The content mafia will be astroturfing the crowd to the max that they can get away with... they have the software to enable their shills to appear as hundreds of other "citizens". So unless there are identity safeguards to positively identify each contributor as a registered citizen, they'll get the legislation they've always dreamed about...
it has a chilling effect... it's already been used elsewhere to get medical marijuana stores closed down as the landlords evict the tenants rather than have the authorities fall down on them...
Sounds like a stiff property tax on robots is in order to me, if for nothing else except to prevent civil unrest.
Won't work, they'll just move the robot lines to countries that don't tax them for using robots... just like they already offshored dirty processes to countries with lax environmental protection laws...
Lastly -- why the heck did these guys put the pumps *outside* the tank? Why not put them in the tank?
ever tried to service a pump that's inside a tank? real pig to replace them... far easier if they're outside the tank as you can have shut-off valves either side and isolate them while replacing them... you don't have to drain the tank and purge it of fumes first before accessing the pump...
thanks for the link... some investigating to do, but looks like it's the answer to my prayers for getting my stuff back out of the clutches of Google...
You don't have patents in the fiction world, you have copyright law on the published text. You are free to have tree men in your story as long as you don't call them "ents". Likewise having a story about wizards in school, or vampires, or other story elements. Otherwise, if story elements/concepts were patentable we would not have as many varied stories we do have.
The same applies to paintings/drawings, TV shows, films, music and other creative arts. You don't have the makers of Armageddon and Deep Impact sueing each other over who has rights to the asteroid impact disaster movie, instead you have two different interpretations of that concept.
actually there are some who are trying to get plot elements patentable
which could be fun as prior art (such as plays, books, films etc.) would invalidate whole masses of them...
can't tell what denomination that coin is so can't tell exactly how small it really is...it's either a five pence piece or ten pence piece and the ten pence piece is twice the size of what we call the tiddler. Is it too much these days to expect people to put a small one inch and one centimetre scale next to the items when photographing them?
nah... this is Apple... they've redefined the word tablet to mean only those devices with a form factor the same as the current iPad... so all those other smaller tablets or devices with widescreen formats don't count... my Arnova 7G2 wouldn't be counted as a tablet by Apple's logic... neither will a Kindle Fire as it's not big enough by Apple's metrics.
What is needed is 2 things:
1. Rules forbidding the sale of any personal data between companies.
2. Actual enforcement of those rules and punishment for breaking them.
what's needed is jailtime for the execs...it's the only way to get them to take things seriously... a fine on the company is merely seen as the cost of doing business and comes out of the customers pockets in the long run...
Another way to make them sit up and notice would be to legally require them to pay the fines from the shareholder's dividends and their bonus pool and print the details of the judgments and fines in the company's annual reports. Also make it so that any fines are completely separately accounted and come after corporate taxes are paid.
I hope they had some means in place to capture them like a magnet and some sticky paper... (a vacuum cleaner would have been useless there). Who knows where those shavings could get to if not captured...
This post makes a very good point. What is going to happen to you, personally, when a call is lost for some reason, a person dies, and a lawsuit follows?
why don't we all give up now and not do anything at all just in case we could be sued afterwards for having done something... it's a wonder anybody volunteers for anything these days with the sheer number of lawyers out there hungry for any work...
I've done -a lot of software development- on a 24x80 screen running EMACS,
24x80 screen with EMACS??? you were lucky... I started programming using punched cards and also paper tape and teletypes... some weird new-fangled language called COBOL... a green screen VDU was a major luxury...
the problem with the BBC iPlayer is that you can only watch whatever's been shown in the past week. After than, it is dissappeared to keep the copyright holders happy so they can then bundle things up in DVDs to sell to us again and to other markets.
should be opt-in, not opt-out... should never be ticked on by default... the decision for the user should be whether to turn it on... not whether to turn it off...
there's plenty on the books already... get caught using a cell phone while driving, get done for driving without due care and attention... absolutely no need for a new cell-phone specific charge...
