I would like to be able to create an image, say 2" x 3", and have the image be accepted as a substitute for my post office address. My image would be registered with the USPS such that mail bearing the image would be scanned and delivered to the nine digit zip code address corresponding to that image in the USPS database. Even a low-resolution scan of such images would consist of a large number of bits, enough so that few images submitted to the USPS would be duplicates. The USPS would make money selling image registrations.
Before you get to the question of what constitutes "fair use," the first step in the copyright law analysis is whether the work that was copied is sufficiently original, in other words a work of authorship, otherwise there is no copyright protection. While copying artwork willy-nilly from the Internet is usually an invitation to be sued, copying a drawing of a mere wastebasket might not be. The trivial case would be copying a drawing of a square or a circle. Neither is copyrightable subject matter. But elaborate on the circle by adding two more circles for ears and a couple of three-fingered hands, and you have Mickey Mouse (or Chuck E. Cheese, I forget which).
Right on. It was exactly like watching a David Lynch picture like Twin Peaks, in that you think, maybe at the end of all this Artistic Footage there will emerge an Artistic Vision or even a Plot. Then you sit all the way through to the end, and it ain't there... just two basic scenes repeated, 1) a guy in a bell-bottomed Nehru jacket does karate with a bunch of FBI agent types; intercut with 2) a sci-fi world where they have spaceships, but everybody lives in caves and carries torches 'cause they don't have flashlights.
The tag line says they will integrate the video game with an interactive display for news. They are, if you will, missing the mark. The preferred theme is not news, but the Sunday newsmaker talk shows. Combine Whack the Monkey with a few Washington talking heads from Face the Nation, and you get: Whack the Nation. Pee on Bob Schieffer, and Leslie Stahl pops up. Urinum politicum.
You have to apply the latest Microsoft patches right away, or hackers will come along and break your system. But the patches themselves will break your system once you apply them. You might as well give up now, and krazy-glue the ctrl-alt-and del keys to the bottom of you keyboard.
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Here is a challenge for some of you: If you visit any nursing home, the hallways are lined with lonely people. You see so many nursing home residents who would do anything for a little attention or human contact. There should be a linux-based videophone box that would be ultra-simple such that any nursing home resident (or other stay-at-home) could plug it into a cable modem, and instantly be connected to a real-time chat group of four or five randomly selected other people to whom one could talk -- and whose pictures would be displayed. There could be filtering features like clique formation and localization (find people near you). Obviously such a device and service would be useful for others, everything from computer dating to investment clubs to soccer team formation. Call it Socialnet.
I sue insurance companies' insureds on behalf of plaintiffs, and I've seen some honest people with good claims who were victimized by insurance company dishonesty.
So I have a low general opinion of insurance companies, to put it mildly, and I wouldn't put it past 'em to mess with a digital image or two if the stakes were high enough.
You say you don't trust plaintiff's lawyers either, more power to you. I pray they never let in digital images where authenticity is contested and the photo is crucial in deciding the case. It is just too easy to doctor them.
Unfortunately, I fear many judges will routinely let in digital photos just like they often let in "computer evidence" in the form of printouts, etc. For information on how digital image evidence is treated in the courts, see Rules 901 and 1001 through 1004 of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
One might criticize the Forest Service, but look at it this way. Every time someone sends an e-mail, this uses valuable electrons which have to be generated by coal-fueled electrical generating plants. Coal is made out of wood. The less electricity that people use, the less coal you have to burn; this in turn lessens the demand for trees. Thus, by sending e-mail petitions, you are actually killing trees. Shame on you.
I would love to have a CCTV to visit with my kids. Where can I get a picturephone that connects to a cable or DSL modem and is simple enuf that the kids can operate it without any support on their end.
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Another group that won't like your idea is: Lawyers. Some of us say "yes" on the outgoing greeting so as to be able to take voice mail from jail and prison inmates.
You might try positioning all the antennae (WAP and workstation) so they are the same orientation (either vertical or horizontal). There should not be a lot of metal or concrete or dirt between the two points. If all else fails, try moving one of the antennae just a little bit to one side or the other.
Call your local attorney and make an appointment. He or she will register the domain name and will keep your identity in strictest confidence unless ordered to divulge it by a court -- which is unlikely unless someone wants to sue and/or arrest you.
I stand corrected, but I was trying to give the guy advice on his level. This isn't somebody who is going to be building differential amplifier circuits from the Op-Amp Cookbook made out of spare 1458s.
