Anyone who holds Phantom stock the moment is actually splits will want to know why the price dropped. Anyone who bought Phantom stock on Tuesday is screwed. There are many reasons to tell your investors when a stock is going to split, and no good reason to withhold that information.
You'll notice that all of the listed conductors of heat better than silver thermal paste are also A: excellent conductors of electricity and B: solids.
Anything likely to be spread by the larger public across electronics has to be non-conductive. No offence, but in the context of electronics many people show their simian heritage. Likewise, it has to be liquid, or else it can't be spread.
Or can it?
Possibility 1: What about Gold? A thin layer of 24k gold on the bottom of a heat sink, given enough pressure, might spread nicely into the gaps. Now, that would require a lot of pressure, but given the amount of pressure already required to mount the things I can't imagine it would be too much. I doubt you could ever achieve the holy grail of chewing gum consistency, but you might be able to dope it soft enough.
Possibility 2: Pre-mounted heatsinks. Intel already adds a head spreading plate to the tops of their chips... Why not have a complete package already attached? Yes, it would limit options significantly, but as the junction point is the weakest link and can have a tremendous effect upon the overall temperature, wouldn't it be worth it? Perhaps if intel shed their belief in themselves as a "processor seller" and remade themselves as a "Processing solutions provider," they would be able to clock these things higher and keep them stable with superior cooling.
Possibility 3: soldering, in some form. Liquid gold also comes to mind:) . When you don't expect the heatsink to ever come off, what is preventing you from using a liquefied metal to attach a heatsink (instead of a thermal glue)? Of course, the metal would have to be liquid at a temperature that the processor will survive, and will have to remain liquid long enough to get the two pieces together. You could probably combine the two ideas and have the solder liquid pre-attached to the bottom of the heatsink... Once mounted just heat the heatsink sufficiently and the solder will fill in the gaps.
Fear Effect would make a great move. It basically was intended as a movie, in the vein of Resident Evil but involving a slow descent into madness and, more specifically, hell. Many great hells have been made on tiny budgets. Heck, many of the scenes in Fear Effect were stolen from those great movies. Backstabbing, Chinese Mafia, talking dolls, questionable sanity, death incarnate... What more could you want in a movie? Maybe Silent Hill would have been a better choice, but Fear Effect must have been a lot cheaper to option.
Now Hunter: The Reckoning is a puzzler. Why pay for a name if nobody knows it? Of course, this is from a man whose highest achievement is an IMDB 6.5, and one has to wonder after seeing HOTD if his IQ matches. Maybe he has no clue that making a bad movie based on a game nobody has played will make no money. Of course, someone had to give him 20 million to make Alone in the Dark, so we'll see.
This is why everyone working at a job within 50% of minimum wage should be issued a microcasette recorder. During any "down" periods when I have to re-enter the commodity labor market, I bring a tape recorder. I've never had to use it, but the reason why I've never had to use it is probably because they know it is there.
Actually, all of the above were launched for strategic reasons.
The ROB was released to get the NES out of department stores and into electronics stores, and at that it succeeded admirably (they never intended to support it, sadly). The GBA-GC link was an attempt to use the success of the GBA to drive sales of their new system. The SuperGameboy took some of the edge out of the criticism that the Game Boy was not actually a color device, during a time when it was under a very real attack from the Lynx, the Game Gear, and the TurboExpress. It also attempted to leverage the success of the GB to the SNES, in the same way that the GBA-GC link would later fail to do. The 64-DD was an experiment in optical re-writable technologies, as a response to criticisms of the storage capacity of cartridges and the then obvious future for networked gaming. The e-Reader sold and still sells well in Japan. Selling barcodes for 5 bucks sounds like a good idea to me. The SuperScope was Nintendo's attempt to make and promote a gun to shed their kiddy image, but to make is so laughably non gun-like (and ergonomically challenged) as to not offend parents. Gunpei Yokoi, who helped found Nintendo's interactive ambitions with light gun shooting galleries and created the original zapper, was responsible for the SuperScope. He also (ill)concieved the VirtualBoy was during a time where JaguarVR and the Genesis/SegaCD/32X VR system was perceived as a threat.
