At least Reagan presided over the fall of the Soviet Union, although he can hardly take a lot of credit for that.
Technically Mikhail Gorbechev presided over the fall of the Soviet Union. Or George Herbert Walker Bush, if you want the US president at the time. But everyone remembers it as Reagan because, "well", he really DOES deserve a lot of the credit.
What the Republicans have going for them is the Democrats. Hillary Clinton is extremely divisive and likely to alienate large parts of the Democratic base, and attract almost no Republican-leaning voters. Plenty of people will come out to vote against here. Obama's problem is that his draw is mostly from the Democratic faithful, so he too is unlikely to attract too many Republican-leaning voters. He's got a better chance (as there are more Democrats) but it's not a slam dunk. His presence also energizes the part of the Republican party they'd rather not talk about to come out and vote against him.
Although it means hobbyists could no longer tinker, we are at the point where that hobbyist tinkering could have significant implications for the international system of computing infrastructure.
Yeah, some amateur might create an operating system which becomes dominant in an important sphere of computing...
I'm a programmer by trade. I have a 4-year computer science degree, from a time where computer engineering degrees were rare (CMU offered one, but not too many others). Were a program similar to the one you suggest be implemented, I'd almost certainly be grandfathered in without much trouble. And I still see it as nothing but a disaster for the "international system of computing infrastructure".
Yes it is. Maybe they should "get more people to come out to the church" by showing the latest movies, also with no license. What's the difference?
The latest movies aren't being broadcast over the air, unencrypted, for the specific purpose of allowing anyone who wants to watch to watch.
Churches should not get a free ride for events that have absolutely nothing to do with their religious purposes.
You're right. ANYONE should be able to have a Superbowl party, not just churches. Oh, yeah, and the bullshit about not being able to use the word "Superbowl", "Patriots", "Giants", etc in connection with the game without the express written consent of the National Football League is just that. Nominative fair use, bitches.
Oh, that's a cop out. Saying 'oh, my mother was so important to me!' does not change the fact that 'social skills' 'fashion' and 'nest-making' is fluffy crap while 'math' and 'science' are intellectual and important as far as general societal perception of them.
ROTFL. You've been hanging out too long in geek subculture. In the world at large, social skills are vital and fashion is at least as respected as math and science -- geniuses at math and science are somewhat revered in an "ohh, I could never do that" way, geniuses at fashion are revered more like rock stars (and they make more money than the scientists). Though unfortunately for women, the fashion geniuses are largely (though by no means exclusively) men.
I hope you're right. I do not look forward to the day that men regularly have sex change operations just to fit in with the populous because the genetically altered babies come out 100% women...scary thought.
If they come out 100% women but not 100% lesbians, don't think of it as a problem, think of it as an opportunity 14-21 years later (depending on the laws in your area...) when you're an old goat.
This isn't news - for more than a year, its been predicted that more than 2 million people will lose their homes.
Mostly people who took out variable-rate loans when interest rates were at historic lows and housing prices at historic highs. This definitely sucks for them, but shouldn't stupidity have consequences sometimes?
It's amazing that a ship's anchor could have the strength to pull apart two layers of stranded steel armour wires, a layer of copper, kevlar layers, and three polyethylene layers.
Have you ever seen an anchor? Sure, it's just a hunk of low-tech metal. But it's a very LARGE hunk of low-tech metal. Connected by a very heavy cable or chain to a ship which weighs many, many tons. Ripping apart a communications cable = not a problem.
The drop catchers aren't getting their names from public lists. They are in bed with (or identical to) the registrars, so the registrars simply turn the name over to the drop-catcher the instant it expires.
My impetus was not this round of abusive suits, it was their blatant purchase of the DMCA, which I consider to be a much more heinous crime.
And now they've got buyers remorse. They traded something they didn't have (the right to hold ISPs responsible for hosted content, repudiated in e.g. the Netcom decision) for something they wanted (extrajudicial takedown), and they're STILL not happy with the "deal". So they'll just purchase a change to it. And the rest of us are just supposed to go along and nod our heads and say "it's the law, after all".
