The government's response will be quite predictable: the EFF is correct and we need to quit enforcing these Republican corporatist crony laws right now!
You're being sarcastic, but the reality is the government does have to respond, and they do have to give an answer that seems halfway reasonable, which actually, in this case is hard. So if you're the kind of person who likes reading legal fights, this is a moment to sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
Especially since the outcome is likely to be so good.
In 2005 you probably didn't have a phone even capable of decent world wide web access let alone a network that you could pass 100GB in one month.
Everyone had a phone capable of web access in 2005 (decent depends on your browser: windows mobile was ok), but you could also get an EVDO card that would give you acceptable data rates. Thinkpads had an option to have a card built into the laptop (bad idea, but it was available. I chose to have an external module instead).
Their argument in brief: those provisions of the DMCA are preventing people from expressing themselves (free speech) which violates the first amendment. The Library of Congress is supposed to approve various exemptions to the DMCA for the purpose of research (or other), but the LoC failed to do so (in 2015). Even if the LoC had correctly fulfilled their duty, having them as a gatekeeper on what speech is allowed violates the first amendment.
This is a great lawsuit, I can't wait to see what the government's response will be. Incidentally, there is a third plaintiff besides the two mentioned in the summary, a company called Alphamax (but I've never heard of them).
Get a convertor. Every time you watch a VCR tape, after you are done, set it to convert to DVD (or whatever), and then walk away. Low effort, and the things you watch the most will be converted first.
VCRs haven't competed against DVDs for a long time. If you buy a movie, it has come on DVD (or blue-ray) for over a decade.
The reason people buy VCRs now is to record shows off the TV to watch them later. That's not easy to do on a DVD player. So as DVRs have become more popular, they've replaced the final uses for VCR.
You may recall that 9/11 happened before the war in Iraq. Bush ran on a domestic program and war was thrust upon his administration by Bin Laden, al Qaida, and the Taliban.
I'll forgive Bush for Afghanistan, but Iraq was his choice.
Destabilization at that time served to annoy the USSR. There no longer is a USSR to annoy, I can see no reason that destabilizing Iraq was a good idea (and it wasn't Bush's goal, anyway. He thought it would magically become a democratic, free market paradise).
A better metric would be rent/mortgage and other unavoidable costs as a proportion of income. They have all being going up........while simultaneously objecting to any new stock being built.
That's the problem. If we build enough houses, the cost of living will drop dramatically, and people will feel rich again (except landlords).
Worth mentioning that the economy should be looked at as a global whole, not one country in isolation.....the global reduction in poverty and inequality has been dramatic. It's true that some industries in the US and England have suffered (textiles, for example), but overall the world has benefited tremendously.
In the 1970's a kid straight out of high school could get a job, get married, buy a 3 bed house + garage + car in the suburbs and raise 2.6 children on one paycheck.
The main reason that is hard today is because of the expensive housing costs. Housing costs are high because we don't build enough houses. If we build more houses, then the prices will go down, and it will be easy to live like that again.
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The government's response will be quite predictable: the EFF is correct and we need to quit enforcing these Republican corporatist crony laws right now!
You're being sarcastic, but the reality is the government does have to respond, and they do have to give an answer that seems halfway reasonable, which actually, in this case is hard. So if you're the kind of person who likes reading legal fights, this is a moment to sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
Especially since the outcome is likely to be so good.
In 2005 you probably didn't have a phone even capable of decent world wide web access let alone a network that you could pass 100GB in one month.
Everyone had a phone capable of web access in 2005 (decent depends on your browser: windows mobile was ok), but you could also get an EVDO card that would give you acceptable data rates. Thinkpads had an option to have a card built into the laptop (bad idea, but it was available. I chose to have an external module instead).
Here is the complaint, in case anyone wants to read it.
Their argument in brief: those provisions of the DMCA are preventing people from expressing themselves (free speech) which violates the first amendment. The Library of Congress is supposed to approve various exemptions to the DMCA for the purpose of research (or other), but the LoC failed to do so (in 2015). Even if the LoC had correctly fulfilled their duty, having them as a gatekeeper on what speech is allowed violates the first amendment.
This is a great lawsuit, I can't wait to see what the government's response will be. Incidentally, there is a third plaintiff besides the two mentioned in the summary, a company called Alphamax (but I've never heard of them).
No, but he does.
HUH? It was just as easy to do, if not easier, as recording on VCRs.
Had to make sure your dvds didn't get fingerprints, even after multiple recordings
That could be, but it seems like something he wanted to do before getting elected.
DVD recorders won't record commercial tapes encoded with macrovision,
In my experience, Disney tapes are mainly the ones that use macrovision. My experience may or may not be representative.
but Disney is an important exception. 50 Disney movies isn't cheap.
And Disney VHS cassettes come with DRM, so you can't always convert them to DVD yourself.
Get a convertor. Every time you watch a VCR tape, after you are done, set it to convert to DVD (or whatever), and then walk away. Low effort, and the things you watch the most will be converted first.
VCRs haven't competed against DVDs for a long time. If you buy a movie, it has come on DVD (or blue-ray) for over a decade.
The reason people buy VCRs now is to record shows off the TV to watch them later. That's not easy to do on a DVD player. So as DVRs have become more popular, they've replaced the final uses for VCR.
You may recall that 9/11 happened before the war in Iraq. Bush ran on a domestic program and war was thrust upon his administration by Bin Laden, al Qaida, and the Taliban.
I'll forgive Bush for Afghanistan, but Iraq was his choice.
I think it might have been this one. Not that Science is broken as a tool, but science as an institution has problems.
Well, the US will still happily annoy Russia at any possible occasion.
Not really, although I can see why Russians might think that.
Destabilization at that time served to annoy the USSR. There no longer is a USSR to annoy, I can see no reason that destabilizing Iraq was a good idea (and it wasn't Bush's goal, anyway. He thought it would magically become a democratic, free market paradise).
I don't think Bush listened to Kissinger on Iraq. Or anyone with a lick of sense, for that matter.
Not to mention she had $300 million in the bank to begin with......
to act as a community.
I don't even play Pokemon Go, and I've already had community-building conversations with people I never would have talked with otherwise.
Sportsball is so much more normal, right? Why can't we all just act like sportsballers?
Believe me, I didn't.
But, with proper backups, disk partitioning, etc., neither Mint nor Neon has bit back.
I would imagine both of those have stable versions of the Linux Kernel, even if they are running some experimental software on top.
A better metric would be rent/mortgage and other unavoidable costs as a proportion of income. They have all being going up........while simultaneously objecting to any new stock being built.
That's the problem. If we build enough houses, the cost of living will drop dramatically, and people will feel rich again (except landlords).
The highest univariate association was between wheat and cancer. But the author ignored that.
ok, I'll look at it again.
Worth mentioning that the economy should be looked at as a global whole, not one country in isolation.....the global reduction in poverty and inequality has been dramatic. It's true that some industries in the US and England have suffered (textiles, for example), but overall the world has benefited tremendously.
In the 1970's a kid straight out of high school could get a job, get married, buy a 3 bed house + garage + car in the suburbs and raise 2.6 children on one paycheck.
The main reason that is hard today is because of the expensive housing costs. Housing costs are high because we don't build enough houses. If we build more houses, then the prices will go down, and it will be easy to live like that again.
Why not try an all meat diet? Smarter people than you do: http://www.jbc.org/content/87/...
That's an old study, and the evidence from the China study directly contradicts it....