You didn't see the other part of the bill, I see. The one where there's a second list, that doesn't involve a court order and doesn't require the site to be taken down... but if it is, the ISP can't be sued.
It's a two-parter. With a court order the ISPs et al are required to cooperate in shutting the site down. There's another list, that requires no court order, where the ISP doesn't _have_ to do anything... but if they do, they can't be sued for it.
The part I dislike is the one where the AG can put a site on a list, with no court order or other judicial involvement, and while the ISPs et al aren't _required_ to shut it down, if they do they're immune from prosecution/lawsuit. No prior notice to the site owner required. There's supposed to be a process for getting a site back off the list, but I don't recall anything about making it affordable.
Because the people who get into political office are the kinds of people who want political office. Why do folks want political office? The only two reasons I can think of are (a) a desire to try to make things better for everyone, so they can feel good about having helped, or (b) a desire for power, so they can feel good about being powerful. (money is a form of power, so doing it for the money still counts.)
The ones who want power have to exercise that power, or it doesn't feel good. So they assert control over whatever they can, and voila! government control over things that don't need it and shouldn't have it. This gives politicians a bad reputation, which reduces the number of folks who are going to go into government service for reason A, both because they don't want to deal with being vilified and because it seems too difficult to work around the power-hungry types to get anything beneficial done. So over time, the proportion that's power-hungry rises, and the checks on them decrease, until either they've got complete control or everyone else gets fed up enough to kick them all out, clean up, and start over... which is never a smooth pleasant process.
Nope, I'm wrong. it stores on hard disks in the unit, and streams from there to your player unit (unless you get the combined one). It appears that for blu-rays you have to leave the physical disk in the "Disc Vault" carousel, but not for DVDs. Looks pretty cool. I wish I could afford it:)
I take it back. They're still in business, and they seem to have come up with ways to approximate their storage system, though it looks like it involves streaming from their site.
Netflix is for those who, for legal or moral reasons, do choose to pay.
Besides legal and moral reasons, there's also convenience. Say I decide on the spur of the moment that I want to watch Star Trek IV. With a torrent, I'd have to find the torrent, wait for it to download, possibly extract the video from an archive format, and then after watching it delete it (after burning it to a DVD if I want a permanent copy so I don't have to do it again). With netflix streaming, I hit search and inside a minute I'm watching opening credits, and when I'm done I don't have to worry about disk space. And I don't have to make an effort to make a permanent copy, because unless Paramount decides they hate Netflix, it's not likely to become unstreamable.
This convenience is actually why I pay the surcharge for streaming; spur of the moment beats waiting a couple of days for a DVD to show up in the mail, in spite of reduced quality.
The Java license, as I understand it, is requirements on how to implement something called Java. If they're not calling it Java, how is the license applicable?
Well, of course. "Their software violates our patents" is a case with sufficient possibility of validity to not be thrown out. There's your 'some case'. Finding out whether it really is valid is the whole point of the rest of the process.
Only if Sprint registered it, and a search at the PTO doesn't seem to indicate that it has been. (I'm not surprised, '4G' is really about as generic as '486', and that was declared untrademarkable... hence the term 'Pentium').
The catch, of course, is coming up with a model that works when implemented by and for idiots. If someone actually does so, I will be extremely impressed.
The sun is the ultimate energy source for everything (except nuclear, which came from other stars), as best we can tell. I still consider oil to be 'fuel' rather than 'storage', though, because it's already charged, where the other 'storage' techniques start off empty and we have to put the energy there.
Trade secrets are protected as long as they're still secret: if someone learns the secret through illegitimate means, they can't use it or reveal it.
But once they become publicly known, you're hosed. You don't get 17 years of monopoly, because you didn't patent it (if you had, it wouldn't be secret, it would be in the patent application). You don't get copyright protection because the kind of thing that is typically a "trade secret" is like a recipe, and recipes aren't copyrightable (individually. A collection can be, e.g. cookbooks. But a list of ingredients and an order for mixing? Not so much.)
So until it's revealed, it gets some protections and one of those is that the court isn't going to be the one to make the secret public.
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I kinda like the looks of block-level data deduplication, but depending on what you're doing it may be useless to you.
True. Syntactically, 'fucking' in 'fucking bad' would be an adverb.
One problem I see with it though is that it gives low population states excessive power since each state has an equal number of Senators.
I thought that was the entire point of having 2 for each state, so that there's at least one venue where WY has an equal voice to CA.
Sure. You have to get the Attorney General to agree with you before the site goes on the list. Good luck with that.
You didn't see the other part of the bill, I see. The one where there's a second list, that doesn't involve a court order and doesn't require the site to be taken down... but if it is, the ISP can't be sued.
