While I agree, the situation here with LegalZoom is almost exactly like chess. It doesn't try to give you legal advice, only it generates a legal document for you to use. What is allowed is fairly limited and there are absolutely no edge conditions. I see it more as going to McDonalds than having a personal chef. Yes, the personal chef will make me better meals, more tailored to my needs & desires. But McDonalds will be cheaper and probably faster.
The forum was technically shut down, but remained available for archival purposes. Over the years there was a lot of information gathered and made available on that site. You could still find most of your answers to NWN there. But you are correct, some, if not all, of the information should have been scrubbed from the site.
I am going to have to agree. I see this as the end of one of the best innovations of modern entertainment. Instead of having 1 portal to watch most of the shows people enjoy, now we'll have to finding them on random webpages. I don't see how Hulu can be competitive if it has to pay the licensing fees.
But at the same time, Hulu's level of service has begun to decline. They've stopped making a lot of shows available the day after they aired. Most are now 7-8 days after original air date. Some even worse than that with over a month delay. Even the amount of adds has increased, almost to the point where you get the same number of ads as you would if you watched it live.
Texas Tech's CS Department already does something similar to this for their graduate students. The difference is that they do it with the type of degree sought(Thesis, Project, Report, Exam) and early registration dates. If you are working on a degree type that has a higher chance of bringing money or prestige(Thesis and to a smaller extent Project) you get to register sooner. Otherwise, you register at the end and may end up taking a year or so longer just because you couldn't get the courses you needed. I understood their reasoning my 1st semester as a grad student. Encourage students to do things that would raise the profile of the school.
Same should apply here. Lower the tuition for degrees that bring the school money outside of tuition & fees. Encourage students to do things that will raise the profile of the school and as such attract more students.
Watch Mediacom block that site for their customers next. As well as any complaint site for the FCC/franchise authority/state attorney general's office/etc.
Before all the other hoopla about Net Neutrality became a CNN talking point, it was issues like this that caused me to want stronger regulations on ISPs. How long before other ISPs start doing the same thing? Will Mediacom start blocking/. because we exposed & brought this nefarious practice to light? What if this made it to CNN or some other major news outlet? If you don't already support Net Neutrality, maybe you ought to start thinking about it. It is the Free Speech Issue of our time.
I say let them continue to file. And at the same time donate to EFF & other organizations who are willing to fight them. The reason? Easy, ever time a copyright troll loses a case like this, is another nail in the coffin for broken copyright law. If I was a copyright holder I'd start taking the fact that these guys are idiots seriously and try to find a way to stop them.
Ideally, a speeding ticket should require an actual human witness as well. Why? Because if speeding in an area doesn't present a high enough risk to be worth putting an officer out there to patrol it, one could reasonably argue that the limit is not providing a significant safety benefit, and therefore, should not even be legally enforceable in the first place.
Actually, this is an incorrect assumption. Speeding prevents auto accidents. Auto accidents where the only thing damaged is the auto still cost money. Just because pedestrian risk isn't high, does not exclude other forms of risk.
Hey, I bought you the "World's Smallest Wedding Ring Made of DNA" . . . um, do you like it . ..?
Response1: Unless it is at least 3 karates you are still sleeping on the sofa.
Response2: Dear I know I said size doesn't matter, but....
Response3: Oh, look it'll go great with the condoms you buy.
I think better justice would be if the Tolls developed Alzheimer's themselves(or someone close) & had to watch(and forget) their minds go to pot, when if they hadn't been such dicks they'd have been cured & died of something less horrific.
I live in Texas, consider myself fairly conservative, and usually I can make some sense of what our law makers are doing. But when it comes to education I am aghast at how political it has become. As far as I can tell they are the biggest bunch of idiots I've ever encountered. I get that the winner gets to write history, but what they are doing is appalling.
Next we'll find that Kennedy was not shot in conservative Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald, but in liberal San Fransisco by Harvey Milk. Or that Regan was able to convince Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall because God came to Gorbachev as a blue fairy and told him that Regan was his prophet and he should do whatever he says.
The changes that they are trying to force on us are just as bad. I had a physics professor(I got my BS in applied physic) that I highly respected who went to church every Sunday, and even she thought that ID was wrong to be teaching in schools(beyond the utter flaws in the logic behind it). Things like this should be left to parents and religious leaders. I've never had a problem learning about evolution. It never affected my faith. So I am having a hard time trying to figure out why the Texas Government thinks that science is an assault on God Fearing Christians' beliefs. When given the next chance to vote, you can know where my vote will not be
Simple really. This is for those of us who run applications remotely for one reason or another. I personally like being able to run GEdit remotely since my server doubles as my homework computer. If this would let me do the same thing from a web browser, so that I don't have to use a separate SSH application then I'm all for it.
