Must be thinking of someone different vis a vis Silver Platters.
As far as the place in Great Wall Mall (mall has only been open 3 years or so--didn't deal with them before they were located there), I've always had great luck with them as far as customer service goes--but it seems like every other disk I've bought from them has messed up somewhere. I don't know if it's a supplier issue or what, but it's such a hike out there that I don't really have time to mess with returning a disk.
Don't know if Scarecrow buys used disks btw...they rent, and sell new and the occasional used disk. I think they're in the process of getting rid of their Laser Disk selection. But goodness gracious if you want to rent, that's the place...for DVD and VHS. They have a room full of anime, and rooms full of everything else.
It seems like I'm a bit unclear and fuzzy today probably the coffee-fueled all-nighter last night. Sorry for the confusion.
I had a composition teacher who, while playing a new Cage composition in a small ensemble under the direction of the composer, was instructed to play a prepared piano filled with ping pong balls "until there are no more left. Then stop."
Ummm....they're okay, for the occasional lucky used purchase, but check out Scarecrow Video it's THE place for movies in Seattle. It's one of the best movie rental places in the world--in fact it's a destination store for many directors, screenwriters, various and sundry Hollywood refugees...
Their collection is a great place to start learning about any kind of film--they also sell region free dvd players, new and used dvd's, etc. Truly an amazing place and one of the cultural treasures of Seattle.
If you don't want to rent, you can buy there, or you can go to Kicks or any number of grey market places in Chinatown (only anglos call Chinatown the International District by the way). There's also the place in the Great Wall mall down in Tukwila, but I'd stay away from them for the fact that many of their dvd's don't work quite right, but to be fair, they've always been really great about returns and customer service.
And for seeing anime in theaters, well, you're very lucky to be in Seattle--even some of the biggies downtown show anime, particular the theater in Pacific Place, but the one that shows the most is the Varsity on University Way.
This article should outrage us all for at least two reasons:
1) The weakening of the doctrine of first sale: Selling used records and cds have already been deemed by the court to be subject to the doctrine of first sale. To whit, the record companies can't get their piece of the pie twice because after the first sale it's not theirs any longer.
IANAL (yet--planning to be for just this kinda reason) so I'm not sure whether the law would supplant prior case law, or must respect prior case law.
2) The tacit assumption by the news media that the drop in record sales is due to piracy. This is certainly a grave problem. In this article, as well as many others floating around these days, the newsies attribute the downturn in CD sales to piracy. While RIAA and their little friends will have us beleive this, there are other things upon which this can be blamed, namely the lower amount of discretionary money for luxury items due to a lower rate in employment (hmmm....not a big stretch, that one) and of course the recent rise in CD prices. I can't seem to find the story about that one, but it was linked here.
This is a real problem in light of public perception and our fearful leaders in the HOR and Senate are likely to beleive this FUD. There's just no accurate way to attribute a drop in CD retail sales--it could be any or all of the above factors (or any other thing, such as market demographics, the proliferation of pre-fab boy-bands, resurgence of popularity of indie-pop, et cetera, ad nauseam)
Watch for item #2--you'll see it everywhere and it is quite dangerous for those of us that beleive we own the music we buy; I tend to remind people of this one whenever I can. BTW the economic argument works well in Republican company--ask them if they are sure about propping up internal markets in a recession then lower the farm subsidy boom on them. Demos seem more amenable to first-sale argument.
Isn't the fact that this is going to be annihilated by the current case the point here. This kind of behavior is now legally actionable as the prof is required under force of law to avoid such actions. The fact that the university is also actionable makes it increasingly likely that they'll avoid this. Compensatory damages might sting, punitive will hurt, and public relations nightmare will hurt like a bitch. Most people don't know about the typical "science is built on the bones of the grad students" approach.
