The bots should at the very least have to "request" a violation check, not an immediate take-down.
Meaning Google/YouTube have to hire a human to vet the requests? If it's a flawed takedown request, can G/YT bill the requester? In a perfect world,...
I spent some (gap job) time as an "Alarm Agent". Customers get three chances. If those three are false alarms, you get put on the "we'll look into it sometime" list. I think that concept would be appropriate here.
Actually, Viacom sued google for distributing on youtube content uploaded by their own employees, both from their own offices and the employees homes.
In an arms folded, head nodding kind of way, we should all be very happy that the *AAs are doing what they do. After all, that is pretty much the funniest joke of all time, isn't it? "Take it down! Infringing!!!" "Er, you put it up." "Take it down, damn you! We'll sue!!!!!!!" "We took it down, and you just put it up again!"
It's a make work for lawyers Ponzi scheme. Madoff would be proud.
Reason I think we should stuff a hot poker up their asses and make copyright a flat 18 years for individuals and 5 years for corporations...
Nope, too generous. They're both flawed concepts, and too easily gamed. Zero years for both. Compete on your merits, damnit! Don't expect us to help you with legislative crutches. These are the rules the rest of us are expected to go by. Welcome to reality. Suck it up.
It would've been easier to just mention pi ("dict pi", gcide):
2. Specifically: (Math.) The letter [pi], [Pi], as used to
denote the number or quotient approximately expressing the
ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter;
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. "I almost got him" means you didn't get him.:-)
As for that fastest manhole cover link, me too. Thanks.
Why would you need vacuum tubes? You're in deep space surrounded by it - no need to keep it in tubes any more.
Just guessing, but I can think of a lot of reasons off the top of my head. Not all vacuums are equal for one thing. The glass in the tubes may be coated to make them more opaque. There's a hell of a lot of !@#$ flying around out there from inert dust through gamma ray particles and neutrinos. Or it could be as simple as minimizing heat changes. That cold, stuff gets brittle. Brittle things break more easily.
I'd also like to chime in and say I think it's seriously cool that these things are still going and communicating back. I was in my early twenties when they were launched. Bravo.
Plausible. I know I was a bit disgusted in recent days when some $SHITHEAD was lambasting Linux users for not supporting AMD when the latter went out of their way to accommodate us. I haven't bought an Intel CPU since Randall Schwartz was railroaded by Intel's stupidity. I only go AMD and ATI, and that's been the case for more than a decade.
Not all of us think that "being an astute businessman who recognized a market he could sell to/exploit" is an inherently good thing.
Inherently, no, but it's the same thing Jobs and Woz were doing when they were building a personal computer in the garage. You can either be a wage slave and work for someone who hands you a cheque once a month for your time and efforts, or you can come up with something no one else is doing that others will see value in and pay you to provide it.
There's nothing inherently bad in either of those. However speaking for myself, I'd prefer not to be a wage slave. I cherish my independence. There's nothing inherently bad in selling or exploiting either. The way some people have done those things have given those words a bad rep. I don't consider I'm being exploited by Starbucks when they give me what I want for a fair price.
I don't see how taking advantage of other people's stupidity doesn't still make you an asshole.
That's a bit harsh IMHO. He harvested low hanging fruit maybe, but his customers weren't complaining about the fleecing they got.
We're talking about selling people music that's DRM-protected and non-transferable.
Point taken.
And the fact that you are willing to take advantage of stupidity or ignorance still makes you an asshole.
I wish the world was that rosy, but it's not. Sucks to be us. Back when John Wayne (or Aristotle) or Wyatt Erp (et al) walked the Earth, ethical conduct was the expectation. No longer, sorry. Now, we on the street expect to be fleeced if we let them get away with it. Darwin in action? Sad but true, from what I've seen lately. We're all little more than marks, from the gov't on down.
I don't see how taking advantage of other people's stupidity doesn't still make you an asshole.
You say that as if you considered it a universally bad thing. But that's how the Demopublican-Republicrat parties in this country cobble together a majority.
FTFY, you bottom feeding partisan great gormless git.
I don't see how taking advantage of other people's stupidity doesn't still make you an asshole.
That's a bit harsh IMHO. He harvested low hanging fruit maybe, but his customers weren't complaining about the fleecing they got. They appear to enjoy the experience. Some people think a nicer trackpad or rounded corners are worth an extra grand in price. That's their problem. Steve was happy to indulge their jones. That doesn't make him an asshole. It makes him an astute businessman who recognized a market he could sell to/exploit. I wouldn't go there, but a lot of people will. That's no reason to call him bad names.
On the other hand, his patent war against Samsung/Android does make him an asshole. Compete, don't litigate.
Bertrand, Lord Russel, actually. None of your mistering, please!
