There's also PBS, but there you also pay through taxes.
yeah, that $2 a year we each pay for pbs, npr, and all their local affiliates is really ratcheting up my tax bill.
most of the "public broadcasting" stations are paid for by charitable contributions from local listeners and businesses. though some of the business sponsorship announcements are getting to look like ads, at least they don't interrupt the programs.
Prisoner: Where am I? Number Two: In The Village. Prisoner: What do you want? Number Two: Information. Prisoner: Which side are you on? Number Two: That would be telling. We want information, information, information... Prisoner: You won't get it. Number Two: By hook or by crook we will. Prisoner: Who are you? Number Two: The new Number Two. Prisoner: Who is Number One? Number Two: You are Number Six. Prisoner: I am not a number. I am a free man. Number Two: Ha, ha, ha, ha....
"Was the golden gate bridge pork? Of course not. Could those people have been served by a ferry??? Uhm...I guess... but would the ensuing economic development have occured? Of course not."
The golden gate bridge was pork, and still is. It connects a national park to another national park, along a route served by several ferries (now subsidized by bridge tolls, of all things, but previous to the bridge profitable and less expensive). If it produced a great boom of economic development, I expect there would be stuff on at least one end of the bridge, rather than a (fun to explore) former military base and some (really very pretty) woods.
on the other hand, it was at least *local* pork - paid for by the residents of the surrounding counties, in a local bond issue. here are details on the wildly inaccurate campaign for the bond measure, courtesy of the city of san francisco.
well, at least for os x, the hardware vendor *is* the os vendor, and they certainly do include java and flash in the base distribution. in fact, if you buy os x on cd in a store it includes java and flash. is this actually not true of windows? i'd be surprised.
Just use a good old PFY conversion filter. This is, after all, why Our Lord Jesus Christ invented the idea of assistants to handle the busywork. Don't you scientists have TAs and research assistants and whatnot?
The parent makes a good point: if you want to do a lot of free-form writing on the cheap, your best bet is to cover your desk area in butcher paper. Get a stick from the campus green and light it on fire, until it burns down to a charcoal tip. Profit.
Many markets do in fact have CNN on the radio. My hometown, for instance. It's just an audio feed of CNN HN, plus some local ads and a smidgen of specially produced content, but it does exist.
My understanding is that the Archive is explicitly provided as a nonprofit research tool for testing the effectiveness of certain computer algorithms.
Perhaps the interface could be redesigned to favor the provision of aggregate data (an mbox archive of spam fitting a profile or search, for example) and make it less convenient to identify individual spams out of this context. This would preserve the research aims while making the overall intent of the archive more clearly in line with fair use doctrine.
Insofar as the archivist has shown a willingness to remove messages sent by people who identify themselves and provide a reasonable arguement for the removal, I doubt this challenge could stand up to a legal test.
second argument:
It is certainly not reasonable to allow any unidentified person to affect the publication of copyrighted works. Since the intent of the copyright holder is unknown in this case, the status quo is the safest action.
For instance, I could write the following message to Stephen King's publisher on a postcard (SK chosen because he retains copyright to much of his published work):
Dear Sir:
It has come to my attention that you are providing for sale copies of _Carrie_. I assert that you do not have the right to publish this work under copyright law, and insist that you stop immediately. Please direct correspondence on this matter to the return address listed at left. Thank you for your prompt compliance.
If the publisher complied with the request in this unsigned missive, he would be in serious trouble. An unsigned and insecure document cannot be trusted as the basis for legal decisions.
In fact, this postcard, delivered through standard mail and bearing Stephen King's actual return address and an assertion that it was authored by Stephen King would probably still be insufficient. This is why legal documents are sent via certified mail in sealed envelopes.
quicktime was first released in 1991, and for that matter, transmission of video over satellite and phone lines has been going on since at least the 1960s in the TV industry, probably earlier.
Heck, transmission of audio over standard phone lines (which one of the patents seems to cover) has been around since there have been phone lines. That's sort of the point, after all. And they have always allowed for "optional recording" for "later playback."