From the article:
"Chou I clearly represents the Federal Circuit's desire to protect the patent rights of student researchers from being misappropriated or stolen by their supervisors. However, by holding that the supervising PhD owes a fiduciary duty toward his student researchers, the Federal Circuit's opinion may yet have greater consequences. Fiduciary duties are most commonly associated with businesses and stand for the idea that certain parties (such as business partners) must act with the highest degree of loyalty toward, and in the best interest of, the other party at all times.28 As outlined by Justice Cardozo over 70 years ago,
[m]any forms of conduct impermissible in a workaday world for those acting at arm's length, are forbidden to those bound by fiduciary ties. A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctillio of an honor that is most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior. As to this there has developed a tradition that is unbending and inveterate. Uncompromising rigidity has been the attitude of courts of equity when petitioned to undermine the rule of undivided loyalty...
10 As such, student researchers will now be able to sue their supervising PhDs for any actions that are not in the best interests of the student researcher or the patent rights of the student researcher. This protection will apply to all conduct of the supervising PhD, not just to the type of conduct that results in "stealing" or "cheating."
Conclusion
11 Only time will tell the effect this newly imposed fiduciary duty will have on the relationship between supervising PhDs and student researchers or exactly how much litigation will ensue. However, it is certain that supervising PhDs must now act in accordance with their fiduciary duty of care or they will be forced to pay large damages. As such, Chou I represents a huge victory for the student researcher."
Hmmm...then again, if you are pushing around that much $$$$ worth of equipment, why not just pay to have your favorite bands play live in your house and then make your mp3's from that?
The problem before was that the record companies were only releasing small numbers of protected cd's within larger lots of the same cd, and using statistical analysis of returns to see whether people would notice the protections.
This strategy did several things: provided data on which bands / music were listened to by people who rip to mp3 (which when combined to the demographic info they have on the listeners of said music provides all sorts of opportunities e.g. a niche-marketing "public service" campaign against "pirating"), bolsters their demographic info on their audiences (if you posit that using mp3 describes at least a modicum of technical knowledge), increased the validity of their return-rate data for protected cd's by applying the test to varied demographics, and not of least importance, kept the protected discs out of the hands of those who want, for whatever reason, to find ways around these odious "protections".
Not terribly dumb was it?
Now they have moved on to the next phase: testing various rights management implementations (I'm going to stop calling it copy protection because that's not really the point) in large scale settings. You think that this large of a sample size isn't important to the record companies?
I would hazard a guess that the initial phase of testing noted that there was no increase in return rate of cd's among the test cd's released to the "N'Sync Demographic"--it lets them proceed with the large-scale testing with a greatly reduced risk of class-action suits.
The good thing about this is that after months of not knowing if certain cd's had copy protection, now we know of one that has 4 different protection methods. Now people with an interest in understanding these technologies can do so (which is of course a good thing).
If y'all remember the lawsuit the EFF and Felten were pursuing challenged the DMCA on US constitutional grounds, specifically on the grounds that it posed a "chilling effect" on free speech, grounds that are a traditional test in 1st amendment cases.
I take it as a given that the good Dr. Felten withdrew the initial paper because he could then show clear evidence of a chilling effect. Now, of course, the lawsuit proceeds apace, but Felten can of course present his paper without interference from the RIAA because it would further Felten's claims and provide even more clear evidence that the DMCA was, in fact, unconstitutional (not that any thinking person who doesn't accept big media's spin on things needs more clarification on the matter).
To continue to go after Felten would strengthen the case against the DMCA and, speed the day, the eventual dismantlement of this egregiously rotten piece of legislation.
Yay Felten et al. Thank goodness he's on our side.
Well , the alignment of the crystals in the folded part of a Japanese sword confers hardness. Let's not forget that the wonderful folded part encases a soft steel core. It is precisely the combination of the harder folded steel with the soft steel spine that results in strength. Obviously the keenness results in the quality of the tempered steel--which in Japanese sword-smithing is the area from the hamon (temper line) to the edge. This is the only tempered part of the blade.
