However, the DMCA *does* require that copyright be registered with the Library of Congress. If it is not explicitly registered, you may not invoke the DMCA to protect your copyrighted work.
Which is why I said "the key has certain protections" instead of "the number...";)
While we and some courts disagree with that assumption, the DMCA is being successfully enforced by the industry associations, so as a matter of practice, the key has protections.
The bottom line is that these groups can force you to spend lots of money that you probably don't have, win or lose, when the key is valid, but now it's revoked, it's just a number.
The hex code is a key. The key has certain protections under U.S. law. They have revoked the key. It is no longer a key. It no longer has certain protections under U.S. law. It is just a number that used to be a key. You publish the former key on your website. Nothing happens.
If the telcos no longer have to service poorer or more remote or inconvenient areas, does that mean they will no longer receive Federal Universal Service Fund payments?
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What does Godspeed mean, really? It's an abdication of responsibility. If the vehicle is good enough, by luck, to make the round trip it's somehow a supernatural event?
No. This is the designers and planners and builders and maintainers who put together a complex set of systems. If they all did their job right, the risk should be so low that nobody feels the need to say 'Godspeed.'
This isn't a flame, and it's not meant as flame-bait. It's just that when people say 'Godspeed' they're really misplacing their wish for a safe journey whose responsibility is far more in our hands, and we should give credit to those engineers that made all the past successes happen.
The answer to this is simple. Instead of running both wires from the power station to the customer, run one each way. As one cable is now reversed, the current will now not be in opposition. As you know, the opposite of destructive interference is constructive interference. You could get twice as much power out of that line as you put in!
Another answer is to move the users closer to the power stations! We should make the stations smaller and have more of them. What if every transmission pole was a power station? We should put a solar panel on top of every pole, and if we spin it around at 60 RPMs, voila! A/C!
The actual worst part is when they cut the flap - they had to wait a few minutes while my eyes dialated, so for a little while had a flap cut in my eye and was just sitting in a chair in a dark room. But altogether it took only half an hour and it was time extremely well spent.
Good God, man! A few moments alone in a dark room, and you're playing with yourself? During eye surgery?
And Mom told me it would make me go blind. How dare you make a liar out of her!
Your job as a parent is to teach your kid to be an independant human
And I think I do that MUCh better than most American parents by taking an active interest in where my child is. I think *knowing* where they are is better than calling them up all the time and asking them, or telling them to be home at X hour - in front of all their friends. They're able to operate a lot more independently with this system. Criticism Denied.
Do you have any idea how many times (per day) kids drop their cell phone?
Which is why I said it should text them when this condition is met. This means they have, say, 90 seconds to respond without raising an alert. This would prevent 90% of false alerts, AND teach the kid to treat their phone as though it were fragile. Criticism Denied.
Standard music playing volume.
A child's scream is quite a bit louder than "standard music playing volume" - about 12dB louder. Again, if it falses, they'd have 90 seconds to enter a code to prevent an alert. A code an *attacker* won't know. Entering a wrong code could silence the phone and create a silent alarm, with tracking in place. Criticism Denied.
Kids privacy has to be balanced with free will and independance.
Ok, so you choose. Me calling you up every hour or two, or the moment you're late, to check up on you, embarassing you in front of your friends and causing parent/child hostility, or me passively knowing your location and having a way to know if certain 'exceptions' occur? As my child, you don't have a *right* to privacy in my home, and you certainly don't have a right to privacy out on a public street or in a car. If I want to track you, as my child, I can be intrusive or not. Which gives the child more privacy? Which allows the child to operate more independently? *RING RING* Where are you?
My child does not have a right to privacy from me as a parent until I decide, or they reach 18 - whichever comes first. If I gove my kid a phone that lets me track their whereabouts, that's minimally invasive, unobtrusive and automatic, it strikes a wonderful new balance.
What's more, it isn't when they are at places that you worry, it's when they're in transit between places that they're at the highest risk of accident, injury or assault.
If it can also detect impact and fire off a distress call, or detect that a noise threshold was breached (load party, or a scream) and text me... Well, I'm all for it. Worried about false alarms? Just have a service call the phone and check everything is ok by asking for a password the child knows.
