The difference is that not reusing used cars would be a huge waste. There is a large cost associated with producing the car. With "intellectual property", the cost of producing it is high, but the cost of making copies is reletively negligible. Printing books costs some money, so forcing people to buy all new books instead of sharing/reusing them would be wasteful. But with digital media, there is essentially zero reproduction cost, so that criteria doesn't apply. It makes perfect sense to charge people for their use of the digital media instead of going by the "first sale" doctrine. If it were legal to have online libraries that lent people the full text of books, authors would only ever sell like 5 copies of their book even if 5 million people read it. Although it does make sense to distribute books online, because that avoids wasting money actually printing copies of it. It is much more efficient. If you could pay like $0.50 to download a digital copy of a book (which is about how much the authors get in royalties per physical copy), that would be excellent. It would make used books, libraries, and physical publishing obselete, so book sales would skyrocket, and authors could potentially get several times more money in royalties. It's better for the authors AND the consumers. It cuts the fat of the useless and obsolete leech called the publishing industry.
Internet Explorer is ridiculously vulnerable by default. A website can use an ActiveX exploit on any version of IE to make you automatically download and run any executable, which basically opens the door for them to plant trojans, steal credit card numbers, or do virtually anything to your computer. The only way to make IE impervious to this is to turn off ActiveX controls. But the vulnerable setting is the default. I could make a website that would automatically reformat the hard drive of every Windows IE user who visited it with ActiveX controls turned on.
But unless they use an exploit like that, there is no way to make you download and run anything without having your consent at some point.
I feel sorry for the people who are too stupid to click "No".
Gator, eZula, and all SpamWare/SpyWare are evil, annoying, and intentionally made as difficult as possible to uninstall. They butcher your settings and fuck with your computer without asking. They're the electronic equivalent of being mugged. There should be a law against that crap.
I just read the full text of it, ant it looks almost identical to the SSSCA except they changed the name to make it sound like a good thing and added a bunch of bogus propaganda to the "findings". Sooner or later they will realize that it is technologically impossible to stop illegal distribution of video/audio content without stoppingdistribution of all non-commercial content.
To avoid spam, most non-stupid people give fake email addresses wherever an email address is required to register (like the New York Times), if possible. This is filling up their spam databases with so many phony entries that the databases become useless. This reminds me of a good mp3 by Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie
The population will inevitably expand until the death rate reaches equilibrium with the birth rate. Therefore, aside from a plague or a war, unless people are forced to have two children or less, population will inevitably expand until the starvation rate balances out the excessive birth rate. Feeding the poor without stopping them from multiplying like rabbits is completely futile, and perhaps counterproductive, because it means MORE people will starve to death in the long run. The food supply cannot be expanded indefinitely. So don't throw money away on just giving them food. First give them vasectomies, then teach them how to be self-reliant and make their own food and money. Our money really is better spent on space exploration than exacerbating starvation by foolishly attempting to stop it by just giving away food.
This is a SURVEY we're talking about. It's not like they're omnipotent. If some random person called you up and asked you that, would you tell the truth? Of course not. Many of the respondants probably lied, because warez is being cracked down upon legally, but it is still as easy to get as ever.
It doesn't matter whether they publish it digitally or not. As long as there is any content whatsoever, you will be able to get rips for free. Copy protection is useless.
The thyroid stockpiles iodide ions, not assorted metals. The EDTA from drinking 1 or 2 sodas a day with your fish would be sufficient antidote to the heavy metal poisoning.:p
What about the time dilation when you're going so close to the speed of light? Wouldn't that make it "faster" in terms of your time (not mine) for you to go slower?
You obviously don't understand general reletivity. The annihilation of 1 kg of matter WOULD produce sufficient energy to accelerate 1 kg of matter to the speed of light, if kinetic energy didn't inflate the mass of the object. (E=m*c^2). But mass is inflated according to the equation m(v)=m0/sqrt(1-(v/c)^2). Suppose you have a 1kg ship with 99kg of fuel and it uses it at 100% efficienct. Basically you have an object with 1 kg rest mass and you add 99kg of kinetic energy to it, so the mass increases to 100kg. Plug in the masses and solve for v in the equation. You get v=0.99995c. That's 99.995% of the speed of light, not 99.999%!:p But with a less unrealistic scenario, an object inflated to 10 times its rest mass would be going only 99.4% of the speed of light.
