I should have said "one partisan". Yes, Rod Rosenstein was appointed under GW Bush and may (or may not be) a Republican.
The other attorney assigned to investigate the leaks is Ronald Machen, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. In a 2010 profile in the Washington Post, Machen referred to Obama as a "legend" at Harvard and admitted that he was a great admirer of Obama and donated money to the president's 2004 senate campaign. I'd say that is pretty partisan.
A special prosecutor would be more appropriate.
I think the iOS $0.99 per sale model is better in the long run than the "Free as in GPL" model. At least making a $0.70 per sale can defray some of the development costs. Writing an tablet app, not charging anything for it, and giving away the source code seems to me like shooting yourself in the foot--unless you're part of the small minority of coders who don't need to earn a living.
Good thing Eric Holder is appointing two Obama partisans to investigate the leaks. Should be able to get to the bottom of things.. right after November.
Searching google patents for "hearing aid" returns 29,600 results. There is no way for anyone to invent a hearing aid that would not infringe on one of the thousands of active patents. That is, unless you buy from a country that doesn't give a rip about US patents.. I would check Alibaba http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/china-hearing-aids.html .
This isn't because NewEgg doesn't like Linux.. Its because merchants don't like returns. Each return costs money--from credit card charges, to inspecting and shipping it back to the factory, and tracking the return through the system. I'm guessing they will take it back if you complain a little (or a lot, in the case of slashdot).
With any low-cost reseller, you trade low prices for some types of restrictions. If you want a merchant who will take back anything without restriction (such as Nordstroms) you need to spend more for the privilege. There are thousands of small businesses that would give you unlimited support and take your system back--but they charge a more.
Its not like they are sticking you with a dead product--they are just making you go through the standard factory service to get it repaired.
I honestly haven't tracked it much but it has been accurate when I bothered to look at it. Maybe it isn't as good with a wide field of candidates.. Then again, just because a candidate has high odds of winning doesn't mean they will win--just like with any odds, sometimes the 1:10 pays off (for instance, 10% of the time). But with 93% odds showing, I stand by my example that the media was thinking it might be a "long night" when it was actually decided before all the ballots were counted.
You can go to http://intrade.com/ to get accurate odds on elections. The odds are accurate because people can bet real money on the outcome, so people with good polling or better insider knowledge can bet on the outcome... It had Scott Walker at 93% odds of winning. Funny watching the media say how close it was going to be... and it turned out to be an easy win for Walker (54-46%)
If the LZO folks had an easy way to purchase a license to their products (purchase online with credit card), they would have a little more money in their pockets..
Instead, they get a tiny bit of publicity.. and anyone who cares will simply use a free (as in MIT/BSD) library, such as FastLZ or LZJB, 7-Zip.
How about counterfeiting a $100 bill? That way you and your neighbor can both use it.
There are plenty of examples of intangible "property" that cannot be legally (as defined by the US courts) copied. You seem awfully passionate about how you and your ilk are entitled to see commercially produced creative work without having to pay for it. Get off your wallet, you tightwad.
Couldn't the same be said for making perfect counterfeit copies of currency? And since it is a perfect copy, no one is at risk for getting stiffed at the bank. So instead of making a resource scarce, you're "helping" it become less scarce.. Right?
1. Consumers want and expect excellent quality entertainment. Hobby level Tosh-0 content has some good stuff, but it isn't what most people want.
2. That is like a crook who steals and justifies it by the weak weak security system in place... So I guess you would be in favor of stronger anti-piracy technology added to digital media?
3. Anyone who doesn't pay for something because they can get it for free has stolen the creators ability to sell it. Yes, some people could never afford to buy a movie legitimately because they need to feed their family. But I'm guessing you're not arguing from Africa.
4. Bittorrent traffic is easily measurable, and it is on the scale of NetFlix, a legitimate company. The content of the bittorrent traffic is also measurable and I'm pretty sure most is not meant to be free content.
5. What productive job would you like programmers, movie makers, photographers, authors, artists, and musicians to do instead? Are you really suggesting that all of these people should "get another job" so that a few people like yourself can have their content for free until go out of business? As far as taxes go, local governments in, say Hollywood, care a great deal that taxes are collected from local studios and not collected by a widget vender in another state.
6. Ah, you like the command-driven economy, where the great tzar like yourself knows what is best for people to buy and for how much. And since the digital content isn't that good, so it is ok that we steal it so that we can spend more money on organic vegetables.
7. Yes, I think profits are good for the creators and investors. I don't know what you do for a living (if anything) but illegally taking a person's ability to make money is simply not cool, even when you use all caps on parts of your Marxist gobbledegook.
