Someone should do a switch parody for Linux that includes this line:
"And they don't serve you with cease and decist letters for parodying their ads."
In the video portion, display the quotes from the US Code (Title 17) or the court decision that established parody is legal. Cornell's search engine finds no hits of "parody" in Title 17, so I expect that the excemption for parody was set by a court decision on fair use. (IANAL though, so can't speak to it)
To use someone else's analogy that they posted on a similar story, if you have a house (to make the analogy complete, it's located in a high crime neighborhood, and it's not yours, you're house sitting) and leave the doors open and someone enters, just because it was easy for them to do so doesn't mean that they are any less in the wrong. You were stupid for leaving the doors open and should take some of the blame, but that doesn't relieve the intruder of any.
Princeton is just as wrong in this instance as if Yale had used PINs and Princeton brute forced into the Yale database, save for the added bandwith that would have taken from Yale. The only difference between the two cases is that in the latter, Yale would be mostly blameless (assuming the PINs were of sufficient strength).
IMAX has also devoloped a way (they call it DMR) to take scans of prints of 35mm movies and scale them to 70mm, guessing what's in between. Apollo 13 is the first to recieve this treatment.
The funny thing is, if the Pythons had done an "I'd like to buy a TV license" sketch, I would have taken it about as seriously as their fish license one.:(
The subtitles are applied by the TV (or if you have a really old TV, a set-top box) overtop of the video stream; in this case, it would just go over the ads as well as the content.
Question: does just owning a TV make you responsible for the license, or can you have one and just use it for watching video tapes or something? And what about video cameras? Do they require a license?
Discovery channel does that with upcoming shows already. Though they take up more like the lower ninth, last only a few seconds, and only happen just after commercial breaks.
And then of course, there was the "What kind of a question is that to ask the patient?" question the nurse said... (if I were there I would have been very tempted to smack her)
...like the e. coli bacteria that live in everyone's intestines, where they are necessary. (Put e. coli anywhere but the intestines, and it can be deadly)
For now... within a decade or two that will likely change. (Hey, I believe some people already have made-to-order bone replacements made with stereolithography.)
A perfectly good example is in Richard Feynman's "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" Feynman's girlfriend (this is the awsomest love story I've ever heard, real or fictional) was misdiagnosed. Twice. The first time, Feynman called the doctor on it, but the doctor didn't listen.
>>They are no more perfect than the grease monkey at the car dealership.
And the grease monkeys even have computers to help them...
(Second thoughts: though I suppose their computers are more information gathering than problem solving, so maybe the computers in cars are more analogous to MRI scans and stuff like that than they would be to this...)
You have a good point. However, I think that you get some people into it with fun stuff, and they discover the other benefits. Without the initial reason to go ahead and start looking into it, they may not have. A related example: when I was in 10th grade, a professor at Penn State got a large grant from the NSF, and used portions of it as prizes for competitions we had at math club. Initially, I went for the free $$$, but after the first couple meetings, I started going just because I enjoyed it. Now, this isn't exactly what we're doing here, but it shows how one reason for doing something turns into another.
>>She would also get calls in the middle of the night. Since all the calls came from the same company, she did some research and tracked down the president's home phone number. The next time they called (in the middle of the night) she called him up and said "every time I get a phone call - you get a phone call." She was never bothered again...
>>One of these days I'm going to have to start taking appointments. "Yeah, sure! You can come in at 3:00PM". I wonder if I can get in trouble for that. I somehow doubt it, since they're the ones who called, as long as I don't actually ever say I'm a doctor's office. }:)
I wouldn't do this. Faking orders for pizza is one thing; faking appointments for medical treatment is another. Miss a pizza order, you lose some time and eat later. Miss an appointment, and you could be throwing up for an extra day or two.
>>Payphone have actually been coming *OUT* of malls because of the explosion of cell phone use
Not only that, but with shielding, they'll have people with cell phones coming *OUT* of malls to talk, disrupting traffic, etc.
Also, there's the other problem with your (i.e., the author of the mall thread, not the author of this post's parent) analogy: malls are made for SHOPPING. Theatres (Concert Halls are another place that I suspect will be even more inclined to embrace this technology) are made for people to have the experience of WATCHING A MOVIE -- now that we're post 1920s, this includes sound. Ideally, from the theatres' and patrons' point of view, sound that is uncontaminated by people yakking away on cell phones.
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Someone should do a switch parody for Linux that includes this line:
"And they don't serve you with cease and decist letters for parodying their ads."
