I had automatic reply setup on a Vax email system, and I forget the exact situation, but my auto-reply got into a duel with another auto-reply while I was at lunch. Anyhoo, 2 hours later I had some 1200 emails in my inbox, all auto-replies to another auto-reply, which was replying to my auto-reply, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
The unix "vacation" program had the feature that it wouldn't send more that one email within a certain time period to prevent this sort of thing happening.
A few decades later and they decide its ok to patent software but they didn't have anything in their prior art library and they didn't have any examiners in the field so they lat anything go.
If they don't have any competent examiners either they shouldn't accept patent applications or should have a default of "reject". Without competent examiners even having patent applications going back 30 years probably wouldn't help much.
Just because you add the word "freedom" to the start of a sentence doesn't mean you are describing a real freedom. US users are not being blocked because the US is "too free." They are being blocked because US laws meant to protect copyright holders may require logging and disclosure of logs. This is in conflict with privacy policies.
Court orders (assuming they have jurisdiction) override any corporate policies. The really strange thing is the "Torrentspy's decision to stop accepting US visitors was NOT compelled by any Court but rather an uncertain legal climate in the US regarding user privacy and an apparent tension between US and European Union privacy laws." claim. The design of the site including "Privacy Policy" and "DMCA Information" links together with a US postal address make this out to be an organisation in the US If their servers are in the Netherlands there is no obvious reference to this. N.B. allowing access to personal information stored on a server in the Netherlands from the US (or anywhere else without an appropriate treaty with the Netherlands) is likely to violate Dutch law.
Don't you know that hundreds of acts of fatal violence are fine, but ONE NIPPLE will drive us over the edge into anarchy? WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!?
Even more ironic is considering a sport where the players have to wear body armour to avoid serious/fatal injury to be "family entertainment". Whilst going ballistic over a few seconds glimpse of a nipple.
Except, I'd say in my experience and those I've know, that romantic movies do FAR more damage to young people's expectations of how real life relationships and sex work.
Not just movies, the same can happen with other media. Including that specifically aimed at children.
The villagers have tried to get rid of the monkeys without harming them, and it doesn't work- it has driven them to famine relief. Should they kill monkeys from now on,
The most sensible thing would probably be to kill and eat the monkeys. This not only stops the monkeys interfering with their agriculture it also helps stop the villagers starving.
this is all because, morons from other countries have actually covinced these poor countries that they shouldn't kill animals like monkeys, to satisfy thier own pathetic middle class guilt.
IIRC it's kill or hurt
I hope the villagers buy themselves some ak's and blow those monkeys a few new holes.
Wal-Mart is unlike your theoretical bar and grill in that it is offering those works for sale and is making objectionable edits to them. It's not a crime, and it's not a violation of civil liberties.
Are they making it absolutly clear which tracks they have altered? If not then they are at best being misleading about what they are selling. (Even if they take care to avoid selling anywhere which has laws requiring accurate descriptions of goods offered for sale.)
Hell, even switching the on board graphics out for a simple gforce agp card with the built in graphics processor would make a difference.
With an onboard graphics card which uses the main RAM (as many do) there is the issue of contention between the CPU and the GPU. Which is happening all the time. With a graphics card such contention can only happen when the CPU wants to output to the display. A card may well have special RAM or a clever MMU to mimimize this.
The issue here is that Vista's sound subsystem does a lot more audio processing that previous generations do. For example it will delay the streams to your multichannel system so that the sound from each speaker reaches your head at exactly the same time.
Unless it can turn the speakers into sonar transcievers all the processing in the world isn't going to be able to do that effectivly.
If a plain duron from the turn of the century could handle 100mps ethernet and play mp3s, there's something seriously wrong with Vista not being able to do the same on modern hardware.
What are the odds that that "something" is better known as "DRM"?
A shotgun shoot a pattern that spreads out. The shot would eventually hit the walls of the tube and while bouncing off, each point of contact would remove inertia as well as deflect it into the other side. I can't imagine a single shot going 1 kilometer in distance like this.
If it were something like 100mm plastic ductwork then it's unlikely that the pellets would bounce much at all.
This story doesn't make a bit of sense. They dug up some cable, and found it had been shot? Are they saying someone first dug it up, shot it, and then gave it a decent burial? That would be a lot of work.
Or could it be that the cable was not burried that deeply in the first place.
It is part of the agreement of the site. The terms of the site limit the coupons, and he circumvented that.
Given that terms and conditions (especially on websites) are subject to "mutation" it would be necessary to prove that that term was present at the time of the alleged violation.
Yet they did. So did literally millions of other Americans. In fact, almost all contracts these days include binding arbitration clauses.
Contracts do not trump the "law of the land". If a clause in a contract is voided by statute, case, even common law then to all intents and purposes it dosn't exist. If the relevent law predates the contract then that clause effectivly never existed. It is very common, especially with service contracts, for suppliers to bluff. On the basis that most customers are not going to have a lawyer periodically check what actually is and isn't valid.
The answer is obvious : demand that the telco's create two physically seperated phone networks : one for all those politicans and other citizens of unspoken behaviour (that won't be tapped in any way), and the other one for all those possible terrorists...
