somebody should calculate how much disk space is required given mpeg2 compression to ensure that someone would have the equivalent of 60+ years of pr0n
I performed this calculation when I saw the sizes being discussed and came to the conclusion that half a petabyte of storage ought to be enough for anybody.;)
You can hate the fact that the earth revolves around the sun. You can refuse to accept it. But its still going to happen without fail and there's not a damned thing you can do about it.
Ah, but you haven't seen the large booster rockets I'm building in my back garden. I plan to fire them at exactly 9PM on Jan 3rd and slow the Earth down enough that it will fall into the sun./me laughs maniacally
Because paypal has particularly bad ways of handling chargebacks, and a site like this will probably generate a lot of them. That said, Google Checkout would seem to be a better way to do it.
He was one of the most abusive editors ever, using slashdot as his own personal blog, posting wrong stories, posting political articles that suited his viewpoints, and mod abused people who called him out.
One day, he mysteriously disappears into the ether without notice. Did the slashdot brass kick him to the curb?
I hope so. I've still got a moderation ban from when I moderated a comment he left as offtopic, many many years ago.
I'm assuming when you state that the 'sun is closer during the winter' that you're talking about Earth's orbital eccentricity (non-circular orbit) resulting in the entire planet being about 5 million kilometres closer to the sun during winter. Living in the northern or southern hemisphere would make no difference.
Yes it would, seeing as winter occurs during different parts of the year in the different hemispheres.
Wish there was a -1 slightly-wrong tag. Some posts just deserve it. [/joke - but you did ask for it!]
"a power, privilege, immunity, or capacity the enjoyment of which is secured to a person by law", or "a legally enforceable claim against another that the other will do or will not do a given act", or "the interest that one has in property : a claim or title to property", or "the interest in property possessed (as under copyright law) in an intangible thing and esp. an item of intellectual property" (Merriam Webster Legal Dictionary)
"a moral or legal entitlement to have or do something." or "the authority to perform, publish, or film a particular work or event" (Compact Oxford English Dictionary)
"Something that is due to a person or governmental body by law, tradition, or nature" or "A just or legal claim or title" (American Heritage Dictionary)
I'd say that something that is a _moral_ right cannot be taken away from you. But the word is also commonly used in the sense of something that is granted to you by law.
I've had one of these devices rigged up so that when I want to send an e-mail, post stuff in a web form or something, I just write it on a piece of paper and scan it, and it does everything else. To be honest, I [REDACTED] recommend it. The [REDACTED] machine is quite good at [REDACTED] everything I [REDACTED] want it to do. I [REDACTED] for one [REDACTED] welcome [REDACTED] our new [REDACTED] photocopier [REDACTED] overlords.
I've had multiple laptops that overheat after about 10-12 hours of use. I've even had one that would shut off after 1 hour if you left it directly on a table: you had to put it on top of something to give it enough space for the airflow to its (tiny) cooling fan that was located on the bottom of the case. I agree that there are laptops that don't have this problem, but there are also laptops that do.
You should watch the presentation he made at a google tech talk last year. He was very enthusiastic about his work, and managed to carry that through to his talk, despite his obviously-poor health at the time. It was a great talk.
Why not just pick up something can can run OpenWRT?
Because there are a lot of applications that this box will fit that most OpenWRT devices couldn't handle. Print server. Non-secure file server. Public-facing web server. There's no reason not to combine these applications with your router, except that most dedicated devices don't have the hardware required for them.
Laptops typically need active cooling. Many cheap laptops are inadequately cooled and won't run indefinitely without being switched off. This PC is entirely passively cooled. That's a big plus for many applications (think digital media playback). It's also less than a quarter the size of an average laptop, meaning that for people like me who cannot stand to work with laptop keyboards and small displays it's a better solution. Of course the negatives (slow processor, lack of expandability) are significant, but if it works for your app it's probably ideal.
Not really, no. The EU were never dull enough to even suggest blocking imports. I suspect they would have gone down the lines of seizing assets instead, which is a much more profitable way to penalize your foreign competitors.
And then her lawyer would have been sanctioned. It's illegal to ask for jury nullification.
