Because the voting terminal is the limited resource and the focus of your objection, why not make it useless for extended periods of time?
Walk up to the console, begin to vote, and never (or take as long as possible to) finish voting. 10 people working simultaneously in a given precinct might be able to derail that precinct for at least some amount of time, until the election judges go back to their manual and figure out what to do next.
If you honestly can't figure out who to vote for, what's the crime here? I usually spend an extra couple of minutes deciding the method by which I will choose who should be the next District 3 Water Commissioner.
The problem is that Clearplay has violated the movie owner's derivative rights by making a script (cues for blocking video or sound at specific times) based on the owner's movie.
What then makes it worse is that they sell/distribute the derivative work into a market that the owner has not yet chosen to go--sin enough to negate the fair use argument, I'm pretty sure (IANALY).
If you can't distribute a CD full of Duke Nukem maps or a Seinfeld Trivia game because they are (compliations of) derivative works, I don't know how you can distribute cue scripts that are themselves derivative works.
They'd probably do better figuring out how to overwrite specific spots on the DVD with neutered content, reselling the DVDs, claiming they weren't doing anything original, and staying out of the 9th circuit (which already has unfavorable precedent on pasting-up transformations of content).
Here's an idea: if there's really a teeming market for sanitized, family-friendly content, why aren't companies producing original, family friendly movies? I mean, get real: the argument for sanitized content goes something like: (1) my neighbor makes cool stuff, but I wish it didn't use words like "heck" and "dang"; (2) because it's a free country, I can just take it and change it without her permission; (3) I can sell those changes to everyone who thinks like me. Get bent!
.. but what good is all the violence in the world unless it is tempered with limitless sex? Bring on the limitless sex... ! --GWAR
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More than just a metal strip, it's the perfect currency counter. Once you have it, the centralized db can easily be used to ferret out:
counterfeiting: whether some serial numbers are appearing in too many different places too quickly indicates duplicates;
money laundering: are clusters of bills moving together with too much regularity;
terrorism financing: are monies being used in a pattern significantly correlated to terrorism; and
criminal apprehension: is someone spending their ill-gotten gains (from say, a robbery).
The Government will take and use whatever information the law allows it to take. These purposes will be touted as great leaps forward in law enforcement and domestic security. The existence and success of systems with these goals presumes a needed level of acquiescence by the public, which, so far, hasn't been a significant problem.
Luckily, my tinfoil hat & matching body suit block all RFID tag frequencies (that I know of).
I remember seeing a Compaq DeskPro with USB on the logic board in early or mid 1997. The first Apple machine to have this feature was the first iMac, which showed up in August/September of 1998.
In both cases, I would say support through the OS and the availability of USB peripherals was weak for at least another year after their initial release.
As for the "daring" Apple, I would argue that they have the advantage of a less fragmented target market than most Intel-based manufacturers. Aside from coming to USB late, Apple had been working with others on FireWire since the 1980s. This, it seems, was simply their strategy to move away from SCSI, one of the largest sources of customer dissatisfaction since the arrival of the first scanners and SyQuest drives.
I'm not quite sure about 3GIO, but I think a lot of us have been waiting for InfiniBand for quite some time. This used to be referred to as SysI/O. It promises in the first release 2.5Gb/sec using the switching/crossbar bus architecture you get in an SGI Origin-class system.
As far as replacing PCI, I think it will be capable of subsuming it much the way SGIs XIO has: each XIO slot/port is capable of hosting its own PCI bus, with the backbone aggregating the bandwidth of the individual buses.
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I'll give you a dollar if you can correctly name the French president without looking it up.
Twit. At least the French don't pretend that they live on some fantasy island where their actions don't affect the lives of others.
Because the voting terminal is the limited resource and the focus of your objection, why not make it useless for extended periods of time?
Walk up to the console, begin to vote, and never (or take as long as possible to) finish voting. 10 people working simultaneously in a given precinct might be able to derail that precinct for at least some amount of time, until the election judges go back to their manual and figure out what to do next.
If you honestly can't figure out who to vote for, what's the crime here? I usually spend an extra couple of minutes deciding the method by which I will choose who should be the next District 3 Water Commissioner.
The problem is that Clearplay has violated the movie owner's derivative rights by making a script (cues for blocking video or sound at specific times) based on the owner's movie.
.. but what good is all the violence in the world unless it is tempered with limitless sex? Bring on the limitless sex... ! --GWAR
What then makes it worse is that they sell/distribute the derivative work into a market that the owner has not yet chosen to go--sin enough to negate the fair use argument, I'm pretty sure (IANALY).
If you can't distribute a CD full of Duke Nukem maps or a Seinfeld Trivia game because they are (compliations of) derivative works, I don't know how you can distribute cue scripts that are themselves derivative works.
They'd probably do better figuring out how to overwrite specific spots on the DVD with neutered content, reselling the DVDs, claiming they weren't doing anything original, and staying out of the 9th circuit (which already has unfavorable precedent on pasting-up transformations of content).
Here's an idea: if there's really a teeming market for sanitized, family-friendly content, why aren't companies producing original, family friendly movies? I mean, get real: the argument for sanitized content goes something like: (1) my neighbor makes cool stuff, but I wish it didn't use words like "heck" and "dang"; (2) because it's a free country, I can just take it and change it without her permission; (3) I can sell those changes to everyone who thinks like me. Get bent!
More than just a metal strip, it's the perfect currency counter. Once you have it, the centralized db can easily be used to ferret out:
- counterfeiting: whether some serial numbers are appearing in too many different places too quickly indicates duplicates;
- money laundering: are clusters of bills moving together with too much regularity;
- terrorism financing: are monies being used in a pattern significantly correlated to terrorism; and
- criminal apprehension: is someone spending their ill-gotten gains (from say, a robbery).
The Government will take and use whatever information the law allows it to take. These purposes will be touted as great leaps forward in law enforcement and domestic security. The existence and success of systems with these goals presumes a needed level of acquiescence by the public, which, so far, hasn't been a significant problem.Luckily, my tinfoil hat & matching body suit block all RFID tag frequencies (that I know of).
I remember seeing a Compaq DeskPro with USB on the logic board in early or mid 1997. The first Apple machine to have this feature was the first iMac, which showed up in August/September of 1998.
In both cases, I would say support through the OS and the availability of USB peripherals was weak for at least another year after their initial release.
As for the "daring" Apple, I would argue that they have the advantage of a less fragmented target market than most Intel-based manufacturers. Aside from coming to USB late, Apple had been working with others on FireWire since the 1980s. This, it seems, was simply their strategy to move away from SCSI, one of the largest sources of customer dissatisfaction since the arrival of the first scanners and SyQuest drives.
I'm not quite sure about 3GIO, but I think a lot of us have been waiting for InfiniBand for quite some time. This used to be referred to as SysI/O. It promises in the first release 2.5Gb/sec using the switching/crossbar bus architecture you get in an SGI Origin-class system.
As far as replacing PCI, I think it will be capable of subsuming it much the way SGIs XIO has: each XIO slot/port is capable of hosting its own PCI bus, with the backbone aggregating the bandwidth of the individual buses.