What TFA says (and what TFS obviously intended to say) is that CFIT was the leading cause of fatal accidents before it was nearly eliminated by Bateman's inventions.
There's an easier solution. Want kids to play outside? All you have to do is make their parents understand that it is actually safe for kids to play outside. Ask a U.S. mom why her kids aren't playing outside. She'll not answer "computer games" - she'll say "I don't have time to watch over them right now." Try to explain that a 5 - 10 year-old doesn't need constant supervision and she'll name ten different children that were abducted in the last decade. She saw a documentary about it just last night on Fox. "And then there's Al Quaeda", she'll add.
Look at any neighbourhood in Europe. Lots of kids playing in the street. And it's not for lack of computer games. Just parents that arent constantly being told to be scared.
Because the people who started pirating when legal music was expensive, difficult to copy to a mp3-player, and likely infect your computer with a rootkit. are still doing it today.
People resist learning new things. They know how to find the music they want on TPB, so why bother learning how to buy it legally? (Conversely: They know how to buy games for their iPhone legally, because the cheap, efficient, legal option was there from the start, so why bother learning how to pirate them?)
With TV-series, it is the same exact same situation. People download Game of Thrones because they live outside the US and their only other options are to wait a year for the local network to pick it up, or to wait a year to buy the DVD. One day the producers are going to realize how stupid it is to not offer the series legally in all markets simultaneously, but by then most people will be used to pirating, and not bother to learn how to do it legally.
This is exactly the situation the music industry was in. If they only had created an easy way to buy and instantly download songs for a dollar a piece, piracy and sites like napster would not have become so popular. Alas, they chose to rely on lawsuits instead, probably costing them billions in lost revenue, untlil Apple more or less forced them to join the iTunes store.
From what I can understand, the Amen Break seems to be the flip side of the same coin. If fair use provisions allow me to reproduce a few seconds of your song without infringing on your copyright, then I can include those few seconds in a larger work and copyright that.
With a more narrow interpretation of copyright, the collection would not have been eligible for copyright. In the extreme case, nothing would: "I've already used the 'c' note in my copyrighted song, so you'll have to do with the other notes".
In summary: For copyright to be effective, the interpretation can be neither too broad, nor too narrow. Legislators seem to have found an optimum in the sense that copyright law maximizes the power of record companies.
Too broad interpretaions of copyright are as detrimental to the copyright system as too narrow ones. You can't claim copyright on a copyright infringement. (Unlike with patents, where you can patent an incremental improvement to a previously pantented design.)
- Hey you copied my image. - Yes, I copied the image, but you can't claim copyright on it. See how similar it is to this earlier image that I found on the interwebs?
The correct reason to punish those sites is that there is a very high correlation between excessive ads and crap content (or good content that has been copied illegaly from other sites that will now get a better rating.)
Actually, gold has real value. It has valuable chemical properties, and is used in catalysis, electronics, and medicine among other things. Even if the world lost its "faith" in gold, electronics manufacturers would be willing to trade goods for it.
However, gold is currently overpriced, compared to, for example, platinum. A small amount of platinum can replace a large amount of gold in many catalysis applications. So "faith" probably accounts for a part of the price of gold, but not all of it.
What would be the point? I don't think there's anybody who reads/. and is not already opposed to SOPA. They did run a couple of articles about SOPA during the blackout.
I think you're wrong about that, and apparently I was wrong about King, too. I thought he made that speech because he wanted to make the world a better place, but I learned from other comments here on/. he was in it for the money, too. He was pretty fast to claim copyright on that speech.
No I can't. When I click on that link, I get this: "Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights. Sorry about that."
This one seems to work, though. It may not be legal in all countries, but I'm fairly sure King made his speech for people to listen to it, not to make money.
EMI is also suing God, for not affixing "copying is stealing" to His commandment "thou shalt not steal". In addition to monetary compensation, they are asking that the court order God to smite thepiratebay.org.
It got modded up because it sounded plausible, and because you don't need any technical expertise to get mod-points.
The real reason why an IR-led will be mistaken for a camera is that the camera-detection kits work with IR. They are based on the fact that any focused lens with a ccd behind it acts as a corner-reflector, so if you place a light-source close to a camera, other cameras will show up as bright spots in the picture. Obviously you can't shine visible light at the audience while they're watching the movie, so they use IR instead. Hence an IR-LED will look just like a focused lens to their detector.
Using a round piece of reflective tape would be cheaper and less suspicious than a LED, though.
Since Having a gun, or a facebook account, greatly increases the risk that others will shoot you (unintentionally or otherwise), there is nothing to gain by not having a a gun, or a facebook account.
You mean "there's nothing to gain by having a gun" - Unless you consider getting shot a good thing.
To continue the analogy: It really doesn't matter how careful you are. Having a gun, or a facebook account, greatly increases the risk that others will shoot you (unintentionally or otherwise).