It's a two-parter. With a court order the ISPs et al are required to cooperate in shutting the site down. There's another list, that requires no court order, where the ISP doesn't _have_ to do anything... but if they do, they can't be sued for it.
The part I dislike is the one where the AG can put a site on a list, with no court order or other judicial involvement, and while the ISPs et al aren't _required_ to shut it down, if they do they're immune from prosecution/lawsuit. No prior notice to the site owner required. There's supposed to be a process for getting a site back off the list, but I don't recall anything about making it affordable.
nah, at that point they just bill you directly for every show that hits your optic nerve, and skip the advertising. Channel surfing gets pricey :)
Because the people who get into political office are the kinds of people who want political office. Why do folks want political office? The only two reasons I can think of are (a) a desire to try to make things better for everyone, so they can feel good about having helped, or (b) a desire for power, so they can feel good about being powerful. (money is a form of power, so doing it for the money still counts.)
The ones who want power have to exercise that power, or it doesn't feel good. So they assert control over whatever they can, and voila! government control over things that don't need it and shouldn't have it. This gives politicians a bad reputation, which reduces the number of folks who are going to go into government service for reason A, both because they don't want to deal with being vilified and because it seems too difficult to work around the power-hungry types to get anything beneficial done. So over time, the proportion that's power-hungry rises, and the checks on them decrease, until either they've got complete control or everyone else gets fed up enough to kick them all out, clean up, and start over... which is never a smooth pleasant process.
Nope, I'm wrong. it stores on hard disks in the unit, and streams from there to your player unit (unless you get the combined one). It appears that for blu-rays you have to leave the physical disk in the "Disc Vault" carousel, but not for DVDs. Looks pretty cool. I wish I could afford it :)
I take it back. They're still in business, and they seem to have come up with ways to approximate their storage system, though it looks like it involves streaming from their site.
Kaleidiscape tried to make a hard-drive based dvd jukebox awhile back, and got sued out of existence. It's a durn shame; I'd have loved to buy one.
Netflix is for those who, for legal or moral reasons, do choose to pay.
Besides legal and moral reasons, there's also convenience. Say I decide on the spur of the moment that I want to watch Star Trek IV. With a torrent, I'd have to find the torrent, wait for it to download, possibly extract the video from an archive format, and then after watching it delete it (after burning it to a DVD if I want a permanent copy so I don't have to do it again). With netflix streaming, I hit search and inside a minute I'm watching opening credits, and when I'm done I don't have to worry about disk space. And I don't have to make an effort to make a permanent copy, because unless Paramount decides they hate Netflix, it's not likely to become unstreamable.
This convenience is actually why I pay the surcharge for streaming; spur of the moment beats waiting a couple of days for a DVD to show up in the mail, in spite of reduced quality.
They'll have to support subtitles and alternate audio languages before they can totally ditch shovelling discs. I hope they reach that point soon :)
irritatingly, medium in rockband 3 frequently still gets you the orange button. I'm getting a bit better at it, but it still surprises me.
"Presence of malice makes it wrong" != "Absence of malice makes it right"
The Java license, as I understand it, is requirements on how to implement something called Java. If they're not calling it Java, how is the license applicable?
Well, of course. "Their software violates our patents" is a case with sufficient possibility of validity to not be thrown out. There's your 'some case'. Finding out whether it really is valid is the whole point of the rest of the process.
S1: !A => !M
S2: A
S3: M
Asserted: S1 + S2 => S3
S4: M => A (from S1)
S2: A
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/afthecon.html
Only if Sprint registered it, and a search at the PTO doesn't seem to indicate that it has been. (I'm not surprised, '4G' is really about as generic as '486', and that was declared untrademarkable... hence the term 'Pentium').
The catch, of course, is coming up with a model that works when implemented by and for idiots. If someone actually does so, I will be extremely impressed.
They'll switch to making sure nothing gets done and then claim to be better than the opposition for not allowing bad stuff.
interesting chart. I assume things like iron are assumed to release the energy by oxidation? Maybe what we need is a car that runs on iron filings :)
The sun is the ultimate energy source for everything (except nuclear, which came from other stars), as best we can tell. I still consider oil to be 'fuel' rather than 'storage', though, because it's already charged, where the other 'storage' techniques start off empty and we have to put the energy there.
Trade secrets are protected as long as they're still secret: if someone learns the secret through illegitimate means, they can't use it or reveal it.
But once they become publicly known, you're hosed. You don't get 17 years of monopoly, because you didn't patent it (if you had, it wouldn't be secret, it would be in the patent application). You don't get copyright protection because the kind of thing that is typically a "trade secret" is like a recipe, and recipes aren't copyrightable (individually. A collection can be, e.g. cookbooks. But a list of ingredients and an order for mixing? Not so much.)
So until it's revealed, it gets some protections and one of those is that the court isn't going to be the one to make the secret public.