I seriously doubt either Rangel or Hollings seriously want there to be a draft for the sake of bringing people involuntarily into the armed forces. The armed forces have even been pretty loud in saying they don't want a draft as non-trained people who don't wanna be there is of no use to the skill-based armed forces of today.
The real reason why they want an all-inclusive draft is nothing makes fence-sitters on a war start to hate it than the possiblity of their family members or themselves being thrown into fight against their will. That's the real point, to force a pull-out of Iraq.
That's an easy one. Outlawing alcohol didn't require an admendment... a simple federal law would have done the trick. However, the forces that wanted prohibition were so overzealous they reached for the higher standard so that it'd be harder to overturn what they did. Too bad for them, that higher bar for clicking "undo" ended up getting met anyway.
What I want to know is what we are doing to stop them from continuing their infiltration into our personal lives that we live behind closed doors.
There are major chains of stores operating under names such as "Home Depot" and "Lowes" that carry state-of-the-art camera blocking devices such as roofing tiles and window shades...
It seems like the "Your Rights Online" section of Slashdot has outgrown its name into a pure copyright-bashing area. Where's the "online" in this story? All we have here is a group of artists who wanted to do a live performance while showing the video half of a still-under-copyright movie. Having copyright laws that block that from happening against the copyright-holder's wishes may be annoying, but it's the law and they've gotta deal with it.
The connection to online is just plain not there... either this story belongs in the main index section instead, or this section needs a new name.
Lucas Films is overly obsessive over the conditions in the theaters in which Star Wars movies played... they spun of THX as a certification body to make sure visual and sound equipment is upto code for everything from theaters to the recording studio used for a video game.
It shouldn't be surprising that a group like this is going to get legal nastygrams for what they're trying to do here when you put that in context. Lucas Films isn't going to release any part of their movie to people who want to do parodies, if they want to do a real parody the right way they'd have to use their own video content. These people got used to using the real movie's video when they were only doing public domain movies, but they fail to understand that anything that came out after the introduction of Mickey Mouse won't be public domain until at least the 2010s, assuming the law isn't revised agian. Until that happens, copyright holders will have the power to shut down this type of "parody" as being not far enough removed from the original work to count.
These things have been around in various forms for about as long as we've had a WWW. I'd just wonder how many people died without realizing their final-e-mail service had died before they did...
Uhm... I wouldn't celebrate anything based on this one. It's going to get overturned on appeal....The judge said the current copyright code on live performances is unconstitutional, because copyrights last forever, in conflict with the 'limited time' requirement of copyright law."
That's a beautiful concept that I'd love to hear from the Supreme Court of the U.S., but it's actually one that SCotUS has already turned down in Eldred v. Ashcroft, saying that the Sonny Bono Copyright Extention Act was constitutional because 75 years is less than infinity, and you can't prove that they're going to jack it up to higher 20 years from now because that's in the mysterious future.
The idea that live performances are getting an infinite copyright out of anti-bootlegging laws is also incorrect. The copyright on a live performance lasts for 75 years. It's just in that first instant where a performance is happening that matters the most... if nobody is allowed to make a copy then, the work is gone and left to the memories of the people who were there and that's it. That's not a copyright that lasts forever... it's a copyright that was enforced for the critical seconds that makes sure all possible copies are never made.
Sorry... good constitutal law just doesn't come out of district courts. This one's just not going to fly.
The basic problem forming in the media right now is that there's two distinct flavors:
News reports try to be fair... but the people who do such reporting tend to altruistic people who have a hard-to-hide bias towards the left, always wanting to file a feel-bad-for-this-person report that paints the little guy as a victim and the big company as the bad guy.
Then there's news analysis... that usually lands on the right because the best bigmouths tend to be right-wingers. Even if you disagree with every word they say, they're still more fun to listen two than a left-winger. Fox News Channel frequently has one-from-the-left, one-from-the-right debates on their air, and the right-winger usually is able to talk in soundbytes and talk over the opponent to the point that they appear to "win" the debate more often.
