SF author David Brin came out years ago with the same idea. That while cameras in all public areas that only the government enforcement agencies receive the feed from would likely be oppressive, cameras in all public areas that the public at large can tap the feed any time they wish would be a liberating advance. Just giving credit where it's due.
What a wasted duplication of effort. I'd rather have both companies get together and make one good product for all of us to use at either half the cost, or twice the breadth and quality.
Say what you want about N64, but Super Mario 64 and both Zelda's still have home at my house. In fact, was practicing new ways to kill dungeon bosses in Majora's Mask just last night. The wide-open aspects of these 3D games were the biggest jump forward since the beautiful scenes of the original Myst, and I've yet to see anything newer with the same Wow! factor over previous games.
Maybe I can get a used Game Cube for cheap now and play Windwalker, before moving to Twilight Princess.
f the draconian copyright laws was made legal, the RIAA would been justified in asking judges all over the world to send those guilty of copyright infringements to Australia.
Wouldn't be the first time criminals were sent down under.
wants to let it go based on the fact that it is 'a million times' better than the original proposed legislation.
A bad law that's now a less bad law is still a bad law. Such faulty rationale only leads lobbyists to ask for the truly impossibly unreasonable, knowing that the compromise will still give them the mostly unreasonable.
Reminds me of a recent case where one woman won a major lottery jackpot, and immediately another woman claimed this was her winning ticket, which she had lost in the convenience store parking lot. The compromisers in the public media were claiming that, because so much money was involved, that it would be fair to just split the money between the two claimants. I don't know whose idea of fair this is, but certainly not mine. The woman claiming to have lost the ticket eventually admitted to lying about this, and the true winner was paid all of their winnings.
Moral: Don't fall for the trap that the fair solution would be to give us half of what we originally asked for. Some people deserve none at all!
Oh really? And how, other than your pronouncement, is that true? Does it run on more platforms than any other VM. Used by more users? Have less bugs? Less security holes? A smaller memory footprint? Better compilers? Faster execution? Cheaper price?
Just tell me how you're decided that.NET is better.
Yes. And you were wise to ask. What you're missing is that Google gave him no clue/hint/guide/comment/help on why he was delisted. Just tossed him off, left it to him to discover that this had happened in the first place, left it to him to figure out (guess) what the problem might be, and then only relisted him after they got around to it.
Like it or not, Google has essentially become a Public Utility. They also make great claims of their ethical behavior code. If a site is delisted, there's a reason. If there's a reason, then that reason can be shared with the contact e-mail address that's part of every domain name registration. To just pull the plug because you somehow -- maybe not even your fault -- ran afoul of a constantly changing set of rules is not aboveboard behavior for a $157B company.
Fortunately, or unfortunately if your the MPAA or a PI, California does have the Initiative Process. An initiative for this ought to pass easily. The special interests opposing it are too narrow in scope for the average Californian -- i.e. the person screwed-over by pre-texting in its current form -- to identify and sympathize with.
It's unfortunate that it has taken SCO so long to go down over this one. Would have been happy to see this over years ago. Thank God IBM has deep pockets, and the desire to see this through. With luck, by the time they're done even if they're given SCO as the prize, it will essentially be worthless, which is also unfortunate, but only for IBM, who deserves a better reward for fighting the good fight this time.
Oh, bull. The price is set with the assistance of coercive government monopoly powers; as such most of the price is entirely derived _from_ that particular legal construct, and has little to do with the inherent value of the good. And has nothing whatsoever to do with morality.
Oh, Bull yourself! That's the same government that gives them the "limited" monopoly -- i.e. copyright -- to start with. And if they set some more rules on how this monopoly can be exercised, you're calling that Bull? The only Bull is in you for thinking laws should only be written to favor one party exclusively.
Is it defamation if it's posted as an opinion? Something like, "Hey, in my opinion this looks like spam to me. What do you think?" Aren't opinions protected?
And isn't spam any unsolicited e-mail? How this didn't violate CAN-SPAM is amazing. Like to see this go to the SCOTUS.
Personal service requirements are a constitutional protection to guarantee that people aren't being brought to court without getting notice to defend your self.
Yeah, sure. Tell that to the RIAA the next time they file ex parte John Doe suits to force your ISP to reveal your identity without you ever having a chance to contest it. As far as proper notice goes, the RIAA only cares about proper notice when it benefits them!
Leading entertainment industry players openly flogging LRH's science fiction. RIAA attacking you at your job. It really is all one big evil conspiracy, instead of several smaller ones.