You did miss a few, though. There was the Power Pad, the Game Boy Camera, the Game Boy Printer, the Super Mouse, the Play Choice 10, the Nintendo Super System, the entire Wizard movie, Killer Instinct for the SNES, the years-too-late mini NES. Some of them, like the RAM expansion pack, or the Satellite, were handled surprisingly well overall. Most of them were just swept under the rug.
I think we can all guess what the fate of this system will likely be.
My point was that there would be a heck of a lot more than just 6 people doing this. I did not mean to imply that they are anything higher than the slime that eats away at the rust under the rain gutters of the house somebody built with their own hands.
The cost to the receiver are tremendous. The cost to the sender, not so much so by an order of magnitude. As such, and without any form of technological prevention, the legal arena is the proper forum for stopping a flood. The same thing happened with autodialers. If it wasn't for legal preventative measures, autodialers would have stopped the telephone from being a useful method of conducting business and managing your private life.
Exploring the potential economics of the situation does nothing to elevate these people's status above the kind of spore fungus clinging feverently, despite the efforts of a professional, to the back of a well-respected but elderly companion animal.
It would be dirt easy to setup a PC with Fax software in your area, connect it to an unlimited-use local phone line, and feed it a list of fax numbers. Or, alternatively, have it call ***-**** until it receives a tone, and send the spam.
You could probably send out those 1,634 faxes in a week the first time, and 1,634 more the following day. All for the cost (to you) of 20 dollars per month. Even if you only average 1,500 per week, get a.1% return rate, and make $5 per hit, you're still making money. If junk faxing is like junk mail, your return rate will be closer to 2%, and the money will add up quickly when expanded to a data center.
That's the point. No individual player on a competitive video game should be able to hold down 50+ troops. It slows things down significantly. What makes multi-player FPS games fun is the feeling that at any moment someone could jump out from around the corner and start mowing you down with a machine gun. Random death without defense is not fun, it is terribly frustrating.
I agree that the reviewer is smoking crack when he says that sniper rifles aren't effective in real life. In real life, basically any gun is a "finger of god." How many people during the Iraq invasion used the rocket jump trick? How many bullets can a regular soldier take before their armor is depleted and they have to find a medpack?
You're balancing a video game. Snipers have a huge range and high accuracy. That should mean you balance the equation with a low per-second damage. A 1 second reload time means that you have a near %100 chance of doing %100 damage in 1 second at a tremendous range. No generic repeating gun can match that in a virtual arena.
The author is calling for balance, not accuracy, in the name of gameplay.
Amir Lieberman, the developer of the system, is also responsible for the previous rash of questionable truth detector software, which happens to be still available. It did recommend training, and it was widely sold for its ability to work over the phone. It even has a sequal. (warning, Not compatible with Opera. Probably not Mozilla.)
Namesysco doesn't claim very high accuracy for the Truster software. "The voice analyst achieved an overall accuracy rate of 78% for truthful subjects and 61% for deceptive subjects." In other words, only 10% more liars were caught than flipping a coin, while 22% of innocent subjects were considered lying.
The American Polygraph Society does not have a much rosier view of the situation. They have concluded that Computerized Voice Stress Analysis, and specifically the Truster software, has only a "chance-level detection of deception,"
And actually, the dead giveaway to the scam should be from the lion's mouth himself. "Our products were originally for law enforcement use ? we get all our technology from Nemesys-co ? but we need more development time [for that application]" In other words, "our products don't work and can't be sold unless you slap a 'for entertainment purposes only' label upon them. Our products are to 'entertain' airport security."
(Oh, sorry.. there is research that has PROVEN the polygraph to have 50% accuracy rate.. ranking it right up there with the 'other' lie detector: A coin with the word 'truth' on one side and 'lie' on the other!)
Actually, given the non-symmetrical distribution of people attempting to hijack planes, if this product just blinked the little green light every few seconds it would probably achieve a 99.999% accuracy rating. Of course, that.001% is VERY important.
