The sheer amount of data generated simply prevent them to keep data indefinitly. (At least on quick access storage). Here around we keep passenger RES/TKT data (on tape) for 3 years and only for liability purpose. CKI data (on tape) are kept 180 days. Again only for liability purpose and in normal case nobody read those tape. And seeing how reading one is slow as hell , trust me on that one marketing drone would be totally unable to read one. I find it interresting that they want to keep video data for 10 years, because if there was liability this would be within the few month/first year. 5 or 9 year later... Well... So I find it strange. But then again I am no marketing/security guy only programmer.
But to think that the rest of the world would even care what imperial unit is, well maybe he was a bit foolish. as for overestimating the audiance, care to explain how he was overestimating it ? I rather think it was "prejudicing" it against americo-UK centrism (the two main country using imperial units).
But does it warrant getting a tougher punishment than let us say, somebody selling drug (which one can argue put people in danger, or undermine society for hard drug) or physical thievery of items (where somebody is REALLY deprived, whereas with copyright violation you have only lost Potential revenue) or even IIRC rape, or executive which steal more money than potential revenue lsot for RIAA. Bottom line making copyright violation a felony instead of a misdeanor.
I am sorry but how could this be modded funny ?
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This is more or less a flamebait of the most transparent form. Mode me troll if you wish, but moderator, most of the time on slashdot I see post on how EU has less liberty than US because of free pseech law. And now that ? Get real. This isn't funny at ALL. Even with a bad humor you should not find this flame bait funny.
How about regenerating the waves, then making a fourier transform on it, then use some algorithm to transform that 10 to 20 32 digits integer, different enough for many song that it would not find too much false positive... Ok maybe the spectre between two hard rock song isn't too much different. Does someone knows ?
Since we are on the sex analogy, well the problem is that the young attractive lady, turn out to de a demmanding women recriminating every one of your move, and always asking to sekll yourself as cheap as possible. And if you aren't quick & cheap enough, then , well, there is always the concurrence.
As another poster said there is no easy solution despite all the analogy you can come with. it is a case for case.
Since now there is so much on board distraction (phone cell, video, dvd, gps mapper, and now this gizmo), I propose to patent the following : put a camera at the front of the vehicule and then put the output on a monitor which will be put in tzhe middle of all gizmo, so that the driver can STILL pay attention to where he is going... Hummm.... Wait a minute...
How often, people here protest that FONT 88 password on a screen are ridiculous as well as other pathetic attempt to simulate hacking by showing a maze-like quick cartoon in film ? Should not our time better be used searching for better encryption, compression, GUI, programming tricks than such critizism:).
Can please somebody point me out the difference between the "no AA" and "full blown" AA screenshot ? They all seem to be the same picture quality. Worse, this is a static image, the difference (which i am still searching) would be probably less visible in a full blown action... Is really AA worth it or is it an overhyped feature ?
Summary : google + wireless = inforamtion available for everybody everywhere. They compare it to omniscience and thus gods (btw, where is the other part traditionnaly associated to gods, omnipotence:) ?).
Then they go on rambling that this will allow the bad guy to touch "more" the U.S. (what of the rest of the western world...?) and allow them unite quicker and better.
I think this is a "slow news" sunday, thus this [devoid of content] article went on slashdot...
and so you do not really need the agreement or interrest of the population. Think of it, look at the cost of ariane, and compare with the cost of ISS, Space shuttle. Now imagine an ariane like lauchner, sending experiement in the space, then they automatically fall back capsule like with a parachute or somehting.
This is certainly cheaper than theshuttle for the same result on the experiement side.
First for those which do not know, "que choisir" is a consummer protection association (a non governemental one), a bit like EFF. They argue that this belong to "hidden default" since the consummer aren't warned that those CD do not play everywhere like in car CD, and they were comercialised with the company [b]*KNOWING*[/b] that they would not work everwhere. Second they argue that there is already an anti piracy tax on DVD and CD and thus there is a contradiction between this [protection] and the antipiracy tax. And this contradict the right of consummer to make backup (this is apparently a right in France?). I hope they win, because this would mean one would have to disappear at least in france:).
60K-75K a year isn't a low wage
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You did not think this 17% VAT and highier income tax were only for the show ? And you did not think our "social" law were [School, paid university, medical stuff, retirement pay] were all generate4d spontaneously ?
The one pay for the other. And most people I know over this side of the atlantic take over the 17% VAT and higier tax and social law, rather than the US way.
This was more or less an incencitive to call for innovation (make something new and usefull and we the *governement representationg the people* will give you for some years a monopoly on exploiting your invention*. But slowly it was perverted by the copyright holder. Nowadays they try to make it pass as a natural law protected "RIGHT" of them to exploit something, and if somebody break thier right it should be enforced harshly. The problem here, is that copyright has grown imbalanced and the public interrest are gone completly lost.
