Precisely. I live in MN and believe me, I love my cheap nuclear electricity. But even igonoring the concerns of intrinsic safety issues, the threat of terrorism, and the danger of having fissionable materials available in a commercial environment, the plain fact is that we build nuclear facilities without dealing with two serious questions: Where is the radioactive waste going to get put, and how are we going to deal with decommissioning the plant when it goes past its safe and economically justifiable lifespan.
And you may say that these issues can be resolved, and maybe they can, but the facts that you can see here in the real world is that these issues are a constant, constant hassle and problem. And the reason, as GunFodder implies, is that nobody wants the damn waste in their neighborhood. We deal with this all the time with the MN Prairie Island facility, Excel Energy (formerly NSP) is constantly stretching its agreements and pushing the safety boundaries of casking and storing its waste.
I'm of a liberal & environmentalist political senisiblitity, but I think nuclear COULD be a sustainable element of a rational energy policy. But only if we sort these issues out BEFORE we start building new facilities and generating the waste.
Precisely. Why is this so hard to understand? Every form of fuel or energy storage requires more power to create than it can produce. Otherwise you could simply hook the power production process up to the power storage/fuel creation process and - Viola! - perpetual motion, all our energy problems are solved.
The main problem of all renewable energy schemes is that fossil fuels are formed by millions of years of solar energy accumulated by the biosphere and millions of years of geological pressure. It isn't that these fuels are more fundamentally efficient - in fact, they are relatively innefficient from many perspectives. It is that nature has done all the work for us - leaving us to liberate the value at our leisure. Convenient, and in the extremely narrow and short-sighted view we've taken of energy, cheap.
The problems, of course, are that we are stuck with relatively dirty fuels like coal and oil, and that these fuels are not renewable in the short term. Hence, any renewable fuel will face us with a cost-benefits problem: it will cost more to produce than an equivalent unit of coal or oil. Until we start measuring the environmental, political and future stability/planning impacts as part of the cost of burning fossil fuels, it will always seem economically preferable to stick with our old standbys.
The real issue of hydrogen or any alternative fuels (biomass derived, ethanol, etc.) is to find the most efficient way to use a renewable or sustainable energy source. Hydrogen has the convenience and benefit of being a fuel: useful from points of view of storage and self-containment.
Some questions, are, whose authority? And how is it exercised? Frankly, I don't give a damn if I'm banned in France unless someone can succesfully punish me. But how and under what jusrisdiction am I going to be sued/prosecuted?
It's worth thinking about the other side though. A country that did not share America's copyright protections, might make tons of intellectual property available. Whose responsibility is it then to stop me, Mr. American, from downloading this content? Cause it is surely illegal for me to do so.
My opinion of course is that the point of crime is when I as the consumer "bring" the ofensive data into my country and thus break my laws. It's the only way that makes sense.
Maybe not when you posted this link, but the poll I looked at had the following:
On 21 December, ZDNet posted a story reporting the preliminary results of this poll, which showed a large majority of respondents who said they planned to deliver applications via Web services by the end of 2002 favoured Java for the job. At the time, Java outranked.Net by a factor of three in this poll. By early January, the position had reversed; the results are shown here. An investigation indicated that Microsoft employees used vote-rigging to distort the results. The full story can be found here."
I wonder how many of you freedom fighters actually read the judges actual decision. Here are the real facts of the case, which you will find nowhere in the Wired article: The FBI went in with a warrant that very specifically defined what they could look for, including files on the computer, and specifically stated that they could install gadgets for the specific purpose of seeking an encryption password. If the feds have probable cause on you for comitting a crime then yes, they could very well throw one of these things on your computer and shake down your password, with a valid warrant expressly permitting that action. Big fucking deal. This seems totally valid to me, it isn't a wire tap and it sure doesn't look to me like the exercise of a general warrant, a judge sent them in with the tools to look for a specific piece of information that they had probable cause to believe would implicate criminal activity and they did so and no more. Read the decision. It is thoroughly and thoughtfully executed with a great deal of explanation and precedent supporting the judges decision. Scarfo's attornies' objections, on the other hand, look exactly like what they are: straw-grasping attempts to get damning evidence thrown out on technicalities of dubious merit. Get over it.