Here's what throws Google for the loop... There's only one AP, and there's only one Reuters. Stories that come out of those two agencies appear in hundreds of web pages, yet there are hundreds of right-wing opinon writers who all express similar ideas in completely different words. Therefore, the right-wing opinion pages sometimes can drown out the left-wing reporting by simply having more entries in the list.
Sony was a pretty big player in the content biz even before they had MGM... they bought out Columbia Tri-Star a few years ago and therefore own that movie archive as well as a handful TV series as recent as Dawson's Creek and the Donnie Osmond episodes of the Pyramid game show.
Since most of us don't use this type of disc in our computers, and are unlikely to upgrade solely to copy videogame disks... could they be hoping on good old fashioned security by obscurity to be an extra hurdle against piracy?
The current round of standard DirecTV TiVos are the same box that a year ago were selling at $299 now selling for $99. The $200 price drop is being funded entirely by DirecTV who assumes that they'll make the money back over the long term out of service subscriptions, and that's why the retailers require that some service be on the box for twelve months or otherwise you owe the retailer the subsidy money they don't get.
A codebase split seems to have happened when the DirecTiVo units officially took on the name of "DirecTV DVR with TiVo service" and the monthly subscription price got halved from $9.95 to $4.95. Near that time, the fees for standalone TiVos moved upwards from $9.95 to $12.95...
And at that point the DirecTV code froze, while development for the standalone TiVos continued. Apparently, DirecTV now must pay for any new features they want added to the DirecTV DVRs, meanwhile TiVo continued to push its latest stuff out for free to their direct subscribers. All of the things that a standard Series 2 TiVo can do that a Series 2 DirecTV DVR cannot were added after that point in time.
HDTV capture cards have a slight advantage over typical TV capture cards because they don't have to digitize anything from analog, they just have to remember the bitstream they were fed from the channel.
Their disadvantage is that HDTV can be quite the high-bandwidth application, and that means the limitations of the PCI bus, and even the AGP connection can sometimes cause quality loss. PCI Express seems to be the solution to that in the pipeline, and that's most likely what the mainstream vendors are waiting for. An HD card on the market today has to be labeled as an "early adopter" model.
On the other hand, maybe this is a technology that you want to be an early adopter of to avoid cards that end up getting crippled by "broadcast flag" laws.
Older database formats that don't support SQL aren't doing that just to be mean, it's because they don't naturally do as much indexing as even MS Access databases do. That's the critical flaw that causes them to start acting funny when they get to large sizes... if there's ever a mistake in the index, it can cause problems making that record come up on command.
Just to clarify the status of author Becky Worley and the TechTV network...
This book bears the TechTV logo as it was part of her work at TechTV to put out the book, in the same way Leo Laporte co-wrote his almanacs with the entire production staff of The Screen Savers and Call For Help. Becky was an on-air personality for TechLive who occasionally contributed segments to Fresh Gear as well.
On May 28 of this year, Comcast after owning the network for about 3 weeks merged it with "G4: TV 4 Gamers" into "G4TechTV: Games, Gear, Gadgets and Gigabytes" and the San Fran TechTV studios began shutting down and preparing to move to Los Angeles to be with the rest of the G4 network.
The Screen Savers returned to live episodes just last week, with lead hosts Kevin Rose (from the SF crew) and Alex Albrect (new to the team). Patrick Norton opted not to move to LA, and Leo Laporte had left the show to focus on Call For Help. CFH is now in an odd state of being in new first run episodes with Leo on G4TechTV Canada weeknights at 9pm ET, but that series is not being shown anywhere in the USA at the moment.
As for Becky... she hasn't turned up in the public eye since the SF shutdown. It's unlikely she stayed with the network as TechLive was completely deleted as its subject areas were reassigned to the Pulse news format that expanded beyond its original video games-only focus. Fresh Gear is still on the network, but only in the form of reruns from the SF studio... no new production on that title that anybody knows of.