And that wouldn't have been asking for jury nullification. If you read the post, the OP suggested _admitting_ the offence, and then aiming to get the minimum amount awarded by pointing out that what she had done was really no more serious than things that the jury members were likely to have done at some point.
TFA suggests at least one of the jury members argued for hours to get the amount of the award down. With a little more sympathy, she would have ended up with a much smaller award against her.
Send the envelope under "registered mail", since registered mail requires the envelope to be securely sealed at the time it was mailed. If it isn't sealed properly (i.e. can reopen the envelope without damaging it), it isn't registered.
And do you think that's strictly enforced? I don't know about US postal workers, but over here in the UK I wouldn't trust them to know a securely sealed envelope from a sheet of blank paper.
Thats just false. If you do NOT register a valid work, you must prove it is yours. By providing a federal datestamp, it does provide some basic claim that it was created by X date.
No, it doesn't. The point is, it's trivially easy to circumvent, and the courts realise this. Here's how: mail yourself an empty, unsealed envelope. When you want to sue someone for infringing "your" copyright, place the work you want to protect in the previously mailed envelope. Voila! Retrospective "copyright" on something you didn't even write.
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somebody should calculate how much disk space is required given mpeg2 compression to ensure that someone would have the equivalent of 60+ years of pr0n
;)
I performed this calculation when I saw the sizes being discussed and came to the conclusion that half a petabyte of storage ought to be enough for anybody.
Funniest comment all week. Thanks. :)
You can hate the fact that the earth revolves around the sun. You can refuse to accept it. But its still going to happen without fail and there's not a damned thing you can do about it.
/me laughs maniacally
Ah, but you haven't seen the large booster rockets I'm building in my back garden. I plan to fire them at exactly 9PM on Jan 3rd and slow the Earth down enough that it will fall into the sun.
Why not use Paypal?
Because paypal has particularly bad ways of handling chargebacks, and a site like this will probably generate a lot of them. That said, Google Checkout would seem to be a better way to do it.
Whereas you seem to get off on belittling other people for daring to make a joke. Get over it, troll.
Anybody know what happened to Michael?
He was one of the most abusive editors ever, using slashdot as his own personal blog, posting wrong stories, posting political articles that suited his viewpoints, and mod abused people who called him out.
One day, he mysteriously disappears into the ether without notice. Did the slashdot brass kick him to the curb?
I hope so. I've still got a moderation ban from when I moderated a comment he left as offtopic, many many years ago.
I'm assuming when you state that the 'sun is closer during the winter' that you're talking about Earth's orbital eccentricity (non-circular orbit) resulting in the entire planet being about 5 million kilometres closer to the sun during winter. Living in the northern or southern hemisphere would make no difference.
Yes it would, seeing as winter occurs during different parts of the year in the different hemispheres.
Wish there was a -1 slightly-wrong tag. Some posts just deserve it. [/joke - but you did ask for it!]
Indeed.
Just put the think in the box and return it to the store.
I think you need to get your "think" back from the store and unpack it again.
Very few files have data streams, so the vast majority of users won't ever see a problem.
This is blatantly false. Many, many files have alternate data streams, because MS use them to implement some core Windows features:
* Any file downloaded from the Internet by Internet Explorer has one
* Any file with metadata set using the shell has one
There are probably other cases I'm not aware, but these two certainly exist.
And I can see at least one reason why an ordinary user might have a directory containing 16,000 files of the first kind (ahem).
No, rights are irrevocable.
That's a very strange definition of "right".
Here are some dictionary definitions:
"a power, privilege, immunity, or capacity the enjoyment of which is secured to a person by law", or "a legally enforceable claim against another that the other will do or will not do a given act", or "the interest that one has in property : a claim or title to property", or "the interest in property possessed (as under copyright law) in an intangible thing and esp. an item of intellectual property" (Merriam Webster Legal Dictionary)
"a moral or legal entitlement to have or do something." or "the authority to perform, publish, or film a particular work or event" (Compact Oxford English Dictionary)
"a just claim or title, whether legal, prescriptive, or moral" or "the interest or ownership a person, group, or business has in property" (Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1), based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.)
