I also find it interesting that Obama followed a president who deliberatly tried to appear less intelligent than he really was, and his rival in the election had to pick an obvious-moron vice president in order to be sure of capturing the Stupid Vote. It appears that in US politics, appearing intelligent is bad for one's career.
It won't, though. Laws like SOPA are only ever used against those who can't afford to defend themselves, and won't result in a public outcry if they go. If SOPA had been around back when Youtube was just a young and obscure company, it might have been shut down before it ever became well-known - but now it is established, it's staying.
That's basically what protests are. There are very few people who will get fired for their cause, so the only ones who go to protests are students and the unemployed. Their counterparts across the divide in the Tea Party movement are every bit as bad with their trefoil hats, and for exactly the same reason. The non-freaks are too busy trying to pay the bills to go on marches.
The old broken window fallacy? Consider that all those pirates are not buying audio, and thus the audio engineer does lose his job. I'll accept that, but you overlook something. Those pirates find they have more money now - and having money, will spend it somehow. Maybe they'll buy more computer equipment to pirate on, or just frivilous things like more clothes to show off, or perhaps new appliances - but however they spend it, they'll be stimulating economic activity elsewhere, and thus creating jobs. The overall effect may be to reduce the total number of employment positions, or it may be to increase it - but determining which is the case would require much more complex economic analysis than I can perform, and I imagine more than you can. Given that every study I've seen on the issue is hopelessly biased beyond any shread of credibility, it's just unknown.
Personally I am singing the praises of the downfall of the entertainment industry because they are currently attacking things that I value ideologically: Openness, reuse of ideas, technology as a hobby, freedom of speech and so forth. Or rather, I would be singing those praises if they were actually falling. For all the end-of-the-world hysteria, I find it hard to believe that piracy is having much of an impact when Transformers 3 is able to gross over one BILLION dollars before even being released on blu-ray. Those are not the numbers of an industry in crisis.
I'd guess an NDA. Standard practice in any industry driven by knowledge. Any employee who leaks potentially valuable information will not only get fired, but become liable for damages totaling more than most people earn in a lifetime. Just make sure the employees know that leaking means financial ruin, and they'll be compliant. There aren't many people for whom software compatibility is a cause worth financial martyrdom.
Those communications staff are there to recieve reports from the spies, and the analysts to analyse them. The CIA is a spy agency - that is its purpose. Everything it does is either spying, or in support of its spying operations.
And yes, it's shady, secretive, often underhanded and manipulative, and it uses every dirty trick in the book. That's a good thing, because you can be sure that every other country including those with interests hostile to the US is doing exactly the same. Trying to play honestly in a dishonest game is just a sure way to lose.
A population? A cultural group? A legal entity in diplomacy? The collective government? A defined geographic area? They can all be correct, depending on the situation under discussion.
One flaw: The poster can just keep reposting under new identities or on new sites under that model. Well, I don't consider that a flaw, but the copyright holders would. If they are to have any hope of enforcing copyright, they need some way to impose a more serious penalty upon the posters.
I've stripped those magnets out of hard drives many times and found no injury, even when I've got them on opposing sides of a finger. They just aren't that strong.
Correct. To get convection alone moving the water fast enough would require an unacceptably high source temperature. Same reason even air-coolers have a fan on the processor and more mounted on the case.
Some labs have experimented with solid state pumps using a conductive coolant propelled using an electromagnetic system. Quiet as can be, but the expensive coolant (gallium alloy) renders them cost-prohibative.
He didn't say it's a good thing, just expressed surprise that it hasn't happened more often. People stressed to breaking point will sometimes turn to violence regardless of the personal consequences because all other means have failed them and revenge is all they have left. With so many people facing ruin, why does this still happen so rarely?
Those great many readers aren't so much against copyright as they are against copyright in its current form - together with a very strong anti-corporate sentiment.
Because Pirate Bay has become more than just a torrent site. It has become a symbol of defiance. Flying the pirate flag proudly and giving lawyers the finger.
There aren't really that many people even on Slashdot that want to abolish copyright entirely, but you'll find a lot of people who think that it needs almost completly rewriting because it currently is written to heavily favor corporate profits over the public interest.
