The DMCA doesn't help, but standard libel laws should apply.
Sony published a false statement (incorrect DMCA claim) that claimed a professor of copyright law violated copyright law. It doesn't get much more defaming than that.
An extra 1.6 cents per Kilowatt hour, 250kW, 720 hours in a month, $0.016/kWh * 250 kW * 720 hours / month = $2,880 / month. Monthly rent is high, but no where near $2,880 per square foot.
Seems like severe selection bias - not one of the examples has yet to reveal a conspiracy.
How well does the theory predict conspiracies that have already been revealed? For example, the Manhattan project involved hundreds of people, yet remained secret for years, is that what this theory suggests would have happened?
I ask myself, if I could get 5 Mbps for $20, 20 Mbps for $40, 100 Mbps for $80 or 1,000 Mbps for $160, which would I chose? And the answer (for me) is 20 Mbps for $40. I'd like more, but I'm not willing to pay for it.
The average Slashdotter is likely to pick a higher tier, but the average American? I bet most would be satisfied with (5Mbps * number_of_people_in_household), and $20/month would look very attractive to many.
Most reporting is wrong. Reporters often don't care about what they are reporting about, don't do research on the subject, don't do fact checking or anything else that sounds like work.
The only difference with science reporting is you can often tell how bad the reporters got the story.
There are currently NO better-than-break-even fusion reactors.
There are no He-3 fusion reactors.
Any currently purposed theories/technologies which could (theoretically) use the difficult and rare He-3 + H-2 could instead use the far more common B-11 + H-1.
Saying that there's a lot of He-3 on the moon is like saying there's a lot of gold in the ocean. Technically true, but practically useless.
I can't see how this would be anything but a distraction and counter-productive.
TFA said
"The presence of these girls have greatly improved their job efficiency and motivation."
Personally, I find that when I'm happy I'm far more productive than when I'm unhappy. "Wasting" time improving my mood could easily result in more useful work being done overall.
It's not like you have to hire a team of lawyers to prove libel, and the lawyer's costs would be recoverable if you won the suit. Plus if they've sent out hundreds of these take down notices, that would be a pretty big class - I bet you could find a lawyer who would work on that kind of class action suit on a contingency basis. They might try and drag the suit out for years, but they have to pay their lawyers too, it's going to cost them a lot more than it would cost you.
I'd like to delete everything about my prior-to-18 life, including yearbook photos I didn't want taken in the first place.
Instead of removing stuff from the internet, how about giving people a new identity when they come of age? Let them pick a new name, issue a new drivers license/id card, SS number, etc.
When a house is burning down, the fire department shouldn't step back and let the dust settle. When someone reports a house is burning down, the firetrucks should roll right away. But when they get to the house and there is no fire, they shouldn't hack down the door and start spraying water everywhere.
The lesson here is "news sources are unreliable", not "delay is a good idea".
A testament to the durability of Audio CDs is a natural aging study conducted by the Library of Congress. The study found discs that, despite exhibiting both unacceptable levels of BLER and uncorrectable errors, remained playable and failed to exhibit noticeable audio defects. [19]
DVD rot has been debunked as a chronic problem, yet it remains a persistent urban legend. [20] While there have been documented cases of deterioration in specific discs, they appear to be the result of poor manufacturing. [21]
Personally, I trust the Library of Congress analysis, but hey - believe what you want.
What's that in probability of failure? 1 in ten? in a thousand? in a million? They've pressed hundreds of billions of CDs. Even if there are hundreds of thousands of failures, the odds of a particular one failing is still less than 1 in a million.
There's been lots of reports of CDs destroyed in house fires, that doesn't mean your CDs are likely to be destroyed in a house fire. But being destroyed in a fire is far more likely than being destroyed by mold/bacteria/fungus/scare of the day.
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The DMCA doesn't help, but standard libel laws should apply.
Sony published a false statement (incorrect DMCA claim) that claimed a professor of copyright law violated copyright law.
It doesn't get much more defaming than that.
OTA channels = 19.38 Mbps (max)
2 channels = 38.76 Mbps = 4.845 MB/sec
1 Terabyte SSD = 1,000,000 MB
1,000,000 / 4.845 = 206,398 seconds, or 2.3 days
Nand flash write cycle life : 10,000
Total life 10,000 * 2.3 days = 23,000 days or 65 years
If you don't like the assumptions, feel free to make your own, but I think it's clear that write cycle life isn't going to be the limiting factor.
You have been replaced by a small shell script.
An extra 1.6 cents per Kilowatt hour, 250kW, 720 hours in a month,
$0.016/kWh * 250 kW * 720 hours / month = $2,880 / month.
Monthly rent is high, but no where near $2,880 per square foot.
Seems like severe selection bias - not one of the examples has yet to reveal a conspiracy.
How well does the theory predict conspiracies that have already been revealed?
For example, the Manhattan project involved hundreds of people, yet remained secret for years, is that what this theory suggests would have happened?
