It would open them up to anti-trust lawsuit since they're using their majority market share in the search business to hurt competitors in the advertising market.
No google just has to bribe the campaigns of Bush #2 (Obama) and Bush #3 (Romney), so they will continue to Not prosecute that particular law. Lobbyists use politicians in order to gain monopolistic protection and punish any new upstarts/competitors (like isohunt search).
It's possible to turn-off embedded [image] loading, so you should be able to turn==off embedded [video] too. It's just a matter of picking a browser that has the option to load or not load images/videos, like Opera (located in the bottom right corner).
No the next step is for Google to decide to "punish websites" that contain content google does not approve of. Like infowars.com or foxnews.com or ronpaul2012.com, by giving them lower rankings.
I'd really prefer that google Not be ranking websites because of content.
Incorrect. Rights are things that occur naturally, like ownership of your body, your speech, your thought.
Preventing people from copying is a *temporary monopoly* that has been given to you as a privilege. And like all government-granted monopolies it is only given to you for a short term, and only so long as the monopoly is considered beneficial for society.
As Thomas Jefferson wisely wrote ~250 years ago, "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it.
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
"Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property." i.e. Not a right. A privilege.
Your reply indicates you didn't read the grandfather post past the first 2-3 sentences. So I'll ask directly:
How do we know Google cloud or Amazon cloud won't be the next service to be raided, and files taken, under the charge of copyright infringement of songs & videos? (Remember both services let people upload those things.)
The NDAA gives them the power to label you a "terrorist", grab your cloud files, and lock you up indefinitely (like 10 years for some current american citizens living in Gitmo)
I'd rather just forget the whole "cloud" idea and store my data the same way I've been doing it since the 80s -- in my home. At least there they require a search warrant, issued by a judge, to get inside.
Plus they don't know what you've got in your home. They can't just snoop the network through wire-tapping. They are operating in the blind.
The advantage of CRTs is they can display any resolution including 640x480 or 320x240, which is useful when emulating old Nintendo, Sega, PS1, Commodore, or Atari games. LCDs merely interpolate those resolutions upto 1920x1024, and it looks like crap (because it's not a precise fit).
I still use my old analog TVs too. With the new digital tuner boxes the government gave me for cheap, they look as good as DVD.:-)
>>>The European politicians who are behind this sort of bullshit typically aren't elected in any meaningful sense >>>
One of my friends 'unfriended' me for saying the same thing. Some just don't want to hear the truth that EU (and US) laws are made by unelected technocrats. And sometimes even run the country (see the states of Italy and Greece).
re: ACTA, megaupload, million-dollar lawsuits
Since the music/movie industry is booming right now, higher than ever, it is silly for RIAA/MPAA to claim the internet is hurting them. On the contrary it simply makes them look greedy. "Yes we've set record sales in 2010 and 11, but it's not enough dman it. We want more! Stop the downloads."
(1) No I never watched the show until just this month, so I'm not the reason WB kept making it the last 9 years. They were making it because it appealed to their primary audience (teens/20-somethings).
(2) Even if I had watched it, there's no Nielsen ratings box in my home. I don't have any power to affect what's on the TV. Neither does anybody else unless they have that special box connected to their TV. (Or watch it on CWtv.com)
I was in the middle of downloading old Alphas and One Tree Hill episodes, when megaupload got yanked. Will I suddenly go out and buy the DVDs??? Ha! Not likely. The shows were fun to watch when free, but I'm sure as hell not going to pay for them.
I'll go find a different form of entertainment, like watch Free TV over my antenna, goof-off on youtube, or go read a book.
The RIAA/MPAA just doesn't get it. They are NOT losing money because ost of us never had any intent of buying their shit in the first place
I think the timing had less to do with SOPA, and more to do with last month's brou-haha over Megaupload's yanked video on youtube.
After the judge slapped down Universal Music(?) and said they can't censor ads just because they don't like them, the lawyers probably called the politicians and threatened not to fund their upcoming 2012 campaigns. The politicians called Justice Department and demanded action.
Thus action happened. And megaupload was shutdown. And now Universal is celebrating with glee because they' lost the initial battle, but won the war.
I was in the middle of downloading old One Tree Hill episodes, when megauppload got yanked. Will I suddenly go out and buy the DVDs??? Ha! Not likely. The show was fun to watch when it was free, but I'm sure as hell not going to pay for it.
I'll go find a different form of entertainment, like watch Free TV over my antenna, goof-off on youtube, or go read a book.
The RIAA/MPAA just doesn't get it. They are NOT losing money because most of us never had any intent of buying their shit in the first place
According to Gene Roddenberry's novelization, V'ger was not a result of porn but the derelict probe falling through a wormhole and ending-up near a plant of "living machines". They captured the original Voyager 7(?) probe, and upgraded the technology so it could complete its task of exploration.