I don't necessarily say it is right (particularly universally right) but this kind of thing is far from uncommon, at least in the physical sciences: patented chemicals, processes, even genes. The Cisco issue isn't really relevant - that was a matter of a dipute of whether a now private company (Cisco) was utilizing technology or knowledge that in truth belonged to the university.
There are two sides to this - on the plus side, I think it is great if a university can generate a badly needed revenue stream from the work they do. On the other hand, any privitazation of science reduces access, public value, and collaborative potential of that science.
Another issue not much adressed is that undergrads and graduate students often get screwed in the process - experiencing little reward from the product of their labor.
Not to ignore the tech aspect, but I think that this speaks just as much to a steadily increasing profile for animation in general. From the Simpsons, MTV's experiments with Liquid Television and series like Aeon Flux, the increasing profile of anime (major full lengths now debut with national albeit limited distribution in a place like the States): I think it's safe to say that the ability of animation to drawq a broad crowd with diversity of gender and age has been proven - certainly just as important as developments in CGI and the sucess of CGI projects.
Of course, as ususal many studios will slap together formulaic, crummy projects driven by the idea that CGI means a movie on the cheap (no locations! no actors!). They'll tank, and some burned studios will think twice before the next one. And even if the product is decent - I watched "Osmosis Jones" on video this weekend and enjoyed it quite a bit - it may pan because there are no sure things in entertainment.
There are some issues that make this significant. The first is, there need to sources of online music that are unaffiliated with the copyright owners but also trying to legitimately compensate artists/copyright holders. Napster got spanked because they weren't even trying to follow the rules. So the otherwise valid argument that online music wasn't being made available in a fair market couldn't be heard. Now it can be. As a result the copyright hoarders risk subjecting themselves to antitrust violations if they aren't careful about how they do business.
It also helps to secure legitimate venues where artists with the moxie to dive into the digital revolution headfirst instead of trying to control everything like their pig corporate counterpartts can debut their work yet still have a chance of seeing some return.
Any information distribution scheme that attempts to exploit the natural efficiencies of digital interchange is significant, since the copyright vultures are intent on preventing consumers and artists from enjoying these benefits - they want to cut their costs and gouge us for more. No legitimate competition means their monopolies remain unchallenged.
Even if it is totally legit, who the hell cares? I mean, this is a Microsoft sales team. They want to keep their customers from converting any of their systems away from Microsoft systems, or choosing non-Windows systems when they convert their legacy systems. This guy gives very straightforward advise and tools for doing this. Yes, it all sounds a bit brash and slimy - welcome to the world of marketing. It isn't news anymore that Microsoft takes Linux seriously as a threat to its businesses. So could be be spared this leaked dreck? Like I don't have to read enough boring memos at work as it is.
Mmm, comforting. But hey, what you're selling here is a somewhat false sense of security (your website staying up means dick if your economy collapses, for example. So you gotta play the worst case scenario card.
Funny, you're the first I've come across person to voice my one serious objection to the adaptation - the change to the nature of Frodo's leaving the fellowship to strike out for Mordor on his own, which to my mind reduced the dramatic impact of the episode without gaining anything.
I reread the trilogy in preparing myself to watch it - I told people - half jokingly - that I was "looking forward to being dissapointed" by it. The books being fresh in my mind I also winced at some of the dialog changes - I'd guess mostly made because the dialog in the books does seem overly formal, courtly and anachronistic.
This being said, I think it's worth considering that Jackson's task was insurmountable. The book is not really suited to be transferred into a visual medium, and a movie, with its 3-hour length envelope already being pushed, all the less so. Remember the radio version is some 13 hours long - each movie would have to be an impossible 4+ hours to match the scope of narrative. Jackson was faced with a very hard road: make a movie that would have broad-based appeal (Tolkien-heads will not make the nut on a feature with production values so necessarily high); that would satisfy the "average" Tolkien afficianado (likewise, a LoTR movie can't make it unless the majority of Tolkien fans approve); and do it all in a time frame that would have to be a third again as long for a minimally complete retelling and twice as long to really cover the ground. He was looking at a dozen hours worth of potential scenes and had to make a ton of very hard choices; it's easy to point out the worse ones after the fact but it must have been hell to actually slog through it all.
All this said, I liked the movie. I didn't like some think it was just this superfantastic best thing ever. But I felt more of the heart and spirit of the story remained than was lost; it held me in its spell for 3+ hours (no mean feat); and it left me wanting to see the next one.