Nice thought exercise in how such a system could be abused... but it has a glaring hole. Any time the defendant took the stand in their own defense, they'd suddenly gain the favorable witness camera as they spoke... if there was a glaring difference in the two cameras, it'd be as clear as daylight when the person moved to the better camera.
As many others have pointed out here, it's the same bug that brought down Windows 9x reappearing.
Just like the "Y2K glitch" was a platform independant problem based upon the 2-digit-year shorthand causing logical flaws, if you store time in a 32-bit variable by the microsecond... you'll hit the hard limit after about 49.7 days which is why that number can show up in kernels other than Win9x. If there's no proper handling of that rollover, things go haywire.
If multiple players are negligent, then multiple errors are scored. We've all seen "blooper" videos where there are cascading errors; one guy drops a catch, throws it to the next guy who drops it in turn, etc.
Only one error can be scored per base advanced by the runner, and if the runner took first by a "hit" before the errant throw, then there is only one "error" for his advancement to second. If two players crash into each other and the ball drops, it's usually a hit because it's hard to say either would have been able to make the catch "with normal effort" which is the real standard for an error.
Oh... there it is. Unit conversion flaw. They gave the value for seconds into a value for minutes... and ended up booting once every 10 years because of the factor of 60 mistake.
"This stuff" being all of IT. HDs will fail within 5-7 years no matter what OS you put on them...
Good IT is so hard to pull off because you have to convince people that events that strike once every few years have to be prepared for otherwise a disruption in service will occur.
I've seen AIX-based database systems that require an overnight downtime to do reindexing, since non-SQL formats like DBase have always been a little funky when they start having to deal with million-record tables. It's amazing how ugly legacy databases can be compared to today's tech.
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Just how do you think we're going to get out of our debt if we don't do things to increase economic activity. Can't tax income that doesn't happen...
Converting to SI might help us cut down that 500 billion trade deficit stat you just quoted.
I seriously doubt either Rangel or Hollings seriously want there to be a draft for the sake of bringing people involuntarily into the armed forces. The armed forces have even been pretty loud in saying they don't want a draft as non-trained people who don't wanna be there is of no use to the skill-based armed forces of today.
The real reason why they want an all-inclusive draft is nothing makes fence-sitters on a war start to hate it than the possiblity of their family members or themselves being thrown into fight against their will. That's the real point, to force a pull-out of Iraq.
That's an easy one. Outlawing alcohol didn't require an admendment... a simple federal law would have done the trick. However, the forces that wanted prohibition were so overzealous they reached for the higher standard so that it'd be harder to overturn what they did. Too bad for them, that higher bar for clicking "undo" ended up getting met anyway.
What I want to know is what we are doing to stop them from continuing their infiltration into our personal lives that we live behind closed doors.
There are major chains of stores operating under names such as "Home Depot" and "Lowes" that carry state-of-the-art camera blocking devices such as roofing tiles and window shades...
It seems like the "Your Rights Online" section of Slashdot has outgrown its name into a pure copyright-bashing area. Where's the "online" in this story? All we have here is a group of artists who wanted to do a live performance while showing the video half of a still-under-copyright movie. Having copyright laws that block that from happening against the copyright-holder's wishes may be annoying, but it's the law and they've gotta deal with it.
The connection to online is just plain not there... either this story belongs in the main index section instead, or this section needs a new name.
Lucas Films is overly obsessive over the conditions in the theaters in which Star Wars movies played... they spun of THX as a certification body to make sure visual and sound equipment is upto code for everything from theaters to the recording studio used for a video game.
It shouldn't be surprising that a group like this is going to get legal nastygrams for what they're trying to do here when you put that in context. Lucas Films isn't going to release any part of their movie to people who want to do parodies, if they want to do a real parody the right way they'd have to use their own video content. These people got used to using the real movie's video when they were only doing public domain movies, but they fail to understand that anything that came out after the introduction of Mickey Mouse won't be public domain until at least the 2010s, assuming the law isn't revised agian. Until that happens, copyright holders will have the power to shut down this type of "parody" as being not far enough removed from the original work to count.
