A bit of an exaggeration but correct in essentials. Author's life plus 15 years to take care of any family left behind in the event of the author's death was the original duration of US copyright. The problem was that a loophole was left allowing Congress the power to modify it. Fast forward 200+ years to now and you can see what has happened. Disney is a big example. Walter Elias Disney died in 1966. Under the original terms, copyrights to all his works would have expired in 1981 but here we are in 2009 and currently looking at something like 2017 or 2020 before they theoretically expire.
They completely ignored 200 years of precedent and failed to explain why. I'm sorry, but that's activism.
No. They explained it quite well. You just disagree with the ruling.
As for precedent, does the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution count as precedent to you?
...Let's not be foolish, the judicial branch runs this country. The only real control the other branches have over them now is that the executive branch selects WHO gets to sit on the panel and run the country.
This is why many states voters have risen to the occasion and passed constitutional amendments to reel in the judiciary when they felt the judiciary was out of line. My state among them. The basic thought was "ok, if the judiciary is going to be so outlandish, we will go over their heads and put it(name the issue) into the constitution of the state so that even the state supreme court cannot overturn it.
That said, in my state at least, this is a difficult thing to do. The process is convoluted and tricky at best, leaving the opposition against (your issue here) many openings to sue against either the amendment process or the amendment itself.
One such amendment in my state generated a suit that ended up in the supreme court of the state. The court wisely decided that the amendment was done properly and was the will of the people (~65% voted for it I think) and thus ruled against the suit. Interestingly enough, the final ability to amend my state's constitution came down to a ruling from the state Supreme Court. So yeah, I'd say the judicial branch does, in fact, run this country.
And oddly enough, it's mainly an argument that conservatives make when they don't get what they want. I don't recall a whole lot of judicial activism complaints coming as a result of SCOTUS overturning the DC hand gun ban...
That's because the judges weren't being activists. They were correct in ruling that the DC handgun ban was a violation of the constitution. They didn't pass a new law, they struck down an unconstitutional one. Activist judges tend to force their views into place through legal precedent rather than allowing legislatures to write the laws. Directing a legislative body from the bench to write or rewrite a law is dictatorship. That is not the judicial branches' job. Their job is to evaluate the law and strike it down if necessary. Not to tell anyone what law(s) to pass.
IANAL - These are my personal views.
"...costs American workers 373,375 jobs and $16.3 billion in earnings, and costs federal, state, and local governments $2.6 billion in tax revenue."
"After all, US copyright-based industries continue to be one of America's largest and fastest-growing economic sectors."
So one of the fastest growing yet losing 373k jobs? ooooook...
I actually buy "one of the fastest growing..." part. The emergence of online content has been a massive boon to all content sellers whether they want to admit it or not.
The real reason he's yakking is: "...and costs federal, state, and local governments $2.6 billion in tax revenue.". You can't tax it if its free...interesting concept.
moving along...
" GamePolitics notes that for his 2006 campaign, Hatch was rented for $7,000 by the RIAA and also got on his knees for $12,640 from the MPAA."
That's not a heck of lot of money for a campaign contribution coming from the filthy rich RI/MP AAs but I guess it still shows a conflict of interest, even if it is small..
I will state for the record that I do not condone piracy but I am in favor of a content model where consumers can get music and movies on demand a reduced price or for free in return for watching ads (hulu-esque). I find modern DRM distasteful as I buy all my movies and I can't make backups legally.
-rilian
Good one. Anyone into map design back then will recall that the Romero's head item had very little damage that it took directly, compared to say a CyberDemon or SpiderDemon. The final map positioned it so that it took only splash damage and thus several trips up the elevator w/ the rocket launcher to kill. If you clip up there and unclip in the room, 1 or 2 rockets will kill it and trigger the end of game sequence.
I got into Old Ironforge. That was a fun one. It required a group effort. You had to go to a certain spot near the throne room in IF where you could enable dueling. You had to ensure a mage was one of the duelers and a warlock the other. Then you both run around to the locked door that led down to old IF and have the mage sheep the other dueler. Sheep move around randomly. Usually 1 or 2 tries would end up unsheeping you behind the door. You repeat this to get enough people in with the warlock and then the warlock can portal others in at will. There was good scenery down there but not much else.
Lets not forget the classic Super Mario glitch of being able to phase through that pipe in the underwater world and get to the non-ending water room...
When I used to play World of Warcraft, I found an undeveloped area that looked like it should not have been accessible. I found it by going to that beach in the far south of tanaris and heading west. I got up into some hills after swimming and riding west along the shore. I was eventually able to find a path through the hills and up onto a plain. It was VERY flat. Nothing was there. no decor of any kind. It led further west and eventually dropped down a massive cliff to another even larger flat plain south of the southern rim of ungoro crater. I was able to drop off the cliff w/ slowfall (mage spell) safely. I ran around the area for a while but found nothing interesting so eventually dropped down into Ungoro and moved on...
