A non-zero fraction of peple do buy stuff as a result of ads, just like a non-zero fraction of people believe in Nigerian princesses. Cast a wide enough net, and you'll always catch a few dopefish.
I did read it. You're allowed to do anything with the permission of the copyright holder. A phonorecord has specific meaning under the law and does not include DVDs. There are not so many places that rent computer games. Blockbuster does not offer music for rent where I live.
The main point here is that NetFlix may rent DVDs to the public with or without the approval of the film industry. If they wanted to rent CDs they would require the blessing of the music industry in order to do so. The RIAA bought and paid for the copyright act, so it is likely they oppose the idea of CD rental altogether.
It was a link to a video of a frustrated fox friend getting up and leaving over what was clearly purposeful misunderstanding of a speech delivered by Obama. In the comments (which I really ought not to read) there was a little discussion about how Fox News is a moderate source of news and commentary and NPR spouts communist propaganda. Notable in the argument was its lack of any support to its claim by way of example. I've listened to NPR myself, and while the commentators which speak do lean to the left, I they do a good job of keeping news and comment separate.
"There's no law stopping them from renting music CDs if they wanted to."
Apparently, there is. Ditto for computer software except for limited purpose machines like video game consoles. You can read it for yourself -- or maybe you can't.
No, you're very wrong. Reading the article, we learn that a lot of the mistakes come from third parties. Larger service providers are accustomed to this sort of thing, but smaller entities may never have done this sort of thing before. They have neither the equipment nor the experience. They may be working with new equipment sent to them that they don't really know how to use. Furthermore, translating the requirements of a warrant into a set of filtering rules is as error prone as writing any code, and difficult to test until it is already deployed. The software doing the collecting may have problems, or 'features' you didn't know about. Mistakes are going to happen. Proper execution of a warrant falls to human beings, not machines. If it is recognized that the filter was improperly applied on the first pass, a second pass may be made with a corrected filter. What does it matter if it is the first or second pass? A human wrote both filters, and there wasn't necessarily any more room for foul play on the second pass.
I guess what I'm trying to say is this, that the controls which protect your rights are necessarily procedural rather than technical. If only because technical controls are made by people.
Maybe you misinterpreted accessibility? It's much faster for me to listen to a song on Rhapsody than it would be for me to do so with bit torrent / usenet / IRC. I like the Steam service for that reason as well. I can lose CD keys and media. Steam is very convenient in that respect. Gametap's pretty good too, but the way it locks you out of the games' install directories is inconvenient.
I've seen games crash on my Vista-based notebook, I've seen them fail to start, but they've never brought down the system. In fact, I think the only hard-lock or restart I've had on this machine was due to overheating. Vista's been pretty solid, but I think having a dual-core CPU helps quite a bit. (When an app locks up and utilizes 100% of one CPU, my interface is still responsive.)
Does that mean I should demand free rides on the first commercial space vehicles since taxes have payed for most of the basic research that has paved the way? That's a terrible example.
I think you are on the right track, but if you're considered a service provider the better tactic may be to use HTTPS and not to log anything. It might make banning people more difficult, but maybe you could (here's a neat idea) save secure hashes of IP addresses instead.
It really depends on what information you're trying to protect. Users' identities? Content of posts? Should you be on the web at all?
Broadly, what's happening now is an effort to reduce the number of gateways to the Internet. To force every bit in the broader organization to flow through the same pipe. Of course there are bottleneck and performance issues, and if a subgroup has their own discretion over funding they may choose to buy cable or DSL service.
In my view the most important step in the way forward is to limit employees' ability to posses copies of sensitive information. I doubt that in the past any single employee held millions of taxpayer records on his desk or would take said records home. Just because the information is digital doesn't mean it should be so widely distributed.
I worked at a tech for a residential network at a large university. Let the students contract with private providers, some of the students were doing this anyway after the guys in charge of the connection implemented a hare-brained QoS scheme. The cost per student may actually go down, liability is erased, and the students get better service.
I kept comparing it to The Mist, because in many ways the films are so similar. You have limited knowledge of the monsters in both films.
I think The Mist did a better job of establishing a sense of dread, and had better characters. Cloverfield had a better monster and better action sequences.
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A non-zero fraction of peple do buy stuff as a result of ads, just like a non-zero fraction of people believe in Nigerian princesses. Cast a wide enough net, and you'll always catch a few dopefish.
I did read it. You're allowed to do anything with the permission of the copyright holder. A phonorecord has specific meaning under the law and does not include DVDs. There are not so many places that rent computer games. Blockbuster does not offer music for rent where I live.
