The entire country pointing and saying "You people are crazy and dangerous" is a better safeguard than throwing some folks in jail. (Hitler got thrown in jail too, and look what happened to him...)
From Hatewatch, yesterday: Legal problems for neo-Nazi Bill White keep piling up. Already in jail for one crime and awaiting sentencing for another, the 36-year-old racist was just indicted in Florida on six counts of using the Internet to make violent threats against investigators and a judge.
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Count 1 of the indictment accuses White of sending a May 19, 2012, e-mail that "contained a threat to kidnap and injure" the three named officials and "specifically to kidnap, torture, rape and kill those persons and their spouses, children and grandchildren."
Did you forget to tell him he was "crazy and dangerous" or something?
my understanding is that English law doesn't require you to be aware of the injunction, it is made "against the world" which means it applies to all parties in England and Wales.
Maybe not. According to this week's Private Eye John Terry got one against "persons unknown" last year, but it was quashed by Justice Tugendhat because by not mentioning any specific targets, the lawyers were attempted to avoid a) having to tell anyone they were super-injuncted and b) having anyone argue against it.
There's also the case of Colin Montgomery, who had a super-injuction, but his identity was revealed by a newspaper which hadn't been told about the injunction.
It's a hell of a lot closer to telepathy than you might think.
Doesn't appear to be any closer to telepathy than normal speech and only the headline (which was probably written by a sub-editor rather than the author [if it isn't simply a re-cycled press release in the first place]) makes any mention of telepathy anyway.
"Personally, I wouldn't pre-pay $10 for something I've never heard. I'd rather that a band recorded at a cheap-ish record studio and got a few songs recorded."
I have limited knowledge, but the one band I know who were on Sellaband (and are now on Slice the Pie) do exactly that...
I mean, I figured the whole point was for people to hear, like the music and then pay; not just to randomly plonk down a tenner and hope.
"Another problem that makes this attack unlikely is that the user doesn't expect a dialog to appear, he wants the web_site_standard_login_form."
Well, the more savvy users probably. I can think of several members of my family would probably assume the bank or whatever had just changed a few things.
Doesn;t mean you can redefine any word regardless.
Isn't that pretty much the definition of slang? Or when your computer crashes, does it actually slam into something else? When a program you're using hangs, is it in fact that you've suspended a booklet listing the details of a theatrical production from above? Are you a cracker, a crisp thin biscuit? If you're hacking, do you stop by taking a cough sweet? If you have wicked mad skills, are they evil and insane?
And the article "writer" also used the word. My point is it is being used beyond your limitations. Do you only apply the word "bug" to hardware issues, or have you accepted the change in usage of that word to include software problems?
You know, I can't really see how you can take an existing word and use it as a slang term, then turn around and claim it has only certain meanings that you'll accept. It's slang; its meaning has already been changed through incorrect usage. Notwithstanding its actual existing specific meaning, "bricked" is fairly obviously now a slang term for when something electronic is, temporarily or permanently, inoperative. No amount of "detagging" here is going to fix that, because it's a much more more useful slang term when it covers both situations. The number of times when you'd use it under your rules is so small as to make it worthless.
I will miss the grand high dudgeon when anyone (deliberately now I assume) uses it "wrongly" here when the expanded version becomes accepted though.
It would be much better if xiph declared that only.ogg files containing audio should be called.ogg and came up with a new file ending and name for files with video (or audio & video) in them, perhaps.ogv or something.
"Could someone please tell me how TPB is somehow offering some new business model for the people who make the music?"
Is one needed? I'm pretty sure there was music being made (some of it quite decent) before the advent of audio recording technology allowed a music recording and distribution model to emerge.
"For anyone who is interested, my albums Imperial and Continental have just become available at the iTunes store. The exclusive EP Waiting for Dawn is also there and Everlasting will be available shortly. So instead of hitting purchase for some old Cocteau Twins track where I will earn $0.02 of the $0.99 that you are charged per download please humour me and hit purchase on one of my tracks so that I can earn $0.50 of the $0.99 that you are charged per download.
"It would appear that most of you folks imagine us artists as getting a fair royalty with digital downloads but actually the opposite is true. Old record contracts are adhered to vigorously and we, the starving artists, get fucked even more. If the there is someone from 4AD or any other fucking record company that would like to reply to this and explain to me the morality of paying the artist 2 cents per track then I, and I'm sure a lot of other people, would be interested in what you have to say. Don't you just love this business?"
The UK switched from long scale (1 billion = 1,000,000,000,000) to short scale (1 billion = 1,000,000,000) in 1974. Not that I recall my primary school lessons at the time focusing much on the government's budget mind you.