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The content mafia will be astroturfing the crowd to the max that they can get away with... they have the software to enable their shills to appear as hundreds of other "citizens". So unless there are identity safeguards to positively identify each contributor as a registered citizen, they'll get the legislation they've always dreamed about...
it has a chilling effect... it's already been used elsewhere to get medical marijuana stores closed down as the landlords evict the tenants rather than have the authorities fall down on them...
Won't work, they'll just move the robot lines to countries that don't tax them for using robots... just like they already offshored dirty processes to countries with lax environmental protection laws...
was done several years ago and we were looking for honeycomb shaped patterns on the surface. It was at:
http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/about-honeycomb
but that sites dead now...
stick the old drive in the slot and do the ripping... then stick the new drive back in the slot when finished...
ever tried to service a pump that's inside a tank? real pig to replace them... far easier if they're outside the tank as you can have shut-off valves either side and isolate them while replacing them... you don't have to drain the tank and purge it of fumes first before accessing the pump...
but they want it all... and they're worried we might want to take it back, so they're setting up the police state to prevent us from taking it back...
thanks for the link... some investigating to do, but looks like it's the answer to my prayers for getting my stuff back out of the clutches of Google...
they'll soon come crawling back...
actually there are some who are trying to get plot elements patentable
which could be fun as prior art (such as plays, books, films etc.) would invalidate whole masses of them...
the scalper actually provides a service... he buys the surplus tickets of those who can't make the event and runs the risk of holding unsold tickets.
These HFT bastards don't have any risk of holding stock as they always have a buyer to sell to when they make their trades.
on the banking system with the Iranians being blamed for it...
can't tell what denomination that coin is so can't tell exactly how small it really is...it's either a five pence piece or ten pence piece and the ten pence piece is twice the size of what we call the tiddler. Is it too much these days to expect people to put a small one inch and one centimetre scale next to the items when photographing them?
well they'd have taken far more notice the moment it became a "hate crime" with the Tupperware box of ashes and the note about relatives in Auschwitz
10 seconds delay will give you plenty of time to pull the feed and still leave it looking live...
wankers...
nah... this is Apple... they've redefined the word tablet to mean only those devices with a form factor the same as the current iPad... so all those other smaller tablets or devices with widescreen formats don't count... my Arnova 7G2 wouldn't be counted as a tablet by Apple's logic... neither will a Kindle Fire as it's not big enough by Apple's metrics.
that the bastards got TPB blocked in my country... a.holes...
what's needed is jailtime for the execs...it's the only way to get them to take things seriously... a fine on the company is merely seen as the cost of doing business and comes out of the customers pockets in the long run...
Another way to make them sit up and notice would be to legally require them to pay the fines from the shareholder's dividends and their bonus pool and print the details of the judgments and fines in the company's annual reports. Also make it so that any fines are completely separately accounted and come after corporate taxes are paid.
I hope they had some means in place to capture them like a magnet and some sticky paper... (a vacuum cleaner would have been useless there). Who knows where those shavings could get to if not captured...
why don't we all give up now and not do anything at all just in case we could be sued afterwards for having done something... it's a wonder anybody volunteers for anything these days with the sheer number of lawyers out there hungry for any work...
24x80 screen with EMACS??? you were lucky... I started programming using punched cards and also paper tape and teletypes... some weird new-fangled language called COBOL... a green screen VDU was a major luxury...
the problem with the BBC iPlayer is that you can only watch whatever's been shown in the past week. After than, it is dissappeared to keep the copyright holders happy so they can then bundle things up in DVDs to sell to us again and to other markets.
should be opt-in, not opt-out... should never be ticked on by default... the decision for the user should be whether to turn it on... not whether to turn it off...
there's plenty on the books already... get caught using a cell phone while driving, get done for driving without due care and attention... absolutely no need for a new cell-phone specific charge...
did it once... in Belgium... de-listed companies that won a lawsuit (gave them what the court ordered) and they went screaming to the courts that Google was being evil...