Until the local population develops respect for intellectual property, I don't expect much to happen...
This is HONG KONG, which isn't the same as mainland China. You'll get busted here just as quickly as in the US for IP violations. (Which mean's as in the US, a lot of people, especially at home, cheerfully use warez, but businesses can't take that risk.)
if someone has a missile system that can blow the crap out of the shuttle that brings it back then they have control.
Big deal. All of the half-dozen or so countries that could do that already have ICBMs and nukes. They could take out any part of your infrastructure they wanted now, up to and including most of the population. Oil tankers are a much bigger risk, or blowing up a fission plant could make a real mess and could be done without nuclear munitions.
>Most of the world's spam originates in Florida
This is an interesting statistic. Do you have a source for it?
Guardian Unlimited: Mail out of order:"Boca Raton in Florida is...the spam capital of the world....There are really only 150 spammers doing 90% of all the spam we get in the US and Europe... at least 40 of them are in Boca Raton."
I noticed you never answered the question. My 'attitude' is based on facts, as is my question. What is yours based on, besides a martyr complex?
Question? You mean "What, of use to a Westerner, could they offer to counter that?", where "that" is spam, presumably? Your "atttitude is based on facts"? Such as "TONS of spam comes from them"? Okay,if you block every continent that produces spam, you're left with an Internet comprising Antarctica. I repeat: America generates most of the world's spam. (I'll refer you to ROKSO if you want to dispute that.) What can YOU offer to counter that?
What is yours based on, besides a martyr complex?
Being a martyr requires being a willing victim. I've just been messed up by simplistic xenophobic American policies, like those so eleoquently advanced by yourself. Unfortunately there's a lot of that around these days.
>APNIC is the authority for 62 countries in the Asia-Pacific region including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Obviously his actions were totally reasonable.
TONS of spam comes from them and enforcement of complaints to Abuse@ is nil. What, of use to a Westerner, could they offer to counter that?
What do you mean "them"? A billion people live in "APNIC", dozens of countries. A few thousand spammers. As for "Westerners"; I happen to be a white Caucasian male born in Australia, living in Hong Kong.
Because of attitudes like yours I have to use devious methods to email people on AOL, as they've blocked my normal domain for reasons they don't even deign to explain. Most of the world's spam originates in Florida. Do somethng about that first.
help spammers to reach an interested audience in a more targeted, specific way.
It wouldn't help. We'd just have this targetted spam PLUS the shotgun spam we have now. As long as sendng spam is virtually free, in cost and penalty, there will be plenty of assholes willing to use it to the fullest extent possible.
For the sake of all the people who focus on a single aritmetic error:
What, you have to endorse your mistake?
Anyway, it was actually two errors: one being (originally) too lazy to calculate 22x13, by making it 20x13= 260, the other confusing hours and minutes. But by the big deal you made out of "260 hours!" it seemed an important part of your case. 4.8 hours doesn't seem such a great deal, does it?
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, a season of most shows is usually 13 episodes. At around 22 minutes each, you're buying 260 HOURS of programming..
a few first-world people migrating to the third-world
Just to note, despite the title Slashdot put on this, it's NOT about "migrating". More like extended working holidays, like some people take a few months travelling around Europe and may pick fruit for pocket money.
I thought I'd scan through the submissions to see if anyone else had noticed that. One can cetainly deride Slashdot "editors" for yet again advancing illiteracy.
A guy I workd for took pride in "working 18 hours a day". That included hours he sat zoned out staring at the screen, with his head on the table nodding off, and even sleeping under his desk. But he kept beating everyone else over the head about what slackers we were for not putting in the hours he did. And as for the quality of the work (he was management); terrible decisions that cost the company (and me eventually) a fortune.
That being said, I rather suspect that the aforementioned editors are primarily responsible for article selection. To expect copy editing from a free and continuously updated website seems just a bit extravagant.