Yes BALANCED copyright is a very good things. UNBALANCED copyright is dangerous as it is drowning those for which it was made to begin with : the public interrest. And I think this is what the posted is protesting against. The law are becoming harsher for breaking a privilege octroyed to a small group than some crime with far more impact (rape, hold up, political corruption) and the middle and ways to fight for the "enforcing" of this privilege are becomming increasingly out of whack.
You know, the difference between a police state and an ultra corporatiste state may not be that big...
US Farmer product
US steel product
US wood exports
US airline wanting to land on EU ground
Etc... Etc... Etc...
I am sick of the rethoric "X in the 3rd world is giving illegal subside ! Let us impose tariff !" hollier than you, when the US is doing it on many of its own industry.
Thank you for your answer.But if my parents had found me too turbulent and agitated , then seeing my symptom match with the check list, I would have been diagnosed ADHD-ist by each alpha-doctor.
For your information, I have a very imaginative mind, a big time roleplayer, and I have many of the above symptom. Did it plague me during my school ? No. On the contrary it helped me search different solutions than everyone's on many problem, my mind "working" in parallel or quick succession on many solution. It help me also find many solution on software problem. I am very good at math , physik and am preparing my doctor work in physic. And those "symptom" I had a really early age. I am very happy with my distracted mind.
Now comes the question, what the hell would have happenned with me if my parents had CUT DOWN my distractiveness and imagination with a drug ? I can't help but shiver incontrollably.
You are all forgetting this is not the country of free speech, but the countries of debate. We have simply another view on speech, that is, that unheard speech without debate is like a falling tree in a forest : unheard, noise without sense. We rather have logical, well made debate than free speech. We do not ask you [the US] to like it, or to approve it, we [as citizen] want it so. If every news paper were spitting half assed lies about me, I would like to have the right to make rectification rather than make a libel process or have my own propespect printed out. But I perfectly understand that in a litigious all-over-the-board free speech society you rather have lawyer handle the job.
PS: you did understand that this wasn't about forcing citizen to accept reply from other citizen or forcing their opinion on others, didn't you ? This is about forcing www media outlet to have the same law as newspaper outlet. That is media which have an enormous coverage in comparison to a citizen must allow him the same coverage under certain circumstance , like report of negative info on the former.
Yeah I know , some people will whistle and yell "commie!", but you know there is a good reason I will never want to work outside E.U. First they can't AT ALL make you work more than 10 days in a row, and they can't AT ALL make you work more than 11 hours including 1h pause. And even if you do, you can't work again until 11 or 13 hours passed with full rest. And that is for salaried/normal worker. Those law, in the firm where I code, are very well respected. If they "break" a bit them, they offer big compensation to worker (lot of money, travel for 2 persons etc...).
The result:well they never bow to the will of the client, and the main client beeing aware of limited resource (worker) never try to push down our throat short time limit. On the contrary we pushed sonme of his "pet" project for future release because no time was available. I can't say this is a generality in the industry but if firm respect law , this should be.
TO TAX every entity making buisness within their border. Why is this SOOO diffcult to uednrstand ?
Repeat after me. Internet sales are not different than normal one. The electronic medium doesn't make it something special. An e-tailer selling electronic goods is *doing* buiness in the country where the item is sold, not where the sale is. The same way a catalogue entity selling in the EU from sweden isn't submited to Sweden law but the law and VAT of the final country. Heck it even hold for US entity selling with EU (VAT should be payed at country entry) that you dislike it doesn't make it more your point of view correct.
1) all EU based retailer or ISP *DO PAY* this VAT. Only US based company until now did not pay it, more or less illegaly.
2) This introduce a competitive disadvantage for the local economy. In reality this is not "selfish" of the EU, just MAKING THE LAW APPLY TO EVERYBODY.
Get off your horse and make real research next time. Why the parent is modded insightfull is beyond me.
As for collecting VAT for all state, well this is the price for making buisness with those country. Do not like it ? Go away from those country. If you are still making buisness with all those after the VAT is there, this is because the administrative nightmare you are making MONEY, which is the *only* reason you started making buisness to begin with...
Somebody with 40 billion dollar could make a lot of offensive patents. From zero to ifninity. And then due to the sheer volume use it as a leverage. Not that I am citing the favorite nemesis of slashdot... But think of it. 20 K offensive patents (300 million $) would not even cost a % of their treasure trove. And afterward they would have a big leverage even if 1% of the patents hit home.
One cargo machine not too long ago collided with a passenger machine. Granted there was some slopyness within the Swiss control (it took place near the frontier) but this definitly proove that 1) Anti collidor in some situation may not work (aka there is human factor) 2) plane go really close to each others on regular basis.
