You can't read a book or take a nap in the car you're driving. I ride the train to work in Atlanta and the single biggest benefit is that I can spend 30 minutes on my laptop catching up on emails or just goofing around instead of driving.
That is, the car trip "costs" me 30 minutes of my life (plus some gray hair, due to traffic), and the train trip "costs" me 5. I value my work and leisure time enough that those extra 50 minutes a day are well worth a small amount of inconvenience.
All of those files are on the client computer. The third party server doesn't send them to anyone (it doesn't even HAVE them. the server doesn't need or want to know what the model of a Murloc looks like, or how it's textured).
Is there any info available publicly on what, exactly, the copyright infringement in question was here?
There are tablets with keyboards that slide out, or swivel out, or detach. They work very well as laptops or as tablets or whatever you want to call how you're using the device.
Modern cars already have a compressor system, it just works in the wrong direction. What is the negative pressure like in the vacuum system in your car? I'm not saying this is a particularly feasible idea, just that I'm surprised I haven't encountered it before.
There are cars that can monitor their tire pressure. Why aren't there cars that can adjust their tire pressure in realtime? If you hit the brakes or steer wildly then vent some air out of the tires to increase friction. If you are driving smoothly then increase pressure. Yes, venting would take time, but this system would be no worse than just having low-friction tires all the time like GP does.
The problem is that since you are *probably* solving the verification words with higher accuracy to begin with, you are actually poisoning the data being gathered regarding the book words. So, while a book word becoming a verification word based on your "solutions" will keep your solution rate constant, it actually damages the system when it comes time for humans to solve the CAPTCHA, or worse when the solutions are used as OCR corrections.
To clarify, given a classically OCR-able "foo" and a non-OCR-able-but-human-readable "bar", a human is expected to recognize the slightly-deformed-by-reCAPTCHA "foo" and is trusted to get "bar" right more often than OCR would. This attack only defeats the deformation applied by reCAPTCHA, it doesn't actually improve the OCR on the non-deformed words, which means you are going to submit an answer of "foo ban" every time this pair is encounted (or "blah ban" for a different scenario), and the reCAPTCHA system is eventually going to decide that the book word really is "ban".
Better telescopes is moot. Figuring out the position and velocity of any specific detectable object in the solar system has been trivial for a long time now. The problem is our ability to predict how it will interact with every other body in the next hundred years. If it was a comet, and ignoring any potential flybys of smaller planets, just calculating how it will interact with Jupiter and the Sun every year for 100 passes adds more than a few earth diameters of uncertainty to the results.
Wrong kind of non-compete. You don't forbid them from doing stuff later, you just make their non-competition a requirement for getting paid this month.
The right to use the software is not one reserved exclusively for the author. That is, of the thousands of things you might do with a copy of the software, using it falls into the same category as "turning the CD into a frisbee" and "deleting it from your hard drive", not the same category as "making derivative works" and "selling copies" (those being the things you need permission for).
A license, that being permission to do things otherwise forbidden by the copyright act, is not required to use the software, as stated in the ruling and quoted in the summary.
For some degree of desired results, they are ALL "unqualified professions". Give me a hundred people with treatable but potentially-long-term-fatal medical conditions (infections, wounds, etc) and someone completely untrained and ignorant could save 10-25 of them by sheer luck. The best doctor in the world could probably save 99 of them. And someone like me, with no medical training but with access to the internet (Google, WebMD), could save 80-90 of them. In a country where we can afford to pay that doctor's salary for 200+ hours, great. In a country where you can't even afford to pay for the doctor's meals, 80% vs 25% is a pretty damn good success rate.
Why would you think that? I'm a professional PHP developer. In my field this is especially true. Any hack with a few spare days to learn the language and a good toolset can turn out code that will be 90%, or better, as effective as mine for most general tasks. For a small company that needs some application development done, the quality of code that you'll get from someone charging $1/hr in Asia is Good Enough, and you really don't need to spend thousands of dollars on hundreds of hours of coding time by someone "Professional".
I disagree with your last paragraph. In most fields, there is a very small difference between "hackwork" and "high-end, professional work". The effectiveness of "design" (whether it's a logo or a webpage) is quantifiable: the number of people who come back, or buy the product, or whatever else your end goal is. The middle 50% of people who might try to do the design will produce work that is 80-95% as effective as the top 5%, and the top 5% are going to charge 10 times as much for their work (or more!).