According to this article (http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9809/Verhoev en-9809.html), the light bands produced in the Wootz Damascus are pretty much equivalent to in composition to the hamon (perlite and cementite). The crystalline structure of the perlite and cementite in hamons does vary--I have no idea how the crystalline structure in the Wootz bands compares.
Basically then the Damscene steel creates pockets of tempered steel within a non-tempered matrix. A different way of achieving the combination of hardness and flexibility that provides strength.
Ohhhh...computer games--silly me, I thought you meant the real ones. Okay, so I admit that the numbering system of the Superbowl annoys me a bit since everything else in by the year.
Anyone arguing that comic books could be art back in the 1940s wouldn't have had much to support themselves on. But now there is a (small) number of artists producing really great things with that medium, check out the work of Chris Ware and Dan Clowes to see what I'm talking about
Hmmm...perhaps, but then again I think both Scott McCloud and Will Eisner (Eisner in particular) would quite vehemently disagree. Certainly early German woodblock "graphic novels" (not the proper term) were considered art by people like say Goethe.
Of course I agree with your asessment of Ware and Clowes...
And of course there is the dumbass pot grower story I heard from a reliable source--not that pot growers are necessarily dumbasses, just in this instance...
Seems that they used netting to hide their crop. Unfortunately, they used old surplus Vietnam-era netting which was colored a tannish-orange for the dry season--only this was Ohio, in the summer, in the middle of a bean field.
Arbitration isn't in favor of lawyers? Au contraire.
Yes, this is off the initial topic, but the arbitration that is currently ocurring is, quite frankly, ominous and disturbing.
While the wheels of the tort law machine are fuxx0red, arbitration is not much better.
If you had a problem with your employer, say Wal-Mart not approving your compensation for on the job injuries, you could be forced, depending on contract, to use an arbitrator that hears several hundred cases a year for your erstwhile employer. Or is from the state of the company, or.... The result of this is that the lawsuits still occur--only the lawsuit attempts to get the arbitration agreement overturned. Once that happens, then a second lawsuit must be brought in order to receive redress from the company for whatever offence they may have committed.
So instead of one trip to the lawyer's, you either have a) Trip to the arbitrator (a lawyer) or b) 2 trips to the lawyer--one to overturn the arbitration agreement, and if successful, another to bring a lawsuit against the company in question. And this hurts the financial prospects of lawyers how? And is supposed to eliminate lawsuits? Heh. good one.
Not to mention the fact that one of the parties has much more power than the other and can contractually guarantee a friendly venue and the other party can't. This, in no uncertain terms, sucks.
This is a litotes, the denial of a contrary (as opposed to affirming).
Besides, it wasn't until the 18th century, when the reformers tried to shoe-horn English into a Latinate model of morphology, that double negatives became verboten. This era is also when the lie of "standard English" began to be bandied about. No living language is ever standard--shift over generations, geography, new words, and linguistic drift, etc. Prior to the attempt to force English to be more like other languages, multiple negatives served to intensify the degree of negativity. "No way, no how" e.g.
And since I'm in rant mode--ask is the historical anomaly, the original Old English verb was axsian. So the next time someone wants to "Ax you a question", instead of cringing, realize that they are speaking a more pure version of English than you.
All of you that were railing about academic freedom being impinged upon as well as Prof. Felten's lack of courage (yes, that was commonly stated here) should apologize, sit down, and practice stfu for awhile.
The reason they pulled the paper was simple: they created a clear instance of the DMCA enabling a "chilling effect" on free speech.
Which leads to the conclusion that, since there has been precedence for "chilling effect" making laws unconstitutional for 1st amendment thingies, that this case is intended to go to the Supremes, BEFORE the composition of the court is changed any further towards corporatism.
Elegant, sneaky, and truly Machiavellian.
We owe all parties concerned a profound debt of thanks...