8. My industry? I'm a self-employed programmer. (What do you do for a living rtb?) I am not much affected by piracy.. But I have a great deal of respect for the people who create content and would like them to be able to do so and make a nice living...
1. Monetary investment and man-hours go into making things--be they widgets, houses, software, photos, or movies.
2. Stealing physical property is "wrong" and usually "illegal".
3. Someone who invests in the creation of a product has some right to expect to be able to sell their works for a profit.
4. Massive downloading and viewing "pirated content" deprives the creators of some financial return.
5. This lost revenue could impact every aspect of the creative process--from salaries and jobs to taxes collected.
6. Governments, creators of content, and ultimately consumers have an interest in preventing mass piracy.
I am not a geologist, but I find it a pretty interesting theory.. and the author makes a good case.. The site is interesting reading and is a good example of thinking outside the conventional norms. And is also another example of scientists ridiculing a theory while (seemingly?) failing to debunk it.
Move to a better school district. She won't have "criminals" (not my word!) in her class. She will have brighter, more educated, and well-behaved children. That will probably improve the administration situation as well. I would say just "teach" in a better school district, but the sooner you make the move yourself to a better district, the better... since raising kids in a bad school area gets progressively worse as the kids get older.
And don't give me any crap about how I must be a mean conservative... most of the white liberals who work and live in/near Berkeley, CA refuse to send their kids to the neighborhood government schools...
Many scientific papers include dire predictions with a target date that has come and gone. A few examples of hundreds.
1. Within a few years "children just aren't going to know what snow is." Snowfall will be "a very rare and exciting event." Dr. David Viner, senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, interviewed by the UK Independent, March 20, 2000.
"[By] 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots[By 1996] The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers." Michael Oppenheimer, published in "Dead Heat," St. Martin's Press, 1990.
"Arctic specialist Bernt Balchen says a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000." Christian Science Monitor, June 8, 1972.
"Using computer models, researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide two degrees by 2010."
"By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half." Life magazine, January 1970.
"If present trends continue, the world will be... eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age." Kenneth E.F. Watt, in "Earth Day," 1970.
"By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people... If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." Ehrlich, Speech at British Institute For Biology, September 1971.
"In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish." Ehrlich, speech during Earth Day, 1970
4/2012: IQALUIT, NUNAVUT—Nunavut says a new survey shows Canada’s polar bear population hasn’t significantly declined in the last seven years as predicted and that the iconic mammal has not been hurt by climate change.
An aerial survey done in August by the Nunavut government, in response to pressure from Inuit, estimated the western Hudson Bay bear population at around 1,000. That’s about the same number of bears found in a more detailed study done in 2004. That study, which physically tagged the bears, predicted the number would decline to about 650 by 2011.
"Concern" over the environment is a ridiculous notion on par with "good intentions". The only things important are the proposed "solutions", their costs, and the inevitable unintended consequences. Liberals are always expressing more "concern" towards problems... but their solutions often make things worse. It is not hard to understand why "right wingers" (also known as "taxpayers") are apt to be skeptical of a massive government program to fix myriad climate disasters predicted in the last 30 years that have not happened (including an impending ice age, global warming, massive hurricanes, rising sea levels, polar bears extinction, polar ice melting, etc. ).
Hmm, except that would make the whole school eligible for the death penalty:
From this week's news...:"
Four women and two men have been sentenced to death in northern Pakistan for singing and dancing at a wedding, police said yesterday. Clerics issued a decree after a mobile phone video emerged of the six enjoying themselves in a remote village in the mountainous district of Kohistan, 176 kilometres (109 miles) north of the capital Islamabad." Source.
Stock photo artists can refuse to sell at "reasonable" prices all they want and people will go elsewhere. Tons of people do photography as a hobby and are thrilled to make $50 on a license. Just browse Flicker for Houston Twilight photos and make a cash offer. The days where only a pro with $10,000 worth of gear can produce great photos is over. Time to make money the old-fashioned way: DMCA take downs and lawsuits.
Anyone know what the photographer offered to license his picture for ? $100, $1000? Seems to be the missing detail of the interesting back and forth... Weird.
Wow. When the facts don't come out your way, you invent an imaginary scene in your head where that aligns with your mantra: Fox News Bad, Democrats Good. Mmm, tasty kool-ade.
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I should have said "one partisan". Yes, Rod Rosenstein was appointed under GW Bush and may (or may not be) a Republican.
The other attorney assigned to investigate the leaks is Ronald Machen, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. In a 2010 profile in the Washington Post, Machen referred to Obama as a "legend" at Harvard and admitted that he was a great admirer of Obama and donated money to the president's 2004 senate campaign. I'd say that is pretty partisan.
