I always thought that "bundled tightly" was the condition in which your undergarments got lodged in your nether regions and was beyond any degree digital dexterity and grace to extract. The condition of "bundled tightly" requires that the offending garment be removed and completely reapplied to the body.
I don't claim to know how they have or might develop this system, but it seems to me that if they plan on dealing with a file being encoded by different people in different formats, with different quality levels then your "low order bit" theory isn't going to do jack to stop them. It seems to me like a pretty trivial thing to add thresholds to these checks to allow slight to moderate variations in the finger print.
Remember they don't have to 100% identify content as unauthorized copyrighted material with the automated process. They just need to identify suspect material and then notify a human to further investigate the situation.
These people are as retarded as you might think. Do not under estimate them...
It's called fair use. Maybe using one of the "Offline" browsing options in browsers might step over the fair use line, but the cached copy and in memory copy don't.
I think the judge should make it clear in this case that simply linking to illegal content doesn't automatically make you an offender. It's clear that the people who ran the site had intent to assist in copyright infringment. The judge should make it apparent that this intent was pivotal in arriving at the decision.
It's like arresting someone because a crime was commited in their backyard. Unless you can prove that they were accessories to the crime, or knowingly allowed the crime to be commited they can't really be held responcible.
It's difficult sometimes for a judge to figure out if something is illegal or not, how would they expect search engine to?
Our supposition that Christianity is not pure fantasy is just as irrational as your supposition that it is fantasy. No. No it is not! Scientific method has been applied to various tests in an attempt to both prove and disprove many religious beliefs. They have all failed to meet the standards of what we call a fact. Christians and other religious people are quick to leech on to something they deem a miracle and then promote it as irrefutable proof of their beliefs. But they never actually produce any proof, only irrational leaps they believe are a true cause and effect relationships. What happens the other million times that the same conditions occur and the miracle doesn't happen? "God works in mysterious ways.", "It was their time to die!", "They are in a better place." The list of excuses for why a miracle didn't happen when people fully expected it to is endless.
The only reason I see any one voluntarily becoming a 'slave' is religious/other type of brainwashing, become a slave and gain salvation after you die (which I guess is more or less the modus operandi of all organized religion:) ) Which is really just more of the same "bonded labor" you mentioned in your first paragraph. Give your life to God and he will give you eternal salvation in a perfect place called heaven. No...waaaaait just a minute...since the threat of eternal damnation is held over your head then...wait...*gasp* it's actually more like SLAVERY! So God wants you to be his slave?
Voluntary slavery huh? That's an interesting concept.
Dictionary Definitions slavery - the condition of a slave slave - a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another voluntary - done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice free - enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery
As you can see voluntary slavery doesn't really make sense because voluntary actions imply freedom of choice. With the exception of a few sexual fetishist no one wants to be a slave, or chooses to. Even when a debt is owed they don't become slaves they are simply paying the debt off with work. (ie. indentured servitude) Generally when indentured servitude is imposed on someone it is not their choice, they were forced with threats on their life or imprisonment by government officials or the debtor.
No, the bible doesn't say to hate homosexuals. It may say that it's not right to commit homosexual acts, but ffs, everyone does wrong, and the bible doesn't say to hate everyone because they do wrong. God hates the sin, not the sinner (similar to "don't kill the messenger" I guess). Don't kill the messenger: So if I murder someone maybe I can use that "don't kill the messenger" defense in court. "Whoa, hold up there Mr. Judge, i'm just the messenger (of death)!"
Don't hate the murderer, hate the murder! Ridiculous! Obviously the message is relevant too.
Hate the sin: If God hated the sin and not the sinner then when sinners came before it for judgement (according to the bible) it would cast the sin to hell and not the people (souls) themselves. Because lets face it if God existed then he could do anything, including seperating sin from sinners. And if God really loved everyone then it would do that for them.
I love how God is presented as a omniscient, omnipotent, eternal being that is perfect and then, hugely imperfect human emotions are projected on it.
A progressive Christian is one that releases religious belief in the face of scientific fact but still maintains religious belief in areas that science does not explain. They are also known as moderate Christians.
Hahaha...that would be really funny! I was just thinking about my company hiring two people to follow me home each night just so they could require three people to be present for me to access the VPN...hahaha
I really don't know why I found that so funny, but i'm still laughing...heheh
Do more people and more keys make something more secure? O_o
Not exactly. Here is a quote from a case study that Microsoft published regarding the migration of hotmail from FreeBSD to Windows 2000.
"The original builders of the application created a two-tier architecture built around various UNIX systems. FreeBSD, a UNIX-like system similar to the Linux operating system, was used to run the front-end Web servers that handled login, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Web-based content delivery tasks."
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"During June and July of 2000, the Hotmail site was converted from FreeBSD running Apache Web services to Windows 2000 Server running Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0."
