If you look in your Acceptable Use Policy or similar, you will probably find wording that prohibits sharing, like Cox says you may not Resell or redistribute the Service to any third party via any means including but not limited to wireless technology
So, if you leave your WAP open, you may not be selling it, but you certainly are redistributing service...
Of course, there is no way to enforce it. It would be expensive to give free support to help people secure their networks, and it would be counter productive to terminate service, unless they were sure they'd pick up a new account or two because of it. Then there is always competition (in some markets. I have both DSL and cable, for example.)
Apparently 100 years is not enough time to learn from mistakes...
100 years is too long. Hardly anyone lives that long, and nobody has time to read about all that has gone on before, and even if they did, they wouldn't be doing anything, they'd be reading about it. Nobody listens to people who just read about stuff, they're just a bunch of nerds.
You need good old politics to get stuff done. We'll ignore the wheat blight and grow corn to burn in our cars, and when the wheat crop fails, maybe we'll remember we can eat corn instead!
Then politicians can take credit for staving off the famine by encouraging corn farmers.
End of story (no pun intended.) Lot't of SF stories have made great predictions that have come true. But that's not the point of SF.
I'll leave it up to the hardcore fans to point out stuff like geosynchronous orbit satellites, small communication devices, etc. All that were mentioned in SF stories before their introduction to real life.
20-20 hindsight is usefull here. Maybe you just haven't waited long enough yet for your favorite stories to yield uncanny farsightedness or simply get dated.
The best stories do neither - they don't rely on tech that can become dated, nor make a good guess on what might be, they just tell a good story about a possible, but believable future...
You want to reproduce the "muffled and worn" sound of an oft-played favorite album?
You're in luck! I have the digital equivalent - a 128Kpbs MP3!
It sounds just like a worn out record, not quite enough oomph... but you never have to waste time and money wearing out another vinyl copy again!
Disclaimer: I sold all my vinyl records in the late-80's and gave my player to my parents, who still use it for Elvis vinyls and Reader's Digest collections.
Most governments are staffed by, get this, government employees!
If you are really worried about it, maybe you should become a government employee too, and *cough*, *cough*, make a few more errors and bureaucratic screw ups than average for such workers...
I am worried about the loss of liberty, sure, theoretically. I am for sure worried about how much they are going to tax me to hire all these wankers.
Almost any story can be glibly described in a few sentences. What makes a story good, or even great is in the telling, that's why a talented author would copyright his particular expression.
The only possible use of a "plot patent" is strictly to troll and whine "wah, he stole my idea, but made it better than I could!"
If you just changed the font and the color of the board is that enough? How about the words? (E.g. use "2X Value" instead of "double word", etc.
If that is enough, what if you made those things a user preference, and the users changed them to look like the original? If you don't distribute the offending "skin", are you in the clear?
The parent is right. The fact is, everyone dies of something. There is no such thing as "saving lives", only "postponing death".
Ok, so starvation is obviously preventable. It is also cheap to prevent, so not many people quibble about it. It seems my wife is always buying a flock of chickens for some village, giving food to some shelter, etc. OK, fine. Vaccines? Ok, they're cheap too. In principal, I suppose you could extend this to "basic health care", but that's it.
But where do you draw the line?
How about this? Basic ER stuff repair cuts, broken bones, etc. Need a liver transplant? Sorry, you have to pay, if you can. Need an antibiotic shot and some bandages? Fine. Have cancer? Too bad, you are gonna die sometime...
What is a life worth? What is a baby worth? How about a 40 year old, or a 60, 80, 90 or year old? Should people that are already over the "average life expectancy" even bother consuming health care resources? I mean, they've already had a "full" life, and money spent on them could save hundreds or thousands of others (see cheap food, vaccines, etc...)
Be honest, if your 80 year old father had a million dollars in the bank, and no insurance, would you rather he spent it on a double lung transplant for himself so he could live to age 81 or die now and leave it to you? How about if he left it to your favorite charity? What if he were to spend it on some experimental procedure that may or may not prolong his life, but advanced medical knowledge in some narrow field of disorder?
