Oh please, ye of little faith! Innocent until proven guilty, remember. The burden of proof is on the prosecution to prove that the defendant really did do all the evil things they said. For instance: - If you know anything about the Internet it can be very easy point the blame at the wrong person. I believe I can reference the grandmother that got sued by the RIAA that didn't have any music at all. - The people don't necessarily know they're doing wrong, i.e. in the case of the teenager who got sued. Obviously the parents had to be responsible in this case but I think in a court of law some leeway should be granted.
I also have faith that the ridiculous penalties will be seen to be just that--ridiculous.
More recently sites like Suprnova and BTefnet, who provide no copyrighted content but do provide information on where to get it in the form of trackers, have been subject to successful legal action.
No, they've been subjected to legal blackmail, i.e.,"shut down the site or we'll sue you for $XXX,000." There has not yet even been a lawsuit of copyright infringement against an individual in the US. (IANAL, but at least with respect to "modern" copyright infringement, i.e. sharing via P2P, I believe I am correct.) And until someone significantly rich is threatened with a lawsuit, we probably won't see one.
Maybe you call this "successful legal action." I call it bullying. Give me your milk money or I'll beat you up.
While this makes it easier to create a.torrent, most users don't know how to do so in the first place, and even if know how, they would still need to put the.torrent somewhere, and its the torrent's popularity that determines if it lives or dies. If there is a better, more popular torrent, then it is unlikely that many people would go for the second one.
I guess what I"m saying is -- torrents are a popularity contest. You can't win by being a poser.
Quick summary: * Hail is ice pellets produced by strong thunderstorms, and is most likely in the summer (as that's when strong thunderstorms are most likely to occur). * Sleet is re-frozen precipitation, caused by snow that has been melted and re-frozen on its way down.
While it is quite likely you were indeed experiencing hail, not sleet, hail is not uncommon in May if a strong front passes through.
2/3 isn't bad though, I'd give a 70% forecast that the end is indeed near. In the meantime, be on the lookout for hail...
I highly doubt GPwas talking about IE for Mac, which has about a 3% Mac marketshare (and hence about a 0.1% total marketshare). I am guessing that after he designs and tests in Safari and Firefox, he then hops on a Windows box to test and fix it. Testing in Windows is the only way to test compatibility; typically IE/Mac is completely ignored.
Quicktime is bad? I've never had any problems with Quicktime at all. I have it associated with MOVs and that's about it. sure, with the free player, you get the "Pro" upgrade banner when you launch it, and no fullscreen. The fullscreen thing I think is stupid on the part of Apple if they want their player to be used by the masses.
Compare to Real Player, Quicktime is heaven. The hordes of options to disable on install is ridiculous.
Now I don't know why they don't do Real and WMV. Probably they will. But to be honest I've never even heard of NSV.
As my siblings and cousins have said, this has nothing to do with MySQL at all. It's a problem with every DB. People primarily associate this with MySQL because of inexperienced PHP/MySQL scripters. It's the difference between:
// using an already established mysql resource with mysql_connect... mysql_query("UPDATE users SET password = '$pw' WHERE user_id = $user_id");
vs:
// using PEAR DB with an already established $dbh handle... $dbh->query("UPDATE users SET password = ? WHERE user_id = ?", array($pw, $user_id));
Like MySQL, PHP also has the stigma of being an insecure scripting language, and this is simply because so many people [try to] pick it up that have no formal background in programming. Admittedy, turning off autoglobals was a big step for increasing 'default' PHP security.
Might be true, but you typically won't find McDonald's dollar menu on the highway, or Manhattan, etc. Some places have reasons to opt-out. At least with fast food, you know the prices up front. If you don't like your total, you can always cancel.
Now maybe this shouldn't apply to all franchises and all promotions... I think that the Blockbuster promotion was particuarily devious, and the States were right in taking this action. In this case, I think locations that don't participate in big promotions should say so. Should have been corporate policy.
I say: vote with your wallet. If you don't like Blockbuster's policies, don't go there, and encourage your friends and family to do the same.
- Why pass a bill when you can buy commercial software to do this for you? I'm sure you can even get software for free to do it. That is simply technical incompetance. - Why not choose an ISP that does filtering already, like AOL, or a local company which will do the filtering?
If people want ("demand") filtering, then there will be, and is, a commercial interest in providing that filtering ("supply"). Passing a law is simply ridiculous.
I can't wait for this to be shot down in courts. Fsck Utah.
The TV companies appear to not be so desperate to sue people into bankruptcy for watching an illicit episode of _Friends_ or _The OC_.
