So if I offer a smoking cure, I can take the credit where people give up, and simply dismiss those that don't (they obviously didn't follow the system)?
If they answer, "my insurance company made me settle," then ask them why they rolled over on their principles because some faceless insurance company told them to.
Because 'I will feed my family' is a pretty important principle too?
Land of the free? Only if you can afford the litigation....
Yes, of course people get upset emotionally if their characters are harmed or their items stolen. Would you not be upset if someone ruined a painting you have been working hard on?
the images... can always be verified against the md5sum
This only works if the defence gets the md5 sum immediately the picture is taken.
I'm a crooked law enforcement agent. I photograph a robber leaving a store. I now have 1 write-once memory stick and an md5 sum.
I simply doctor the picture by adding your face instead of the robbers, put it onto a brand new write-once memory stick, and hand over that memory and it's md5 hash to the courts.
I suppose you could have a built-in unalterable clock in the memory, but you could still get around that if you planned a frame-up by preparing the image in advance and putting it on the memory at the correct time.
If the Record and major media industries lacked the obscene amount of power they have today -- they'd already be gone...
I think that file sharing makes an industry a meritocracy rather than a 'marketingocracy'... which is exactly what the RIAA is afraid of (with hard-to-control consumer diversity a close second).
They are betting that they won't have to shell out the bucks, and I am betting that they will.
If it was a fair bet, caluculated in the way you suggest, it probably would be worth going for. That is because 'the bucks' that they would have to shell out for a repair is likely to be a smaller amount than 'the bucks' that you would have to shell out for the same. This is because a) the amount they shell out is at cost price, probably with preferential/volume rates on parts, and b) if you're not under warranty they have you over a barrel and can overcharge you as much as they like (as you see from this thread!).
Of course, they don't actually see it as a bet - they see it as a way to wrangle more money out of the customer. A frequent business practice/scam is to sell the goods at cost price and make profit on the rip-off warranty.
Iwo Jima was nothing. The battle was over at Midway.
If the US had lost Midway, how would the war have gone any different in the end?
Excepting the very unlikely outcome that Japan could force US capitualtion (or a negotiated peace) before the US developed the A-bomb capability, how could they win?
Of course, notwithstanding the above, many many worthy people (including of course the Navajo speakers) made brave contributions that helped reduce the human cost of getting to that outcome.
Their sole purpose is to show all the people driving around that the person on the bike is middle class, has a car at home, can afford a $100 helmet...
...and, the small matter of saving my life last winter.
I spent 10 UKP ($15) on a helmet and when I smacked my head, very, very hard on the road surface, I got off with a grazed cheek.
I was going about 15-20mph round a very wide turn in the rain, but when the back wheel went over a road marking, it flipped out from under me so fast I couldn't believe it... I only have a brief reccollection of the road at a 45 degree angle and about 1 foot from my face, approaching very fast...
The next think I remember, was me lying dazed in the road... but the $15 helmet was still in one piece, and so, thanks to it, was my skull.
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[PR consequences of US and UK spying on each other]
Nobody seemed to pay much interest in the UK when former CIA director James Woolsey admitted the fact (which like many truths, appears to be common knowledge amongst the entire population of the country apart from the politicians) that the US is commercially spying on us.
I think the number one thing that employers look at (at least here in the UK) is experience/skillset. Having or not having a PhD seems to be pretty irrelevant most of the time, to be honest.
I think my PhD helped me get a couple of jobs (particularly at the begining when I had no commercial experience - I got a researchy type job). On the flip side I also knew one guy who moved into management who thought his PhD held him back.
I think on the whole I would have been in pretty much the same place now if I had worked for the 4 years instead of studying.
I'm very glad I did mine, but I did get funding and I didn't work that hard most of the time!
I think a more realistic analogy for copyright enfringement is that of sneaking into a cirucs tent. Sure, you are enjoying the show that you aren't entitled to see and haven't paid for. But importantly you aren't depriving the owner of the use of his property, which is the main defining characteristic of theft.
I think the RIAA and MPAA etc have done a great job (from their point of view) in turning something which is actually morally similar to trespass, into something seen as morally similar to robbery.
It takes more of their resources, but takes more of yours, too.
