No, that would only be the case of they prosecuted people who copied, distributed or performed the work before this treaty was ratified. The law only applies to actions that occurred after that, so it isn't ex-post facto.
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Everything my searches are finding seem to indicate the copyright belongs to the person who clicked the button that caused the image to be made.
That is correct. The photography release forms that people are familiar with are related to invasion of privacy and defamation, not copyright.
Replying to your original post, the difference is that you are not a creative work; your physical body is a product of nature/genetics/parents/god/whatever, but it is not a creative work of man*. A speech is. It is every bit as creative and unique as prose in a book, and should be just as eligible for copyright.
That said, I do think there should be significant fair use rights for works like this, but I think it is the nature of the subject, not the fact that it was performed in the public that differentiates it.
* You're body could be a canvas for a creative work, but that is another issue.
How can an speech that occurs in public be "copyrighted"? I can see how an individual recording could be -- If I take a photograph of you I own the copyright, presumably that applies to videos as well.
In many way that's really no different than asking why the script to a play, or the words to a poem, or the composition of a song performed in public can be copyrighted. The simple fact that a work first occurs in public shouldn't make it ineligible for copyright.
They can be hard to find as they were never released in North America, and only sparsely distributed in Europe. The initial reviews also complained about some lack of polish in the included software; things that most eBook readers have nailed by now. For example the device is too small to read most A4/letter size PDFs a full page at a time, and the software doesn't support rotating the document to view it full width, so you have to constantly scroll both side-to-side and up and down when zoomed in on the PDF.
But the responsiveness of the stylus is supposed to be excellent. They have even lower lag than even expensive Wacom Cintiq displays or Windows tablets, which themselves have far, far lower lag than Android or iOS.
These displays sound great - lower power, better color, sunlight viewability... but the British stiff they interviewed said that they haven't been able to get them into mainstream portable devices. Why? What are the drawbacks?
They don't have better color than a standard LCD or AMOLED. The original PixelQi displays have significantly worse saturation. In my mind this makes well suited for devices such as eBook readers whose primary use is reflective greyscale mode, but can also display color as well. Marketing departments however think that anything with a color display will automatically be compared to the iPad, and they are probably right.
Agreed. Asus was getting really close to what I wanted in a tablet when they released the Eee Note. Then the iPad came out and killed any consumer interest in any other niche products.
It might take institutions 2-3 months to decide it's worth upgrading to.
They will continue to offer security patches for the old ESR 3 months after the new ESR is released. That is enough time to test and deploy the release. It isn't enough time to wait for third party web apps to fix their shit, but based on how long it took them to fix their IE6-dependent shit, no length of support will be long enough for them.
Think of it - the many 4 year undergrad students (perhaps the less technically inclined student) would only have to experience one change in the web browser in their college career in school computer labs, etc.
Actually more than half of students are running chrome or firefox, and upgrading frequently, even the less technically inclined.
By changing this yearly, you're just adding another thing to the pile of the "annual make sure it all works together without crashing checklist".
All the universities I have attended have had FF installed on all their machines, and didn't have trouble keeping up with the old release pace. Firefox 3.5 came 1 year after 3.0, then 7 months later 3.6, and 14 months later 4.0 came. The 3.5 and 4.0 releases had bigger changes in them than the ESR releases will, and there was more crufty non-standards websites around to break as well.
In my 15 years of hanging around campuses, I have heard lots of gnashing of teeth about upgrades to Blackboard and class registration software, and none about upgrading Browsers.
In the case of registries outside of US jurisdiction, SOPA requires all ISPs within the US to filter domain name requests for allegedly infringing sites, when ordered by the US Attorney General.
Given that Comcast has been more proactive about implementing DNSSEC than all the other major ISPs, I was very surprised to learn that they support SOPA, which will make it impossible to for ISPs to implement DNSSEC. I assume that their stance is motivated by the fact that they own half of NBC, and I wonder how their engineering staff plans on handling this situation if the bill is passed.
Google has already testified on SOPA, but the bills backers are convinced that Google is an evil enemy of the Good Media Companies, out to leverage it's monopoly on search to make money off of "rampant piracy" (YouTube, Book Scanning, Google News, etc).
Putting him on the stand will do more damage than good. Bezos is a good option, as people view him more as enabling media sales. But in general concentrating on back-end folks will be much more effective.