When I saw the Matrix for the first time I got so mad and dissapointed about the third in as the mind-bender introduction gave way to the much more action oriented main plot. But it stayed on my mind and I rented it, and then rented it again. And I came to see that The Matrix wasn't really the problem; no, it wasn't my dreamed of Phillip K. Dick sophisticated sci-fi intellectual powerhouse. It was what it was. And what it was was actually an entertaining and well crafted movie.
There's no accounting for tastes, and your objections are entirely valid. But I hope you'll give FoTR another chance and see if you don't find it more worthwhile just taken as it is.
Yeah, well, your response on my unecessary derision of slashdot posters was longer than my original post...
..."Pretentious asshole"...prick...shoving your glasses up your acne strewn nose...
I'll have to head over to your user profile and check out your other comments for more tips on the "proper" way to deal with posts I don't care for... I've obviously gone astray pointing out factual errors in comments and taking people to task for pretending to weigh in on articles when they're in fact too lazy to read anything but the headline. Clearly I haven't given enough thought to the high road of profane language and unkind "geek" stereotypes like glasses and acne. You kiss your momma with that mouth?
...a thin foul mist of pretention...
I gotta take this from someone that uses phrases like "a thin foul mist of pretention?"
the rest of us non-reactionary types.
After you learn how to spell "pretension" you may want to keep that dictionary out and review the definition of "hypocrisy."
In short... you're not helping.
Helping what? Helping the slashdot comments forum become a kinder, gentler place? Whatever. Yeah, I've got my pet peeves and occasionally vent my spleen. If I gotta swing for it I can take some comfort in the fact that there will be a very long line in front of me to the gallows. None of us is achieving social revolution wasting our time posting our brain drool to slashdot. At best we learn something from time to time, get into the occasional interesting conversation, and have the chance to blow off some verbal steam without doing any real harm. So get off your high horse. Anyone can see that you're easily as pretentious and reactionary as I am (though clearly nowhere near so smart and glib).
They didn't make a "portable supernova." They created situations where radioactive isotopes were generated at accelerations comparable to those in a supernova, allowing them to make real observations of situation analogous to those occuring in a supernova. We call this science.
It will never cease to amaze me that there is this army of trolls just lying in wait to come up with the stupidest, most knee-jerk, ignorant and uninformed comment on damn near anything withing moments of its appearance. There's almost a sort of genius to it...
Unfortunately it's a really stupid, useless sort of genius.
Ah, but you see: in THIS case the question at hand is, how abysmally, horrorifically, mind-bendingly banal, odious, lowbrow and wretched can a film be and still get a very luke-warm moderate nod from this reviewer?
The point is, this person is saying that Not Another Teen Movie is MUCH WORSE than Scary movie. Personally, I'd take that to heart.
I do have to comment about all the posts to the effect that this is not nerd-appropriate. Certainly it is - appropriate for that undeniable nerd subset with a weakness for crude excuses to inject crude sexual content into a movie, a weakness developed to such a degree in some that it totally impairs their judgement in other regards.
As I read this there will still be 10% of commercial players that will not be running Microsoft software as if it were a public standard. Buy these DVD players.
Hey Slashdot editors, why not make yourselves useful for a change and start tracking and informing us of the producers that resist assimilation, so we can support them in the only meaningful way there is, with our wallets, and keep them viable?
Get over it hackers. Being arrested from time to time is a part of life. When you violate laws in a more or less public manner and assert your right to do so, eventually the Feds are going to come knocking. Blame everyone who mooed complacently as intellectual property laws became increasingly insane, everyone who looks on as their ISP violates their privacy, because they can't live without their broadband and anyway they have "nothing to hide," everyone who in the final analysis supports the status quo because it's obvious and easy. Have fun in jail, pirates.
Agreed - this whole story just seems a bit off. Still, I can't help remembering my old childhood friend Aaron, though, whose parents were like out and out beatniks, and SO wanted him to not want to play with violent toys... a desire that clashed with their resolve to give him empowerment and self-reliance and hence the power to spend his own money... which invariably went to GI Joe war toys. He was a good guy, perfectly well adjusted and really not prone to violence. These people certainly have a right to their say but they would be a hell of a lot better off lobbying to keep handguns from getting dumped into quasi-legal grey markets.