It might make more sense to put the politicans with the "possible terrorists" though:)
Also, food has a strong social aspect to it. Going to lunch with my coworkers is something I want to do despite the fact that it screws up my diet.
Probably the most screwy bit isn't the "with coworkers" bit so much as the whole "mealtime" thing. Eating by the clock (especially if all meals must be "balanced") is a significent way in which we humans manage to screw up our diets.
Your body expects a natural diet that is much different than what we eat today, and equating all calories makes any evaluation of diet virtually useless.
The whole "calorie thing" is also flawed in that humans eating food is not equivalent to burning the same food in pure oxygen.
Build a 5000-10000ft deep mine shaft, and install a "free fall" elevator lab. If it takes 10 seconds to grow crystals, you dont need much height to
achieve zero g. Just make a 10sq platform, drop it... falll for 12 seconds.... then slow it down from 12 to 20.... bingo instant 10 second duration zero G LAB on earth.
In something like half that time you are going to run into problems with terminal velocity. Unless you can find a way to make your shaft a decent vacuum.
Oh I know, perhaps they are applying magic numbers to the same way the calculate "total music power" 350 HP is the RMS value, turn it into PMPO and add some magic, poof! we now have a more sensationalistic number.
You missed out doubling the number, since you typically have two channels (or add the peak output of all the channels together if you have more than two).
Ok granted not every car explodes Hollywood style in an accident,
Unless rigged by movie special effect people it's more or less impossible. Even if the tank happened to contain an explosive fuel/air mix it would need to be powerful enough to rupture the tank and mix the remaining fuel well with air.
but the Ford Pinto proved that gasoline can also be pretty dangerous - as it is both volatile and highly inflammable.
Fuel leaks in crashes are dangerous, but not explosive. As the idiot who drove his car into Glasgow airport found out.
Yep, if they were really interested in protecting the passengers they would give everyone on the plane an knife rather than taking them away.
You'd need to make sure that it was a knife suitable for eating food with, since that would be what the vast majority of passengers would want one for. You could also have NRA Airlines, if you don't have your own gun, the (well armed) flight attendents will issue you with one for the flight.
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Frankly it amazes me that they were dumb enough to include his works, given how outspoken he is on such issues.
That'll be because the files in question were picked by machine. Since these only understand regular expressions they tend to be very dumb indeed.
I had automatic reply setup on a Vax email system, and I forget the exact situation, but my auto-reply got into a duel with another auto-reply while I was at lunch. Anyhoo, 2 hours later I had some 1200 emails in my inbox, all auto-replies to another auto-reply, which was replying to my auto-reply, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
The unix "vacation" program had the feature that it wouldn't send more that one email within a certain time period to prevent this sort of thing happening.
A few decades later and they decide its ok to patent software but they didn't have anything in their prior art library and they didn't have any examiners in the field so they lat anything go.
If they don't have any competent examiners either they shouldn't accept patent applications or should have a default of "reject". Without competent examiners even having patent applications going back 30 years probably wouldn't help much.
I admire the chutzpa of the complaint about "undue government intervention".
Especially considering that copyright is a creation of government in the first place.
Research is carried out (often funded by federal government), and written of for free by the researchers who did it.
Other posters have said (first hand) that they have to pay to be published. (Possibly even pay to submit an article for publication.
Peer review of scientific articles is carried out for free by scientists in their field.
It wouldn't be too much of a suprise to discover that peer reviewers sometimes have to pay for the privilege.
Just because you add the word "freedom" to the start of a sentence doesn't mean you are describing a real freedom. US users are not being blocked because the US is "too free." They are being blocked because US laws meant to protect copyright holders may require logging and disclosure of logs. This is in conflict with privacy policies.
Court orders (assuming they have jurisdiction) override any corporate policies.
The really strange thing is the "Torrentspy's decision to stop accepting US visitors was NOT compelled by any Court but rather an uncertain legal climate in the US regarding user privacy and an apparent tension between US and European Union privacy laws." claim. The design of the site including "Privacy Policy" and "DMCA Information" links together with a US postal address make this out to be an organisation in the US
If their servers are in the Netherlands there is no obvious reference to this. N.B. allowing access to personal information stored on a server in the Netherlands from the US (or anywhere else without an appropriate treaty with the Netherlands) is likely to violate Dutch law.
Don't you know that hundreds of acts of fatal violence are fine, but ONE NIPPLE will drive us over the edge into anarchy? WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!?
Even more ironic is considering a sport where the players have to wear body armour to avoid serious/fatal injury to be "family entertainment". Whilst going ballistic over a few seconds glimpse of a nipple.
Except, I'd say in my experience and those I've know, that romantic movies do FAR more damage to young people's expectations of how real life relationships and sex work.
Not just movies, the same can happen with other media. Including that specifically aimed at children.
The villagers have tried to get rid of the monkeys without harming them, and it doesn't work- it has driven them to famine relief. Should they kill monkeys from now on,
The most sensible thing would probably be to kill and eat the monkeys. This not only stops the monkeys interfering with their agriculture it also helps stop the villagers starving.
this is all because, morons from other countries have actually covinced these poor countries that they shouldn't kill animals like monkeys, to satisfy thier own pathetic middle class guilt.