Well, since (at least one of) the patents specifies "standard telephone, cable, or satellite broadcast channels" you could require users to agree to a EULA stating that they are not using such means to access your website.
Possibly high-speed leased lines, ISDN, dry copper local links, serial cable connections, land-based wireless, and even GPRS don't fall into this description. It's not your responsibility to monitor compliance, after all.
Also, your EULA could require (to avoid this patent) your users to play the video back as it is delivered, rather than store it for "later playback and optional recording...."
actually, broadband isn't a "cable service" anymore, thanks to heavy lobbying from the cable industry themselves so they could avoid local franchise fees on their broadband revenue.
which is not to say that these people didn't engage in theft of services of some sort, just not cable service.
You just gave me this great vision of a postapocalypse world, in which cockroaches sit at computers all day sending one another nigerian scams and free porn passwords. Should be a movie, or at least a Pixar short.
no no no. the right to a fair trial only exists for... well, maybe for new zealanders or something. middle class and poorer americans don't get it, and rich americans don't need it because the system is biased *in their favor*.
well, you could patent "a method of predatorily extorting money from companies and consumers using intellectual property" with cases:
1. prohibiting first-sale doctrine from taking effect using an End User License Agreement to restrict rights and hiding said agreement so it must be accepted before it can be read
and
2. patenting obvious uses of existing technology (hyperlinks, javascript popunder windows, form submission buttons) and exacting licensing fees from companies that employ those obvoius uses, but didn't bother to get a patent.
then you could sue the people who pull this shit, like Amazon, BT, and whoever these guys are.
Here again, the advantage isn't that there are few authors doing it, but that it's an easy way for a lazy consumer to find out about a potentially very large number of obscure artists. I generally acquire new authors for my reading list in one of two ways:
1. someone recommends a book by author x, and (the crucial bit) lends me said book 2. one of the authors I already read recommends another author, and I can check this author out freely or cheaply (sub $3)
What Flint says about $7 - $28 being too much for a purely speculative purchase is true. I've spent literally hundreds of dollars acquiring the works of Jonathan Carroll (plug), which I never would have if a friend hadn't lent me a copy of _Bones of the Moon_. What's more, I've turned 5 or 6 of my friends into avid Carroll fans. This, for an author whose books you can't often buy at Barnes&Noble.
My Zelazny and Mercedes Lackey addictions are due entirely to crappy pirated eBooks. I buy them now, but I wouldn't have dropped $7 on a book just to check one of them out, and I'm not willing to spend 3 hours in a big, fluorescently lit store checking out one book.
Going to the bookstore helps me identify books I *don't* want to read, and get books by authors I already intend to buy, but I don't think I've ever discovered a new author by browsing in a bookstore. A library, sure. But there again, it's free and easy.
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I don't think this is entirely true. The primary inhibitor to people paying for eBooks is laziness, not greed. I read all of the Chronicles of Amber on my palmpilot (pirated them, yes). Then I sent $20 to the author (Roger Zelazny)'s estate. I figure most authors don't clear $2 a book on paperback sales, so this was a fair amount.
It took me about 10 seconds to write the check, and 2 weeks to figure out to whom I could usefully send it. I'm still not sure that I sent it to the right place, only that I haven't heard back.
If I could have downloaded a legitimate copy online, then paid online, I would have been much happier with the process. Heck, I would've paid an extra $4 or $5 just to not have wasted the time tracking down an address.
Slashdot Mirror
There's also PBS, but there you also pay through taxes.
yeah, that $2 a year we each pay for pbs, npr, and all their local affiliates is really ratcheting up my tax bill.
most of the "public broadcasting" stations are paid for by charitable contributions from local listeners and businesses. though some of the business sponsorship announcements are getting to look like ads, at least they don't interrupt the programs.
Prisoner: Where am I?
Number Two: In The Village.
Prisoner: What do you want?
Number Two: Information.
Prisoner: Which side are you on?