I hardly think we rate as intelligent. No, we're about as smart as the bacteria that occupies a petridish until we've released so much toxin we make it uninhabitable for ourselves long before the available food runs out. Frankly, we're about the level of pond-scum in the Grand Scheme.
...who has struggled for years to fund my various off-the-wall projects, like Best Served Cold I know how hard it is to do anything different.
I've been working on the project that follows BSC for a year now. It's a cheesy B movie pisstake with zombies and alien bugs, and it'll be a scream. But can I get funding? No! My low budget productions are well made and funny as hell, but fundraising when you're deliberately making cheesy movies, or movies with gorgeous fat chicks, well, it's tough.
I've been working on a feture length film, "Best Served Cold" about three women getting revenge on the men that have let them down. I have had a horrible time getting funding from any of the traditional sources, just because the lead character is plus sized. I've had to resort to fund-raising by asking around.
The challenge is that the industry views films as padding between advertising, and special audiences just don't sell advertising. They think of women as a special audience.:/
So, bottom line, if you would like to see my comedy about three gorgeous fat chicks killing guys, you'll have to donate - anything helps.
Changing attitudes in Hollywood and the networks and distribution channels is essential. Projects like this actually getting made and finding markets is the only way to do it.
...how this will affect the millions of tourists who fly into and within the US every year, bringing billions of dollars of revenue to the US. Will these people be refused permission to fly? Will they be issued federally approved ID on entry? Or will they just go somewhere else?
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However, the DMCA *does* require that copyright be registered with the Library of Congress. If it is not explicitly registered, you may not invoke the DMCA to protect your copyrighted work.
'The rover has operated more than 12 times longer than its originally intended 90 days.'
;)
So, it's a pre-DRM rover, then? It certainly wasn't built by HP's printer division.
Shut up. You'll give them ideas.
Which is why I said "the key has certain protections" instead of "the number..." ;)
While we and some courts disagree with that assumption, the DMCA is being successfully enforced by the industry associations, so as a matter of practice, the key has protections.
The bottom line is that these groups can force you to spend lots of money that you probably don't have, win or lose, when the key is valid, but now it's revoked, it's just a number.
Here's a timeline:
:)
The hex code is a key. The key has certain protections under U.S. law. They have revoked the key. It is no longer a key. It no longer has certain protections under U.S. law. It is just a number that used to be a key. You publish the former key on your website. Nothing happens.
There, wasn't that fun?
If the telcos no longer have to service poorer or more remote or inconvenient areas, does that mean they will no longer receive Federal Universal Service Fund payments?
Does that mean I can keep my FUSF fees?
Of course not. Gah.
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Build the fuel cell into a laser printer, and have it dump the carbon dust right into the toner cartridge. :)
Do it so I can plug my computer and display into it, and power them too, and I'll buy two.
What does Godspeed mean, really? It's an abdication of responsibility. If the vehicle is good enough, by luck, to make the round trip it's somehow a supernatural event?
No. This is the designers and planners and builders and maintainers who put together a complex set of systems. If they all did their job right, the risk should be so low that nobody feels the need to say 'Godspeed.'
This isn't a flame, and it's not meant as flame-bait. It's just that when people say 'Godspeed' they're really misplacing their wish for a safe journey whose responsibility is far more in our hands, and we should give credit to those engineers that made all the past successes happen.
The answer to this is simple. Instead of running both wires from the power station to the customer, run one each way. As one cable is now reversed, the current will now not be in opposition. As you know, the opposite of destructive interference is constructive interference. You could get twice as much power out of that line as you put in!
Another answer is to move the users closer to the power stations! We should make the stations smaller and have more of them. What if every transmission pole was a power station? We should put a solar panel on top of every pole, and if we spin it around at 60 RPMs, voila! A/C!
I keep tagging this as "sinkingship" ;)
The actual worst part is when they cut the flap - they had to wait a few minutes while my eyes dialated, so for a little while had a flap cut in my eye and was just sitting in a chair in a dark room. But altogether it took only half an hour and it was time extremely well spent.
Good God, man! A few moments alone in a dark room, and you're playing with yourself? During eye surgery?