Funny, if you go about showing your disrespect of unjust laws, things like countries getting started and segregation being ended might happen.
You know, that pesky "Right to Revolt" that Thomas Jefferson mentioned, or, gods forfend, civil disobedience, invented by that crazy guy from Walden. Or better yet, try reading some of the philosophy upon which our government was founded. The power of natural rights political philosophy is precisely that certain rights are natural unto man, and thereby reserved from government abridgement. I think the word here is inalienable.
The real irony is that the "Slashdot Fortune Cookie" at the bottom of the page was a quotation from H. D. Thoreau.
I've actually been following the trial of Jamal Ahmed Al-Fadl, who left Osama Bin-Laden's organization after, of all things, a pay dispute (as a worthless aside, apparently al Qaeda covers medical bills if you have receipts--terrorists get benefits!).
Al-Fadl claimed that they're using steganography in pictures posted to "internet forums", presumably newgroups, to communicate.
Of course the cynic in me posits that this is FUD inspired by the paranoia the three-letter-guys have concerning encryption terms.
Someone with a bit more topographical knowledge please feel free to correct me BUT
Since a Klein bottle is non-orientable, isn't everything outside of the Klein bottle inside it. (i.e. there is no outside)
Which means of course that these guys are actually performing Kitten bonsai with Klein bottles if they own a kitten and a Klein bottle.
But then, again, the existence of a Klein bottle means all cat owners have practiced Kitten bonsai--including those that belong to the humane society and the ASPCA!
Well this one hasn't been fought in court. IIRC, the main intent of this law was to eliminate the production and sale of "crush" videos--women in high heels mashing insects and mice.
Sorry, don't have time to ferret out the appropriate URL's for y'all.
__________________________
Yuen Wo Ping is notorious for damaging his actors. Let's add up the damage he's done in the last year or so (and these are just the headliners).
Carrie Ann Moss: Knee Injury
Keanu Reeves: Broken Ankle
Michelle Yeoh: Broken Leg
Is anyone seeing a pattern here?
You also have two of the most prominent Chinese film stars pulling out of the same movie: Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh (who pulled out of The Matrix sequels after her injury on Crouching Tiger.
Add in Jet Li walking off the set of Crouching Tiger (not to mention the terrible back injury Jet Li sustained on Once Upon a Time in China II) and a things really get interesting.
Sure I know this style of film making is dangerous, but Yuen Wo Ping is notorious for pushing too hard, working his actors past the point of dangerous fatigue, and getting big stars hurt with permanent and debilitating injuries.
I'll second that. Plus the job involved dealing with lawyers on a regular basis (since this stuff was evidentiary material) and the occasional IP case.
I'd opt out of a job in computer forensics folks...
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Must be thinking of someone different vis a vis Silver Platters.
As far as the place in Great Wall Mall (mall has only been open 3 years or so--didn't deal with them before they were located there), I've always had great luck with them as far as customer service goes--but it seems like every other disk I've bought from them has messed up somewhere. I don't know if it's a supplier issue or what, but it's such a hike out there that I don't really have time to mess with returning a disk.
Don't know if Scarecrow buys used disks btw...they rent, and sell new and the occasional used disk. I think they're in the process of getting rid of their Laser Disk selection. But goodness gracious if you want to rent, that's the place...for DVD and VHS. They have a room full of anime, and rooms full of everything else.
It seems like I'm a bit unclear and fuzzy today probably the coffee-fueled all-nighter last night. Sorry for the confusion.
I had a composition teacher who, while playing a new Cage composition in a small ensemble under the direction of the composer, was instructed to play a prepared piano filled with ping pong balls "until there are no more left. Then stop."
Would have made a great companion piece to 4'33".
Ummm....they're okay, for the occasional lucky used purchase, but check out Scarecrow Video it's THE place for movies in Seattle. It's one of the best movie rental places in the world--in fact it's a destination store for many directors, screenwriters, various and sundry Hollywood refugees...