Take the copyright term, for instance. For a work-for-hire, 95 years. Ninety-five years ago, films were silent. A computer was a person at a desk with a slide rule. Audio was recorded on wax cylinders. How is such a long term in the public interest? It can't be an incentive to create works when an individial artist copyright lasts until seventy years after they die. Then you have the DMCA provisions which criminalise research and are frequently misused to prevent technologically-minded individuals from using equipment in any way the manufacturer doesn't profit from or as a tool or harassment, and now SOPA and the various three-strikes plans in Europe which seek to make copyright easier to enforce by getting rid of all the awkwardness of a fair trial and allowing copyright holders to just punish people arbitarily. It is no surprise that an anti-copyright movement has grown in response to this imbalance.
For a congressman or senator? One phone call to their lobbyist friends to ask a favor, and the suit will be dropped or settled out of court for an undisclosed token few dollars. That extends to anyone close to them too.
I suspect part of the reason they constantly fight over gay marriage and abortion is that they don't actually affect many people. Unless you are gay or a woman with an unwanted pregnancy, it doesn't affect your life in the slightest if those things are legal - and yet they are still hugely divisive. That makes them great for some political showmanship. The two parties can be seen to be disagreeing and put on a great display of their opposition to each other, while colluding on much more important issues.
This computer isn't for high-speed trading. While it is true that some high-speed trading technology can get rather silly, that is a different subject entirely.
That was the idea behind DLNA, but during design the tech grew so complicated (In large part due to every company involved demanding their own patented technology be made a requirement) that it became impossible to get it to work.
I suspect that may the case, but I havn't been able to find confirmation yet. I do know the score is in the Authur Kleiner collection, but the website for that collection doesn't say who wrote it - and it includes scores from composers other than it's namesake. Youtube only identified the audio as belonging to some generic collecting society. They actually just took ad-money from it, but after the previous encounter with youtube removing a clear parody and then ignoring my appeals entirely I just decided to take my ball and play somewhere else.
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The iPhone is made in China, no-one here drives an American car because we have higher fuel prices and smaller roads.
I also find it interesting that Obama followed a president who deliberatly tried to appear less intelligent than he really was, and his rival in the election had to pick an obvious-moron vice president in order to be sure of capturing the Stupid Vote. It appears that in US politics, appearing intelligent is bad for one's career.
It won't, though. Laws like SOPA are only ever used against those who can't afford to defend themselves, and won't result in a public outcry if they go. If SOPA had been around back when Youtube was just a young and obscure company, it might have been shut down before it ever became well-known - but now it is established, it's staying.
That's basically what protests are. There are very few people who will get fired for their cause, so the only ones who go to protests are students and the unemployed. Their counterparts across the divide in the Tea Party movement are every bit as bad with their trefoil hats, and for exactly the same reason. The non-freaks are too busy trying to pay the bills to go on marches.
The old broken window fallacy? Consider that all those pirates are not buying audio, and thus the audio engineer does lose his job. I'll accept that, but you overlook something. Those pirates find they have more money now - and having money, will spend it somehow. Maybe they'll buy more computer equipment to pirate on, or just frivilous things like more clothes to show off, or perhaps new appliances - but however they spend it, they'll be stimulating economic activity elsewhere, and thus creating jobs. The overall effect may be to reduce the total number of employment positions, or it may be to increase it - but determining which is the case would require much more complex economic analysis than I can perform, and I imagine more than you can. Given that every study I've seen on the issue is hopelessly biased beyond any shread of credibility, it's just unknown.
Personally I am singing the praises of the downfall of the entertainment industry because they are currently attacking things that I value ideologically: Openness, reuse of ideas, technology as a hobby, freedom of speech and so forth. Or rather, I would be singing those praises if they were actually falling. For all the end-of-the-world hysteria, I find it hard to believe that piracy is having much of an impact when Transformers 3 is able to gross over one BILLION dollars before even being released on blu-ray. Those are not the numbers of an industry in crisis.
Hear that slurping noise from your new phone? That's the sound of a battery being sucked dry.
I'd guess an NDA. Standard practice in any industry driven by knowledge. Any employee who leaks potentially valuable information will not only get fired, but become liable for damages totaling more than most people earn in a lifetime. Just make sure the employees know that leaking means financial ruin, and they'll be compliant. There aren't many people for whom software compatibility is a cause worth financial martyrdom.