In my opinion, the best method for allocating resources so far, is to let those who can afford it to buy it. Even if it is healthcare. If you can't afford it, too bad, them's the breaks.
I might accept an argument for tax-payer provided health coverage to a point, but not for ANYTHING THAT MIGHT COME UP.
Set a limit somewhere. And don't keep moving the limit.
The irony I see is that a lot of the same people who bemoan the fact that society doesn't spend enough money saving lives are the same folks who say there are too damn many people on the planet using up precious resources...
Yes, diamond powder is great for grinding and polishing hard things, like silicon wafers.
Industrial diamond is manufactured cheaply. You can even find it on eBay for a couple of bucks a carat.
The trick is getting a consistent grit/mesh/size so that you know how polished you can make your wafers.
I worked with a guy in the 80's who had a side business making diamond grinding compounds for customers in the bay area - he would pre-load his secret mixture into grease-guns he bought at Sears. They were single use, he told me. I don't remember why, something about screwing up the seals, or maybe a used grease gun put contaminates in the grinding goop... anyhow he made really good money at it for some reason, there must have been more to it than meets the eye. He was a retired nuclear physicist, so he knew what he was doing, when it came to small particles.
Plaintiff claims the fair market value for all uses of his Skyline photo by Defendants is
$4,462.
Sorry to read the details, but that's just the way I am. I don't get much done, but what I do do is quality work...
Another $5,000 for removing the watermark (more than the value of the photo itself), plus another $10,000 in punitive damages, "just because the judge said so".
Well, like Mom always said, it is better to fess up than face the wrath of being caught in a lie.
The cover-up always costs more than the crime, it seems.
Our economy largely depends on people buying "dumb" stuff.
I won't buy one, but maybe someday I will buy something with cool cheap displays, in part, because early adopters helped bring the price down for the rest of us.
You just feel bad because there is some dummy out there that has $2750 in discretionary income that you'd like to have.
You've got all this bits that need to go somewhere... so you get disk drives.
Sure they're cheap, but they are not green. They break, then you throw them out...
Wouldn't it be nice if *you* didn't have to store those bits?
All those songs are "out there", somewhere. If you could legally and conveniently get them "on demand", you wouldn't have to be storing them yourself.
So, what's the fair price for "everything online"?
I dunno. I pay $40 a month for a bunch of crappy TV... (although I think I could do without it sometimes. Maybe when the kids move out...) It seems like a lot, but there is no DRM on it. It goes to all 5 TVs in the house, I can record it onto Disc, my computer, even old VHS, if I want... Everyone in the house can watch it. People kind of expect that you have a TV, and that it has lots of channels.
No one expects you to have lots of music.
Rhapsody charges $12.99/month for "unlimited"... of course it is not really "unlimited", you do have bandwidth limitations, right? Still, I don't subscribe... it is still "too much" (and it has DRM, etc.) I just can't see spending $150+ year when I have "free" radio, songs I already own, books to read, yard work to do, and oh, yeah, that crappy TV. I just don't have time enough to listen to justify the extra cost for "just music". (Besides, when I listen to Jonesy's Jukebox (radio), I get free music AND someone else does the work of selecting the playlist.)
Let's say you could get any song ever published for $X/month. If it could be downloaded to your player of choice, DRM free, what is the value of X?
Ok, Time for dinner, so enough of this ramble. I think that gives you the gist... I agree with the parent. We need a cheap "service" that offers everything unencumbered. There will always be leeches, but... so what?
(Cost of Government) / (Number of Citizens) = the fair tax per citizen.
Anything else is unfair, but necessary simply because not everyone can afford their fair share.
The tax code boils down to extracting unfair amounts of money from whomever can pay and the way that is done is by the politics of helping friends, punishing enemies and pandering to the voters.
So, in the US, with a $3T budget and 300M citizens, if your family is not paying $10,000 a head in federal taxes you are not paying your fair share. If that seems like too much, maybe the government should spend less.
But, legally speaking, you should read the license you pick. Don't just assume any summary is correct. I am not saying this summary is not accurate, I am just reminding you that you actually need to read what you "sign".
