This is just a tacky thing that sounds fun to a 13-year-old
That's the whole point. It's not meant for those studying year 12 chemistry, its meant for kids. Nobody is teaching thirteen year olds "the procedure for a titration? The workings of an atomic absorption spectrometer? Electron configurations? Secondary interactions?" They are teaching them the basic concepts of chemistry that this game attempts to put forward.
This article says that apple are the new gatekeepers, but more importantly it says that apple does good things with its powers! Instead of taking cash to promote a CD, they only offer promotion in return for "exclusives" and discounts, therefore improving the end-user experience. What's more important however is that they promote independent artists! From the article:
"Groups like Gnarls Barkley have enjoyed significant boosts from iTunes. Last year, the alternative-soul duo's "Crazy" became the first song to hit No. 1 on the British pop charts based solely on digital sales. When the Shins' third album, "Wincing the Night Away," made its debut in January at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album-sales chart, nearly 30% of the first-week sales were made online"
Does anyone honestly think that The Shins would be so popular without iTune's help? They are a great (semi) indie band, and iTunes promotes LOTS of indie bands. This is far better than the competition such as wal-mart who will only promote stuff put up by the record companies and paid for.
I was suspicious of this article. Apple's statement on DRM annoyed me to no end. Indie bands often plead with iTunes to remove DRM, and Apple refuses. It stands to reason Apple LOVES DRM, otherwise they would implement an opt-out system for DRM for indie artists. However despite the fact that apple is creating a monopoly in this area, they are actually doing good things with it in promoting indie bands!
In Australia notes are all different colors (red, green, blue, pink etcetc) to make it patently obvious which note is which. It might not help blind people, but it prevents silly mistakes and makes money easily identifiable!
For blind people they are slightly different lengths, which doesn't really effect non blind people.
The original poster sounds a bit silly - but he is getting close to an important point.
I don't think anyone here denies that it is important if websites go down. It can cot businesses millions if their website is not available to customers. If DDOSing hurts business, then why should it not be a civil issue? Let the civil jurisdiction deal with it, because it certainly isn't something that is worthy of jail time.
I have that experience as well... Any mildly technical user of windows can avoid viruses. I haven't run virus checking ever since SP2 came out. The truth is that most viruses are executed because of user stupidity.
firefox + nat=no anti virus not needed
You're crazy for using ie7 though.. you can still run activex, its not safe.
As a citizen in a country with compulsory voting, I find even the suggestion that you wouldn't vote crazy. Voting is a responsibility just like jury duty - and you don't have to actually vote, you just have to be present on polling day. Now I know you're asking... Why should so called "uninformed" people vote?
In American you guys have the "NRA" the nutbar Christian organisations, the pro-choice lobby, the this lobby, the that lobby. All of these lobbies are able to claim "If you don't do this, you'll lose a million votes" and the politicians are effectively held by the balls to a policy that only the minority of people really give a shit about. Compulsory voting dilutes the power of these lobbies, and ensures that they can't make it SEEM like the public is against something that really, most people aren't.
Vote. Its the best thing you can do.
Oh and another thing, why the hell do you Americans hold elections on weekdays? Aren't most people at work? Normal people would hold an election on a Saturday...
What industries are these people in where they think they have to leave to get jobs? Good grief!
It's not about leaving because there are no jobs, its about leaving because of America's domestic and foreign policy. People want to move to countries with decent social welfare, that are not aggressive towards sovereign states. Of course, this type of apathy very rarely leads to anybody actually ever moving. Change is only a mid-term election away.
Because pretty soon there will be pressure on RIAA bands who are on myspace to start selling their songs! This is definitely the revolution we are talking about where the RIAA record companies go bankrupt. Ironic that it will take a major multi-national corporation to do it!
Under Australian law you haven't even bought "content". You haven't even bought the right to view content. All you have bought is a peice of plastic. Doing anything to the copyrighted material on it other than listening straight off of the disk (read: mp3's) is illegal. It's semantics, but i take your point.
When it comes to copyright Australia has some of the worst laws for consumers. The USFTA was what provided the Attorney General with the political capital to establish some sort of "fair use" doctrine. Currently while (according to the high court) you can use things such as mod-chips and reverse engineering (unlike America) you do not own the copyright to anything you buy. So while it is legal to break the CSS encryption on a DVD, it is ILLEGAL to copy content off that DVD whether it has CSS or not.
Basically: Australia is establishing fair use, and then in the same swoop allowing content holders to take it away through DMCA provisions. The aim of all this is to make the laws as similar as possible to the laws of that great shit heap some like to call the US congress.