Those communications staff are there to recieve reports from the spies, and the analysts to analyse them. The CIA is a spy agency - that is its purpose. Everything it does is either spying, or in support of its spying operations.
And yes, it's shady, secretive, often underhanded and manipulative, and it uses every dirty trick in the book. That's a good thing, because you can be sure that every other country including those with interests hostile to the US is doing exactly the same. Trying to play honestly in a dishonest game is just a sure way to lose.
So what is the country?
A population? A cultural group? A legal entity in diplomacy? The collective government? A defined geographic area? They can all be correct, depending on the situation under discussion.
One flaw: The poster can just keep reposting under new identities or on new sites under that model. Well, I don't consider that a flaw, but the copyright holders would. If they are to have any hope of enforcing copyright, they need some way to impose a more serious penalty upon the posters.
I'm not that dumb.
I've stripped those magnets out of hard drives many times and found no injury, even when I've got them on opposing sides of a finger. They just aren't that strong.
Correct. To get convection alone moving the water fast enough would require an unacceptably high source temperature. Same reason even air-coolers have a fan on the processor and more mounted on the case.
Depends what the headsink is made of. Aluminium will be ruined, but copper is fine.
Some labs have experimented with solid state pumps using a conductive coolant propelled using an electromagnetic system. Quiet as can be, but the expensive coolant (gallium alloy) renders them cost-prohibative.
He didn't say it's a good thing, just expressed surprise that it hasn't happened more often. People stressed to breaking point will sometimes turn to violence regardless of the personal consequences because all other means have failed them and revenge is all they have left. With so many people facing ruin, why does this still happen so rarely?
Those great many readers aren't so much against copyright as they are against copyright in its current form - together with a very strong anti-corporate sentiment.
Because Pirate Bay has become more than just a torrent site. It has become a symbol of defiance. Flying the pirate flag proudly and giving lawyers the finger.
There aren't really that many people even on Slashdot that want to abolish copyright entirely, but you'll find a lot of people who think that it needs almost completly rewriting because it currently is written to heavily favor corporate profits over the public interest.
Take the copyright term, for instance. For a work-for-hire, 95 years. Ninety-five years ago, films were silent. A computer was a person at a desk with a slide rule. Audio was recorded on wax cylinders. How is such a long term in the public interest? It can't be an incentive to create works when an individial artist copyright lasts until seventy years after they die. Then you have the DMCA provisions which criminalise research and are frequently misused to prevent technologically-minded individuals from using equipment in any way the manufacturer doesn't profit from or as a tool or harassment, and now SOPA and the various three-strikes plans in Europe which seek to make copyright easier to enforce by getting rid of all the awkwardness of a fair trial and allowing copyright holders to just punish people arbitarily. It is no surprise that an anti-copyright movement has grown in response to this imbalance.
For a congressman or senator? One phone call to their lobbyist friends to ask a favor, and the suit will be dropped or settled out of court for an undisclosed token few dollars. That extends to anyone close to them too.
I suspect part of the reason they constantly fight over gay marriage and abortion is that they don't actually affect many people. Unless you are gay or a woman with an unwanted pregnancy, it doesn't affect your life in the slightest if those things are legal - and yet they are still hugely divisive. That makes them great for some political showmanship. The two parties can be seen to be disagreeing and put on a great display of their opposition to each other, while colluding on much more important issues.
This computer isn't for high-speed trading. While it is true that some high-speed trading technology can get rather silly, that is a different subject entirely.
That was the idea behind DLNA, but during design the tech grew so complicated (In large part due to every company involved demanding their own patented technology be made a requirement) that it became impossible to get it to work.
I suspect that may the case, but I havn't been able to find confirmation yet. I do know the score is in the Authur Kleiner collection, but the website for that collection doesn't say who wrote it - and it includes scores from composers other than it's namesake. Youtube only identified the audio as belonging to some generic collecting society. They actually just took ad-money from it, but after the previous encounter with youtube removing a clear parody and then ignoring my appeals entirely I just decided to take my ball and play somewhere else.
I tried that once. Three months later I was still waiting for a response.