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From Hatewatch, yesterday: Legal problems for neo-Nazi Bill White keep piling up. Already in jail for one crime and awaiting sentencing for another, the 36-year-old racist was just indicted in Florida on six counts of using the Internet to make violent threats against investigators and a judge. [...] Count 1 of the indictment accuses White of sending a May 19, 2012, e-mail that "contained a threat to kidnap and injure" the three named officials and "specifically to kidnap, torture, rape and kill those persons and their spouses, children and grandchildren."
Did you forget to tell him he was "crazy and dangerous" or something?
Gowalla? I know the latest update was a bit crap, but that's harsh.
my understanding is that English law doesn't require you to be aware of the injunction, it is made "against the world" which means it applies to all parties in England and Wales.
Maybe not. According to this week's Private Eye John Terry got one against "persons unknown" last year, but it was quashed by Justice Tugendhat because by not mentioning any specific targets, the lawyers were attempted to avoid a) having to tell anyone they were super-injuncted and b) having anyone argue against it.
There's also the case of Colin Montgomery, who had a super-injuction, but his identity was revealed by a newspaper which hadn't been told about the injunction.
On the right-hand side, under "Related Internet Links".
"Read up on Valve's 'orange box' method of design -- that's how you make games"
I would do, but any search pulls up the Orange Box compilation they did... any further clues?
Possibly that message is hedging its bets, but both of those appear to have FF3 versions on the add-ons site.
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/TrackMeNot/
To put the US at the top I suppose...
So... it's never going to play .ogg then...
It is censorship, it's just there isn't a law stopping them from doing it.
I mean, I figured the whole point was for people to hear, like the music and then pay; not just to randomly plonk down a tenner and hope.
"Another problem that makes this attack unlikely is that the user doesn't expect a dialog to appear, he wants the web_site_standard_login_form."
Well, the more savvy users probably. I can think of several members of my family would probably assume the bank or whatever had just changed a few things.
Doesn;t mean you can redefine any word regardless.
Isn't that pretty much the definition of slang? Or when your computer crashes, does it actually slam into something else? When a program you're using hangs, is it in fact that you've suspended a booklet listing the details of a theatrical production from above? Are you a cracker, a crisp thin biscuit? If you're hacking, do you stop by taking a cough sweet? If you have wicked mad skills, are they evil and insane?
And the article "writer" also used the word. My point is it is being used beyond your limitations. Do you only apply the word "bug" to hardware issues, or have you accepted the change in usage of that word to include software problems?
No it isn't.
You know, I can't really see how you can take an existing word and use it as a slang term, then turn around and claim it has only certain meanings that you'll accept. It's slang; its meaning has already been changed through incorrect usage. Notwithstanding its actual existing specific meaning, "bricked" is fairly obviously now a slang term for when something electronic is, temporarily or permanently, inoperative. No amount of "detagging" here is going to fix that, because it's a much more more useful slang term when it covers both situations. The number of times when you'd use it under your rules is so small as to make it worthless.
I will miss the grand high dudgeon when anyone (deliberately now I assume) uses it "wrongly" here when the expanded version becomes accepted though.
Surely those links show that it is actually less easy to do those things than with another encyclopedia?
I'd guess the car bomb blast resistability and the body armour are separate uses.
"Could someone please tell me how TPB is somehow offering some new business model for the people who make the music?"
Is one needed? I'm pretty sure there was music being made (some of it quite decent) before the advent of audio recording technology allowed a music recording and distribution model to emerge.
It's for the DSL...
Thus spake Robin Guthrie, ex of the Cocteau Twins: http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2 006/08/downloads.html
"For anyone who is interested, my albums Imperial and Continental have just become available at the iTunes store. The exclusive EP Waiting for Dawn is also there and Everlasting will be available shortly. So instead of hitting purchase for some old Cocteau Twins track where I will earn $0.02 of the $0.99 that you are charged per download please humour me and hit purchase on one of my tracks so that I can earn $0.50 of the $0.99 that you are charged per download.
"It would appear that most of you folks imagine us artists as getting a fair royalty with digital downloads but actually the opposite is true. Old record contracts are adhered to vigorously and we, the starving artists, get fucked even more. If the there is someone from 4AD or any other fucking record company that would like to reply to this and explain to me the morality of paying the artist 2 cents per track then I, and I'm sure a lot of other people, would be interested in what you have to say. Don't you just love this business?"
The UK switched from long scale (1 billion = 1,000,000,000,000) to short scale (1 billion = 1,000,000,000) in 1974. Not that I recall my primary school lessons at the time focusing much on the government's budget mind you.