It shouldn't require a physical invention, as the person who develops the idea may not have the funding to create it themself, but it should require a 'blueprint' that can be demonstrated to work when produced (source code would fall in this category).
And nothing that uses a different apparatus to achieve the same effect can constitute patent infringement.
That would be a sane patent system. I have NO idea how the one we have now works, except that the one we have now doesn't work.
Noone here is complaining about having to pay to watch cable. However, people have the right to record commercial broadcast for personal use (so long as they were recieving the broadcast legally). It's part of the fair use provision of copyrights (along with parody). The new broadcast flag infringes upon, or lessens that.
Two things,
1) Knowing the names of who's on the plane doesn't help prevent terrorist acts. Knowing someone's name and nationality doesn't magically grant you knowledge of there ideals or how fanatically loyal they are to any cause.
2) While, it is to aid in the tracking/arrest of suspected criminals/"terrorists", the patriot act has a rather vague definition of terrorist, allows for arrest on rather flimsy "probable cause", allows for indefinite holding of suspected terrorists, and bypasses many of their 5th amendment rights (IE, knowing what they were charged with). It also allows for police to tap phone lines without warrants, but that's less relevant.
So my point is, the government now has the power of arbitrary arrest, and is using the excuse of preventing terrorism to track all of its citizen's travel, excepting by their own private vehicles. Ringing any alarm bells yet?
That arguement is only valid when the ticket is purchased in advance. Which is Most of the time, but if some guy comes into the desk and asks for a ticket for the next plane to Los Vegas, and pays in cash... He STILL needs a photo ID to prove he's who he says he is. Why is that?
I know he looks paranoid at first. But, consider that every purchase you make by credit is tracked, along with how quickly you pay it off, in the form of a credit rating, and you have no right to see what your own credit rating is. You have to pay a company to run a credit check on yourself in order to find out whether or not you are considered trustworthy to pay off debts.
And that's not even new.
So maybe you aren't tracked every time you present a photo ID. But it isn't completely delusional to suspect, or even believe, that you are 90% of the time.
Myself, I'd guess something more like 45% of the time.
He has a point. It's contradictory to argue that ID shouldn't be required at airports, and then get adgitated when someone on the internet posts something anonymously...
It's not meaningless. when you show your id to the clerk at the ticket counter, it gets swiped through a machine that records it.
Because Amtrak does this, too, unless you're making a road-trip, any trip you take could be recorded. And the government refuse to show the law which requires ID to be shown (but admit it exists), which lends credibility to the the theory that trips are being recorded.
While the reason is unstated, in combination with the Patriot Act, a law that provides for the monitoring of travel can be a truly threatening thing.
Firewalls are for use to protect the network the firewall is on. They can protect your network from external hackers by blocking illegitimate inbound traffic. Or they can protect your network from internal loss of productivity by blocking illegitimate outbound traffic. Generally speaking, the network admin doesn't worry about whether or not any other networks will be damaged by traffic generated from within his.
You do have a right to ask another network admin to change his rules if they're affecting your network, but he has just as much of a right to tell you to get your own firewall and set it up properly.
um... if I'm correct, lain has the same philisophical themes as Eva, and they save money using such tricks to make it seem artistic as completely white backgrounds and reusing the powerline buzz and train-track sounds almost every episode. Don't get me wrong, I personally think both the series are great, I just can't stand someone simultaneously bashing one and promoting the other.
Who modded this up? it seems clear to me that this is a troll that is being posted only to get people believing it to initiate some kind of action against megatokyo. Honestly, this day that this libel has been modded up as 'informative' is a very sad day for us all.
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It shouldn't require a physical invention, as the person who develops the idea may not have the funding to create it themself, but it should require a 'blueprint' that can be demonstrated to work when produced (source code would fall in this category).
And nothing that uses a different apparatus to achieve the same effect can constitute patent infringement.
That would be a sane patent system. I have NO idea how the one we have now works, except that the one we have now doesn't work.
It's simple enough to distinguish between output of the signal and output of the image.
Besides, LCD screens are digital. I believe plasma screens are, too. There is, as yet, no digital speaker technology, though.
Noone here is complaining about having to pay to watch cable.
However, people have the right to record commercial broadcast for personal use (so long as they were recieving the broadcast legally). It's part of the fair use provision of copyrights (along with parody). The new broadcast flag infringes upon, or lessens that.