Ah, the necessarily muddled reaction of the intellectual elite are all so predictably dull... Yes, Telegraph Reviewer, please tell me how Hard and Complicated the "real world" is... all of us stupid children who enjoy escaping moral relativism for a few hours need to be reeled back in. Hmm, I think I'll look for insights into the real world elsewhere than from some limey entertainment journalist. I've been rereading the books in preparation and Tolkien's themes of relying on one's personal moral compass in the face of an uncertain and hostile world still work for me. And the story is not so black and white nor simplistic as some might assert - I hope the moie captures some of this nuance.
Katz, however, is a total wild card as far as I'm concerned - I can never tell what he's going to like. He's certainly prone to the bigforheaditis analyze evrything to shit disease but he also likes some very Hollywood Crap Entertainment. Who knows?
It's always instructive to float a comment when you don't know what the hell you're talking about... okay so I stand corrected... It's actually vaguely encouraging that the people who are carrying content aren't taking the people who are, what would you call it, syndicating the content's desires into account...
Good and true except for one thing... Cable and Sattelite companies are the sworn enemies of PVR manufacturers because they are seeking totally different behaviors from their customers... Heehee unless of course Microsoft colludes with them to install anti commercial skipping software in the X-Box at which point they're at odds with THEIR customers... Of course if all digital broadcast starts going out in CSS then according to the courts we can't do shit except watch it the way they pipe it... It's pretty complicated, it's far from a done deal yet.
Am I correct in interpreting the phrase "Dark Matter may consist of massive compact objects (MACHOs), such as dead or dying stars (neutron stars and cool dwarf stars), black holes of various sizes or planet-sized collections of rocks and ice" as basically meaning "Dark Matter may just be ordinary shit we already know about but in this case just can't see" ?
I mean, not that dying stars or black holes are merely ordinary, but "Dark Matter" sounded so much more mysterious.
Slashdot Mirror
And you may say that these issues can be resolved, and maybe they can, but the facts that you can see here in the real world is that these issues are a constant, constant hassle and problem. And the reason, as GunFodder implies, is that nobody wants the damn waste in their neighborhood. We deal with this all the time with the MN Prairie Island facility, Excel Energy (formerly NSP) is constantly stretching its agreements and pushing the safety boundaries of casking and storing its waste.
I'm of a liberal & environmentalist political senisiblitity, but I think nuclear COULD be a sustainable element of a rational energy policy. But only if we sort these issues out BEFORE we start building new facilities and generating the waste.
The main problem of all renewable energy schemes is that fossil fuels are formed by millions of years of solar energy accumulated by the biosphere and millions of years of geological pressure. It isn't that these fuels are more fundamentally efficient - in fact, they are relatively innefficient from many perspectives. It is that nature has done all the work for us - leaving us to liberate the value at our leisure. Convenient, and in the extremely narrow and short-sighted view we've taken of energy, cheap.
The problems, of course, are that we are stuck with relatively dirty fuels like coal and oil, and that these fuels are not renewable in the short term. Hence, any renewable fuel will face us with a cost-benefits problem: it will cost more to produce than an equivalent unit of coal or oil. Until we start measuring the environmental, political and future stability/planning impacts as part of the cost of burning fossil fuels, it will always seem economically preferable to stick with our old standbys.
The real issue of hydrogen or any alternative fuels (biomass derived, ethanol, etc.) is to find the most efficient way to use a renewable or sustainable energy source. Hydrogen has the convenience and benefit of being a fuel: useful from points of view of storage and self-containment.
It's worth thinking about the other side though. A country that did not share America's copyright protections, might make tons of intellectual property available. Whose responsibility is it then to stop me, Mr. American, from downloading this content? Cause it is surely illegal for me to do so.
My opinion of course is that the point of crime is when I as the consumer "bring" the ofensive data into my country and thus break my laws. It's the only way that makes sense.
wow, if ever a bunch of people (myself vehemently included) needed to get modded down for being redundant...
On 21 December, ZDNet posted a story reporting the preliminary results of this poll, which showed a large majority of respondents who said they planned to deliver applications via Web services by the end of 2002 favoured Java for the job. At the time, Java outranked
I added the emphasis.
