That doesn't mean the license is not transferable. You can put anything you want in fine print, that doesn't mean it's the law.
Sadly, with the DOJ talking about violating the TOS of a site as being a crime... what you say may not be true for long.
We're pretty much getting bent over and subject to the whims of copyright holders, and they're getting more clout all the time. It's only a matter of time before hearing someone's stereo or humming a song will be a major felony.
OK, so I realize I am completely going against what the poster asked... but I've actually found I prefer paper for this.
I've got engineering lab books going back 15+ years, and they're what I use to record stuff at work and keep notes. For something a little more transient I occasionally use a notepad or a whiteboard.
Having a chronological set of books going back that far is actually handy.
YMMV, but I've been taking paper notes for so long going digital doesn't even seem like an option to me.
I don't own Kinect myself, but my parents do. I do own Wii, and to be honest, Kinect is way nicer to use. For one, you don't need to hold any controller. Secondly, it seems to register your movements much better than Wii does
My biggest problem with Kinect is that it is apparently impossible to create a decent golf game with it.
Apparently, it can't read what you're doing with your wrists... unless they made it so you were holding a controller.
While I agree with your post, this 'secret rules' is akin to a contract or non-disclosure agreement, not a 'secret law'.
Except, in this case, this "non-disclosure agreement" was in direct contradiction to an existing EU law:
the proposal violated the EU common market by breaking foreign TV receivers and it meant that popular free/open source receivers and recorders would be frozen out of the UK device market
The fact that they tried to keep this secret because they had no really good defensible reason highlights the problems with it.
Your NDA can't spill into things affected by laws and policies that are written down.
There is indeed such a setting, and when I signed up I set it to "no", and haven't moved it from there. Evidently many of the recruitment companies that do use the site make no reference at all to the expressed intentions of the people setting up their profiles there.
Well, sadly, there will always be people who completely disregard such things, and opt for the spam approach.
Those people need to be connected to electrodes to allow us to express our displeasure at them ignoring our requests.
My land-line has reached the point where if I don't personally know you and recognize the number, I'm going to assume you're a phishing scam, and I'm going to correspondingly tell you to go do something anatomically impossible.
I've lost count of the number of calls I have claiming to be from "the windows service provider" or "cardholder services"... none of them seem to be able to identify the company they represent that actually links them to someone I do business with. And, for the rest of them, well, I don't care anymore... all persons calling me in an unsolicited manner are presumed to be liars, thieves, or just plain assholes.
and finally, the full rules set out by DTLA for its DRM were governed by confidentiality agreements, which meant that UK manufacturers would be ordered to comply with a set of secret rules that the public wasn't allowed to know.
So, I'm of the opinion that any law, regulation, or treaty which the public isn't allowed to know the specifics of should be null and void.
You simply can't have "secret laws" in a free society.
And, once again it seems the US-based media companies are trying to get laws abroad they can't have domestically. Then they'll point to those laws as something that needs to be done domestically in order to keep pace with the rest of the world.
At this rate, the "rights holders" will be the ones who dictate to us how technology can be used on the assumption that everything everybody does is "stealing" from them. (My god, two people could watch this show and nobody would know!!)
Why would you use LinkedIn for job hunting? The purpose of the website, if I remember correctly, is to keep you in contact with your professional peers and colleagues over the last X years of your career.
Which can be your greatest asset when looking for a job; and if you're evaluating a perspective hire and you can connect to someone you know, you can reach out and ask them... this might not appear on the resume, but you can get access to more information.
Maybe this explains all those retards on the site who insist on sending me job offers?
Well, there is a setting that says what you're interested in... maybe you've selected the "I'm interested in job offers" button?
I think in this case, that's exactly what people are using it for.
My iPad happily plays DRM free MP3's I ripped from my FreeBSD box, it plays DRM free m4v's I ripped through handbrake, and free ebooks I downloaded off the net. It reads PDFs and even excel docs.
It supports most of the file formats I have thrown at it (actually, all that I have personally thrown at it), and is happy to play stuff I got outside of iTunes. Quite well, actually.
In fact, I have NEVER purchased anything from the iTunes store. Just free stuff.
For all you guys who go around claiming these devices work only with content bought from Apple... Well, you are either grossly misinformed, or just conveniently ignoring actual facts so you can needlessly bitch about Apple.
