I'm not very smart about computer security, but I can follow directions with precision, think about threats in a general way, and I care. What is your company doing for people like me? It seems that no matter what I do I have problems with your software. Ok, I'm still using windows 98, but why do I have to run two security apps plus the cheap Zone Alarm firewall just to stay functional?
I can't help you right now, I will have to ask my supervisor to look at your situation and call you back in the morning" Conversation should be OVER, save a few niceties. Quit arguing with me, it's just killing my stats. I can't help you, bitch/fuckwit.
Well, my problems don't go away so neither will I. Your, in the collective sense, stats are not my problem, and working at your supervisor's convenience isn't either. Basic humanity shoudln't be ignored, but saving sombebody else's stasts just isn't on my list.
Ohhh, this has to be a good one! A foreign company installing spyware on military machines. There has to be a penalty that really hurts for this chicanery, right? Leavenworth PMITAP?
If the recording industries can impose fees, however small, for the ephemeral copies created in a server for a webcast, why not charge Google, a for-profit company, for the ephemeral copies it makes?
Firstly, their copies are probably stuck on a hard drive of some kind, and are most certainly not all that ephemeral.
Secondly, just because Google isn't likely to make any money directly from this project doesn't mean that it the copies of the book in their database aren't contributing to the bottom line. Good will, dragging scholars to your site, and general coolness are worth something.
Thirdly, many books have an express prohibition on electronic storage of any kind right on the inside front cover.
The Section 107 list probably means more to a lawyer than it does to me, but as I see it, Google strikes out on almost all of the points.
1. Google exists to make their share holders money, and any activities must be assumed to have something to do with that. Therefore the purpose of the use is profit.
2. I'm not sure what "the nature of the copyrighted work;" means, but it seems to me that a print heavy book has all it's value in the text. The only real analog to sticking thumbnails of a picture heavy web site, an court approved fair use thing, would be to paraphrase or write a commentary on the text.
3. Google is going to store all of the book's text. What they are doing is no different thangoing to a college book store, photocopying the text and then only puttign small bits of the text in the term papers. The citations are appropriate, but making your own copy isn't. That doesn't mean that everybody doesn't do it, but that's a different problem.
4. Forcing an author into an opt-out scheme in order to preserve their chances at selling the rights to another search engine is crap. Opt out sucks.
It's probably obvious that I'm neither a published author or a law scholar, but that's how I see it. If I was an author I'd probably drive an electronic copy of all my works down to Google HQ myself, but I'd like it to be my choice.
It does. I use it, but I refuse to go without a tape based or similiar backup. It doesn't happen often, but glitches happen, especially with FCP 4.5.
Recording DV isn't a big deal. The reason those custom capture devices are so expensive is convenience and simplicity. If it isn't a problem, hit ebay for a cheap G4 and install extra hard drives, and put the whole mess on a wheel around rack. If you want a belt mounted unit, it is still going to cost big bucks.
The Zone CD seems to offer easy setup and admin for a free public access point. I'm wondering if there is a similiar product that would let the owner introduce random and variable jitter and lag into the AP such that gaming would be annoying but ordinary web surfing would be no problem. That discourage one class of high maintenance, low spending freeloaders. Maybe not?
Those housing contracts may not mean a whole lot. The FCC has laid down some restrictions that would pre-empt any such contract.
Go here for more information.
Me too. At Radio Shack I just give them a polite "No Thanks." If the sales droid persists, I just stare at them and say nothing until they move the sale along. I have a beard, I'm fat and slightly odd looking, so it gets the point across without a lot of fuss. This doesn't happen much anymore, I think the store has gotten the point or changed policy.
If I read the summary on the linked site correctly, the law allows for civil suits. Surely there are enough zealots out there that would love to heckle the email marketers.
If by marketers Utah means the people that are pushing the products, gathering information about customers and tailoring the pitches, then it may be possible to hunt them down. A friendly postal inspector or a subpoena to FedEx and some pressure should cough up the address of the PenisPill vendor. It might just be a front, but that's at least a little clue.
It might be worth having a few children just to be able to financially castrate Scott Richter and friends.