Man all the good names are taken
I wonder how many of you freedom fighters actually read the judges actual decision. Here are the real facts of the case, which you will find nowhere in the Wired article: The FBI went in with a warrant that very specifically defined what they could look for, including files on the computer, and specifically stated that they could install gadgets for the specific purpose of seeking an encryption password. If the feds have probable cause on you for comitting a crime then yes, they could very well throw one of these things on your computer and shake down your password, with a valid warrant expressly permitting that action. Big fucking deal. This seems totally valid to me, it isn't a wire tap and it sure doesn't look to me like the exercise of a general warrant, a judge sent them in with the tools to look for a specific piece of information that they had probable cause to believe would implicate criminal activity and they did so and no more. Read the decision. It is thoroughly and thoughtfully executed with a great deal of explanation and precedent supporting the judges decision. Scarfo's attornies' objections, on the other hand, look exactly like what they are: straw-grasping attempts to get damning evidence thrown out on technicalities of dubious merit. Get over it.
There are two sides to this - on the plus side, I think it is great if a university can generate a badly needed revenue stream from the work they do. On the other hand, any privitazation of science reduces access, public value, and collaborative potential of that science.
Another issue not much adressed is that undergrads and graduate students often get screwed in the process - experiencing little reward from the product of their labor.
Of course, as ususal many studios will slap together formulaic, crummy projects driven by the idea that CGI means a movie on the cheap (no locations! no actors!). They'll tank, and some burned studios will think twice before the next one. And even if the product is decent - I watched "Osmosis Jones" on video this weekend and enjoyed it quite a bit - it may pan because there are no sure things in entertainment.
It also helps to secure legitimate venues where artists with the moxie to dive into the digital revolution headfirst instead of trying to control everything like their pig corporate counterpartts can debut their work yet still have a chance of seeing some return.
Any information distribution scheme that attempts to exploit the natural efficiencies of digital interchange is significant, since the copyright vultures are intent on preventing consumers and artists from enjoying these benefits - they want to cut their costs and gouge us for more. No legitimate competition means their monopolies remain unchallenged.
Even if it is totally legit, who the hell cares? I mean, this is a Microsoft sales team. They want to keep their customers from converting any of their systems away from Microsoft systems, or choosing non-Windows systems when they convert their legacy systems. This guy gives very straightforward advise and tools for doing this. Yes, it all sounds a bit brash and slimy - welcome to the world of marketing. It isn't news anymore that Microsoft takes Linux seriously as a threat to its businesses. So could be be spared this leaked dreck? Like I don't have to read enough boring memos at work as it is.
Mmm, comforting. But hey, what you're selling here is a somewhat false sense of security (your website staying up means dick if your economy collapses, for example. So you gotta play the worst case scenario card.
I reread the trilogy in preparing myself to watch it - I told people - half jokingly - that I was "looking forward to being dissapointed" by it. The books being fresh in my mind I also winced at some of the dialog changes - I'd guess mostly made because the dialog in the books does seem overly formal, courtly and anachronistic.
This being said, I think it's worth considering that Jackson's task was insurmountable. The book is not really suited to be transferred into a visual medium, and a movie, with its 3-hour length envelope already being pushed, all the less so. Remember the radio version is some 13 hours long - each movie would have to be an impossible 4+ hours to match the scope of narrative. Jackson was faced with a very hard road: make a movie that would have broad-based appeal (Tolkien-heads will not make the nut on a feature with production values so necessarily high); that would satisfy the "average" Tolkien afficianado (likewise, a LoTR movie can't make it unless the majority of Tolkien fans approve); and do it all in a time frame that would have to be a third again as long for a minimally complete retelling and twice as long to really cover the ground. He was looking at a dozen hours worth of potential scenes and had to make a ton of very hard choices; it's easy to point out the worse ones after the fact but it must have been hell to actually slog through it all.
All this said, I liked the movie. I didn't like some think it was just this superfantastic best thing ever. But I felt more of the heart and spirit of the story remained than was lost; it held me in its spell for 3+ hours (no mean feat); and it left me wanting to see the next one.
When I saw the Matrix for the first time I got so mad and dissapointed about the third in as the mind-bender introduction gave way to the much more action oriented main plot. But it stayed on my mind and I rented it, and then rented it again. And I came to see that The Matrix wasn't really the problem; no, it wasn't my dreamed of Phillip K. Dick sophisticated sci-fi intellectual powerhouse. It was what it was. And what it was was actually an entertaining and well crafted movie.
There's no accounting for tastes, and your objections are entirely valid. But I hope you'll give FoTR another chance and see if you don't find it more worthwhile just taken as it is.