I think you should celebrate your monarchy there, not here. The USA elects the members of its upper chamber, and Canada's (geologically speaking) going that way too. Adult men here are rightfully called mister (among other things). No offense intended toward Bertrand, of course.
So, what do you guys think of Lord Black now? I like the guy.
Yeah, I finally figured out what you were trying to say about ten minutes later. I think it was the extraneous commas and parentheses, none of which were necessary or used correctly, that tripped me up. It takes two to communicate.
you'll be eating dinner alone every night for weeks on end
Not a problem for most people on this site.
Indeed. Screaming kids, nagging SO's or roomies with lousy taste in music/entertainments, or a steak or a burger on the BBQ alone on the deck/balcony? I'll take the latter, thanks.
Bringing manufactured chemicals and inserting them around a vehicle is obviously less natural than an invasive species.
FYI, borax isn't manufactured. Read the wikipedia page, then tell me how that's any different from ants foraging. Ants are hardly an endangered species. They'll be here long after we cease to be.
Sometimes I think you greenies would prefer it if humanity never came to exist.
Wyoming is particularly bad, I think we have one 4G tower in the entire state, 3G coverage is pretty spotty even in populated areas, and chunks I-80 don't even have voice cell coverage (I-90 and I-25 are even worse). If you're lucky, you can find a mcdonalds that actually bothered to setup their corporate mandated hotspot (on a sub 1meg DSL line).
'Sounds like heaven. No incoming or outgoing phone calls. "Sorry, send email." Surely you have Starbucks there too? I've never seen one of them that didn't have great wifi access.
One of the cutest girls I've ever seen was a cowgirl just outside Cody. She looked tough enough to snap me like a twig.
Sucks to be you, relying on stuff they won't let you have, and unwilling to make the available alternatives work for you. Boohoo.
Well, at least I can install Windows and run the tools to make money. Too bad you can't go and apt-get install social-skills-dev and do some development on your own huh?
That's all you've got? My last big gig was with ExxonMobil, 1.25 a. I was contracted to fix a decade old front facing security ksh script and to help build their "Golden Image" Linux system that they were rolling out to ca. 10,000 sites. Sites, meaning places tanker trucks were refilling.
but does the binary have to run or just work if you configure; make; make install again?
First of all, if you do that it's no longer the same binary.
So? If most of your software is FOSS and can be recompiled, why do you care if it's the same binary or not?
And this is why big name software for the most part won't support Linux
Is that really a problem? Oracle won't release a FLOSS build? BFD, who cares? Use PostgreSQL and save a fortune. Wolfram Alpha sounds cool, but isn't released for FLOSS? Their loss. Autocad isn't released for FLOSS? Sad, but their loss.
Debian, the last time I looked, offered 18k packages in their repositories, and Freshmeat/FreeCode/... offers plenty more. There's not enough FLOSS users to bother supporting FLOSS? FLOSS users aren't mere "users." They build, maintain, and support big systems that "mere users" use.
I don't need "Big Name Software" that doesn't care to support me on my choice of OS.
Young people like you are a disgrace to this country and is a reason why it's a laughing stock of the world these days. No respect for traditions!
You probably love "Makebelief Night in Canada", yes? I'm not young. I'm also not in "Eastern Canada."
There is life West of the Manitoban border, honest. It isn't really limited to the Golden Triangle, though I hear Kingston and St. Catherines are nice.
Perhaps you are more worried about defending against ginger stereotypes to worry about the canuck ones, and too busy running to have time to make fun of the frenchies...
No. Jeebus, I don't care what colour my folicles are. Why is anyone else (ie. you) making an issue of it?!? As for "the frenchies", they're busily making themselves extinct, yes? Why rain on their parade needlessly?
Did I offend you as a Torontonian or something? Dumb, dumb, dumb (meaning "stupid").
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The bots should at the very least have to "request" a violation check, not an immediate take-down.
Meaning Google/YouTube have to hire a human to vet the requests? If it's a flawed takedown request, can G/YT bill the requester? In a perfect world, ...
I spent some (gap job) time as an "Alarm Agent". Customers get three chances. If those three are false alarms, you get put on the "we'll look into it sometime" list. I think that concept would be appropriate here.
Actually, Viacom sued google for distributing on youtube content uploaded by their own employees, both from their own offices and the employees homes.
In an arms folded, head nodding kind of way, we should all be very happy that the *AAs are doing what they do. After all, that is pretty much the funniest joke of all time, isn't it? "Take it down! Infringing!!!" "Er, you put it up." "Take it down, damn you! We'll sue!!!!!!!" "We took it down, and you just put it up again!"
It's a make work for lawyers Ponzi scheme. Madoff would be proud.
