You are both right... but DustyShadow, you forget... you do not have to own a copyright in order to issue a DMCA takedown notice (you only need to own a copyright for it to be a valid DMCA takedown notice).
Isn't there some potential penalty for issuing invalid DMCA takedown notices (even if it's never enforced)? I could swear there was some talk of legal action against the recent Scientology Youtube DMCA notices...
Yup, it's slashdotted. I think this is a fantastic idea, though. As someone who has added a few pages to Wikipedia over the years, and who's had to try to get some page deletions overturned, I can tell you it's a huge pain when some overzealous admin comes along and speedy deletes a page that multiple people have worked on, and has been online for over a year. Wikipedia needs a better deletion review policy. Maybe this site will help illustrate that.
even as a sole prop. In order to be considered a "business entity" you have to file with someone. Any entity that "pays" any employee needs to at least have a Federal ID (EIN#) issued to them.
That's only true if you have employees. It's completely possible for a sole proprietorship to have no employees, no income, no profits, and no expenses. In that case, you don't have to file anything with anyone. Even if he does have income, he could just claim that tax season hasn't rolled around yet, so he hasn't filed his company's first tax return. If he has no employees, he can file using his SSN rather than needing an EIN.
Not just to file fraudulant DMCA notices, but also to do so in the name of a Business that doesn't exist?
I think, technically, he could argue that the business is a sole proprietorship named "American Rights Council LLC". Even though the LLC usually implies that the business is a Limited Liability Company, I don't think there's any law that says it couldn't stand for Loquacious Loser Company. You don't need to register a sole proprietorship with anybody, and if it hasn't ever earned any income, I don't think it's even necessary to file a Schedule C on your tax return.
I don't mind that it uses a lot of RAM so much...I have plenty of that. I wish it didn't use so much CPU, though. I've been using Chrome for the past day or so, and had to stop leaving it open while I was working on other things because every so often it would bog down my CPU for no apparent reason.
You don't call government backed purchase of sub-prime debt "regulation"?
Nope.
What about the Community Reinvestment Act which forces banks to make loans in poor communities?
What in the world does that have to do with bundling up tons of sub-prime mortgages given to lenders who have no hope of repaying them, just to sell them on Wall Street?
btw, most likely, your investments are worth MORE today than they were 7 years ago
7 years ago, I was a college student. I had no investments.
your house is worth almost 2x as much as it was in 2000
Didn't have a house then, either. I bought my house during the time before the bubble burst, where house prices were skyrocketing because banks were giving sub-prime loans to people who had no hope of being able to pay the loan off without foreclosing. As I'm sure you know, the increase in demand caused a huge run-up in housing prices
recent economic troubles (and consequently blame the bush administration) but I haven't seen either a link between Bush policies
The Republicans are largely anti-regulation, and while they could have regulated the sub-prime mortgage industry during the period where they controlled most of the federal government, they chose not to. They were responsible for the lack of regulatory oversight of the trading of sub-prime mortgage-backed securities. Had there been proper government regulation in place, we would have at least mitigated, if not entirely avoided the sub-prime mortgage crisis that has been a driving force for our economic downturn.
Right, because wrecking the economy to the point that my house, investments, and *US dollars* are worth less than they used to be, and the price of gasoline and food are way more than they used to be is _so_ much better than raising taxes. You might also be interested to know that McCain's health plan involves taxing the insurance premiums your employer pays for your health insurance, an amount that is currently untaxed. So, McCain is effectively for raising taxes. While you are living in this fictional world where Republicans are "fiscal conservatives", and Democrats "tax and spend", I think I'll take a look at real evidence to the contrary.
I think I remember reading somewhere that they take pictures of everybody's license plate, but only save the ones of toll violators. So, if you don't trigger a violation in the system, your picture wouldn't be saved...maybe...
It's probably less costly to take a square away at a time and check to see if it's still solvable than to populate a random start and see if it's possible to solve it. And probably less complicated as well.
Isn't that pretty much exactly what I said? Create a random valid solved puzzle, then start removing squares...
Also, if you're going to write a Sudoku puzzle generator, you have to write a Sudoku solver first. New puzzles are created by coming up with a random valid solved Sudoku puzzle, removing a bunch of numbers, checking to see if it's still solvable, and then removing some more...rinse, wash, repeat...
I wonder why, given the huge increase in the performance of computers over the last ten years and more, why it sill takes some games one to five minutes to load
There are more textures, and they are stored at a higher resolution than they used to be; The 3D models have more triangles; there are more sound effects, and the quality is higher; there is more music, and the quality is higher...It takes time to load all of this into memory.
We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S."
Screw pandora! the internet is worldwide, they should move to terrestrial boardcast if they are going to get picky about geography.
Licensing constraints are pretty clearly not their fault. Blame the RIAA.
I love Pandora. I listen to it almost constantly while I'm in front of my computer. I've found a ton of new bands that I love, and after discovering them, I've often purchased their music, either on CD or from iTunes. Shutting down Pandora would really suck.
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Give him a break, maybe Senator McCain is busy texting someone on his BlackBerry.
Or, more likely, sending somebody a telegram with one of those black clicky Morse code things.
You are both right... but DustyShadow, you forget... you do not have to own a copyright in order to issue a DMCA takedown notice (you only need to own a copyright for it to be a valid DMCA takedown notice).
Isn't there some potential penalty for issuing invalid DMCA takedown notices (even if it's never enforced)? I could swear there was some talk of legal action against the recent Scientology Youtube DMCA notices...
They'll need to be more original than that. (e.g. Try "McGregor's Burger")
McDowell's, maybe?