My interactions with the IRS lead me to believe that they would simply throw it out and claim that you never sent it in, all the while cashing your check and filing a claim against you.
Never underestimate the power of laziness.
Re:probably best left on the drawing board...
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Win ME?
Win ME Plus?
DVD's that can't play on Pc's?
Napster 2.0?
Both 2003 Matrix Movies?
Memory Sticks?
Incompatible ports at the bottoms of PDAs?
Full-Speed USB 2.0?
That Deus Ex demo. You know, the one where the mouse was turned off.
Ok, with particularly glaring examples that refuse to die after... 30 years or so (-mon has nothing on Gundam or Dragon Ballz), many successful series and movies in Japan aren't milked until they bleed. Cowboy Bebop. Evangelion. Escaflone. Fushigi Yuugi. Chobits. Lain. Tank Police. Sure, Macross comes back every few years, but in between truly good pieces of cinema there are years for the series to breathe.
Do toys sell in Japan? You had better believe toys sell. But toys don't sully the image of the series in the way that Enterprise and the past few movies has sullied the Star Trek universe.
The network that it ran on over in Japan has a history of cancelling shows while they're hot.
Actually, many shows in japan are canceled while they are hot. Evangelion, anyone? They achieve a pinnacle of success, and everyone moves on to create something else great. Franchises generally aren't milked until they bleed like Star Trek has been.
Don't forget the volume of people required to generated that volume of fingerprints. If you have a program running around deciding which files to ban by hash, then you just have a name-based filter. If you pay someone to run around downloading songs and deciding that they are illegal and not, for example, a promotional MP3 released legally, then you have a huge volume of songs missed. If you have a warehouse full of people banning songs, then you are spending far more money than Kazaa earns.
I'm surprised that nobody has suggested a network of legal content... Things that someone is willing to vouch for. That's a more appropriate use of hashing, and would have very fast, centralized searches.
Rei would be much better than Ray, but the soul of the character was in her lack of emotional response. It would be counterintuitive for a character sketch designer to create a character with zero response to the world around her, even if that was the character. Besides, we haven't even seen the front of her.
Now, the Kate Rose character is one to be annoyed with. One of the points of the series is that it is a coming-of-age story (like Star Wars, LOTR, etc) featuring innocent, insecure teenagers. The new name seems to fit the character pretty well. Making her a 40 year old high school student does not.
The terrible costumes are also pretty bad. If you look at the originals, the suits have all sorts of devices and deformations, all designed to look purposeful and strong. Note also how the themes of control of mind body and soul are present in the costuming, and repeated in images of the evas. Now, if you compare that to the weta images, the weta contain nothing of the sort. They contain a nifty rubber suit with black lines painted arbitrarily on top. They are entirely monochromatic, and display little insight into the characters. What were the artists thinking? Or rather, why weren't they?
Ultimately, the movie will rely upon the strength of the characters. Whether or not it works as a movie will come down to whether or not the actors can successfully convey a sense of universal alienation and exploitation. And that, sad to say, is not one of Hollywood's strengths.
Would it be possible to have a haiku as an e-mail address, and sue for copyright infringement if it is used in a way that disagrees with a license on your site? The license might be enough to show why it hasn't slipped into the public domain...
"The Habeas Whitelist is a DNS-based IP address listing of Habeas licensees, each of whom only sends email that meets our stringent compliance requirements."
Sounds like a phone book, with no creative expressive content. Hence, no copyright.
In other words, while someone may need to agree to the license in order to be delivered a copy of the whitelist, that person should* have no legal issues giving the list to someone else. That someone else would not be bound by the agreement with the Habeas group, and hence would be free to block all they like.
Don't give up your rights so easily. Just because someone tells you that you can't do something doesn't mean that actually can't. Often times people tell you not to do things because it is in your best interest to do them.
Not quite... They send the mail list to you. Otherwise it wouldn't function as a whitelist. If a band has a mail-a-song service that sends you an MP3, you should be fine playing them for yourself. If you think it is utter junk, there is no copyright issue filtering out anything that might come near to your computer with the same hash value.
