I am honestly going to laugh so farking hard if the next episode includes a character dressed like a digital pirate.
Oh my God. That would be so funny. That's going to be my halloween costume.
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Even better, the victim could one-up the aggressor and fake his own death to look like a hate crime with the aggressor tied in somehow. Insert clever plot-tie-in, and you have yourselves a mystery thriller that puts the aggressor in trial. Maybe...
They typically run a couple of years on a full fuel load. Still quite heavy, and no one has ever run one in space.
I had a physics professor who, when explaining the idea behind a Peltier cold plate, stated that one potential use was for the Voyager missions where a small nuclear reactor was placed at the end of a long tower and in the reactor were the two metallic elements sandwiched together which are used in Peltiers, and that the heat caused current flow and thus powered the spacecraft; hence, fission reactors have been used in space.
The real hypocrisy is when copyright law gets bashed into oblivion by people who fail to realize that the GPL is completely and totally unenforceable without it.
If the price I have to pay for the free distribution of creative content is knowing that someone can spin my work and make it theirs, I would pay it with a smile on my face and shake the person's hand afterward.
Part of creativity is not just creating something but also being able to modify anothers' work for the better.
In all actuality, the GPL is intended to keep people from greedily stealing someone else's work and forcing copyright on the derivative (and locking up the source). If there was no copyright to begin with, everything would be free and the GPL wouldn't be shattered, it would be rendered moot.
If I walk into a store and profit privately from slipping a music CD in my jacket and walking out the door while externalizing the costs to the store, then am I not just doing the same thing Sony is doing to maximize shareholder value? In fact, since I'm not profiting financially (unless I sell the CD), then nobody should actually be unhappy. I've just found a clever way to externalize costs while privatizing profits. It's a win-win as far as Sony should see it.
If you searched for your social security number, telephone number etc... the government may have a record of that now...oohhhh scary.
Oh dear God, what would we do if the U.S. Government had THAT kind of personal information. </sarcasm>
The problem here is that the Government doesn't just *want* the data, they want to *do* something with it. They would like to build "reliable statistics" about who/when/where is John Doe searching, and what can they compare that data with.
Shouldn't Microsoft have to pay the company for which it infringed the patent rather than forcibly removing code from the product? After all, you paid Microsoft for that feature, right? Is it lawful for them to remove functionality from a product you rightfully purchased/licensed?
Rather than a slap on the hand and punishing the end-user, shouldn't the party that commits the crime be the one(s) punished?
How is this fair? What did the company that owns the patent get out of this? A bill for services rendered from their law firm?
Update: Opera recently confirmed that Microsoft has not approached the browser maker and there is no active acquistion deal between the two companies currently.
I hope you are using the term "creativity" lightly.
Not really. Though I haven't watched the shows indicates that they did not perk my interest enough for me to even have a desire to see them. You, on the other hand, have "suffered" through them for some reason, and that reason must have some sort of creativity behind it. I digress. The point is, they are expecting to be paid for their creativity -- whether on the artistic standpoint or the creativity associated with business.
I would honestly like to see them provide a legal BitTorrent tracker for all their shows that is paid for by brief advertizements displayed before the download takes place. HBO, you are more than welcome to set the precident for Web distribution through a public standard (i.e. BitTorrent).
I'm sure the executives at HBO are thinking the same thing about people who have the ability to pay for HBO yet won't.
I, for one, applaud their pseudo-solution to piracy of their show. This action, though not very nice, is a direct result of people trying to jack them of their creativity. While I haven't seen the show, I can comment that the steps they are taking do not interfere with legitimate downloads, nor are they suing everyone in sight.
Those of you bitching about your slow downloads must realize that someone pays for this, and HBO is trying to make sure that if they have to foot the bill, you won't get your downloads easily.
Anyone know if there is (or will be) a Linux Tor binary for NAT routers? I have a Linux router, and I'd like to use it as a client in the Tor network but a server for local computers (behind the router).
The effort and money required to "reign in" the patent system would be greater than the cost of the War on Drugs, the War in Iraq, etc. Every company that has a patent would fear that their patent would be rendered null and void, and they would do [almost] anything (and in some cases, anything) to protect their interests.
We don't need a slashdot law section. It's the (cliche) equivelant of a peeing section in a swimming pool.
This is a good idea; however, you have Microsoft's standard (DirectX), and you have an open standard (OpenGL). While they are both relatively good standards, what happens with DirectX is solely the decision of Microsoft, and what happens with OpenGL is the result of a consortium's views on 3D technology. Because OpenGL gets updated by a consortium, it takes much longer for them to agree on a standard than Microsoft. This is why OpenGL 1.5 was finalized so much later than DirectX 9.