Who says that a dictator came to power without the consent of the people? Originally, a dictator was given power by the republic to meet some given demand on the state(ie war). People can, and often still do, give up certain rights for various reasons. The US did after 9/11, and so have many others before and since that time.
Where's the definitions of what a republic is? I get that the US is a form of democracy, but what about it also being a republic? I know I'm probably spewing invalid facts propagated from biased elementary teachers, but what I do remember is that at the federal level we are a republic. And that's what I was taught in every elementary history class I took, some of which were in California(who probably hate non-celebrity Republics more than Utah hates Democrats). If you are going to state the facts, state all the facts.
I'm also guessing you didn't RTFA. No where in it do they say that they passed the law because democracy is related to the Democratic party. They have a quote about it being a socialist witch hunt or something, but as far as I can tell not all Democrats are socialists and vice versa.
And here in lies the problem. As numerous as we have become, geeks still do not have enough pull for executives to take notice. There are exceptions, which we could count on 1 hand, but not enough. Every specialty network is doomed to face the same death as SyFy, due to the fact that what makes them unique also prevents them from attracting the type of numbers executives want, except for things like ESPN.
If we are to have any hope of getting the programming we want, then we must be willing to pony up for it and do something to make it known. I like what's happened with Firefly fans recently, or what the Chuck fans did to keep their show on the air, or closer to the topic, the big push that got us at least some closure for Farscape. You want good Sci-Fi programming? Then what are you willing to do to make sure you have it?
Texas doesn't have an income tax because of how much money they get via property taxes. And in most places the sales tax is a lot higher than 6.25%. Where I live it's closer to almost 9%.
In TFA, it states that the only ones susceptible to this attack were those who logged in/out during the attack. If you kept yourself logged in then the attack failed. They were effectively running a keylogger type script.
Unless you like dragging your PS3 around with you, then you have to buy a new copy every time you want to play it on a PS3 that is not your own. And before people say that nobody does that, I got my brother a PS3 for his house knowing that I could bring my PS3 games and play them at his house.
I'm just thinking that both of these will be a very bad idea. Everybody knows men have no taste in color(color blind or not) and Congress has the intelligence of a fence post.
It's not so much that reality has a decidedly left-leaning bias, as it is that the US is a decidedly right-leaning country. Compared to the rest of the wold, even our left-winged nut jobs sit slightly to the right of everybody else in the world.
I'd argue that the more informed one is the more centrist one becomes, or in the US the more left you lean. The more I've learned and began to understand the more I've seen just how bad both sides are, and seek out solutions that are more of a happy medium. But when compared to those around me, that means that I've taken on a leftist stance.
According to TFA, these ships should be producing "500 times the total pollution of the world's vehicles". But yet, they are only "responsible for 3.5% to 4% of all climate change emissions". From those 2 numbers, either cars are not the problem everybody says they are or these numbers are WAY off.
What I was interested in seeing was the battery life, which they never mentioned. I run both Win7 Ultimate & Ubuntu 10.4 on a Alienware m15x. I know that as a mobile computer it has horrid battery life, so I do all I can extend its run time when I am without an outlet to use. I've found that Ubuntu gives me almost double the battery life I get from Win7. This is the case when playing video games/movies or just browsing the web(flash blocker is a knee jerk install). I don't think anybody promoting any form of Windows wants to compare battery life, because on Windows is sucks.
The only problem is if you want to make money in any market you have to play ball. That's why patents like these are so destructive to the creative process. It makes it impossible for someone to even want to try to outdo what's out there. The costs involved mean that even if I have a good marketable idea, and the money to develop it and bring it to market, it'll never see the light of day because more than likely I'll never have the money to fight off all the patent trolls out there. That is unless I sell my idea to one of the big players already in the game.
Software patents are even worse because we can easily trace our skill sets back in just a few steps to very few people. Not only that, but for the most part we all think alike and put any number of us in different groups and have us come up with a solution to a problem, and every group will probably come up with the same solution, or something that would be covered under a patent of any of the other solutions. Now given that, how is it possible for someone to start a company that would be the next Microsoft, Apple, or Google?