Reason I think we should stuff a hot poker up their asses and make copyright a flat 18 years for individuals and 5 years for corporations ...
Nope, too generous. They're both flawed concepts, and too easily gamed. Zero years for both. Compete on your merits, damnit! Don't expect us to help you with legislative crutches. These are the rules the rest of us are expected to go by. Welcome to reality. Suck it up.
2 + 2 = 3.14159
(I want to join in the mistake-making, too.)
It would've been easier to just mention pi ("dict pi", gcide):
2. Specifically: (Math.) The letter [pi], [Pi], as used to
denote the number or quotient approximately expressing the
ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter;
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. "I almost got him" means you didn't get him. :-)
As for that fastest manhole cover link, me too. Thanks.
Why would you need vacuum tubes? You're in deep space surrounded by it - no need to keep it in tubes any more.
Just guessing, but I can think of a lot of reasons off the top of my head. Not all vacuums are equal for one thing. The glass in the tubes may be coated to make them more opaque. There's a hell of a lot of !@#$ flying around out there from inert dust through gamma ray particles and neutrinos. Or it could be as simple as minimizing heat changes. That cold, stuff gets brittle. Brittle things break more easily.
I'd also like to chime in and say I think it's seriously cool that these things are still going and communicating back. I was in my early twenties when they were launched. Bravo.
Was some AMD fanboy trying to make a point ...
Plausible. I know I was a bit disgusted in recent days when some $SHITHEAD was lambasting Linux users for not supporting AMD when the latter went out of their way to accommodate us. I haven't bought an Intel CPU since Randall Schwartz was railroaded by Intel's stupidity. I only go AMD and ATI, and that's been the case for more than a decade.
The only people who like it are ASIO, the AFP (the feds) and the MAFIAA.
You forgot the lawyers. Note also, most politicians are lawyers. What a coincidence.
Not all of us think that "being an astute businessman who recognized a market he could sell to/exploit" is an inherently good thing.
Inherently, no, but it's the same thing Jobs and Woz were doing when they were building a personal computer in the garage. You can either be a wage slave and work for someone who hands you a cheque once a month for your time and efforts, or you can come up with something no one else is doing that others will see value in and pay you to provide it.
There's nothing inherently bad in either of those. However speaking for myself, I'd prefer not to be a wage slave. I cherish my independence. There's nothing inherently bad in selling or exploiting either. The way some people have done those things have given those words a bad rep. I don't consider I'm being exploited by Starbucks when they give me what I want for a fair price.
I don't see how taking advantage of other people's stupidity doesn't still make you an asshole.
That's a bit harsh IMHO. He harvested low hanging fruit maybe, but his customers weren't complaining about the fleecing they got.
We're talking about selling people music that's DRM-protected and non-transferable.
Point taken.
And the fact that you are willing to take advantage of stupidity or ignorance still makes you an asshole.
I wish the world was that rosy, but it's not. Sucks to be us. Back when John Wayne (or Aristotle) or Wyatt Erp (et al) walked the Earth, ethical conduct was the expectation. No longer, sorry. Now, we on the street expect to be fleeced if we let them get away with it. Darwin in action? Sad but true, from what I've seen lately. We're all little more than marks, from the gov't on down.
FTFY, you not my kind of bottom feeding partisan
FTFY.
No, you didn't. You accuse Democrats of $BAD_STUFF. The Republicans are every bit as bad, YOU PARTISAN FOOL!
great gormless git
Is that supposed to be some limey lingo from the land of bad teeth?
Yup, had a GF from there (Darlington; almost married her), and that was her Mom's favourite insult. Jordies, gotta love 'em. Geordies?!? I dunno.
Please stop being a partisan bottom feeder. They all suck, every goddamned one of them, kthxbye.
I don't see how taking advantage of other people's stupidity doesn't still make you an asshole.
You say that as if you considered it a universally bad thing. But that's how the Demopublican-Republicrat parties in this country cobble together a majority.
FTFY, you bottom feeding partisan great gormless git.
I don't see how taking advantage of other people's stupidity doesn't still make you an asshole.
That's a bit harsh IMHO. He harvested low hanging fruit maybe, but his customers weren't complaining about the fleecing they got. They appear to enjoy the experience. Some people think a nicer trackpad or rounded corners are worth an extra grand in price. That's their problem. Steve was happy to indulge their jones. That doesn't make him an asshole. It makes him an astute businessman who recognized a market he could sell to/exploit. I wouldn't go there, but a lot of people will. That's no reason to call him bad names.
On the other hand, his patent war against Samsung/Android does make him an asshole. Compete, don't litigate.
Bertrand, Lord Russel, actually. None of your mistering, please!
