As an American, that sounds like the best thing ever. More and more, Canada does seem like a nice alternative in many respects.
American elections law has teeth, though. In Canada if you robocall people illegally and get caught, Elections Canada will settle for $1000 (statutory max of $1000 per incident).
In America, if you robocall people illegally and get caught, you go to court, and the judge will hit you with $100 per incident. Times tens of thousand of illegal calls equals $1,000,000.
Some American states do have corrupt governors sometimes, but once the governors are out of office they tend to end up in prison.
As an American, that sounds like the best thing ever. More and more, Canada does seem like a nice alternative in many respects.
American elections law has teeth, though. In Canada if you robocall people illegally and get caught, Elections Canada will settle for $1000 (statutory max of $1000 per incident).
In America, if you robocall people illegally and get caught, you go to court, and the judge will hit you with $100 per incident. Times tens of thousand of illegal calls equals $1,000,000.
Some American states do have corrupt governors sometimes, but once the governors are out of office they tend to end up in prison.
Given the budget for campaigns, both punishments seem like not even a slap on the wrist. More along the lines of something they could bake into the campaign budget.
Basically, MIT is investigating the investigation that MIT was performing? To that, I say who cares? It would be interesting if some third party was investigating MIT's investigation.
Wrong question. How many people love eating, don't want to be fat, and think that this could possibly be a good or healthy idea?
I think that last part will not go through a lot of folks minds. If it does, it could seem reasonable (on the surface) to think it's no less safe than being 100lbs overweight and morbidly obese.
Assuming this thing gets FDA approval, I think the only question relating to it's success is "Will your insurance company pay for it". To that, I think the answer will most likely be no. It's still difficult to get established weight loss methods approved by a carrier, This thing will be in the realm of cosmetic surgery and other optional pay for it yourself type procedures. Again, that's IF it gets FDA approval. I think it will either be killed by the FDA and/or become something you have to get in a third world unregulated country.
I bought my kids Huwaei Ascend android smartphones several years ago (2010). This so called "invasion" started years ago. If you can even call it that, since I'm pretty sure all smartphones are made in China, aren't they?
People who invest in Bitcoins are idiots. It is absolutely worthless. And even though it is worthless, I will still buy your Bitcoins for $10 USD each just so you won't be stuck in a jam of holding onto those worthless Bitcoins.
The problem with bitcoins is they're a complete pain in the ass to buy. Unless you take the 200% markup and get em on ebay... well that's ONE of the problems with bitcoin anyway.
Yep! This'll stop the government from coming after you!
Not!
And good job. Base your business off a virtual currency with ZERO backing and no control whatsoever.
If he's already invested the money into development of the site and isn't allowed to run it on USD what's to lose. As long as he's an LLC, I think he has almost no risk.
Why would this hinder piracy? This is just about pixel resolution, and file-size, no?
Because of the file sizes involved. An uncompressed movie would be about 3.6TB, so if you achieved 50% reduction through compression it's still 1.8TB. I've got a very fast internet connection (150/75) - on that connection it would take almost 7 days at 100% efficiency to download one of these. According to speedtest.net 99% of the US has a slower connection. Several of my friends are stuck with 15Mbps connections (bright house networks is the best they have where they live) so it would take them around 70 days to download something this size. Not that reasonable unless you downsample it but that kind of defeats the purpose in 4k, doesn't it?
On a serious note what happens if the system malfunctions and causes the shooter to fire on an unintended target like a person. This thing will be off the market and Linux could be under fire, that's what.
AppleTV, like RPi has arm processor, GPU, ehternet and USB. Unlike RPi it also has a case and PSU. It only costs $100. Now all they need to do is open it up to apps.
That sounds about right. 400% more expensive, fancy casing, apple logo, more limited functionality than the competition. They'll sell millions most likely.
The other day I was chatting with someone from an Islamic country and the guy told me that he **WAS FORCED TO DOWNLOAD PIRATED MOVIES** because of the censorship that was being practiced in his country.
He posted a list of movies that he said he had to pirate because they were ***ILLEGAL*** in his country.
The local cinemas were prohibited from showing those movies, and he couldn't buy any legal version of those movies on legal DVDs either.
Among the names of the movies that he posted, I only remember two of them, and they were:
Slashdot Mirror
"It doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore."
As an American, that sounds like the best thing ever. More and more, Canada does seem like a nice alternative in many respects.
American elections law has teeth, though. In Canada if you robocall people illegally and get caught, Elections Canada will settle for $1000 (statutory max of $1000 per incident).
In America, if you robocall people illegally and get caught, you go to court, and the judge will hit you with $100 per incident. Times tens of thousand of illegal calls equals $1,000,000.
Some American states do have corrupt governors sometimes, but once the governors are out of office they tend to end up in prison.
Meh. Not always. Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Public_Safety_Commissioner_dismissal
As an American, that sounds like the best thing ever. More and more, Canada does seem like a nice alternative in many respects.
American elections law has teeth, though. In Canada if you robocall people illegally and get caught, Elections Canada will settle for $1000 (statutory max of $1000 per incident).