But, hey, go play your Zune or whatever floats your boat. Don't let the facts get in the way of your argument.
Like probably 99.99% of america, I was neither watching TV or listening to the radio at 2pm on a weekday afternoon.
I would be absolutely shocked to hear that 99.99% of America wasn't watching TV at that time.
There's soap operas, Oprah, kids shows, and who knows what else.
Hell, I doubt there's ever a time when 99.99% of America isn't watching TV. Hell, I'd be surprised if there was ever less than 5% of the populace watching TV... quite possibly even more.
People don't get more hyper-active after eating sugar- or if they do, it is not because of the sugar per-se than the stimulating environment that often surrounds times we eat sugar
Having personally seen adults who used to "sugar speed", and the startling effects on their body... I pretty much have to call bullshit on that one.
I'm sure environment is also a factor, but I've pretty much seen it get ugly fast as someone who is very affected by sugar goes into warp-drive.
It's not a catch all explanation, but I'm pretty sure for some people raw sugar basically leads them to a phrenetic period, and then a complete crash. It's actually quite alarming to witness this.
We used to have an admin assistant who chowed down on a bunch of candy, got mildly insane for an hour or two, and then crashed and became an emotional wreck... we were all glad when she recognized this and started to cut out sugar. Because even HR was trying to figure out how to let someone go/reprimand them for sugar induced psychotic behavior.
It was definitely NOT an overstimulating environment of a bunch of other excited kids.
Do information theorists get beat up a lot for saying things that people find to be random and not very helpful?;-)
Because, really, you can't use the "all information was pre-ordained by physics" defense to fight yourself against copyright infringement cases. It just won't work.
That Duqu is a framework makes it seem to me more likely that it's a for-profit (i.e. criminal in origin) attack rather than a government-produced attack.
I just find it more amazing that the people writing malware are using good coding practices to create supportable, maintainable code, which can be extended and generalized.
That implies a really high level or organization, diligence, and use of best practices... that's hard to do in industry, let alone what one thinks of as your typical black-hat. Though, that probably tells me that what I think makes up your typical black hat is probably completely meaningless.
No, if the crime is committed while they're walking across your driveway, then you have to pay the cost of sending the cops out to deal with it.
And, in this case, ensure that if that particular thief never commits a crime on any other driveway.
Essentially, BT is now responsible for anything NewzBin2 does on the internet -- which demonstrates that the judge in this case doesn't understand what is being demanded.
"I do not consider that the Studios should be obliged to return to court for an order in respect of every single IP address or URL that the operators of Newzbin2 may use. In my view the wording proposed by the Studios strikes the appropriate balance."
Translation: We the court feel that the Movie Studio's position that BT is now responsible for policing any and all activities by NewzBin2... and when they change their name, we will find that BT is still bound to protect this information and any related information. Now that we have established precedent, we will extend this to mean that the content you are now responsible to protect form these guys, you now have to protect from everybody else.
BT now works for the movie studios as this will be indefinitely expanded. I believe that a British judge has just assigned control of the internet to the US movie studios.
Of course, the flip-side to that is that you as a new author are quite likely to languish as nobody is interested in your work because nobody has heard of you.
What we've been seeing with iTunes and people who self-publish these things through Amazon, is that you can potentially make vastly more by selling it cheaply and having a large number of people download it and you get paid directly than you would otherwise. If you're getting 75% or so of each $0.99 download, versus the few pennies (or less) you'd make otherwise, you get much more cash.
Assuming you got past your terrible "grammer" and spelling, you might find you could make more by cutting out the middle-men and letting Amazon do the selling.
That's likely what they're banking on, and if they could get some exclusive content from successful authors, they could potentially make a truckload of money by not having to pay the publishers.
You run a (profitable) torrent tracker and you take vacations in third-world asian countries?
Maybe he wanted to see Angkor Wat, maybe he wanted to see unspoiled jungles, maybe because the Cambodian people are really friendly, or because he wanted to try the food and experience the culture.
There are plenty of good reasons why people vacation in south-east Asia (and, admittedly, some shady ones). I've known lots of people who have been to Thailand and Cambodia and Vietnam for vacations... I'm just not willing to fly that far.
Hell, my next vacation is going to be in Cuba... because it's affordable, and incredibly safe, the people are friendly and the weather is awesome. The most enjoyable and relaxing week of my entire year.