Why do they call digital theaters "movie theaters"? Isn't that false advertising? Aren't they really TV theaters? Does anybody except me care about the difference between watching 24 fps frame-at-once film images and 30 fps scanned video, even HD video? Don't the senses interpret these images ever so slightly differently? And, won't they have to stop giving out Oscars? Won't they all be Emmys from now on?
They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot Ooooh, bop bop bop bop
First of all, why assume you need to -buy- 12 wireless mics when your application may only require that you -rent- them. Next, forget about 802.11 and VOIP. This is a job for a competent sound man. Your wireless mics should have "diversity reception." This means there are two receiving antennae per mic, this will eliminate annoying, noisy dropouts caused by radio frequency wave reflection -- if the signal drops out at one antenna the circuitry will flawlessly switch to the audio from the other antenna. Manufacturers of wireless diversity mics include Nady Systems and Cetec Vega. You might be able to find some of their products on eBay. As far as recording, you need to buy or rent, yes, a 12-track recorder. Find someone who knows the field of wireless, such as a ham radio operator. Consult a pro audio store in your nearest large city. Don't forget to use fresh batteries in your wireless mics.
Translation: We haven't attempted a build of NT 4.0 in fuckin' ages, give us a break. We're not even sure we put the punchcards back in the box in the right order after we dropped 'em the last time.
They are a scam. Salespeople are under incredible pressure to sell them -- try telling the salesperson you don't want one! They will beg and plead with you and ask you "why" -- they have to put down a reason. Say, "I just don't want one." They will go nuts. The so-called "extended warranty" is way overpriced and full of loopholes and exclusions. They are a major profit center for the big consumer electronics chains of this world. Most products already come with manufacturers' warranties -- the product will either fail within the original mfr's warranty period or it will outlast the "extended" period. And if someone dumb, like your grandma, buys an "extended warranty," good luck finding the sales receipt or other information -- most of us aren't that well organized.
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I would like to be able to create an image, say 2" x 3", and have the image be accepted as a substitute for my post office address. My image would be registered with the USPS such that mail bearing the image would be scanned and delivered to the nine digit zip code address corresponding to that image in the USPS database. Even a low-resolution scan of such images would consist of a large number of bits, enough so that few images submitted to the USPS would be duplicates. The USPS would make money selling image registrations.
Before you get to the question of what constitutes "fair use," the first step in the copyright law analysis is whether the work that was copied is sufficiently original, in other words a work of authorship, otherwise there is no copyright protection. While copying artwork willy-nilly from the Internet is usually an invitation to be sued, copying a drawing of a mere wastebasket might not be. The trivial case would be copying a drawing of a square or a circle. Neither is copyrightable subject matter. But elaborate on the circle by adding two more circles for ears and a couple of three-fingered hands, and you have Mickey Mouse (or Chuck E. Cheese, I forget which).
Right on. It was exactly like watching a David Lynch picture like Twin Peaks, in that you think, maybe at the end of all this Artistic Footage there will emerge an Artistic Vision or even a Plot. Then you sit all the way through to the end, and it ain't there... just two basic scenes repeated, 1) a guy in a bell-bottomed Nehru jacket does karate with a bunch of FBI agent types; intercut with 2) a sci-fi world where they have spaceships, but everybody lives in caves and carries torches 'cause they don't have flashlights.
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The tag line says they will integrate the video game with an interactive display for news. They are, if you will, missing the mark. The preferred theme is not news, but the Sunday newsmaker talk shows. Combine Whack the Monkey with a few Washington talking heads from Face the Nation, and you get: Whack the Nation. Pee on Bob Schieffer, and Leslie Stahl pops up. Urinum politicum.
You have to apply the latest Microsoft patches right away, or hackers will come along and break your system. But the patches themselves will break your system once you apply them. You might as well give up now, and krazy-glue the ctrl-alt-and del keys to the bottom of you keyboard.
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If it doesn't fit, file it. But it gets dirty and you can't clean it. So you have to THORW IT AWAY!!
Actually, it's brain tumors that are a cure for the common cold.
Nixies. Or IEEs.
If they put Microsoft lavatories on airplanes, and there are external leaks, will the resulting projectiles become known as the Blue Ice of Death?
