If you really want to break the enemy send them a Nintendo Wii.
The advice of Jimmy Buffett - Fly over and drop millions of five dollar bills. A week later, fly over and drop off mail order catalogs. Peace, full employement and um.. underwear.
Often wondred if that approach would actually be more effective.
In cities this may not be a problem (though who runs an unencrypted Wifi AP in the city?!!?!?) but in rural areas I suspect WIFI may be hard to come by. It needs a better backup.
Independent artist: "Yay, we made this awesome song!"
Universal: "We like this song. We'll use it in a video that we will then put a copyright on."...days pass...
Independent artist: "Why can't we post our song on YouTube?"
Universal: "Oh, you mean this song? It's ours now. Thanks!"
First occurance I heard of this sort of back-ass-ward copyrighting was the voice of Foghorn Leghorn. The dialect humor of Kenny Delmar began with Counselor Carteblanche on the Alan Young radio show, followed by his use of the same character, but amplified a bit more on a southern character for his Senator Claghorn (see the name similarity?) on the Fred Allen radio show, in the Allen's Alley segments. Delmar even played a Claghorn character in the 1947 film "It's A Joke, Son."
Then of all things, the crazy and fun people making Looney Toons and Merry Melodies, who enjoyed a nod to other characters, people or fads of the day, incorporated a big blowhard of a rooster, The Foghorn Leghorn into a cartoon - with Mel Blanc doing the voice. Eventually Warner would Copyright the voice of Foghorn Leghorn, much to the chagrin of Delmar who had effectively created it and a few of the catch phrases "listen while I'm talking to ya, boy" & "That's a joke, son!", preventing Delmar from using the voice for his own profit.
Polaris must be losing nearly the equivalent of Earth's mass—or a little under a millionth of its own mass—each year,
In a little over a million years, we won't be able to use that particular star to navigate any more. IT'LL BE CHAOS!
It's more likely to collapse and blow off gas in a nebula before then, but agree, it's very hard to use nebulas as navigational aids during the daylight hours and tricky enough at night.
While they manned launches have gone well, the failed re-supply and the failed mars probe suggest there's some quality control issues creeping into the program.
Can you remember the last piece of technology hardware you had which outlived its warranty?.
Pretty much everything I own, seeing as how most warranty terms are a year at best. No company in its right mind would design a product that would NOT make it past its warranty expiration.
You don't read the same reviews I do, on Amazon... "This thing was DOA out of the box..." "This lasted 30 days and then died..." etc.
Some stuff holds up well (which I theorize is inversely proportional to how much I use/depend upon) While I experience the same as these unhappy reviewers.
After the learning experiences of Hubble and the failed ("inches? I thought you mean't Centimetres!") Mars Climate Orbiter, you can expect things are held to a very high standard - because failure is so very, very expensive.
Still, we had a visitor to our local Astronomy club explain the one oversight which may ultimately doom Opportunity - dust build up on the Solar Panels. Next probe will probably have a little robotic arm and brush to sweep itself off now and then.
Can you remember the last piece of technology hardware you had which outlived its warranty? For me, most of that was stuff made in the 80's.
Considerable accomplishment, designing, accumulating all the bits, assembling it, putting it in a rocket, flying it to Mars, landing it and having it muck about in a place without AAA Roadside Service. Well done.
Hmm, I'll compromise a hair and say I don't mind needing a passport for visiting entirely different countries. After all, escaping to South America is the legendary trick used for 200 years by suspects, whereupon they invoke Nelson's HaHa. (At least Canada has one government, possibly saner than ours. You could tie up $100,000 in diplomatic costs in South America if you didn't need a passport and were on the run.
Going to Canada without papers was an easy thing, almost like going to another state - only briefly quizzed where and why you were going, at the crossing and usually that was good enough. Had my car searched a couple times, but that was the worst of it (and that's still a possibility, so no real change there.)