Well, if each email took (say) one extra second to send and one extra second to recieve, we'll see how many spammers are still sending out 10,000,000 emails per day.
...would save more lives every decade than were lost in all terrorist attacks the US has ever suffered.
Unless it is seen that a a "War on Bathtub Accidents" would whip up the public paranioa enough to hand over just about any freedom you care to name to the government and it's agencies, or that some kind of "National Campaign to Stop Drivers Being Jackasses" would enable tax payers' money to subsidise unnecessary and expensive IT projects, I don't see that happening in the near future...
I wonder how many cases of misidentification go unrecorded?
We only hear about stupid cases like sending speeding fines to an 18 mph mechanical horse and a
toddler (although only the toddler actually ended up in court).
However, the information they gather might help detect these mistakes, if the same number plate is spotted in two different places.
'Ubi Soft and Wolfpack Studios are now working with law enforcement, and we promise all of you that these individuals will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law...
Haven't the law enforcement agencies got something better to do, like chasing down bullies who knock down sandcastles or something?
The hackers may have pissed off a few geeks and suits, but they've given them relatively painless object lessons in what really matters in life (i.e. "not your role playing characters", and "having decent security if you do business on the internet", respectively).
Imagine if they had gone after credit card numbers instead, for example?
And that's without even considering the benefit to mankind in increased happiness, by giving a load of other folks a good laugh.
I'd often as not just write some mundane piece about people walking down the street, and the class would proceed, with the teacher's help, to show how I REALLY was talking about the progress one takes through life
Funny how your.sig mentions Rorschach tests, yet your post is claiming that people can make a creative choice (whether it's choosing this essay topic over that or choosing that this picture looks like a bicyle rather than a fish) without exposing their psychological nature.
Psychologist: "I want to you to look at a few pictures for me Mr Smith. Just tell me what these pictures remind you of."
Smith: "That one shows a naked woman."
P: "I see."
S: "That one shows a man having sex with a donkey."
P: "Oh..kay."
S: "Wow. That one shows a gangbang. It's all going on there. Can I have a copy?"
P: "I'm sorry Mr Smith, but you're a sexual obsessive."
S: "But you're the one showing me all the dirty pictures!!"
I really wanted to put Jedi down on my Census, but the I had heard rumours that the UK government were going to fine people who put religion as Jedi so I chickened out...As it turns out, the only part of the census the government can't fine you for is the religion option
You should have read it before you signed it... it said that on the front cover!
I was listening to the radio and there was a song I liked... so not much chance of finding out who it was.
The UK Classic music station "Classic FM" has a phone number you can call and if you tell them the time that something was played, they'll sell you the CD.
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Because 'I will feed my family' is a pretty important principle too?
Land of the free? Only if you can afford the litigation....
Not if I had painted it e.g. on a sidewalk!
Is it my right as a citizen in a free country to play them in resterants, cinemas or trains?
This only works if the defence gets the md5 sum immediately the picture is taken.
I'm a crooked law enforcement agent. I photograph a robber leaving a store. I now have 1 write-once memory stick and an md5 sum.
I simply doctor the picture by adding your face instead of the robbers, put it onto a brand new write-once memory stick, and hand over that memory and it's md5 hash to the courts.
I suppose you could have a built-in unalterable clock in the memory, but you could still get around that if you planned a frame-up by preparing the image in advance and putting it on the memory at the correct time.
I think that file sharing makes an industry a meritocracy rather than a 'marketingocracy'... which is exactly what the RIAA is afraid of (with hard-to-control consumer diversity a close second).
If it was a fair bet, caluculated in the way you suggest, it probably would be worth going for. That is because 'the bucks' that they would have to shell out for a repair is likely to be a smaller amount than 'the bucks' that you would have to shell out for the same. This is because a) the amount they shell out is at cost price, probably with preferential/volume rates on parts, and b) if you're not under warranty they have you over a barrel and can overcharge you as much as they like (as you see from this thread!).
Of course, they don't actually see it as a bet - they see it as a way to wrangle more money out of the customer. A frequent business practice/scam is to sell the goods at cost price and make profit on the rip-off warranty.
If the US had lost Midway, how would the war have gone any different in the end?