As somebody who has crashed on a bike: Crashing on a bike is not that bad.
Well, we just had someone killed recently because someone flung open a door, nailed the cyclist, knocked them into traffic, and they got run over.
Oddly, your one data point doesn't necessarily cover all cases of crashing on a bike. There are plenty of circumstances where crashing on a bike is anything but "not that bad".
And, if you've ever seen the guys doing downhill... well, tell them it isn't all that bad or damaging to fall off. Hell, at lower speeds on tight single-track I wear some body armor... I won't even ride in traffic. The drivers more or less treat you like you're using their space, and will come awfully close to running you over without a second thought. In fact, they're probably cursing at you while they're inches away from killing you.
I wouldn't downplay the severity of crashing on a bicycle.
Things are so much harder when economic reality doesn't match political fantasy.
That statement works both ways... just because in someone's political fantasy of the world corporate tax cuts make all of our lives better, doesn't make it true either. the Libertarian view of economics to me is somewhat detached from economic reality, but it is an economic theory that presupposes conditions which don't actually exist.
So far other than some hand waving with a "then a miracle occurs", I have never been convinced that these tax cuts ever actually generated the claimed outcomes. In fact, from what I've seen, it generates the exact opposite outcomes.
What I want to know is how lowering corporate tax helps anyone at all when such a huge percentage of corporations pay 0%.
It doesn't. No more than "tax cuts for the rich" benefits anybody except the rich.
Essentially the corporations and the millionaires say that if only they had to pay less taxes, that would free up loads of money on investment and other things, and the economy would go whoosh and suddenly be reinvigorated. Of course, that hasn't ever happened.
I have yet to ever see any evidence that "trickle down economics" works as claimed. Mostly it just gives tax cuts to the wealthy, and nothing at all to the rest of society. They take the tax cuts, and then proceed with off-shoring and lay-offs, so you get a double whammy of less tax revenue, followed by less tax base. There is nowhere for it to trickle to. Which is why we see a growing gap between the rich and the poor -- if anything, it's trickle up economics.
Unfortunately, these people's economic world view is entirely predicated on what I see as a fiction, but they dogmatically believe in it because that's what all of the other rich folks profess to believe in -- either because they have a distorted view since they're rich, or because they know damned well it won't work and the cuts only benefit them. So, either they're fooling themselves, or fooling us.
Either way, a certain class of people believe the solution to all economic ills is tax cuts for corporations and the rich.
I think it's time we went the other way. Because the last few decades of cutting taxes for the rich and corporations hasn't caused any economic growth -- in fact, it seems to be driving it the other way.
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Sadly, with the DOJ talking about violating the TOS of a site as being a crime ... what you say may not be true for long.
We're pretty much getting bent over and subject to the whims of copyright holders, and they're getting more clout all the time. It's only a matter of time before hearing someone's stereo or humming a song will be a major felony.
So, my Facebook account with fake information is a criminal act now? Better fire up that crack team of lawyers and start extraditing me now.
Yet another example of lawmakers not even coming close to understanding technology.
Idiots.
I'll be in my bunk. ;-)
OK, so I realize I am completely going against what the poster asked ... but I've actually found I prefer paper for this.
I've got engineering lab books going back 15+ years, and they're what I use to record stuff at work and keep notes. For something a little more transient I occasionally use a notepad or a whiteboard.
Having a chronological set of books going back that far is actually handy.
YMMV, but I've been taking paper notes for so long going digital doesn't even seem like an option to me.
My biggest problem with Kinect is that it is apparently impossible to create a decent golf game with it.
Apparently, it can't read what you're doing with your wrists ... unless they made it so you were holding a controller.
I was really hoping for a decent golf game. :-P
Except, in this case, this "non-disclosure agreement" was in direct contradiction to an existing EU law:
The fact that they tried to keep this secret because they had no really good defensible reason highlights the problems with it.
Your NDA can't spill into things affected by laws and policies that are written down.
Well, sadly, there will always be people who completely disregard such things, and opt for the spam approach.
Those people need to be connected to electrodes to allow us to express our displeasure at them ignoring our requests.
My land-line has reached the point where if I don't personally know you and recognize the number, I'm going to assume you're a phishing scam, and I'm going to correspondingly tell you to go do something anatomically impossible.