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So, if you leave your WAP open, you may not be selling it, but you certainly are redistributing service...
Of course, there is no way to enforce it. It would be expensive to give free support to help people secure their networks, and it would be counter productive to terminate service, unless they were sure they'd pick up a new account or two because of it. Then there is always competition (in some markets. I have both DSL and cable, for example.)
100 years is too long. Hardly anyone lives that long, and nobody has time to read about all that has gone on before, and even if they did, they wouldn't be doing anything, they'd be reading about it. Nobody listens to people who just read about stuff, they're just a bunch of nerds.
You need good old politics to get stuff done. We'll ignore the wheat blight and grow corn to burn in our cars, and when the wheat crop fails, maybe we'll remember we can eat corn instead!
Then politicians can take credit for staving off the famine by encouraging corn farmers.
At the end of the day, I'd get along with someone with the same cultural values a lot faster than someone of the same race of a different culture.
It's about the culture, stupid.
I'll leave it up to the hardcore fans to point out stuff like geosynchronous orbit satellites, small communication devices, etc. All that were mentioned in SF stories before their introduction to real life.
20-20 hindsight is usefull here. Maybe you just haven't waited long enough yet for your favorite stories to yield uncanny farsightedness or simply get dated.
The best stories do neither - they don't rely on tech that can become dated, nor make a good guess on what might be, they just tell a good story about a possible, but believable future...
You're in luck! I have the digital equivalent - a 128Kpbs MP3!
It sounds just like a worn out record, not quite enough oomph... but you never have to waste time and money wearing out another vinyl copy again!
Disclaimer: I sold all my vinyl records in the late-80's and gave my player to my parents, who still use it for Elvis vinyls and Reader's Digest collections.
If you are really worried about it, maybe you should become a government employee too, and *cough*, *cough*, make a few more errors and bureaucratic screw ups than average for such workers...
I am worried about the loss of liberty, sure, theoretically. I am for sure worried about how much they are going to tax me to hire all these wankers.
Almost any story can be glibly described in a few sentences. What makes a story good, or even great is in the telling, that's why a talented author would copyright his particular expression.
The only possible use of a "plot patent" is strictly to troll and whine "wah, he stole my idea, but made it better than I could!"
Huh?
If that is enough, what if you made those things a user preference, and the users changed them to look like the original? If you don't distribute the offending "skin", are you in the clear?
I'm not saying anyone did, but an insider would be up 65% plus on the buyout bid news this morning...
How is that different, really, from patenting "real" items. After all it is just "chiseling wood" or "forging metal" into a new shape...
Ok, so starvation is obviously preventable. It is also cheap to prevent, so not many people quibble about it. It seems my wife is always buying a flock of chickens for some village, giving food to some shelter, etc. OK, fine. Vaccines? Ok, they're cheap too. In principal, I suppose you could extend this to "basic health care", but that's it.
But where do you draw the line?
How about this? Basic ER stuff repair cuts, broken bones, etc. Need a liver transplant? Sorry, you have to pay, if you can. Need an antibiotic shot and some bandages? Fine. Have cancer? Too bad, you are gonna die sometime...
What is a life worth? What is a baby worth? How about a 40 year old, or a 60, 80, 90 or year old? Should people that are already over the "average life expectancy" even bother consuming health care resources? I mean, they've already had a "full" life, and money spent on them could save hundreds or thousands of others (see cheap food, vaccines, etc...)
Be honest, if your 80 year old father had a million dollars in the bank, and no insurance, would you rather he spent it on a double lung transplant for himself so he could live to age 81 or die now and leave it to you? How about if he left it to your favorite charity? What if he were to spend it on some experimental procedure that may or may not prolong his life, but advanced medical knowledge in some narrow field of disorder?
In my opinion, the best method for allocating resources so far, is to let those who can afford it to buy it. Even if it is healthcare. If you can't afford it, too bad, them's the breaks.
I might accept an argument for tax-payer provided health coverage to a point, but not for ANYTHING THAT MIGHT COME UP. Set a limit somewhere. And don't keep moving the limit.
