What's particularly sad is that when the pledge had "under God" added in the 50s, the placement was meaningful:
right between nation and indivisible.
Say it in the original form a couple times, actually listening to the words... you'll notice something. The insertion is obvious and clumsy, but has gone unnoticed by a generation who has it memorized as just another constant string.
I saw Kill Bill last night, which was great, but I was annoyed by the skip in my immersion caused by a flashed set of code dots appeearing across Uma Thurmon's face.
The cigarrette burn things are annoying too, but they come from a technical cause which is dissappearing with digital distribution. Intentionally marring frames to stop low-quality cam releases is idiotic. The award show and screener thing is an internal issue the industry should figure out; they're the ones who care about and receive benefit from their own award shows. What affects me is the quality and immersion I receive when I pay to see a film, dammit.
Frankly, I think this is perfectly acceptible action at this time, and I hope that the US does not try to go further and block the sites. When you can read vile words from the mouths of fools, you're often alienated from them easier than if they were underground, secretive, suppressed, and romanticized.
"Owning copying technology is not an unconditional 'free pass' to replicate or distribute protected work."
He is correct. The very nature of information is the 'free pass' he speaks of.
A man walks into a bar and tells a joke. Several people remember the joke, and are able to tell it to others. The man has no legal recourse to prevent them from this act, and there is nothing immoral about their behavior.
That is natural reality. Copyright is an agreement between a general body of people (as represented by their government) and specific people who produce information, to exchange exclusive selling rights during an initial time period for that information becoming public domain after the specified time. And that is a reasonable way to handle a non-scarce resource (information) in a capatalist economic system.
Unfortunately, today's situation is one where there is no longer the 'exchange' part of the agreement anywhere to be seen.
When there is no exchange, copyright is null and void.
Your 'free pass' to do whatever the hell you want with information came from (your possession of a mind | your diety | your mother) & the fact that you have no obligation to observe a perhaps once noble, but now utterly rotten system of copyright.
This is a *MAJOR* breakthrough! Most Turing Test contestants don't even win, but this one can eloquently discuss topics and give complex answers, rather than just turning back the question, Eliza-style.
Yes, how dare he shove "do not murder" down the throats of our kids.
Check out the 10 Commandments some time. The anti-murder bit is number six, but see if the first four have nothing to do with pushing a specific religion.
I think I found the link somewhere on Slashdot once:
Gnod.net is a learning system like a search engine that allows you to put in your three favorite authors/musicians/movies and it returns a series of "suggestions" that match, asking you if you like/dislike/haven't heard of each result in series.
This sort of creature has the potential of placing the final nails in the media cartels' coffins, as it provides what's missing from current P2P and self-production techniques: a recommendation/promotion mechanism.
I looked around the website recently, and even Googled about for it, but I've not seen a recent count on the number of people who are EFF members. If it's possible to disclose or at least approximate, I'd love to know how many of us exist.
Here's a good way to have a bootable Linux CD at all times, ready to demo whenever the opportunity shows:
Buy a Bootable Business Card from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Shop! You get to spread the word of Linux while sending $5 towards a wonderful cause!
It seems that they're not bio-luminescent as the first article indicates, but rather they simply have florescent protiens from coral and jellyfish that react prettily to UV.
Annoyed about this? Angry? Too bad. Well-funded forces with stupid ideas can, will, and do change legal reality. I'm whining about it here on/. at the moment, but I 'm also a member of the EFF. Are you? They could use a louder voice. If you care, consider joining.
You tell it 3 of your favorite artists, and then it names a bunch it thinks you'll like, asking if you like it, don't like it, or haven't heard of it. It's intelligent, personalized, and it evolves.
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What's particularly sad is that when the pledge had "under God" added in the 50s, the placement was meaningful:
.
right between nation and indivisible
Say it in the original form a couple times, actually listening to the words... you'll notice something. The insertion is obvious and clumsy, but has gone unnoticed by a generation who has it memorized as just another constant string.
Fact:
I saw Kill Bill last night, which was great, but I was annoyed by the skip in my immersion caused by a flashed set of code dots appeearing across Uma Thurmon's face.
The cigarrette burn things are annoying too, but they come from a technical cause which is dissappearing with digital distribution. Intentionally marring frames to stop low-quality cam releases is idiotic. The award show and screener thing is an internal issue the industry should figure out; they're the ones who care about and receive benefit from their own award shows. What affects me is the quality and immersion I receive when I pay to see a film, dammit.