Let's hope that a non progressive future includes several varieties of "Acme Health Pellets" and bottles of "AcmeFina."
I've lived on dandelions and cattails for a few days. It sucks. Young dandelion greens aren't too bad as long as you have a more neurtral green to cut the flavor. Forget it if they're old. I've also had cattail rootstalks. They taste like funky cucumbers except with more slime. Other parts are edible if you're going to be in one place for a while and are willing to work for it. I wasn't hungry enough to go after the rodents so I don't know about that.
Trust me, you'll be willing to endure a ramen fueled cube slavery after a few days of being back to nature. I'd say that the hunter-gatherer thing is much more difficult than being a cube drone. Still, making raw nature your bitch is satisfying.
Yay! for transparent voting, black boxes suck, and we absolutely need an independent audit, not just the ability to do the audit.
I can't go with you on abolishing the electoral college. If that happens, a lot of smaller states are going to be really unhappy, and you are going to have rule by California. If the states had a little more power, and weren't Federal bitches, then it might not matter so much. Rightnow, the smaller states need all the defence they can get.
I agree that kids probably shouldn't use calculators very much, but I can't go along with Grandma.
My father is the same way. He routinely beats checkers at their game unless the order is large. But if you ask him to do trigonometry or even rudimentary algebra, he's lost. He's a smart man, but he has to have his lookup tables such tools. He launches into minor rants about dumb checkers ocasionally, but I don't bring up his algebra skills anymore.
I'm not saying the old folks are wrong about mental computation and stupid clerks, but a lot of it is just nostalgic elitism and a property of age.
Exactly. That is what I should have said. The simple, pessimistic and therefore most likely to be true scenario is that he did exactly what she said he did. But the proof is a big problem. I don'thave a solution.
Yes, it is serious and possibly criminally creepy behavior by the ex. If I had to guess why Yahoo left the pictures up I'd say that it is a result of bureaucratic inertia and laziness.
But I do think that Yahoo should leave them up until it is proven that the boyfriend didn'thave the right to post the material. Being an asshole is not necessarily a crime. If Yahoo takes stuff down on demand, without any kind of proof at all, people will abuse the process for fun and profit.
Perhaps proof was offered, I don't know, but assertion doesn't equal proof. Yahoo is screwed either way.
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You're right on the 1 megabyte to 1 1 gigabyte conversion. I was not paying attention, of course.
I was figuring a 1 inch margin on all sides of the page anyway. I didn't bookmark the page, sorry. I'll post if I can find it again. Still, I think that 2D barcodes printed at 600dpi on a quality laser printer could be a halfway viable way to distribute music. Also, there were several companis that implied higher densities, but they didn't give any way to tell exactly how dense.
I was poking around on some bar code websites and one proprietary manufacturer said that they could store 140 bytes/square centimeter if their symbols are printed and scanned at a 300dpi resolution.
If my rough calculations are correct, we're talking about 15 single sided pages per megabyte of data. That means about 66 pages per Gigabyte. At that rate, ordinary laser printer paper from Staples would cost something like $1.06 (U.S. figures, sorry. I can't quite think in Guilders and I have no idea of how much office supplies go for over there.) for the paper cost alone. It might be best to go to a copy center because of the high density printing that is going to suck down large amounts of toner.
If my figures are correct, one ream of 500 sheets will yield about seven gigabytes, and will cost about $8.50. that means that the tax on the ream would be about $32. So yeah, that is getting reamed.
The figures are mostly bogus because nobody is going to use the proprietary system I used for my figures to do p2p, higher resolution printing on the same sheet totally skews the figures, and really doubt that our European friends are going to get violent about making sure all their paper has a tax stamp on it. Or maybe they will, who knows.
Paper could be a music storage medium, and a good one for some purposes. I'd like to see the taxman try to beat that one. It has the same appeal as watching a microcephalic rodeo.
I'm right there with you. I'd still like to get something even skinnier that would run on that old of a machine, but would cope with modern web sites. I don't know if that's a realistic goal.
As an aside, I really liked the way Opera handles their advertisements. Opera's way seems fair, easy to change, and I can get rid of them if I ever quit being cheap.
