ALL of my channels are 30+ miles away... you're doing it wrong.
I'd check the tuner. Many, many tuners made before the converter boxes are quite poor.. even on expensive HDTVs. Anything made before 2008 is suspect, and even YMMV on the new converter boxes.
because women that have left home under bad circumstance find out where the guy is and call him.. from mom/sister/shleter/etc. and block the caller ID because they don't want to be found and beat up again.
Perhaps they need to discuss custody or divorce, etc, the point is that they don't want to be found. A restraining order is just "words" when somebody shows up to beat you up.
that's the point really, say you put the picture of you up privately. Then you buddy decides to copy it to HIS public profile... nothing is stopping him.. you gave him access. There's no way Facebook could ever keep it all straight... if you put out there, plan for it to stick!
The real issue they are addressing is that of keeping the commons alive. IF you put pictures you have taken of landscapes on their site, under the standard sharing license, then they are not going to remove them from EVERYBODY ELSE'S pages just because you closed your page. That's the real issue they're addressing. they may be in the process of making a cool TV commercial, showing cool facebook pages, and they're not going to stop making the commercial just because you pulled your pictures down.
This is really no different than GPL'd software source code. Once it's out there, there's no getting it back... everybody here should understand that quite well.
I think the issue is simply that they are not going to ever promise to "remove" your content.. it's backed up too many places, and the whole point of social media is to mash-up and cross-pollinate from the pool of stuff people choose to share. You can't just "take your ball and go home".
There is a different level of release required for "models" and for commercial use of people's images. In fact that's mentioned on the Creative Commons site that "open" licenses to images my not override local requirements for individual's permission. The problem is mostly solved already.
I'll add one more thing we pay for our cars... we pay $100+ of registration for license plates every year too. Again, either it's property tax or road tax.. but it's still tax. To answer the alternative fuel people, Ironically as cars have gotten smaller, they've changed the tax structure to make those of us that buy small cars pay more anyway. The big 3 spent 10 years cutting 1000 pounds off all the cars and trucks...making them more efficient.. so they taxed us MORE for it!
A sticking point I have is that Gas tax was supposed to be high to encourage small, efficient vehicles. Then everybody bought smaller vehicles that make less wear on the roads (hint a hundred passenger cars will never do damage like a semi) Then they "felt bad" that all the people that bought SUVs were paying "higher" tax and it wasn't fair. Right now the number of alternative energy vehicles is only like 1% of all vehicles on the road.. and they all cost considerably more to buy.. they should get the tax credit for being green.
Most of us pay State (+City) income tax, County property taxes for roads and schools, and State (+City) sales tax. And if they replace the road in front of MY house they may choose to charge ME for the privilege! Not to mention the 15 cents the state takes for roads and the 23 cents the feds take from every gallon of gas... people pay for roads already. Roads are a fundamental purpose of government...it's what we pay them to do for us!
Toll roads only work where there's a lot of cross-country traffic that doesn't live in the area. Roads like I 80 in Indiana/Ohio/Penn where the traffic is mostly travelers, and in the suburbs like around Chicago, where you have to pay to skip all the crappy roads into the city.
Come to a place like Michigan where there's no "freeloaders" to collect from and we have to pay our own roads because they don't pass thru. I can see toll roads for limited times and for things like bridges that are set up to use the funds to take care of that bridge.
not really, the Feds paid up front to build the roads, the states just have to keep them up. The tolls might help meet the "matching" funds required but that's about all. Drive on the Ohio roads NOT collecting tolls.. they're really bad outside of major highways. Personally I think more money from toll roads goes to lining the pockets of the COMPANIES collecting the tolls and monitoring the traffic than to actually keep the roads fixed. It also seems minor roads don't get the same attention, because all the localities expect travelers to use the pay road and don't want to keep their own local roads up.
I do notice fewer speed traps on the toll roads, probably because a company controls the access and every jurisdiction can't send in patrols to shake down the traffic.. I guess that's one good thing.
