When you send a demand letter it is property of the recipient. They are free to publish it if they wish. A person receiving a DCMA take doewn notice is under no obligation, and in fact would be stupid to, agree to any confidentiality at all. The recipient is under no obligation to do so.
A more pressing area of legal disclosure is charges against otherwise innocent until proven guilty persons. Prosecutors do perp walks, and public news conferences, all the time despite the legal, and ethical, and moral, land mines.
JJ
And the public laps it up. They don't ask why is an innocent man being bared in front of the camera like he's broken the law.
Repeats the same three anecdotes 11 times. Stupid people will say the word "bomb" sarcastically. Headline news.
It would be good to have a fake posterier in your hand luggage. "Should I remove my bum?". "Careful it might explode -- there's a vindaloo inside", etc.
Well yes, but I meant specifically under the maniac mansion banner. Grim Fandango was good. Didn't like Monkey Island so much. It was mostly the wackiness I liked. But it doesn't matter at this point. I'm lucky if I can squeeze in enough time to launch a couple of pissed-off pigeons, never mind play an entire game.
As a kid I played Dott and Sam and max, but missed out on monkey island.
Got it for my phone though, and it was ideal for filling in gaps I get randomly (like now in the back of a taxi)
Nah, don't knock Ryan Air. If you follow on their instructions exactly, and carry no more than and no bigger than their restrictions and buy nothing onboard, you can do very well.
I flew from Madrid to Morocco for 10 Euros after taxes, and had my backpack with me.
I prefer business class on BA, London to Istanbul for £20. That includes 2x32kg hold bags, 2x23kg cabin bags, cooked meal, plenty of champagne, a few more inches legroom, and an empty seat next to me.
BBC America has been running articles this past week examining subway systems from various parts of the world. The first one I saw was Moscow and its near art museum-like stations.
Today they did South Korea (a system only 14 years old) and the British Tube (the oldest in the world). The South Koreans pay, roughly, $1 (said the news woman) to ride whereas the Tube will set one back, roughly, $7.
The New York subway is only $2.75.
Just some insights from a reliable source to compare price, service and how its run.
I travelled on the london underground from Heathrow to central London yesterday, £3 ($4.50). I then took a trip about 7 miles out of central london for £2.10 ($3.20). So yes, $7 altogether, but that's 2 trips -- $5.50 in New York (plus the cost of the Air train to get from JFK)
The problem with things like subways is that there's no room for competition. You're not going to have 15 separate companies digging their own tunnels through the city and offering well-distributed terminals to everybody. When there's a tightly shared central resource, especially when based on physical real estate, it makes sense that the government of the area address it.
Funny, that's exactly how the london underground started, and I believe the new york subway too.
In the past, I just got the sweater into the dryer, and in the future I'm just now getting the hamster of the freezer! DON'T PULL THE PLUG! I WANT TO BEAT THE EVIL TENTACLE! PLEEEASE!
By "dignity", I meant having to cradle an armrest, combined will all the ruckus involved with unstandard seating, and also drawing attention and bad looks to you.
A 747-400 has an empty weight of right around 400,000 lbs, or 200 tons. It carries about 57,000 gallons of fuel, which at about 6.75lbs per US Gallon, is another 384,750 lbs or 190-ish tons. At about 390 tons, this doesn't even begin to factor in passengers.
The idea that they somehow need to charge more for heavy passengers (who weight ~50 to 200lbs more than an average passenger) is ludicrous. Even multiplied by the entire 416 passengers it can carry, this only adds up to a max of 83,200 lbs or another 40-ish tons of difference. With a max takeoff weight of about 437.5 tons, the average planeload of obese people still won't tip the scales beyond this point.
Seems like a purely profit driven move, considering 90% of the weight they are moving is their own plane and materials.
So no excuse for charging more for a 50lb bag than a 30lb bag? I hear some crappy airlines do that.
You had a good experience. Either that, or you're more tolerant of invasive scanning, searching, and questioning.
I'm terribly intolerant of being questioned, felt up, irradiated, or justifying my presence and/or my travel plans. Meeting just one asshole who thinks it his right to grope me, or to push me around, or even to be overly disrespectful could cost much, much more than the trip is worth.
I've not flown since before 9/11/01, and probably won't again.
If you haven't flown in 12 years, how do you know what really happens at airports?
I've never had a TSA person ask where I'm going, let alone why I'm going. Tel Aviv on the other hand often involves a 60 minute conversation.
The process is security theatre, after hitting a WTMD there's no reason not you have a quick wipe over with a hand held detector and a second pass, which used to happen in the UK pre 2001. The U.S. policy of removing shoes is silly too, but ultimately there's bigger things to worry about.
Evidently non-citizens from visa-waiver countries need to do some pre-travel background check online that costs $15 or so (but is good for 5 years)
2 years, it's a tourist tax. It adds $1/trip to my plane ticket.
get fingerprinted, and have their photo taken. That's definitely a hassle and I think it's unnecessary and way more uptight than the European passport control process. Still, the whole process takes just a few minutes and you only need to go through it at the border; once inside the country it's not an issue.