It's nearly impossible to get people to agree on things, and a single standard for 3D graphics ain't gunna happen as long as Microsoft is a huge part of the market.
The problem isn't distributing a utility to undo the "encryption." The problem lies in figuring out how to decrypt it. Why not just use a PGP key or similar RSA encryption. The file will look like garbage until you decrypt it (and if it's MP3, it'll sound like garbage after you decrypt it).
The concept behind NullSoft's WASTE was nice, but it was shut down by AOL. Hopefully someone will work on something with true anonymity (no, FreeNet isn't the holy grail).
No, I don't support child porn (hell, I'm as much against it as the next guy), and I haven't downoaded music in months (I deleted it after 24 hours). Just because this is how some of the technology is used doesn't mean that is all it is used for.
On a side note, I have beef with the record industry since they spend a few thousand dollars to "produce" an album, and they charge just as much for a CD as the movie industry does for a film that cost them more than 100 million to make.
This is in the works with Intel's LeGrande chipset (spelling?). Microsoft and Intel are huge into the hardware-based DRM, and if AMD stays simple, they will be the only chip that any geeks ever buy in the future.
You forgot about the part where they sue the people who infringe on their "intellectual property" (the stuff artists create and they pilfer) get sued and pay 200-times the price of a full CD for a single song.
So, they pay about 14 bucks per person for illegal price fixing and sue people 3000 per person for illegal music downloading. Sounds fair...?
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And I can't understand what it is with viewers - are we so deprived of sci-fi that we will accept anything at all?
Apparantly, you haven't seen an episode of "Cleopatra 2525." Three relatively hot chicks in "futuristic" lingere prancing around a budget set is not true sci-fi.
Write me up as troll all you want. You know I'm right.
I'm not going to take sides here, but I would like to point out that, like cell phones themselves, jammers must also have off switches, so when you hear someone shout "Help! This man is having a heart attack!" in a public place, I would imagine that the jammer would be turned off as soon as physically possible.
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I am honestly going to laugh so farking hard if the next episode includes a character dressed like a digital pirate. Oh my God. That would be so funny. That's going to be my halloween costume.
Even better, the victim could one-up the aggressor and fake his own death to look like a hate crime with the aggressor tied in somehow. Insert clever plot-tie-in, and you have yourselves a mystery thriller that puts the aggressor in trial. Maybe...
...dereferencing the pointer will just give you a segfault.
It's a regular expression, not a variable name.
English is a script, not a compilable language.
They typically run a couple of years on a full fuel load. Still quite heavy, and no one has ever run one in space.
I had a physics professor who, when explaining the idea behind a Peltier cold plate, stated that one potential use was for the Voyager missions where a small nuclear reactor was placed at the end of a long tower and in the reactor were the two metallic elements sandwiched together which are used in Peltiers, and that the heat caused current flow and thus powered the spacecraft; hence, fission reactors have been used in space.
The real hypocrisy is when copyright law gets bashed into oblivion by people who fail to realize that the GPL is completely and totally unenforceable without it.
If the price I have to pay for the free distribution of creative content is knowing that someone can spin my work and make it theirs, I would pay it with a smile on my face and shake the person's hand afterward.
Part of creativity is not just creating something but also being able to modify anothers' work for the better.
In all actuality, the GPL is intended to keep people from greedily stealing someone else's work and forcing copyright on the derivative (and locking up the source). If there was no copyright to begin with, everything would be free and the GPL wouldn't be shattered, it would be rendered moot.
I read it right, but I was wondering where I could download the "torrent of Web-based services" to help seed for bandwidth.
Seconded.
If I walk into a store and profit privately from slipping a music CD in my jacket and walking out the door while externalizing the costs to the store, then am I not just doing the same thing Sony is doing to maximize shareholder value? In fact, since I'm not profiting financially (unless I sell the CD), then nobody should actually be unhappy. I've just found a clever way to externalize costs while privatizing profits. It's a win-win as far as Sony should see it.
If you searched for your social security number, telephone number etc... the government may have a record of that now...oohhhh scary. Oh dear God, what would we do if the U.S. Government had THAT kind of personal information. </sarcasm> The problem here is that the Government doesn't just *want* the data, they want to *do* something with it. They would like to build "reliable statistics" about who/when/where is John Doe searching, and what can they compare that data with.
Shouldn't Microsoft have to pay the company for which it infringed the patent rather than forcibly removing code from the product? After all, you paid Microsoft for that feature, right? Is it lawful for them to remove functionality from a product you rightfully purchased/licensed?
