This kind of thing reminds me of the recent immigration paperwork I had to do. They have a few questions you have to answer no to in order to get a visa to enter the country (ok, so it says you could still get one, but I highly doubt it). Here is the one that makes me groan ever time I see it:
Do you seek to enter the United States to engage in export control violations, subversive or terrorist activities, or any other unlawful purpose? Are you a member or representative of a terrorist organization as currently designated by the U.S. Secretary of State? Have you ever participated in persecutions directed by the Nazi government of Germany; or have you ever participated in genocide?
Now who exactly are they expecting to exclude based on that question? If you have or are planning to do any of those, are you honestly going answer truthfully? Maybe it catches really dumb terrorists?
Maybe it's exactly what we need. It's really just another form of credit, and we are already seeing the fallout of too much of that right now. Without the subsidies on phones, people would knows how much their phones really costs and might choose differently. Do you _really_ need a 2 megapixel camera for an extra $100 bucks?
The service would be cheaper too since you aren't paying off the cost of your phone on a monthly basis. Of course that assumes service costs would drop as well, which is probably unlikely. If you don't realize part of your monthly bill is paying for a phone, you probably won't realize when part of your monthly bill is paying for a phone you already paid for.
My guess is, if the FCC forces them to forgo the cancellation fee, we'll start seeing separate "phone rental contracts" that are essentially the same thing, but likely outside the control of the FCC.
Of course I write all of this a few days after getting my new shiny subsidized phone.
You're assuming he thinks everyone should speak English. I think he has a good point, most of what will be lost probably isn't worth saving. Most of it is probably only interesting to linguists and anthropologists, which probably means the world at large won't even notice.
I read something a while back (probably posted on Slashdot) that talked about why computers should forget information by default. If it isn't important enough to mark it as a long-term saved file, it probably isn't important enough to be cluttering up your system in 6 months.
This is terribly off-topic, but I feel a need. Doesn't Einstein's theory of relativity assume that what you see is right now? If you see the light from two supernovas at the same time, then they happen at the same time?
Apologies. Intoxicated and needing to prove I've read Einstein's theory.
You'll be hearing shortly from the government of Nigeria. Your comments about their citizens were deemed to be illegal under Nigerian legal code Section 13.43b and you will be extradited to face criminal charges there.
Except in your example the crime boss is committing a crime under US law on US soil. I don't believe the law differentiates who is being killed in that case. I honestly can't think of any reason why someone should be extradited in this way. If you are doing something which is legal in your home country, should another country be able to extradite you? No. It's not illegal. If you're doing something that is illegal in your home country, should another country be able to extradite you? No. You should be charged under the laws of your own country.
The only reason any of this seems OK is because it's going on between countries with similar laws. If the laws of two countries are too different nobody would thing it was a good idea. It would be like the US trying to extradite someone from Amsterdam for smoking pot. What if Iran decided it wants to extradite someone for breaking their laws? Doesn't seem like such a good idea does it?
So how do you propose they set it up to follow the varying laws of the 194 countries in the world? Do they just wait until the country complains about something? What if the law is unclear? What if the law is immoral?
Depending on the country, the leaders could decide that anything is against the law for any reason at any time. Do you think a company like YouTube should expected to write a special rule in their system to enforce "All video of X celebrity cannot be viewed between the hours of 10 and 2?" Sure, Japan's election law is fairly simple and clear, but where do you draw the line of which laws you're going to follow and which you're going to ignore?
Absolutely, but the courts are not the proper way. What the guy was doing is asinine, but should absolutely not be illegal. If you've decided to provide access to your content to anyone who requests it (which is exactly what most webservers do) you cannot complain to the courts when someone makes use of it to their own gain. One of the other analogies used for this has been setting up a store with the sole purpose of viewing a painting in the store window across the street, but surrounded with your own advertising. Stupid? Yes. Illegal? No, and shouldn't be. Even if you set it up so somehow it appears the painting is actually in your store, it's still being displayed by the actual owner.
You can't complain when someone gives tours of your publicly viewable content in such a way that people don't see your advertising. It is your responsibility to ensure that people can only see it in the manner you wish. Don't go crying to the courts if you can't figure out how to do that.