You do have a point. As far as social order, except in highly congested cities, cars keep people isolated and moving along. The longer space between cities and suburbs means that while traveling your pretty safe inside your own vehicle and so are all the other drivers. IF you forced everyone to take subway or buses there would be more assaults both from thugs and regular people having a bad day.
I don't think American society could adapt to the slower pace of a mass-transit system. The average work week is 10 hours longer than in most of Europe, without cars there's simply not enough time per day to go where you gotta be. Consider Europeans also get many more vacation days and personal time that's 2-3x as much as Americans to take a half day off to visit the doctor or do personal business.. things Americans do at lunchtime.. in their cars.
DMCA is one step further. You are allowed under fair use to open up and reprogram anything that YOU own how YOU please (within FCC mandates). That's not every copyright infringement. You can share HOW you did that online as long as you don't reproduce the original work. In the case of iphone, you may have to include some kind of downloader to get the firmware and some program YOU wrote that PATCHES that firmware with changes. Again, perfectly legal as EULAs used against INDIVIDUAL modders weren't holding up in courts. Normally derivative works that are for personal use have no legal trouble. Telling somebody how to cut up a Tom Clancy novel into Nancy Drew is perfectly fine, happens all the time. Making "mix" tapes is perfectly legal.. as long as you don't DISTRIBUTE them.. listing the tracks for somebody else to make their own would be legally OK.. see where this is going. Copyright is ONLY about distribution, not usage.
Until the DMCA. Which said that the act of pulling down the "encrypted" software off the electronic hardware that YOU OWN was a crime. Therefore breaking said encryption to add your custom modifications was also a crime. INSTRUCTIONS of your own invention with absolutely no copyrighted material from the original are a crime. There's not even a "personal use" or "educational use" exception that engineering labs or hobbiests can fall back on... unless EXPLICITLY granted by a certain board that the EFF appealed to and Apple counter appealed.
There are strict rules in some states about emissions standards and gas sale quality. If your product you make at home is not on the list then it's illegal to put in your car.
In most states it's the tax man that get the bio-fuel guys. Again, it's not illegal to "make" but as soon as it goes in a car without paying tax your a "tax evader"... of course the rules to pay the tax are made with thousands of dollars up front so only gas stations can afford the costs. And because your fuel isn't on a list they can't legally tax it... and if you put it in car it has to be taxed... if it's not taxed you can't drive it... see the beauty of circular government logic!!
The board is there specifically to take requests for DMCA exceptions and clarifications. If you have trouble with the EFF using the forum written into the law as it was intended, then what about all the *AA lobiests making charging consideribly more per unit to have the law changed to be stricter and stricter.
Cracking DRM is explicitly illegal..unless you can ask for an exception once every 3 years. The sites that host the actual jailbrake code aren't in the USA to begin with because Apple would shut them down in a minute.
"I think the vaccine-autism blamers are encouraged by a couple things. 1. Looking for someone, anyone to blame. 2. Under financial duress from the extra expenses of an autistic baby, they want to hit *somebody* up for money."
realize that once a child is diagnosed with "autism" medical insurance stops paying for things. Insurance say it's a "learning disability" so public school should pay for it. Parents want a reason, like other people said, it shows up about the same time kids get their "school" shots. But those shots aren't the same ones we got as kids...they've tripled them up, and the side effects of TWO of those shots are probably not well tested, kind of like Software where you can't run Wow and Word and AntiVirus at the same time and are told to "turn one off".. doesn't work in kids. There is some correlation in the "teacher-engineer" combination that produces the most autistic kids. Imagine the outcry if insurance companies stopped treating things like heart murmers "because we don't know what causes it". After all, the kid came out of the oven that way.
In the mean time, parents need their kids to get thru it without being labeled. Most will be just fine as adults.. perhaps not so outgoing or highly promoted but more than employable. IF the schools don't label small kids that can't do "office work" 25 hours a week as "bad" which has greatly increased in the last 15 years because they don't have money to properly staff classes. Any kids that can't keep up with 40 kids in a room is a "problem" and schools want them "out"...or labeled so they can collect the extra funding money.
