he should just reply with a letter back to them that says "I am unable to comply with the DMCA notice as it does not specify which images are in violation"
it wasn't even part of a myth, it was part of a contest between two outside groups trying to start things on fire with mirrors. when they discovered that all teams were technically not fully within the rules they had to revise their mirrors, the one time tried to use plaster in a spinning platform to form parabola but it didn't come out with the correct shape so they had to abandon it. no myth was busted from this.
Agreed, telling people it is 30 tons lets them know it isn't as simple as changing a light bulb. Telling them that the transformer is rated for a certain electrical rating doesn't in anyway indicate that it is likely the size of a house.
Who really cares about prior art for this? i hope MS does get their patent. i also hope that they use it to send their lawyers after anyone that even thinks about implementing something like this.
this is something i don't think any of us want implemented. i hate cellphones, and would very much like it if they could be disabled in some public places, but it concerns me that if we let this "Digital Manners" propagate it will get out of control.
yes, and that nice little encryption of yours keeps the RIAA/MPAA off those p2p networks does it? maybe they can't inspect the data packets that are being sent out, but they can still figure out who is sending out those packets and what songs/movies they are hosting by dl'ing it themselves. then they can get the IP and go to the ISP for the LOGs of who was associated with that IP.
I know very well how encryption works. it isn't this magic bullet that will kill the big bad RIAA/MPAA monster and keep it from coming after you when it gets hungry for more cash.
i find it funny that p2p/torrent try to hide from the RIAA by using their own form of DRM, such as encrypting the stream, etc in an attempt to make it difficult to determine what the traffic is...the MP/RIAA's DRM didn't work to keep the movie from being coppied. so what makes anyone think the p2p/torrent's DRM will keep the RIAA out?
It should lead to some useful inventions that we could be seeing in the commercial market soon enough. i also find it an irony we are having this debate over the internet...which was also designed by the us govt as part of an arms race.
the primary problem is that the great majority of teachers and administration are still from a time before computers started dominating business and homes. they are still stuck in a pencil and paper world and fear change. like another comment above me said, only now are people that have grown up entirely with computers beginning to enter the workforce. it will still be some time before the technologically illiterate admin and teachers become deprecated and are phased out. Education has always been slow to adapt. (it takes time to write textbooks) Technology moves so fast that they can't keep up and so it frightens them. and then by the time they finally get those textbooks they are usually already outdated. To the educational institutions technology is merely a buzzword and a money-sink taking $$$ away from their athletics programs and other more traditional courses that they only need to update every dozen or so years. how much does math/reading/science evolve over a couple years...not a whole lot. over that same time period computers will usually have doubled in processing power or more and opened up many capabilities that weren't possible just a few years prior.
and when there is more than one robot? not to mention when you shoot your first shot then the non-robots (humans) also at least know you are there even if they don't exactly know where you are.
i thought the reason we couldn't reprocess the spent fuel was because of a treaty we have that restricts us from operating a certain type of reactor that is required in order to process the waste into new fuel because that type of reactor can also be used to make nuclear weapons.
Um, no. The total amount of 'money' would remain the same, so you get no increased inflation. wrong...the rich actually help restrict the amount of money in the economy. they are more likely to buy luxury items and less likely to buy the same commodities that everyone else is. and even when they do, they generally only buy a single persons rations worth of that them. if the money were evenly spread out then you have more money in the economy competing to buy those same commodities, so you have increased demand for those items because now more people can afford them but you have the same supply as before, thus the price of those commodities are going to increase to balance out...thus you get increased inflation on those items, thus they cost more...thus overall you are back to where you started.
so there may be the same amount of money, but the rich help mitigate the demand for certain products.
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he should just reply with a letter back to them that says "I am unable to comply with the DMCA notice as it does not specify which images are in violation"
more likely is that the NSA office is currently being overrun by cats and they are trying to figure out a way to get rid of them.
it wasn't even part of a myth, it was part of a contest between two outside groups trying to start things on fire with mirrors. when they discovered that all teams were technically not fully within the rules they had to revise their mirrors, the one time tried to use plaster in a spinning platform to form parabola but it didn't come out with the correct shape so they had to abandon it. no myth was busted from this.
it was this episode
both the ninja's and pirates will all be zombies in the end.
zombies ftw
Agreed, telling people it is 30 tons lets them know it isn't as simple as changing a light bulb. Telling them that the transformer is rated for a certain electrical rating doesn't in anyway indicate that it is likely the size of a house.
I'm also quite comfortable with creating "sentient" machines and then essentially treating them as slaves - sucks to be a robot.
It is easy to say that now, before the robotic rebellion...
Who really cares about prior art for this? i hope MS does get their patent. i also hope that they use it to send their lawyers after anyone that even thinks about implementing something like this.
this is something i don't think any of us want implemented. i hate cellphones, and would very much like it if they could be disabled in some public places, but it concerns me that if we let this "Digital Manners" propagate it will get out of control.
yes, and that nice little encryption of yours keeps the RIAA/MPAA off those p2p networks does it? maybe they can't inspect the data packets that are being sent out, but they can still figure out who is sending out those packets and what songs/movies they are hosting by dl'ing it themselves. then they can get the IP and go to the ISP for the LOGs of who was associated with that IP.
I know very well how encryption works. it isn't this magic bullet that will kill the big bad RIAA/MPAA monster and keep it from coming after you when it gets hungry for more cash.
i find it funny that p2p/torrent try to hide from the RIAA by using their own form of DRM, such as encrypting the stream, etc in an attempt to make it difficult to determine what the traffic is...the MP/RIAA's DRM didn't work to keep the movie from being coppied. so what makes anyone think the p2p/torrent's DRM will keep the RIAA out?
yeah...ain't that nice, they said they didn't...maybe i am just paranoid, but i already changed my passwords
even when you use QT's own settings and options, it still makes me angry because it loses all those settings everytime you update it.
this article seems oddly appropriate here...
hey...ow!
i also welcome our wasp overlords!
more importantly, where do they keep all the cats in between elections???
You aren't questioning the computer are you?
Trust The Computer. The Computer is Your Friend.
the primary problem is that the great majority of teachers and administration are still from a time before computers started dominating business and homes. they are still stuck in a pencil and paper world and fear change. like another comment above me said, only now are people that have grown up entirely with computers beginning to enter the workforce. it will still be some time before the technologically illiterate admin and teachers become deprecated and are phased out. Education has always been slow to adapt. (it takes time to write textbooks) Technology moves so fast that they can't keep up and so it frightens them. and then by the time they finally get those textbooks they are usually already outdated. To the educational institutions technology is merely a buzzword and a money-sink taking $$$ away from their athletics programs and other more traditional courses that they only need to update every dozen or so years. how much does math/reading/science evolve over a couple years...not a whole lot. over that same time period computers will usually have doubled in processing power or more and opened up many capabilities that weren't possible just a few years prior.
but what happens when we run out of cats to power them?
well, you have to admit it would be a large leap in science to find that out... (at least until we all get sucked in)
It's the reason none of you have girlfriends...
you can get by with 8 of them to be worth a dime for the grandparent! as well as with those "take a penny leave a penny " jars!
and when there is more than one robot? not to mention when you shoot your first shot then the non-robots (humans) also at least know you are there even if they don't exactly know where you are.
i thought the reason we couldn't reprocess the spent fuel was because of a treaty we have that restricts us from operating a certain type of reactor that is required in order to process the waste into new fuel because that type of reactor can also be used to make nuclear weapons.
so there may be the same amount of money, but the rich help mitigate the demand for certain products.
they probably are now, but considering the business they are in i doubt they even knew what the heck youtube was until recently.