Their collection is a great place to start learning about any kind of film--they also sell region free dvd players, new and used dvd's, etc. Truly an amazing place and one of the cultural treasures of Seattle.
If you don't want to rent, you can buy there, or you can go to Kicks or any number of grey market places in Chinatown (only anglos call Chinatown the International District by the way). There's also the place in the Great Wall mall down in Tukwila, but I'd stay away from them for the fact that many of their dvd's don't work quite right, but to be fair, they've always been really great about returns and customer service.
And for seeing anime in theaters, well, you're very lucky to be in Seattle--even some of the biggies downtown show anime, particular the theater in Pacific Place, but the one that shows the most is the Varsity on University Way.
Have fun.
1) The weakening of the doctrine of first sale: Selling used records and cds have already been deemed by the court to be subject to the doctrine of first sale. To whit, the record companies can't get their piece of the pie twice because after the first sale it's not theirs any longer.
IANAL (yet--planning to be for just this kinda reason) so I'm not sure whether the law would supplant prior case law, or must respect prior case law.
2) The tacit assumption by the news media that the drop in record sales is due to piracy. This is certainly a grave problem. In this article, as well as many others floating around these days, the newsies attribute the downturn in CD sales to piracy. While RIAA and their little friends will have us beleive this, there are other things upon which this can be blamed, namely the lower amount of discretionary money for luxury items due to a lower rate in employment (hmmm....not a big stretch, that one) and of course the recent rise in CD prices. I can't seem to find the story about that one, but it was linked here.
This is a real problem in light of public perception and our fearful leaders in the HOR and Senate are likely to beleive this FUD. There's just no accurate way to attribute a drop in CD retail sales--it could be any or all of the above factors (or any other thing, such as market demographics, the proliferation of pre-fab boy-bands, resurgence of popularity of indie-pop, et cetera, ad nauseam)
Watch for item #2--you'll see it everywhere and it is quite dangerous for those of us that beleive we own the music we buy; I tend to remind people of this one whenever I can. BTW the economic argument works well in Republican company--ask them if they are sure about propping up internal markets in a recession then lower the farm subsidy boom on them. Demos seem more amenable to first-sale argument.
Isn't the fact that this is going to be annihilated by the current case the point here. This kind of behavior is now legally actionable as the prof is required under force of law to avoid such actions. The fact that the university is also actionable makes it increasingly likely that they'll avoid this. Compensatory damages might sting, punitive will hurt, and public relations nightmare will hurt like a bitch. Most people don't know about the typical "science is built on the bones of the grad students" approach.
From the article:
"Chou I clearly represents the Federal Circuit's desire to protect the patent rights of student researchers from being misappropriated or stolen by their supervisors. However, by holding that the supervising PhD owes a fiduciary duty toward his student researchers, the Federal Circuit's opinion may yet have greater consequences. Fiduciary duties are most commonly associated with businesses and stand for the idea that certain parties (such as business partners) must act with the highest degree of loyalty toward, and in the best interest of, the other party at all times.28 As outlined by Justice Cardozo over 70 years ago,
[m]any forms of conduct impermissible in a workaday world for those acting at arm's length, are forbidden to those bound by fiduciary ties. A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctillio of an honor that is most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior. As to this there has developed a tradition that is unbending and inveterate. Uncompromising rigidity has been the attitude of courts of equity when petitioned to undermine the rule of undivided loyalty...
10 As such, student researchers will now be able to sue their supervising PhDs for any actions that are not in the best interests of the student researcher or the patent rights of the student researcher. This protection will apply to all conduct of the supervising PhD, not just to the type of conduct that results in "stealing" or "cheating."
Conclusion
11 Only time will tell the effect this newly imposed fiduciary duty will have on the relationship between supervising PhDs and student researchers or exactly how much litigation will ensue. However, it is certain that supervising PhDs must now act in accordance with their fiduciary duty of care or they will be forced to pay large damages. As such, Chou I represents a huge victory for the student researcher."