These things have been around in various forms for about as long as we've had a WWW. I'd just wonder how many people died without realizing their final-e-mail service had died before they did...
Uhm... I wouldn't celebrate anything based on this one. It's going to get overturned on appeal. ...The judge said the current copyright code on live performances is unconstitutional, because copyrights last forever, in conflict with the 'limited time' requirement of copyright law."
That's a beautiful concept that I'd love to hear from the Supreme Court of the U.S., but it's actually one that SCotUS has already turned down in Eldred v. Ashcroft, saying that the Sonny Bono Copyright Extention Act was constitutional because 75 years is less than infinity, and you can't prove that they're going to jack it up to higher 20 years from now because that's in the mysterious future.
The idea that live performances are getting an infinite copyright out of anti-bootlegging laws is also incorrect. The copyright on a live performance lasts for 75 years. It's just in that first instant where a performance is happening that matters the most... if nobody is allowed to make a copy then, the work is gone and left to the memories of the people who were there and that's it. That's not a copyright that lasts forever... it's a copyright that was enforced for the critical seconds that makes sure all possible copies are never made.
Sorry... good constitutal law just doesn't come out of district courts. This one's just not going to fly.
The basic problem forming in the media right now is that there's two distinct flavors:
News reports try to be fair... but the people who do such reporting tend to altruistic people who have a hard-to-hide bias towards the left, always wanting to file a feel-bad-for-this-person report that paints the little guy as a victim and the big company as the bad guy.
Then there's news analysis... that usually lands on the right because the best bigmouths tend to be right-wingers. Even if you disagree with every word they say, they're still more fun to listen two than a left-winger. Fox News Channel frequently has one-from-the-left, one-from-the-right debates on their air, and the right-winger usually is able to talk in soundbytes and talk over the opponent to the point that they appear to "win" the debate more often.
Here's what throws Google for the loop... There's only one AP, and there's only one Reuters. Stories that come out of those two agencies appear in hundreds of web pages, yet there are hundreds of right-wing opinon writers who all express similar ideas in completely different words. Therefore, the right-wing opinion pages sometimes can drown out the left-wing reporting by simply having more entries in the list.
Now people just need disposable real names and physical addresses to be set...
Sony was a pretty big player in the content biz even before they had MGM... they bought out Columbia Tri-Star a few years ago and therefore own that movie archive as well as a handful TV series as recent as Dawson's Creek and the Donnie Osmond episodes of the Pyramid game show.
Since most of us don't use this type of disc in our computers, and are unlikely to upgrade solely to copy videogame disks... could they be hoping on good old fashioned security by obscurity to be an extra hurdle against piracy?
The current round of standard DirecTV TiVos are the same box that a year ago were selling at $299 now selling for $99. The $200 price drop is being funded entirely by DirecTV who assumes that they'll make the money back over the long term out of service subscriptions, and that's why the retailers require that some service be on the box for twelve months or otherwise you owe the retailer the subsidy money they don't get.
A codebase split seems to have happened when the DirecTiVo units officially took on the name of "DirecTV DVR with TiVo service" and the monthly subscription price got halved from $9.95 to $4.95. Near that time, the fees for standalone TiVos moved upwards from $9.95 to $12.95...
And at that point the DirecTV code froze, while development for the standalone TiVos continued. Apparently, DirecTV now must pay for any new features they want added to the DirecTV DVRs, meanwhile TiVo continued to push its latest stuff out for free to their direct subscribers. All of the things that a standard Series 2 TiVo can do that a Series 2 DirecTV DVR cannot were added after that point in time.
HDTV capture cards have a slight advantage over typical TV capture cards because they don't have to digitize anything from analog, they just have to remember the bitstream they were fed from the channel.