I think it'll be more like: someone accuses you of breaking into their computer (former boss, ex, whatever), goes to court and you're acquitted on all counts because you didn't do it, "Oh by the way, since you were accused you were probably guilty, here's an ASBO, don't touch a computer ever again. Have a nice day."
It isn't just Mormons either (though I'm sure that's a big chunk of their business). My mother is a Jr. High teacher, so if she wants to show a movie to her kids, it can't have all the naughty bits. So if a movie isn't quite appropriate, she just goes to CleanFlix so that she can still show it. She teaches American history, so she shows them a clean version of Glory. I've never seen the clean version though, it's probably pretty short:)
I believe he means closing ALL the code (owned by them or otherwise) and having the courts very efficiently tear them to pieces for copyright infringement.
So far everyone is assuming FedEx is going along with this. We are talking about customs searches here, so the most likely scenario is that someone decided on a particular facility to test, and FedEx get fingered and is just shit out of luck. This will happen at all the international shipping companies and I highly doubt any of them are too happy.
Thank you! I cringe every time someone says deficit when they mean debt and vice versa.
In the context of the grandparent, 300 billion doesn't sound like much when you've got a debt of 8.3 trillion, but it does when compared to the annual deficit of 400 billion. Considering we've been in Iraq for 3 years now, 300 billion is 25% of the debt accumulated.
I don't think it's so much that people don't care, it just hasn't really hit home yet. Regardless of whether copying your "copy protected" cd to your computer is legal or not, people do it because it's reasonable to 99.9% of the populace. When common sense things like that get taken away, people will wake up and start demanding action.
Who said anything about a levy? We're talking about an optional payment here. I would definitely go for it, even though there's most likely too many problems with it to be viable (which music is legal? which isn't? i doubt non-RIAA labels are getting a piece of the pie).
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe the US has a piracy levy on media -- at least yet.
It's also extremely likely that the EULA has absolutely no effect on liability. Just because you sign a document stating that you waive your right to sue, doesn't mean they aren't still liable for negligence. Most waivers aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
The difference between google's page index and the maps hacks is that the hacks are essentially leeching the content out of the original site whereas google's index is pointing to it. At some point google will put ads up (since that's their revenue stream) and people using the system from outside their pages aren't going to be hitting the ads to make google money.
As far as image search and google cache, I'll let the lawyers hash it out.
And damn, that was a nice cease and desist. I've always maintained that we need a law that says "thou shalt send a nice letter asking politely for compliance or no judgement for thee!"
Screw the "anonymous friend." Just stick it on an unpatched system on the net which will get hacked and the code stolen. Of course in his post I believe he says he had to turn over the code, meaning any copies he has are to be destroyed. In that case he'd get sued regardless of how it gets out.
I agree that crates are still in common use for many things, but how many of the gigantor crates you see in games make sense?
I was actually going to point out how things larger than an engine would be put in something else, but I'm at a loss for what that actually is. What do you put something that's 8' tall into other than a crate?
Microsoft likes the PPC architecture so much, they port full blown Windows to it, purchase whatever rights they might need to produce their own PPC chips, team up with someone with a fab (be it IBM, Intel, AMD, etc) and start making their own. Since it's Microsoft, they'll tweak it just enough that you can't throw Windows on a standard IBM PPC system. IBM of course can't compete (or won't if they end up being the ones manufacturing them) and stops making their own PPC, and now Apple either goes with Intel or gets stuck using Microsoft PowerPC chips. Apple running on Microsoft hardware. Oh irony!
I used iTunes for over a year and recently switched back to winamp to try and decide which is really the better for me. One thing I noticed is, like you said, adding lots of files to your iTunes library can take a long time. When I reinstalled everything recently, I found I had to add my music (over 20gb) in chunks to keep iTunes from locking up. Move in a couple gigs, and it takes a couple minutes, move in 20 and it takes, well I never waited to see, after about 5 minutes of it being unresponsive I killed it.
Winamp had no problem with getting the whole collection at once, although it is noticeably slower in moving through the library. And it has nice search features.
I await the day one or the other merges the nice things of both. Media utopia.
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By your logic, anyone calling out Ubisoft for their DRM is contributing to the loss of value of the copyright and thus are thieves.