Hmmm...then again, if you are pushing around that much $$$$ worth of equipment, why not just pay to have your favorite bands play live in your house and then make your mp3's from that?
;*)
This strategy did several things: provided data on which bands / music were listened to by people who rip to mp3 (which when combined to the demographic info they have on the listeners of said music provides all sorts of opportunities e.g. a niche-marketing "public service" campaign against "pirating"), bolsters their demographic info on their audiences (if you posit that using mp3 describes at least a modicum of technical knowledge), increased the validity of their return-rate data for protected cd's by applying the test to varied demographics, and not of least importance, kept the protected discs out of the hands of those who want, for whatever reason, to find ways around these odious "protections".
Not terribly dumb was it?
Now they have moved on to the next phase: testing various rights management implementations (I'm going to stop calling it copy protection because that's not really the point) in large scale settings. You think that this large of a sample size isn't important to the record companies?
I would hazard a guess that the initial phase of testing noted that there was no increase in return rate of cd's among the test cd's released to the "N'Sync Demographic"--it lets them proceed with the large-scale testing with a greatly reduced risk of class-action suits.
The good thing about this is that after months of not knowing if certain cd's had copy protection, now we know of one that has 4 different protection methods. Now people with an interest in understanding these technologies can do so (which is of course a good thing).
Whoever thought this one out was a real sensitive and thoughtful person.(sarcasm)
God this pisses me off. Damn shame these fuckers are in business at all.
I take it as a given that the good Dr. Felten withdrew the initial paper because he could then show clear evidence of a chilling effect. Now, of course, the lawsuit proceeds apace, but Felten can of course present his paper without interference from the RIAA because it would further Felten's claims and provide even more clear evidence that the DMCA was, in fact, unconstitutional (not that any thinking person who doesn't accept big media's spin on things needs more clarification on the matter).
To continue to go after Felten would strengthen the case against the DMCA and, speed the day, the eventual dismantlement of this egregiously rotten piece of legislation.
Yay Felten et al. Thank goodness he's on our side.
According to this article (http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9809/Verhoev en-9809.html), the light bands produced in the Wootz Damascus are pretty much equivalent to in composition to the hamon (perlite and cementite). The crystalline structure of the perlite and cementite in hamons does vary--I have no idea how the crystalline structure in the Wootz bands compares.
Basically then the Damscene steel creates pockets of tempered steel within a non-tempered matrix. A different way of achieving the combination of hardness and flexibility that provides strength.
Pretty cool...
Ohhhh...computer games--silly me, I thought you meant the real ones. Okay, so I admit that the numbering system of the Superbowl annoys me a bit since everything else in by the year.
No, not passe, pisse.
Hmmm...perhaps, but then again I think both Scott McCloud and Will Eisner (Eisner in particular) would quite vehemently disagree. Certainly early German woodblock "graphic novels" (not the proper term) were considered art by people like say Goethe.
Of course I agree with your asessment of Ware and Clowes...
Proposition your preposition daily.
Seems that they used netting to hide their crop. Unfortunately, they used old surplus Vietnam-era netting which was colored a tannish-orange for the dry season--only this was Ohio, in the summer, in the middle of a bean field.
Can you say "busted" girls and boys?
Yes, this is off the initial topic, but the arbitration that is currently ocurring is, quite frankly, ominous and disturbing.
While the wheels of the tort law machine are fuxx0red, arbitration is not much better.
If you had a problem with your employer, say Wal-Mart not approving your compensation for on the job injuries, you could be forced, depending on contract, to use an arbitrator that hears several hundred cases a year for your erstwhile employer. Or is from the state of the company, or.... The result of this is that the lawsuits still occur--only the lawsuit attempts to get the arbitration agreement overturned. Once that happens, then a second lawsuit must be brought in order to receive redress from the company for whatever offence they may have committed.
