Considered briefly, but I think I would get far less pleasure from it than the local foxes. Animals are something cute to admire from a distance, but not when you have to go and clean up after them.
I don't know that one. I know the 'Obama is secretly Kenyan and/or Muslim' conspiracy. I know the 'Obama is a traitor to his race and secretly plans to exterminate all blacks' conspiracy. Strangely, I also know 'Obama is a black supremecist who seeks to oppress white people in revenge for slavery' conspiracy. And let us not forget the classic 'Obama is a pagan who wants to destroy civilisation in worship of his mother-goddess' conspiracy. But I've not heard any linking him to the Illuminati.
Just because the first attempts were screwed up doesn't mean the idea isn't valid. It just means that it needs a bit more thought put into implimentation.
Chicken wire is spaced slightly smaller than the diameter of a chicken's head, for obvious reasons. A lot of what you see sold as chicken wire isn't actually any use for chickens.
2 Timothy 3:16. "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:"
I troll religious forums. I know the bible better than most Christians.
EVE has a monthly fee.
When it started out, there was just the fee. Everyone paid the same. Doesn't matter if you're an employed student or a Fortune 500 CEO - in the game, everyone is equal.
Then PLEX game along. A rather transparent ploy by CCP to suck a bit more money out of people. Actually, PLEX doesn't suck money if used in the obvious way, to redeem for play time - but it became their currency for administrative services like character redesigns and transfers. The players were upset, because it did make it possible for someone with real money to get an advantage ingame. They could spent a little real money and buy a battleship, something a poor player might spent weeks hauling ore to afford - and they'd have more fun with it too. A player who spent weeks hauling ore is going to be very careful with their ship and not take any risks, while the player who can buy a new one for the cost of a somewhat expensive pizza can go happily running around in lowsec.
The new system just avoids the pretence that made PLEX rather awkward. It's refreshing in it's honesty: "Pay us, we'll give you good toys to beat other players with."
There was already some low-level uproar about PLEX. It's the standard objection you see in all MMORPGs: Any system by which a person can use their real-world wealth to in-game advantage becomes unfair. With PLEX, the system was indirect and it's effectiveness was hindered, but even that was enough to upset some players. With the new system, there is no effort to hide what is going on: "Do you want to be able to win fights against other players? Pay us, we'll give you some super-ammo that should give you a decisive advantage. Unless they buy it too, of course. You'd better buy it, because they will."
Amusingly, as copyright terms under Berne are set on author's life plus a period that varies by jurisdiction (95 years in the US), and as the bible claims to have been either directly dictated by or derived from inspiration of God... if the bible's account of itsself is true, then it's still copyrighted. Conveniently for the believers though, it includes in the new testament an effective licence to copy and distribute. There's even a little bit right at the end of Revelation that prohibits unauthorised modification.
Copyright isn't an issue of left vs right. It's an issue of money vs non-money. Old fashioned class-warfare. The only difference in left and right on the issue is that the right are willing to openly admit to serving a corporate agenda (Or as they put it, protecting the free market system), while the left will pretend to be concerned first before doing exactly the same thing.
I believe that this is actually done with some long-past-copyright works of art. They have been in private gallaries so long that they havn't been in public view since before the invention of the camera, or at least the color camera, and the people who hold them do not permit photographs as this would remove the exclusivity of their copy and thus devalue it. It's also a common practice in artistic photography for the photographer to sell a copy exclusively to one person, and then destroy all other copies including negatives - as there is no prestige in having a photo that just anyone can own.
More accuratly, it's part of the Commonwealth. They are politically independant, but they parted from Britain on good terms (Unlike the US), and so maintain close historical and political ties. Same as Canada.
His commuting of Libby's sentence alone should have been grounds for some sort of investigation. That was just blatent cronyism. Libby is found guilty in a court of law on found counts of impeding a federal investigation... but the investigation would possibly have turned up evidence of political games even more embarassing, so Bush thanks him by commuting his sentence. The message is clear: "Laws are for the little people to follow, not us."
Lulzsec are on the side of Lulz. Their first objective is entertainment. But, if they can advance the cause of freedom in the process, they'll adopt that as a secondary objective.