They seem like fun toys, but smart people stay away from them.
The difference should be in the prioritizing of results. The first few pages from Google might give only hits based on the most common meaning of a word, while Wordnik, according to TFA, should group citations by meaning.
In practice, this didn't seem to work for the words I tried.
Yes, nuclear waste has a half-life of tens of thousands of years (in some cases). Heavy metals released from burning fossil fuels have a half life of forever, and they will kill more people by orders of magnitude (statistically speaking, and assuming that the rate of nuclear accidents stays at current levels).
Of course I understand that you are not arguing for more coal. You are anti-nuclear, so there's a 99 % probability you are arguing for solar and wind in the daytime and magic by night and when there's no wind. I'd be all for that too, if someone could just make a working magic power plant.
You're wrong about the cost of containment. (It is quite low.) The argument goes "Nuclear is the most expensive power source when you factor in the cost of insurance." Currently, operators of a nuclear plant only has to pay a few billions in the event of a disaster, which is way too little.
Including accidents, nuclear power has caused about 0.04 deaths per TWh. This is relatively safe compared to 161 deaths per TWh from coal and 1.4 deaths per TWh from hydropower. (source)
Seriously: If you read the linked article you'll see that tracking GPS satellites is the initial testing. If all goes well, they will be tracking other stuff later.
Sorry to disappoint, but TFS is way off. (So unusual for slashdot...) Actual information is here.
"Space situational awareness" is not Colonel O'Neil looking out for an invading alien fleet. It means tracking satellites and space debris to avoid collisions. The USAF is renting the SETI array to track GPS satellites.
It seems to me there's an easy way to make browsers immune to this: Introduce random delays when cached resources are fetched from other sites via JavaScript.
In a well-designed web-page, the static (i.e. cached) resources are referenced in the html (often in the headers) and not subject to timing attacks as they can be fetched in random order.
When something is requested dynamically via JavaScript it is typically not the cache anyways, so there is rarely a performance penalty.
When there is a performance penalty, it is only on the order of a single http-request, even if a thousand resources are fetched from cache. (The random delay consumes no hardware resources, so the same number of requests can still be executed in parallel.)
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What TFA says (and what TFS obviously intended to say) is that CFIT was the leading cause of fatal accidents before it was nearly eliminated by Bateman's inventions.
http://xkcd.com/326/
There's an easier solution. Want kids to play outside? All you have to do is make their parents understand that it is actually safe for kids to play outside. Ask a U.S. mom why her kids aren't playing outside. She'll not answer "computer games" - she'll say "I don't have time to watch over them right now." Try to explain that a 5 - 10 year-old doesn't need constant supervision and she'll name ten different children that were abducted in the last decade. She saw a documentary about it just last night on Fox. "And then there's Al Quaeda", she'll add.
Look at any neighbourhood in Europe. Lots of kids playing in the street. And it's not for lack of computer games. Just parents that arent constantly being told to be scared.
Then why is there still so much piracy in music?
Because the people who started pirating when legal music was expensive, difficult to copy to a mp3-player, and likely infect your computer with a rootkit. are still doing it today.
People resist learning new things. They know how to find the music they want on TPB, so why bother learning how to buy it legally? (Conversely: They know how to buy games for their iPhone legally, because the cheap, efficient, legal option was there from the start, so why bother learning how to pirate them?)
With TV-series, it is the same exact same situation. People download Game of Thrones because they live outside the US and their only other options are to wait a year for the local network to pick it up, or to wait a year to buy the DVD. One day the producers are going to realize how stupid it is to not offer the series legally in all markets simultaneously, but by then most people will be used to pirating, and not bother to learn how to do it legally.
This is exactly the situation the music industry was in. If they only had created an easy way to buy and instantly download songs for a dollar a piece, piracy and sites like napster would not have become so popular. Alas, they chose to rely on lawsuits instead, probably costing them billions in lost revenue, untlil Apple more or less forced them to join the iTunes store.
From what I can understand, the Amen Break seems to be the flip side of the same coin. If fair use provisions allow me to reproduce a few seconds of your song without infringing on your copyright, then I can include those few seconds in a larger work and copyright that.
With a more narrow interpretation of copyright, the collection would not have been eligible for copyright. In the extreme case, nothing would: "I've already used the 'c' note in my copyrighted song, so you'll have to do with the other notes".
In summary: For copyright to be effective, the interpretation can be neither too broad, nor too narrow. Legislators seem to have found an optimum in the sense that copyright law maximizes the power of record companies.
Too broad interpretaions of copyright are as detrimental to the copyright system as too narrow ones. You can't claim copyright on a copyright infringement. (Unlike with patents, where you can patent an incremental improvement to a previously pantented design.)
- Hey you copied my image.
- Yes, I copied the image, but you can't claim copyright on it. See how similar it is to this earlier image that I found on the interwebs?