I don't think it's worth it to send a man to mars just for the sake of having said we've sent a man to mars. Nasa should focus more on new propulsion and technology research. Fusion propultion would be great for interstellar travel. Hydrogen fusion converts about 1% of its mass into energy, so theoretically a highly efficient fusion drive could get up to a maximum of 1% of the speed of light. Alternatively, a propulsion system that uses solar panels to power a system that ejects ions at 99% of the speed of light, (and maybe uses a ramscoop) could hypothetically get up to a very high percentage of the speed of light, although it would take centuries. The good thing about this is that it is infinitely replenishable. Another possible propulsion system involves using antimatter as a fuel. This would allow achieving a decent fraction of the speed of light, and with good acceleration, but antimatter is extremely difficult to manufacture in large quantities, and will probably remain as such for a long time.
Sections IIID and IIIE should explicitly require said APIs and Communications Protocol to be made available to the public, without restrictions on disclosure or fair use. I am afraid that with the current wording of these sections, Microsoft will have too much power to limit access to said APIs and Communications Protocol, and thus inhibit interoperability. Interoperability is essential for fair competition, but Microsoft has been deliberately trying to inhibit interoperability by having proprietary standards. I am otherwise satisfied with the proposed final judgment.
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Get the $87 Radeon 8500LE at newegg.com. It smokes a Geforce3 and costs less. :)
They'll arrest me for owning felt tip markers.
"Several people also noted that Adams' final (I guess) book, The Salmon of Doubt, is now hitting the shelves."
You guess??? He's obviously not going to be writing any more books, since he died almost a year ago.
Well, in the same sense, penises aid rapists, so let's make a law forcing everyone to get castrated!! That makes as much sense as dissing IRC!
The difference is that not reusing used cars would be a huge waste. There is a large cost associated with producing the car. With "intellectual property", the cost of producing it is high, but the cost of making copies is reletively negligible. Printing books costs some money, so forcing people to buy all new books instead of sharing/reusing them would be wasteful. But with digital media, there is essentially zero reproduction cost, so that criteria doesn't apply. It makes perfect sense to charge people for their use of the digital media instead of going by the "first sale" doctrine. If it were legal to have online libraries that lent people the full text of books, authors would only ever sell like 5 copies of their book even if 5 million people read it. Although it does make sense to distribute books online, because that avoids wasting money actually printing copies of it. It is much more efficient. If you could pay like $0.50 to download a digital copy of a book (which is about how much the authors get in royalties per physical copy), that would be excellent. It would make used books, libraries, and physical publishing obselete, so book sales would skyrocket, and authors could potentially get several times more money in royalties. It's better for the authors AND the consumers. It cuts the fat of the useless and obsolete leech called the publishing industry.
Internet Explorer is ridiculously vulnerable by default. A website can use an ActiveX exploit on any version of IE to make you automatically download and run any executable, which basically opens the door for them to plant trojans, steal credit card numbers, or do virtually anything to your computer. The only way to make IE impervious to this is to turn off ActiveX controls. But the vulnerable setting is the default. I could make a website that would automatically reformat the hard drive of every Windows IE user who visited it with ActiveX controls turned on.
But unless they use an exploit like that, there is no way to make you download and run anything without having your consent at some point.
I feel sorry for the people who are too stupid to click "No".
Gator, eZula, and all SpamWare/SpyWare are evil, annoying, and intentionally made as difficult as possible to uninstall. They butcher your settings and fuck with your computer without asking. They're the electronic equivalent of being mugged. There should be a law against that crap.
I just read the full text of it, ant it looks almost identical to the SSSCA except they changed the name to make it sound like a good thing and added a bunch of bogus propaganda to the "findings". Sooner or later they will realize that it is technologically impossible to stop illegal distribution of video/audio content without stoppingdistribution of all non-commercial content.
Automated milking machines have been around for many years. At least two decades, actually.