Here is a challenge for some of you: If you visit any nursing home, the hallways are lined with lonely people. You see so many nursing home residents who would do anything for a little attention or human contact. There should be a linux-based videophone box that would be ultra-simple such that any nursing home resident (or other stay-at-home) could plug it into a cable modem, and instantly be connected to a real-time chat group of four or five randomly selected other people to whom one could talk -- and whose pictures would be displayed. There could be filtering features like clique formation and localization (find people near you). Obviously such a device and service would be useful for others, everything from computer dating to investment clubs to soccer team formation. Call it Socialnet.
Also, make sure there are no occupants in the cars in front of and behind you, lest you cause whiplash and its resultant legal consequences....
I sue insurance companies' insureds on behalf of plaintiffs, and I've seen some honest people with good claims who were victimized by insurance company dishonesty.
So I have a low general opinion of insurance companies, to put it mildly, and I wouldn't put it past 'em to mess with a digital image or two if the stakes were high enough.
You say you don't trust plaintiff's lawyers either, more power to you. I pray they never let in digital images where authenticity is contested and the photo is crucial in deciding the case. It is just too easy to doctor them.
Unfortunately, I fear many judges will routinely let in digital photos just like they often let in "computer evidence" in the form of printouts, etc. For information on how digital image evidence is treated in the courts, see Rules 901 and 1001 through 1004 of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
One might criticize the Forest Service, but look at it this way. Every time someone sends an e-mail, this uses valuable electrons which have to be generated by coal-fueled electrical generating plants. Coal is made out of wood. The less electricity that people use, the less coal you have to burn; this in turn lessens the demand for trees. Thus, by sending e-mail petitions, you are actually killing trees. Shame on you.
I would love to have a CCTV to visit with my kids. Where can I get a picturephone that connects to a cable or DSL modem and is simple enuf that the kids can operate it without any support on their end.
Another group that won't like your idea is: Lawyers. Some of us say "yes" on the outgoing greeting so as to be able to take voice mail from jail and prison inmates.
You might try positioning all the antennae (WAP and workstation) so they are the same orientation (either vertical or horizontal). There should not be a lot of metal or concrete or dirt between the two points. If all else fails, try moving one of the antennae just a little bit to one side or the other.
Call your local attorney and make an appointment. He or she will register the domain name and will keep your identity in strictest confidence unless ordered to divulge it by a court -- which is unlikely unless someone wants to sue and/or arrest you.
I stand corrected, but I was trying to give the guy advice on his level. This isn't somebody who is going to be building differential amplifier circuits from the Op-Amp Cookbook made out of spare 1458s.
Why do they call digital theaters "movie theaters"? Isn't that false advertising? Aren't they really TV theaters? Does anybody except me care about the difference between watching 24 fps frame-at-once film images and 30 fps scanned video, even HD video? Don't the senses interpret these images ever so slightly differently? And, won't they have to stop giving out Oscars? Won't they all be Emmys from now on?
They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot
Ooooh, bop bop bop bop
First of all, why assume you need to -buy- 12 wireless mics when your application may only require that you -rent- them. Next, forget about 802.11 and VOIP. This is a job for a competent sound man. Your wireless mics should have "diversity reception." This means there are two receiving antennae per mic, this will eliminate annoying, noisy dropouts caused by radio frequency wave reflection -- if the signal drops out at one antenna the circuitry will flawlessly switch to the audio from the other antenna. Manufacturers of wireless diversity mics include Nady Systems and Cetec Vega. You might be able to find some of their products on eBay. As far as recording, you need to buy or rent, yes, a 12-track recorder. Find someone who knows the field of wireless, such as a ham radio operator. Consult a pro audio store in your nearest large city. Don't forget to use fresh batteries in your wireless mics.
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Andy Rooney, for example, expounds on topics just as mundane and trivial as this one, every Sunday on 3C Minutes.
Translation: We haven't attempted a build of NT 4.0 in fuckin' ages, give us a break. We're not even sure we put the punchcards back in the box in the right order after we dropped 'em the last time.
They are a scam. Salespeople are under incredible pressure to sell them -- try telling the salesperson you don't want one! They will beg and plead with you and ask you "why" -- they have to put down a reason. Say, "I just don't want one." They will go nuts. The so-called "extended warranty" is way overpriced and full of loopholes and exclusions. They are a major profit center for the big consumer electronics chains of this world. Most products already come with manufacturers' warranties -- the product will either fail within the original mfr's warranty period or it will outlast the "extended" period. And if someone dumb, like your grandma, buys an "extended warranty," good luck finding the sales receipt or other information -- most of us aren't that well organized.