I know a friend of mine that received a "cease and desist" type e-mail for bittorrenting, of all things, Malcom in the Middle. If you're wondering, it was the MPAA who was named as the requestor.
I'm really waiting for them to give up. Let's face it, if people want to steal it they're going to steal it. Copy protection isn't going to stop them, and it only hinders the people who pay for the game and want to play it.
Apple seems to take this philosophy with their software. I've never had to enter a CD key for any software I've bought. Of course, we all know Apple makes most of its money off its computers, and you're guaranteed to be "buying" at least one copy of OS X with your computer.
I think that game publishers won't have it, though. I assume that it has to have copy protection or it won't be shipped.
Part of our system of voting requires us to think about the candidates that we think has a chance. It is a clear side-effect of a first-past-the-post voting system. As explained there:
First-past-the-post encourages the tactical voting technique known as "compromising": voters are encouraged to vote for one of the two options most likely to win, even if it is not their most preferred option....
If enough voters vote using this tactic, the first-past-the-post system becomes a form of runoff voting where the first round is held in the court of public opinion. This can give substantial power to the media as voters will tend to believe their viewpoint on who the leading contenders are likely to be in the election and use that viewpoint to decide where a "tactical" vote would be (in the voter's opinion) best used. This can also become a system promoting votes against more so than votes for.
If you go on and read about tactical voting, you'll see it says that "Duverger's law suggests that, for this reason, first-past-the-post election systems will lead to two party systems in most cases." Quite discouraging if you ask me; I'd love to see more parties involved.
I just read some of these articles yesterday trying to learn about the British election system. It's very interesting stuff. Sometimes I wish I was a political science major...
This sounds like a really cool endeavor, but why is this funded by NASA? NASA takes a lot of flak for using up lots of money and being a big administration, and its not surprising to see why with projects like this under its wings.
In the end, shouldn't such earthquake research be under a different organization?
What about having each label be a folder? Now this surely would increase bandwidth, as an IMAP client would see a message in the Inbox and any other particular folder as two separate messages (although I'm not IMAP expert, I don't think it looks at message IDs or anything).
Also, gmail could always add their adsense-vertisements to the bottom (or top) of your e-mails upon IMAP retrieval or forwarding.
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Oh please, ye of little faith! Innocent until proven guilty, remember. The burden of proof is on the prosecution to prove that the defendant really did do all the evil things they said. For instance:
- If you know anything about the Internet it can be very easy point the blame at the wrong person. I believe I can reference the grandmother that got sued by the RIAA that didn't have any music at all.
- The people don't necessarily know they're doing wrong, i.e. in the case of the teenager who got sued. Obviously the parents had to be responsible in this case but I think in a court of law some leeway should be granted.
I also have faith that the ridiculous penalties will be seen to be just that--ridiculous.
More recently sites like Suprnova and BTefnet, who provide no copyrighted content but do provide information on where to get it in the form of trackers, have been subject to successful legal action.
No, they've been subjected to legal blackmail, i.e.,"shut down the site or we'll sue you for $XXX,000." There has not yet even been a lawsuit of copyright infringement against an individual in the US. (IANAL, but at least with respect to "modern" copyright infringement, i.e. sharing via P2P, I believe I am correct.) And until someone significantly rich is threatened with a lawsuit, we probably won't see one.
Maybe you call this "successful legal action." I call it bullying. Give me your milk money or I'll beat you up.
While this makes it easier to create a .torrent, most users don't know how to do so in the first place, and even if know how, they would still need to put the .torrent somewhere, and its the torrent's popularity that determines if it lives or dies. If there is a better, more popular torrent, then it is unlikely that many people would go for the second one.
I guess what I"m saying is -- torrents are a popularity contest. You can't win by being a poser.
I could be wrong - maybe you're referring to something else - but:
Finder -> View -> Show View Options (Cmd-J)
Uncheck "Show icon preview."
Please see hail versus sleet.
Quick summary:
* Hail is ice pellets produced by strong thunderstorms, and is most likely in the summer (as that's when strong thunderstorms are most likely to occur).
* Sleet is re-frozen precipitation, caused by snow that has been melted and re-frozen on its way down.
While it is quite likely you were indeed experiencing hail, not sleet, hail is not uncommon in May if a strong front passes through.
2/3 isn't bad though, I'd give a 70% forecast that the end is indeed near. In the meantime, be on the lookout for hail...
And move all your software operations to Cuba.
Or, move the whole government to Cuba. I'm sure 48% of the country wouldn't mind that at all...
You might laugh but...
Good luck getting Canadian beef into the U.S...
-get install
(First thing I thought of when I saw "apt." Perhaps I spend too much time in my Debian terminals...)