There may be a contractual issue (I know, contracts between unequal parties, lack of contract necessity due to lack of copyright protection, see a lawyer, etc.), but not copyright ones.
The FDA wasn't the one who regulated ddt, cfc's, etc. It was the EPA. The EPA would have to be the ones to regulate this, but they're pets, so I don't know if they really care.
If you pay attention to her speeches... Yeah, I know, even the tape recorder falls asleep. But if it was possible, the problem is that her ideas aren't too complicated, it's that they're too simple to be sold.
We automate stuff.
Well, yes, that's what all I.T. departments do. HP doesn't even do it particularly well. That's why they need to say that they enable adaptive cross-platform solutions for process-centric business aplications. I used to facilitate reliable time-sensitive information distribution services because it wasn't that impressive to just have a paper route.
I extrapolate the storage pattern of all of the RAM drives connected to the internet from the electromagnetic and gravitational forces affecting a piece of fairy cake.
And as it's about lunch time, I think my internet connection is going down.
Lots of programs have oversights where they assume I.E. is your default browser. Dreamweaver, for example, can be told to preview in Netscape, whereby it goes to Netscape, or in Internet Explorer, whereby it goes to your default browser (Opera).
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Anyone who holds Phantom stock the moment is actually splits will want to know why the price dropped. Anyone who bought Phantom stock on Tuesday is screwed. There are many reasons to tell your investors when a stock is going to split, and no good reason to withhold that information.
You'll notice that all of the listed conductors of heat better than silver thermal paste are also A: excellent conductors of electricity and B: solids.
:) . When you don't expect the heatsink to ever come off, what is preventing you from using a liquefied metal to attach a heatsink (instead of a thermal glue)? Of course, the metal would have to be liquid at a temperature that the processor will survive, and will have to remain liquid long enough to get the two pieces together. You could probably combine the two ideas and have the solder liquid pre-attached to the bottom of the heatsink... Once mounted just heat the heatsink sufficiently and the solder will fill in the gaps.
Anything likely to be spread by the larger public across electronics has to be non-conductive. No offence, but in the context of electronics many people show their simian heritage. Likewise, it has to be liquid, or else it can't be spread.
Or can it?
Possibility 1: What about Gold? A thin layer of 24k gold on the bottom of a heat sink, given enough pressure, might spread nicely into the gaps. Now, that would require a lot of pressure, but given the amount of pressure already required to mount the things I can't imagine it would be too much. I doubt you could ever achieve the holy grail of chewing gum consistency, but you might be able to dope it soft enough.
Possibility 2: Pre-mounted heatsinks. Intel already adds a head spreading plate to the tops of their chips... Why not have a complete package already attached? Yes, it would limit options significantly, but as the junction point is the weakest link and can have a tremendous effect upon the overall temperature, wouldn't it be worth it? Perhaps if intel shed their belief in themselves as a "processor seller" and remade themselves as a "Processing solutions provider," they would be able to clock these things higher and keep them stable with superior cooling.
Possibility 3: soldering, in some form. Liquid gold also comes to mind
Just kicking around some ideas.
Fear Effect would make a great move. It basically was intended as a movie, in the vein of Resident Evil but involving a slow descent into madness and, more specifically, hell. Many great hells have been made on tiny budgets. Heck, many of the scenes in Fear Effect were stolen from those great movies. Backstabbing, Chinese Mafia, talking dolls, questionable sanity, death incarnate... What more could you want in a movie? Maybe Silent Hill would have been a better choice, but Fear Effect must have been a lot cheaper to option.
Now Hunter: The Reckoning is a puzzler. Why pay for a name if nobody knows it? Of course, this is from a man whose highest achievement is an IMDB 6.5, and one has to wonder after seeing HOTD if his IQ matches. Maybe he has no clue that making a bad movie based on a game nobody has played will make no money. Of course, someone had to give him 20 million to make Alone in the Dark, so we'll see.