In America, if you robocall people illegally and get caught, you go to court, and the judge will hit you with $100 per incident. Times tens of thousand of illegal calls equals $1,000,000.
Some American states do have corrupt governors sometimes, but once the governors are out of office they tend to end up in prison.
Given the budget for campaigns, both punishments seem like not even a slap on the wrist. More along the lines of something they could bake into the campaign budget.
A bit of good ol'-fashioned jail-time would be nice too. Unfortunately other things such as flogging etc aren't allowed these days.
Bring back the stockades!
Basically, MIT is investigating the investigation that MIT was performing? To that, I say who cares? It would be interesting if some third party was investigating MIT's investigation.
Wrong question. How many people love eating, don't want to be fat, and think that this could possibly be a good or healthy idea?
I think that last part will not go through a lot of folks minds. If it does, it could seem reasonable (on the surface) to think it's no less safe than being 100lbs overweight and morbidly obese.
Assuming this thing gets FDA approval, I think the only question relating to it's success is "Will your insurance company pay for it". To that, I think the answer will most likely be no. It's still difficult to get established weight loss methods approved by a carrier, This thing will be in the realm of cosmetic surgery and other optional pay for it yourself type procedures. Again, that's IF it gets FDA approval. I think it will either be killed by the FDA and/or become something you have to get in a third world unregulated country.
Like free hookers / pot?
If hookers were free wouldn't they then fail to meet the definition of hooker? I think they would transform into sluts.
I bought my kids Huwaei Ascend android smartphones several years ago (2010). This so called "invasion" started years ago. If you can even call it that, since I'm pretty sure all smartphones are made in China, aren't they?
It's just over half the price of my Mountain Mods case. "Expensive" is relative, I suppose. https://secure.flickr.com/photos/14865808@N00/sets/72157623761503153/
I was expecting to see a Gyrojet remake.
People who invest in Bitcoins are idiots. It is absolutely worthless. And even though it is worthless, I will still buy your Bitcoins for $10 USD each just so you won't be stuck in a jam of holding onto those worthless Bitcoins.
The problem with bitcoins is they're a complete pain in the ass to buy. Unless you take the 200% markup and get em on ebay... well that's ONE of the problems with bitcoin anyway.
Yep! This'll stop the government from coming after you!
Not!
And good job. Base your business off a virtual currency with ZERO backing and no control whatsoever.
If he's already invested the money into development of the site and isn't allowed to run it on USD what's to lose. As long as he's an LLC, I think he has almost no risk.
Watson > Skynet.
Why would this hinder piracy? This is just about pixel resolution, and file-size, no?
Because of the file sizes involved. An uncompressed movie would be about 3.6TB, so if you achieved 50% reduction through compression it's still 1.8TB. I've got a very fast internet connection (150/75) - on that connection it would take almost 7 days at 100% efficiency to download one of these. According to speedtest.net 99% of the US has a slower connection. Several of my friends are stuck with 15Mbps connections (bright house networks is the best they have where they live) so it would take them around 70 days to download something this size. Not that reasonable unless you downsample it but that kind of defeats the purpose in 4k, doesn't it?
I've looked at them before. For me it's this:
Resolution 480*240(WQVGA)
Viewing Size 72inches virtual screen16:9
Not a good combination.
Guns don't kill people, linux does.
On a serious note what happens if the system malfunctions and causes the shooter to fire on an unintended target like a person. This thing will be off the market and Linux could be under fire, that's what.
Gives new depth to "Blue Screen of Death"
The MPAA must be downright giddy about it. It's the first technical detail I've heard in years that could actually hinder piracy.
Is it a coincidence, that 90% of prisoners in the US are there on confessions alone?
[citation needed]
This is how most i things render Flash video, incidentally -- it replaces the flash object with a transcoder on their own servers.
Non-story. Yawn.
I don't think it's a non-story, I think it's awesome! Automatic transcoding of videos should be touted as a feature.
AppleTV, like RPi has arm processor, GPU, ehternet and USB. Unlike RPi it also has a case and PSU. It only costs $100. Now all they need to do is open it up to apps.
That sounds about right. 400% more expensive, fancy casing, apple logo, more limited functionality than the competition. They'll sell millions most likely.
.5?
The other day I was chatting with someone from an Islamic country and the guy told me that he **WAS FORCED TO DOWNLOAD PIRATED MOVIES** because of the censorship that was being practiced in his country.
He posted a list of movies that he said he had to pirate because they were ***ILLEGAL*** in his country.
The local cinemas were prohibited from showing those movies, and he couldn't buy any legal version of those movies on legal DVDs either.
Among the names of the movies that he posted, I only remember two of them, and they were:
The Prince of Egypt http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120794/
and
Babe http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112431/
The person claimed that he felt bad for downloading the pirated version of the movies but he had no choice.
He could also just consider not watching those movies...
Corporations are people with rights. Why not us?
We're not corporations.
French do not eat bacon and cheese croissant...
Only fries and toast, right?