series hasn't generated the same merchandising. I remember even in the first giddy rush of optimism for ep. 1, finding star wars stuff on the clearance rack.
These cartoons are intended to turn that around, and catch the attention of kids, who frankly think of star wars as their parent's creepy idea of fun, and could care less. Once that fails (miserably), I suspect they will miraculously decide to "restore" the clone wars to Ep. 3, due to overwhelming fan demands, to which I respond... whatever!!!!
At this point, I'd rather see a good Stargate (best movie to show adaptation ever!) or Bladerunner sequel, and finally put Star Wars and Star Trek, out of my misery.
At my age now, though (30's), I'm stuck with getting friends together to see boxing or ultimate fighting, and following up with the latest silly vaguely naughty party game. I wish I had the courage to suggest D&D, but then my secret past as a geek would be revealed