This is why everyone working at a job within 50% of minimum wage should be issued a microcasette recorder. During any "down" periods when I have to re-enter the commodity labor market, I bring a tape recorder. I've never had to use it, but the reason why I've never had to use it is probably because they know it is there.
All of those "what is my ip" sites always seem to give me false info....
A site with multiple pop-ups, tons of advertisements, and lots of blinking tags giving false information? Say it ain't so!
Now I'll have to find another way to add 6 inches to my manhood.
Actually, all of the above were launched for strategic reasons.
The ROB was released to get the NES out of department stores and into electronics stores, and at that it succeeded admirably (they never intended to support it, sadly). The GBA-GC link was an attempt to use the success of the GBA to drive sales of their new system. The SuperGameboy took some of the edge out of the criticism that the Game Boy was not actually a color device, during a time when it was under a very real attack from the Lynx, the Game Gear, and the TurboExpress. It also attempted to leverage the success of the GB to the SNES, in the same way that the GBA-GC link would later fail to do. The 64-DD was an experiment in optical re-writable technologies, as a response to criticisms of the storage capacity of cartridges and the then obvious future for networked gaming. The e-Reader sold and still sells well in Japan. Selling barcodes for 5 bucks sounds like a good idea to me. The SuperScope was Nintendo's attempt to make and promote a gun to shed their kiddy image, but to make is so laughably non gun-like (and ergonomically challenged) as to not offend parents. Gunpei Yokoi, who helped found Nintendo's interactive ambitions with light gun shooting galleries and created the original zapper, was responsible for the SuperScope. He also (ill)concieved the VirtualBoy was during a time where JaguarVR and the Genesis/SegaCD/32X VR system was perceived as a threat.
You did miss a few, though. There was the Power Pad, the Game Boy Camera, the Game Boy Printer, the Super Mouse, the Play Choice 10, the Nintendo Super System, the entire Wizard movie, Killer Instinct for the SNES, the years-too-late mini NES. Some of them, like the RAM expansion pack, or the Satellite, were handled surprisingly well overall. Most of them were just swept under the rug.
I think we can all guess what the fate of this system will likely be.
My point was that there would be a heck of a lot more than just 6 people doing this. I did not mean to imply that they are anything higher than the slime that eats away at the rust under the rain gutters of the house somebody built with their own hands.
The cost to the receiver are tremendous. The cost to the sender, not so much so by an order of magnitude. As such, and without any form of technological prevention, the legal arena is the proper forum for stopping a flood. The same thing happened with autodialers. If it wasn't for legal preventative measures, autodialers would have stopped the telephone from being a useful method of conducting business and managing your private life.
Exploring the potential economics of the situation does nothing to elevate these people's status above the kind of spore fungus clinging feverently, despite the efforts of a professional, to the back of a well-respected but elderly companion animal.
Agent: Do you hold a grudge against Linus Torvalds?
...Sears Catalogue.
Daryl: No!
Machine: -Bzzp-
Daryl: Alright, alright, I do. But I did buy the rights to System V from Novell!
Machine: *Ding!*
Agent: He checks out. OK, Daryl, you're free to go.
Daryl: Good, cause I got a hot date tonight.
Machine: -Bzzp-
Daryl: A date.
Machine: -Bzzp-
Daryl: Dinner with a friend.
Machine: -Bzzp-
Daryl: Dinner alone.
Machine: -Bzzp-
Daryl: Watching tv alone.
Machine: -Bzzp-
Daryl: AlRIGHT, I'm going to sit at home and oggle the ladies in the Victoria's Secret Catalogue.
Machine: -Bzzp-
Daryl:
Machine: *Ding!*
Daryl: Now will you unHOOK this already please, I don't deserve this kind of shabby treatment.
Machine: -Bzzp-
It would be dirt easy to setup a PC with Fax software in your area, connect it to an unlimited-use local phone line, and feed it a list of fax numbers. Or, alternatively, have it call ***-**** until it receives a tone, and send the spam.