Not that it matters, but I'll contest the assessment of Opera as "good"software, and the 500000% bit.
Opera is great. I have it installed on my new to me Compaq LTE 5400 that is running Windows 98. IE is a semi-functional rotundity on that machine. Opera works nicely, and is quite a bit better in all respects, especially screen drawing time. It makes my weekend moochin sessions at the local coffee shop bearable.
Sure, the 500000% is hyperbole, and understood to be that, but the Opera guy's statement seems to be good hearted bombast, something I find acceptable. Maybe I'm nuts!
By the way, does anybody know of a place that I can get a cheap external battery pack or a set of internal batteries for my machine? They're so stinkin' expensive!
Interesting. I haven't seen the idea that anyone can attack before. I'll have to see what I can find out.
As a side point, I understand that piracy, the "arrgh matey!" type, not the Hilary Rosen type, is becoming a serious problem in Malaysian waters. Scary.
If I recall my law correctly, a ship on the high seas is more or less considered a mobile chunk land from the flag nation. Therefore the flag's nation's criminal laws apply.
The major exceptions are if a vessel is followed in hot pursuit from another nation's territorial waters, if the vessel is abandoned or a hazard to navigation, and if it doesn't fly a flag or identify itself. If it doesn't have a flat it's open season to any Navy that wants to make it an issue.
Admiralty law is kinda freaky, and precedent and reason doesn't necessarily follow conventional lines. Also, I don't believe Liberia or Malta is going to give a crap about anti-descrimination laws. Working this stuff out could be interesting.
The above comment is rightly moderated as funny, but it could also be "insightful." If some of these smart guys can penetrate a terrorist group's networks, set up a scam, and then get Habib and Akmar to start fighting eachother when the $onlyanidiowouldbelieveit doesn't show up, so much the better.
Now, since we're pretty much defining "terrorist" rather broadly these days, who knows what will happen.
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I'm not very smart about computer security, but I can follow directions with precision, think about threats in a general way, and I care. What is your company doing for people like me? It seems that no matter what I do I have problems with your software. Ok, I'm still using windows 98, but why do I have to run two security apps plus the cheap Zone Alarm firewall just to stay functional?
Well, my problems don't go away so neither will I. Your, in the collective sense, stats are not my problem, and working at your supervisor's convenience isn't either. Basic humanity shoudln't be ignored, but saving sombebody else's stasts just isn't on my list.
Ohhh, this has to be a good one! A foreign company installing spyware on military machines. There has to be a penalty that really hurts for this chicanery, right? Leavenworth PMITAP?
Nice analysis, but may I suggest that it is actually not all that clever of a troll and that many reasonable people will see it as you have.
If the recording industries can impose fees, however small, for the ephemeral copies created in a server for a webcast, why not charge Google, a for-profit company, for the ephemeral copies it makes?
Firstly, their copies are probably stuck on a hard drive of some kind, and are most certainly not all that ephemeral.
Secondly, just because Google isn't likely to make any money directly from this project doesn't mean that it the copies of the book in their database aren't contributing to the bottom line. Good will, dragging scholars to your site, and general coolness are worth something.
Thirdly, many books have an express prohibition on electronic storage of any kind right on the inside front cover.
The Section 107 list probably means more to a lawyer than it does to me, but as I see it, Google strikes out on almost all of the points.
1. Google exists to make their share holders money, and any activities must be assumed to have something to do with that. Therefore the purpose of the use is profit.
2. I'm not sure what "the nature of the copyrighted work;" means, but it seems to me that a print heavy book has all it's value in the text.
The only real analog to sticking thumbnails of a picture heavy web site, an court approved fair use thing, would be to paraphrase or write a commentary on the text.
3. Google is going to store all of the book's text. What they are doing is no different thangoing to a college book store, photocopying the text and then only puttign small bits of the text in the term papers. The citations are appropriate, but making your own copy isn't. That doesn't mean that everybody doesn't do it, but that's a different problem.
4. Forcing an author into an opt-out scheme in order to preserve their chances at selling the rights to another search engine is crap. Opt out sucks.