Still interesting as I should not have been able to get there. It was undeveloped area.
Why? Because their grammar is less than perfect? I hope you have more to go on then that.
TFA had a poster who said he was a former employee and recognized server names from the posted log file. He could be a plant or a wannabe but its worth mentioning at least.
Frankly if there was nothing to this, I'd expect t-mobile to be yelling from the roof tops. The fact that they are fairly quiet suggests there could be trouble.
-rilian
a perfectly valid scientific inquiry in no way mandates that government must fund it. This is still a colossal waste of money. There was another story similar about studying Chinese prostitutes in China on a federal grant..this time in the millions of dollars.
...and assist parents in keeping these harmful video games out of the hands of children.
Parents don't need yet another law to give them the ability to keep harmful video games out of the hands of their children. They already have that ability. They just need to exercise said ability more often.
It's not the government's job to raise our children.
The proper role in this situation would be more like posting an advisory that certain studies link video game violence to this that or the other(assuming said studies even exist) but it should be up to a parent/guardian to make the decision.
I find it interesting that Oregon, a very liberal state that basically bows to Obama and trumpets progressivism in many forms(medical marijuana, environmentalism, etc), voted over 60% in favor of a state amendment prohibiting gay marriage.
Don't be surprised if Iowa does pass an amendment to overturn this decision. They may be a more liberal state than most midwestern states but Oregon is a very liberal state that overwhelmingly passed just such an amendment.
cmon liberals. All you Bush bashers who hammered on this for 8 years. Speak up. Obama is now committing some of the same acts of privacy invasion as Bush was (rightly) accused of. Why isn't there more outcry here?
This bill gives ridiculous dictitorial powers to the President. I for one think it should not be passed. I have big problems with giving this kind of power to the federal government.
Why are you so biased against people of faith? Do you really think that having faith is synonymous with stupidity? My guess is you are probably the type that thinks racism and sexism is bad. Those two things are severe biases. You are lumping yourself in with others who have severe biases by saying what you said.
Just for the record, there are thousands of people who work very hard for their degrees, and are VERY intelligent who happened to earn them in Texas. You would be shortsighted to assume that every last one of them is now unhirable because you happen to disagree with their politics.
They usually don't show a lot of the so called "hacking" that McGee(computer geek) or Abbey(the hot goth forensic scientist) partake in on screen thus making them almost believable (not quite) that the agents can actually do what they say they are doing...that said, they blundered badly in one episode. I don't recall which but here's how it played out...
McGee was tasked w/ searching a suspects laptop for data and stated to Gibbs that the hard drive had been 100% wiped out or erased or deleted or something like that. Note that 100% was in the dialog. The scene then quickly cut to a close up of the computer screen (very rare for NCIS) w/ a cutesy graphic displayed on the laptop showing "100% deleted" on top of what was obviously windows explorer in the background.
Most of you will see the error w/ no further explanation but just in case...
You can't run windows on a laptop that has just had its hard disk totally wiped out. Now if the window had been knoppix or other *nix w/ said graphic, I might have believed McGee actually booted the system off a forensic CD/DVD and checked the drive from there but this was a full blown regular looking windows explorer background w/ a cutesy window saying "hard disk 100% wiped"
NCIS is still one of my favorite shows and overall I think they've done a decent job w/ the hacking even if all they do is *not* show us fake graphic hacking screens...this is just one time where they blew it. What is more fake is where that "hot goth chick" can get DNA and fingerprint results back on anybody on the planet before the next commercial break or on a slow day, right after the break..;-p
tested your algorithm. It breaks where y%100 is not 0..at least in python 2.5x using windows idle.
I found the following more accurate: def leapyear(y):
y4=True
y100=True
y400=True
if y%4==0:
y4=False
if y%100==0:
y100=False
if y%400==0:
y400=False
ly=(not y4) and (y100) or (not y400)
return ly
Might not be the most efficient but it works as far as I can see.
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A bit of an exaggeration but correct in essentials. Author's life plus 15 years to take care of any family left behind in the event of the author's death was the original duration of US copyright. The problem was that a loophole was left allowing Congress the power to modify it. Fast forward 200+ years to now and you can see what has happened. Disney is a big example. Walter Elias Disney died in 1966. Under the original terms, copyrights to all his works would have expired in 1981 but here we are in 2009 and currently looking at something like 2017 or 2020 before they theoretically expire.