.1% return rate, and make $5 per hit, you're still making money. If junk faxing is like junk mail, your return rate will be closer to 2%, and the money will add up quickly when expanded to a data center.
You could probably send out those 1,634 faxes in a week the first time, and 1,634 more the following day. All for the cost (to you) of 20 dollars per month. Even if you only average 1,500 per week, get a
That's the point. No individual player on a competitive video game should be able to hold down 50+ troops. It slows things down significantly. What makes multi-player FPS games fun is the feeling that at any moment someone could jump out from around the corner and start mowing you down with a machine gun. Random death without defense is not fun, it is terribly frustrating.
I agree that the reviewer is smoking crack when he says that sniper rifles aren't effective in real life. In real life, basically any gun is a "finger of god." How many people during the Iraq invasion used the rocket jump trick? How many bullets can a regular soldier take before their armor is depleted and they have to find a medpack?
You're balancing a video game. Snipers have a huge range and high accuracy. That should mean you balance the equation with a low per-second damage. A 1 second reload time means that you have a near %100 chance of doing %100 damage in 1 second at a tremendous range. No generic repeating gun can match that in a virtual arena.
The author is calling for balance, not accuracy, in the name of gameplay.
Amir Lieberman, the developer of the system, is also responsible for the previous rash of questionable truth detector software, which happens to be still available. It did recommend training, and it was widely sold for its ability to work over the phone. It even has a sequal. (warning, Not compatible with Opera. Probably not Mozilla.)
Namesysco doesn't claim very high accuracy for the Truster software. "The voice analyst achieved an overall accuracy rate of 78% for truthful subjects and 61% for deceptive subjects." In other words, only 10% more liars were caught than flipping a coin, while 22% of innocent subjects were considered lying.
The American Polygraph Society does not have a much rosier view of the situation. They have concluded that Computerized Voice Stress Analysis, and specifically the Truster software, has only a "chance-level detection of deception,"
And actually, the dead giveaway to the scam should be from the lion's mouth himself. "Our products were originally for law enforcement use ? we get all our technology from Nemesys-co ? but we need more development time [for that application]" In other words, "our products don't work and can't be sold unless you slap a 'for entertainment purposes only' label upon them. Our products are to 'entertain' airport security."
Good catch.
(Oh, sorry.. there is research that has PROVEN the polygraph to have 50% accuracy rate.. ranking it right up there with the 'other' lie detector: A coin with the word 'truth' on one side and 'lie' on the other!)
.001% is VERY important.
Actually, given the non-symmetrical distribution of people attempting to hijack planes, if this product just blinked the little green light every few seconds it would probably achieve a 99.999% accuracy rating. Of course, that
do you want the IRS photocopying your 1040? Nah
My interactions with the IRS lead me to believe that they would simply throw it out and claim that you never sent it in, all the while cashing your check and filing a claim against you.
Never underestimate the power of laziness.
Win ME?
Win ME Plus?
DVD's that can't play on Pc's?
Napster 2.0?
Both 2003 Matrix Movies?
Memory Sticks?
Incompatible ports at the bottoms of PDAs?
Full-Speed USB 2.0?
That Deus Ex demo. You know, the one where the mouse was turned off.
Did I mention Win Me? Win Me Plus?
Ok, with particularly glaring examples that refuse to die after... 30 years or so (-mon has nothing on Gundam or Dragon Ballz), many successful series and movies in Japan aren't milked until they bleed. Cowboy Bebop. Evangelion. Escaflone. Fushigi Yuugi. Chobits. Lain. Tank Police. Sure, Macross comes back every few years, but in between truly good pieces of cinema there are years for the series to breathe.
Do toys sell in Japan? You had better believe toys sell. But toys don't sully the image of the series in the way that Enterprise and the past few movies has sullied the Star Trek universe.
The network that it ran on over in Japan has a history of cancelling shows while they're hot.
Actually, many shows in japan are canceled while they are hot. Evangelion, anyone? They achieve a pinnacle of success, and everyone moves on to create something else great. Franchises generally aren't milked until they bleed like Star Trek has been.