Agreed. On the other hand, I imagine that a fair number of the tablets sold went to people who were thinking about buying a laptop/netbook as a second computer, but then opted for the tablet instead.
The EPA defines how energy efficiency numbers are calculated, and those numbers have to be displayed on the car. The car companies could advertise a lower number, but there is no simple one number that tells the whole story, and you can't give a full technical report in a 30 ad. By all using the same system to determine the fuel efficiency at least the numbers are relatively meaningful even if the absolute value isn't directly true for all circumstances.
Finally, good luck suing a company for false advertising when the numbers they are using are determined by government testing, not by the company.
Yeah, it's hard to measure velocity exactly, but from the article it sounds like the increased tire spin was preceded by increased pressure on the accelerator. So the increased tire revolution rate was probably caused by him going faster, not a spin-out.
No, but if the government were to agree to sell all Rupees for $1 each and buy Rupees at $0.85, then that does nail down the conversion rate pretty tightly. Furthermore, in the context of the discussion, it means that you are being paid less than $24 for a days worth of work, as no one is going to pay more for $C than C&P does.
How this is controversial at all is simply beyond me
I agree, this shouldn't be controversial at all. Throwing money on expensive gadgets that do nothing to improve the educational process is a complete waste of money, and any administrator who suggests it should be fired on the spot and loose all retirement benefits.
You can also buy C$ for US$1.00 each by using the menu in the upper right by your balance.
assuming it is not a 1:1 exchange rate (because, if it were, why the need to pay me in fake digital currency?)
It is 1:1. They use virtual currency so they don't have to deal with payment processing fees/regulations each time a transaction occurs, only when money is cashed out.
The thing is they didn't charged him with making death threats, or anything legitimate. They charged him with a stupid virtual stalking law, and the judge rightly declared that his first amendment rights trumped that law.
Microsoft has released blocks for both IE 8 and IE 9 which can be applied by IT if they don't want to upgrade, as they have done for every automatic upgrade. If a company is too incompetent to manage the updates being applied to their computers and still needs IE 6 then they brought this on themselves.
I agree. I think another big issue that is pushing the economics in favor of the smaller reactors is certification. It is more cost effective (and just smarter) to certify a design and then make a ton of exact copies of it, than it is to take a general design and modify it enough at each site to require a recertification, which is what historically happened with our "big" LWRs.
No they intentionally drilled to the same depth as fracking operations in order to determine the extent of horizontal transfer of fracking fluids and how much fluid was left after being pumped out. This was in addition to testing at normal water well depth. Their paper lists as a regret that they were not able to drill to intermediate depths to better understand how the fluids are moving.
The majority of Encana "refutations" are pure bullshit, and the few minor issues that aren't are mentioned in the EPA report as limitations of the current study. In particular the EPA report does compare the current water well against historical values, contrary to that propaganda piece you linked.
Read the recently released EPA report, or at least reporting on it. Wells which had been pure for years have suddenly had massive influxes of hydrocarbons which cannot be explained by bacteria means. Chemicals used in fracking are also showing up in these drinking wells in significant quantities, with no other plausible source. Fracking is polluting our water table and should be stopped immediately.
To the left of the image were links providing direct URLs for the specific page you were viewing, and a download link for the image. The site is down right now, so I can't check if they are full resolution or not.
The only complaint I had with the interface was that there were no navigation buttons in full page mode, and that it was a little slow to load pages, which considering that the site is down now was probably just a heavy load issue.
All the deleted items listed in the link you provided are things they deleted in the 2nd edition of their book to make room for more worthy material given page limits imposed by their publisher. The very first paragraph makes clear that this is no longer a concern in the online version:
The notes below, from the 1993 second edition, are largely unrevised. In general we have been able to relax many constraints previously forced on us by the space limitations of a single printed volume. Some authors of short stories only, like Vance AANDAHL, appeared in the first edition, were cut to save space in the second and are now restored;
There is nothing in that article that suggests they plan on cutting material because it is non-notable. Only an admission that there is a lot of Sci-Fi out there and only so much time to write. I think they are destined to fail compared to fan contributed sites given this limitation, but that has nothing to do with deletionism.
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No, that would only be the case of they prosecuted people who copied, distributed or performed the work before this treaty was ratified. The law only applies to actions that occurred after that, so it isn't ex-post facto.