I imagine that once the infrastructure for censorship is in place, it'll be used for other content deemed illegal. Copyright infringment is first to come to mind, but there is the possibility of future courts issuing blocking orders for material found to be libelous, extreme pornography, hate speech (With all the vagueness that term implies), or an invasion of the privacy of some celebrity who wants their latest scandal kept out of the news.
While here in the UK, our anti-child-porn filter replaces blocked pages with a fake 404 error, thus removing the need for an appeals process: Even the blocked sites won't realise they are blocked unless they notice the strange complains of missing files or the irregularity in client IP addresses.
That's one way around. Another would be to go social. Get some pirate friends together and set up a little WASTE network - invite-only, encrypted, authenticated. Impossible to monitor. Someone will still have to go get the latest popular film off of bittorrent, but all the rest of the group can get it from him with no risk. I'm hopeing that pirate releases will also be spurred to spend more time in perfecting the art of compression, rather than just throwing bits at video to make it look perfect. Smaller files are less easily noticed, and very nice for those on caps.
I would assume that only consumer lines risk disconnection. Those who pay for business service will get a bit more leeway.
There was some fuss in the UK about a similar proposal - law, rather than industry agreement - shutting down free wifi, since anyone offering the service would be required to institute identity checks and usage monitoring that are completly impractical for small organisations with transient customers. I don't know how it turned out - the last I heard was the government promising that even though the law needs to ban them to be effective, it won't be enforcing that part.
Difficult bordering on impossible. But, if you do want to investigate something like this, I see potential in a distributed cache in making it workable. Hard drives are cheap - it would be entirely practical to have a two-terabyte cache in every single node. With the right management, that means almost no retransmissions, ever. Cut files into blocks, store blocks by hash, identify files by a list of block hashes (or a hash of a list of block hashes)... doable. Hard, but doable. Then you'd need radio only for getting new block and dynamic content, which hugely reduces bandwidth demands.
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Considered briefly, but I think I would get far less pleasure from it than the local foxes. Animals are something cute to admire from a distance, but not when you have to go and clean up after them.
I don't know that one. I know the 'Obama is secretly Kenyan and/or Muslim' conspiracy. I know the 'Obama is a traitor to his race and secretly plans to exterminate all blacks' conspiracy. Strangely, I also know 'Obama is a black supremecist who seeks to oppress white people in revenge for slavery' conspiracy. And let us not forget the classic 'Obama is a pagan who wants to destroy civilisation in worship of his mother-goddess' conspiracy. But I've not heard any linking him to the Illuminati.
Just because the first attempts were screwed up doesn't mean the idea isn't valid. It just means that it needs a bit more thought put into implimentation.
Something players at the time (And some still) as CCP legitimising a trade they should have been trying to stamp out.
Chicken wire is spaced slightly smaller than the diameter of a chicken's head, for obvious reasons. A lot of what you see sold as chicken wire isn't actually any use for chickens.
2 Timothy 3:16. "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:"
I troll religious forums. I know the bible better than most Christians.
EVE has a monthly fee. When it started out, there was just the fee. Everyone paid the same. Doesn't matter if you're an employed student or a Fortune 500 CEO - in the game, everyone is equal.
Then PLEX game along. A rather transparent ploy by CCP to suck a bit more money out of people. Actually, PLEX doesn't suck money if used in the obvious way, to redeem for play time - but it became their currency for administrative services like character redesigns and transfers. The players were upset, because it did make it possible for someone with real money to get an advantage ingame. They could spent a little real money and buy a battleship, something a poor player might spent weeks hauling ore to afford - and they'd have more fun with it too. A player who spent weeks hauling ore is going to be very careful with their ship and not take any risks, while the player who can buy a new one for the cost of a somewhat expensive pizza can go happily running around in lowsec.
The new system just avoids the pretence that made PLEX rather awkward. It's refreshing in it's honesty: "Pay us, we'll give you good toys to beat other players with."
There was already some low-level uproar about PLEX. It's the standard objection you see in all MMORPGs: Any system by which a person can use their real-world wealth to in-game advantage becomes unfair. With PLEX, the system was indirect and it's effectiveness was hindered, but even that was enough to upset some players. With the new system, there is no effort to hide what is going on: "Do you want to be able to win fights against other players? Pay us, we'll give you some super-ammo that should give you a decisive advantage. Unless they buy it too, of course. You'd better buy it, because they will."