So instead of one trip to the lawyer's, you either have a) Trip to the arbitrator (a lawyer) or b) 2 trips to the lawyer--one to overturn the arbitration agreement, and if successful, another to bring a lawsuit against the company in question. And this hurts the financial prospects of lawyers how? And is supposed to eliminate lawsuits? Heh. good one.
Not to mention the fact that one of the parties has much more power than the other and can contractually guarantee a friendly venue and the other party can't. This, in no uncertain terms, sucks.
Besides, it wasn't until the 18th century, when the reformers tried to shoe-horn English into a Latinate model of morphology, that double negatives became verboten. This era is also when the lie of "standard English" began to be bandied about. No living language is ever standard--shift over generations, geography, new words, and linguistic drift, etc. Prior to the attempt to force English to be more like other languages, multiple negatives served to intensify the degree of negativity. "No way, no how" e.g.
And since I'm in rant mode--ask is the historical anomaly, the original Old English verb was axsian. So the next time someone wants to "Ax you a question", instead of cringing, realize that they are speaking a more pure version of English than you.
And now we know the rest of the story.
All of you that were railing about academic freedom being impinged upon as well as Prof. Felten's lack of courage (yes, that was commonly stated here) should apologize, sit down, and practice stfu for awhile.
The reason they pulled the paper was simple: they created a clear instance of the DMCA enabling a "chilling effect" on free speech.
Which leads to the conclusion that, since there has been precedence for "chilling effect" making laws unconstitutional for 1st amendment thingies, that this case is intended to go to the Supremes, BEFORE the composition of the court is changed any further towards corporatism.
Elegant, sneaky, and truly Machiavellian.
We owe all parties concerned a profound debt of thanks...
You know, that pesky "Right to Revolt" that Thomas Jefferson mentioned, or, gods forfend, civil disobedience, invented by that crazy guy from Walden. Or better yet, try reading some of the philosophy upon which our government was founded. The power of natural rights political philosophy is precisely that certain rights are natural unto man, and thereby reserved from government abridgement. I think the word here is inalienable.
The real irony is that the "Slashdot Fortune Cookie" at the bottom of the page was a quotation from H. D. Thoreau.
Either that or you are one hell of a troll...
Well, computer engineers get to drive more trains.
Al-Fadl claimed that they're using steganography in pictures posted to "internet forums", presumably newgroups, to communicate.
Of course the cynic in me posits that this is FUD inspired by the paranoia the three-letter-guys have concerning encryption terms.
Since a Klein bottle is non-orientable, isn't everything outside of the Klein bottle inside it. (i.e. there is no outside)
Which means of course that these guys are actually performing Kitten bonsai with Klein bottles if they own a kitten and a Klein bottle. But then, again, the existence of a Klein bottle means all cat owners have practiced Kitten bonsai--including those that belong to the humane society and the ASPCA!
Well this one hasn't been fought in court. IIRC, the main intent of this law was to eliminate the production and sale of "crush" videos--women in high heels mashing insects and mice. Sorry, don't have time to ferret out the appropriate URL's for y'all. __________________________
Carrie Ann Moss: Knee Injury
Keanu Reeves: Broken Ankle
Michelle Yeoh: Broken Leg
Is anyone seeing a pattern here?
You also have two of the most prominent Chinese film stars pulling out of the same movie: Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh (who pulled out of The Matrix sequels after her injury on Crouching Tiger.
Add in Jet Li walking off the set of Crouching Tiger (not to mention the terrible back injury Jet Li sustained on Once Upon a Time in China II) and a things really get interesting.
Sure I know this style of film making is dangerous, but Yuen Wo Ping is notorious for pushing too hard, working his actors past the point of dangerous fatigue, and getting big stars hurt with permanent and debilitating injuries.
I'd opt out of a job in computer forensics folks...