They are building up a stock pile of pings. It's all part of a diabolical plan to rule the universe through their pingopoly. Soon we shall all bow before their pingy-ness-ish-ness. Those who obey their pingy commands will recieve their daily ration of echo packets, everyone else will be left wanting... MMWhhaAHahHAhahahAHahahHAh!!!!
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Blocks what!? This must be a troll....
What's really funny is that they are actually suing for more than a thousand billion...
*sigh*
Sooo ummm....he used the Wii Remote Control to remote control something else? How innovative! *sigh*
I always thought that "bundled tightly" was the condition in which your undergarments got lodged in your nether regions and was beyond any degree digital dexterity and grace to extract. The condition of "bundled tightly" requires that the offending garment be removed and completely reapplied to the body.
I don't claim to know how they have or might develop this system, but it seems to me that if they plan on dealing with a file being encoded by different people in different formats, with different quality levels then your "low order bit" theory isn't going to do jack to stop them. It seems to me like a pretty trivial thing to add thresholds to these checks to allow slight to moderate variations in the finger print.
Remember they don't have to 100% identify content as unauthorized copyrighted material with the automated process. They just need to identify suspect material and then notify a human to further investigate the situation.
These people are as retarded as you might think. Do not under estimate them...
It's called fair use. Maybe using one of the "Offline" browsing options in browsers might step over the fair use line, but the cached copy and in memory copy don't.
You can't leave naked pictures of your girl friend laying around on the side walk and then get mad at people for looking at them.
Putting a non-password protected web site online is about the same thing.
I think the judge should make it clear in this case that simply linking to illegal content doesn't automatically make you an offender. It's clear that the people who ran the site had intent to assist in copyright infringment. The judge should make it apparent that this intent was pivotal in arriving at the decision.
It's like arresting someone because a crime was commited in their backyard. Unless you can prove that they were accessories to the crime, or knowingly allowed the crime to be commited they can't really be held responcible.
It's difficult sometimes for a judge to figure out if something is illegal or not, how would they expect search engine to?
There's an article!?
shant? isn't that the past participle of shat?
The list of excuses for why a miracle didn't happen when people fully expected it to is endless.
Religion is so silly!
Voluntary slavery huh? That's an interesting concept.
Dictionary Definitions
slavery - the condition of a slave
slave - a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another
voluntary - done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice
free - enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery
As you can see voluntary slavery doesn't really make sense because voluntary actions imply freedom of choice. With the exception of a few sexual fetishist no one wants to be a slave, or chooses to. Even when a debt is owed they don't become slaves they are simply paying the debt off with work. (ie. indentured servitude) Generally when indentured servitude is imposed on someone it is not their choice, they were forced with threats on their life or imprisonment by government officials or the debtor.
So if I murder someone maybe I can use that "don't kill the messenger" defense in court. "Whoa, hold up there Mr. Judge, i'm just the messenger (of death)!"
Don't hate the murderer, hate the murder! Ridiculous! Obviously the message is relevant too.
Hate the sin:
If God hated the sin and not the sinner then when sinners came before it for judgement (according to the bible) it would cast the sin to hell and not the people (souls) themselves. Because lets face it if God existed then he could do anything, including seperating sin from sinners. And if God really loved everyone then it would do that for them.
I love how God is presented as a omniscient, omnipotent, eternal being that is perfect and then, hugely imperfect human emotions are projected on it.
A progressive Christian is one that releases religious belief in the face of scientific fact but still maintains religious belief in areas that science does not explain. They are also known as moderate Christians.
You bought servers that would only allow you to boot signed disc? That was dumb!
Or a Bush speech about Iraq, terrorism, civil rights, or morals...lol
I have a better idea...why don't you go fork yourself!
(I couldn't resist!)
Yes but can they out maneuver this: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fe1e0c073e
OMG that was terrible....................ly funny!!
Who cares...as long as it's WildCharger compatible!
http://www.wildcharger.com/
Hahaha...that would be really funny! I was just thinking about my company hiring two people to follow me home each night just so they could require three people to be present for me to access the VPN...hahaha
I really don't know why I found that so funny, but i'm still laughing...heheh
Do more people and more keys make something more secure? O_o
"The original builders of the application created a two-tier architecture built around various UNIX systems. FreeBSD, a UNIX-like system similar to the Linux operating system, was used to run the front-end Web servers that handled login, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Web-based content delivery tasks."
"During June and July of 2000, the Hotmail site was converted from FreeBSD running Apache Web services to Windows 2000 Server running Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0."
You can read the case study here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration
They are building up a stock pile of pings. It's all part of a diabolical plan to rule the universe through their pingopoly. Soon we shall all bow before their pingy-ness-ish-ness. Those who obey their pingy commands will recieve their daily ration of echo packets, everyone else will be left wanting... MMWhhaAHahHAhahahAHahahHAh!!!!