The law has two tiers, one apparently meant to handle old-style copying and new-style deliberate copying, and one to handle new-style computer-illiterate copying.
So it's already new legislation to handle the situation you say new legislation is needed to handle.
What's really needed is to stop having mandatory minimum sentences written into the statutes. The point of writing the laws down is to keep judges from becoming all-powerful to the point where they can rule over the public with the threat of permanent incarceration for made-up offenses. But if you take away their power to free someone, then it's the legislature that has become a tyranny.
Punitive damages are there because you don't want people getting the idea they can take their chances.
If you can steal something and all you have to pay if you get caught is the price of the thing you stole, then you'll end up paying less for all your stuff by only paying for the few things you get caught stealing.
Quadrupling the amount you have to pay if you get caught makes it less likely for you to profit overall.
It also makes it more likely that plaintiffs will go through the effort of bringing the case, and pays the plaintiffs for taking the trouble to improve society overall.
N.B.: the RIAA are the real pirates and deserve to be burned to the ground, but that doesn't mean we should burn the legal system to the ground just to burn them to the ground.
You don't own it. The people who made it still own it. You license it and you have a copy of it to present to yourself and your friends, and in some cases (not all) you're licensed to transfer the license to someone else by transferring the copy.
BTW, you're going to die some day, so don't think you own oxygen or your friends any more than your copy of The Neverending Story.
1. Despite what they say, the mozilla folks are and always were Netscape folks, up until the time they ran away.
2. Exactly. Netscape did its best not to have to do the work of rendering things if it could avoid it, by embedding the output of other programs. It was the best exemplar of the point of object-oriented programming. Having video render in the browser software itself would be a repudiation of about 25 years of progress, to not much benefit to the user.
I've seen silverlight pop up in a few other places. Microsoft may be a bit dopey, but they'll get it close-enough soon enough to crack Flash's total ownership of online content, and it will be about as clunky as Flash so people really won't know much of a difference.
I don't thik the FCC has a thing to say about video players.
The FTC, maybe, but Apple's position is hardly so dominant that it can be said to control the market for mobile computing.
Android seems to be flooding in without much interference from Apple devices. Of course, part of that is because Jobs stupidly tied his smartphones to the worst-deployed 3G network in the USA...
A high slope in a very small number doesn't count as a massive anything.
Look at it this way, if you call Apple growing mobile click share from 0.5 to 1.1% = a 120% growth "massive", then do you call Apple decreasing its competing technologies' click share from 99.5 to 98.9% = a -0.6% descrease "massive" as well, or would you call it "puny" as the rest of us would?
I can't see my right mouse button, so it can't be an aesthetic thing.
I can see several fingers that are totally useless on top of an Apple mouse, which can be operated by a stump.
So unless Apple's primary goal is accessibility for amputees, the only explanation is that Steve Jobs still clings to haptic studies done in the 80s that showed that Apple users are less confused when prevented with fewer ways to control things, while he's ignored a couple of decades' worth of feedback that Apple would sell more computers if they gave the user more control.
If we'd waited for Mozilla to come up with a video player for Netscape, we'd still be waiting, or else there'd be multi-gigabyte HD-quality animated GIF files all over the web...
Yes, that's a metaphor: never underestimate the willingness of someone trying to make a buck to turn you into a bean in a sack to be weighed, delivered, and sold.
Why not? Rollecoasters switched from a rail-car model to hanging seats a long time ago. I'm kind of surprised the airlines haven't tried that. Lean you into your seat, clamp down the restraining bar, and voom!
As for all the nontransparent stuff - wires, fuel, baggage, flight data recorders, etc. - put that in the overhead as well. Call it "shade". There's nothing to see up there but the blinding, x-ray spewing solar furnace anyway. The show is down on the ground. If you reeeeeeeealy want to see the stars we'll do a 1-G barrel roll every alternate league and you can see them between your feet, just like you're lying on the hood of your bitchin' camaro out by the levee...