Yeah, well, your response on my unecessary derision of slashdot posters was longer than my original post...
I'll have to head over to your user profile and check out your other comments for more tips on the "proper" way to deal with posts I don't care for... I've obviously gone astray pointing out factual errors in comments and taking people to task for pretending to weigh in on articles when they're in fact too lazy to read anything but the headline. Clearly I haven't given enough thought to the high road of profane language and unkind "geek" stereotypes like glasses and acne. You kiss your momma with that mouth?
I gotta take this from someone that uses phrases like "a thin foul mist of pretention?"
the rest of us non-reactionary types.
After you learn how to spell "pretension" you may want to keep that dictionary out and review the definition of "hypocrisy."
In short... you're not helping.
Helping what? Helping the slashdot comments forum become a kinder, gentler place? Whatever. Yeah, I've got my pet peeves and occasionally vent my spleen. If I gotta swing for it I can take some comfort in the fact that there will be a very long line in front of me to the gallows. None of us is achieving social revolution wasting our time posting our brain drool to slashdot. At best we learn something from time to time, get into the occasional interesting conversation, and have the chance to blow off some verbal steam without doing any real harm. So get off your high horse. Anyone can see that you're easily as pretentious and reactionary as I am (though clearly nowhere near so smart and glib).
It will never cease to amaze me that there is this army of trolls just lying in wait to come up with the stupidest, most knee-jerk, ignorant and uninformed comment on damn near anything withing moments of its appearance. There's almost a sort of genius to it...
Unfortunately it's a really stupid, useless sort of genius.
The point is, this person is saying that Not Another Teen Movie is MUCH WORSE than Scary movie. Personally, I'd take that to heart.
I do have to comment about all the posts to the effect that this is not nerd-appropriate. Certainly it is - appropriate for that undeniable nerd subset with a weakness for crude excuses to inject crude sexual content into a movie, a weakness developed to such a degree in some that it totally impairs their judgement in other regards.
from the patent application:
"and can provide a trusted clock used in place of the standard computer clock."
I wonder if it will keep trustworthy time, as opposed to the computer clock on my @#$*%X*^! Microsoft OS desktop at work.
yeah, tell me about taking personal responsibility, you anonymous asshole.
Hey Slashdot editors, why not make yourselves useful for a change and start tracking and informing us of the producers that resist assimilation, so we can support them in the only meaningful way there is, with our wallets, and keep them viable?
Get over it hackers. Being arrested from time to time is a part of life. When you violate laws in a more or less public manner and assert your right to do so, eventually the Feds are going to come knocking. Blame everyone who mooed complacently as intellectual property laws became increasingly insane, everyone who looks on as their ISP violates their privacy, because they can't live without their broadband and anyway they have "nothing to hide," everyone who in the final analysis supports the status quo because it's obvious and easy. Have fun in jail, pirates.
Agreed - this whole story just seems a bit off. Still, I can't help remembering my old childhood friend Aaron, though, whose parents were like out and out beatniks, and SO wanted him to not want to play with violent toys... a desire that clashed with their resolve to give him empowerment and self-reliance and hence the power to spend his own money... which invariably went to GI Joe war toys. He was a good guy, perfectly well adjusted and really not prone to violence. These people certainly have a right to their say but they would be a hell of a lot better off lobbying to keep handguns from getting dumped into quasi-legal grey markets.
Katz, however, is a total wild card as far as I'm concerned - I can never tell what he's going to like. He's certainly prone to the bigforheaditis analyze evrything to shit disease but he also likes some very Hollywood Crap Entertainment. Who knows?
It's always instructive to float a comment when you don't know what the hell you're talking about... okay so I stand corrected... It's actually vaguely encouraging that the people who are carrying content aren't taking the people who are, what would you call it, syndicating the content's desires into account...
Good and true except for one thing... Cable and Sattelite companies are the sworn enemies of PVR manufacturers because they are seeking totally different behaviors from their customers... Heehee unless of course Microsoft colludes with them to install anti commercial skipping software in the X-Box at which point they're at odds with THEIR customers... Of course if all digital broadcast starts going out in CSS then according to the courts we can't do shit except watch it the way they pipe it... It's pretty complicated, it's far from a done deal yet.
I mean, not that dying stars or black holes are merely ordinary, but "Dark Matter" sounded so much more mysterious.