My opinion is that autism and ADD, etc are caused by the decline of recess... As playground aides got cut, they started cutting recess time. I remember as a kid getting nearly a full hour of "playtime" in a school day..plus 25 minutes for lunch and the day was an hour shorter too! I added up my kid's time and it came to about 45 minutes.. including time to eat lunch.
on the contrary, for legal purposes it would be better to clear your email inbox every 3 months and archive the emails involving SOX matters to another location... for a small business paper would be perfectly fine. What you DON'T want in SOX procedures is to have many locations of "stuff" out there on various backup tapes "just in case". If you have legal trouble they'll suddenly want EVERY backup tape you ever made as evidence.. you need to have a system that PROVES only specific locations have legal documents. And paper is a good format... again, if you show a lawyer neat boxes of paper they'll take over kinkos and make a copy... show them a box of backup tapes and the law freaks out.
the quality of the idea is that 50% markup. That's because YOU don't have contacts to hire the same people and get the same output. Also, a large part of consulting is "experts". They have a contract to buy 100 generators a year... they know who to call, and how much to spend in minutes, not days unlike you. A consulting firm can pool resources to keep a few highly trained professionals that know their stuff and they get experience beyond what your company would have servicing many businesses.
it's because in most places IT is "non unit producing". Sales also works crappy hours but they get special bonuses and comp time... IT is expected to work the same hours but not get the perks. But we're paid "well". Also, most IT people are promoted "above" their education status because they can do the work, so HR doesn't see them as "qualifying" for their wages.
except that nearly 100% of pre-packaged software explicitly does not warranty errors in the results or lost data. Even if you buy the support, all they promise to do is FIX the software if you broke it, not fix your data.
so what they have lots of applications.. do they make PROFIT? Microsoft has spent too long trying to "do everything" and eat every other small start-ups lunch. Just like GM they're trying to keep up a dying empire that was once king of the hill. Investors just want there profits, not a statement to change the world. Really being a monopoly is expensive and kind of wasteful.
but "stockholders" would rather take the profits they make from holding your stock and move it to the new fellows.... unless you're saying Microsoft was managing their stockholders to keep THEM from investing in other companies by promising big things that they knew wouldn't be shipping.
Bill always said Microsoft needed to hoard stockholder profits.. keep a YEAR of operating capital and such to "innovate" in a wild, competitive environment. He sat on $40 Billion for most of a decade... and funneled more into R&D... and Vista was the best big launch in recent years.
That money wasn't Bill's, it was investors and now that the "cult of bill" is ending investors are realizing they should have been getting profit checks every year... and Microsoft would still be in exactly the same place financially, maybe with a tighter belt... like the rest of us have been for years.
Xbox is fine. it only represents 1 total year of R&D spending... now it's making small profits. The $5B loss was enough to buy millions of people game consoles! Microsoft has cornered the market in online console play with that money... it's well spent. They still have 3 BILLION from just this year to account for.
I agree with other people that it's just a cash sink to burn up profit for tax purposes. Microsoft spend a DECADE sitting on $40 BILLION in profits... would that have been better to the economy paid out to the large investors to build the NEXT Microsoft?
Microsoft's real competition is that their main products Windows and Office are "free" to most of the users. Why buy a new computer with Vista when XP is good enough? Why pay $200 for an Office upgrade when my boss buys it for me? Most of the people that USE Microsoft products don't PAY for them.
In the mean time 7 year-old XP and 6 year-old office 2003 are more than good enough for most users.. and Microsoft doesn't ever discount software so they still sell for full price. That's a pretty easy target for the OSS crowd to chase after.
I agree Microsoft is the new IBM... they have a virtual license to print money and can't figure out how to shake down customers anymore.
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ALL of my channels are 30+ miles away... you're doing it wrong.