I've lost count of the number of calls I have claiming to be from "the windows service provider" or "cardholder services" ... none of them seem to be able to identify the company they represent that actually links them to someone I do business with. And, for the rest of them, well, I don't care anymore ... all persons calling me in an unsolicited manner are presumed to be liars, thieves, or just plain assholes.
So, I'm of the opinion that any law, regulation, or treaty which the public isn't allowed to know the specifics of should be null and void.
You simply can't have "secret laws" in a free society.
And, once again it seems the US-based media companies are trying to get laws abroad they can't have domestically. Then they'll point to those laws as something that needs to be done domestically in order to keep pace with the rest of the world.
At this rate, the "rights holders" will be the ones who dictate to us how technology can be used on the assumption that everything everybody does is "stealing" from them. (My god, two people could watch this show and nobody would know!!)
Which can be your greatest asset when looking for a job; and if you're evaluating a perspective hire and you can connect to someone you know, you can reach out and ask them ... this might not appear on the resume, but you can get access to more information.
Well, there is a setting that says what you're interested in ... maybe you've selected the "I'm interested in job offers" button?
I think in this case, that's exactly what people are using it for.
I should think the word you'd be looking for would be mate ... I doubt they'd use "make love" or "have sex".
I leave tracking down the Klingon word to the guy who already posted in Klingon. ;-)
Oh, horseshit.
My iPad happily plays DRM free MP3's I ripped from my FreeBSD box, it plays DRM free m4v's I ripped through handbrake, and free ebooks I downloaded off the net. It reads PDFs and even excel docs.
It supports most of the file formats I have thrown at it (actually, all that I have personally thrown at it), and is happy to play stuff I got outside of iTunes. Quite well, actually.
In fact, I have NEVER purchased anything from the iTunes store. Just free stuff.
For all you guys who go around claiming these devices work only with content bought from Apple ... Well, you are either grossly misinformed, or just conveniently ignoring actual facts so you can needlessly bitch about Apple.
But, hey, go play your Zune or whatever floats your boat. Don't let the facts get in the way of your argument.
LOL ... that I didn't actually know that. I assumed the soap opera format would last forever.
Still, I stand by my assertion that there isn't likely to be a time when 99.99% of America isn't watching TV.
I would be absolutely shocked to hear that 99.99% of America wasn't watching TV at that time.
There's soap operas, Oprah, kids shows, and who knows what else.
Hell, I doubt there's ever a time when 99.99% of America isn't watching TV. Hell, I'd be surprised if there was ever less than 5% of the populace watching TV ... quite possibly even more.
That's because it's a stupid analogy which ties reality to a human being there to observe it.
If a bear shits in the woods ... Well, there is still bear shit in the woods.
Having personally seen adults who used to "sugar speed", and the startling effects on their body ... I pretty much have to call bullshit on that one.
I'm sure environment is also a factor, but I've pretty much seen it get ugly fast as someone who is very affected by sugar goes into warp-drive.
It's not a catch all explanation, but I'm pretty sure for some people raw sugar basically leads them to a phrenetic period, and then a complete crash. It's actually quite alarming to witness this.
We used to have an admin assistant who chowed down on a bunch of candy, got mildly insane for an hour or two, and then crashed and became an emotional wreck ... we were all glad when she recognized this and started to cut out sugar. Because even HR was trying to figure out how to let someone go/reprimand them for sugar induced psychotic behavior.
It was definitely NOT an overstimulating environment of a bunch of other excited kids.
Do information theorists get beat up a lot for saying things that people find to be random and not very helpful? ;-)
Because, really, you can't use the "all information was pre-ordained by physics" defense to fight yourself against copyright infringement cases. It just won't work.
I just find it more amazing that the people writing malware are using good coding practices to create supportable, maintainable code, which can be extended and generalized.
That implies a really high level or organization, diligence, and use of best practices ... that's hard to do in industry, let alone what one thinks of as your typical black-hat. Though, that probably tells me that what I think makes up your typical black hat is probably completely meaningless.
And, in this case, ensure that if that particular thief never commits a crime on any other driveway.
Essentially, BT is now responsible for anything NewzBin2 does on the internet -- which demonstrates that the judge in this case doesn't understand what is being demanded.