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The sheer amount of data generated simply prevent them to keep data indefinitly. (At least on quick access storage). Here around we keep passenger RES/TKT data (on tape) for 3 years and only for liability purpose. CKI data (on tape) are kept 180 days. Again only for liability purpose and in normal case nobody read those tape. And seeing how reading one is slow as hell , trust me on that one marketing drone would be totally unable to read one. I find it interresting that they want to keep video data for 10 years, because if there was liability this would be within the few month/first year. 5 or 9 year later ... Well... So I find it strange. But then again I am no marketing/security guy only programmer.
But to think that the rest of the world would even care what imperial unit is, well maybe he was a bit foolish. as for overestimating the audiance, care to explain how he was overestimating it ? I rather think it was "prejudicing" it against americo-UK centrism (the two main country using imperial units).
But does it warrant getting a tougher punishment than let us say, somebody selling drug (which one can argue put people in danger, or undermine society for hard drug) or physical thievery of items (where somebody is REALLY deprived, whereas with copyright violation you have only lost Potential revenue) or even IIRC rape, or executive which steal more money than potential revenue lsot for RIAA. Bottom line making copyright violation a felony instead of a misdeanor.
This is more or less a flamebait of the most transparent form. Mode me troll if you wish, but moderator, most of the time on slashdot I see post on how EU has less liberty than US because of free pseech law. And now that ? Get real. This isn't funny at ALL. Even with a bad humor you should not find this flame bait funny.
How about regenerating the waves, then making a fourier transform on it, then use some algorithm to transform that 10 to 20 32 digits integer, different enough for many song that it would not find too much false positive... Ok maybe the spectre between two hard rock song isn't too much different. Does someone knows ?
Since we are on the sex analogy, well the problem is that the young attractive lady, turn out to de a demmanding women recriminating every one of your move, and always asking to sekll yourself as cheap as possible. And if you aren't quick & cheap enough, then , well, there is always the concurrence.
As another poster said there is no easy solution despite all the analogy you can come with. it is a case for case.
Since now there is so much on board distraction (phone cell, video, dvd, gps mapper, and now this gizmo), I propose to patent the following : put a camera at the front of the vehicule and then put the output on a monitor which will be put in tzhe middle of all gizmo, so that the driver can STILL pay attention to where he is going... Hummm.... Wait a minute...
How often, people here protest that FONT 88 password on a screen are ridiculous as well as other pathetic attempt to simulate hacking by showing a maze-like quick cartoon in film ? Should not our time better be used searching for better encryption, compression, GUI, programming tricks than such critizism :).
Can please somebody point me out the difference between the "no AA" and "full blown" AA screenshot ? They all seem to be the same picture quality. Worse, this is a static image, the difference (which i am still searching) would be probably less visible in a full blown action... Is really AA worth it or is it an overhyped feature ?
Summary : google + wireless = inforamtion available for everybody everywhere. They compare it to omniscience and thus gods (btw, where is the other part traditionnaly associated to gods, omnipotence :) ?).
Then they go on rambling that this will allow the bad guy to touch "more" the U.S. (what of the rest of the western world...?) and allow them unite quicker and better.
I think this is a "slow news" sunday, thus this [devoid of content] article went on slashdot...
and so you do not really need the agreement or interrest of the population. Think of it, look at the cost of ariane, and compare with the cost of ISS, Space shuttle. Now imagine an ariane like lauchner, sending experiement in the space, then they automatically fall back capsule like with a parachute or somehting.
This is certainly cheaper than theshuttle for the same result on the experiement side.
First for those which do not know, "que choisir" is a consummer protection association (a non governemental one), a bit like EFF. They argue that this belong to "hidden default" since the consummer aren't warned that those CD do not play everywhere like in car CD, and they were comercialised with the company [b]*KNOWING*[/b] that they would not work everwhere. Second they argue that there is already an anti piracy tax on DVD and CD and thus there is a contradiction between this [protection] and the antipiracy tax. And this contradict the right of consummer to make backup (this is apparently a right in France?). I hope they win, because this would mean one would have to disappear at least in france :).
Try again at 6K-12K a year.
You did not think this 17% VAT and highier income tax were only for the show ? And you did not think our "social" law were [School, paid university, medical stuff, retirement pay] were all generate4d spontaneously ?
The one pay for the other. And most people I know over this side of the atlantic take over the 17% VAT and higier tax and social law, rather than the US way.
This was more or less an incencitive to call for innovation (make something new and usefull and we the *governement representationg the people* will give you for some years a monopoly on exploiting your invention*. But slowly it was perverted by the copyright holder. Nowadays they try to make it pass as a natural law protected "RIGHT" of them to exploit something, and if somebody break thier right it should be enforced harshly. The problem here, is that copyright has grown imbalanced and the public interrest are gone completly lost.