"Where are you going?" "Toronto." "What for?" "To throw money around and take advantage of the exchange rate, before the US dollar tanks against the Loonie." "How long will you be there?" "Until I run out of money." "Have a good trip and enjoy yourself!"
I would point out that England has long had it be illegal to engage in communications that are preliminary to serious crimes. There's no implicit assumption in the British legal system that communications are harmless.
2 Years seems a bit drastic, when a month or two would have been better for preventing polarization. As an American, of course, I find this antithetical to my values, but I don't have as much of a stake in British law.
Sometimes, America doesn't seem like such a bad place to live after all.
Give it time.
I remember a day when the Government didn't track every single thing you did on the internet on some monster database. When I could come and go between Canada as I pleased, without a passport. When my personal computer wasn't loaded with DRM software and the DMCA hadn't even been dreamt of.
It's creeping in - there are actually quite a lot of people who think it would be a good idea -- of course, not for them, but for, y'know, them other people, the ones who need watching.
Compensation for 2010 Salary $1,533,333.00 Bonus $0.00 Restricted stock awards $12,749,977.00 All other compensation $417,410.00 Option awards $ $494,731.00 Non-equity incentive plan compensation $5,050,000.00 Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings $7,096,177.00 Total Compensation $27,341,628.00
Yeah... no greed there.
Not very good value for the money, either. I could have been CEO and made a measely $150,000/yr and they'd be better off.
Have to blame the Board of Directors on this one, time for some change at the top. Current plan was without vision -- they had to know the company would encounter resistence. All they'd need to do is read/.
Reagan happened. Him and all the corporatist looters to follow in his footsteps. These days, corporations aren't just people, they're better than people.
You remind me of working on my Economics studies with Financial News Network rattling away on the telly. Myron Kandel covering the buy-out and merger mania which ultimately looted treasuries of companies, which were then spun off with a whole new debt. And Wall Street loved it. Big news of the day was KKR and RJ Reynolds bidding insane amounts for Nabisco. Mr. Kandel was effective in detailing KKR's strategy, should they win - they'd split up the various bits of Nabisco and spin them off, while keeping all the money in the company bank accounts. Sounds evil, doesn't it? It happened time and again during the Reagan and Bush Sr. eras. Did nothing for the people of the country, company customers, but made a bunch of weasels rich, while sacking a lot of people and robbing ledgers.
Oligopolies almost always suck in customer satisfaction, always have, and always will.
Which is exactly how America keeps getting it wrong - the government should do nothing to make their lives easier - keep a low bar to new companies/investors who want to enter the market and offer something new/better. That's real Capitalism, not this bogus Corporate Welfare system.
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Tell a thirteen year old they can't sign up for something they want and you'll see how many of them were born in 1990.
Yep. Sure fire way for your club for young people to go out of business is call it "Teen Club" they won't just avoid it, but flee.
Call it something innocuous and they'll show up. Don't even mention it's for teens though.
Wouldn't that be "quanta" instead of "quantum"?
More than one kind of radiation in a cme gas cloud... doesn't make sense to measure only one.
You measure Quanta with Koala Bears*, not Guine Pigs.
*Substitutable with Drop-bears, if you can find any.
I hope no on tells PETA that NASA is irradiating a guinea pig with a probe.
No, the probe is a metaphorical Guinea Pig, meaning only sensors in the probe will be exposed. It'll be looking for Quantum.
And it ain't over, yet, because they can still appeal - considering the loss of revenue, you can bet they will.
Can't really call this a victory, because Rambus received a cut of memory sales for years, which every PC buyer ultimately paid.
If you really want to break the enemy send them a Nintendo Wii.
The advice of Jimmy Buffett - Fly over and drop millions of five dollar bills. A week later, fly over and drop off mail order catalogs. Peace, full employement and um.. underwear.
Often wondred if that approach would actually be more effective.
After decades of overselling the North Star, is there any wonder there's so little of it left?
It'll be replaced by Mark Zuckerberg, so not to worry. He's a major star on Wall Street right now.