Rubbish. The editors are paid staff. Each uploads 4 or 6 stories per day. Each story is average 1-2 paragraphs. It takes approximately 5 seconds to spellcheck and correct that much text (if the submitted text is particularly bad or long, up to 30 seconds -- I know this as despite having excellent language skills, I edit professionally, my typing sucks, I have to check everything I write). If each editor spent TWO MINUTES a day spellchecking, most of the embarrassing crap we see would be gone. If they spent an additional 20 seconds to run a few obvious terms through their site search, they'd eliminate most of the dupes.
I once edited a news site and uploaded about 80 stories a day, each average several paragraphs. Many of these came from writers who didn't speak English as a first language. I fixed them because I gave a shit about professional standards.
as long as my mom, who can be called a computer idiot but still manages to do her work with MS Office, tells me "what's that K icon where START should be", I call bullcrap on any point-and-click Linux.
I doubt your mother is really such an idiot. She coped with going from a typewriter to a PC, rotary to push button phones, she can cope with clicking on a K to pull up a menu.
No 6-part video presentations exist on the ease-of-use of the refrigerator.
There's plenty though about using Windows, or OS X. And after spending 10 minutes working out how to extract the shelves and drawers from my fridge to clean them, a video for that isn't really such a dumb idea. Doing anything for the first time is much harder than you remember it.
The R in VCR is for "Recording". I've got two tapes and just reuse them to timeshift. Such as when my wife or daughter want to watch a soap, I can record the BBC news documentary.
I used to have a bunch of shows I was "keeping", but mould got to them, and I realised that I was never really going to watch them again anyway. If a HD PVR is as cheap I'll probably get one when the VCR dies.
>>Google displays thumbnails, not copies of the original images. >Image resolution has nothing to do with copyrights.
1)I didn't say there was no copyright issue. I was refuting a post that said the original images were copied on Google.
2)But though the thumbnails are arguably derivative works, they're fair use. In Kelly v. Arriba Soft "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in February 2002 held that posting thumbnails of another's aesthetic photos is a fair use when done for information-gathering or indexing purposes."
That's about the same thing as downloading copyrighted high-res photos from some news agency site and reducing resolution and publishing them as part of a news article.
Not that analogies can prove anything, but Google's thumbnails are much to small for most guys to jerk off to, which is the purpose of the original hi-res images. In your analogy the surfer would never know of or visit the original site; Google's image search function is to direct surfers there.
Perfect 10's claim isn't against Google making thumbnails anyway, it's that they link to sites with copies of the original images.
the next step is not to basically get all up in their face.... I'd be borderline offended by this.
It's not really in their face to give them a CDR. Not more than givnig someone a book, that is actaully more to do with your preferences than theirs. If they don't like it, thay won't read/run it. Lots of Xmas presents are never seen again after they've been "gratefully received", and stashed away in the attic.
Like some former Unix vendors, Perfect 10 seems to have moved into the litigation business.
Credit companies sued over porn IP: "A Beverly Hills pornographer is... filing a copyright and trademark suit against Visa International Service Association and MasterCard International Inc. The porn company says that without the support of these financial institutions, infringers wouldn't be able to steal their stuff."
Which failed: "U.S. District Judge James Ware tossed out a copyright and trademark infringement suit brought against Visa International Service Association and MasterCard International Inc. by Perfect 10 Inc....`A lot of copyright [litigation] is being pushed by pornographers who are trying to take advantage of cases brought by more mainstream media,' Bridges [representing MasterCard] said."
Google's image search doesn't just tell you where the images are it displays them on Googles page. Google is making a copy of copyrighted images and storing them in there index.
Google displays thumbnails, not copies of the original images.
In 1881, Herman Hollerith began designing a machine to tabulate census data more efficiently than by traditional hand methods. The U.S. Census Bureau had taken eight years to complete the 1880 census, and it was feared that the 1890 census would take even longer. Herman Hollerith invented and used a punched card device to help analyze the 1890 US census data. Herman Hollerith's great breakthrough was his use of electricity to read, count, and sort punched cards whose holes represented data gathered by the census-takers. His machines were used for the 1890 census and accomplished in one year what would have taken nearly ten years of hand tabulating. In 1896, Herman Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to sell his invention, the Company became part of IBM in 1924.
>>...like IBM cheerfully made punch card systems to computerise the Final Solution.