Everything my searches are finding seem to indicate the copyright belongs to the person who clicked the button that caused the image to be made.
That is correct. The photography release forms that people are familiar with are related to invasion of privacy and defamation, not copyright.
Replying to your original post, the difference is that you are not a creative work; your physical body is a product of nature/genetics/parents/god/whatever, but it is not a creative work of man*. A speech is. It is every bit as creative and unique as prose in a book, and should be just as eligible for copyright.
That said, I do think there should be significant fair use rights for works like this, but I think it is the nature of the subject, not the fact that it was performed in the public that differentiates it.
* You're body could be a canvas for a creative work, but that is another issue.
How can an speech that occurs in public be "copyrighted"? I can see how an individual recording could be -- If I take a photograph of you I own the copyright, presumably that applies to videos as well.
In many way that's really no different than asking why the script to a play, or the words to a poem, or the composition of a song performed in public can be copyrighted. The simple fact that a work first occurs in public shouldn't make it ineligible for copyright.
They can be hard to find as they were never released in North America, and only sparsely distributed in Europe. The initial reviews also complained about some lack of polish in the included software; things that most eBook readers have nailed by now. For example the device is too small to read most A4/letter size PDFs a full page at a time, and the software doesn't support rotating the document to view it full width, so you have to constantly scroll both side-to-side and up and down when zoomed in on the PDF.
But the responsiveness of the stylus is supposed to be excellent. They have even lower lag than even expensive Wacom Cintiq displays or Windows tablets, which themselves have far, far lower lag than Android or iOS.
These displays sound great - lower power, better color, sunlight viewability... but the British stiff they interviewed said that they haven't been able to get them into mainstream portable devices. Why? What are the drawbacks?
They don't have better color than a standard LCD or AMOLED. The original PixelQi displays have significantly worse saturation. In my mind this makes well suited for devices such as eBook readers whose primary use is reflective greyscale mode, but can also display color as well. Marketing departments however think that anything with a color display will automatically be compared to the iPad, and they are probably right.
Agreed. Asus was getting really close to what I wanted in a tablet when they released the Eee Note. Then the iPad came out and killed any consumer interest in any other niche products.
Timothy Lord is this timothy, who has been working at slashdot pretty much since it was formed.
It might take institutions 2-3 months to decide it's worth upgrading to.
They will continue to offer security patches for the old ESR 3 months after the new ESR is released. That is enough time to test and deploy the release. It isn't enough time to wait for third party web apps to fix their shit, but based on how long it took them to fix their IE6-dependent shit, no length of support will be long enough for them.
Think of it - the many 4 year undergrad students (perhaps the less technically inclined student) would only have to experience one change in the web browser in their college career in school computer labs, etc.
Actually more than half of students are running chrome or firefox, and upgrading frequently, even the less technically inclined.
By changing this yearly, you're just adding another thing to the pile of the "annual make sure it all works together without crashing checklist".
All the universities I have attended have had FF installed on all their machines, and didn't have trouble keeping up with the old release pace. Firefox 3.5 came 1 year after 3.0, then 7 months later 3.6, and 14 months later 4.0 came. The 3.5 and 4.0 releases had bigger changes in them than the ESR releases will, and there was more crufty non-standards websites around to break as well.
In my 15 years of hanging around campuses, I have heard lots of gnashing of teeth about upgrades to Blackboard and class registration software, and none about upgrading Browsers.
In the case of registries outside of US jurisdiction, SOPA requires all ISPs within the US to filter domain name requests for allegedly infringing sites, when ordered by the US Attorney General.
Given that Comcast has been more proactive about implementing DNSSEC than all the other major ISPs, I was very surprised to learn that they support SOPA, which will make it impossible to for ISPs to implement DNSSEC. I assume that their stance is motivated by the fact that they own half of NBC, and I wonder how their engineering staff plans on handling this situation if the bill is passed.
Google has already testified on SOPA, but the bills backers are convinced that Google is an evil enemy of the Good Media Companies, out to leverage it's monopoly on search to make money off of "rampant piracy" (YouTube, Book Scanning, Google News, etc).
Putting him on the stand will do more damage than good. Bezos is a good option, as people view him more as enabling media sales. But in general concentrating on back-end folks will be much more effective.