It's probably obvious that I'm neither a published author or a law scholar, but that's how I see it. If I was an author I'd probably drive an electronic copy of all my works down to Google HQ myself, but I'd like it to be my choice.
It does. I use it, but I refuse to go without a tape based or similiar backup. It doesn't happen often, but glitches happen, especially with FCP 4.5.
Recording DV isn't a big deal. The reason those custom capture devices are so expensive is convenience and simplicity. If it isn't a problem, hit ebay for a cheap G4 and install extra hard drives, and put the whole mess on a wheel around rack. If you want a belt mounted unit, it is still going to cost big bucks.
The Zone CD seems to offer easy setup and admin for a free public access point. I'm wondering if there is a similiar product that would let the owner introduce random and variable jitter and lag into the AP such that gaming would be annoying but ordinary web surfing would be no problem. That discourage one class of high maintenance, low spending freeloaders. Maybe not?
Ah yes, Tom McCall, late governor of Oregon. Gotta love the guy.
Those housing contracts may not mean a whole lot. The FCC has laid down some restrictions that would pre-empt any such contract. Go here for more information.
Me too. At Radio Shack I just give them a polite "No Thanks." If the sales droid persists, I just stare at them and say nothing until they move the sale along. I have a beard, I'm fat and slightly odd looking, so it gets the point across without a lot of fuss. This doesn't happen much anymore, I think the store has gotten the point or changed policy.
Sad, but true.
If I read the summary on the linked site correctly, the law allows for civil suits. Surely there are enough zealots out there that would love to heckle the email marketers. If by marketers Utah means the people that are pushing the products, gathering information about customers and tailoring the pitches, then it may be possible to hunt them down. A friendly postal inspector or a subpoena to FedEx and some pressure should cough up the address of the PenisPill vendor. It might just be a front, but that's at least a little clue. It might be worth having a few children just to be able to financially castrate Scott Richter and friends.
Let's hope that a non progressive future includes several varieties of "Acme Health Pellets" and bottles of "AcmeFina." I've lived on dandelions and cattails for a few days. It sucks. Young dandelion greens aren't too bad as long as you have a more neurtral green to cut the flavor. Forget it if they're old. I've also had cattail rootstalks. They taste like funky cucumbers except with more slime. Other parts are edible if you're going to be in one place for a while and are willing to work for it. I wasn't hungry enough to go after the rodents so I don't know about that. Trust me, you'll be willing to endure a ramen fueled cube slavery after a few days of being back to nature. I'd say that the hunter-gatherer thing is much more difficult than being a cube drone. Still, making raw nature your bitch is satisfying.
Yay! for transparent voting, black boxes suck, and we absolutely need an independent audit, not just the ability to do the audit.
I can't go with you on abolishing the electoral college. If that happens, a lot of smaller states are going to be really unhappy, and you are going to have rule by California. If the states had a little more power, and weren't Federal bitches, then it might not matter so much. Rightnow, the smaller states need all the defence they can get.
I agree that kids probably shouldn't use calculators very much, but I can't go along with Grandma.
My father is the same way. He routinely beats checkers at their game unless the order is large. But if you ask him to do trigonometry or even rudimentary algebra, he's lost. He's a smart man, but he has to have his lookup tables such tools. He launches into minor rants about dumb checkers ocasionally, but I don't bring up his algebra skills anymore.
I'm not saying the old folks are wrong about mental computation and stupid clerks, but a lot of it is just nostalgic elitism and a property of age.
Exactly. That is what I should have said. The simple, pessimistic and therefore most likely to be true scenario is that he did exactly what she said he did. But the proof is a big problem. I don'thave a solution.
Yes, it is serious and possibly criminally creepy behavior by the ex. If I had to guess why Yahoo left the pictures up I'd say that it is a result of bureaucratic inertia and laziness.
But I do think that Yahoo should leave them up until it is proven that the boyfriend didn'thave the right to post the material. Being an asshole is not necessarily a crime. If Yahoo takes stuff down on demand, without any kind of proof at all, people will abuse the process for fun and profit.
Perhaps proof was offered, I don't know, but assertion doesn't equal proof. Yahoo is screwed either way.