I'd check the tuner. Many, many tuners made before the converter boxes are quite poor.. even on expensive HDTVs. Anything made before 2008 is suspect, and even YMMV on the new converter boxes.
because women that have left home under bad circumstance find out where the guy is and call him.. from mom/sister/shleter/etc. and block the caller ID because they don't want to be found and beat up again.
Perhaps they need to discuss custody or divorce, etc, the point is that they don't want to be found. A restraining order is just "words" when somebody shows up to beat you up.
that's the point really, say you put the picture of you up privately. Then you buddy decides to copy it to HIS public profile... nothing is stopping him.. you gave him access. There's no way Facebook could ever keep it all straight... if you put out there, plan for it to stick!
I agree, why is there Drama?
The real issue they are addressing is that of keeping the commons alive. IF you put pictures you have taken of landscapes on their site, under the standard sharing license, then they are not going to remove them from EVERYBODY ELSE'S pages just because you closed your page. That's the real issue they're addressing. they may be in the process of making a cool TV commercial, showing cool facebook pages, and they're not going to stop making the commercial just because you pulled your pictures down.
This is really no different than GPL'd software source code. Once it's out there, there's no getting it back... everybody here should understand that quite well.
I think the issue is simply that they are not going to ever promise to "remove" your content.. it's backed up too many places, and the whole point of social media is to mash-up and cross-pollinate from the pool of stuff people choose to share. You can't just "take your ball and go home".
what stops them right now?
There is a different level of release required for "models" and for commercial use of people's images. In fact that's mentioned on the Creative Commons site that "open" licenses to images my not override local requirements for individual's permission. The problem is mostly solved already.
I'll add one more thing we pay for our cars... we pay $100+ of registration for license plates every year too. Again, either it's property tax or road tax.. but it's still tax. To answer the alternative fuel people, Ironically as cars have gotten smaller, they've changed the tax structure to make those of us that buy small cars pay more anyway. The big 3 spent 10 years cutting 1000 pounds off all the cars and trucks...making them more efficient.. so they taxed us MORE for it!
A sticking point I have is that Gas tax was supposed to be high to encourage small, efficient vehicles. Then everybody bought smaller vehicles that make less wear on the roads (hint a hundred passenger cars will never do damage like a semi) Then they "felt bad" that all the people that bought SUVs were paying "higher" tax and it wasn't fair. Right now the number of alternative energy vehicles is only like 1% of all vehicles on the road.. and they all cost considerably more to buy.. they should get the tax credit for being green.
Most of us pay State (+City) income tax, County property taxes for roads and schools, and State (+City) sales tax. And if they replace the road in front of MY house they may choose to charge ME for the privilege! Not to mention the 15 cents the state takes for roads and the 23 cents the feds take from every gallon of gas... people pay for roads already. Roads are a fundamental purpose of government...it's what we pay them to do for us!
Toll roads only work where there's a lot of cross-country traffic that doesn't live in the area. Roads like I 80 in Indiana/Ohio/Penn where the traffic is mostly travelers, and in the suburbs like around Chicago, where you have to pay to skip all the crappy roads into the city.
Come to a place like Michigan where there's no "freeloaders" to collect from and we have to pay our own roads because they don't pass thru. I can see toll roads for limited times and for things like bridges that are set up to use the funds to take care of that bridge.
not really, the Feds paid up front to build the roads, the states just have to keep them up. The tolls might help meet the "matching" funds required but that's about all. Drive on the Ohio roads NOT collecting tolls.. they're really bad outside of major highways. Personally I think more money from toll roads goes to lining the pockets of the COMPANIES collecting the tolls and monitoring the traffic than to actually keep the roads fixed. It also seems minor roads don't get the same attention, because all the localities expect travelers to use the pay road and don't want to keep their own local roads up.
I do notice fewer speed traps on the toll roads, probably because a company controls the access and every jurisdiction can't send in patrols to shake down the traffic.. I guess that's one good thing.