The main point here is that NetFlix may rent DVDs to the public with or without the approval of the film industry. If they wanted to rent CDs they would require the blessing of the music industry in order to do so. The RIAA bought and paid for the copyright act, so it is likely they oppose the idea of CD rental altogether.
Section 109, as linked above in this thread.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#109
It was a link to a video of a frustrated fox friend getting up and leaving over what was clearly purposeful misunderstanding of a speech delivered by Obama. In the comments (which I really ought not to read) there was a little discussion about how Fox News is a moderate source of news and commentary and NPR spouts communist propaganda. Notable in the argument was its lack of any support to its claim by way of example. I've listened to NPR myself, and while the commentators which speak do lean to the left, I they do a good job of keeping news and comment separate.
I won't say the same for Fox.
"There's no law stopping them from renting music CDs if they wanted to."
Apparently, there is. Ditto for computer software except for limited purpose machines like video game consoles. You can read it for yourself -- or maybe you can't.
I can't speak to BusyBox specifically, but the majority of open source projects don't receive many patches from outside the core group of developers.
Seriously? Is that the only problem? That Linux users can't view the content off-line?
One: I'm half-kidding.
Two: I was half-kidding about Iran
I'll help: the actions of the United States could be said to have paved the way for the current regime to come to power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
No, you're very wrong.
Reading the article, we learn that a lot of the mistakes come from third parties. Larger service providers are accustomed to this sort of thing, but smaller entities may never have done this sort of thing before. They have neither the equipment nor the experience. They may be working with new equipment sent to them that they don't really know how to use.
Furthermore, translating the requirements of a warrant into a set of filtering rules is as error prone as writing any code, and difficult to test until it is already deployed. The software doing the collecting may have problems, or 'features' you didn't know about. Mistakes are going to happen.
Proper execution of a warrant falls to human beings, not machines. If it is recognized that the filter was improperly applied on the first pass, a second pass may be made with a corrected filter. What does it matter if it is the first or second pass? A human wrote both filters, and there wasn't necessarily any more room for foul play on the second pass.
I guess what I'm trying to say is this, that the controls which protect your rights are necessarily procedural rather than technical. If only because technical controls are made by people.
Maybe you misinterpreted accessibility? It's much faster for me to listen to a song on Rhapsody than it would be for me to do so with bit torrent / usenet / IRC.
I like the Steam service for that reason as well. I can lose CD keys and media. Steam is very convenient in that respect. Gametap's pretty good too, but the way it locks you out of the games' install directories is inconvenient.
They published a list of the questions they sent.
Oh, you're joking?
I've seen games crash on my Vista-based notebook, I've seen them fail to start, but they've never brought down the system.
In fact, I think the only hard-lock or restart I've had on this machine was due to overheating. Vista's been pretty solid, but I think having a dual-core CPU helps quite a bit. (When an app locks up and utilizes 100% of one CPU, my interface is still responsive.)
Nor cdr.
Man is finite, and therefore cannot make infinite observations.
Where's the irony, Alanis? I would expect a homemade device to be less accurate.
I think you are on the right track, but if you're considered a service provider the better tactic may be to use HTTPS and not to log anything. It might make banning people more difficult, but maybe you could (here's a neat idea) save secure hashes of IP addresses instead.
It really depends on what information you're trying to protect. Users' identities? Content of posts? Should you be on the web at all?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISMA
FISMA is a big deal.
Broadly, what's happening now is an effort to reduce the number of gateways to the Internet. To force every bit in the broader organization to flow through the same pipe. Of course there are bottleneck and performance issues, and if a subgroup has their own discretion over funding they may choose to buy cable or DSL service.
In my view the most important step in the way forward is to limit employees' ability to posses copies of sensitive information. I doubt that in the past any single employee held millions of taxpayer records on his desk or would take said records home. Just because the information is digital doesn't mean it should be so widely distributed.
I'd guess because nobody else contributed anything of substance to the project.
They look reasonable enough to me.
http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/8597.html
I'm disgusted by what happened at the University of Delaware, and these guys are right to oppose it.
I've never read The Nation, but I'm guessing from context that it is conservative.
Taxes on gas accomplish this more easily.
#2 isn't such a bad idea.
I worked at a tech for a residential network at a large university. Let the students contract with private providers, some of the students were doing this anyway after the guys in charge of the connection implemented a hare-brained QoS scheme. The cost per student may actually go down, liability is erased, and the students get better service.
I kept comparing it to The Mist, because in many ways the films are so similar. You have limited knowledge of the monsters in both films.
I think The Mist did a better job of establishing a sense of dread, and had better characters.
Cloverfield had a better monster and better action sequences.
I enjoyed both films, even if both are downers.