That said, if you use public transport, there is basically no way around taking it along with you.
Really? I've never been asked to show my identity card. What you may required to show in certain situations (as in, when caught using the transport without a valid ticket, or in case of using a price-reduced personalized ticked), is an official paper with image ("amtlicher Lichtbildausweis"), but that doesn't have to be your identity card, your driving license should work anyway (I don't have experience with this, though, because I've never been asked to show it in public transport anyway, not even with personalized train tickets).
But that would probably invalidate it, probably getting you in trouble in situations where you are required to have a valid identity card with you (you certainly need either an identity card or a passport when going to a non-EU country. I'm not sure about other occasions, however; for most situations, the driving license will do).
Actually, comparing the English and German version can be quite interesting sometimes. For example in "The Life of Brian" the scene with the myrrh. In the original English version Brian's mother thinks it's an animal. In the German version she thinks it's an illness.
No, he's upset because Moses insisted that the heavy stone plates had to be carried around, instead of simply copying the text onto a papyrus and taking that with them. You know, when going through the desert, the last thing you want is to sweat under the weight of stone plates.
No, it's because the author died almost 2000 years ago (there's no provision in copyright law about rising from the dead; once you die, it's 70 years until copyright ends, no matter what you do afterwards).
I just noticed one thing: It doesn't say "Thou shalt have no other gods" but only "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." So obviously it's OK to have other gods, if you only have them after him.:-)
Well, in Germany I don't (with pressed DVDs). I've once selected English language directly when starting a several-language DVD, so I know the spot this is about. But it's easy to avoid even if I want to see the DVD in English, by simply selecting German initially and then switching to English as soon as the main menu appears. I've then tried other languages on that DVD as well, but IIRC the German version was the only one without the spot (one language, I don't remember which, did use a different spot, however).
However I've once heard about some valuable illustrated bible in medieval Ireland, of which a monk from another monastery (or maybe it were several, quite probably, I'd say) made (by hand, of course) an exact copy (as exact as copies could be made that way). The monastery who owned the original version didn't like that and wanted the copy to be destroyed. They asked the pope, and the pope indeed ordered that the copy was to be destroyed.
Unfortunately I can't verify that story or give further details (I tried to google, but if it's even on the net, I probably didn't find the right keywords), but if that's true, one could see it as sort of an early copyright case.
Well, given the new Web 2.0 interface, it might depend on your browser (I never tried it on anything but Firefox, so I don't know), not to mention that you can select between different interfaces, but if your Slashdot interface looks remotely like mine, there should be three possibilities to reply:
The first possibility has the advantage that it's always visible (provided that your browser supports it, also you probably have to have JavaScript enabled, and it might be invisible anyway if you are looking at the story and not the comments), but it isn't exactly a button, but a link, so it doesn't exactly fir your question: In the floating box which, tells you how many comments are there, and has a fancy interface to collapse/expand the comments, which is almost as intuitive as the old dropdown menu from the pre-Web 2.0 times, but has the advantage that you can train your mouse abilities better, there's also a link "Reply", directly right of the link saying "[Number] more", and (at least for me) partially obscured by an icon which shows a small piece of paper with a pencil lying on it (it also might be a pen, at the small size it's hard to tell).
The second option has the disadvantage that you have to scroll to the correct place, below the story, but above the comments. There's a grey bar, which on the right hand side contains again two links "[Number] more" and "Reply" (again there's the pencil/paper icon, but this time it doesn't partially obscure the link). However it again doesn't fit your demand for a button.
Finally there's a third option which is the easiest to find, because unlike the two links mentioned before, it isn't very small, and which in addition fits best your demand for a button because it at least somewhat looks like a button, although looking at the page source reveals that it's again just a link. That button-link is at the very end of the page, below the comments, and to the right of another button-link which (you guessed it -- but I bet you didn't guess completely correct) contains the text "Get [Number] More Comments", and to the left of another button-link which says "Prefs" from which I conclude that whoever wrote this didn't know how to correctly spell "Preferences" (because given the large horizontal space available I cannot think of another reason to shorten it). Note, however, that this button-link lacks the paper-pencil icon. However this doesn't affect the functionality.