To be more precise, the difference in a logo designed for $50 and one designed for $50000 (which is not an unrealistic figure for the amount of market research that goes into a company like AT&T redesigning their logo) is a matter of a few percent in effectiveness. If I'm a huge company, that few percent might make back the extra $49950 quickly. If I'm Joe EtsyShopOwner, that means just a few dollars a month to me, and will never be worth the extra cost.
The throttle position can be controlled by the cruise control (and any other part of the ECU, in theory), so it could actually be in the recorded-but-undesired position. The driver not pressing the brake pedal doesn't have a similar explanation (but yours, of the position not being recorded correctly, still stands).
Try again. Depending on whose list you use, somewhere between 25% and 50% of the countries with higher broadband penetration rates than the USA have lower population density.
And that includes Alaska in the population density statistics.
In Georgia, you have to go to Magistrate Court and file a suit against the appropriate person or company (which is sometimes a hard thing to figure out). The relevant statute is 47 USC 227 b 1 A iii, with regulations to match in 47 CFR 64.1200 a 1 iii. I recommend the book "Everybody's Guide to Small Claims Court" by Nolo.
In the USA, it's illegal to use a predictive dialer to call a cell phone. Responsible companies screen for cell numbers during your 'step three'. The ones that don't are fueling my upcoming investment in making small claims court for TCPA violations a full time job.
I agree that losing transparency during transforms (rotation and perspective do it too) is an issue. What is the # of the bug report that you filed when you encountered this issue, so I can comment on it to lend my support?
And expecting GIMP (and Photoshop) to do vector tasks is no weirder than expecting Inkscape (and Illustrator) to do raster tasks (which they don't, and no one complains about). Ditto for expecting text layout tools when you should be using Scribus (or InDesign) for that. The right tool for the right job.
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I'll see your megalopolis and raise you a BAMA :)
You can't read a book or take a nap in the car you're driving. I ride the train to work in Atlanta and the single biggest benefit is that I can spend 30 minutes on my laptop catching up on emails or just goofing around instead of driving.
That is, the car trip "costs" me 30 minutes of my life (plus some gray hair, due to traffic), and the train trip "costs" me 5. I value my work and leisure time enough that those extra 50 minutes a day are well worth a small amount of inconvenience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit
All of those files are on the client computer. The third party server doesn't send them to anyone (it doesn't even HAVE them. the server doesn't need or want to know what the model of a Murloc looks like, or how it's textured).
Is there any info available publicly on what, exactly, the copyright infringement in question was here?
There are tablets with keyboards that slide out, or swivel out, or detach. They work very well as laptops or as tablets or whatever you want to call how you're using the device.
Modern cars already have a compressor system, it just works in the wrong direction. What is the negative pressure like in the vacuum system in your car?
I'm not saying this is a particularly feasible idea, just that I'm surprised I haven't encountered it before.
Not driving/riding in cars solves that problem completely. What, you don't like my solution? GP doesn't like yours.
There are cars that can monitor their tire pressure. Why aren't there cars that can adjust their tire pressure in realtime? If you hit the brakes or steer wildly then vent some air out of the tires to increase friction. If you are driving smoothly then increase pressure. Yes, venting would take time, but this system would be no worse than just having low-friction tires all the time like GP does.
The problem is that since you are *probably* solving the verification words with higher accuracy to begin with, you are actually poisoning the data being gathered regarding the book words. So, while a book word becoming a verification word based on your "solutions" will keep your solution rate constant, it actually damages the system when it comes time for humans to solve the CAPTCHA, or worse when the solutions are used as OCR corrections.
To clarify, given a classically OCR-able "foo" and a non-OCR-able-but-human-readable "bar", a human is expected to recognize the slightly-deformed-by-reCAPTCHA "foo" and is trusted to get "bar" right more often than OCR would. This attack only defeats the deformation applied by reCAPTCHA, it doesn't actually improve the OCR on the non-deformed words, which means you are going to submit an answer of "foo ban" every time this pair is encounted (or "blah ban" for a different scenario), and the reCAPTCHA system is eventually going to decide that the book word really is "ban".