Yup, it's slashdotted. I think this is a fantastic idea, though. As someone who has added a few pages to Wikipedia over the years, and who's had to try to get some page deletions overturned, I can tell you it's a huge pain when some overzealous admin comes along and speedy deletes a page that multiple people have worked on, and has been online for over a year. Wikipedia needs a better deletion review policy. Maybe this site will help illustrate that.
Maybe I'm just old, but when I was a kid, we left grown up matters like politics to the adults.
And our politicians are still acting like children, so we can see how well that mentality worked out.
Somewhat offtopic, and forgive me for being ignorant, by why havent tablets caught on? I'd buy one in a heartbeat if it Just Worked(tm).
Looks like you just answered your own question there...
even as a sole prop. In order to be considered a "business entity" you have to file with someone. Any entity that "pays" any employee needs to at least have a Federal ID (EIN#) issued to them.
That's only true if you have employees. It's completely possible for a sole proprietorship to have no employees, no income, no profits, and no expenses. In that case, you don't have to file anything with anyone. Even if he does have income, he could just claim that tax season hasn't rolled around yet, so he hasn't filed his company's first tax return. If he has no employees, he can file using his SSN rather than needing an EIN.
Not just to file fraudulant DMCA notices, but also to do so in the name of a Business that doesn't exist?
I think, technically, he could argue that the business is a sole proprietorship named "American Rights Council LLC". Even though the LLC usually implies that the business is a Limited Liability Company, I don't think there's any law that says it couldn't stand for Loquacious Loser Company. You don't need to register a sole proprietorship with anybody, and if it hasn't ever earned any income, I don't think it's even necessary to file a Schedule C on your tax return.
sigh...I read your post wrong...just ignore mine...
Not only that - but the first iPods were NOT solid state, they used a small hard drive - so his invention has NOTHING to do with iPods.
Yeah! Especially not the iPods that use small hard drives rather than being solid state!
...oh, wait...
Heh, I don't know...I didn't get that far in the comic book ;-). I'll have to leave the Task Manager open for awhile to see what it says.
I don't mind that it uses a lot of RAM so much...I have plenty of that. I wish it didn't use so much CPU, though. I've been using Chrome for the past day or so, and had to stop leaving it open while I was working on other things because every so often it would bog down my CPU for no apparent reason.
Well, judging from Google's other projects, Chrome will probably be in beta for the next 4 years...
You don't call government backed purchase of sub-prime debt "regulation"?
Nope.
What about the Community Reinvestment Act which forces banks to make loans in poor communities?
What in the world does that have to do with bundling up tons of sub-prime mortgages given to lenders who have no hope of repaying them, just to sell them on Wall Street?
btw, most likely, your investments are worth MORE today than they were 7 years ago
7 years ago, I was a college student. I had no investments.
your house is worth almost 2x as much as it was in 2000
Didn't have a house then, either. I bought my house during the time before the bubble burst, where house prices were skyrocketing because banks were giving sub-prime loans to people who had no hope of being able to pay the loan off without foreclosing. As I'm sure you know, the increase in demand caused a huge run-up in housing prices
recent economic troubles (and consequently blame the bush administration) but I haven't seen either a link between Bush policies
The Republicans are largely anti-regulation, and while they could have regulated the sub-prime mortgage industry during the period where they controlled most of the federal government, they chose not to. They were responsible for the lack of regulatory oversight of the trading of sub-prime mortgage-backed securities. Had there been proper government regulation in place, we would have at least mitigated, if not entirely avoided the sub-prime mortgage crisis that has been a driving force for our economic downturn.
Right, because wrecking the economy to the point that my house, investments, and *US dollars* are worth less than they used to be, and the price of gasoline and food are way more than they used to be is _so_ much better than raising taxes. You might also be interested to know that McCain's health plan involves taxing the insurance premiums your employer pays for your health insurance, an amount that is currently untaxed. So, McCain is effectively for raising taxes. While you are living in this fictional world where Republicans are "fiscal conservatives", and Democrats "tax and spend", I think I'll take a look at real evidence to the contrary.
If there's one thing that I wake up every morning with a deep desire to have, it's more random, cutesy, difficult to read fonts on websites.
I think I remember reading somewhere that they take pictures of everybody's license plate, but only save the ones of toll violators. So, if you don't trigger a violation in the system, your picture wouldn't be saved...maybe...
It's probably less costly to take a square away at a time and check to see if it's still solvable than to populate a random start and see if it's possible to solve it. And probably less complicated as well.
Isn't that pretty much exactly what I said? Create a random valid solved puzzle, then start removing squares...
Also, if you're going to write a Sudoku puzzle generator, you have to write a Sudoku solver first. New puzzles are created by coming up with a random valid solved Sudoku puzzle, removing a bunch of numbers, checking to see if it's still solvable, and then removing some more...rinse, wash, repeat...
I wonder why, given the huge increase in the performance of computers over the last ten years and more, why it sill takes some games one to five minutes to load
There are more textures, and they are stored at a higher resolution than they used to be; The 3D models have more triangles; there are more sound effects, and the quality is higher; there is more music, and the quality is higher...It takes time to load all of this into memory.
Because powerful record companies and their outdated distribution model refuse to go away?
We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S."
Screw pandora! the internet is worldwide, they should move to terrestrial boardcast if they are going to get picky about geography.
Licensing constraints are pretty clearly not their fault. Blame the RIAA.
I love Pandora. I listen to it almost constantly while I'm in front of my computer. I've found a ton of new bands that I love, and after discovering them, I've often purchased their music, either on CD or from iTunes. Shutting down Pandora would really suck.
there is an option to turn off rebooting on blue screen. It comes in handy if you actually want to see the error ...
And you feel that this is one of those instances?