This kind of thing reminds me of the recent immigration paperwork I had to do. They have a few questions you have to answer no to in order to get a visa to enter the country (ok, so it says you could still get one, but I highly doubt it). Here is the one that makes me groan ever time I see it:
Do you seek to enter the United States to engage in export control violations, subversive or terrorist activities, or any other unlawful purpose? Are you a member or representative of a terrorist organization as currently designated by the U.S. Secretary of State? Have you ever participated in persecutions directed by the Nazi government of Germany; or have you ever participated in genocide?
Now who exactly are they expecting to exclude based on that question? If you have or are planning to do any of those, are you honestly going answer truthfully? Maybe it catches really dumb terrorists?
Maybe it's exactly what we need. It's really just another form of credit, and we are already seeing the fallout of too much of that right now. Without the subsidies on phones, people would knows how much their phones really costs and might choose differently. Do you _really_ need a 2 megapixel camera for an extra $100 bucks?
The service would be cheaper too since you aren't paying off the cost of your phone on a monthly basis. Of course that assumes service costs would drop as well, which is probably unlikely. If you don't realize part of your monthly bill is paying for a phone, you probably won't realize when part of your monthly bill is paying for a phone you already paid for.
My guess is, if the FCC forces them to forgo the cancellation fee, we'll start seeing separate "phone rental contracts" that are essentially the same thing, but likely outside the control of the FCC.
Of course I write all of this a few days after getting my new shiny subsidized phone.
"LED-based lighting is safer and far more efficient than the Luxim device."
How do you figure?
Luxim: 140 lm/W
LED: up to 100 lm/W
I'll agree with the safety being higher with LED, but I'm not sure the difference is important.
You're assuming he thinks everyone should speak English. I think he has a good point, most of what will be lost probably isn't worth saving. Most of it is probably only interesting to linguists and anthropologists, which probably means the world at large won't even notice.
I read something a while back (probably posted on Slashdot) that talked about why computers should forget information by default. If it isn't important enough to mark it as a long-term saved file, it probably isn't important enough to be cluttering up your system in 6 months.
I guess reading the article is asking too much? There are 4 120mm case fans on it.
This is terribly off-topic, but I feel a need. Doesn't Einstein's theory of relativity assume that what you see is right now? If you see the light from two supernovas at the same time, then they happen at the same time?
Apologies. Intoxicated and needing to prove I've read Einstein's theory.
You'll be hearing shortly from the government of Nigeria. Your comments about their citizens were deemed to be illegal under Nigerian legal code Section 13.43b and you will be extradited to face criminal charges there.
Have a nice day.
Except in your example the crime boss is committing a crime under US law on US soil. I don't believe the law differentiates who is being killed in that case. I honestly can't think of any reason why someone should be extradited in this way. If you are doing something which is legal in your home country, should another country be able to extradite you? No. It's not illegal. If you're doing something that is illegal in your home country, should another country be able to extradite you? No. You should be charged under the laws of your own country.
The only reason any of this seems OK is because it's going on between countries with similar laws. If the laws of two countries are too different nobody would thing it was a good idea. It would be like the US trying to extradite someone from Amsterdam for smoking pot. What if Iran decided it wants to extradite someone for breaking their laws? Doesn't seem like such a good idea does it?
So how do you propose they set it up to follow the varying laws of the 194 countries in the world? Do they just wait until the country complains about something? What if the law is unclear? What if the law is immoral?
Depending on the country, the leaders could decide that anything is against the law for any reason at any time. Do you think a company like YouTube should expected to write a special rule in their system to enforce "All video of X celebrity cannot be viewed between the hours of 10 and 2?" Sure, Japan's election law is fairly simple and clear, but where do you draw the line of which laws you're going to follow and which you're going to ignore?
well, they deserve a smacking.
Absolutely, but the courts are not the proper way. What the guy was doing is asinine, but should absolutely not be illegal. If you've decided to provide access to your content to anyone who requests it (which is exactly what most webservers do) you cannot complain to the courts when someone makes use of it to their own gain. One of the other analogies used for this has been setting up a store with the sole purpose of viewing a painting in the store window across the street, but surrounded with your own advertising. Stupid? Yes. Illegal? No, and shouldn't be. Even if you set it up so somehow it appears the painting is actually in your store, it's still being displayed by the actual owner.
You can't complain when someone gives tours of your publicly viewable content in such a way that people don't see your advertising. It is your responsibility to ensure that people can only see it in the manner you wish. Don't go crying to the courts if you can't figure out how to do that.