Is it normal for a warzone to have functioning WiFi?
At the rate Iran is going, with creating its own walled-off internet you may find it, but it can't communicate out.
As for North Korea .. pfft. There's probably only one cell phone in the country and it's in the hands of Dear Chubby and absolutely no Star Bucks.
"over any available Wi-Fi network."
In cities this may not be a problem (though who runs an unencrypted Wifi AP in the city?!!?!?) but in rural areas I suspect WIFI may be hard to come by. It needs a better backup.
So avoid AT&T territory...
Once said, the next World War will be conducted with Nuclear weapons, the one following will be conducted with sticks and stones.
Looks like things are playing out a bit different.
The next World War to be conducted over networks by millions of tiny spybots?
Polaris is listed, at least in Wikipedia, at 7.54 solar masses. Also, it is a ternary system: one large star, a smaller star and a white dwarf.
Independent artist: "Yay, we made this awesome song!"
Universal: "We like this song. We'll use it in a video that we will then put a copyright on." ...days pass...
Independent artist: "Why can't we post our song on YouTube?"
Universal: "Oh, you mean this song? It's ours now. Thanks!"
First occurance I heard of this sort of back-ass-ward copyrighting was the voice of Foghorn Leghorn. The dialect humor of Kenny Delmar began with Counselor Carteblanche on the Alan Young radio show, followed by his use of the same character, but amplified a bit more on a southern character for his Senator Claghorn (see the name similarity?) on the Fred Allen radio show, in the Allen's Alley segments. Delmar even played a Claghorn character in the 1947 film "It's A Joke, Son."
Then of all things, the crazy and fun people making Looney Toons and Merry Melodies, who enjoyed a nod to other characters, people or fads of the day, incorporated a big blowhard of a rooster, The Foghorn Leghorn into a cartoon - with Mel Blanc doing the voice. Eventually Warner would Copyright the voice of Foghorn Leghorn, much to the chagrin of Delmar who had effectively created it and a few of the catch phrases "listen while I'm talking to ya, boy" & "That's a joke, son!", preventing Delmar from using the voice for his own profit.
Give them a taste of their own medicine.
Take down Universal Music, because, you don't know they aren't pirating other artists works, too.
Polaris must be losing nearly the equivalent of Earth's mass—or a little under a millionth of its own mass—each year,
In a little over a million years, we won't be able to use that particular star to navigate any more. IT'LL BE CHAOS!
It's more likely to collapse and blow off gas in a nebula before then, but agree, it's very hard to use nebulas as navigational aids during the daylight hours and tricky enough at night.
That's not exactly a lot. I'm sure our own dear Sun is losing that much mass every year and you still see 5 Billion on its birthday card.
Slow astrophysical news day, I guess.
having it muck about in a place without AAA Roadside Service.
I don't know if roadside service would help in this case.
Well done.
A solar-powered car running for 8 years without any maintenance in a fairly hostile environment -- just astounding.
Makes you wonder, when people say we can't do that for consumer vehicles, eh? Where's the Can-do spirit?!?
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c32/328095.html
Consider the source - Itar-Tass is probably Russian for "Fox News"
Back before the walls came down Tass was the mouthpiece of the Kremlin. If Tass is saying something then it's with the full support of Putin.
While they manned launches have gone well, the failed re-supply and the failed mars probe suggest there's some quality control issues creeping into the program.
Can you remember the last piece of technology hardware you had which outlived its warranty?.
Pretty much everything I own, seeing as how most warranty terms are a year at best. No company in its right mind would design a product that would NOT make it past its warranty expiration.
You don't read the same reviews I do, on Amazon ... "This thing was DOA out of the box ..." "This lasted 30 days and then died ..." etc.
Some stuff holds up well (which I theorize is inversely proportional to how much I use/depend upon) While I experience the same as these unhappy reviewers.
After the learning experiences of Hubble and the failed ("inches? I thought you mean't Centimetres!") Mars Climate Orbiter, you can expect things are held to a very high standard - because failure is so very, very expensive.