Don't forget the volume of people required to generated that volume of fingerprints. If you have a program running around deciding which files to ban by hash, then you just have a name-based filter. If you pay someone to run around downloading songs and deciding that they are illegal and not, for example, a promotional MP3 released legally, then you have a huge volume of songs missed. If you have a warehouse full of people banning songs, then you are spending far more money than Kazaa earns.
I'm surprised that nobody has suggested a network of legal content... Things that someone is willing to vouch for. That's a more appropriate use of hashing, and would have very fast, centralized searches.
Rei would be much better than Ray, but the soul of the character was in her lack of emotional response. It would be counterintuitive for a character sketch designer to create a character with zero response to the world around her, even if that was the character. Besides, we haven't even seen the front of her.
Now, the Kate Rose character is one to be annoyed with. One of the points of the series is that it is a coming-of-age story (like Star Wars, LOTR, etc) featuring innocent, insecure teenagers. The new name seems to fit the character pretty well. Making her a 40 year old high school student does not.
The terrible costumes are also pretty bad. If you look at the originals, the suits have all sorts of devices and deformations, all designed to look purposeful and strong. Note also how the themes of control of mind body and soul are present in the costuming, and repeated in images of the evas. Now, if you compare that to the weta images, the weta contain nothing of the sort. They contain a nifty rubber suit with black lines painted arbitrarily on top. They are entirely monochromatic, and display little insight into the characters. What were the artists thinking? Or rather, why weren't they?
Ultimately, the movie will rely upon the strength of the characters. Whether or not it works as a movie will come down to whether or not the actors can successfully convey a sense of universal alienation and exploitation. And that, sad to say, is not one of Hollywood's strengths.
Would it be possible to have a haiku as an e-mail address, and sue for copyright infringement if it is used in a way that disagrees with a license on your site? The license might be enough to show why it hasn't slipped into the public domain...
"The Habeas Whitelist is a DNS-based IP address listing of Habeas licensees, each of whom only sends email that meets our stringent compliance requirements."
Sounds like a phone book, with no creative expressive content. Hence, no copyright.
In other words, while someone may need to agree to the license in order to be delivered a copy of the whitelist, that person should* have no legal issues giving the list to someone else. That someone else would not be bound by the agreement with the Habeas group, and hence would be free to block all they like.
Don't give up your rights so easily. Just because someone tells you that you can't do something doesn't mean that actually can't. Often times people tell you not to do things because it is in your best interest to do them.
*IANAL
Not quite... They send the mail list to you. Otherwise it wouldn't function as a whitelist. If a band has a mail-a-song service that sends you an MP3, you should be fine playing them for yourself. If you think it is utter junk, there is no copyright issue filtering out anything that might come near to your computer with the same hash value.
There may be a contractual issue (I know, contracts between unequal parties, lack of contract necessity due to lack of copyright protection, see a lawyer, etc.), but not copyright ones.
The FDA wasn't the one who regulated ddt, cfc's, etc. It was the EPA. The EPA would have to be the ones to regulate this, but they're pets, so I don't know if they really care.
Damned pets of the Bush administration.
Oh. You meant the fish.
If you pay attention to her speeches... Yeah, I know, even the tape recorder falls asleep. But if it was possible, the problem is that her ideas aren't too complicated, it's that they're too simple to be sold.
We automate stuff.
Well, yes, that's what all I.T. departments do. HP doesn't even do it particularly well. That's why they need to say that they enable adaptive cross-platform solutions for process-centric business aplications. I used to facilitate reliable time-sensitive information distribution services because it wasn't that impressive to just have a paper route.
I extrapolate the storage pattern of all of the RAM drives connected to the internet from the electromagnetic and gravitational forces affecting a piece of fairy cake.
And as it's about lunch time, I think my internet connection is going down.
Lots of programs have oversights where they assume I.E. is your default browser. Dreamweaver, for example, can be told to preview in Netscape, whereby it goes to Netscape, or in Internet Explorer, whereby it goes to your default browser (Opera).