Translation: We the court feel that the Movie Studio's position that BT is now responsible for policing any and all activities by NewzBin2 ... and when they change their name, we will find that BT is still bound to protect this information and any related information. Now that we have established precedent, we will extend this to mean that the content you are now responsible to protect form these guys, you now have to protect from everybody else.
BT now works for the movie studios as this will be indefinitely expanded. I believe that a British judge has just assigned control of the internet to the US movie studios.
This is just plain stupid.
Of course, the flip-side to that is that you as a new author are quite likely to languish as nobody is interested in your work because nobody has heard of you.
What we've been seeing with iTunes and people who self-publish these things through Amazon, is that you can potentially make vastly more by selling it cheaply and having a large number of people download it and you get paid directly than you would otherwise. If you're getting 75% or so of each $0.99 download, versus the few pennies (or less) you'd make otherwise, you get much more cash.
Assuming you got past your terrible "grammer" and spelling, you might find you could make more by cutting out the middle-men and letting Amazon do the selling.
That's likely what they're banking on, and if they could get some exclusive content from successful authors, they could potentially make a truckload of money by not having to pay the publishers.
Sure, if they take the bright green prototype created by a bunch of graduate students and deploy that directly into combat.
Or, you know, by the time it was made into something usable by combat troops it would be scaled up to having more megapixels.
Maybe he wanted to see Angkor Wat, maybe he wanted to see unspoiled jungles, maybe because the Cambodian people are really friendly, or because he wanted to try the food and experience the culture.
There are plenty of good reasons why people vacation in south-east Asia (and, admittedly, some shady ones). I've known lots of people who have been to Thailand and Cambodia and Vietnam for vacations ... I'm just not willing to fly that far.
Hell, my next vacation is going to be in Cuba ... because it's affordable, and incredibly safe, the people are friendly and the weather is awesome. The most enjoyable and relaxing week of my entire year.
As somebody who has crashed on a bike: Crashing on a bike is not that bad.
Well, we just had someone killed recently because someone flung open a door, nailed the cyclist, knocked them into traffic, and they got run over.
Oddly, your one data point doesn't necessarily cover all cases of crashing on a bike. There are plenty of circumstances where crashing on a bike is anything but "not that bad".
And, if you've ever seen the guys doing downhill ... well, tell them it isn't all that bad or damaging to fall off. Hell, at lower speeds on tight single-track I wear some body armor ... I won't even ride in traffic. The drivers more or less treat you like you're using their space, and will come awfully close to running you over without a second thought. In fact, they're probably cursing at you while they're inches away from killing you.
I wouldn't downplay the severity of crashing on a bicycle.
Dude, pass the bong already. :-P
That statement works both ways ... just because in someone's political fantasy of the world corporate tax cuts make all of our lives better, doesn't make it true either. the Libertarian view of economics to me is somewhat detached from economic reality, but it is an economic theory that presupposes conditions which don't actually exist.
So far other than some hand waving with a "then a miracle occurs", I have never been convinced that these tax cuts ever actually generated the claimed outcomes. In fact, from what I've seen, it generates the exact opposite outcomes.
It doesn't. No more than "tax cuts for the rich" benefits anybody except the rich.
Essentially the corporations and the millionaires say that if only they had to pay less taxes, that would free up loads of money on investment and other things, and the economy would go whoosh and suddenly be reinvigorated. Of course, that hasn't ever happened.
I have yet to ever see any evidence that "trickle down economics" works as claimed. Mostly it just gives tax cuts to the wealthy, and nothing at all to the rest of society. They take the tax cuts, and then proceed with off-shoring and lay-offs, so you get a double whammy of less tax revenue, followed by less tax base. There is nowhere for it to trickle to. Which is why we see a growing gap between the rich and the poor -- if anything, it's trickle up economics.
Unfortunately, these people's economic world view is entirely predicated on what I see as a fiction, but they dogmatically believe in it because that's what all of the other rich folks profess to believe in -- either because they have a distorted view since they're rich, or because they know damned well it won't work and the cuts only benefit them. So, either they're fooling themselves, or fooling us.
Either way, a certain class of people believe the solution to all economic ills is tax cuts for corporations and the rich.
I think it's time we went the other way. Because the last few decades of cutting taxes for the rich and corporations hasn't caused any economic growth -- in fact, it seems to be driving it the other way.