Agreed. On the other hand, I imagine that a fair number of the tablets sold went to people who were thinking about buying a laptop/netbook as a second computer, but then opted for the tablet instead.
The EPA defines how energy efficiency numbers are calculated, and those numbers have to be displayed on the car. The car companies could advertise a lower number, but there is no simple one number that tells the whole story, and you can't give a full technical report in a 30 ad. By all using the same system to determine the fuel efficiency at least the numbers are relatively meaningful even if the absolute value isn't directly true for all circumstances.
Finally, good luck suing a company for false advertising when the numbers they are using are determined by government testing, not by the company.
Yeah, it's hard to measure velocity exactly, but from the article it sounds like the increased tire spin was preceded by increased pressure on the accelerator. So the increased tire revolution rate was probably caused by him going faster, not a spin-out.
No, but if the government were to agree to sell all Rupees for $1 each and buy Rupees at $0.85, then that does nail down the conversion rate pretty tightly. Furthermore, in the context of the discussion, it means that you are being paid less than $24 for a days worth of work, as no one is going to pay more for $C than C&P does.
How this is controversial at all is simply beyond me
I agree, this shouldn't be controversial at all. Throwing money on expensive gadgets that do nothing to improve the educational process is a complete waste of money, and any administrator who suggests it should be fired on the spot and loose all retirement benefits.
1) What's the exchange rate between C$ and USD?
From the C&P site:
You can also buy C$ for US$1.00 each by using the menu in the upper right by your balance.
assuming it is not a 1:1 exchange rate (because, if it were, why the need to pay me in fake digital currency?)
It is 1:1. They use virtual currency so they don't have to deal with payment processing fees/regulations each time a transaction occurs, only when money is cashed out.
The thing is they didn't charged him with making death threats, or anything legitimate. They charged him with a stupid virtual stalking law, and the judge rightly declared that his first amendment rights trumped that law.
Microsoft has released blocks for both IE 8 and IE 9 which can be applied by IT if they don't want to upgrade, as they have done for every automatic upgrade. If a company is too incompetent to manage the updates being applied to their computers and still needs IE 6 then they brought this on themselves.
The rule is based on ATSC A/85 RP (70 page PDF), which most definitely is not just a simple amplitude definition.
I agree. I think another big issue that is pushing the economics in favor of the smaller reactors is certification. It is more cost effective (and just smarter) to certify a design and then make a ton of exact copies of it, than it is to take a general design and modify it enough at each site to require a recertification, which is what historically happened with our "big" LWRs.
No they intentionally drilled to the same depth as fracking operations in order to determine the extent of horizontal transfer of fracking fluids and how much fluid was left after being pumped out. This was in addition to testing at normal water well depth. Their paper lists as a regret that they were not able to drill to intermediate depths to better understand how the fluids are moving.
The majority of Encana "refutations" are pure bullshit, and the few minor issues that aren't are mentioned in the EPA report as limitations of the current study. In particular the EPA report does compare the current water well against historical values, contrary to that propaganda piece you linked.
Read the recently released EPA report, or at least reporting on it. Wells which had been pure for years have suddenly had massive influxes of hydrocarbons which cannot be explained by bacteria means. Chemicals used in fracking are also showing up in these drinking wells in significant quantities, with no other plausible source. Fracking is polluting our water table and should be stopped immediately.
To the left of the image were links providing direct URLs for the specific page you were viewing, and a download link for the image. The site is down right now, so I can't check if they are full resolution or not.
The only complaint I had with the interface was that there were no navigation buttons in full page mode, and that it was a little slow to load pages, which considering that the site is down now was probably just a heavy load issue.
All the deleted items listed in the link you provided are things they deleted in the 2nd edition of their book to make room for more worthy material given page limits imposed by their publisher. The very first paragraph makes clear that this is no longer a concern in the online version:
The notes below, from the 1993 second edition, are largely unrevised. In general we have been able to relax many constraints previously forced on us by the space limitations of a single printed volume. Some authors of short stories only, like Vance AANDAHL, appeared in the first edition, were cut to save space in the second and are now restored;
There is nothing in that article that suggests they plan on cutting material because it is non-notable. Only an admission that there is a lot of Sci-Fi out there and only so much time to write. I think they are destined to fail compared to fan contributed sites given this limitation, but that has nothing to do with deletionism.