So in short, if you insist on a button, you're out of luck (you might, however, be able to get that by changing your preferences to another interface). However if you are content with a link that looks like a button, you can use the one on the end of the page. And if you are willing to use a link that also looks like a link, you can in addition use one of the other two links I mentioned.
OK, I hope this explanation fits your demand. If not, sorry, I've got no better humor to offer.
I know this as bogosort. Wikipedia also mentions random sort, shotgun sort and monkey sort as alternative names, but not clown sort. Also a Google search for "clown sort" doesn't seem to give sorting algorithm results, not even if I add algorithm as additional search term.
Do you mean this? Because as far as I can see, that one doesn't illustrate the sorting algorithm itself with sound. Disclaimer: I only watched the first three minutes.
Bad way to argue. Better say: "Copyright protects child porn!" It's of course a bull shit argument, but it links copyright to child porn, instead of contrasting it to child porn, as your argument does. And most people will not think any further anyway if they hear "child porn".
OK, we are told that the terrorists want to bomb us because they hate freedom. Now the RIAA also hates freedom. Therefore I have to conclude the RIAA wants to bomb us. Send them to Guantanamo!:-)
Publishing an identifiable photo of a person without a model release signed by that person can result in civil liability for whoever publishes the photograph.
And:
Note that the issue of model release forms and liability waivers is a legal area related to privacy and is separate from copyright. Also, the need for model releases pertains to public use of the photos: i.e., publishing them, commercially or not. The act of taking a photo of someone in a public setting without a model release, or of viewing or non-commercially showing such a photo in private, generally does not create legal exposure, at least in the United States.
But you have to distinguish between the right to take a photo, and the right to publish the photo. The PDF only covers the rights involved in taking a photo, not the rights involved in subsequent usage. For example, I certainly have the right to photograph you at a public place. That doesn't imply that I can use that photo in any way I want, though.
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Really? I've never been asked to show my identity card. What you may required to show in certain situations (as in, when caught using the transport without a valid ticket, or in case of using a price-reduced personalized ticked), is an official paper with image ("amtlicher Lichtbildausweis"), but that doesn't have to be your identity card, your driving license should work anyway (I don't have experience with this, though, because I've never been asked to show it in public transport anyway, not even with personalized train tickets).
But that would probably invalidate it, probably getting you in trouble in situations where you are required to have a valid identity card with you (you certainly need either an identity card or a passport when going to a non-EU country. I'm not sure about other occasions, however; for most situations, the driving license will do).
I have one, and it works fine. Great actually, as I just wrote this reply (by hand, not keyboard) in Windows 7, from a moving car.
I just hope you were not the driver of that moving car.
Actually, comparing the English and German version can be quite interesting sometimes. For example in "The Life of Brian" the scene with the myrrh. In the original English version Brian's mother thinks it's an animal. In the German version she thinks it's an illness.
I thought that was a common functionality of all bibles?
No, he's upset because Moses insisted that the heavy stone plates had to be carried around, instead of simply copying the text onto a papyrus and taking that with them. You know, when going through the desert, the last thing you want is to sweat under the weight of stone plates.
No, it's because the author died almost 2000 years ago (there's no provision in copyright law about rising from the dead; once you die, it's 70 years until copyright ends, no matter what you do afterwards).
http://wrongtitle.slashdot.org/story/10/08/20/1621243/Medieval-Copy-Protection :-)
I just noticed one thing: It doesn't say "Thou shalt have no other gods" but only "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." So obviously it's OK to have other gods, if you only have them after him. :-)
I guess for illiterates, the book was worthless.
No, it's under a NoDerivs Creative Commons license.
Well, in Germany I don't (with pressed DVDs). I've once selected English language directly when starting a several-language DVD, so I know the spot this is about. But it's easy to avoid even if I want to see the DVD in English, by simply selecting German initially and then switching to English as soon as the main menu appears. I've then tried other languages on that DVD as well, but IIRC the German version was the only one without the spot (one language, I don't remember which, did use a different spot, however).