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While I agree, the situation here with LegalZoom is almost exactly like chess. It doesn't try to give you legal advice, only it generates a legal document for you to use. What is allowed is fairly limited and there are absolutely no edge conditions. I see it more as going to McDonalds than having a personal chef. Yes, the personal chef will make me better meals, more tailored to my needs & desires. But McDonalds will be cheaper and probably faster.
The forum was technically shut down, but remained available for archival purposes. Over the years there was a lot of information gathered and made available on that site. You could still find most of your answers to NWN there. But you are correct, some, if not all, of the information should have been scrubbed from the site.
I am going to have to agree. I see this as the end of one of the best innovations of modern entertainment. Instead of having 1 portal to watch most of the shows people enjoy, now we'll have to finding them on random webpages. I don't see how Hulu can be competitive if it has to pay the licensing fees. But at the same time, Hulu's level of service has begun to decline. They've stopped making a lot of shows available the day after they aired. Most are now 7-8 days after original air date. Some even worse than that with over a month delay. Even the amount of adds has increased, almost to the point where you get the same number of ads as you would if you watched it live.
Texas Tech's CS Department already does something similar to this for their graduate students. The difference is that they do it with the type of degree sought(Thesis, Project, Report, Exam) and early registration dates. If you are working on a degree type that has a higher chance of bringing money or prestige(Thesis and to a smaller extent Project) you get to register sooner. Otherwise, you register at the end and may end up taking a year or so longer just because you couldn't get the courses you needed. I understood their reasoning my 1st semester as a grad student. Encourage students to do things that would raise the profile of the school.
Same should apply here. Lower the tuition for degrees that bring the school money outside of tuition & fees. Encourage students to do things that will raise the profile of the school and as such attract more students.
Watch Mediacom block that site for their customers next. As well as any complaint site for the FCC/franchise authority/state attorney general's office/etc.
Before all the other hoopla about Net Neutrality became a CNN talking point, it was issues like this that caused me to want stronger regulations on ISPs. How long before other ISPs start doing the same thing? Will Mediacom start blocking /. because we exposed & brought this nefarious practice to light? What if this made it to CNN or some other major news outlet? If you don't already support Net Neutrality, maybe you ought to start thinking about it. It is the Free Speech Issue of our time.
I say let them continue to file. And at the same time donate to EFF & other organizations who are willing to fight them. The reason? Easy, ever time a copyright troll loses a case like this, is another nail in the coffin for broken copyright law.
If I was a copyright holder I'd start taking the fact that these guys are idiots seriously and try to find a way to stop them.
Ideally, a speeding ticket should require an actual human witness as well. Why? Because if speeding in an area doesn't present a high enough risk to be worth putting an officer out there to patrol it, one could reasonably argue that the limit is not providing a significant safety benefit, and therefore, should not even be legally enforceable in the first place.
Actually, this is an incorrect assumption. Speeding prevents auto accidents. Auto accidents where the only thing damaged is the auto still cost money. Just because pedestrian risk isn't high, does not exclude other forms of risk.
Hey, why should you like them. Even PETA would hate them. http://www.9news.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=108695&catid=346
Hey, I bought you the "World's Smallest Wedding Ring Made of DNA" . . . um, do you like it . . .?
Response1: Unless it is at least 3 karates you are still sleeping on the sofa. Response2: Dear I know I said size doesn't matter, but.... Response3: Oh, look it'll go great with the condoms you buy.
I think better justice would be if the Tolls developed Alzheimer's themselves(or someone close) & had to watch(and forget) their minds go to pot, when if they hadn't been such dicks they'd have been cured & died of something less horrific.
I live in Texas, consider myself fairly conservative, and usually I can make some sense of what our law makers are doing. But when it comes to education I am aghast at how political it has become. As far as I can tell they are the biggest bunch of idiots I've ever encountered. I get that the winner gets to write history, but what they are doing is appalling.
Next we'll find that Kennedy was not shot in conservative Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald, but in liberal San Fransisco by Harvey Milk. Or that Regan was able to convince Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall because God came to Gorbachev as a blue fairy and told him that Regan was his prophet and he should do whatever he says.
The changes that they are trying to force on us are just as bad. I had a physics professor(I got my BS in applied physic) that I highly respected who went to church every Sunday, and even she thought that ID was wrong to be teaching in schools(beyond the utter flaws in the logic behind it). Things like this should be left to parents and religious leaders. I've never had a problem learning about evolution. It never affected my faith. So I am having a hard time trying to figure out why the Texas Government thinks that science is an assault on God Fearing Christians' beliefs. When given the next chance to vote, you can know where my vote will not be
Why exactly do I want do this?