Still, we had a visitor to our local Astronomy club explain the one oversight which may ultimately doom Opportunity - dust build up on the Solar Panels. Next probe will probably have a little robotic arm and brush to sweep itself off now and then.
Can you remember the last piece of technology hardware you had which outlived its warranty? For me, most of that was stuff made in the 80's.
Considerable accomplishment, designing, accumulating all the bits, assembling it, putting it in a rocket, flying it to Mars, landing it and having it muck about in a place without AAA Roadside Service. Well done.
Hmm, I'll compromise a hair and say I don't mind needing a passport for visiting entirely different countries. After all, escaping to South America is the legendary trick used for 200 years by suspects, whereupon they invoke Nelson's HaHa. (At least Canada has one government, possibly saner than ours. You could tie up $100,000 in diplomatic costs in South America if you didn't need a passport and were on the run.
Going to Canada without papers was an easy thing, almost like going to another state - only briefly quizzed where and why you were going, at the crossing and usually that was good enough. Had my car searched a couple times, but that was the worst of it (and that's still a possibility, so no real change there.)
"Where are you going?" "Toronto." "What for?" "To throw money around and take advantage of the exchange rate, before the US dollar tanks against the Loonie." "How long will you be there?" "Until I run out of money." "Have a good trip and enjoy yourself!"
That was about the way of it.
I would point out that England has long had it be illegal to engage in communications that are preliminary to serious crimes. There's no implicit assumption in the British legal system that communications are harmless.
2 Years seems a bit drastic, when a month or two would have been better for preventing polarization. As an American, of course, I find this antithetical to my values, but I don't have as much of a stake in British law.
Sometimes, America doesn't seem like such a bad place to live after all.
Give it time.
I remember a day when the Government didn't track every single thing you did on the internet on some monster database. When I could come and go between Canada as I pleased, without a passport. When my personal computer wasn't loaded with DRM software and the DMCA hadn't even been dreamt of.
It's creeping in - there are actually quite a lot of people who think it would be a good idea -- of course, not for them, but for, y'know, them other people, the ones who need watching.
Randall L. Stephenson:
Compensation for 2010
Salary $1,533,333.00
Bonus $0.00
Restricted stock awards $12,749,977.00
All other compensation $417,410.00
Option awards $ $494,731.00
Non-equity incentive plan compensation $5,050,000.00
Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings $7,096,177.00
Total Compensation $27,341,628.00
Yeah... no greed there.
Not very good value for the money, either. I could have been CEO and made a measely $150,000 /yr and they'd be better off.
Have to blame the Board of Directors on this one, time for some change at the top. Current plan was without vision -- they had to know the company would encounter resistence. All they'd need to do is read /.
It's a cowardly new world.
Where's Spiro Agnew, now his time has arrived?
Reagan happened. Him and all the corporatist looters to follow in his footsteps. These days, corporations aren't just people, they're better than people.
You remind me of working on my Economics studies with Financial News Network rattling away on the telly. Myron Kandel covering the buy-out and merger mania which ultimately looted treasuries of companies, which were then spun off with a whole new debt. And Wall Street loved it. Big news of the day was KKR and RJ Reynolds bidding insane amounts for Nabisco. Mr. Kandel was effective in detailing KKR's strategy, should they win - they'd split up the various bits of Nabisco and spin them off, while keeping all the money in the company bank accounts. Sounds evil, doesn't it? It happened time and again during the Reagan and Bush Sr. eras. Did nothing for the people of the country, company customers, but made a bunch of weasels rich, while sacking a lot of people and robbing ledgers.
Oligopolies almost always suck in customer satisfaction, always have, and always will.
Which is exactly how America keeps getting it wrong - the government should do nothing to make their lives easier - keep a low bar to new companies/investors who want to enter the market and offer something new/better. That's real Capitalism, not this bogus Corporate Welfare system.