...in 34 defree F rainy weather.
Sounds like basically your daily forecast in Portland,OR between December and February...;-)
They completely ignored 200 years of precedent and failed to explain why. I'm sorry, but that's activism.
No. They explained it quite well. You just disagree with the ruling.
As for precedent, does the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution count as precedent to you?
...Let's not be foolish, the judicial branch runs this country. The only real control the other branches have over them now is that the executive branch selects WHO gets to sit on the panel and run the country.
This is why many states voters have risen to the occasion and passed constitutional amendments to reel in the judiciary when they felt the judiciary was out of line. My state among them. The basic thought was "ok, if the judiciary is going to be so outlandish, we will go over their heads and put it(name the issue) into the constitution of the state so that even the state supreme court cannot overturn it.
That said, in my state at least, this is a difficult thing to do. The process is convoluted and tricky at best, leaving the opposition against (your issue here) many openings to sue against either the amendment process or the amendment itself.
One such amendment in my state generated a suit that ended up in the supreme court of the state. The court wisely decided that the amendment was done properly and was the will of the people (~65% voted for it I think) and thus ruled against the suit. Interestingly enough, the final ability to amend my state's constitution came down to a ruling from the state Supreme Court. So yeah, I'd say the judicial branch does, in fact, run this country.
And oddly enough, it's mainly an argument that conservatives make when they don't get what they want. I don't recall a whole lot of judicial activism complaints coming as a result of SCOTUS overturning the DC hand gun ban...
That's because the judges weren't being activists. They were correct in ruling that the DC handgun ban was a violation of the constitution. They didn't pass a new law, they struck down an unconstitutional one. Activist judges tend to force their views into place through legal precedent rather than allowing legislatures to write the laws. Directing a legislative body from the bench to write or rewrite a law is dictatorship. That is not the judicial branches' job. Their job is to evaluate the law and strike it down if necessary. Not to tell anyone what law(s) to pass. IANAL - These are my personal views.
Remember, you don't change laws in court, you change them in Congress.
If only more Americans understood this.
If only the courts understood this...
"...costs American workers 373,375 jobs and $16.3 billion in earnings, and costs federal, state, and local governments $2.6 billion in tax revenue."
"After all, US copyright-based industries continue to be one of America's largest and fastest-growing economic sectors."
So one of the fastest growing yet losing 373k jobs? ooooook...
I actually buy "one of the fastest growing..." part. The emergence of online content has been a massive boon to all content sellers whether they want to admit it or not.
The real reason he's yakking is: "...and costs federal, state, and local governments $2.6 billion in tax revenue.". You can't tax it if its free...interesting concept.
moving along...
" GamePolitics notes that for his 2006 campaign, Hatch was rented for $7,000 by the RIAA and also got on his knees for $12,640 from the MPAA." That's not a heck of lot of money for a campaign contribution coming from the filthy rich RI/MP AAs but I guess it still shows a conflict of interest, even if it is small.. I will state for the record that I do not condone piracy but I am in favor of a content model where consumers can get music and movies on demand a reduced price or for free in return for watching ads (hulu-esque). I find modern DRM distasteful as I buy all my movies and I can't make backups legally. -rilian
Good one. Anyone into map design back then will recall that the Romero's head item had very little damage that it took directly, compared to say a CyberDemon or SpiderDemon. The final map positioned it so that it took only splash damage and thus several trips up the elevator w/ the rocket launcher to kill. If you clip up there and unclip in the room, 1 or 2 rockets will kill it and trigger the end of game sequence.
I got into Old Ironforge. That was a fun one. It required a group effort. You had to go to a certain spot near the throne room in IF where you could enable dueling. You had to ensure a mage was one of the duelers and a warlock the other. Then you both run around to the locked door that led down to old IF and have the mage sheep the other dueler. Sheep move around randomly. Usually 1 or 2 tries would end up unsheeping you behind the door. You repeat this to get enough people in with the warlock and then the warlock can portal others in at will. There was good scenery down there but not much else.
Lets not forget the classic Super Mario glitch of being able to phase through that pipe in the underwater world and get to the non-ending water room...
When I used to play World of Warcraft, I found an undeveloped area that looked like it should not have been accessible. I found it by going to that beach in the far south of tanaris and heading west. I got up into some hills after swimming and riding west along the shore. I was eventually able to find a path through the hills and up onto a plain. It was VERY flat. Nothing was there. no decor of any kind. It led further west and eventually dropped down a massive cliff to another even larger flat plain south of the southern rim of ungoro crater. I was able to drop off the cliff w/ slowfall (mage spell) safely. I ran around the area for a while but found nothing interesting so eventually dropped down into Ungoro and moved on... Still interesting as I should not have been able to get there. It was undeveloped area.