Number Two: That would be telling. We want information, information, information...
Prisoner: You won't get it.
Number Two: By hook or by crook we will. Prisoner: Who are you?
Number Two: The new Number Two.
Prisoner: Who is Number One?
Number Two: You are Number Six.
Prisoner: I am not a number. I am a free man. Number Two: Ha, ha, ha, ha....
"Was the golden gate bridge pork? Of course not. Could those people have been served by a ferry??? Uhm...I guess... but would the ensuing economic development have occured? Of course not."
The golden gate bridge was pork, and still is. It connects a national park to another national park, along a route served by several ferries (now subsidized by bridge tolls, of all things, but previous to the bridge profitable and less expensive). If it produced a great boom of economic development, I expect there would be stuff on at least one end of the bridge, rather than a (fun to explore) former military base and some (really very pretty) woods.
on the other hand, it was at least *local* pork - paid for by the residents of the surrounding counties, in a local bond issue. here are details on the wildly inaccurate campaign for the bond measure, courtesy of the city of san francisco.
well, at least for os x, the hardware vendor *is* the os vendor, and they certainly do include java and flash in the base distribution. in fact, if you buy os x on cd in a store it includes java and flash. is this actually not true of windows? i'd be surprised.
Just set your home page to a google search for the text of the 4th amendment. See here (whence I stole this idea).
http://www.macromedia.com/software/authorware/
It's now an Adobe property, but Authorware has been owned by Macromedia since at least version 5.
Just use a good old PFY conversion filter. This is, after all, why Our Lord Jesus Christ invented the idea of assistants to handle the busywork. Don't you scientists have TAs and research assistants and whatnot?
The parent makes a good point: if you want to do a lot of free-form writing on the cheap, your best bet is to cover your desk area in butcher paper. Get a stick from the campus green and light it on fire, until it burns down to a charcoal tip. Profit.
Are you that stupid? We invaded Haiti and kidnapped Aristide just over a year ago (Feb 2004).
Many markets do in fact have CNN on the radio. My hometown, for instance. It's just an audio feed of CNN HN, plus some local ads and a smidgen of specially produced content, but it does exist.
CNN Radio homepage
I once got an audiobook narrated by Levar Burton. That induced sleep much better than the drive.
- Surely this increase in costs will be more than the savings from
- thwarting privacy?
I assume that was a Freudian slip, but it was a great one.My understanding is that the Archive is explicitly provided as a nonprofit research tool for testing the effectiveness of certain computer algorithms.
Perhaps the interface could be redesigned to favor the provision of aggregate data (an mbox archive of spam fitting a profile or search, for example) and make it less convenient to identify individual spams out of this context. This would preserve the research aims while making the overall intent of the archive more clearly in line with fair use doctrine.
Insofar as the archivist has shown a willingness to remove messages sent by people who identify themselves and provide a reasonable arguement for the removal, I doubt this challenge could stand up to a legal test.
second argument:
It is certainly not reasonable to allow any unidentified person to affect the publication of copyrighted works. Since the intent of the copyright holder is unknown in this case, the status quo is the safest action.
For instance, I could write the following message to Stephen King's publisher on a postcard (SK chosen because he retains copyright to much of his published work):
If the publisher complied with the request in this unsigned missive, he would be in serious trouble. An unsigned and insecure document cannot be trusted as the basis for legal decisions.
In fact, this postcard, delivered through standard mail and bearing Stephen King's actual return address and an assertion that it was authored by Stephen King would probably still be insufficient. This is why legal documents are sent via certified mail in sealed envelopes.
quicktime was first released in 1991, and for that matter, transmission of video over satellite and phone lines has been going on since at least the 1960s in the TV industry, probably earlier.
Heck, transmission of audio over standard phone lines (which one of the patents seems to cover) has been around since there have been phone lines. That's sort of the point, after all. And they have always allowed for "optional recording" for "later playback."
Well, since (at least one of) the patents specifies "standard telephone, cable, or satellite broadcast channels" you could require users to agree to a EULA stating that they are not using such means to access your website.