As there are no hard definitions of what left or right actually mean, it's impossible to give an indisputable example of either.
Amusingly, as copyright terms under Berne are set on author's life plus a period that varies by jurisdiction (95 years in the US), and as the bible claims to have been either directly dictated by or derived from inspiration of God... if the bible's account of itsself is true, then it's still copyrighted. Conveniently for the believers though, it includes in the new testament an effective licence to copy and distribute. There's even a little bit right at the end of Revelation that prohibits unauthorised modification.
Copyright isn't an issue of left vs right. It's an issue of money vs non-money. Old fashioned class-warfare. The only difference in left and right on the issue is that the right are willing to openly admit to serving a corporate agenda (Or as they put it, protecting the free market system), while the left will pretend to be concerned first before doing exactly the same thing.
I believe that this is actually done with some long-past-copyright works of art. They have been in private gallaries so long that they havn't been in public view since before the invention of the camera, or at least the color camera, and the people who hold them do not permit photographs as this would remove the exclusivity of their copy and thus devalue it. It's also a common practice in artistic photography for the photographer to sell a copy exclusively to one person, and then destroy all other copies including negatives - as there is no prestige in having a photo that just anyone can own.
More accuratly, it's part of the Commonwealth. They are politically independant, but they parted from Britain on good terms (Unlike the US), and so maintain close historical and political ties. Same as Canada.
His commuting of Libby's sentence alone should have been grounds for some sort of investigation. That was just blatent cronyism. Libby is found guilty in a court of law on found counts of impeding a federal investigation... but the investigation would possibly have turned up evidence of political games even more embarassing, so Bush thanks him by commuting his sentence. The message is clear: "Laws are for the little people to follow, not us."
Regardless of where the list comes from, adding extra lines is trivial.
Lulzsec are on the side of Lulz. Their first objective is entertainment. But, if they can advance the cause of freedom in the process, they'll adopt that as a secondary objective.
I imagine that once the infrastructure for censorship is in place, it'll be used for other content deemed illegal. Copyright infringment is first to come to mind, but there is the possibility of future courts issuing blocking orders for material found to be libelous, extreme pornography, hate speech (With all the vagueness that term implies), or an invasion of the privacy of some celebrity who wants their latest scandal kept out of the news.
While here in the UK, our anti-child-porn filter replaces blocked pages with a fake 404 error, thus removing the need for an appeals process: Even the blocked sites won't realise they are blocked unless they notice the strange complains of missing files or the irregularity in client IP addresses.
Anonymous was spawned of 4chan. It no longer lives there.
That's one way around. Another would be to go social. Get some pirate friends together and set up a little WASTE network - invite-only, encrypted, authenticated. Impossible to monitor. Someone will still have to go get the latest popular film off of bittorrent, but all the rest of the group can get it from him with no risk. I'm hopeing that pirate releases will also be spurred to spend more time in perfecting the art of compression, rather than just throwing bits at video to make it look perfect. Smaller files are less easily noticed, and very nice for those on caps.
Piracy. And porn. And pirated porn. And probably some pirate porn too.
Because reality sucks, and entertainment media lets us forget for a few hours how much we hate life and soak in blissful fantasy
Websites that have enough money to pay lawyers to fight back will obviously be excluded. That's just common sense.
I would assume that only consumer lines risk disconnection. Those who pay for business service will get a bit more leeway.
There was some fuss in the UK about a similar proposal - law, rather than industry agreement - shutting down free wifi, since anyone offering the service would be required to institute identity checks and usage monitoring that are completly impractical for small organisations with transient customers. I don't know how it turned out - the last I heard was the government promising that even though the law needs to ban them to be effective, it won't be enforcing that part.
Difficult bordering on impossible. But, if you do want to investigate something like this, I see potential in a distributed cache in making it workable. Hard drives are cheap - it would be entirely practical to have a two-terabyte cache in every single node. With the right management, that means almost no retransmissions, ever. Cut files into blocks, store blocks by hash, identify files by a list of block hashes (or a hash of a list of block hashes)... doable. Hard, but doable. Then you'd need radio only for getting new block and dynamic content, which hugely reduces bandwidth demands.