In the case of window collisions, yes - again, glass isn't something they evolved to cope with, so they have no instinct to be aware of invisible obsticles.
The polarised car thing is more of an issue for insects.
Hollywood is very dependent upon story cliches. They know how to tell a good slavery story. That's well-trodden ground. But a high-minded sci-fi story? Not so much - the writers instead have to fall back on the old staples.
Transcendence? Ended with the stock Heroic Sacrifice in the name of love. Everyone likes a good love story - except the intended audience for that film. It could have been given optimistic (AI takes over, utopia follows) or pessimistic (AI takes over, exterminates mankind) or outright weird (AI takes over, forceibly uploads mankind) - these would all have fit. But instead they tried to turn their sci-fi concept into a love story ending.
I've seen better treatment of the idea in My Little Pony fanfic.
I have done everything I can to ensure legality. That includes not just making sure all the music was published before 1963, but also that it is all original release version - not later digital remastering. That's why it's largely mono. I'd like to run this by a real copyright attorney,is i one who is actually qualified, but I can't afford that. This is, to the best of my knowledge, all legal. I admit there is a possibility of my being mistaken, which is why I also state on the page that I will remove any infringing material as soon as I am notified by the (ex)copyright holder. The only reason any of them would want to actually sue rather than settle things peacefully would be sheer vinictiveness.
I have noticed that there was a great deal of lobbying to extend the term on sound recordings. Successfully. I do not see why there would be such urgency if said recordings were also covered as musical compositions for at least another twenty years and usually many decades more.
I was hoping the advertising would partially cover hosting costs. No such luck: I've made a whole 10p off of it so far.
In which case I can at least get some publicity and further reveal to the world what a one-sided sham copyright law is, when even the public domain is so convoluted as to be unuseable and national law is meaningless.
I've been trying to figure out how the underlying musical work copyright actually works in this situation. I honestly can't tell if it's an issue or not, I keep finding contradictory information on the subject. I'm not actually doing anything with the musical work, it just happens to be incidential in the expired recording.
Also, the copyright in sound recordings expires after 70 years, not 50. It was 50, until last year, when it was extended - but already-expired works were not re-copyrighted. That means anything published* pre-1963 has expired, but no more will expire for twenty years, baring further extension.
* Published, not recorded. Many artists went on to have successful careers many years after their death, such as Buddy Holly, as the labels released their unpublished works one at a time.
And what else could he have done to get people aware? If he'd just gone up to a news organisation and said he had proof the government was spying on citizens but he couldn't show it to them, he'd have been politely turned away and laughed at behind his back. The documents are the proof - without them, he'd just another foil-hatter.
If they try to sue me for that, I'll... back down without a fight, because I can't afford to spend my life's savings to stand up for my principles. But I will then tell everyone I can about the incident, including every internet rights organisation, and hope the backlash does some damage. Maybe one will even agree to pay the costs and handle the hassle for me.
The copyright term for parts of Europe is often less than in the US. I've a nice site I made that contains a lot of music which is public domain here in the UK, but still under copyright in the US. Unless they are very careful about dates, they are likely to end up threatening people for sharing music that is public domain because their bots are configured for the wrong jurisdiction.
It's not going to take much. There are plenty of crusaders around who would love a really clear test case, one where they can easily say 'Ad-company X showed targetted porn to child Y,' because if they can get a victory there it would render porn sites even more toxic to advertisers and force them further still into the internet's shady underground. I've read the publications of organisations like the AFA and FRC, and they generally believe production and distribution of any pornography is or at least should be a criminal act.
They tend to write a lot of articles complaining that the DoJ is making only a token effort at prosecutions. The legal status of pornography in the US is somewhat vague - most states consider actually producing it to be a crime equivilent to prostitution (If you're someone to have sex, it doesn't matter if there's a camera involved), but the actual distribution is legal subject to a tangled mess of regulations both state and federal, most of which are completly ignored anyway.
For games devs, the choice of API to use really depends on platform targetted.
The Direct3D API isn't *quite* the same as the one used on the XBox consoles, but it's very close. That makes porting a much easier, cheaper prospect. I don't know what API Playstation games require.
Problem: 1. Man goes to kinkybondagesmut.com on his PC. 2. Seven-year-old daughter goes to ad-funded sillychildishgame.com on iPad. 3. Ad-network consult their profile and determine this IP address is currently in used by an adult male with an interest in pornograhy. 4. Family consults their local moral crusader organisation. Legal action is taken.
I wonder if it's be practical to screw the tracking up with false data?
I'm thinking a browser plugin which has a list of tracking server addresses - and a few times each day will swap a randomly picked subset of the cookies for those sites with those of another randomly picked user of the plugin.
