True, but how much does a triangular pyramid covered with self-inflating balloons weigh? Plus it had the hinged ramps that would fold down, so the old landing method wasn't completely without complex stuff.
Cell phone companies would come out with that kind of stuff, if people quit buying cell phones from the service providers, and instead bought them from the cell phone manufacturers.
But given the supposition that it wasn't illegal, being given explicit immunity would alleviate the telecoms from bearing the cost of the lawsuits determining that the actions were legal.
And that is just ridiculus. Why should that one kind of company be given immunity so that they can't be subjected to a lawsuit? In any case the assumption should be that the accused is innocent, so that the plaintiff has to prove their case.
A better solution: loser pays for the cost of the lawsuit.
Not only that, but it says that it works against movies.
The ISP downloads the entire 1-5GB file, hashes it, compares the hash, and then if it passes sends the file on to the user?
I think that would break almost every kind of application, and could easily be used to swamp the downstream of the ISP by making requests and then dropping the connection.
And then what about hash collisions, or programs that aren't web browsers?
One good campaign to try and fix some of that is http://thirty-thousand.org/ , where they want to have 1 member of the house for at most every 30,000 people. Considering the House hasn't been expanded since 1910 aside from Hawaii and Alaska, it has been very distorted from what it should be.
The same holds for anyone with a gmail account, by the way, with the *+username@gmail.com addressing scheme and all.
You have that backwards. It is username+*@gmail.com. (Although technically * is an allowed character in an email address, as well.)
But, your point still stands. Are they going to allow people to register the 71^64 or so addresses? And, what if they don't allow !#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~.!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~..!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~!!!! (at) abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com?
From that article, and apparently from the Pro-IP act:
At the conclusion of the forfeiture proceedings, unless otherwise requested by an agency of the United States, the court shall order that any property forfeited...be destroyed, or otherwise disposed of according to law.
Note that it doesn't say "after the accused is convicted or found liable".
Could the proceedings be to answer "was this computer used to commit copyright violations?" instead of "was the owner of this computer convicted/held liable of committing copyright infringement with this computer?"?
If you were born in 1973 and JFK was shot in 1961, were you alive when he was shot?
How many liters of water fit into a five-liter bottle?
That is also a CAPTCHA, "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." A CAPTCHA doesn't have to be text in an image, that is just an easy test to auto-generate.
And, it fails the "solve problems for porn" test. The problem is spammers using real people to do stuff en-masse, so any kind of CAPTCHA wouldn't prevent that.
What happens when Silverlight is made incompatible with Moonlight? Moonlight seems to be in the "Embrace" phase, what about the extend and extinguish phases?
If you say to make stuff work for Moonlight, what happens when executables made for Moonlight don't work in Sliverlight?
"123" should be treated as NaN or 123, but NOT 0. Holy Crap, OO.org 2.3 has this bug.
Casting any string to 0 is just wrong. Either use a smart casting that fails if the string isn't all numericals, or treat it as a "calculations will fail if they try to use this" value.
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True, but how much does a triangular pyramid covered with self-inflating balloons weigh? Plus it had the hinged ramps that would fold down, so the old landing method wasn't completely without complex stuff.
Almost realistic: the simulation approaches what the same inputs would do to the real system.
Realistic: the simulation behaves the same way as the real system.
Hyper-realistic: the simulation is better at realism that they real system?
What next, über-realistic? Or is profit next?
Cell phone companies would come out with that kind of stuff, if people quit buying cell phones from the service providers, and instead bought them from the cell phone manufacturers.
So, you want a Versioning file system? Just make sure you never let that run on /var.
OSS is like capitalism: If you see a need, then make it and distribute it.
Holy crap.
As I was saying, "they shouldn't be used by anyone to host pretty much anything."
If we can /. them from a link in a comment, they shouldn't be used by anyone to host pretty much anything.
If they take down all songs that have a copyright,... how do they have any songs at all?
And that is just ridiculus. Why should that one kind of company be given immunity so that they can't be subjected to a lawsuit? In any case the assumption should be that the accused is innocent, so that the plaintiff has to prove their case.
A better solution: loser pays for the cost of the lawsuit.
If the telcos didn't do anything illegal,...
Why do they want immunity? Why object to this case?
Not only that, but it says that it works against movies.
The ISP downloads the entire 1-5GB file, hashes it, compares the hash, and then if it passes sends the file on to the user?
I think that would break almost every kind of application, and could easily be used to swamp the downstream of the ISP by making requests and then dropping the connection.
And then what about hash collisions, or programs that aren't web browsers?
Ok, lets call that law the "10th Amendment"
One good campaign to try and fix some of that is http://thirty-thousand.org/ , where they want to have 1 member of the house for at most every 30,000 people. Considering the House hasn't been expanded since 1910 aside from Hawaii and Alaska, it has been very distorted from what it should be.
Hmm, lets start a campaign to email the contents /dev/random to political people in the UK.
"Here, you want some bits to sniff?"
Even better if they have to keep a copy.
You have that backwards. It is username+*@gmail.com. (Although technically * is an allowed character in an email address, as well.)
But, your point still stands. Are they going to allow people to register the 71^64 or so addresses?
And, what if they don't allow !#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~.!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~..!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~!!!! (at) abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com?
So you would be fine with the government preventing you from buying supplies for your printer/press if they don't like what you are printing?
From that article, and apparently from the Pro-IP act:
Note that it doesn't say "after the accused is convicted or found liable".
Could the proceedings be to answer "was this computer used to commit copyright violations?" instead of "was the owner of this computer convicted/held liable of committing copyright infringement with this computer?"?
Would "grep" be considered a search engine, then?
I use it to find stuff at work all the time.
That is also a CAPTCHA, "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." A CAPTCHA doesn't have to be text in an image, that is just an easy test to auto-generate.
And, it fails the "solve problems for porn" test. The problem is spammers using real people to do stuff en-masse, so any kind of CAPTCHA wouldn't prevent that.
Tell that to the MAFIAA
I would actually go so far to say that police benefiting from tickets/seized assets will ALWAYS lead to corruption.
http://fear.org/
Assets should only be forfeited when the owner of said assets has lost a case (civil or preferably criminal).
Cases such as "County of X against $10,000" are just wrong and evil, and should be in violation of the 4th Amendment.
Just put a Tesla coil on top.
No, I haven't thought mu cunning plan through.
What happens when Silverlight is made incompatible with Moonlight? Moonlight seems to be in the "Embrace" phase, what about the extend and extinguish phases?
If you say to make stuff work for Moonlight, what happens when executables made for Moonlight don't work in Sliverlight?
How is Silverlight going to make my "Internet Experience" better in FireFox on an Ubuntu AMD64 computer?
"123" should be treated as NaN or 123, but NOT 0. Holy Crap, OO.org 2.3 has this bug.
Casting any string to 0 is just wrong. Either use a smart casting that fails if the string isn't all numericals, or treat it as a "calculations will fail if they try to use this" value.