In the video portion, display the quotes from the US Code (Title 17) or the court decision that established parody is legal. Cornell's search engine finds no hits of "parody" in Title 17, so I expect that the excemption for parody was set by a court decision on fair use. (IANAL though, so can't speak to it)
To use someone else's analogy that they posted on a similar story, if you have a house (to make the analogy complete, it's located in a high crime neighborhood, and it's not yours, you're house sitting) and leave the doors open and someone enters, just because it was easy for them to do so doesn't mean that they are any less in the wrong. You were stupid for leaving the doors open and should take some of the blame, but that doesn't relieve the intruder of any.
Princeton is just as wrong in this instance as if Yale had used PINs and Princeton brute forced into the Yale database, save for the added bandwith that would have taken from Yale. The only difference between the two cases is that in the latter, Yale would be mostly blameless (assuming the PINs were of sufficient strength).
Carnegie-Mellon did. They mail a "Bio ID" (fancy name for a PIN) to you with the letter that confirms they received your application.
Carnegie-Mellon sends out a PIN in the letter that confirms they have received your application.
Only if the cashing proxy server is somehow a peer-to-peer file trading network.
If on course, could it be labeled a terrorist?
IMAX has also devoloped a way (they call it DMR) to take scans of prints of 35mm movies and scale them to 70mm, guessing what's in between. Apollo 13 is the first to recieve this treatment.
The funny thing is, if the Pythons had done an "I'd like to buy a TV license" sketch, I would have taken it about as seriously as their fish license one. :(
The subtitles are applied by the TV (or if you have a really old TV, a set-top box) overtop of the video stream; in this case, it would just go over the ads as well as the content.
So if you have a TV, how do they know that you aren't using it? Do they actually work on a "innocent until proven guilty" manner?
It's this kind of thing (among others of course) that make you go "thank goodness for open source!"
Question: does just owning a TV make you responsible for the license, or can you have one and just use it for watching video tapes or something? And what about video cameras? Do they require a license?
Yes, but presumably that 107 pounds ($170) is over and above subscription costs. In other words, you'd have to pay $105 instead of $90 a month.
Discovery channel does that with upcoming shows already. Though they take up more like the lower ninth, last only a few seconds, and only happen just after commercial breaks.
And then of course, there was the "What kind of a question is that to ask the patient?" question the nurse said... (if I were there I would have been very tempted to smack her)
...like the e. coli bacteria that live in everyone's intestines, where they are necessary. (Put e. coli anywhere but the intestines, and it can be deadly)
Isn't it obvious? They make less money if they defer to someone else, because they're not doing it themself!
For now... within a decade or two that will likely change. (Hey, I believe some people already have made-to-order bone replacements made with stereolithography.)
A perfectly good example is in Richard Feynman's "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" Feynman's girlfriend (this is the awsomest love story I've ever heard, real or fictional) was misdiagnosed. Twice. The first time, Feynman called the doctor on it, but the doctor didn't listen.
>>They are no more perfect than the grease monkey at the car dealership.
And the grease monkeys even have computers to help them...
(Second thoughts: though I suppose their computers are more information gathering than problem solving, so maybe the computers in cars are more analogous to MRI scans and stuff like that than they would be to this...)
Drag by what? All the air that is present at 25 miles?
You have a good point. However, I think that you get some people into it with fun stuff, and they discover the other benefits. Without the initial reason to go ahead and start looking into it, they may not have. A related example: when I was in 10th grade, a professor at Penn State got a large grant from the NSF, and used portions of it as prizes for competitions we had at math club. Initially, I went for the free $$$, but after the first couple meetings, I started going just because I enjoyed it. Now, this isn't exactly what we're doing here, but it shows how one reason for doing something turns into another.
>>She would also get calls in the middle of the night. Since all the calls came from the same company, she did some research and tracked down the president's home phone number. The next time they called (in the middle of the night) she called him up and said "every time I get a phone call - you get a phone call." She was never bothered again...
:)
Poetic justice at its best.
>>One of these days I'm going to have to start taking appointments. "Yeah, sure! You can come in at 3:00PM". I wonder if I can get in trouble for that. I somehow doubt it, since they're the ones who called, as long as I don't actually ever say I'm a doctor's office. }:)
I wouldn't do this. Faking orders for pizza is one thing; faking appointments for medical treatment is another. Miss a pizza order, you lose some time and eat later. Miss an appointment, and you could be throwing up for an extra day or two.
>>Payphone have actually been coming *OUT* of malls because of the explosion of cell phone use
Not only that, but with shielding, they'll have people with cell phones coming *OUT* of malls to talk, disrupting traffic, etc.
Also, there's the other problem with your (i.e., the author of the mall thread, not the author of this post's parent) analogy: malls are made for SHOPPING. Theatres (Concert Halls are another place that I suspect will be even more inclined to embrace this technology) are made for people to have the experience of WATCHING A MOVIE -- now that we're post 1920s, this includes sound. Ideally, from the theatres' and patrons' point of view, sound that is uncontaminated by people yakking away on cell phones.