And Mom told me it would make me go blind. How dare you make a liar out of her!
And I think I do that MUCh better than most American parents by taking an active interest in where my child is. I think *knowing* where they are is better than calling them up all the time and asking them, or telling them to be home at X hour - in front of all their friends. They're able to operate a lot more independently with this system. Criticism Denied.
Do you have any idea how many times (per day) kids drop their cell phone?
Which is why I said it should text them when this condition is met. This means they have, say, 90 seconds to respond without raising an alert. This would prevent 90% of false alerts, AND teach the kid to treat their phone as though it were fragile. Criticism Denied.
Standard music playing volume.
A child's scream is quite a bit louder than "standard music playing volume" - about 12dB louder. Again, if it falses, they'd have 90 seconds to enter a code to prevent an alert. A code an *attacker* won't know. Entering a wrong code could silence the phone and create a silent alarm, with tracking in place. Criticism Denied.
Kids privacy has to be balanced with free will and independance.
Ok, so you choose. Me calling you up every hour or two, or the moment you're late, to check up on you, embarassing you in front of your friends and causing parent/child hostility, or me passively knowing your location and having a way to know if certain 'exceptions' occur? As my child, you don't have a *right* to privacy in my home, and you certainly don't have a right to privacy out on a public street or in a car. If I want to track you, as my child, I can be intrusive or not. Which gives the child more privacy? Which allows the child to operate more independently? *RING RING* Where are you?
My child does not have a right to privacy from me as a parent until I decide, or they reach 18 - whichever comes first. If I gove my kid a phone that lets me track their whereabouts, that's minimally invasive, unobtrusive and automatic, it strikes a wonderful new balance.
What's more, it isn't when they are at places that you worry, it's when they're in transit between places that they're at the highest risk of accident, injury or assault.
If it can also detect impact and fire off a distress call, or detect that a noise threshold was breached (load party, or a scream) and text me... Well, I'm all for it. Worried about false alarms? Just have a service call the phone and check everything is ok by asking for a password the child knows.
That's nothing. I've been 30 for 8 years!
I can't imagine Microsoft appealing to anyone... ;)
....intelligent life like ourselves....
I hardly think we rate as intelligent. No, we're about as smart as the bacteria that occupies a petridish until we've released so much toxin we make it uninhabitable for ourselves long before the available food runs out. Frankly, we're about the level of pond-scum in the Grand Scheme.
...but I just:
a) moved to Austin, TX, from England
b) changed my name to Robert Rodriguez!
...who has struggled for years to fund my various off-the-wall projects, like Best Served Cold I know how hard it is to do anything different.
:)
I've been working on the project that follows BSC for a year now. It's a cheesy B movie pisstake with zombies and alien bugs, and it'll be a scream. But can I get funding? No! My low budget productions are well made and funny as hell, but fundraising when you're deliberately making cheesy movies, or movies with gorgeous fat chicks, well, it's tough.
Anyone got $15,000 I can use?
> You think militarybasefans have problems? You should ask some terrorists some time!!!
I've been working on a feture length film, "Best Served Cold" about three women getting revenge on the men that have let them down. I have had a horrible time getting funding from any of the traditional sources, just because the lead character is plus sized. I've had to resort to fund-raising by asking around.
:/
The challenge is that the industry views films as padding between advertising, and special audiences just don't sell advertising. They think of women as a special audience.
So, bottom line, if you would like to see my comedy about three gorgeous fat chicks killing guys, you'll have to donate - anything helps.
Changing attitudes in Hollywood and the networks and distribution channels is essential. Projects like this actually getting made and finding markets is the only way to do it.
Please donate. Thank you.
I don't think you understand the intent of the international treaties.
They don't want weapons that leave injured bodies and people screaming. That's "cruel"
Which is why you have to shatter the bodies, and kill the people outright. No suffering that way...
Hope this clears that up for you...
...how this will affect the millions of tourists who fly into and within the US every year, bringing billions of dollars of revenue to the US. Will these people be refused permission to fly? Will they be issued federally approved ID on entry? Or will they just go somewhere else?
Remind me, what are you doing posting on slashdot again?
No, that's not plain stupid. It's "incitement"...