So an overly Christian town in Texas could banish their own judge who applies the federal law strictly ?
Note that I love the idea of making representative more directly accountable for their actions. Unfortunately, I think still some more time has to pass...
"remember my password" can be secured by a master password. Type it once in a session to be able to login to many website. Honestly, nowadays, with 20+ websites asking silly registrations, it is either that, or use the same login/password everywhere.
Well if it is a war on curiosity, pick your side, mate. Resist ! Once they'll discover that 99% of the people caught by anti-terrorist laws were genuinely curious persons, they may think about stopping the madness.
If you don't believe in the sanctity of marriage, getting married becomes just an administrative task. And complaining about it is protesting against unefficiency and wasted time (opinion with which I wholeheartedly agree) but this is not discrimination.
400 copies for a book that will be sold about 10$ and that represent something like 500 KB of data. I am telling you that we can save books that are worth half a cent, you tell me a book has to be worth at least $4000 to be kept alive. Every household has more memory available than the great library of Alexandria yet we limit our information to be the size of our bookshelves. It is like it is burning again every day. Yes, it is a known phenomenon, but don't you agree that this is a preventable and a bad thing ?
The demand did not die, the demand went below the threshold of rentability for published book. Digital copies however, cost close to nothing in comparison. Making it illegal to keep and exchange them is really causing these things to disappear. Most of the people have an unused space on their disks that could store the totality of published text in the first half of the 20th century. Space is really cheap, much cheaper than publishing a book.
Yes sorry, saying MP3 was open is a bit far-fetched. However, despite its patent issues, the Fraunhoffer institute did not prosecute anyone (to my knowledge) implementing a free encoder/decoder. It was an unwritten agreement that only commercial implementation would need patent license. And also, compared to many of its competitors (Apple's and Microsoft's formats) it did not have any DRM.
Er... Are you implying that making a video available through a tag is somehow harder than through a flash app ? Care to elaborate what you mean by that ? Because using html5 with youtube is actually a few clicks operation : http://www.youtube.com/html5
Sorry, I made an English mistake. I didn't mead edited, I meant published. Most books ever written are not published anymore and can't be bought anywhere anymore. Ok, here is one quickly-found source :
http://bookstatistics.com/sites/para/resources/statistics.cfm That states that in Canada there are more original titles published every year than reprints. Apart from having a number of titles doubling every year, the only explanation for that is that some (most in fact) books go into oblivion after their first print (I mean, is there a single person claiming that the majority of books are reprinted several times ?) It happened to me several time to pick old books on garage sales, and when liking it, looking for books of the same author. When the book is 50+ years old, it is incredibely difficult ! There is one author that I liken to Saint-Exupery, but with more humor, that is completely unknown and unpublished as of today. Thanks to internet, it is now possible to find used copies, but for how long ? The one I have is losing its yellow pages. Even famous people like Henri Laborit have some of their works unfindable today. (I am willing to pay twice the normal price if you find me the book "La Nouvelle Grille"). And don't get me started on comic books and roleplaying games (Amber, Circus, Bitume, Starwars D6, very good games out of print for other reasons than lack of success). Current copyright laws may allow some authors make a living, but they are also erasing a volume of culture that should qualify as "vandalism against humanity". That is something that is important to correct.
Actually half the people I told about it were interested. And a surprising high percentage of them had heard about the problems and perceived these as problems. Occasionally some people dismiss you as a crazy leftist, but hey, that's fair. Maybe that is because I am not in America, though. But with the pirate party doing 8% in Sweden and nearly 2% in Germany, it is clear that many people understimate the growing concern about these in the populations.
But all that's missing the point. The point is that it's *OPEN* and not under the control of any nasty for-profit corporation. And that makes it superior. Who *cares* if it doesn't work worth a damn in actual practice?
That. MP3 became the de facto standard despite the existence of far better quality formats for the exact same reason. We currently have to choose between two kludges, badly implemented possibilities, one of them being open. The choice is easy to make.
We lost many of 19th century plays because on the beginning of the 20th century they refused to be recorded (yes, copyright law). We lost many movies of the first part of the 20th century, save for a few blockbusters. Most books are not edited anymore, but copying them instead of letting the content die is forbidden. They fight for copyright, we fight for culture. Yes we indeed have an agenda, and they have none, save personal greed.
Exactly. Most people may not understand the intricacies of DRM and its inherent flaws but they can recognize greed when they see it. More importantly, I wish some artists (which by definition have an audience) take some positions. They will determine how this thing ends.
I did not see it was submitted to an App Store, yeah, that move was pretty stupid...
By the way, I disagree on the point of copyright. The point of copyright is (was?) to help give a financial incentive to creative and cultural productions and to help the dissemination of cultural works, not to protect anyone's "reserved" revenue. Lemmings has been released two decades ago. Porting it is shown to be a straightforward 36-hours work that is not done probably for political or revenue reasons. Having it ported to as many platform as possible should be seen like a masterwork novel being translated in as many languages as possible. People preventing it by using their copyrights in order to preserve their revenues are a blatant proof that copyright sometimes work opposite to its original intent and needs a lot of revision.