RFID tags (in certain contexts), national ID cards, and public CCTV security cameras aren't there to provide security at all. The "security theater" they provide is just the spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down. Their real purpose is control of the population. Implement them well enough, and everywhere anyone goes they are watched (CCTV) and tracked (national ID, RFID). And administratively controlled, as well -- "I'm sorry sir, the computer says your national ID is not valid for interstate travel".
Instead, you can download and try out lots of crippleware that can no longer be unlocked because the greedy putzes who produced it have moved on and cannot be contacted.
If it's so good, just crack it. What, are you worried about a DMCA complaint?
Generally speaking, solid state media don't fail. You lose sectors over time and these get replaced from the resevoir. When the resevoir runs out, the size of the available space shrinks, but AFAIK, data doesn't get corrupted when a sector gets stuck.
You'd think so, but it ain't so. The junctions can get slightly leaky with use, so you write your 0, verify it as a 0, but a few seconds later it's a 1 again. Corruption.
I'd like $5/month from every internet connection in Canada too. Also I'd like a Ferrari and a Lear Jet.
It's hard to see this as anything but a blatant money-grab. Lots of us use Internet connections for reasons completely unrelated to music; why should we be forced to pay for that? What next, another $5 for the Canadian version of the MPAA, plus $2 for TV shows? Then $5 for the BSA? Another $5 for copyrighted books, and another $5 for comic books?
First of all, this has little to do with what is usually considered power infrastructure. This has to do with power-over-ethernet. It appears some dual band 802.11n radios require more power than one particular specification (802.3af) allows. Solution? Don't use 802.3af, or, don't use the radios which require too much power. Not really a big deal. I expect that manufacturers will bring the power requirements down to allowable levels over time.
IANAL: The loophole some folk have attempted to use in the past is that copyright licenses cannot be granted verbally, there must be a signed statement. But the electronic signatures act means that no longer needs to be physical paper.
That's only true for exclusive licenses which amount to a transfer of the copyright. Nonexclusive licenses like the GPL do not explicitly require a signature.
One potentially large problem -- for the eyepatch and jolly roger set, anyway -- with The Pirate Bay's ubiquity is that it's now a single point of attack for the xxAAs. It doesn't really matter what Swedish law says, eventually the industry will get it shut down, whether that means buying new laws, planting child porn on the operators, or just plain having them kidnapped and flown to the US for "trial".
Once that happens, an enormous source of torrents dries up. There used to be several others, but most of them have fallen by the wayside. No doubt several more will spring up in the event of TPBs demise, but it'll be a long, dry, several days while the xxAAs crow about their victory.
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Technically Mikhail Gorbechev presided over the fall of the Soviet Union. Or George Herbert Walker Bush, if you want the US president at the time. But everyone remembers it as Reagan because, "well", he really DOES deserve a lot of the credit.
What the Republicans have going for them is the Democrats. Hillary Clinton is extremely divisive and likely to alienate large parts of the Democratic base, and attract almost no Republican-leaning voters. Plenty of people will come out to vote against here. Obama's problem is that his draw is mostly from the Democratic faithful, so he too is unlikely to attract too many Republican-leaning voters. He's got a better chance (as there are more Democrats) but it's not a slam dunk. His presence also energizes the part of the Republican party they'd rather not talk about to come out and vote against him.
Thanks to Giuliani's incredibly stupid lack of campaign, the Republican establishment is now backing McCain.
Yeah, some amateur might create an operating system which becomes dominant in an important sphere of computing...
I'm a programmer by trade. I have a 4-year computer science degree, from a time where computer engineering degrees were rare (CMU offered one, but not too many others). Were a program similar to the one you suggest be implemented, I'd almost certainly be grandfathered in without much trouble. And I still see it as nothing but a disaster for the "international system of computing infrastructure".