A special prosecutor would be more appropriate.
I think the iOS $0.99 per sale model is better in the long run than the "Free as in GPL" model. At least making a $0.70 per sale can defray some of the development costs. Writing an tablet app, not charging anything for it, and giving away the source code seems to me like shooting yourself in the foot--unless you're part of the small minority of coders who don't need to earn a living.
Good thing Eric Holder is appointing two Obama partisans to investigate the leaks. Should be able to get to the bottom of things.. right after November.
Read How to rob a bank: A social engineering walkthrough, the more modern way. (Maybe this was on slashdot?)
Most apps come out on the iPhone first.. except the viruses and porn apps...
Not compatible with iTunes App Store content.
Searching google patents for "hearing aid" returns 29,600 results. There is no way for anyone to invent a hearing aid that would not infringe on one of the thousands of active patents. That is, unless you buy from a country that doesn't give a rip about US patents.. I would check Alibaba http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/china-hearing-aids.html .
This isn't because NewEgg doesn't like Linux.. Its because merchants don't like returns. Each return costs money--from credit card charges, to inspecting and shipping it back to the factory, and tracking the return through the system. I'm guessing they will take it back if you complain a little (or a lot, in the case of slashdot).
With any low-cost reseller, you trade low prices for some types of restrictions. If you want a merchant who will take back anything without restriction (such as Nordstroms) you need to spend more for the privilege. There are thousands of small businesses that would give you unlimited support and take your system back--but they charge a more.
Its not like they are sticking you with a dead product--they are just making you go through the standard factory service to get it repaired.
I put my entire business on Megaupload.com and now I've lost everything!! Boo hoo, why didn't slash dot warn me sooner?
I honestly haven't tracked it much but it has been accurate when I bothered to look at it. Maybe it isn't as good with a wide field of candidates.. Then again, just because a candidate has high odds of winning doesn't mean they will win--just like with any odds, sometimes the 1:10 pays off (for instance, 10% of the time). But with 93% odds showing, I stand by my example that the media was thinking it might be a "long night" when it was actually decided before all the ballots were counted.
You can go to http://intrade.com/ to get accurate odds on elections. The odds are accurate because people can bet real money on the outcome, so people with good polling or better insider knowledge can bet on the outcome... It had Scott Walker at 93% odds of winning. Funny watching the media say how close it was going to be... and it turned out to be an easy win for Walker (54-46%)
If the LZO folks had an easy way to purchase a license to their products (purchase online with credit card), they would have a little more money in their pockets.. Instead, they get a tiny bit of publicity.. and anyone who cares will simply use a free (as in MIT/BSD) library, such as FastLZ or LZJB, 7-Zip.
How about counterfeiting a $100 bill? That way you and your neighbor can both use it.
There are plenty of examples of intangible "property" that cannot be legally (as defined by the US courts) copied. You seem awfully passionate about how you and your ilk are entitled to see commercially produced creative work without having to pay for it. Get off your wallet, you tightwad.
Couldn't the same be said for making perfect counterfeit copies of currency? And since it is a perfect copy, no one is at risk for getting stiffed at the bank. So instead of making a resource scarce, you're "helping" it become less scarce.. Right?
1. Consumers want and expect excellent quality entertainment. Hobby level Tosh-0 content has some good stuff, but it isn't what most people want.
2. That is like a crook who steals and justifies it by the weak weak security system in place... So I guess you would be in favor of stronger anti-piracy technology added to digital media?
3. Anyone who doesn't pay for something because they can get it for free has stolen the creators ability to sell it. Yes, some people could never afford to buy a movie legitimately because they need to feed their family. But I'm guessing you're not arguing from Africa.
4. Bittorrent traffic is easily measurable, and it is on the scale of NetFlix, a legitimate company. The content of the bittorrent traffic is also measurable and I'm pretty sure most is not meant to be free content.
5. What productive job would you like programmers, movie makers, photographers, authors, artists, and musicians to do instead? Are you really suggesting that all of these people should "get another job" so that a few people like yourself can have their content for free until go out of business? As far as taxes go, local governments in, say Hollywood, care a great deal that taxes are collected from local studios and not collected by a widget vender in another state.
6. Ah, you like the command-driven economy, where the great tzar like yourself knows what is best for people to buy and for how much. And since the digital content isn't that good, so it is ok that we steal it so that we can spend more money on organic vegetables.
7. Yes, I think profits are good for the creators and investors. I don't know what you do for a living (if anything) but illegally taking a person's ability to make money is simply not cool, even when you use all caps on parts of your Marxist gobbledegook.