However I've once heard about some valuable illustrated bible in medieval Ireland, of which a monk from another monastery (or maybe it were several, quite probably, I'd say) made (by hand, of course) an exact copy (as exact as copies could be made that way). The monastery who owned the original version didn't like that and wanted the copy to be destroyed. They asked the pope, and the pope indeed ordered that the copy was to be destroyed.
Unfortunately I can't verify that story or give further details (I tried to google, but if it's even on the net, I probably didn't find the right keywords), but if that's true, one could see it as sort of an early copyright case.
Well, given the new Web 2.0 interface, it might depend on your browser (I never tried it on anything but Firefox, so I don't know), not to mention that you can select between different interfaces, but if your Slashdot interface looks remotely like mine, there should be three possibilities to reply:
The first possibility has the advantage that it's always visible (provided that your browser supports it, also you probably have to have JavaScript enabled, and it might be invisible anyway if you are looking at the story and not the comments), but it isn't exactly a button, but a link, so it doesn't exactly fir your question: In the floating box which, tells you how many comments are there, and has a fancy interface to collapse/expand the comments, which is almost as intuitive as the old dropdown menu from the pre-Web 2.0 times, but has the advantage that you can train your mouse abilities better, there's also a link "Reply", directly right of the link saying "[Number] more", and (at least for me) partially obscured by an icon which shows a small piece of paper with a pencil lying on it (it also might be a pen, at the small size it's hard to tell).
The second option has the disadvantage that you have to scroll to the correct place, below the story, but above the comments. There's a grey bar, which on the right hand side contains again two links "[Number] more" and "Reply" (again there's the pencil/paper icon, but this time it doesn't partially obscure the link). However it again doesn't fit your demand for a button.
Finally there's a third option which is the easiest to find, because unlike the two links mentioned before, it isn't very small, and which in addition fits best your demand for a button because it at least somewhat looks like a button, although looking at the page source reveals that it's again just a link. That button-link is at the very end of the page, below the comments, and to the right of another button-link which (you guessed it -- but I bet you didn't guess completely correct) contains the text "Get [Number] More Comments", and to the left of another button-link which says "Prefs" from which I conclude that whoever wrote this didn't know how to correctly spell "Preferences" (because given the large horizontal space available I cannot think of another reason to shorten it). Note, however, that this button-link lacks the paper-pencil icon. However this doesn't affect the functionality.
So in short, if you insist on a button, you're out of luck (you might, however, be able to get that by changing your preferences to another interface). However if you are content with a link that looks like a button, you can use the one on the end of the page. And if you are willing to use a link that also looks like a link, you can in addition use one of the other two links I mentioned.
OK, I hope this explanation fits your demand. If not, sorry, I've got no better humor to offer.
I know this as bogosort. Wikipedia also mentions random sort, shotgun sort and monkey sort as alternative names, but not clown sort. Also a Google search for "clown sort" doesn't seem to give sorting algorithm results, not even if I add algorithm as additional search term.
Do you mean this? Because as far as I can see, that one doesn't illustrate the sorting algorithm itself with sound. Disclaimer: I only watched the first three minutes.
I also noticed that they have Gnomesort, but not KDEsort. :-)
Bad way to argue. Better say: "Copyright protects child porn!" It's of course a bull shit argument, but it links copyright to child porn, instead of contrasting it to child porn, as your argument does. And most people will not think any further anyway if they hear "child porn".
I actually like my mail provider to mark what he considers spam. However I wouldn't want him to delete the message without my consent.
OK, we are told that the terrorists want to bomb us because they hate freedom. Now the RIAA also hates freedom. Therefore I have to conclude the RIAA wants to bomb us. Send them to Guantanamo! :-)
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_release:
And:
How do you say "The Streisand Effect" in German?
Der Streisand-Effekt.
But you have to distinguish between the right to take a photo, and the right to publish the photo. The PDF only covers the rights involved in taking a photo, not the rights involved in subsequent usage. For example, I certainly have the right to photograph you at a public place. That doesn't imply that I can use that photo in any way I want, though.
No, normally access to the machine at user level should not imply access to the machine at root level.
If there is a more gullible group of people than audiophiles, I haven't met them.
How about Muslim suicide bombers?
You think you can sell them overpriced bombs? :-)