The irony I see is that a lot of the same people who bemoan the fact that society doesn't spend enough money saving lives are the same folks who say there are too damn many people on the planet using up precious resources...
I only had to wait a few seconds for the answer: "Reply hazy, try again".
Industrial diamond is manufactured cheaply. You can even find it on eBay for a couple of bucks a carat.
The trick is getting a consistent grit/mesh/size so that you know how polished you can make your wafers.
I worked with a guy in the 80's who had a side business making diamond grinding compounds for customers in the bay area - he would pre-load his secret mixture into grease-guns he bought at Sears. They were single use, he told me. I don't remember why, something about screwing up the seals, or maybe a used grease gun put contaminates in the grinding goop... anyhow he made really good money at it for some reason, there must have been more to it than meets the eye. He was a retired nuclear physicist, so he knew what he was doing, when it came to small particles.
That would be the right group to sue.
As far as this particular village, if it is not cold enough for them, maybe they can move Canada where it seems to be getting colder.
Her face.
But that's just my opinion.
Sorry to read the details, but that's just the way I am. I don't get much done, but what I do do is quality work...
Another $5,000 for removing the watermark (more than the value of the photo itself), plus another $10,000 in punitive damages, "just because the judge said so".
Well, like Mom always said, it is better to fess up than face the wrath of being caught in a lie.
The cover-up always costs more than the crime, it seems.
And, yes, I did say "do do" on purpose.
I won't buy one, but maybe someday I will buy something with cool cheap displays, in part, because early adopters helped bring the price down for the rest of us.
You just feel bad because there is some dummy out there that has $2750 in discretionary income that you'd like to have.
You've got all this bits that need to go somewhere... so you get disk drives.
Sure they're cheap, but they are not green. They break, then you throw them out...
Wouldn't it be nice if *you* didn't have to store those bits? All those songs are "out there", somewhere. If you could legally and conveniently get them "on demand", you wouldn't have to be storing them yourself.
So, what's the fair price for "everything online"?
I dunno. I pay $40 a month for a bunch of crappy TV... (although I think I could do without it sometimes. Maybe when the kids move out...) It seems like a lot, but there is no DRM on it. It goes to all 5 TVs in the house, I can record it onto Disc, my computer, even old VHS, if I want... Everyone in the house can watch it. People kind of expect that you have a TV, and that it has lots of channels.
No one expects you to have lots of music.
Rhapsody charges $12.99/month for "unlimited"... of course it is not really "unlimited", you do have bandwidth limitations, right? Still, I don't subscribe... it is still "too much" (and it has DRM, etc.) I just can't see spending $150+ year when I have "free" radio, songs I already own, books to read, yard work to do, and oh, yeah, that crappy TV. I just don't have time enough to listen to justify the extra cost for "just music". (Besides, when I listen to Jonesy's Jukebox (radio), I get free music AND someone else does the work of selecting the playlist.)
Let's say you could get any song ever published for $X/month. If it could be downloaded to your player of choice, DRM free, what is the value of X?
Ok, Time for dinner, so enough of this ramble. I think that gives you the gist... I agree with the parent. We need a cheap "service" that offers everything unencumbered. There will always be leeches, but... so what?
Anything else is unfair, but necessary simply because not everyone can afford their fair share.
The tax code boils down to extracting unfair amounts of money from whomever can pay and the way that is done is by the politics of helping friends, punishing enemies and pandering to the voters.
So, in the US, with a $3T budget and 300M citizens, if your family is not paying $10,000 a head in federal taxes you are not paying your fair share. If that seems like too much, maybe the government should spend less.
But, legally speaking, you should read the license you pick. Don't just assume any summary is correct. I am not saying this summary is not accurate, I am just reminding you that you actually need to read what you "sign".
Obviously this is the perfect use for pastel black.
Seems to me, even if you could make a satellite optically stealthy, folks with government resources would still be able to track them with radar, etc.
I can easily believe that your could create an AI that would do far better at "Jay Walking" than your average high school graduate.
Just sneak "F.O.B. Boulder City, NV" into the contract.
There isn't a satellite made that can see into your mom's basement.