Well, uh, your average ICE/DAS/Logic Analyzer has about 8 feet of wire between it and the mobo. 8 feet of excruciatingly calibrated wire that can cost thousands of dollars per ribbon cable.
But the thing here seems to be that they're using a scope. The point of a scope is it has a specialized visual readout (inimitably so in the 70s before the advent of LCD scopes, PC-based metrology, and networked everything). And I can't see a reason to do that in an environment where the scope could be damaged, since anyone reading the scope would be damaged a lot quicker than the scope could be damaged.
But maybe it was a specialized measurement plugin, not a scope per se. IIRC Tek did have a comm protocol (similar to GPIB or HPIB). So maybe the LANL guys had the save-the-technician bug worked out, and just didn't have a way to get that plugin and its probe in a less-destruction-necessary form.
And, given the attitude of gummint during the Cold War, they probably didn't much care that they could save a few grand on each of those tests. One look at satellite pics of Yucca Flats shows that there was no shortage of money being destructed in those decades...
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The law has two tiers, one apparently meant to handle old-style copying and new-style deliberate copying, and one to handle new-style computer-illiterate copying.
So it's already new legislation to handle the situation you say new legislation is needed to handle.
What's really needed is to stop having mandatory minimum sentences written into the statutes. The point of writing the laws down is to keep judges from becoming all-powerful to the point where they can rule over the public with the threat of permanent incarceration for made-up offenses. But if you take away their power to free someone, then it's the legislature that has become a tyranny.
Why do I get the feeling I should be wishing I'd read Nabokov right about now...
I'm not sure why that's modded Funny, since it's basically factual.
I would have modded it Dismal. If I had mod points. And there was a Dismal selection.
Punitive damages are there because you don't want people getting the idea they can take their chances.
If you can steal something and all you have to pay if you get caught is the price of the thing you stole, then you'll end up paying less for all your stuff by only paying for the few things you get caught stealing.
Quadrupling the amount you have to pay if you get caught makes it less likely for you to profit overall.
It also makes it more likely that plaintiffs will go through the effort of bringing the case, and pays the plaintiffs for taking the trouble to improve society overall.
N.B.: the RIAA are the real pirates and deserve to be burned to the ground, but that doesn't mean we should burn the legal system to the ground just to burn them to the ground.
every piece of media I own
You don't own it. The people who made it still own it. You license it and you have a copy of it to present to yourself and your friends, and in some cases (not all) you're licensed to transfer the license to someone else by transferring the copy.
BTW, you're going to die some day, so don't think you own oxygen or your friends any more than your copy of The Neverending Story.
"CD Quality" is just downsampled and compressed (digitized) analog.
I can get online streaming audio that purports to come at bitrates that are much higher than the 96 kbps of CDs, too.
1. Despite what they say, the mozilla folks are and always were Netscape folks, up until the time they ran away.
2. Exactly. Netscape did its best not to have to do the work of rendering things if it could avoid it, by embedding the output of other programs. It was the best exemplar of the point of object-oriented programming. Having video render in the browser software itself would be a repudiation of about 25 years of progress, to not much benefit to the user.
Funnier considering this was my most slanderous post on this article, and two simple factual posts got modded to 0 or -1.
I've seen silverlight pop up in a few other places. Microsoft may be a bit dopey, but they'll get it close-enough soon enough to crack Flash's total ownership of online content, and it will be about as clunky as Flash so people really won't know much of a difference.
I don't thik the FCC has a thing to say about video players.
The FTC, maybe, but Apple's position is hardly so dominant that it can be said to control the market for mobile computing.
Android seems to be flooding in without much interference from Apple devices. Of course, part of that is because Jobs stupidly tied his smartphones to the worst-deployed 3G network in the USA...
A high slope in a very small number doesn't count as a massive anything.