8. My industry? I'm a self-employed programmer. (What do you do for a living rtb?) I am not much affected by piracy.. But I have a great deal of respect for the people who create content and would like them to be able to do so and make a nice living...
1. Monetary investment and man-hours go into making things--be they widgets, houses, software, photos, or movies.
2. Stealing physical property is "wrong" and usually "illegal".
3. Someone who invests in the creation of a product has some right to expect to be able to sell their works for a profit.
4. Massive downloading and viewing "pirated content" deprives the creators of some financial return.
5. This lost revenue could impact every aspect of the creative process--from salaries and jobs to taxes collected.
6. Governments, creators of content, and ultimately consumers have an interest in preventing mass piracy.
And now Expanding Earth Theory is considered pseudo-science...
I am not a geologist, but I find it a pretty interesting theory.. and the author makes a good case.. The site is interesting reading and is a good example of thinking outside the conventional norms. And is also another example of scientists ridiculing a theory while (seemingly?) failing to debunk it.
Move to a better school district. She won't have "criminals" (not my word!) in her class. She will have brighter, more educated, and well-behaved children. That will probably improve the administration situation as well. I would say just "teach" in a better school district, but the sooner you make the move yourself to a better district, the better... since raising kids in a bad school area gets progressively worse as the kids get older.
And don't give me any crap about how I must be a mean conservative... most of the white liberals who work and live in/near Berkeley, CA refuse to send their kids to the neighborhood government schools...
Many scientific papers include dire predictions with a target date that has come and gone. A few examples of hundreds.
... eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age." Kenneth E.F. Watt, in "Earth Day," 1970.
... If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." Ehrlich, Speech at British Institute For Biology, September 1971.
1. Within a few years "children just aren't going to know what snow is." Snowfall will be "a very rare and exciting event." Dr. David Viner, senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, interviewed by the UK Independent, March 20, 2000.
"[By] 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots[By 1996] The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers." Michael Oppenheimer, published in "Dead Heat," St. Martin's Press, 1990.
"Arctic specialist Bernt Balchen says a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000." Christian Science Monitor, June 8, 1972.
"Using computer models, researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide two degrees by 2010."
"By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half." Life magazine, January 1970.
"If present trends continue, the world will be
"By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people
"In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish." Ehrlich, speech during Earth Day, 1970
4/2012: IQALUIT, NUNAVUT—Nunavut says a new survey shows Canada’s polar bear population hasn’t significantly declined in the last seven years as predicted and that the iconic mammal has not been hurt by climate change. An aerial survey done in August by the Nunavut government, in response to pressure from Inuit, estimated the western Hudson Bay bear population at around 1,000. That’s about the same number of bears found in a more detailed study done in 2004. That study, which physically tagged the bears, predicted the number would decline to about 650 by 2011.
Learn how to read. I did not claim that "nobody except right-wingers pay taxes". Get a grip.
Obviously, a majority of conservatives would consider themselves more fiscally conservative than Democrats when it comes to non-military spending.
"Concern" over the environment is a ridiculous notion on par with "good intentions". The only things important are the proposed "solutions", their costs, and the inevitable unintended consequences. Liberals are always expressing more "concern" towards problems... but their solutions often make things worse. It is not hard to understand why "right wingers" (also known as "taxpayers") are apt to be skeptical of a massive government program to fix myriad climate disasters predicted in the last 30 years that have not happened (including an impending ice age, global warming, massive hurricanes, rising sea levels, polar bears extinction, polar ice melting, etc. ).
Hmm, except that would make the whole school eligible for the death penalty: :"
Four women and two men have been sentenced to death in northern Pakistan for singing and dancing at a wedding, police said yesterday. Clerics issued a decree after a mobile phone video emerged of the six enjoying themselves in a remote village in the mountainous district of Kohistan, 176 kilometres (109 miles) north of the capital Islamabad." Source.
From this week's news...
Stock photo artists can refuse to sell at "reasonable" prices all they want and people will go elsewhere. Tons of people do photography as a hobby and are thrilled to make $50 on a license. Just browse Flicker for Houston Twilight photos and make a cash offer. The days where only a pro with $10,000 worth of gear can produce great photos is over. Time to make money the old-fashioned way: DMCA take downs and lawsuits.
Anyone know what the photographer offered to license his picture for ? $100, $1000? Seems to be the missing detail of the interesting back and forth... Weird.
Wow. When the facts don't come out your way, you invent an imaginary scene in your head where that aligns with your mantra: Fox News Bad, Democrats Good. Mmm, tasty kool-ade.