Two things, 1) Knowing the names of who's on the plane doesn't help prevent terrorist acts. Knowing someone's name and nationality doesn't magically grant you knowledge of there ideals or how fanatically loyal they are to any cause. 2) While, it is to aid in the tracking/arrest of suspected criminals/"terrorists", the patriot act has a rather vague definition of terrorist, allows for arrest on rather flimsy "probable cause", allows for indefinite holding of suspected terrorists, and bypasses many of their 5th amendment rights (IE, knowing what they were charged with). It also allows for police to tap phone lines without warrants, but that's less relevant. So my point is, the government now has the power of arbitrary arrest, and is using the excuse of preventing terrorism to track all of its citizen's travel, excepting by their own private vehicles. Ringing any alarm bells yet?
Right. I was sleep deprived when I wrote that. I meant credit card theft. Which is money theft.
Anyway, it doesn't really help identity theft unless the clerk who checks it swipes it through a machine, or has an idetic memory.
It's about five steps from here to there.
And they happen to be downhill.
That arguement is only valid when the ticket is purchased in advance. Which is Most of the time, but if some guy comes into the desk and asks for a ticket for the next plane to Los Vegas, and pays in cash... He STILL needs a photo ID to prove he's who he says he is. Why is that?
It's funny you should mention that.
You see, it's the fact that our government is using arbitrary arrest and torture that makes the need to present ID scary.
I just had a flashback to the first scene of Half-life 2.
I know he looks paranoid at first.
But, consider that every purchase you make by credit is tracked, along with how quickly you pay it off, in the form of a credit rating, and you have no right to see what your own credit rating is. You have to pay a company to run a credit check on yourself in order to find out whether or not you are considered trustworthy to pay off debts.
And that's not even new.
So maybe you aren't tracked every time you present a photo ID. But it isn't completely delusional to suspect, or even believe, that you are 90% of the time.
Myself, I'd guess something more like 45% of the time.
CD prices have been approx $20 for as long as I can remember.
CD Burners have not been affordable for that long.
CD prices recently lowered as a result of the RIAA realizing that suing people who had actually bought CDs was STUPID.
I agree. Asking photo ID when a credit card is presented protects against identity theft.
Then again, wasn't that the whole point of "Card not valid unless signed"?
Actually, the no shirt, no shoes thing was legislated to reduce transmission of certain parasites that live on feet and in people's navels.
He has a point. It's contradictory to argue that ID shouldn't be required at airports, and then get adgitated when someone on the internet posts something anonymously...
It's not meaningless. when you show your id to the clerk at the ticket counter, it gets swiped through a machine that records it.
Because Amtrak does this, too, unless you're making a road-trip, any trip you take could be recorded. And the government refuse to show the law which requires ID to be shown (but admit it exists), which lends credibility to the the theory that trips are being recorded.
While the reason is unstated, in combination with the Patriot Act, a law that provides for the monitoring of travel can be a truly threatening thing.
That's precisely why it has to be a worm.
Larger sampling pool == greater chance of pr0n
Though the hydrogen inflation certainly didn't HELP the issue...
Firewalls are for use to protect the network the firewall is on. They can protect your network from external hackers by blocking illegitimate inbound traffic. Or they can protect your network from internal loss of productivity by blocking illegitimate outbound traffic. Generally speaking, the network admin doesn't worry about whether or not any other networks will be damaged by traffic generated from within his.
You do have a right to ask another network admin to change his rules if they're affecting your network, but he has just as much of a right to tell you to get your own firewall and set it up properly.
The reason that ants will infest electronics is because they are attracted by the heat generated.
Why they seek out heat is a question I don't know the answer to, but that they do is the reason that iBooks, alarm clocks, etc... get infested.
I understand that the "laser" mice are especially likely to attract an ant swarm.
um... if I'm correct, lain has the same philisophical themes as Eva, and they save money using such tricks to make it seem artistic as completely white backgrounds and reusing the powerline buzz and train-track sounds almost every episode. Don't get me wrong, I personally think both the series are great, I just can't stand someone simultaneously bashing one and promoting the other.
Who modded this up? it seems clear to me that this is a troll that is being posted only to get people believing it to initiate some kind of action against megatokyo. Honestly, this day that this libel has been modded up as 'informative' is a very sad day for us all.