Aside from the queues (Usually over 90 minutes when I fly into Dulles, and that's before the sequestor) not really a problem. On the whole the border guards are friendly. The fingerprint/photo thing ensures you're not travelling on someone else's passport -- its a shame that other countries don't reciprocate with US citizens like Brazil does.
P.S. Although America is the land of bribes ("tips"), don't try tipping a border guard.
Your call. I've probably flown 20 times since then, no pat downs, no invasive searches.
Well I've flown 20 times this year. 80 times in the last 12 months. Several pat downs - moscow, london, paris just one of those things you have to accept in the real world to get on.
My last 2 trips to the USA had me walk through the metal detector, so no opt-out pat down needed.
Triggered a metal detector in London on Friday so needed a pat down and shoe removal, rather annoying. Did the same in Manchester on Monday - uk must have had them turned up in sensitivity this week.
Moscow you can't opt out of the mmw scanner, never had a pat down. Same in israel when entering the country from Gaza.
No pat down in Singapore, Tel Aviv, Joburg, Brussels from recent memory.
Absolutely. The attacks were insignificant - more died in road traffic accidents in sep 2001 than in the attacks.
The property damage was fairly minor - an opportunity to remodel south manhattan perhaps.
The waste of money in needless wars, the loss of international respect, and the erosion of essential inalienable rights is a sad sight to see from afar. The spill over into the rest of the civilised world is pretty upsetting too.
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When you send a demand letter it is property of the recipient. They are free to publish it if they wish. A person receiving a DCMA take doewn notice is under no obligation, and in fact would be stupid to, agree to any confidentiality at all. The recipient is under no obligation to do so.
A more pressing area of legal disclosure is charges against otherwise innocent until proven guilty persons. Prosecutors do perp walks, and public news conferences, all the time despite the legal, and ethical, and moral, land mines.
JJ
And the public laps it up. They don't ask why is an innocent man being bared in front of the camera like he's broken the law.
By making the notices available, Google is unintentionally highlighting the location of allegedly pirated material, say some experts.
See, Alanis, *this* is ironic.
It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need are a set of ear plugs
That'll be 50 quid, says your local Michael O'Leary.
Well I only fly on real airlines.
I keep two boarding passes, typically - one folded in my pocket, and one in my carry-on. If I lose one, I just grab the other one.
I just get a new one printed from the check in desk, lounge, or gate.
Israel and India excepted.
Text message ? What a fad.
The last time I've flown (from France to Hong Kong and back, last year), my passport was my boarding pass!
(I understand that you don't need a passport for domestic flight.)
How do you know what seat you're in ? What if someone's in your seat?
Was this Cathay or Scare France?
Printing boarding passes? How quaintly retro! The last few times i've flown, the boarding pass has been sent to my phone as a text message.
It possible in Tel Aviv. You'll upset them though.
Go to India or Pakistan and you won't get into the terminal without pieces of paper.
Repeats the same three anecdotes 11 times. Stupid people will say the word "bomb" sarcastically. Headline news.
It would be good to have a fake posterier in your hand luggage. "Should I remove my bum?". "Careful it might explode -- there's a vindaloo inside", etc.
Well yes, but I meant specifically under the maniac mansion banner. Grim Fandango was good. Didn't like Monkey Island so much. It was mostly the wackiness I liked. But it doesn't matter at this point. I'm lucky if I can squeeze in enough time to launch a couple of pissed-off pigeons, never mind play an entire game.
As a kid I played Dott and Sam and max, but missed out on monkey island.
Got it for my phone though, and it was ideal for filling in gaps I get randomly (like now in the back of a taxi)
Nah, don't knock Ryan Air. If you follow on their instructions exactly, and carry no more than and no bigger than their restrictions and buy nothing onboard, you can do very well.
I flew from Madrid to Morocco for 10 Euros after taxes, and had my backpack with me.
I prefer business class on BA, London to Istanbul for £20. That includes 2x32kg hold bags, 2x23kg cabin bags, cooked meal, plenty of champagne, a few more inches legroom, and an empty seat next to me.
BBC America has been running articles this past week examining subway systems from various parts of the world. The first one I saw was Moscow and its near art museum-like stations.
Today they did South Korea (a system only 14 years old) and the British Tube (the oldest in the world). The South Koreans pay, roughly, $1 (said the news woman) to ride whereas the Tube will set one back, roughly, $7.
The New York subway is only $2.75.
Just some insights from a reliable source to compare price, service and how its run.
I travelled on the london underground from Heathrow to central London yesterday, £3 ($4.50). I then took a trip about 7 miles out of central london for £2.10 ($3.20). So yes, $7 altogether, but that's 2 trips -- $5.50 in New York (plus the cost of the Air train to get from JFK)
The problem with things like subways is that there's no room for competition. You're not going to have 15 separate companies digging their own tunnels through the city and offering well-distributed terminals to everybody. When there's a tightly shared central resource, especially when based on physical real estate, it makes sense that the government of the area address it.