Rather than a slap on the hand and punishing the end-user, shouldn't the party that commits the crime be the one(s) punished?
How is this fair? What did the company that owns the patent get out of this? A bill for services rendered from their law firm?
Update: Opera recently confirmed that Microsoft has not approached the browser maker and there is no active acquistion deal between the two companies currently.
I hope you are using the term "creativity" lightly. Not really. Though I haven't watched the shows indicates that they did not perk my interest enough for me to even have a desire to see them. You, on the other hand, have "suffered" through them for some reason, and that reason must have some sort of creativity behind it. I digress. The point is, they are expecting to be paid for their creativity -- whether on the artistic standpoint or the creativity associated with business. I would honestly like to see them provide a legal BitTorrent tracker for all their shows that is paid for by brief advertizements displayed before the download takes place. HBO, you are more than welcome to set the precident for Web distribution through a public standard (i.e. BitTorrent).
I'm sure the executives at HBO are thinking the same thing about people who have the ability to pay for HBO yet won't.
I, for one, applaud their pseudo-solution to piracy of their show. This action, though not very nice, is a direct result of people trying to jack them of their creativity. While I haven't seen the show, I can comment that the steps they are taking do not interfere with legitimate downloads, nor are they suing everyone in sight.
Those of you bitching about your slow downloads must realize that someone pays for this, and HBO is trying to make sure that if they have to foot the bill, you won't get your downloads easily.
Anyone know if there is (or will be) a Linux Tor binary for NAT routers? I have a Linux router, and I'd like to use it as a client in the Tor network but a server for local computers (behind the router).
...where the product is taken to Pier 13, drown in concrete, and sent to sleep with the fishies.
FYI: It's "peer review."
I would say you're right considering that Red Hat produces both distributions.
The effort and money required to "reign in" the patent system would be greater than the cost of the War on Drugs, the War in Iraq, etc. Every company that has a patent would fear that their patent would be rendered null and void, and they would do [almost] anything (and in some cases, anything) to protect their interests. We don't need a slashdot law section. It's the (cliche) equivelant of a peeing section in a swimming pool.
Dibs on copyright!!!
Yeah... I was thinking "high velocity impact" instead of "software failure" also. Thought I missed something.
This is a good idea; however, you have Microsoft's standard (DirectX), and you have an open standard (OpenGL). While they are both relatively good standards, what happens with DirectX is solely the decision of Microsoft, and what happens with OpenGL is the result of a consortium's views on 3D technology. Because OpenGL gets updated by a consortium, it takes much longer for them to agree on a standard than Microsoft. This is why OpenGL 1.5 was finalized so much later than DirectX 9.
It's nearly impossible to get people to agree on things, and a single standard for 3D graphics ain't gunna happen as long as Microsoft is a huge part of the market.
The problem isn't distributing a utility to undo the "encryption." The problem lies in figuring out how to decrypt it. Why not just use a PGP key or similar RSA encryption. The file will look like garbage until you decrypt it (and if it's MP3, it'll sound like garbage after you decrypt it).
The concept behind NullSoft's WASTE was nice, but it was shut down by AOL. Hopefully someone will work on something with true anonymity (no, FreeNet isn't the holy grail).
No, I don't support child porn (hell, I'm as much against it as the next guy), and I haven't downoaded music in months (I deleted it after 24 hours). Just because this is how some of the technology is used doesn't mean that is all it is used for.
On a side note, I have beef with the record industry since they spend a few thousand dollars to "produce" an album, and they charge just as much for a CD as the movie industry does for a film that cost them more than 100 million to make.
This is in the works with Intel's LeGrande chipset (spelling?). Microsoft and Intel are huge into the hardware-based DRM, and if AMD stays simple, they will be the only chip that any geeks ever buy in the future.
Clearly there's a secret military bunker in Seattle -- somewhere.
You forgot about the part where they sue the people who infringe on their "intellectual property" (the stuff artists create and they pilfer) get sued and pay 200-times the price of a full CD for a single song. So, they pay about 14 bucks per person for illegal price fixing and sue people 3000 per person for illegal music downloading. Sounds fair...?
And I can't understand what it is with viewers - are we so deprived of sci-fi that we will accept anything at all?
Apparantly, you haven't seen an episode of "Cleopatra 2525." Three relatively hot chicks in "futuristic" lingere prancing around a budget set is not true sci-fi.
Write me up as troll all you want. You know I'm right.
I'm not going to take sides here, but I would like to point out that, like cell phones themselves, jammers must also have off switches, so when you hear someone shout "Help! This man is having a heart attack!" in a public place, I would imagine that the jammer would be turned off as soon as physically possible.