Do they? Probably 95% of people living in Texas are Texan by birth, just as I am American by birth. Sure I can move someplace else, but I will always retain my nationality (and state of birth).
It also bothers me when I hear people insulting Utah or France or Japanese citizens. I may not agree with their unusual cultures, but it's THEIR choice how they run themselves (and none of my business).
This is the second time in two weeks I've had mod points. Apparently NOT visiting slashdot is how you get picked. (shrug)
Back on topic:
Why do people keep posting things like "even texans have to evolve"? Maybe I've spent too much time listening to College PC curricula, but that strikes me as being highly offensive. Imagine replacing "texans" with "women" or "blacks" or "retards" instead.
You sound like a Libertarian ("corporations are good because they employ people"). But I'm not aware of any libertarian that thinks GE shuld have been bailed out. They all think GE should have been left to die, and the pieces bought-up by other healtheir corporations (like google, microsoft, CBS, et cetera).
The Federal Reserve is a private bank and a monopoly. It is no different than your local electric or cable or utility monopoly. Naturally these private corporate monopolies serve (a) themselves and (b) their fellow corporate colleagues while (c) not giving a damn about the citizens.
So a Private Central Bank bailed out other private banks, and did nothing for the citizens. Color me unsurprised.
Our present paper-based system has devalued by grandfather's savings by 1/100th its previous buying power. i.e. A wool suit that cost $5 in 1920 costs $500 today.
I'd rather have the solidity of a Gold system that can not destroy people's savings via rampant running of the printing presses. Ownership of half an ounce of gold will buy 1 suit, whether its 2010 or 1910 or 1810. Gold has a fixed value. Paper does not.
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They try to say it's good for you when all they are doing is trying to lock out the competition
A single-sentence definition of the U.S. government.
It would open them up to anti-trust lawsuit since they're using their majority market share in the search business to hurt competitors in the advertising market.
No google just has to bribe the campaigns of Bush #2 (Obama) and Bush #3 (Romney), so they will continue to Not prosecute that particular law. Lobbyists use politicians in order to gain monopolistic protection and punish any new upstarts/competitors (like isohunt search).
It's possible to turn-off embedded [image] loading, so you should be able to turn==off embedded [video] too. It's just a matter of picking a browser that has the option to load or not load images/videos, like Opera (located in the bottom right corner).
It's only a matter of time until Youtube goes fully HTML-5. They already reject Flash video uploads. (I get an "unsupported format" error.)
No the next step is for Google to decide to "punish websites" that contain content google does not approve of. Like infowars.com or foxnews.com or ronpaul2012.com, by giving them lower rankings.
I'd really prefer that google Not be ranking websites because of content.
IMHO
Incorrect. Rights are things that occur naturally, like ownership of your body, your speech, your thought.
Preventing people from copying is a *temporary monopoly* that has been given to you as a privilege. And like all government-granted monopolies it is only given to you for a short term, and only so long as the monopoly is considered beneficial for society.
As Thomas Jefferson wisely wrote ~250 years ago, "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it.
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
"Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property." i.e. Not a right. A privilege.
Your reply indicates you didn't read the grandfather post past the first 2-3 sentences. So I'll ask directly:
How do we know Google cloud or Amazon cloud won't be the next service to be raided, and files taken, under the charge of copyright infringement of songs & videos? (Remember both services let people upload those things.)
No need for a tinfoil hat.
The NDAA gives them the power to label you a "terrorist", grab your cloud files, and lock you up indefinitely (like 10 years for some current american citizens living in Gitmo)
I'd rather just forget the whole "cloud" idea and store my data the same way I've been doing it since the 80s -- in my home. At least there they require a search warrant, issued by a judge, to get inside.
Plus they don't know what you've got in your home. They can't just snoop the network through wire-tapping. They are operating in the blind.
Good.
The advantage of CRTs is they can display any resolution including 640x480 or 320x240, which is useful when emulating old Nintendo, Sega, PS1, Commodore, or Atari games. LCDs merely interpolate those resolutions upto 1920x1024, and it looks like crap (because it's not a precise fit).
I still use my old analog TVs too. With the new digital tuner boxes the government gave me for cheap, they look as good as DVD. :-)
So does this phase-out mean I won't be able to use the 4 VGA CRTs and 1 DVI LCD I have accumulated over the years?
What a waste of perfectly functional equipment.
>>>The European politicians who are behind this sort of bullshit typically aren't elected in any meaningful sense
>>>
One of my friends 'unfriended' me for saying the same thing. Some just don't want to hear the truth that EU (and US) laws are made by unelected technocrats. And sometimes even run the country (see the states of Italy and Greece).
re: ACTA, megaupload, million-dollar lawsuits
Since the music/movie industry is booming right now, higher than ever, it is silly for RIAA/MPAA to claim the internet is hurting them. On the contrary it simply makes them look greedy. "Yes we've set record sales in 2010 and 11, but it's not enough dman it. We want more! Stop the downloads."