Funny, that's exactly how the london underground started, and I believe the new york subway too.
I remember absolutely loving Day of the Tentacle.
I had always hoped they would bring out more such games.
Like Sam and Max, Indiana Jones + Fate of Atlantis, Grim Fangango and the Monkey Island series?
In the past, I just got the sweater into the dryer, and in the future I'm just now getting the hamster of the freezer! DON'T PULL THE PLUG! I WANT TO BEAT THE EVIL TENTACLE! PLEEEASE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr6tMinjE2M
I'm still waiting for the 22nd century.
By "dignity", I meant having to cradle an armrest, combined will all the ruckus involved with unstandard seating, and also drawing attention and bad looks to you.
Fly in an appropriate class.
A 747-400 has an empty weight of right around 400,000 lbs, or 200 tons. It carries about 57,000 gallons of fuel, which at about 6.75lbs per US Gallon, is another 384,750 lbs or 190-ish tons. At about 390 tons, this doesn't even begin to factor in passengers.
The idea that they somehow need to charge more for heavy passengers (who weight ~50 to 200lbs more than an average passenger) is ludicrous. Even multiplied by the entire 416 passengers it can carry, this only adds up to a max of 83,200 lbs or another 40-ish tons of difference. With a max takeoff weight of about 437.5 tons, the average planeload of obese people still won't tip the scales beyond this point.
Seems like a purely profit driven move, considering 90% of the weight they are moving is their own plane and materials.
So no excuse for charging more for a 50lb bag than a 30lb bag? I hear some crappy airlines do that.
maybe europe should switch to imperial / US customary units? how come the world is always telling US to change?
Aside from metric making more sense in science, 7000 million people use metric, 300 million use king george's system.
It's still 1/4 in the states.
Well, no. In the states it's 4/1.
All of Europe should be on 2/4 by now though.
See, if the US switched to metric, we wouldn't have these miscommunications...
I can believe FTL communication, even FTL travel, but the US moving to metric? April fools are meant to be believable.
Bring on the ponies! I can take it.
The one day a year I get lynx out.
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All, a few typos and abbreviations, but I assume you mean
"High commander bratwurst meant to temporarily run a crc checksum of the dmca"?
Lame. This is pretty lame even by Slashdot standards.
OMG Poinies!
This was on Arstechnica like 3 days ago. This site is increasingly feeding on news carrion.
This site has been doing that for years.
There's still no other site with the quality of exta information you get from the comments.
You had a good experience. Either that, or you're more tolerant of invasive scanning, searching, and questioning.
I'm terribly intolerant of being questioned, felt up, irradiated, or justifying my presence and/or my travel plans. Meeting just one asshole who thinks it his right to grope me, or to push me around, or even to be overly disrespectful could cost much, much more than the trip is worth.
I've not flown since before 9/11/01, and probably won't again.
If you haven't flown in 12 years, how do you know what really happens at airports?
I've never had a TSA person ask where I'm going, let alone why I'm going. Tel Aviv on the other hand often involves a 60 minute conversation.
The process is security theatre, after hitting a WTMD there's no reason not you have a quick wipe over with a hand held detector and a second pass, which used to happen in the UK pre 2001. The U.S. policy of removing shoes is silly too, but ultimately there's bigger things to worry about.
Evidently non-citizens from visa-waiver countries need to do some pre-travel background check online that costs $15 or so (but is good for 5 years)
2 years, it's a tourist tax. It adds $1/trip to my plane ticket.
get fingerprinted, and have their photo taken. That's definitely a hassle and I think it's unnecessary and way more uptight than the European passport control process. Still, the whole process takes just a few minutes and you only need to go through it at the border; once inside the country it's not an issue.
Aside from the queues (Usually over 90 minutes when I fly into Dulles, and that's before the sequestor) not really a problem. On the whole the border guards are friendly. The fingerprint/photo thing ensures you're not travelling on someone else's passport -- its a shame that other countries don't reciprocate with US citizens like Brazil does.
P.S. Although America is the land of bribes ("tips"), don't try tipping a border guard.
Your call. I've probably flown 20 times since then, no pat downs, no invasive searches.
Well I've flown 20 times this year. 80 times in the last 12 months. Several pat downs - moscow, london, paris just one of those things you have to accept in the real world to get on.
My last 2 trips to the USA had me walk through the metal detector, so no opt-out pat down needed.
Triggered a metal detector in London on Friday so needed a pat down and shoe removal, rather annoying. Did the same in Manchester on Monday - uk must have had them turned up in sensitivity this week.
Moscow you can't opt out of the mmw scanner, never had a pat down. Same in israel when entering the country from Gaza.
No pat down in Singapore, Tel Aviv, Joburg, Brussels from recent memory.
Absolutely. The attacks were insignificant - more died in road traffic accidents in sep 2001 than in the attacks.
The property damage was fairly minor - an opportunity to remodel south manhattan perhaps.
The waste of money in needless wars, the loss of international respect, and the erosion of essential inalienable rights is a sad sight to see from afar. The spill over into the rest of the civilised world is pretty upsetting too.