Police in the US often have very, very local funding sources: Asset seizures and fines go into the police budget. That creates a strong incentive to prosecute crimes that are cheap to catch and lucrative in income - with speeding being at the very top of that. Low- and mid-level drugs crime is also popular because it often leads to vehicle and property seizures.
A lot of kernel stuff is very time-sensitive. Got to get the next block of sound to the audio device before the ring buffer catches up, got to get the display memory updated before the screen refresh kicks in, got to calculate the next LBA address read before the disc spins around to whereever it may lie.
But they do give the programmer control of where the checking happens.
If you have a function CalculatePasswordHash(char *pass, int len) that in turns calls functions sha1, memcpy, rotatebit and xor fifty times each passing that len parameter, then you can check it is = the space allocated for *pass just once, rather than doing it for every function and thus needing two hundred and one checks minimum.
"businesses with a turn over $x million dollars should be required to use software developed only by the approved organisations."
That would just lead to regulatory capture. The approved organisations would use their connections and influence to make it very hard for any other organisations to become approved - and once this small cabal have thus become the only option, they can charge as much as the like.
The president takes all of the credit and all of the blame for any and all government actions, regardless of actual involvement. Those are the rules of the personality cult that is the American presidency.
Do you think it's make any difference? The moment they started shooting at the Russian 'police' forces it would provide the justification Russia needs to start bringing in the heavy weaponry. A simple matter of declaring them terrorists and common murderers and sending in the APCs and snipers. The most effective thing the armed civilians could do would be the long insurgency, one of the areas where an armed civilian populace excels, but that wouldn't stop Russia invading. It'd just force them to spend a fortune maintaining a strong military presence for a decade to keep in control (Again, see Iraq).
And the only reason Russia isn't using nukes and bombs is that they fear their neighbours who have their own nukes and bombs. The threat of military weaponry is keeping them from escalating into something that an armed citizenry couldn't possibly handle.
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In the case of window collisions, yes - again, glass isn't something they evolved to cope with, so they have no instinct to be aware of invisible obsticles.
The polarised car thing is more of an issue for insects.
Nor did glass, until recently.
Many birds see polarised light patterns, a characteristic of water in nature. Very few natural things look like water in polarised light.
Polished metal does though. Glass too. And many painted surfaces.
This is why birds keep hitting windows. To their senses, the window looks like a nice pool of water to land in. As do parked cars.
Hollywood is very dependent upon story cliches. They know how to tell a good slavery story. That's well-trodden ground. But a high-minded sci-fi story? Not so much - the writers instead have to fall back on the old staples.
Transcendence? Ended with the stock Heroic Sacrifice in the name of love. Everyone likes a good love story - except the intended audience for that film. It could have been given optimistic (AI takes over, utopia follows) or pessimistic (AI takes over, exterminates mankind) or outright weird (AI takes over, forceibly uploads mankind) - these would all have fit. But instead they tried to turn their sci-fi concept into a love story ending.
I've seen better treatment of the idea in My Little Pony fanfic.
I have done everything I can to ensure legality. That includes not just making sure all the music was published before 1963, but also that it is all original release version - not later digital remastering. That's why it's largely mono. I'd like to run this by a real copyright attorney,is i one who is actually qualified, but I can't afford that. This is, to the best of my knowledge, all legal. I admit there is a possibility of my being mistaken, which is why I also state on the page that I will remove any infringing material as soon as I am notified by the (ex)copyright holder. The only reason any of them would want to actually sue rather than settle things peacefully would be sheer vinictiveness.
I have noticed that there was a great deal of lobbying to extend the term on sound recordings. Successfully. I do not see why there would be such urgency if said recordings were also covered as musical compositions for at least another twenty years and usually many decades more.
I was hoping the advertising would partially cover hosting costs. No such luck: I've made a whole 10p off of it so far.
In which case I can at least get some publicity and further reveal to the world what a one-sided sham copyright law is, when even the public domain is so convoluted as to be unuseable and national law is meaningless.
I've been trying to figure out how the underlying musical work copyright actually works in this situation. I honestly can't tell if it's an issue or not, I keep finding contradictory information on the subject. I'm not actually doing anything with the musical work, it just happens to be incidential in the expired recording.
Also, the copyright in sound recordings expires after 70 years, not 50. It was 50, until last year, when it was extended - but already-expired works were not re-copyrighted. That means anything published* pre-1963 has expired, but no more will expire for twenty years, baring further extension.
* Published, not recorded. Many artists went on to have successful careers many years after their death, such as Buddy Holly, as the labels released their unpublished works one at a time.