You do have a point. As far as social order, except in highly congested cities, cars keep people isolated and moving along. The longer space between cities and suburbs means that while traveling your pretty safe inside your own vehicle and so are all the other drivers. IF you forced everyone to take subway or buses there would be more assaults both from thugs and regular people having a bad day.
I don't think American society could adapt to the slower pace of a mass-transit system. The average work week is 10 hours longer than in most of Europe, without cars there's simply not enough time per day to go where you gotta be. Consider Europeans also get many more vacation days and personal time that's 2-3x as much as Americans to take a half day off to visit the doctor or do personal business.. things Americans do at lunchtime.. in their cars.
DMCA is one step further. You are allowed under fair use to open up and reprogram anything that YOU own how YOU please (within FCC mandates). That's not every copyright infringement. You can share HOW you did that online as long as you don't reproduce the original work. In the case of iphone, you may have to include some kind of downloader to get the firmware and some program YOU wrote that PATCHES that firmware with changes. Again, perfectly legal as EULAs used against INDIVIDUAL modders weren't holding up in courts. Normally derivative works that are for personal use have no legal trouble. Telling somebody how to cut up a Tom Clancy novel into Nancy Drew is perfectly fine, happens all the time. Making "mix" tapes is perfectly legal.. as long as you don't DISTRIBUTE them.. listing the tracks for somebody else to make their own would be legally OK.. see where this is going. Copyright is ONLY about distribution, not usage.
Until the DMCA. Which said that the act of pulling down the "encrypted" software off the electronic hardware that YOU OWN was a crime. Therefore breaking said encryption to add your custom modifications was also a crime. INSTRUCTIONS of your own invention with absolutely no copyrighted material from the original are a crime. There's not even a "personal use" or "educational use" exception that engineering labs or hobbiests can fall back on... unless EXPLICITLY granted by a certain board that the EFF appealed to and Apple counter appealed.
that's exactly it...
There are strict rules in some states about emissions standards and gas sale quality. If your product you make at home is not on the list then it's illegal to put in your car.
In most states it's the tax man that get the bio-fuel guys. Again, it's not illegal to "make" but as soon as it goes in a car without paying tax your a "tax evader"... of course the rules to pay the tax are made with thousands of dollars up front so only gas stations can afford the costs. And because your fuel isn't on a list they can't legally tax it... and if you put it in car it has to be taxed... if it's not taxed you can't drive it... see the beauty of circular government logic!!
The board is there specifically to take requests for DMCA exceptions and clarifications. If you have trouble with the EFF using the forum written into the law as it was intended, then what about all the *AA lobiests making charging consideribly more per unit to have the law changed to be stricter and stricter.
Cracking DRM is explicitly illegal..unless you can ask for an exception once every 3 years. The sites that host the actual jailbrake code aren't in the USA to begin with because Apple would shut them down in a minute.
"I think the vaccine-autism blamers are encouraged by a couple things.
1. Looking for someone, anyone to blame.
2. Under financial duress from the extra expenses of an autistic baby, they want to hit *somebody* up for money."
realize that once a child is diagnosed with "autism" medical insurance stops paying for things. Insurance say it's a "learning disability" so public school should pay for it. Parents want a reason, like other people said, it shows up about the same time kids get their "school" shots. But those shots aren't the same ones we got as kids...they've tripled them up, and the side effects of TWO of those shots are probably not well tested, kind of like Software where you can't run Wow and Word and AntiVirus at the same time and are told to "turn one off" .. doesn't work in kids. There is some correlation in the "teacher-engineer" combination that produces the most autistic kids. Imagine the outcry if insurance companies stopped treating things like heart murmers "because we don't know what causes it". After all, the kid came out of the oven that way.
In the mean time, parents need their kids to get thru it without being labeled. Most will be just fine as adults.. perhaps not so outgoing or highly promoted but more than employable. IF the schools don't label small kids that can't do "office work" 25 hours a week as "bad" which has greatly increased in the last 15 years because they don't have money to properly staff classes. Any kids that can't keep up with 40 kids in a room is a "problem" and schools want them "out"...or labeled so they can collect the extra funding money.
