Case in point, I recently downloaded some nice drum and bass mix sets that were apparently recorded from some station called "Radio One" in England or something about ten years ago. My copy is a perfect duplicate of the original recording made from the air.
"The more important question is why does Antigua respect American copyrights at all? Well, because they gain from respecting them. It's part of free and fair trade. You aren't just allowed to take something from someone."
So let's say a tourist brings some CDs with them to Antigua and someone there copies them, then more copies are made for people in Antigua. The tourist returns to America. What exactly would Antigua be taking in this case?
"Seems to me that the law should clearly state the legal difference between an "open" and "closed" wifi network, presumably with password protection being the key difference."
Maybe a mode could be added where the base station doesn't continually broadcast "Hey, there's an open connection here with the name LINKSYS". Oh wait, they already do, the user just has to enable it! Never mind, let's just make it so instead of being able to open one's laptop within the range of a WiFi access point, you instead have to look around and find where it's located, find the owner and ask permission, then be sure the one you're looking at is the same one you're trying to connect to. (just agreeing with you and ranting further)
Transparent overlay? Yay, I bet that'll be the straw that breaks my slow computer's metaphorical back. Only YouTube videos play back decently; other video sites appear very jerky.
I agree that "by doing unrelated action Y, you are also accepting contract X" is stupid, but in this case, if you don't like the new terms, let your next bill payment be your last. That's what it'd be anyway if you didn't accept the new terms. Now, if you say agreed to use service for a minimum of a year, either they stated up-front that they could change the contract terms mid-year (for example, raising rate to $1000 per month), or it's fixed for that first year or whatever.
Sorry, just a compulsion. Here's a more readable summary:
"In a first for the US, one of three reactors at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama has been shut down because the Tennessee River is too hot to provide adequate cooling. This is happening as the TVA faces its highest ever demand for power, reports the Houston Chronicle. This has occurred in Europe in the past, forcing reduced generation. The TVA will buy power elsewhere and impose higher rates, blaming reduced river flow as a result of drought."
"It is a little hard to explain (if you've never used AppleWorks) but the idea was that a document lived in a window and whatever software you needed to work on the document would be available without switching programs--some programs could be containers and others would be components, like plug-ins. You would just work in a container program (sometimes it didn't even matter what the program was, as long as it had the right components available)."
It's kind of like the web today, with Flash content here, Java there, HTML around it, only read-write rather than read-only. I still keep the OpenDoc installer CD around since it's fun to be able to actually play around with it.
Of course, the evolutionary "The fox is chasing its meal, the rabbit is running for its life" somewhat applies. This is small change for the RIAA, so they don't really care that much if they screw it up, but it can be financially ruining for the defendant.
This keeps coming up, and the difference is that this allows near zero cost of tracking any number of people for any reason. Since all your public actions are public, you wouldn't mind having them posted to a web page, right? For example, a list of every route you drive in your car each day, with times, and where you get out (including pictures of what you're carrying), etc. It's all public information, after all.
You left out one important detail in all of these examples: the providers aren't guaranteeing that everyone can do these things at the same time, unlike (some) ISPs. The electric company doesn't guarantee residential customers some amount of power (but for commercial customers, I'm quite sure they do).
If the airlines are happy with participating in keeping away the tens of thousands of dollars I used to spend on flying every year, that's ok with me, fuck them and the tax money they generate. I don't know what I'm trying to say here except that I hope the flight industry dies. Let's get some fuckin' bullet-trains built. France has one.
See, they're smarter than you think! They knew you were going to post this awful opinion of them on Slashdot today, so they put you on that list years ago.
I don't really tend to think in terms of the police having the job of preventing crime. I think there job should be to apprehend criminals who are involved in or have committed a crime.
What's the point if all they did was catch people who committed crimes, but never reduced the occurrence of crimes? Surely the ultimate purpose is to prevent crime.
As opposed to all the other possible crime hotspots connected to certain events? One thing the analysis can show is where the most occurs, so they know where their limited resources are best spent.
No, just 99 each. As in, here's the number 990. That itself could buy 10 songs at that price. So in this very post every reader could buy ten songs (since they have a copy of the number 990... oops, there's another copy, so 20 songs each!).
Slashdot Mirror
"Astronomers are surprised by a recent discovery of a space hole [...] What we've found is not normal"
It's not a tumor!
"The hydrogen ions pass through a membrane separator to the cathode where they absorb oxygen from the air to produce water as a byproduct."
Great, I've got to either diaper it or take it for a bathroom break every once in a while?
Viking probe data show signs of life.
So the Viking probe data are ALIVE?!!!