This all of course pails in comparison to what the USFTA is doing to Australian healthcare. You Americans bag Canadians public health system but Australia's is one of the best in the world. Since the Australian government buys all drugs, we are able to get them cheaper. But the big med companies don't like that. The only reason America made this trade agreement was to please the pharmaceutical companies. this copyright/patent stuff is just coming along for the ride
Scrubs did this too, except while the show was on air. They released the commentary of a repeat and then you were meant to listen to the commentary while it was on NBC. It was a cool idea but I could never quite get it to sync up perfectly. The mp3's are still online too.
I watched the video.. didn't RTFA though. Does anyone think this it is weird that google is advertising this as a replacement for credit cards?
Paypal markets itself as a "safe" alternative for things like ebay, and easier to use for things like donations and small online stores that might not be able to use credit card facilities. Yet google is advertising this as a replacement for credit cards on all of your purchases. Would you be prepared to pay 2% on every single purchase you made at an online store just so you don't have to "fill out forms"? This seems silly to me at best.
I can't imagine ever using paypal for any real purchase. This sort of thing should only be needed for small and unsafe purchases.
Also, considering how long it took paypal to have Australian checking account support, I'm not going to hold my breathe on Google!
I think Brits have known about this already. Suing every single iPod owner who owns all of the music on his iPod would be disasterous to the record company. Australia has similar laws and the ARIA organisation has always stated they won't prosecute for ripping.
Wired states in the article that this isn't illegal. The gag order is only on the EFF and AT&T. So Wired are fine in posting it. Also, since the document isn't the exact document under seal but an older version, it may not constitute the final evidence given by Klein. Wired is not doing anything legally brave here: they have made sure to cover their asses.
The article fails to mention what the consequences for the EFF are though... (assuming the EFF leaked it to Wired.)
Currently private health insurance requires a medicare card, Its a pretty safe assumption that under the new system the new card will be needed in order to get insurance.
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Where I come from telcos support the phones they sell... I can't see how that's 'naive' since that's how it works in most of the world...
Not only is this story almost certainly a dupe, it's also over 4 months old.
You know, this isn't a text message. You can say "software". You don't have to say "s/w"
There isn't any RIAA in Australia. It's ARIA.
No. Read the source engadget quotes, it is completely different text. The article summary is stolen directly from text written by an engadget editor.
Read this. that's an amazing coincidence!
Do you really want these people trying to fix government?
This is just a tacky thing that sounds fun to a 13-year-old
That's the whole point. It's not meant for those studying year 12 chemistry, its meant for kids. Nobody is teaching thirteen year olds "the procedure for a titration? The workings of an atomic absorption spectrometer? Electron configurations? Secondary interactions?" They are teaching them the basic concepts of chemistry that this game attempts to put forward.
It was an april fools joke. When those stories disapear so will the slashdottit box.
This article says that apple are the new gatekeepers, but more importantly it says that apple does good things with its powers! Instead of taking cash to promote a CD, they only offer promotion in return for "exclusives" and discounts, therefore improving the end-user experience. What's more important however is that they promote independent artists! From the article:
"Groups like Gnarls Barkley have enjoyed significant boosts from iTunes. Last year, the alternative-soul duo's "Crazy" became the first song to hit No. 1 on the British pop charts based solely on digital sales. When the Shins' third album, "Wincing the Night Away," made its debut in January at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album-sales chart, nearly 30% of the first-week sales were made online"
Does anyone honestly think that The Shins would be so popular without iTune's help? They are a great (semi) indie band, and iTunes promotes LOTS of indie bands. This is far better than the competition such as wal-mart who will only promote stuff put up by the record companies and paid for.
I was suspicious of this article. Apple's statement on DRM annoyed me to no end. Indie bands often plead with iTunes to remove DRM, and Apple refuses. It stands to reason Apple LOVES DRM, otherwise they would implement an opt-out system for DRM for indie artists. However despite the fact that apple is creating a monopoly in this area, they are actually doing good things with it in promoting indie bands!
In Australia notes are all different colors (red, green, blue, pink etcetc) to make it patently obvious which note is which. It might not help blind people, but it prevents silly mistakes and makes money easily identifiable!
For blind people they are slightly different lengths, which doesn't really effect non blind people.
The original poster sounds a bit silly - but he is getting close to an important point.
I don't think anyone here denies that it is important if websites go down. It can cot businesses millions if their website is not available to customers. If DDOSing hurts business, then why should it not be a civil issue? Let the civil jurisdiction deal with it, because it certainly isn't something that is worthy of jail time.