Such drama. Lots of engineers work on non-life-critical things. That doesn't make them non-engineers.
The latest movies aren't being broadcast over the air, unencrypted, for the specific purpose of allowing anyone who wants to watch to watch.
You're right. ANYONE should be able to have a Superbowl party, not just churches. Oh, yeah, and the bullshit about not being able to use the word "Superbowl", "Patriots", "Giants", etc in connection with the game without the express written consent of the National Football League is just that. Nominative fair use, bitches.
ROTFL. You've been hanging out too long in geek subculture. In the world at large, social skills are vital and fashion is at least as respected as math and science -- geniuses at math and science are somewhat revered in an "ohh, I could never do that" way, geniuses at fashion are revered more like rock stars (and they make more money than the scientists). Though unfortunately for women, the fashion geniuses are largely (though by no means exclusively) men.
If they come out 100% women but not 100% lesbians, don't think of it as a problem, think of it as an opportunity 14-21 years later (depending on the laws in your area...) when you're an old goat.
Have you ever seen an anchor? Sure, it's just a hunk of low-tech metal. But it's a very LARGE hunk of low-tech metal. Connected by a very heavy cable or chain to a ship which weighs many, many tons. Ripping apart a communications cable = not a problem.
To bring us back on topic: Apparently barracuda DO in fact school.
The drop catchers aren't getting their names from public lists. They are in bed with (or identical to) the registrars, so the registrars simply turn the name over to the drop-catcher the instant it expires.
You should have been using RG-58 and 50 ohm terminators... things work much better with the right equipment.
It doesn't take an engineer to blow up a bridge, but it does take an engineer to blow up one reliably and efficiently.
And now they've got buyers remorse. They traded something they didn't have (the right to hold ISPs responsible for hosted content, repudiated in e.g. the Netcom decision) for something they wanted (extrajudicial takedown), and they're STILL not happy with the "deal". So they'll just purchase a change to it. And the rest of us are just supposed to go along and nod our heads and say "it's the law, after all".
Screw that.
RFID tags (in certain contexts), national ID cards, and public CCTV security cameras aren't there to provide security at all. The "security theater" they provide is just the spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down. Their real purpose is control of the population. Implement them well enough, and everywhere anyone goes they are watched (CCTV) and tracked (national ID, RFID). And administratively controlled, as well -- "I'm sorry sir, the computer says your national ID is not valid for interstate travel".
Truth IS an absolute defense for libel in the United States.
You'd think so, but it ain't so. The junctions can get slightly leaky with use, so you write your 0, verify it as a 0, but a few seconds later it's a 1 again. Corruption.
I'd like $5/month from every internet connection in Canada too. Also I'd like a Ferrari and a Lear Jet.
It's hard to see this as anything but a blatant money-grab. Lots of us use Internet connections for reasons completely unrelated to music; why should we be forced to pay for that? What next, another $5 for the Canadian version of the MPAA, plus $2 for TV shows? Then $5 for the BSA? Another $5 for copyrighted books, and another $5 for comic books?
First of all, this has little to do with what is usually considered power infrastructure. This has to do with power-over-ethernet. It appears some dual band 802.11n radios require more power than one particular specification (802.3af) allows. Solution? Don't use 802.3af, or, don't use the radios which require too much power. Not really a big deal. I expect that manufacturers will bring the power requirements down to allowable levels over time.
One potentially large problem -- for the eyepatch and jolly roger set, anyway -- with The Pirate Bay's ubiquity is that it's now a single point of attack for the xxAAs. It doesn't really matter what Swedish law says, eventually the industry will get it shut down, whether that means buying new laws, planting child porn on the operators, or just plain having them kidnapped and flown to the US for "trial".
Once that happens, an enormous source of torrents dries up. There used to be several others, but most of them have fallen by the wayside. No doubt several more will spring up in the event of TPBs demise, but it'll be a long, dry, several days while the xxAAs crow about their victory.