Why? Because their grammar is less than perfect? I hope you have more to go on then that. TFA had a poster who said he was a former employee and recognized server names from the posted log file. He could be a plant or a wannabe but its worth mentioning at least. Frankly if there was nothing to this, I'd expect t-mobile to be yelling from the roof tops. The fact that they are fairly quiet suggests there could be trouble. -rilian
a perfectly valid scientific inquiry in no way mandates that government must fund it. This is still a colossal waste of money. There was another story similar about studying Chinese prostitutes in China on a federal grant..this time in the millions of dollars.
...and assist parents in keeping these harmful video games out of the hands of children.
Parents don't need yet another law to give them the ability to keep harmful video games out of the hands of their children. They already have that ability. They just need to exercise said ability more often.
It's not the government's job to raise our children.
The proper role in this situation would be more like posting an advisory that certain studies link video game violence to this that or the other(assuming said studies even exist) but it should be up to a parent/guardian to make the decision.
I know nmap has some projects in GSoC as well but I didn't see them listed in the slideshow. Any others that didn't make the show?
I find it interesting that Oregon, a very liberal state that basically bows to Obama and trumpets progressivism in many forms(medical marijuana, environmentalism, etc), voted over 60% in favor of a state amendment prohibiting gay marriage.
Don't be surprised if Iowa does pass an amendment to overturn this decision. They may be a more liberal state than most midwestern states but Oregon is a very liberal state that overwhelmingly passed just such an amendment.
PS cs3 gives you an alternate help-about if you do this. Nothing risque but still interesting...
cmon liberals. All you Bush bashers who hammered on this for 8 years. Speak up. Obama is now committing some of the same acts of privacy invasion as Bush was (rightly) accused of. Why isn't there more outcry here?
This bill gives ridiculous dictitorial powers to the President. I for one think it should not be passed. I have big problems with giving this kind of power to the federal government.
Why are you so biased against people of faith? Do you really think that having faith is synonymous with stupidity? My guess is you are probably the type that thinks racism and sexism is bad. Those two things are severe biases. You are lumping yourself in with others who have severe biases by saying what you said.
Just for the record, there are thousands of people who work very hard for their degrees, and are VERY intelligent who happened to earn them in Texas. You would be shortsighted to assume that every last one of them is now unhirable because you happen to disagree with their politics.
Why can't they setup a honeypot and force the date to 4/1/2009 and log all the activity coming off of it. That would tell them what to expect.
2004 and 2008 both returned an integer "4" using the original algorithm instead of a true or false value.
It could also be that the gov't has farms built for the purpose of cracking encryption...
They do, it's called the National Security Agency. A whole department devoted to encryption/decryption.
ok. I saw the NCIS post and I can't resist...
They usually don't show a lot of the so called "hacking" that McGee(computer geek) or Abbey(the hot goth forensic scientist) partake in on screen thus making them almost believable (not quite) that the agents can actually do what they say they are doing...that said, they blundered badly in one episode. I don't recall which but here's how it played out...
McGee was tasked w/ searching a suspects laptop for data and stated to Gibbs that the hard drive had been 100% wiped out or erased or deleted or something like that. Note that 100% was in the dialog. The scene then quickly cut to a close up of the computer screen (very rare for NCIS) w/ a cutesy graphic displayed on the laptop showing "100% deleted" on top of what was obviously windows explorer in the background.
Most of you will see the error w/ no further explanation but just in case...
You can't run windows on a laptop that has just had its hard disk totally wiped out. Now if the window had been knoppix or other *nix w/ said graphic, I might have believed McGee actually booted the system off a forensic CD/DVD and checked the drive from there but this was a full blown regular looking windows explorer background w/ a cutesy window saying "hard disk 100% wiped"
NCIS is still one of my favorite shows and overall I think they've done a decent job w/ the hacking even if all they do is *not* show us fake graphic hacking screens...this is just one time where they blew it. What is more fake is where that "hot goth chick" can get DNA and fingerprint results back on anybody on the planet before the next commercial break or on a slow day, right after the break.. ;-p
tested your algorithm. It breaks where y%100 is not 0..at least in python 2.5x using windows idle.
I found the following more accurate:
def leapyear(y):
y4=True
y100=True
y400=True
if y%4==0:
y4=False
if y%100==0:
y100=False
if y%400==0:
y400=False
ly=(not y4) and (y100) or (not y400)
return ly
Might not be the most efficient but it works as far as I can see.
I am legally required to wear glasses to drive so I don't see how I could be asked to remove them were my state to enact something like this.
It makes no sense.