Excepting the very unlikely outcome that Japan could force US capitualtion (or a negotiated peace) before the US developed the A-bomb capability, how could they win?
Of course, notwithstanding the above, many many worthy people (including of course the Navajo speakers) made brave contributions that helped reduce the human cost of getting to that outcome.
Their sole purpose is to show all the people driving around that the person on the bike is middle class, has a car at home, can afford a $100 helmet...
I spent 10 UKP ($15) on a helmet and when I smacked my head, very, very hard on the road surface, I got off with a grazed cheek.
I was going about 15-20mph round a very wide turn in the rain, but when the back wheel went over a road marking, it flipped out from under me so fast I couldn't believe it... I only have a brief reccollection of the road at a 45 degree angle and about 1 foot from my face, approaching very fast...
The next think I remember, was me lying dazed in the road... but the $15 helmet was still in one piece, and so, thanks to it, was my skull.
Nobody seemed to pay much interest in the UK when former CIA director James Woolsey admitted the fact (which like many truths, appears to be common knowledge amongst the entire population of the country apart from the politicians) that the US is commercially spying on us.
I think the number one thing that employers look at (at least here in the UK) is experience/skillset. Having or not having a PhD seems to be pretty irrelevant most of the time, to be honest.
I think my PhD helped me get a couple of jobs (particularly at the begining when I had no commercial experience - I got a researchy type job). On the flip side I also knew one guy who moved into management who thought his PhD held him back.
I think on the whole I would have been in pretty much the same place now if I had worked for the 4 years instead of studying.
I'm very glad I did mine, but I did get funding and I didn't work that hard most of the time!
I think the RIAA and MPAA etc have done a great job (from their point of view) in turning something which is actually morally similar to trespass, into something seen as morally similar to robbery.
Shhh... don't give the RIAA ideas.
Well, if each email took (say) one extra second to send and one extra second to recieve, we'll see how many spammers are still sending out 10,000,000 emails per day.
Unless it is seen that a a "War on Bathtub Accidents" would whip up the public paranioa enough to hand over just about any freedom you care to name to the government and it's agencies, or that some kind of "National Campaign to Stop Drivers Being Jackasses" would enable tax payers' money to subsidise unnecessary and expensive IT projects, I don't see that happening in the near future...
We only hear about stupid cases like sending speeding fines to an 18 mph mechanical horse and a toddler (although only the toddler actually ended up in court).
However, the information they gather might help detect these mistakes, if the same number plate is spotted in two different places.
Haven't the law enforcement agencies got something better to do, like chasing down bullies who knock down sandcastles or something?
The hackers may have pissed off a few geeks and suits, but they've given them relatively painless object lessons in what really matters in life (i.e. "not your role playing characters", and "having decent security if you do business on the internet", respectively).
Imagine if they had gone after credit card numbers instead, for example?
And that's without even considering the benefit to mankind in increased happiness, by giving a load of other folks a good laugh.
Funny how your .sig mentions Rorschach tests, yet your post is claiming that people can make a creative choice (whether it's choosing this essay topic over that or choosing that this picture looks like a bicyle rather than a fish) without exposing their psychological nature.
Psychologist: "I want to you to look at a few pictures for me Mr Smith. Just tell me what these pictures remind you of."
Smith: "That one shows a naked woman."
P: "I see."
S: "That one shows a man having sex with a donkey."
P: "Oh..kay."
S: "Wow. That one shows a gangbang. It's all going on there. Can I have a copy?"
P: "I'm sorry Mr Smith, but you're a sexual obsessive."
S: "But you're the one showing me all the dirty pictures!!"
You should have read it before you signed it... it said that on the front cover!
I can turn off pop ups by simply pressing F12 and clicking "only allow pop ups I open"...sweet.
It's free to download from the Opera web site. Even some guy's computer-illiterate Mom uses it now :)
The only drawback is you have to either ignore the small, inobtrusive advert at the top of the screen (which doesn't actually bother me) or pay $40.
Downside
How many people accidentally send "electronic mail for the purposes of direct marketing"?
Downside
There were several vigalante attacks, some on the wrong people, after the "News of the World" tabloid whipped up lynch-mob hysteria.