Duh. The plugin hybrid has been around for a number of years now.
Take a regular hybrid vehicle. Plug the batteries into the wall.
Amazing, you can now charge the batteries at home, and when you go for a drive you can opt not to turn on the petrol engine.
If you need to go a long way, you turn on the petrol engine.
Cheaper than petrol and less polluting to our cities, and you still have all the range of a petrol vehicle.
So how much do these hybrids cost? About the same as a regular vehicle.
Great, where do I buy a plugin hybrid? Oh, you can't. The car manufacturers will sell you a hybrid but you have to go get it modded yourself to charge it at home. Why? Gee, I don't know.. maybe because they sell a whole bunch of vehicles that are not hybrids and they don't want to kill their entire product line by selling something that obsoletes it.
If your password protects a copyrighted work (as I almost guarentee it does) then legally you can. Stupid laws? Yes. Will this stop the FBI from arresting people and putting them in jail? No.
People get arrested for what herbs they choose to smoke in the privacy of their own home.
You really think it is unthinkable for people to be arrested for telling other people's secrets?
We live in a society that is out of control with laws. "I don't like it. There oughta be a law."
You're like the 50th person that has posted this stupidity.
They're not telling Digg that there is a copyright violation on their site and to take it down.
They are telling Digg that their website is trafficing in copyright circumvention devices. This isn't even a civil matter. This is a criminal matter. The FBI could be called in any minute now, if they haven't been already.
We live in a world where people can encrypt a file, put the key to the encryption and the file on a disc, sell you the disc and then tell you that you are only allowed to use the key to decrypt the file unless you are using a player made by one of their 'partners'. It doesn't make sense, but if you use that key to decrypt the file yourself then you are breaking the law. If you tell others how to use that key to decrypt that file, you are breaking the law.
This has nothing to do with suppression of the free exchange of ideas. Except that the purpose of this key is to supress the free exchange of ideas.
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1) I wouldn't say anyone is good at doing things that are boring 2) Mathematica was written by people who find this stuff the most interesting shit in the world.
The problem is not that there is no-one who finds it interesting enough to write.. the problem is that there isn't enough people who find it interesting - and the result is useful to people who are not interested in writing it. So the people who find this crazy interesting jump at the chance to write it and tell everyone they know what they are doing (who just look at them like they're talking about stamp collecting) and then someone comes along and says "hey, ya know, we can sell this."
The cost of accessing each individual record served as a barrier to accessing each record for trivial purposes. Why is that a problem?
But with technology, that barrier to access can be eliminated. So when accessing public records becomes trivial to do, what happens? I don't know, you're the one telling the story.
They get accessed for trivial purposes. Why is that a problem?
For example, hardly a day goes by without me receiving some sort of offer to refinance my home loan. Why is that a problem?
It's one thing when you suspect election fraud and have to walk down to the courthouse and inspect records; it's another thing entirely when you can run a query or event 200,000 queries and come up with the name and address of every registered voter in the country. Are you trying to suggest that being able to trivially determine if there has been election fraud is a bad thing?
Just because a record is public does not mean it's a good thing that it can be found on Google. Why? Can you make an actual argument here or is "it just feels bad" supposed to convince us that nothing should ever change?
Great, then you just need a law that defines what words have what meanings and make it cover every possible use of that word. Essentially you end up with a new language just for writing laws in. I suggest we call this new language "Newspeak".
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I think you are missing this:
You're an idiot.
Lay off the crack.
WTF is a power outtake? What are you talking about?
Are you honestly trying to suggest that the western world doesn't have a sufficient power grid to support electric cars?
Sheesh.
Duh. The plugin hybrid has been around for a number of years now.
Take a regular hybrid vehicle. Plug the batteries into the wall.
Amazing, you can now charge the batteries at home, and when you go for a drive you can opt not to turn on the petrol engine.
If you need to go a long way, you turn on the petrol engine.
Cheaper than petrol and less polluting to our cities, and you still have all the range of a petrol vehicle.
So how much do these hybrids cost? About the same as a regular vehicle.
Great, where do I buy a plugin hybrid? Oh, you can't. The car manufacturers will sell you a hybrid but you have to go get it modded yourself to charge it at home. Why? Gee, I don't know.. maybe because they sell a whole bunch of vehicles that are not hybrids and they don't want to kill their entire product line by selling something that obsoletes it.
If your password protects a copyrighted work (as I almost guarentee it does) then legally you can. Stupid laws? Yes. Will this stop the FBI from arresting people and putting them in jail? No.
People get arrested for what herbs they choose to smoke in the privacy of their own home.
You really think it is unthinkable for people to be arrested for telling other people's secrets?
We live in a society that is out of control with laws. "I don't like it. There oughta be a law."
You're like the 50th person that has posted this stupidity.
They're not telling Digg that there is a copyright violation on their site and to take it down.
They are telling Digg that their website is trafficing in copyright circumvention devices. This isn't even a civil matter. This is a criminal matter. The FBI could be called in any minute now, if they haven't been already.
We live in a world where people can encrypt a file, put the key to the encryption and the file on a disc, sell you the disc and then tell you that you are only allowed to use the key to decrypt the file unless you are using a player made by one of their 'partners'. It doesn't make sense, but if you use that key to decrypt the file yourself then you are breaking the law. If you tell others how to use that key to decrypt that file, you are breaking the law.
he speaks the truth.. even if you don't wanna hear it right now.
The problem is not Digg, it's the law.. now it seems Digg has decided to deliberately ignore the law.
We live in a world of abundance and yet there is still starvation and poverty.
Some people want to keep it that way.
No. What would be a revolt is if the majority of the population just ignored copyright and did whatever the hell they wanted to do.
Oh wait, we're there already.
Of course we want them to go on producing for us.. we just refuse to be their bitch because they occasionally make something worth watching.
Right after they get themselves a HD-DVD burner and some blanks.
Oh wait.
1) I wouldn't say anyone is good at doing things that are boring
2) Mathematica was written by people who find this stuff the most interesting shit in the world.
The problem is not that there is no-one who finds it interesting enough to write.. the problem is that there isn't enough people who find it interesting - and the result is useful to people who are not interested in writing it. So the people who find this crazy interesting jump at the chance to write it and tell everyone they know what they are doing (who just look at them like they're talking about stamp collecting) and then someone comes along and says "hey, ya know, we can sell this."
That's how scarcity happens.
Excuse me.
The MPAA (or whoever) is telling Digg to take down those stories.
They have the authority to do this thanks to the DMCA.
The DMCA is a law enacted by who? That's right, the government of the United States of America.
So who is threatening the people who run Digg with jail time? That's right, the United States of America.
How is that not censorship?
*pause*
Ahh, there it goes.
Sigh, it's not that at all.
The reason why no-one has bothered to make free software for this niche is that it is so fucking boring.
Trying to fit an entire virus into 512 bytes was always a challenge.. but 4096 bytes? That's too easy!
I don't understand.
they're good friends
Maybe you shouldn't pay so much attention to the show they put on for the geeks.
Oh my God, maybe they got to him!
Stop trying to explain satire to the American.
me too.
I just recognise that not everyone else is.
Australia is the only nation in the world that claims copyright over documents produced by the government.
Everywhere else has the sense to recognise that works produced by the government are automatically in the public domain.
Well, for a start, I'm sure Google's search engine would actually let you search the full text of the case by keyword.
This stupid form wants me to know case numbers or people involved.. I just wanna know what copyright cases have been prosecuted in the last year.
Great, then you just need a law that defines what words have what meanings and make it cover every possible use of that word. Essentially you end up with a new language just for writing laws in. I suggest we call this new language "Newspeak".