(data is plural, not singular)
Case in point, I recently downloaded some nice drum and bass mix sets that were apparently recorded from some station called "Radio One" in England or something about ten years ago. My copy is a perfect duplicate of the original recording made from the air.
"The more important question is why does Antigua respect American copyrights at all? Well, because they gain from respecting them. It's part of free and fair trade. You aren't just allowed to take something from someone."
So let's say a tourist brings some CDs with them to Antigua and someone there copies them, then more copies are made for people in Antigua. The tourist returns to America. What exactly would Antigua be taking in this case?
"Seems to me that the law should clearly state the legal difference between an "open" and "closed" wifi network, presumably with password protection being the key difference."
Maybe a mode could be added where the base station doesn't continually broadcast "Hey, there's an open connection here with the name LINKSYS". Oh wait, they already do, the user just has to enable it! Never mind, let's just make it so instead of being able to open one's laptop within the range of a WiFi access point, you instead have to look around and find where it's located, find the owner and ask permission, then be sure the one you're looking at is the same one you're trying to connect to. (just agreeing with you and ranting further)
Transparent overlay? Yay, I bet that'll be the straw that breaks my slow computer's metaphorical back. Only YouTube videos play back decently; other video sites appear very jerky.
Slight improvement:
64.0 cores should be enough for anyone.
(just to get that zero in there)
Pentium version:
63.997 cores should be enough for anyone.
Just subtract 1! 1 and 2 become 0 and 1... boom, binary!
I agree that "by doing unrelated action Y, you are also accepting contract X" is stupid, but in this case, if you don't like the new terms, let your next bill payment be your last. That's what it'd be anyway if you didn't accept the new terms. Now, if you say agreed to use service for a minimum of a year, either they stated up-front that they could change the contract terms mid-year (for example, raising rate to $1000 per month), or it's fixed for that first year or whatever.
Oh come on, next you'll be telling me my laser-guided elephant repeller isn't keeping the elephants away from my home in the city.
Sorry, just a compulsion. Here's a more readable summary:
"In a first for the US, one of three reactors at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama has been shut down because the Tennessee River is too hot to provide adequate cooling. This is happening as the TVA faces its highest ever demand for power, reports the Houston Chronicle. This has occurred in Europe in the past, forcing reduced generation. The TVA will buy power elsewhere and impose higher rates, blaming reduced river flow as a result of drought."
"It is a little hard to explain (if you've never used AppleWorks) but the idea was that a document lived in a window and whatever software you needed to work on the document would be available without switching programs--some programs could be containers and others would be components, like plug-ins. You would just work in a container program (sometimes it didn't even matter what the program was, as long as it had the right components available)."
It's kind of like the web today, with Flash content here, Java there, HTML around it, only read-write rather than read-only. I still keep the OpenDoc installer CD around since it's fun to be able to actually play around with it.
Of course, the evolutionary "The fox is chasing its meal, the rabbit is running for its life" somewhat applies. This is small change for the RIAA, so they don't really care that much if they screw it up, but it can be financially ruining for the defendant.
Take your money to companies that make "natural" products. There are plenty of them, though they aren't carried much by "standard" supermarkets.
Come on, 640 brilliant dots per second should be enough for anybody!
This keeps coming up, and the difference is that this allows near zero cost of tracking any number of people for any reason. Since all your public actions are public, you wouldn't mind having them posted to a web page, right? For example, a list of every route you drive in your car each day, with times, and where you get out (including pictures of what you're carrying), etc. It's all public information, after all.
Pictures and info of local business for Google: $10
Free trip to Gitmo for terroristic activities: Priceless (and indefinite!)
The answer is pretty simple: most web pages are way too big, filled with tons of unncessary scripts and inline styles.
You left out one important detail in all of these examples: the providers aren't guaranteeing that everyone can do these things at the same time, unlike (some) ISPs. The electric company doesn't guarantee residential customers some amount of power (but for commercial customers, I'm quite sure they do).
See, they're smarter than you think! They knew you were going to post this awful opinion of them on Slashdot today, so they put you on that list years ago.
What's the point if all they did was catch people who committed crimes, but never reduced the occurrence of crimes? Surely the ultimate purpose is to prevent crime.
As opposed to all the other possible crime hotspots connected to certain events? One thing the analysis can show is where the most occurs, so they know where their limited resources are best spent.
No, just 99 each. As in, here's the number 990. That itself could buy 10 songs at that price. So in this very post every reader could buy ten songs (since they have a copy of the number 990... oops, there's another copy, so 20 songs each!).
It sucks when you steal a pony and find out it wasn't free.