Better telescopes is moot. Figuring out the position and velocity of any specific detectable object in the solar system has been trivial for a long time now. The problem is our ability to predict how it will interact with every other body in the next hundred years. If it was a comet, and ignoring any potential flybys of smaller planets, just calculating how it will interact with Jupiter and the Sun every year for 100 passes adds more than a few earth diameters of uncertainty to the results.
I'd take that offer, assuming I could ensure the game was fair.
I have only ever played L4D in single player mode. I haven't played L4D2 yet.
Wrong kind of non-compete. You don't forbid them from doing stuff later, you just make their non-competition a requirement for getting paid this month.
The right to use the software is not one reserved exclusively for the author. That is, of the thousands of things you might do with a copy of the software, using it falls into the same category as "turning the CD into a frisbee" and "deleting it from your hard drive", not the same category as "making derivative works" and "selling copies" (those being the things you need permission for).
A license, that being permission to do things otherwise forbidden by the copyright act, is not required to use the software, as stated in the ruling and quoted in the summary.
For some degree of desired results, they are ALL "unqualified professions". Give me a hundred people with treatable but potentially-long-term-fatal medical conditions (infections, wounds, etc) and someone completely untrained and ignorant could save 10-25 of them by sheer luck. The best doctor in the world could probably save 99 of them. And someone like me, with no medical training but with access to the internet (Google, WebMD), could save 80-90 of them. In a country where we can afford to pay that doctor's salary for 200+ hours, great. In a country where you can't even afford to pay for the doctor's meals, 80% vs 25% is a pretty damn good success rate.
Why would you think that? I'm a professional PHP developer. In my field this is especially true. Any hack with a few spare days to learn the language and a good toolset can turn out code that will be 90%, or better, as effective as mine for most general tasks. For a small company that needs some application development done, the quality of code that you'll get from someone charging $1/hr in Asia is Good Enough, and you really don't need to spend thousands of dollars on hundreds of hours of coding time by someone "Professional".
I disagree with your last paragraph. In most fields, there is a very small difference between "hackwork" and "high-end, professional work". The effectiveness of "design" (whether it's a logo or a webpage) is quantifiable: the number of people who come back, or buy the product, or whatever else your end goal is. The middle 50% of people who might try to do the design will produce work that is 80-95% as effective as the top 5%, and the top 5% are going to charge 10 times as much for their work (or more!).
To be more precise, the difference in a logo designed for $50 and one designed for $50000 (which is not an unrealistic figure for the amount of market research that goes into a company like AT&T redesigning their logo) is a matter of a few percent in effectiveness. If I'm a huge company, that few percent might make back the extra $49950 quickly. If I'm Joe EtsyShopOwner, that means just a few dollars a month to me, and will never be worth the extra cost.
The throttle position can be controlled by the cruise control (and any other part of the ECU, in theory), so it could actually be in the recorded-but-undesired position. The driver not pressing the brake pedal doesn't have a similar explanation (but yours, of the position not being recorded correctly, still stands).
Try again. Depending on whose list you use, somewhere between 25% and 50% of the countries with higher broadband penetration rates than the USA have lower population density.
And that includes Alaska in the population density statistics.
In Georgia, you have to go to Magistrate Court and file a suit against the appropriate person or company (which is sometimes a hard thing to figure out). The relevant statute is 47 USC 227 b 1 A iii, with regulations to match in 47 CFR 64.1200 a 1 iii. I recommend the book "Everybody's Guide to Small Claims Court" by Nolo.
In the USA, it's illegal to use a predictive dialer to call a cell phone. Responsible companies screen for cell numbers during your 'step three'. The ones that don't are fueling my upcoming investment in making small claims court for TCPA violations a full time job.
Apathy is a perfectly acceptable word in that last sentence. Blizzard expected a lot of it, and saw very little of it.
I agree that losing transparency during transforms (rotation and perspective do it too) is an issue. What is the # of the bug report that you filed when you encountered this issue, so I can comment on it to lend my support?
Clipping layers - use one layer to mask another
Layer masks do exactly this.
And expecting GIMP (and Photoshop) to do vector tasks is no weirder than expecting Inkscape (and Illustrator) to do raster tasks (which they don't, and no one complains about). Ditto for expecting text layout tools when you should be using Scribus (or InDesign) for that. The right tool for the right job.