> I believe that there is a mistake in the statement above. "The Final Solution" was a code term used by the German Nazis to refer to their policy of the systematic murder for all European Jews which they implemented between 1941 and 1945.
As early as 1933, IBM's German subsidiary, Dehomag, contracted with the Hitler regime to conduct a census of Prussia, Germany's largest state. Jews could not escape the whirring "clickety-clack" of IBM's punch cards, cards that recorded and collated names from one generation to the next, address changes from one town to another, baptisms and religious conversions, and all manner of personal data. Hollerith cards inventoried slave labor resources to assure their most efficient deployment. Box cars and locomotives, scheduled through IBM technology, transported millions to their final destination.
I find it hard to think of a situation in which I would print anonymously. Usually I print so that I can distribute information to others(if it's just for me, I tend to leave it on my computer). Maybe anonymous political flyers?
In the FA the Xerox guy says "We developed the first (encoding mechanism) in house because several countries had expressed concern about allowing us to sell the printers in their country," Crean says. In some countries printing a political flier could get you sent to a re-education camp for 20 years, or just disappeared. And Xerox and other printer companies have sold them out, like IBM cheerfully made punch card systems to computerise the Final Solution.
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This is HONG KONG, which isn't the same as mainland China. You'll get busted here just as quickly as in the US for IP violations. (Which mean's as in the US, a lot of people, especially at home, cheerfully use warez, but businesses can't take that risk.)
Big deal. All of the half-dozen or so countries that could do that already have ICBMs and nukes. They could take out any part of your infrastructure they wanted now, up to and including most of the population. Oil tankers are a much bigger risk, or blowing up a fission plant could make a real mess and could be done without nuclear munitions.
This is an interesting statistic. Do you have a source for it?
Guardian Unlimited: Mail out of order:"Boca Raton in Florida is...the spam capital of the world....There are really only 150 spammers doing 90% of all the spam we get in the US and Europe... at least 40 of them are in Boca Raton."
Also see ROKSO.
Question? You mean "What, of use to a Westerner, could they offer to counter that?", where "that" is spam, presumably? Your "atttitude is based on facts"? Such as "TONS of spam comes from them"? Okay,if you block every continent that produces spam, you're left with an Internet comprising Antarctica. I repeat: America generates most of the world's spam. (I'll refer you to ROKSO if you want to dispute that.) What can YOU offer to counter that?
What is yours based on, besides a martyr complex?
Being a martyr requires being a willing victim. I've just been messed up by simplistic xenophobic American policies, like those so eleoquently advanced by yourself. Unfortunately there's a lot of that around these days.
TONS of spam comes from them and enforcement of complaints to Abuse@ is nil. What, of use to a Westerner, could they offer to counter that?
What do you mean "them"? A billion people live in "APNIC", dozens of countries. A few thousand spammers. As for "Westerners"; I happen to be a white Caucasian male born in Australia, living in Hong Kong.
Because of attitudes like yours I have to use devious methods to email people on AOL, as they've blocked my normal domain for reasons they don't even deign to explain. Most of the world's spam originates in Florida. Do somethng about that first.
Which religion forbids "white after Labor Day"?
It wouldn't help. We'd just have this targetted spam PLUS the shotgun spam we have now. As long as sendng spam is virtually free, in cost and penalty, there will be plenty of assholes willing to use it to the fullest extent possible.
What, you have to endorse your mistake?
Anyway, it was actually two errors: one being (originally) too lazy to calculate 22x13, by making it 20x13= 260, the other confusing hours and minutes. But by the big deal you made out of "260 hours!" it seemed an important part of your case. 4.8 hours doesn't seem such a great deal, does it?
22min x 13 = 286 minutes = 4.8 hours.
Just to note, despite the title Slashdot put on this, it's NOT about "migrating". More like extended working holidays, like some people take a few months travelling around Europe and may pick fruit for pocket money.
I thought I'd scan through the submissions to see if anyone else had noticed that. One can cetainly deride Slashdot "editors" for yet again advancing illiteracy.