My opinion is that autism and ADD, etc are caused by the decline of recess... As playground aides got cut, they started cutting recess time. I remember as a kid getting nearly a full hour of "playtime" in a school day..plus 25 minutes for lunch and the day was an hour shorter too! I added up my kid's time and it came to about 45 minutes.. including time to eat lunch.
on the contrary, for legal purposes it would be better to clear your email inbox every 3 months and archive the emails involving SOX matters to another location... for a small business paper would be perfectly fine. What you DON'T want in SOX procedures is to have many locations of "stuff" out there on various backup tapes "just in case". If you have legal trouble they'll suddenly want EVERY backup tape you ever made as evidence.. you need to have a system that PROVES only specific locations have legal documents. And paper is a good format... again, if you show a lawyer neat boxes of paper they'll take over kinkos and make a copy... show them a box of backup tapes and the law freaks out.
the quality of the idea is that 50% markup. That's because YOU don't have contacts to hire the same people and get the same output.
Also, a large part of consulting is "experts". They have a contract to buy 100 generators a year... they know who to call, and how much to spend in minutes, not days unlike you. A consulting firm can pool resources to keep a few highly trained professionals that know their stuff and they get experience beyond what your company would have servicing many businesses.
it's because in most places IT is "non unit producing". Sales also works crappy hours but they get special bonuses and comp time... IT is expected to work the same hours but not get the perks. But we're paid "well". Also, most IT people are promoted "above" their education status because they can do the work, so HR doesn't see them as "qualifying" for their wages.
approperiate for valentine's day...
except that nearly 100% of pre-packaged software explicitly does not warranty errors in the results or lost data. Even if you buy the support, all they promise to do is FIX the software if you broke it, not fix your data.
so what they have lots of applications.. do they make PROFIT? Microsoft has spent too long trying to "do everything" and eat every other small start-ups lunch. Just like GM they're trying to keep up a dying empire that was once king of the hill. Investors just want there profits, not a statement to change the world. Really being a monopoly is expensive and kind of wasteful.
so Apple makes more money off less work. That sounds like a good thing, doesn't it?
or rather Owners think they should get paid out so they can use the cash in other investments that are starved for cash and getting higher returns!
but "stockholders" would rather take the profits they make from holding your stock and move it to the new fellows.... unless you're saying Microsoft was managing their stockholders to keep THEM from investing in other companies by promising big things that they knew wouldn't be shipping.
Bill always said Microsoft needed to hoard stockholder profits.. keep a YEAR of operating capital and such to "innovate" in a wild, competitive environment. He sat on $40 Billion for most of a decade... and funneled more into R&D... and Vista was the best big launch in recent years.
That money wasn't Bill's, it was investors and now that the "cult of bill" is ending investors are realizing they should have been getting profit checks every year... and Microsoft would still be in exactly the same place financially, maybe with a tighter belt... like the rest of us have been for years.
Xbox is fine. it only represents 1 total year of R&D spending... now it's making small profits. The $5B loss was enough to buy millions of people game consoles! Microsoft has cornered the market in online console play with that money... it's well spent. They still have 3 BILLION from just this year to account for.
I agree with other people that it's just a cash sink to burn up profit for tax purposes. Microsoft spend a DECADE sitting on $40 BILLION in profits... would that have been better to the economy paid out to the large investors to build the NEXT Microsoft?
Microsoft's real competition is that their main products Windows and Office are "free" to most of the users. Why buy a new computer with Vista when XP is good enough? Why pay $200 for an Office upgrade when my boss buys it for me? Most of the people that USE Microsoft products don't PAY for them.
In the mean time 7 year-old XP and 6 year-old office 2003 are more than good enough for most users.. and Microsoft doesn't ever discount software so they still sell for full price. That's a pretty easy target for the OSS crowd to chase after.
I agree Microsoft is the new IBM... they have a virtual license to print money and can't figure out how to shake down customers anymore.