Such a think is actually legal in progressive countries like Scandinavian countries : reverse engineering and porting to an unsupported platform is legal and is an exception to several laws. Sony does not provide an alternative way of playing Lemmings for Palm, therefore, it can not claim that this represents a loss. If Sony were to make an official port, then yes, a cease and desist would be lawful.
But yeah, we are all used of the balance of rights like they are in Corporate America so yes, we saw that coming.
I think that is more subtle than that. Example :
-Woman X and Man Y both have FB accounts and have an affair together but they take great care to not publish anything giving anyone suspicion.
- Man Y publishes on May 24th : "we'll be in Ireland for business for the next week"
- Woman X who publishes daily usually did not publish anything between 24th and 31th.
That is not a proof, that is not easy to hide, and that can lead to some question and to a cascade of lies that may be hard to maintain. Another example : Woman X and Man Y are friends since a long time but are both married. They live in different cities and sometimes comment their respective facebook pages. One day, they move in the same city and soon they begin having an affair. In order to prevent suspicion, they stop commenting each other pages.
Still not a proof. Still source of embarrassing questions when it matches the date of other clues.
The paper is here : http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/jay.kennedy/Kennedy_Apeiron_proofs.pdf
For people like me who thought he encoded hidden sentences in verses lengths or in punctuations location, it is very disappointing. The only "hidden" message revealed is that he puts values he think positive at the beginning of his texts and negative values at the end. There is no information in these hidden messages. Just regular literary "researcher" Dan-Browmnesque "message". Here is a quote:
Side-by-side comparisons
of passages at the same relative locations shows that concepts with neg-
ative valuations within the dialogues, like disease, dishonesty, Hades,
the body, difference, and negation, tend to cluster in definite ranges and
at a definite locations, such as around and between the points ten and
eleven twelfths of the way through the dialogues. Similarly, positive
concepts, like the forms, virtue, the gods, goodness, justice, and the soul,
tend to occur in distinct and equally definite ranges. These tendencies
are never absolute, but the mixture of concepts in these ranges is clearly
dominated either by more negative or by more positive concepts,
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The right to bear arms should include the right to bear gas powered spinning steel blades !
So an overly Christian town in Texas could banish their own judge who applies the federal law strictly ?
Note that I love the idea of making representative more directly accountable for their actions. Unfortunately, I think still some more time has to pass...
6) Make popcorn
"remember my password" can be secured by a master password. Type it once in a session to be able to login to many website. Honestly, nowadays, with 20+ websites asking silly registrations, it is either that, or use the same login/password everywhere.
Well if it is a war on curiosity, pick your side, mate. Resist ! Once they'll discover that 99% of the people caught by anti-terrorist laws were genuinely curious persons, they may think about stopping the madness.
If you don't believe in the sanctity of marriage, getting married becomes just an administrative task. And complaining about it is protesting against unefficiency and wasted time (opinion with which I wholeheartedly agree) but this is not discrimination.
I'll go for "give professionals all around the world a cheap way to analyze chemical and biological substances"
That's not something you do, that something that happens. Fighting it is ridiculous.
400 copies for a book that will be sold about 10$ and that represent something like 500 KB of data. I am telling you that we can save books that are worth half a cent, you tell me a book has to be worth at least $4000 to be kept alive. Every household has more memory available than the great library of Alexandria yet we limit our information to be the size of our bookshelves. It is like it is burning again every day. Yes, it is a known phenomenon, but don't you agree that this is a preventable and a bad thing ?
The demand did not die, the demand went below the threshold of rentability for published book. Digital copies however, cost close to nothing in comparison. Making it illegal to keep and exchange them is really causing these things to disappear. Most of the people have an unused space on their disks that could store the totality of published text in the first half of the 20th century. Space is really cheap, much cheaper than publishing a book.
Yes sorry, saying MP3 was open is a bit far-fetched. However, despite its patent issues, the Fraunhoffer institute did not prosecute anyone (to my knowledge) implementing a free encoder/decoder. It was an unwritten agreement that only commercial implementation would need patent license. And also, compared to many of its competitors (Apple's and Microsoft's formats) it did not have any DRM.
Er... Are you implying that making a video available through a tag is somehow harder than through a flash app ? Care to elaborate what you mean by that ? Because using html5 with youtube is actually a few clicks operation : http://www.youtube.com/html5
Sorry, I made an English mistake. I didn't mead edited, I meant published. Most books ever written are not published anymore and can't be bought anywhere anymore. Ok, here is one quickly-found source : http://bookstatistics.com/sites/para/resources/statistics.cfm
That states that in Canada there are more original titles published every year than reprints. Apart from having a number of titles doubling every year, the only explanation for that is that some (most in fact) books go into oblivion after their first print (I mean, is there a single person claiming that the majority of books are reprinted several times ?)