Yes BALANCED copyright is a very good things. UNBALANCED copyright is dangerous as it is drowning those for which it was made to begin with : the public interrest. And I think this is what the posted is protesting against. The law are becoming harsher for breaking a privilege octroyed to a small group than some crime with far more impact (rape, hold up, political corruption) and the middle and ways to fight for the "enforcing" of this privilege are becomming increasingly out of whack.
You know, the difference between a police state and an ultra corporatiste state may not be that big...
US Farmer product US steel product US wood exports US airline wanting to land on EU ground Etc... Etc... Etc... I am sick of the rethoric "X in the 3rd world is giving illegal subside ! Let us impose tariff !" hollier than you, when the US is doing it on many of its own industry.
Thank you for your answer.But if my parents had found me too turbulent and agitated , then seeing my symptom match with the check list, I would have been diagnosed ADHD-ist by each alpha-doctor.
For your information, I have a very imaginative mind, a big time roleplayer, and I have many of the above symptom. Did it plague me during my school ? No. On the contrary it helped me search different solutions than everyone's on many problem, my mind "working" in parallel or quick succession on many solution. It help me also find many solution on software problem. I am very good at math , physik and am preparing my doctor work in physic. And those "symptom" I had a really early age. I am very happy with my distracted mind.
Now comes the question, what the hell would have happenned with me if my parents had CUT DOWN my distractiveness and imagination with a drug ? I can't help but shiver incontrollably.
What do you have against the boob tube :).
You are all forgetting this is not the country of free speech, but the countries of debate. We have simply another view on speech, that is, that unheard speech without debate is like a falling tree in a forest : unheard, noise without sense. We rather have logical, well made debate than free speech. We do not ask you [the US] to like it, or to approve it, we [as citizen] want it so. If every news paper were spitting half assed lies about me, I would like to have the right to make rectification rather than make a libel process or have my own propespect printed out. But I perfectly understand that in a litigious all-over-the-board free speech society you rather have lawyer handle the job.
PS: you did understand that this wasn't about forcing citizen to accept reply from other citizen or forcing their opinion on others, didn't you ? This is about forcing www media outlet to have the same law as newspaper outlet. That is media which have an enormous coverage in comparison to a citizen must allow him the same coverage under certain circumstance , like report of negative info on the former.
Yeah I know , some people will whistle and yell "commie!", but you know there is a good reason I will never want to work outside E.U. First they can't AT ALL make you work more than 10 days in a row, and they can't AT ALL make you work more than 11 hours including 1h pause. And even if you do, you can't work again until 11 or 13 hours passed with full rest. And that is for salaried/normal worker. Those law, in the firm where I code, are very well respected. If they "break" a bit them, they offer big compensation to worker (lot of money, travel for 2 persons etc...).
The result:well they never bow to the will of the client, and the main client beeing aware of limited resource (worker) never try to push down our throat short time limit. On the contrary we pushed sonme of his "pet" project for future release because no time was available. I can't say this is a generality in the industry but if firm respect law , this should be.
TO TAX every entity making buisness within their border. Why is this SOOO diffcult to uednrstand ? Repeat after me. Internet sales are not different than normal one. The electronic medium doesn't make it something special. An e-tailer selling electronic goods is *doing* buiness in the country where the item is sold, not where the sale is. The same way a catalogue entity selling in the EU from sweden isn't submited to Sweden law but the law and VAT of the final country. Heck it even hold for US entity selling with EU (VAT should be payed at country entry) that you dislike it doesn't make it more your point of view correct.
1) all EU based retailer or ISP *DO PAY* this VAT. Only US based company until now did not pay it, more or less illegaly. 2) This introduce a competitive disadvantage for the local economy. In reality this is not "selfish" of the EU, just MAKING THE LAW APPLY TO EVERYBODY. Get off your horse and make real research next time. Why the parent is modded insightfull is beyond me. As for collecting VAT for all state, well this is the price for making buisness with those country. Do not like it ? Go away from those country. If you are still making buisness with all those after the VAT is there, this is because the administrative nightmare you are making MONEY, which is the *only* reason you started making buisness to begin with...
Somebody with 40 billion dollar could make a lot of offensive patents. From zero to ifninity. And then due to the sheer volume use it as a leverage. Not that I am citing the favorite nemesis of slashdot... But think of it. 20 K offensive patents (300 million $) would not even cost a % of their treasure trove. And afterward they would have a big leverage even if 1% of the patents hit home.
One cargo machine not too long ago collided with a passenger machine. Granted there was some slopyness within the Swiss control (it took place near the frontier) but this definitly proove that 1) Anti collidor in some situation may not work (aka there is human factor) 2) plane go really close to each others on regular basis.