IIRC it's kill or hurt
I hope the villagers buy themselves some ak's and blow those monkeys a few new holes.
Maybe shotguns would be better weapons.
Wal-Mart is unlike your theoretical bar and grill in that it is offering those works for sale and is making objectionable edits to them. It's not a crime, and it's not a violation of civil liberties.
Are they making it absolutly clear which tracks they have altered? If not then they are at best being misleading about what they are selling. (Even if they take care to avoid selling anywhere which has laws requiring accurate descriptions of goods offered for sale.)
Hell, even switching the on board graphics out for a simple gforce agp card with the built in graphics processor would make a difference.
With an onboard graphics card which uses the main RAM (as many do) there is the issue of contention between the CPU and the GPU. Which is happening all the time. With a graphics card such contention can only happen when the CPU wants to output to the display. A card may well have special RAM or a clever MMU to mimimize this.
The issue here is that Vista's sound subsystem does a lot more audio processing that previous generations do. For example it will delay the streams to your multichannel system so that the sound from each speaker reaches your head at exactly the same time.
Unless it can turn the speakers into sonar transcievers all the processing in the world isn't going to be able to do that effectivly.
If a plain duron from the turn of the century could handle 100mps ethernet and play mp3s, there's something seriously wrong with Vista not being able to do the same on modern hardware.
What are the odds that that "something" is better known as "DRM"?
A shotgun shoot a pattern that spreads out. The shot would eventually hit the walls of the tube and while bouncing off, each point of contact would remove inertia as well as deflect it into the other side. I can't imagine a single shot going 1 kilometer in distance like this.
If it were something like 100mm plastic ductwork then it's unlikely that the pellets would bounce much at all.
This story doesn't make a bit of sense. They dug up some cable, and found it had been shot? Are they saying someone first dug it up, shot it, and then gave it a decent burial? That would be a lot of work.
Or could it be that the cable was not burried that deeply in the first place.
I think the best comparison would be directing people to just reinstall Windows to get unlimited free coupons.
Or using a backup program to restore Windows to a previous state. Possibly including the "System Restore" service...
It is part of the agreement of the site. The terms of the site limit the coupons, and he circumvented that.
Given that terms and conditions (especially on websites) are subject to "mutation" it would be necessary to prove that that term was present at the time of the alleged violation.
Yet they did. So did literally millions of other Americans. In fact, almost all contracts these days include binding arbitration clauses.
Contracts do not trump the "law of the land". If a clause in a contract is voided by statute, case, even common law then to all intents and purposes it dosn't exist. If the relevent law predates the contract then that clause effectivly never existed.
It is very common, especially with service contracts, for suppliers to bluff. On the basis that most customers are not going to have a lawyer periodically check what actually is and isn't valid.
The answer is obvious : demand that the telco's create two physically seperated phone networks : one for all those politicans and other citizens of unspoken behaviour (that won't be tapped in any way), and the other one for all those possible terrorists ...
:)
It might make more sense to put the politicans with the "possible terrorists" though
Also, food has a strong social aspect to it. Going to lunch with my coworkers is something I want to do despite the fact that it screws up my diet.
Probably the most screwy bit isn't the "with coworkers" bit so much as the whole "mealtime" thing.
Eating by the clock (especially if all meals must be "balanced") is a significent way in which we humans manage to screw up our diets.
Your body expects a natural diet that is much different than what we eat today, and equating all calories makes any evaluation of diet virtually useless.
The whole "calorie thing" is also flawed in that humans eating food is not equivalent to burning the same food in pure oxygen.
Build a 5000-10000ft deep mine shaft, and install a "free fall" elevator lab. If it takes 10 seconds to grow crystals, you dont need much height to achieve zero g. Just make a 10sq platform, drop it... falll for 12 seconds.... then slow it down from 12 to 20.... bingo instant 10 second duration zero G LAB on earth.
In something like half that time you are going to run into problems with terminal velocity. Unless you can find a way to make your shaft a decent vacuum.
Oh I know, perhaps they are applying magic numbers to the same way the calculate "total music power" 350 HP is the RMS value, turn it into PMPO and add some magic, poof! we now have a more sensationalistic number.
You missed out doubling the number, since you typically have two channels (or add the peak output of all the channels together if you have more than two).
Ok granted not every car explodes Hollywood style in an accident,
Unless rigged by movie special effect people it's more or less impossible. Even if the tank happened to contain an explosive fuel/air mix it would need to be powerful enough to rupture the tank and mix the remaining fuel well with air.
but the Ford Pinto proved that gasoline can also be pretty dangerous - as it is both volatile and highly inflammable.
Fuel leaks in crashes are dangerous, but not explosive. As the idiot who drove his car into Glasgow airport found out.
Yep, if they were really interested in protecting the passengers they would give everyone on the plane an knife rather than taking them away.
You'd need to make sure that it was a knife suitable for eating food with, since that would be what the vast majority of passengers would want one for.
You could also have NRA Airlines, if you don't have your own gun, the (well armed) flight attendents will issue you with one for the flight.