And what else could he have done to get people aware? If he'd just gone up to a news organisation and said he had proof the government was spying on citizens but he couldn't show it to them, he'd have been politely turned away and laughed at behind his back. The documents are the proof - without them, he'd just another foil-hatter.
https://birds-are-nice.me/musi...
If they try to sue me for that, I'll... back down without a fight, because I can't afford to spend my life's savings to stand up for my principles. But I will then tell everyone I can about the incident, including every internet rights organisation, and hope the backlash does some damage. Maybe one will even agree to pay the costs and handle the hassle for me.
The copyright term for parts of Europe is often less than in the US. I've a nice site I made that contains a lot of music which is public domain here in the UK, but still under copyright in the US. Unless they are very careful about dates, they are likely to end up threatening people for sharing music that is public domain because their bots are configured for the wrong jurisdiction.
Most insurance policies that you might be able to get include an 'act of god' clause that excludes major natural disasters.
The victors are always the good guys. They get to decide who the good guys are.
It's not going to take much. There are plenty of crusaders around who would love a really clear test case, one where they can easily say 'Ad-company X showed targetted porn to child Y,' because if they can get a victory there it would render porn sites even more toxic to advertisers and force them further still into the internet's shady underground. I've read the publications of organisations like the AFA and FRC, and they generally believe production and distribution of any pornography is or at least should be a criminal act.
They tend to write a lot of articles complaining that the DoJ is making only a token effort at prosecutions. The legal status of pornography in the US is somewhat vague - most states consider actually producing it to be a crime equivilent to prostitution (If you're someone to have sex, it doesn't matter if there's a camera involved), but the actual distribution is legal subject to a tangled mess of regulations both state and federal, most of which are completly ignored anyway.
But is is 'pure' openGL, or something with lots of propritary extensions?
Read it more carefully. It's a language thing.
For games devs, the choice of API to use really depends on platform targetted.
The Direct3D API isn't *quite* the same as the one used on the XBox consoles, but it's very close. That makes porting a much easier, cheaper prospect. I don't know what API Playstation games require.
Problem:
1. Man goes to kinkybondagesmut.com on his PC.
2. Seven-year-old daughter goes to ad-funded sillychildishgame.com on iPad.
3. Ad-network consult their profile and determine this IP address is currently in used by an adult male with an interest in pornograhy.
4. Family consults their local moral crusader organisation. Legal action is taken.
I wonder if it's be practical to screw the tracking up with false data?
I'm thinking a browser plugin which has a list of tracking server addresses - and a few times each day will swap a randomly picked subset of the cookies for those sites with those of another randomly picked user of the plugin.
Police in the US often have very, very local funding sources: Asset seizures and fines go into the police budget. That creates a strong incentive to prosecute crimes that are cheap to catch and lucrative in income - with speeding being at the very top of that. Low- and mid-level drugs crime is also popular because it often leads to vehicle and property seizures.
I know just enough mathematics to impliment my own key exchange and assymetric encryption functions.
I also know enough cryptographic practice not to attempt to do so. I leave that to the expects who know all the non-obvious mathematical tricks too.
A lot of kernel stuff is very time-sensitive. Got to get the next block of sound to the audio device before the ring buffer catches up, got to get the display memory updated before the screen refresh kicks in, got to calculate the next LBA address read before the disc spins around to whereever it may lie.
But they do give the programmer control of where the checking happens.
If you have a function CalculatePasswordHash(char *pass, int len) that in turns calls functions sha1, memcpy, rotatebit and xor fifty times each passing that len parameter, then you can check it is = the space allocated for *pass just once, rather than doing it for every function and thus needing two hundred and one checks minimum.
"businesses with a turn over $x million dollars should be required to use software developed only by the approved organisations."
That would just lead to regulatory capture. The approved organisations would use their connections and influence to make it very hard for any other organisations to become approved - and once this small cabal have thus become the only option, they can charge as much as the like.
The president takes all of the credit and all of the blame for any and all government actions, regardless of actual involvement. Those are the rules of the personality cult that is the American presidency.
Do you think it's make any difference? The moment they started shooting at the Russian 'police' forces it would provide the justification Russia needs to start bringing in the heavy weaponry. A simple matter of declaring them terrorists and common murderers and sending in the APCs and snipers. The most effective thing the armed civilians could do would be the long insurgency, one of the areas where an armed civilian populace excels, but that wouldn't stop Russia invading. It'd just force them to spend a fortune maintaining a strong military presence for a decade to keep in control (Again, see Iraq).
And the only reason Russia isn't using nukes and bombs is that they fear their neighbours who have their own nukes and bombs. The threat of military weaponry is keeping them from escalating into something that an armed citizenry couldn't possibly handle.