I highly doubt GPwas talking about IE for Mac, which has about a 3% Mac marketshare (and hence about a 0.1% total marketshare). I am guessing that after he designs and tests in Safari and Firefox, he then hops on a Windows box to test and fix it. Testing in Windows is the only way to test compatibility; typically IE/Mac is completely ignored.
(I do web development, and do it on a Mac.)
Quicktime is bad? I've never had any problems with Quicktime at all. I have it associated with MOVs and that's about it. sure, with the free player, you get the "Pro" upgrade banner when you launch it, and no fullscreen. The fullscreen thing I think is stupid on the part of Apple if they want their player to be used by the masses.
Compare to Real Player, Quicktime is heaven. The hordes of options to disable on install is ridiculous.
Now I don't know why they don't do Real and WMV. Probably they will. But to be honest I've never even heard of NSV.
I believe they've been hiding under this rock.
(...every time I hear that Intel "chime" on TV I almost lose my mind...)
Might be true, but you typically won't find McDonald's dollar menu on the highway, or Manhattan, etc. Some places have reasons to opt-out. At least with fast food, you know the prices up front. If you don't like your total, you can always cancel.
Now maybe this shouldn't apply to all franchises and all promotions... I think that the Blockbuster promotion was particuarily devious, and the States were right in taking this action. In this case, I think locations that don't participate in big promotions should say so. Should have been corporate policy.
I say: vote with your wallet. If you don't like Blockbuster's policies, don't go there, and encourage your friends and family to do the same.
That's only the start, really.
- Why pass a bill when you can buy commercial software to do this for you? I'm sure you can even get software for free to do it. That is simply technical incompetance.
- Why not choose an ISP that does filtering already, like AOL, or a local company which will do the filtering?
If people want ("demand") filtering, then there will be, and is, a commercial interest in providing that filtering ("supply"). Passing a law is simply ridiculous.
I can't wait for this to be shot down in courts. Fsck Utah.
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Didn't see that coming. Who would have thought that basing a company on litigation, scare tactics, and spreading FUD wouldn't work?
The TV companies appear to not be so desperate to sue people into bankruptcy for watching an illicit episode of _Friends_ or _The OC_.
I know a friend of mine that received a "cease and desist" type e-mail for bittorrenting, of all things, Malcom in the Middle. If you're wondering, it was the MPAA who was named as the requestor.
I kid you not.
I assume you meant, "...whichever is lower."
I'm really waiting for them to give up. Let's face it, if people want to steal it they're going to steal it. Copy protection isn't going to stop them, and it only hinders the people who pay for the game and want to play it.
Apple seems to take this philosophy with their software. I've never had to enter a CD key for any software I've bought. Of course, we all know Apple makes most of its money off its computers, and you're guaranteed to be "buying" at least one copy of OS X with your computer.
I think that game publishers won't have it, though. I assume that it has to have copy protection or it won't be shipped.
Let me explain.
...Had me lost, that is.
You had me at "predicate calculus."
Part of our system of voting requires us to think about the candidates that we think has a chance. It is a clear side-effect of a first-past-the-post voting system. As explained there:
...
First-past-the-post encourages the tactical voting technique known as "compromising": voters are encouraged to vote for one of the two options most likely to win, even if it is not their most preferred option.
If enough voters vote using this tactic, the first-past-the-post system becomes a form of runoff voting where the first round is held in the court of public opinion. This can give substantial power to the media as voters will tend to believe their viewpoint on who the leading contenders are likely to be in the election and use that viewpoint to decide where a "tactical" vote would be (in the voter's opinion) best used. This can also become a system promoting votes against more so than votes for.
If you go on and read about tactical voting, you'll see it says that "Duverger's law suggests that, for this reason, first-past-the-post election systems will lead to two party systems in most cases." Quite discouraging if you ask me; I'd love to see more parties involved.
I just read some of these articles yesterday trying to learn about the British election system. It's very interesting stuff. Sometimes I wish I was a political science major...
This sounds like a really cool endeavor, but why is this funded by NASA? NASA takes a lot of flak for using up lots of money and being a big administration, and its not surprising to see why with projects like this under its wings.
In the end, shouldn't such earthquake research be under a different organization?
What about having each label be a folder? Now this surely would increase bandwidth, as an IMAP client would see a message in the Inbox and any other particular folder as two separate messages (although I'm not IMAP expert, I don't think it looks at message IDs or anything).
Also, gmail could always add their adsense-vertisements to the bottom (or top) of your e-mails upon IMAP retrieval or forwarding.
Heh, the first time I read it as "plague," and then when I saw it was plaque, I thought of the dentist's office.
No one's gunna pay attention to us until we have warp drive anyway.