A guy I workd for took pride in "working 18 hours a day". That included hours he sat zoned out staring at the screen, with his head on the table nodding off, and even sleeping under his desk. But he kept beating everyone else over the head about what slackers we were for not putting in the hours he did. And as for the quality of the work (he was management); terrible decisions that cost the company (and me eventually) a fortune.
Rubbish. The editors are paid staff. Each uploads 4 or 6 stories per day. Each story is average 1-2 paragraphs. It takes approximately 5 seconds to spellcheck and correct that much text (if the submitted text is particularly bad or long, up to 30 seconds -- I know this as despite having excellent language skills, I edit professionally, my typing sucks, I have to check everything I write). If each editor spent TWO MINUTES a day spellchecking, most of the embarrassing crap we see would be gone. If they spent an additional 20 seconds to run a few obvious terms through their site search, they'd eliminate most of the dupes.
I once edited a news site and uploaded about 80 stories a day, each average several paragraphs. Many of these came from writers who didn't speak English as a first language. I fixed them because I gave a shit about professional standards.
I doubt your mother is really such an idiot. She coped with going from a typewriter to a PC, rotary to push button phones, she can cope with clicking on a K to pull up a menu.
There's plenty though about using Windows, or OS X. And after spending 10 minutes working out how to extract the shelves and drawers from my fridge to clean them, a video for that isn't really such a dumb idea. Doing anything for the first time is much harder than you remember it.
I used to have a bunch of shows I was "keeping", but mould got to them, and I realised that I was never really going to watch them again anyway. If a HD PVR is as cheap I'll probably get one when the VCR dies.
#5 is "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Official Strategy Guide"
A fucking game walkthrough.
>Image resolution has nothing to do with copyrights.
1)I didn't say there was no copyright issue. I was refuting a post that said the original images were copied on Google.
2)But though the thumbnails are arguably derivative works, they're fair use. In Kelly v. Arriba Soft "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in February 2002 held that posting thumbnails of another's aesthetic photos is a fair use when done for information-gathering or indexing purposes."
That's about the same thing as downloading copyrighted high-res photos from some news agency site and reducing resolution and publishing them as part of a news article.
Not that analogies can prove anything, but Google's thumbnails are much to small for most guys to jerk off to, which is the purpose of the original hi-res images. In your analogy the surfer would never know of or visit the original site; Google's image search function is to direct surfers there.
Perfect 10's claim isn't against Google making thumbnails anyway, it's that they link to sites with copies of the original images.
They did. Perfect 10 Wants Alleged Infringers Removed From Google (#1)
It's not really in their face to give them a CDR. Not more than givnig someone a book, that is actaully more to do with your preferences than theirs. If they don't like it, thay won't read/run it. Lots of Xmas presents are never seen again after they've been "gratefully received", and stashed away in the attic.
Credit companies sued over porn IP: "A Beverly Hills pornographer is ... filing a copyright and trademark suit against Visa International Service Association and MasterCard International Inc. The porn company says that without the support of these financial institutions, infringers wouldn't be able to steal their stuff."
Which failed: "U.S. District Judge James Ware tossed out a copyright and trademark infringement suit brought against Visa International Service Association and MasterCard International Inc. by Perfect 10 Inc....`A lot of copyright [litigation] is being pushed by pornographers who are trying to take advantage of cases brought by more mainstream media,' Bridges [representing MasterCard] said."
Google displays thumbnails, not copies of the original images.
The punch cards made by IBM (I believe) were developed after the end of World War Two for data storage and input to early large computer systems
Inventors: Herman Hollerith - Punch Cards
it is important to be very accurate
OK?
> I believe that there is a mistake in the statement above. "The Final Solution" was a code term used by the German Nazis to refer to their policy of the systematic murder for all European Jews which they implemented between 1941 and 1945.
I'm aware of what the "Final Solution" was.
This is from a review of IBM and the Holocaust.
It is important to be very accurate..Accurate enough?
In the FA the Xerox guy says "We developed the first (encoding mechanism) in house because several countries had expressed concern about allowing us to sell the printers in their country," Crean says. In some countries printing a political flier could get you sent to a re-education camp for 20 years, or just disappeared. And Xerox and other printer companies have sold them out, like IBM cheerfully made punch card systems to computerise the Final Solution.