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SF author David Brin came out years ago with the same idea. That while cameras in all public areas that only the government enforcement agencies receive the feed from would likely be oppressive, cameras in all public areas that the public at large can tap the feed any time they wish would be a liberating advance. Just giving credit where it's due.
My whole house could disappear as a JPEG compression artifact.
How about TIFF with LZW compression as a compromise?
Isn't Google already free? Hard to be cheaper than that -- unless MS is going to pay me to use their service.
And all of it in Swedish, no doubt.
Or to put it another way: Und ell ooff it in Svedeesh, nu duoobt. Bork Bork Bork!
What a wasted duplication of effort. I'd rather have both companies get together and make one good product for all of us to use at either half the cost, or twice the breadth and quality.
Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft. Yeah, it looks like there's room for Apple to make a good living competing against these established players - Not!
30 years.
10,957 days.
262,968 hours.
15,778,080 minutes.
946,684,800 seconds of your life.
All to find a virtually infinitesimally particle with no charge at all.
That, and mention on Slashdot: Priceless!!
Maybe I can get a used Game Cube for cheap now and play Windwalker, before moving to Twilight Princess.
Now I'm waiting for 41% efficiency. Then there'll be another Slashdot headline.
Over One Billion Files shared.
Wouldn't be the first time criminals were sent down under.
A bad law that's now a less bad law is still a bad law. Such faulty rationale only leads lobbyists to ask for the truly impossibly unreasonable, knowing that the compromise will still give them the mostly unreasonable.
Reminds me of a recent case where one woman won a major lottery jackpot, and immediately another woman claimed this was her winning ticket, which she had lost in the convenience store parking lot. The compromisers in the public media were claiming that, because so much money was involved, that it would be fair to just split the money between the two claimants. I don't know whose idea of fair this is, but certainly not mine. The woman claiming to have lost the ticket eventually admitted to lying about this, and the true winner was paid all of their winnings.
Moral: Don't fall for the trap that the fair solution would be to give us half of what we originally asked for. Some people deserve none at all!
Oh really? And how, other than your pronouncement, is that true? Does it run on more platforms than any other VM. Used by more users? Have less bugs? Less security holes? A smaller memory footprint? Better compilers? Faster execution? Cheaper price?
Just tell me how you're decided that .NET is better.
Yes. And you were wise to ask. What you're missing is that Google gave him no clue/hint/guide/comment/help on why he was delisted. Just tossed him off, left it to him to discover that this had happened in the first place, left it to him to figure out (guess) what the problem might be, and then only relisted him after they got around to it.
Like it or not, Google has essentially become a Public Utility. They also make great claims of their ethical behavior code. If a site is delisted, there's a reason. If there's a reason, then that reason can be shared with the contact e-mail address that's part of every domain name registration. To just pull the plug because you somehow -- maybe not even your fault -- ran afoul of a constantly changing set of rules is not aboveboard behavior for a $157B company.
That's what you're missing here.
Just saying you aren't Evil doesn't make it true.
Fortunately, or unfortunately if your the MPAA or a PI, California does have the Initiative Process. An initiative for this ought to pass easily. The special interests opposing it are too narrow in scope for the average Californian -- i.e. the person screwed-over by pre-texting in its current form -- to identify and sympathize with.
It's unfortunate that it has taken SCO so long to go down over this one. Would have been happy to see this over years ago. Thank God IBM has deep pockets, and the desire to see this through. With luck, by the time they're done even if they're given SCO as the prize, it will essentially be worthless, which is also unfortunate, but only for IBM, who deserves a better reward for fighting the good fight this time.
Oh, Bull yourself! That's the same government that gives them the "limited" monopoly -- i.e. copyright -- to start with. And if they set some more rules on how this monopoly can be exercised, you're calling that Bull? The only Bull is in you for thinking laws should only be written to favor one party exclusively.
Anyone who hasn't already gotten all the music they're ever going to want by now simply isn't paying attention.
Hey, paper money is also unfair to poor people. It discriminates against them in favor of more well off Americans.
And isn't spam any unsolicited e-mail? How this didn't violate CAN-SPAM is amazing. Like to see this go to the SCOTUS.
Yeah, sure. Tell that to the RIAA the next time they file ex parte John Doe suits to force your ISP to reveal your identity without you ever having a chance to contest it. As far as proper notice goes, the RIAA only cares about proper notice when it benefits them!
Those are Scientology tactics.
Hummm.
Leading entertainment industry players openly flogging LRH's science fiction. RIAA attacking you at your job. It really is all one big evil conspiracy, instead of several smaller ones.
But is that the same as every video ever produced?
And where does that leave Zune?
What? No popcorn machine?