And Senator Sellout is on their side.
He should be shot.
Ha! Funny post.
(1) No I never watched the show until just this month, so I'm not the reason WB kept making it the last 9 years. They were making it because it appealed to their primary audience (teens/20-somethings).
(2) Even if I had watched it, there's no Nielsen ratings box in my home. I don't have any power to affect what's on the TV. Neither does anybody else unless they have that special box connected to their TV. (Or watch it on CWtv.com)
L8r. :-)
I think the whole thing is ridiculous.
I was in the middle of downloading old Alphas and One Tree Hill episodes, when megaupload got yanked. Will I suddenly go out and buy the DVDs??? Ha! Not likely. The shows were fun to watch when free, but I'm sure as hell not going to pay for them.
I'll go find a different form of entertainment, like watch Free TV over my antenna, goof-off on youtube, or go read a book.
The RIAA/MPAA just doesn't get it.
They are NOT losing money because
ost of us never had any intent of buying their shit in the first place
.
I think the timing had less to do with SOPA, and more to do with last month's brou-haha over Megaupload's yanked video on youtube.
After the judge slapped down Universal Music(?) and said they can't censor ads just because they don't like them, the lawyers probably called the politicians and threatened not to fund their upcoming 2012 campaigns. The politicians called Justice Department and demanded action.
Thus action happened. And megaupload was shutdown. And now Universal is celebrating with glee because they' lost the initial battle, but won the war.
Seems pretty ridiculous to me.
I was in the middle of downloading old One Tree Hill episodes, when megauppload got yanked. Will I suddenly go out and buy the DVDs??? Ha! Not likely. The show was fun to watch when it was free, but I'm sure as hell not going to pay for it.
I'll go find a different form of entertainment, like watch Free TV over my antenna, goof-off on youtube, or go read a book.
The RIAA/MPAA just doesn't get it. They are NOT losing money because most of us never had any intent of buying their shit in the first place
.
According to Gene Roddenberry's novelization, V'ger was not a result of porn but the derelict probe falling through a wormhole and ending-up near a plant of "living machines". They captured the original Voyager 7(?) probe, and upgraded the technology so it could complete its task of exploration.
Do they? Probably 95% of people living in Texas are Texan by birth, just as I am American by birth. Sure I can move someplace else, but I will always retain my nationality (and state of birth).
It also bothers me when I hear people insulting Utah or France or Japanese citizens. I may not agree with their unusual cultures, but it's THEIR choice how they run themselves (and none of my business).
>>>I understand a BluRay disk is 25-50 GB but they only need that much space so they can support MPEG-2 video.
BluRay uses MPEG 4 (also known as h.264).
This is the second time in two weeks I've had mod points. Apparently NOT visiting slashdot is how you get picked. (shrug)
Back on topic:
Why do people keep posting things like "even texans have to evolve"? Maybe I've spent too much time listening to College PC curricula, but that strikes me as being highly offensive. Imagine replacing "texans" with "women" or "blacks" or "retards" instead.
-1 for Anon. Coward
The game's off the market Already and I never got a chance to play it. Oh well.
You sound like a Libertarian ("corporations are good because they employ people").
But I'm not aware of any libertarian that thinks GE shuld have been bailed out. They all think GE should have been left to die, and the pieces bought-up by other healtheir corporations (like google, microsoft, CBS, et cetera).
500GB divided by 50 GB == 100 times??? This must be that new math I heard about. Maybe it's time to do a refresher course at my local college.
(1) I thought Pioneer has already developed a twenty-layer bluray disc that stored 500 GB. So not that big of a deal for GE to do the same.
(2) Optical media will not be dead if ISPs keep putting 150 GB (i.e. three-to-six hd movies) limitations on their internet lines.
(3) Optical discs allow me to KEEP the movie for life. Downloads do not, thanks to DarmnRM.
I honestly don't know why anybody's surprised.
The Federal Reserve is a private bank and a monopoly. It is no different than your local electric or cable or utility monopoly. Naturally these private corporate monopolies serve (a) themselves and (b) their fellow corporate colleagues while (c) not giving a damn about the citizens.
So a Private Central Bank bailed out other private banks, and did nothing for the citizens. Color me unsurprised.
Our present paper-based system has devalued by grandfather's savings by 1/100th its previous buying power. i.e. A wool suit that cost $5 in 1920 costs $500 today.
I'd rather have the solidity of a Gold system that can not destroy people's savings via rampant running of the printing presses. Ownership of half an ounce of gold will buy 1 suit, whether its 2010 or 1910 or 1810. Gold has a fixed value. Paper does not.