It happened to me several time to pick old books on garage sales, and when liking it, looking for books of the same author. When the book is 50+ years old, it is incredibely difficult ! There is one author that I liken to Saint-Exupery, but with more humor, that is completely unknown and unpublished as of today. Thanks to internet, it is now possible to find used copies, but for how long ? The one I have is losing its yellow pages.
Even famous people like Henri Laborit have some of their works unfindable today. (I am willing to pay twice the normal price if you find me the book "La Nouvelle Grille"). And don't get me started on comic books and roleplaying games (Amber, Circus, Bitume, Starwars D6, very good games out of print for other reasons than lack of success). Current copyright laws may allow some authors make a living, but they are also erasing a volume of culture that should qualify as "vandalism against humanity". That is something that is important to correct.
Actually half the people I told about it were interested. And a surprising high percentage of them had heard about the problems and perceived these as problems. Occasionally some people dismiss you as a crazy leftist, but hey, that's fair. Maybe that is because I am not in America, though. But with the pirate party doing 8% in Sweden and nearly 2% in Germany, it is clear that many people understimate the growing concern about these in the populations.
But all that's missing the point. The point is that it's *OPEN* and not under the control of any nasty for-profit corporation. And that makes it superior. Who *cares* if it doesn't work worth a damn in actual practice?
That. MP3 became the de facto standard despite the existence of far better quality formats for the exact same reason. We currently have to choose between two kludges, badly implemented possibilities, one of them being open. The choice is easy to make.
Is there some weird definition of "Alien" that I dont know of?
"That you can't even dream of visiting physically one day"
We lost many of 19th century plays because on the beginning of the 20th century they refused to be recorded (yes, copyright law). We lost many movies of the first part of the 20th century, save for a few blockbusters. Most books are not edited anymore, but copying them instead of letting the content die is forbidden. They fight for copyright, we fight for culture. Yes we indeed have an agenda, and they have none, save personal greed.
Exactly. Most people may not understand the intricacies of DRM and its inherent flaws but they can recognize greed when they see it. More importantly, I wish some artists (which by definition have an audience) take some positions. They will determine how this thing ends.
I did not see it was submitted to an App Store, yeah, that move was pretty stupid...
By the way, I disagree on the point of copyright. The point of copyright is (was?) to help give a financial incentive to creative and cultural productions and to help the dissemination of cultural works, not to protect anyone's "reserved" revenue. Lemmings has been released two decades ago. Porting it is shown to be a straightforward 36-hours work that is not done probably for political or revenue reasons. Having it ported to as many platform as possible should be seen like a masterwork novel being translated in as many languages as possible. People preventing it by using their copyrights in order to preserve their revenues are a blatant proof that copyright sometimes work opposite to its original intent and needs a lot of revision.
Our brains have billions of neurons, not billions of cores. These are completely different beasts when it comes to architecture.
My bet is that he proves P!=NP just in order to prove that TeX handles margins correctly.
Such a think is actually legal in progressive countries like Scandinavian countries : reverse engineering and porting to an unsupported platform is legal and is an exception to several laws. Sony does not provide an alternative way of playing Lemmings for Palm, therefore, it can not claim that this represents a loss. If Sony were to make an official port, then yes, a cease and desist would be lawful.
But yeah, we are all used of the balance of rights like they are in Corporate America so yes, we saw that coming.
I think that is more subtle than that. Example :
-Woman X and Man Y both have FB accounts and have an affair together but they take great care to not publish anything giving anyone suspicion.
- Man Y publishes on May 24th : "we'll be in Ireland for business for the next week" - Woman X who publishes daily usually did not publish anything between 24th and 31th.
That is not a proof, that is not easy to hide, and that can lead to some question and to a cascade of lies that may be hard to maintain.
Another example : Woman X and Man Y are friends since a long time but are both married. They live in different cities and sometimes comment their respective facebook pages. One day, they move in the same city and soon they begin having an affair. In order to prevent suspicion, they stop commenting each other pages.
Still not a proof. Still source of embarrassing questions when it matches the date of other clues.
Side-by-side comparisons of passages at the same relative locations shows that concepts with neg- ative valuations within the dialogues, like disease, dishonesty, Hades, the body, difference, and negation, tend to cluster in definite ranges and at a definite locations, such as around and between the points ten and eleven twelfths of the way through the dialogues. Similarly, positive concepts, like the forms, virtue, the gods, goodness, justice, and the soul, tend to occur in distinct and equally definite ranges. These tendencies are never absolute, but the mixture of concepts in these ranges is clearly dominated either by more negative or by more positive concepts,
And yet, strangely, being free is a killer-feature for some application that makes these old 5-year lagging format seem revolutionary...