."
Possibly high-speed leased lines, ISDN, dry copper local links, serial cable connections, land-based wireless, and even GPRS don't fall into this description. It's not your responsibility to monitor compliance, after all.
Also, your EULA could require (to avoid this patent) your users to play the video back as it is delivered, rather than store it for "later playback and optional recording...
actually, broadband isn't a "cable service" anymore, thanks to heavy lobbying from the cable industry themselves so they could avoid local franchise fees on their broadband revenue.
which is not to say that these people didn't engage in theft of services of some sort, just not cable service.
It would be even funnier if it weren't so true.
You just gave me this great vision of a postapocalypse world, in which cockroaches sit at computers all day sending one another nigerian scams and free porn passwords. Should be a movie, or at least a Pixar short.
based on companies i've worked with, this encryption could be circumvented farily easily, to wit:
Fm bob@accounting.dept
To jim@top-secret-work.dept
RE that file you sent out
(reply-to: spy@competitor.com)
Jim,
I got the file top_secret_corporate_data.zip from Sherry in accounts receivable, but we're having trouble opening it. Please email us the password.
Thanks a Million!
Bob
ps: I love this new security stuff! Did you get Sheila's joke about the ducks? Classic!!
no no no. the right to a fair trial only exists for... well, maybe for new zealanders or something. middle class and poorer americans don't get it, and rich americans don't need it because the system is biased *in their favor*.
another mirror, courtesy of my former university: http://www.students.uwf.edu/jwd3/ms_pdf/
well, you could patent "a method of predatorily extorting money from companies and consumers using intellectual property" with cases:
1. prohibiting first-sale doctrine from taking effect using an End User License Agreement to restrict rights and hiding said agreement so it must be accepted before it can be read
and
2. patenting obvious uses of existing technology (hyperlinks, javascript popunder windows, form submission buttons) and exacting licensing fees from companies that employ those obvoius uses, but didn't bother to get a patent.
then you could sue the people who pull this shit, like Amazon, BT, and whoever these guys are.
Here again, the advantage isn't that there are few authors doing it, but that it's an easy way for a lazy consumer to find out about a potentially very large number of obscure artists. I generally acquire new authors for my reading list in one of two ways:
1. someone recommends a book by author x, and (the crucial bit) lends me said book
2. one of the authors I already read recommends another author, and I can check this author out freely or cheaply (sub $3)
What Flint says about $7 - $28 being too much for a purely speculative purchase is true. I've spent literally hundreds of dollars acquiring the works of Jonathan Carroll (plug), which I never would have if a friend hadn't lent me a copy of _Bones of the Moon_. What's more, I've turned 5 or 6 of my friends into avid Carroll fans. This, for an author whose books you can't often buy at Barnes&Noble.
My Zelazny and Mercedes Lackey addictions are due entirely to crappy pirated eBooks. I buy them now, but I wouldn't have dropped $7 on a book just to check one of them out, and I'm not willing to spend 3 hours in a big, fluorescently lit store checking out one book.
Going to the bookstore helps me identify books I *don't* want to read, and get books by authors I already intend to buy, but I don't think I've ever discovered a new author by browsing in a bookstore. A library, sure. But there again, it's free and easy.
I don't think this is entirely true. The primary inhibitor to people paying for eBooks is laziness, not greed. I read all of the Chronicles of Amber on my palmpilot (pirated them, yes). Then I sent $20 to the author (Roger Zelazny)'s estate. I figure most authors don't clear $2 a book on paperback sales, so this was a fair amount.
It took me about 10 seconds to write the check, and 2 weeks to figure out to whom I could usefully send it. I'm still not sure that I sent it to the right place, only that I haven't heard back.
If I could have downloaded a legitimate copy online, then paid online, I would have been much happier with the process. Heck, I would've paid an extra $4 or $5 just to not have wasted the time tracking down an address.
why, with segway®, of course.
seriously, though, there are transport systems that would let such a robot navigate offroad.