I have that experience as well... Any mildly technical user of windows can avoid viruses. I haven't run virus checking ever since SP2 came out. The truth is that most viruses are executed because of user stupidity.
firefox + nat=no anti virus not needed
You're crazy for using ie7 though.. you can still run activex, its not safe.
As a citizen in a country with compulsory voting, I find even the suggestion that you wouldn't vote crazy. Voting is a responsibility just like jury duty - and you don't have to actually vote, you just have to be present on polling day. Now I know you're asking... Why should so called "uninformed" people vote?
In American you guys have the "NRA" the nutbar Christian organisations, the pro-choice lobby, the this lobby, the that lobby. All of these lobbies are able to claim "If you don't do this, you'll lose a million votes" and the politicians are effectively held by the balls to a policy that only the minority of people really give a shit about. Compulsory voting dilutes the power of these lobbies, and ensures that they can't make it SEEM like the public is against something that really, most people aren't.
Vote. Its the best thing you can do.
Oh and another thing, why the hell do you Americans hold elections on weekdays? Aren't most people at work? Normal people would hold an election on a Saturday...
What industries are these people in where they think they have to leave to get jobs? Good grief! It's not about leaving because there are no jobs, its about leaving because of America's domestic and foreign policy. People want to move to countries with decent social welfare, that are not aggressive towards sovereign states. Of course, this type of apathy very rarely leads to anybody actually ever moving. Change is only a mid-term election away.
Most licences (including iTunes) allow you to use a song on up to 5 computers. I don't think the Zune will change this.
Don't worry: nobody believes you have a wife.
Because pretty soon there will be pressure on RIAA bands who are on myspace to start selling their songs! This is definitely the revolution we are talking about where the RIAA record companies go bankrupt. Ironic that it will take a major multi-national corporation to do it!
Under Australian law you haven't even bought "content". You haven't even bought the right to view content. All you have bought is a peice of plastic. Doing anything to the copyrighted material on it other than listening straight off of the disk (read: mp3's) is illegal. It's semantics, but i take your point.
When it comes to copyright Australia has some of the worst laws for consumers. The USFTA was what provided the Attorney General with the political capital to establish some sort of "fair use" doctrine. Currently while (according to the high court) you can use things such as mod-chips and reverse engineering (unlike America) you do not own the copyright to anything you buy. So while it is legal to break the CSS encryption on a DVD, it is ILLEGAL to copy content off that DVD whether it has CSS or not.
Basically: Australia is establishing fair use, and then in the same swoop allowing content holders to take it away through DMCA provisions. The aim of all this is to make the laws as similar as possible to the laws of that great shit heap some like to call the US congress.
This all of course pails in comparison to what the USFTA is doing to Australian healthcare. You Americans bag Canadians public health system but Australia's is one of the best in the world. Since the Australian government buys all drugs, we are able to get them cheaper. But the big med companies don't like that. The only reason America made this trade agreement was to please the pharmaceutical companies. this copyright/patent stuff is just coming along for the ride
Scrubs did this too, except while the show was on air. They released the commentary of a repeat and then you were meant to listen to the commentary while it was on NBC. It was a cool idea but I could never quite get it to sync up perfectly. The mp3's are still online too.
I watched the video.. didn't RTFA though. Does anyone think this it is weird that google is advertising this as a replacement for credit cards?
Paypal markets itself as a "safe" alternative for things like ebay, and easier to use for things like donations and small online stores that might not be able to use credit card facilities. Yet google is advertising this as a replacement for credit cards on all of your purchases. Would you be prepared to pay 2% on every single purchase you made at an online store just so you don't have to "fill out forms"? This seems silly to me at best.
I can't imagine ever using paypal for any real purchase. This sort of thing should only be needed for small and unsafe purchases.
Also, considering how long it took paypal to have Australian checking account support, I'm not going to hold my breathe on Google!
I think Brits have known about this already. Suing every single iPod owner who owns all of the music on his iPod would be disasterous to the record company. Australia has similar laws and the ARIA organisation has always stated they won't prosecute for ripping.
This is not news...
Wired states in the article that this isn't illegal. The gag order is only on the EFF and AT&T. So Wired are fine in posting it. Also, since the document isn't the exact document under seal but an older version, it may not constitute the final evidence given by Klein. Wired is not doing anything legally brave here: they have made sure to cover their asses.
The article fails to mention what the consequences for the EFF are though... (assuming the EFF leaked it to Wired.)
Currently private health insurance requires a medicare card, Its a pretty safe assumption that under the new system the new card will be needed in order to get insurance.