Their disadvantage is that HDTV can be quite the high-bandwidth application, and that means the limitations of the PCI bus, and even the AGP connection can sometimes cause quality loss. PCI Express seems to be the solution to that in the pipeline, and that's most likely what the mainstream vendors are waiting for. An HD card on the market today has to be labeled as an "early adopter" model.
On the other hand, maybe this is a technology that you want to be an early adopter of to avoid cards that end up getting crippled by "broadcast flag" laws.
Older database formats that don't support SQL aren't doing that just to be mean, it's because they don't naturally do as much indexing as even MS Access databases do. That's the critical flaw that causes them to start acting funny when they get to large sizes... if there's ever a mistake in the index, it can cause problems making that record come up on command.
I read the article. In fact, I submitted it earlier tonight. However, I linked to a different bill in the Thomas system... that's the mistake.
Would somebody please show us where exactly the law prohibts registering with 555-555-5555 as a phone number?
I think we've got the wrong bill associated with this story.
Just to clarify the status of author Becky Worley and the TechTV network... This book bears the TechTV logo as it was part of her work at TechTV to put out the book, in the same way Leo Laporte co-wrote his almanacs with the entire production staff of The Screen Savers and Call For Help. Becky was an on-air personality for TechLive who occasionally contributed segments to Fresh Gear as well. On May 28 of this year, Comcast after owning the network for about 3 weeks merged it with "G4: TV 4 Gamers" into "G4TechTV: Games, Gear, Gadgets and Gigabytes" and the San Fran TechTV studios began shutting down and preparing to move to Los Angeles to be with the rest of the G4 network. The Screen Savers returned to live episodes just last week, with lead hosts Kevin Rose (from the SF crew) and Alex Albrect (new to the team). Patrick Norton opted not to move to LA, and Leo Laporte had left the show to focus on Call For Help. CFH is now in an odd state of being in new first run episodes with Leo on G4TechTV Canada weeknights at 9pm ET, but that series is not being shown anywhere in the USA at the moment. As for Becky... she hasn't turned up in the public eye since the SF shutdown. It's unlikely she stayed with the network as TechLive was completely deleted as its subject areas were reassigned to the Pulse news format that expanded beyond its original video games-only focus. Fresh Gear is still on the network, but only in the form of reruns from the SF studio... no new production on that title that anybody knows of.
Nice thought exercise in how such a system could be abused... but it has a glaring hole. Any time the defendant took the stand in their own defense, they'd suddenly gain the favorable witness camera as they spoke... if there was a glaring difference in the two cameras, it'd be as clear as daylight when the person moved to the better camera.
As many others have pointed out here, it's the same bug that brought down Windows 9x reappearing.
Just like the "Y2K glitch" was a platform independant problem based upon the 2-digit-year shorthand causing logical flaws, if you store time in a 32-bit variable by the microsecond... you'll hit the hard limit after about 49.7 days which is why that number can show up in kernels other than Win9x. If there's no proper handling of that rollover, things go haywire.
If multiple players are negligent, then multiple errors are scored. We've all seen "blooper" videos where there are cascading errors; one guy drops a catch, throws it to the next guy who drops it in turn, etc.
Only one error can be scored per base advanced by the runner, and if the runner took first by a "hit" before the errant throw, then there is only one "error" for his advancement to second. If two players crash into each other and the ball drops, it's usually a hit because it's hard to say either would have been able to make the catch "with normal effort" which is the real standard for an error.
Oh... there it is. Unit conversion flaw. They gave the value for seconds into a value for minutes... and ended up booting once every 10 years because of the factor of 60 mistake.
"This stuff" being all of IT. HDs will fail within 5-7 years no matter what OS you put on them...
Good IT is so hard to pull off because you have to convince people that events that strike once every few years have to be prepared for otherwise a disruption in service will occur.
I've seen AIX-based database systems that require an overnight downtime to do reindexing, since non-SQL formats like DBase have always been a little funky when they start having to deal with million-record tables. It's amazing how ugly legacy databases can be compared to today's tech.