I think it'll be more like: someone accuses you of breaking into their computer (former boss, ex, whatever), goes to court and you're acquitted on all counts because you didn't do it, "Oh by the way, since you were accused you were probably guilty, here's an ASBO, don't touch a computer ever again. Have a nice day."
It isn't just Mormons either (though I'm sure that's a big chunk of their business). My mother is a Jr. High teacher, so if she wants to show a movie to her kids, it can't have all the naughty bits. So if a movie isn't quite appropriate, she just goes to CleanFlix so that she can still show it. She teaches American history, so she shows them a clean version of Glory. I've never seen the clean version though, it's probably pretty short :)
I believe he means closing ALL the code (owned by them or otherwise) and having the courts very efficiently tear them to pieces for copyright infringement.
So far everyone is assuming FedEx is going along with this. We are talking about customs searches here, so the most likely scenario is that someone decided on a particular facility to test, and FedEx get fingered and is just shit out of luck. This will happen at all the international shipping companies and I highly doubt any of them are too happy.
Thank you! I cringe every time someone says deficit when they mean debt and vice versa.
In the context of the grandparent, 300 billion doesn't sound like much when you've got a debt of 8.3 trillion, but it does when compared to the annual deficit of 400 billion. Considering we've been in Iraq for 3 years now, 300 billion is 25% of the debt accumulated.
I don't think it's so much that people don't care, it just hasn't really hit home yet. Regardless of whether copying your "copy protected" cd to your computer is legal or not, people do it because it's reasonable to 99.9% of the populace. When common sense things like that get taken away, people will wake up and start demanding action.
Who said anything about a levy? We're talking about an optional payment here. I would definitely go for it, even though there's most likely too many problems with it to be viable (which music is legal? which isn't? i doubt non-RIAA labels are getting a piece of the pie).
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe the US has a piracy levy on media -- at least yet.
It's also extremely likely that the EULA has absolutely no effect on liability. Just because you sign a document stating that you waive your right to sue, doesn't mean they aren't still liable for negligence. Most waivers aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
The difference between google's page index and the maps hacks is that the hacks are essentially leeching the content out of the original site whereas google's index is pointing to it. At some point google will put ads up (since that's their revenue stream) and people using the system from outside their pages aren't going to be hitting the ads to make google money.
As far as image search and google cache, I'll let the lawyers hash it out.
And damn, that was a nice cease and desist. I've always maintained that we need a law that says "thou shalt send a nice letter asking politely for compliance or no judgement for thee!"
Don't you know? OJ's gonna find that killer! Oh he's a lookin!
Screw the "anonymous friend." Just stick it on an unpatched system on the net which will get hacked and the code stolen. Of course in his post I believe he says he had to turn over the code, meaning any copies he has are to be destroyed. In that case he'd get sued regardless of how it gets out.
I agree that crates are still in common use for many things, but how many of the gigantor crates you see in games make sense?
I was actually going to point out how things larger than an engine would be put in something else, but I'm at a loss for what that actually is. What do you put something that's 8' tall into other than a crate?
I can see it now:
Microsoft likes the PPC architecture so much, they port full blown Windows to it, purchase whatever rights they might need to produce their own PPC chips, team up with someone with a fab (be it IBM, Intel, AMD, etc) and start making their own. Since it's Microsoft, they'll tweak it just enough that you can't throw Windows on a standard IBM PPC system. IBM of course can't compete (or won't if they end up being the ones manufacturing them) and stops making their own PPC, and now Apple either goes with Intel or gets stuck using Microsoft PowerPC chips. Apple running on Microsoft hardware. Oh irony!
I used iTunes for over a year and recently switched back to winamp to try and decide which is really the better for me. One thing I noticed is, like you said, adding lots of files to your iTunes library can take a long time. When I reinstalled everything recently, I found I had to add my music (over 20gb) in chunks to keep iTunes from locking up. Move in a couple gigs, and it takes a couple minutes, move in 20 and it takes, well I never waited to see, after about 5 minutes of it being unresponsive I killed it.
Winamp had no problem with getting the whole collection at once, although it is noticeably slower in moving through the library. And it has nice search features.
I await the day one or the other merges the nice things of both. Media utopia.