You're right on the 1 megabyte to 1 1 gigabyte conversion. I was not paying attention, of course.
I was figuring a 1 inch margin on all sides of the page anyway. I didn't bookmark the page, sorry. I'll post if I can find it again. Still, I think that 2D barcodes printed at 600dpi on a quality laser printer could be a halfway viable way to distribute music. Also, there were several companis that implied higher densities, but they didn't give any way to tell exactly how dense.
I was poking around on some bar code websites and one proprietary manufacturer said that they could store 140 bytes/square centimeter if their symbols are printed and scanned at a 300dpi resolution.
If my rough calculations are correct, we're talking about 15 single sided pages per megabyte of data. That means about 66 pages per Gigabyte. At that rate, ordinary laser printer paper from Staples would cost something like $1.06 (U.S. figures, sorry. I can't quite think in Guilders and I have no idea of how much office supplies go for over there.) for the paper cost alone. It might be best to go to a copy center because of the high density printing that is going to suck down large amounts of toner.
If my figures are correct, one ream of 500 sheets will yield about seven gigabytes, and will cost about $8.50. that means that the tax on the ream would be about $32. So yeah, that is getting reamed.
The figures are mostly bogus because nobody is going to use the proprietary system I used for my figures to do p2p, higher resolution printing on the same sheet totally skews the figures, and really doubt that our European friends are going to get violent about making sure all their paper has a tax stamp on it. Or maybe they will, who knows.
Paper could be a music storage medium, and a good one for some purposes. I'd like to see the taxman try to beat that one. It has the same appeal as watching a microcephalic rodeo.
I'm right there with you. I'd still like to get something even skinnier that would run on that old of a machine, but would cope with modern web sites. I don't know if that's a realistic goal.
As an aside, I really liked the way Opera handles their advertisements. Opera's way seems fair, easy to change, and I can get rid of them if I ever quit being cheap.
BTW, I have Opera 7.0. Is it worth the upgrade?
Not that it matters, but I'll contest the assessment of Opera as "good"software, and the 500000% bit.
Opera is great. I have it installed on my new to me Compaq LTE 5400 that is running Windows 98. IE is a semi-functional rotundity on that machine. Opera works nicely, and is quite a bit better in all respects, especially screen drawing time. It makes my weekend moochin sessions at the local coffee shop bearable.
Sure, the 500000% is hyperbole, and understood to be that, but the Opera guy's statement seems to be good hearted bombast, something I find acceptable. Maybe I'm nuts!
By the way, does anybody know of a place that I can get a cheap external battery pack or a set of internal batteries for my machine? They're so stinkin' expensive!
Of course, but the biggest objection, other than tis patent is stupid, is that putting the controller in the seat isn't terribly novel or non-obvious.
Any moron with a little cash can file one of these patents. I'm hoping someone slaps this one down, and hard. I'm also not holding my breath.
Interesting. I haven't seen the idea that anyone can attack before. I'll have to see what I can find out.
As a side point, I understand that piracy, the "arrgh matey!" type, not the Hilary Rosen type, is becoming a serious problem in Malaysian waters. Scary.
If I recall my law correctly, a ship on the high seas is more or less considered a mobile chunk land from the flag nation. Therefore the flag's nation's criminal laws apply.
The major exceptions are if a vessel is followed in hot pursuit from another nation's territorial waters, if the vessel is abandoned or a hazard to navigation, and if it doesn't fly a flag or identify itself. If it doesn't have a flat it's open season to any Navy that wants to make it an issue.
Admiralty law is kinda freaky, and precedent and reason doesn't necessarily follow conventional lines. Also, I don't believe Liberia or Malta is going to give a crap about anti-descrimination laws. Working this stuff out could be interesting.
The above comment is rightly moderated as funny, but it could also be "insightful." If some of these smart guys can penetrate a terrorist group's networks, set up a scam, and then get Habib and Akmar to start fighting eachother when the $onlyanidiowouldbelieveit doesn't show up, so much the better.
Now, since we're pretty much defining "terrorist" rather broadly these days, who knows what will happen.