To avoid spam, most non-stupid people give fake email addresses wherever an email address is required to register (like the New York Times), if possible. This is filling up their spam databases with so many phony entries that the databases become useless. This reminds me of a good mp3 by Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie
The population will inevitably expand until the death rate reaches equilibrium with the birth rate. Therefore, aside from a plague or a war, unless people are forced to have two children or less, population will inevitably expand until the starvation rate balances out the excessive birth rate. Feeding the poor without stopping them from multiplying like rabbits is completely futile, and perhaps counterproductive, because it means MORE people will starve to death in the long run. The food supply cannot be expanded indefinitely. So don't throw money away on just giving them food. First give them vasectomies, then teach them how to be self-reliant and make their own food and money. Our money really is better spent on space exploration than exacerbating starvation by foolishly attempting to stop it by just giving away food.
This is a SURVEY we're talking about. It's not like they're omnipotent. If some random person called you up and asked you that, would you tell the truth? Of course not. Many of the respondants probably lied, because warez is being cracked down upon legally, but it is still as easy to get as ever.
It doesn't matter whether they publish it digitally or not. As long as there is any content whatsoever, you will be able to get rips for free. Copy protection is useless.
ewww... Too inefficient for large programs.
The thyroid stockpiles iodide ions, not assorted metals. The EDTA from drinking 1 or 2 sodas a day with your fish would be sufficient antidote to the heavy metal poisoning. :p
If it were dilluted to the volume of lake superior, it wouldn't be harmful anymore.
What about the time dilation when you're going so close to the speed of light? Wouldn't that make it "faster" in terms of your time (not mine) for you to go slower?
You obviously don't understand general reletivity. The annihilation of 1 kg of matter WOULD produce sufficient energy to accelerate 1 kg of matter to the speed of light, if kinetic energy didn't inflate the mass of the object. (E=m*c^2). But mass is inflated according to the equation m(v)=m0/sqrt(1-(v/c)^2). Suppose you have a 1kg ship with 99kg of fuel and it uses it at 100% efficienct. Basically you have an object with 1 kg rest mass and you add 99kg of kinetic energy to it, so the mass increases to 100kg. Plug in the masses and solve for v in the equation. You get v=0.99995c. That's 99.995% of the speed of light, not 99.999%! :p But with a less unrealistic scenario, an object inflated to 10 times its rest mass would be going only 99.4% of the speed of light.
I don't think it's worth it to send a man to mars just for the sake of having said we've sent a man to mars. Nasa should focus more on new propulsion and technology research. Fusion propultion would be great for interstellar travel. Hydrogen fusion converts about 1% of its mass into energy, so theoretically a highly efficient fusion drive could get up to a maximum of 1% of the speed of light. Alternatively, a propulsion system that uses solar panels to power a system that ejects ions at 99% of the speed of light, (and maybe uses a ramscoop) could hypothetically get up to a very high percentage of the speed of light, although it would take centuries. The good thing about this is that it is infinitely replenishable. Another possible propulsion system involves using antimatter as a fuel. This would allow achieving a decent fraction of the speed of light, and with good acceleration, but antimatter is extremely difficult to manufacture in large quantities, and will probably remain as such for a long time.
You could launch a mission to mars, bring back samples, and sell it for a profit at that price.
If organs can be successfully frozen, thawed, and transplanted, perhaps whole people can be cryogenically frozen and revived.
How did Linus get permission to make his own version of Unix and give it away when Unix was still the IP of some company?
Sections IIID and IIIE should explicitly require said APIs and Communications Protocol to be made available to the public, without restrictions on disclosure or fair use. I am afraid that with the current wording of these sections, Microsoft will have too much power to limit access to said APIs and Communications Protocol, and thus inhibit interoperability. Interoperability is essential for fair competition, but Microsoft has been deliberately trying to inhibit interoperability by having proprietary standards. I am otherwise satisfied with the proposed final judgment.
User Friendly is making a decent profit from ads because they get a zillion hits a day.
By the way, I find it hillarious that someone is selling commics in adobe e-book format. An 8 year old could write a program to decode them.
There are plenty of decentrlaized, absolutely unregulatable things for file sharing, like IRC.
It's a typo, silly. Too bad I can't edit my comments after posting them.