"Something that is due to a person or governmental body by law, tradition, or nature" or "A just or legal claim or title" (American Heritage Dictionary)
I'd say that something that is a _moral_ right cannot be taken away from you. But the word is also commonly used in the sense of something that is granted to you by law.
I've had one of these devices rigged up so that when I want to send an e-mail, post stuff in a web form or something, I just write it on a piece of paper and scan it, and it does everything else. To be honest, I [REDACTED] recommend it. The [REDACTED] machine is quite good at [REDACTED] everything I [REDACTED] want it to do. I [REDACTED] for one [REDACTED] welcome [REDACTED] our new [REDACTED] photocopier [REDACTED] overlords.
Maybe it's as good as Adobe PDF's redaction feature, and anyone can unredact the document?
To be fair to Adobe, that *isn't* a redaction feature. It's a rectangle drawing feature that happens to get regularly misused.
I've had multiple laptops that overheat after about 10-12 hours of use. I've even had one that would shut off after 1 hour if you left it directly on a table: you had to put it on top of something to give it enough space for the airflow to its (tiny) cooling fan that was located on the bottom of the case. I agree that there are laptops that don't have this problem, but there are also laptops that do.
You should watch the presentation he made at a google tech talk last year. He was very enthusiastic about his work, and managed to carry that through to his talk, despite his obviously-poor health at the time. It was a great talk.
Why not just pick up something can can run OpenWRT?
Because there are a lot of applications that this box will fit that most OpenWRT devices couldn't handle. Print server. Non-secure file server. Public-facing web server. There's no reason not to combine these applications with your router, except that most dedicated devices don't have the hardware required for them.
Laptops typically need active cooling. Many cheap laptops are inadequately cooled and won't run indefinitely without being switched off. This PC is entirely passively cooled. That's a big plus for many applications (think digital media playback). It's also less than a quarter the size of an average laptop, meaning that for people like me who cannot stand to work with laptop keyboards and small displays it's a better solution. Of course the negatives (slow processor, lack of expandability) are significant, but if it works for your app it's probably ideal.
Sounds similar to the EU flexing about Microsoft.
Not really, no. The EU were never dull enough to even suggest blocking imports. I suspect they would have gone down the lines of seizing assets instead, which is a much more profitable way to penalize your foreign competitors.
Or, of course, to refer the Reibers to Arkell v. Pressdram .....
Is this going to be the next slashdot meme? If so, I'd like to refer everyone concerned to the reply in Arkell v Pressdram.
Doesn't built-in video generally share the system RAM?
Not always. For example, I have a machine that has 32MB of video RAM, and can use additional system RAM if necessary.
Now there's a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.
Dammit, now I'm worried about the possibility of a 21-dimensional zombie universe that lives only to eat the branes of other universes.
And then her lawyer would have been sanctioned. It's illegal to ask for jury nullification.
And that wouldn't have been asking for jury nullification. If you read the post, the OP suggested _admitting_ the offence, and then aiming to get the minimum amount awarded by pointing out that what she had done was really no more serious than things that the jury members were likely to have done at some point.
TFA suggests at least one of the jury members argued for hours to get the amount of the award down. With a little more sympathy, she would have ended up with a much smaller award against her.
Send the envelope under "registered mail", since registered mail requires the envelope to be securely sealed at the time it was mailed. If it isn't sealed properly (i.e. can reopen the envelope without damaging it), it isn't registered.
See http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm300/503.htm#2_4_6
And do you think that's strictly enforced? I don't know about US postal workers, but over here in the UK I wouldn't trust them to know a securely sealed envelope from a sheet of blank paper.
Thats just false. If you do NOT register a valid work, you must prove it is yours. By providing a federal datestamp, it does provide some basic claim that it was created by X date.
No, it doesn't. The point is, it's trivially easy to circumvent, and the courts realise this. Here's how: mail yourself an empty, unsealed envelope. When you want to sue someone for infringing "your" copyright, place the work you want to protect in the previously mailed envelope. Voila! Retrospective "copyright" on something you didn't even write.
I have a blog
:)
Well, you _had_ a blog. Right now it seems to be slashdotted, which is spectacular for a post so far down the page!