I ask myself, if I could get 5 Mbps for $20, 20 Mbps for $40, 100 Mbps for $80 or 1,000 Mbps for $160, which would I chose?
And the answer (for me) is 20 Mbps for $40.
I'd like more, but I'm not willing to pay for it.
The average Slashdotter is likely to pick a higher tier, but the average American?
I bet most would be satisfied with (5Mbps * number_of_people_in_household), and $20/month would look very attractive to many.
From The Fine Article;
... ultimately improved the efficiency of the bulb to 6.6% ...
6.6% is 45 lumens per watt.
Pardon me while I yawn.
This tech might lead to something interesting, but so far, not so much.
The commercially available Cree soft white 4-flow A19 bulb is 12% or 82 lumens per watt.
There are LED modules for sale that are over 200 lumens per watt.
In the lab, 303 lumens per watt (44%) has been achieved.
Most reporting is wrong.
Reporters often don't care about what they are reporting about, don't do research on the subject, don't do fact checking or anything else that sounds like work.
The only difference with science reporting is you can often tell how bad the reporters got the story.
OMG, not the stupid lunar He-3 myth again. - http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2834/1
There are currently NO better-than-break-even fusion reactors.
There are no He-3 fusion reactors.
Any currently purposed theories/technologies which could (theoretically) use the difficult and rare He-3 + H-2 could instead use the far more common B-11 + H-1.
Saying that there's a lot of He-3 on the moon is like saying there's a lot of gold in the ocean.
Technically true, but practically useless.
What we really need is fewer Zero Knowledge DAs.
Pre-broken encryption is as bad as it sounds.
So is '?'.
if (a==5) { b=2; } else { b=3; }
same as
b = (a==5)? 2:3;
same as
b = (a==5) * 2 + (a!=5) * 3;
Or in other words;
If (crazy_enough) then (if_not_needed)
v,i,j,k,l,s,a[99];
main()
{
for(scanf("%d",&s);*a-s;v=a[j*=v]-a[i],k=i<s,j+=
(v=j<s&&(!k&&!!printf(2+"\n\n%c"-(!l<<!j)," #Q"[l^v?
(l^j)&1:2])&&++l||a[i]<s&&v&&v-i+j&&v+i-j))&&!(l%=s),
v||(i==j?a[i+=k]=0:++a[i])>=s*k&&++a[--i])
;
}
We've already seen the kind of harm that is caused by abuse of the DMCA via automated take down requests.
Blocking payment should at a minimum require a judge to sign off on it.
you said
I can't see how this would be anything but a distraction and counter-productive.
TFA said
"The presence of these girls have greatly improved their job efficiency and motivation."
Personally, I find that when I'm happy I'm far more productive than when I'm unhappy.
"Wasting" time improving my mood could easily result in more useful work being done overall.
It's a rare developer indeed that makes software that works well with less RAM than they have.
It's not like you have to hire a team of lawyers to prove libel, and the lawyer's costs would be recoverable if you won the suit.
Plus if they've sent out hundreds of these take down notices, that would be a pretty big class - I bet you could find a lawyer who would work on that kind of class action suit on a contingency basis.
They might try and drag the suit out for years, but they have to pay their lawyers too, it's going to cost them a lot more than it would cost you.
Hasn't Entura committed libel, and can't they be held accountable for that?
He had enough time to go inside, get his shotgun, load it, come back outside and then shoot the drone.
I'd like to delete everything about my prior-to-18 life, including yearbook photos I didn't want taken in the first place.
Instead of removing stuff from the internet, how about giving people a new identity when they come of age?
Let them pick a new name, issue a new drivers license/id card, SS number, etc.
Let's not drag the science community down to the level of YouTube cat videos
Too late - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvOtUh8Avi8
Get off my internet!
When a house is burning down, the fire department shouldn't step back and let the dust settle.
When someone reports a house is burning down, the firetrucks should roll right away.
But when they get to the house and there is no fire, they shouldn't hack down the door and start spraying water everywhere.
The lesson here is "news sources are unreliable", not "delay is a good idea".
Asking "should they be acting slower?" is missing the point.
The problem isn't how quickly they acted, it's how stupidly they acted.
ref 2; one person reported 15% of their CDs were beginning to fail, and 85% were not.
This is supposed to be evidence that not-failing is atypical?
Links to stories are easy to find these days, here's one from the other side;
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/opticalmedialongevity.html
Personally, I trust the Library of Congress analysis, but hey - believe what you want.
there's been reports of lots of failures.
What's that in probability of failure? 1 in ten? in a thousand? in a million?
They've pressed hundreds of billions of CDs.
Even if there are hundreds of thousands of failures, the odds of a particular one failing is still less than 1 in a million.
There's been lots of reports of CDs destroyed in house fires, that doesn't mean your CDs are likely to be destroyed in a house fire.
But being destroyed in a fire is far more likely than being destroyed by mold/bacteria/fungus/scare of the day.