The correct reason to punish those sites is that there is a very high correlation between excessive ads and crap content (or good content that has been copied illegaly from other sites that will now get a better rating.)
Actually, gold has real value. It has valuable chemical properties, and is used in catalysis, electronics, and medicine among other things. Even if the world lost its "faith" in gold, electronics manufacturers would be willing to trade goods for it.
However, gold is currently overpriced, compared to, for example, platinum. A small amount of platinum can replace a large amount of gold in many catalysis applications. So "faith" probably accounts for a part of the price of gold, but not all of it.
What would be the point? I don't think there's anybody who reads /. and is not already opposed to SOPA.
They did run a couple of articles about SOPA during the blackout.
I think you're wrong about that, and apparently I was wrong about King, too. I thought he made that speech because he wanted to make the world a better place, but I learned from other comments here on /. he was in it for the money, too. He was pretty fast to claim copyright on that speech.
No I can't. When I click on that link, I get this: "Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights. Sorry about that."
This one seems to work, though. It may not be legal in all countries, but I'm fairly sure King made his speech for people to listen to it, not to make money.
EMI is also suing God, for not affixing "copying is stealing" to His commandment "thou shalt not steal". In addition to monetary compensation, they are asking that the court order God to smite thepiratebay.org.
There's a TED talk about this: Beware online filter bubbles!
It got modded up because it sounded plausible, and because you don't need any technical expertise to get mod-points.
The real reason why an IR-led will be mistaken for a camera is that the camera-detection kits work with IR. They are based on the fact that any focused lens with a ccd behind it acts as a corner-reflector, so if you place a light-source close to a camera, other cameras will show up as bright spots in the picture. Obviously you can't shine visible light at the audience while they're watching the movie, so they use IR instead. Hence an IR-LED will look just like a focused lens to their detector.
Using a round piece of reflective tape would be cheaper and less suspicious than a LED, though.
Since Having a gun, or a facebook account, greatly increases the risk that others will shoot you (unintentionally or otherwise), there is nothing to gain by not having a a gun, or a facebook account.
You mean "there's nothing to gain by having a gun" - Unless you consider getting shot a good thing.
To continue the analogy: It really doesn't matter how careful you are. Having a gun, or a facebook account, greatly increases the risk that others will shoot you (unintentionally or otherwise).
They seem like fun toys, but smart people stay away from them.
The difference should be in the prioritizing of results. The first few pages from Google might give only hits based on the most common meaning of a word, while Wordnik, according to TFA, should group citations by meaning.
In practice, this didn't seem to work for the words I tried.
Terrorism is killing the mayor and city council.
Not if you declare them terrorists first! (And if they try to go on Twitter and argue they're not terrorists, you shut them up.)
On some planet where wind ceases at night?
Yes. We're living on one of those. Winds (at wind-tower altitude) are caused by the sun heating the planet. Google "diurnal wind pattern".
Yes, nuclear waste has a half-life of tens of thousands of years (in some cases). Heavy metals released from burning fossil fuels have a half life of forever, and they will kill more people by orders of magnitude (statistically speaking, and assuming that the rate of nuclear accidents stays at current levels).
Of course I understand that you are not arguing for more coal. You are anti-nuclear, so there's a 99 % probability you are arguing for solar and wind in the daytime and magic by night and when there's no wind. I'd be all for that too, if someone could just make a working magic power plant.
You're wrong about the cost of containment. (It is quite low.) The argument goes "Nuclear is the most expensive power source when you factor in the cost of insurance." Currently, operators of a nuclear plant only has to pay a few billions in the event of a disaster, which is way too little.
Maybe you don't understand the word "relative" ?
Including accidents, nuclear power has caused about 0.04 deaths per TWh. This is relatively safe compared to 161 deaths per TWh from coal and 1.4 deaths per TWh from hydropower. (source)
Hence the need to track them, no?
Seriously: If you read the linked article you'll see that tracking GPS satellites is the initial testing. If all goes well, they will be tracking other stuff later.
Sorry to disappoint, but TFS is way off. (So unusual for slashdot...) Actual information is here.
"Space situational awareness" is not Colonel O'Neil looking out for an invading alien fleet. It means tracking satellites and space debris to avoid collisions. The USAF is renting the SETI array to track GPS satellites.
It seems to me there's an easy way to make browsers immune to this: Introduce random delays when cached resources are fetched from other sites via JavaScript.
In a well-designed web-page, the static (i.e. cached) resources are referenced in the html (often in the headers) and not subject to timing attacks as they can be fetched in random order.
When something is requested dynamically via JavaScript it is typically not the cache anyways, so there is rarely a performance penalty.
When there is a performance penalty, it is only on the order of a single http-request, even if a thousand resources are fetched from cache. (The random delay consumes no hardware resources, so the same number of requests can still be executed in parallel.)