I think you should celebrate your monarchy there, not here. The USA elects the members of its upper chamber, and Canada's (geologically speaking) going that way too. Adult men here are rightfully called mister (among other things). No offense intended toward Bertrand, of course.
So, what do you guys think of Lord Black now? I like the guy.
Yeah, I finally figured out what you were trying to say about ten minutes later. I think it was the extraneous commas and parentheses, none of which were necessary or used correctly, that tripped me up. It takes two to communicate.
you'll be eating dinner alone every night for weeks on end
Not a problem for most people on this site.
Indeed. Screaming kids, nagging SO's or roomies with lousy taste in music/entertainments, or a steak or a burger on the BBQ alone on the deck/balcony? I'll take the latter, thanks.
Bringing manufactured chemicals and inserting them around a vehicle is obviously less natural than an invasive species.
FYI, borax isn't manufactured. Read the wikipedia page, then tell me how that's any different from ants foraging. Ants are hardly an endangered species. They'll be here long after we cease to be.
Sometimes I think you greenies would prefer it if humanity never came to exist.
Also, if you don't live in Yellowstone, (where there are no fire ants), boiling water in the ground is pretty unlikely to be natural.
I take it you're unaware that Yellowstone sits inside the caldera of a supervolcano?
Wyoming is particularly bad, I think we have one 4G tower in the entire state, 3G coverage is pretty spotty even in populated areas, and chunks I-80 don't even have voice cell coverage (I-90 and I-25 are even worse).
If you're lucky, you can find a mcdonalds that actually bothered to setup their corporate mandated hotspot (on a sub 1meg DSL line).
'Sounds like heaven. No incoming or outgoing phone calls. "Sorry, send email." Surely you have Starbucks there too? I've never seen one of them that didn't have great wifi access.
One of the cutest girls I've ever seen was a cowgirl just outside Cody. She looked tough enough to snap me like a twig.
Sucks to be you, relying on stuff they won't let you have, and unwilling to make the available alternatives work for you. Boohoo.
Well, at least I can install Windows and run the tools to make money. Too bad you can't go and apt-get install social-skills-dev and do some development on your own huh?
That's all you've got? My last big gig was with ExxonMobil, 1.25 a. I was contracted to fix a decade old front facing security ksh script and to help build their "Golden Image" Linux system that they were rolling out to ca. 10,000 sites. Sites, meaning places tanker trucks were refilling.
Hoser.
I really do pity lusers like you. "Come on, I use Linux. Give me a Linux port of PhotoShop!" "Fuck you. You don't matter enough."
Sucks to be you, relying on stuff they won't let you have, and unwilling to make the available alternatives work for you. Boohoo.
You sure you're not an abandoned Murrican kid who got adopted out?
"Mom, was I adopted?" "Nope, and boy, did you look silly with that bit of cotton swab on your peepee post foreskin loss."
So, I'll guess no. Apparently, I almost died in my first year from whooping cough too. Huh.
I like to think I'm an Argentinian who was accidentally born in Winterpeg.
but does the binary have to run or just work if you configure; make; make install again?
First of all, if you do that it's no longer the same binary.
So? If most of your software is FOSS and can be recompiled, why do you care if it's the same binary or not?
And this is why big name software for the most part won't support Linux
Is that really a problem? Oracle won't release a FLOSS build? BFD, who cares? Use PostgreSQL and save a fortune. Wolfram Alpha sounds cool, but isn't released for FLOSS? Their loss. Autocad isn't released for FLOSS? Sad, but their loss.
Debian, the last time I looked, offered 18k packages in their repositories, and Freshmeat/FreeCode/... offers plenty more. There's not enough FLOSS users to bother supporting FLOSS? FLOSS users aren't mere "users." They build, maintain, and support big systems that "mere users" use.
I don't need "Big Name Software" that doesn't care to support me on my choice of OS.
Young people like you are a disgrace to this country and is a reason why it's a laughing stock of the world these days. No respect for traditions!
You probably love "Makebelief Night in Canada", yes? I'm not young. I'm also not in "Eastern Canada."
There is life West of the Manitoban border, honest. It isn't really limited to the Golden Triangle, though I hear Kingston and St. Catherines are nice.
Perhaps you are more worried about defending against ginger stereotypes to worry about the canuck ones, and too busy running to have time to make fun of the frenchies ...
No. Jeebus, I don't care what colour my folicles are. Why is anyone else (ie. you) making an issue of it?!? As for "the frenchies", they're busily making themselves extinct, yes? Why rain on their parade needlessly?
Did I offend you as a Torontonian or something? Dumb, dumb, dumb (meaning "stupid").
... giant blob of molasses was "chasing" after these people.
You know, that actually happened in Chicago? It was a real honest to $DEITY disaster.