Simple really. This is for those of us who run applications remotely for one reason or another. I personally like being able to run GEdit remotely since my server doubles as my homework computer. If this would let me do the same thing from a web browser, so that I don't have to use a separate SSH application then I'm all for it.
Who says that a dictator came to power without the consent of the people? Originally, a dictator was given power by the republic to meet some given demand on the state(ie war). People can, and often still do, give up certain rights for various reasons. The US did after 9/11, and so have many others before and since that time.
Where's the definitions of what a republic is? I get that the US is a form of democracy, but what about it also being a republic? I know I'm probably spewing invalid facts propagated from biased elementary teachers, but what I do remember is that at the federal level we are a republic. And that's what I was taught in every elementary history class I took, some of which were in California(who probably hate non-celebrity Republics more than Utah hates Democrats). If you are going to state the facts, state all the facts.
I'm also guessing you didn't RTFA. No where in it do they say that they passed the law because democracy is related to the Democratic party. They have a quote about it being a socialist witch hunt or something, but as far as I can tell not all Democrats are socialists and vice versa.
And here in lies the problem. As numerous as we have become, geeks still do not have enough pull for executives to take notice. There are exceptions, which we could count on 1 hand, but not enough. Every specialty network is doomed to face the same death as SyFy, due to the fact that what makes them unique also prevents them from attracting the type of numbers executives want, except for things like ESPN.
If we are to have any hope of getting the programming we want, then we must be willing to pony up for it and do something to make it known. I like what's happened with Firefly fans recently, or what the Chuck fans did to keep their show on the air, or closer to the topic, the big push that got us at least some closure for Farscape. You want good Sci-Fi programming? Then what are you willing to do to make sure you have it?
Texas doesn't have an income tax because of how much money they get via property taxes. And in most places the sales tax is a lot higher than 6.25%. Where I live it's closer to almost 9%.
In TFA, it states that the only ones susceptible to this attack were those who logged in/out during the attack. If you kept yourself logged in then the attack failed. They were effectively running a keylogger type script.
Unless you like dragging your PS3 around with you, then you have to buy a new copy every time you want to play it on a PS3 that is not your own. And before people say that nobody does that, I got my brother a PS3 for his house knowing that I could bring my PS3 games and play them at his house.
And is that any different from the parent's assertion that meteorologists are to climatologists as engineers are to physicists?
I'm just thinking that both of these will be a very bad idea. Everybody knows men have no taste in color(color blind or not) and Congress has the intelligence of a fence post.
It's not so much that reality has a decidedly left-leaning bias, as it is that the US is a decidedly right-leaning country. Compared to the rest of the wold, even our left-winged nut jobs sit slightly to the right of everybody else in the world. I'd argue that the more informed one is the more centrist one becomes, or in the US the more left you lean. The more I've learned and began to understand the more I've seen just how bad both sides are, and seek out solutions that are more of a happy medium. But when compared to those around me, that means that I've taken on a leftist stance.
According to TFA, these ships should be producing "500 times the total pollution of the world's vehicles". But yet, they are only "responsible for 3.5% to 4% of all climate change emissions". From those 2 numbers, either cars are not the problem everybody says they are or these numbers are WAY off.
What I was interested in seeing was the battery life, which they never mentioned. I run both Win7 Ultimate & Ubuntu 10.4 on a Alienware m15x. I know that as a mobile computer it has horrid battery life, so I do all I can extend its run time when I am without an outlet to use. I've found that Ubuntu gives me almost double the battery life I get from Win7. This is the case when playing video games/movies or just browsing the web(flash blocker is a knee jerk install). I don't think anybody promoting any form of Windows wants to compare battery life, because on Windows is sucks.
The only problem is if you want to make money in any market you have to play ball. That's why patents like these are so destructive to the creative process. It makes it impossible for someone to even want to try to outdo what's out there. The costs involved mean that even if I have a good marketable idea, and the money to develop it and bring it to market, it'll never see the light of day because more than likely I'll never have the money to fight off all the patent trolls out there. That is unless I sell my idea to one of the big players already in the game.
Software patents are even worse because we can easily trace our skill sets back in just a few steps to very few people. Not only that, but for the most part we all think alike and put any number of us in different groups and have us come up with a solution to a problem, and every group will probably come up with the same solution, or something that would be covered under a patent of any of the other solutions. Now given that, how is it possible for someone to start a company that would be the next Microsoft, Apple, or Google?
Does anybody know how AOL still makes money? I thought they went out of relevance when the death of dial-up occurred.