Frankly, I think this is perfectly acceptible action at this time, and I hope that the US does not try to go further and block the sites. When you can read vile words from the mouths of fools, you're often alienated from them easier than if they were underground, secretive, suppressed, and romanticized .
"Owning copying technology is not an unconditional 'free pass' to replicate or distribute protected work."
He is correct. The very nature of information is the 'free pass' he speaks of.
A man walks into a bar and tells a joke. Several people remember the joke, and are able to tell it to others. The man has no legal recourse to prevent them from this act, and there is nothing immoral about their behavior.
That is natural reality. Copyright is an agreement between a general body of people (as represented by their government) and specific people who produce information, to exchange exclusive selling rights during an initial time period for that information becoming public domain after the specified time. And that is a reasonable way to handle a non-scarce resource (information) in a capatalist economic system.
Unfortunately, today's situation is one where there is no longer the 'exchange' part of the agreement anywhere to be seen.
When there is no exchange, copyright is null and void.
Your 'free pass' to do whatever the hell you want with information came from (your possession of a mind | your diety | your mother) & the fact that you have no obligation to observe a perhaps once noble, but now utterly rotten system of copyright.
"New Scientist reports that an asteroid about the size of a small house...
... landed on the wicked witch in the middle of a ditch, ... the wicked witch.
which was not a healthy sit-
uation for
This is a *MAJOR* breakthrough! Most Turing Test contestants don't even win, but this one can eloquently discuss topics and give complex answers, rather than just turning back the question, Eliza-style.
Can we download a copy of this "Jim Gray" yet?
I don't need a new car right now, but I'm annoyed that something like this is beckoning.
There's an '04 Prius link (flash stuff with some specs) in the lower left of Toyota.com
who read:
:-)
2) The free software parliamentary front was announced in congress,
as:
2) The free software paramilitary front was announced in congress,
It is a cool name though...
Yes, how dare he shove "do not murder" down the throats of our kids.
Check out the 10 Commandments some time. The anti-murder bit is number six, but see if the first four have nothing to do with pushing a specific religion.
yeah; I shoulda attributed that; I was searching Google News to set up a relatively low volume Google News Alert.
Where's the foot icon?
I think I found the link somewhere on Slashdot once:
Gnod.net is a learning system like a search engine that allows you to put in your three favorite authors/musicians/movies and it returns a series of "suggestions" that match, asking you if you like/dislike/haven't heard of each result in series.
This sort of creature has the potential of placing the final nails in the media cartels' coffins, as it provides what's missing from current P2P and self-production techniques: a recommendation/promotion mechanism.
The first successful "Space Wedding" will involve both parties being in space, and having a uniquely low-g honeymoon.
The cool part is, there's nothing to really prevent this from happening soon, what with space tourism finally having occured, etc...
I looked around the website recently, and even Googled about for it, but I've not seen a recent count on the number of people who are EFF members. If it's possible to disclose or at least approximate, I'd love to know how many of us exist.
They needed to revamp how they handled e-mail after this little incident.
... the next will be when Bugatti releases an SUV.
Here's a good way to have a bootable Linux CD at all times, ready to demo whenever the opportunity shows:
Buy a Bootable Business Card from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Shop! You get to spread the word of Linux while sending $5 towards a wonderful cause!
Can be found on this page with a collection of news articles about them:
http://www.mongabay.com/external/glowing_fish.htm
It seems that they're not bio-luminescent as the first article indicates, but rather they simply have florescent protiens from coral and jellyfish that react prettily to UV.
From mid-February:
http://publish.gio.gov.tw/FCJ/past/03021481.html
It goes into a lot more regarding the history of domestic fish and the market conditions under which this was developed.
Annoyed about this? Angry? Too bad. Well-funded forces with stupid ideas can, will, and do change legal reality. I'm whining about it here on /. at the moment, but I 'm also a member of the EFF. Are you? They could use a louder voice. If you care, consider joining.
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module.c, line 54
module.c lines 153-155
and most potentially damning, signal.c, line 430
Although this won't help the situation of news information all coming from one source, I have found a new and better way to get exposed to music:
Have you found Gnod?
You tell it 3 of your favorite artists, and then it names a bunch it thinks you'll like, asking if you like it, don't like it, or haven't heard of it. It's intelligent, personalized, and it evolves.
The Afrotech Ghetto Hardware Fun site has early, failed experiments in peltier beverage cooling, with dangerous results! He almost had it right in his second experiment though...
The Lords of the Rhymes do a good Hobbit Gangsta Rap routine. Watch their video; I'm not kidding.