Look at it this way, if you call Apple growing mobile click share from 0.5 to 1.1% = a 120% growth "massive", then do you call Apple decreasing its competing technologies' click share from 99.5 to 98.9% = a -0.6% descrease "massive" as well, or would you call it "puny" as the rest of us would?
I can't see my right mouse button, so it can't be an aesthetic thing.
I can see several fingers that are totally useless on top of an Apple mouse, which can be operated by a stump.
So unless Apple's primary goal is accessibility for amputees, the only explanation is that Steve Jobs still clings to haptic studies done in the 80s that showed that Apple users are less confused when prevented with fewer ways to control things, while he's ignored a couple of decades' worth of feedback that Apple would sell more computers if they gave the user more control.
If we'd waited for Mozilla to come up with a video player for Netscape, we'd still be waiting, or else there'd be multi-gigabyte HD-quality animated GIF files all over the web...
It doesn't matter.
They aren't the real kdawson and CmdrTaco any more.
They've been replaced by a Python script.
The script cruises the firehose every 25 minutes and takes the top-scoring article no matter how stupid, stale, or binspam it is.
Every few hours it to the next name in the Poster-bot list, to give the impression that management is keeping the staff levels up.
If you set no requirements, you can claim anything they give you as a fabulous success, when presenting it to your VCs.
I pity the fool who tries to root my desktop.
xtrek on the corporate cluster
What's fun is, I got to celebrate their birthday by using my mouse to click on this announcement of their birthday.
The mass of the delivery truck divided by the mass of a single CO2 credit is on the order of infinity plus a metric assload.
Which is highly inefficient in environmental terms.
You're far better off growing a rainforest in the back of your Hummer, sequestering CO2 and delivering O2 to the environment while you drive.
Assumptions cover your ass. Especially if you state them in the introduction to your paper.
Given current trends, you'll be slid into your berth on your back, alternating head-first and feet-first, with someone's feet in your face.
Just like the original model of human transport that evolved for efficiency and profit without regard to comfort.
Yes, that's a metaphor: never underestimate the willingness of someone trying to make a buck to turn you into a bean in a sack to be weighed, delivered, and sold.
Why not? Rollecoasters switched from a rail-car model to hanging seats a long time ago. I'm kind of surprised the airlines haven't tried that. Lean you into your seat, clamp down the restraining bar, and voom!
As for all the nontransparent stuff - wires, fuel, baggage, flight data recorders, etc. - put that in the overhead as well. Call it "shade". There's nothing to see up there but the blinding, x-ray spewing solar furnace anyway. The show is down on the ground. If you reeeeeeeealy want to see the stars we'll do a 1-G barrel roll every alternate league and you can see them between your feet, just like you're lying on the hood of your bitchin' camaro out by the levee...
Well, uh, your average ICE/DAS/Logic Analyzer has about 8 feet of wire between it and the mobo. 8 feet of excruciatingly calibrated wire that can cost thousands of dollars per ribbon cable.
But the thing here seems to be that they're using a scope. The point of a scope is it has a specialized visual readout (inimitably so in the 70s before the advent of LCD scopes, PC-based metrology, and networked everything). And I can't see a reason to do that in an environment where the scope could be damaged, since anyone reading the scope would be damaged a lot quicker than the scope could be damaged.
But maybe it was a specialized measurement plugin, not a scope per se. IIRC Tek did have a comm protocol (similar to GPIB or HPIB). So maybe the LANL guys had the save-the-technician bug worked out, and just didn't have a way to get that plugin and its probe in a less-destruction-necessary form.
And, given the attitude of gummint during the Cold War, they probably didn't much care that they could save a few grand on each of those tests. One look at satellite pics of Yucca Flats shows that there was no shortage of money being destructed in those decades...
Yuh, like he wouldn't try to imply that even if it didn't happen.
After ten hours of that, you're wishing you could just press a button.
I get it. A game that actually involves physical activity makes it too much like physical activity for a gamer to enjoy.
I suppose adding a feature that slashes you open from glottis to groin when you fail to block your opponent is out of the question, then.