IMO, using copyright to enforce the destruction of the work is antithetical to the goals of copyright. It's a violation of the "limited times" clause: if it ceases to exist, the time is no longer limited as it can never enter the public domain.
the equivalent square screen being UXGA (1600x1200) When did 1600x1200 become considered square, and are they updating children's geometry books accordingly?
So you know of a card that handles HDMI input (HDCP is not needed... this is not about ripping protected content) Tell that to my TiVo Series3 HD. The last two software revisions have again taken to interrupting playback of cable HD (and some digital SD such as compression-artifact-filled episodes of X-Play) content with "HDMI connection unauthorized. Press Select for more information."
Russia has always been top heavy in beaurocracy, even before Soviet times. Bearocracy reminds me of this terrifying cartoon! Damn, that would give Stephen Colbert nightmares for years!
(ignorance of the law is not an excuse, etc). I believe the proper phrasing is, "Ignorance of the law cannot be allowed to become an excuse," a phrase that in itself acknowledges that it is an excuse, but one which will not be entertained as it would be an inconvenient truth that would undermine the legal system as well as launch a virtually unlimited number of appeals.
It's an important statement that shows the system is known to be inherently unfair.
It would be exactly like being a juror in a Courtroom forced to listen and see 50,000 pieces of spam evidence actually wholly individually heard to be admitted as evidence. Fleet Warden General Samor: Specify the indictment. Computer: Space Commander Travis, you are charged under Section Three of the War Crimes Statute Code, Jenkin One, with the murder of one thousand, four hundred and seventeen unarmed civilians on the planet Serkasta, Date Code Beta two zero zero one. Samor: How do you answer the charge? Travis: I am not guilty. Samor: Be seated. Major Thania, does the defense have an opening declaration? Thania: We reserve our opening declaration, sir. Samor: Very well. Enter prosecution data. Computer: Prosecution data begins. Identities and death certifications of all victims are entered. Thania: Objection. Samor: Hold. Computer: Holding. Thania: Defense requests the names of the alleged victims and the cause of death in each case be specified. Samor:All of them? Thania: If it pleases the arbiter. Samor: Do you realize how long that will take, Major? Thania: A man's life is at stake, sir. Samor:[deliberately] I know what is at stake. Thania: My apologies, sir. I meant no disrespect. Samor:[with impatience] Since you have at your disposal instant recall of all prosecution "data" I fail to see what purpose will be served by having the computer intone a catalogue of one thousand corpses! Thania: I may wish to challenge elements of that catalogue before they are entered in the judgment program, sir. [Samor confers with his fellow arbiters. During the pause, Bercol and Rontane talk privately.] Bercol: Playing for time? Rontane: And playing for Servalan. The computer will find Travis guilty--there's no doubt of that--but those three are responsible for the sentence. Bercol: So? Rontane: So, uh, after hearing all the blood-spattered details-- Bercol: --they'll vote for the maximum penalty. Samor:[annoyed] Motion... sustained. Victims names and causes of death will be specified. Bercol:[Still privately to Rontane] Do you think that Travis knows what she's doing to him? Rontane: A psychotic like Travis? Who can tell what he's thinking?
Wired: Commertainment! Dramercials, sitcommercials, game shows. (It'd be hard to do law and/or police shows around a product line (other than OCP). But a branded medical show could be done if The Colbert Report's "Cheating Death with Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA" segments are anything to judge by.)
TV series centered around a product line aren't new. They've marketed them to children for years (Transformers, GI Joe, My Little Pony, really anything that had a line of tie-in toys). And what else is The Price is Right than a game show about products? (Wheel of Fortune used to be that way too, where each round was followed by shopping for products, "and the rest on a gift certificate.")
The loss of velocity changes the vector, the change of vector is locally a closer pass to Earth. That's the direction it would be deflected by any possible satellite impact in its near pass to Earth. It won't be deflected to any other course by a satellite impact within Earth's gravitational influence.
The point is that the satellite doesn't deflect the asteroid. The Earth deflects it. The satellite just slows it down giving Earth more effect. So there isn't an alternate satellite-asteroid impact equally probable to move it further out of a future impact course. The probabilities are biased toward greater likelihood of impact with Earth in 2036 if it hits a satellite on this pass.
(I should have just said, "No," and left it at that.)
It sure would suck if the satellite the asteroid hit was one not in its proper orbit because the method to put in in its proper orbit was patented and its owner couldn't afford the fee to license the patent.
as well as paving the way for practical magnetic levitation Just let me know when I don't need to have my feet frozen to my hoverboard to make it work.
A @media print stylesheet won't consolidate a multi-page article into one page. It can when the page actually does contain the whole article but only displays a section of it to @media screen.
Also, a stylesheet won't give the user a preview of what the printed version will look like Isn't that what Print Preview is for?
or the choice to print the page with all the cruft. It's the author's choice what to display in print by default. The end user has the option of client-side stylesheet use. (Browsers should offer more power to the user in this area, such as completely disregarding the page's stylesheet(s).)
And there are @media types addressing the topic as well. Pardon the appearance; I'm having to compensate for a lack of style for definition lists under Slashdot's stylesheet:
Media Type
Description
all
Used for all media type devices
aural
Used for speech and sound synthesizers
braille
Used for braille tactile feedback devices
embossed
Used for paged braille printers
handheld
Used for small or handheld devices
print
Used for printers
projection
Used for projected presentations, like slides
screen
Used for computer screens
tty
Used for media using a fixed-pitch character grid, like teletypes and terminals
tv
Used for television-type devices
I strongly disagree! Very frequently the "print this page" link remedies many of the problems you listed--gets rid of ads, all on one page, gets rid of navigation cruft, etc. A properly crafted site intended to have a printing option has a stylesheet that has @media print rules for restyling the page for printing, automatically removing that cruft.
I once worked for a web design company (back when image maps were generally server-side supported, not client-side) that had truly bad design choices. One for a page that used a server-side image map, they tried to include text links at the bottom of the page so that the links could still be followed by search engines. Except they couldn't get the text to position itself precisely on enough clients that it wouldn't break their (NetObjects Fusion) layout table... so they turned the text links into an image of text links and made it another server-side image map.
This was when the boss angrily declared, "I am not an idiot!" when I tried to point out the problem to him.
The last thing I ever did for that company was finally give them something they really wanted: a frameset that constrained the usable real-estate on a page to be no more than 640x480. They then converted their own website to use that frameset and quickly went out of business.
The parent company though still publishes a free, local, ad-supported business magazine. Their website even as an "Accessibility Statement" page.
But could they vocalize? Perhaps pitch was more important for their communication.
I've been to Hollywood, I've been to Redwood I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold I've been in my mind, it's such a fine line, That keeps me searching for a heart of gold And I'm getting old
The alleged satellite impact is merely 'fine tuning' it, so I agree with the GP - it could as easily turn a hit into a near-miss as the other way round. But that's not what the GP said. He was suggesting it had the same probability of making a near miss a greater miss than a hit. It isn't a matter of the satellite nudging the asteroid; it's a matter of the satellite slowing it down so that the influence of Earth is greater.
Any collision will slow the asteroid down, increasing Earth's effect on the trajectory. It's moving too fast for a satellite to hit it from behind and deflect it away, and it would have to be a damn big collision to offset Earth's pull. One satellite collision could be enough to make a miss a hit. It would need to hit a hell of a lot more satellites to make that hit a miss again on the other side of the planet.
isn't there the same probability that it will hit the orbiting satellite at a different angle pushing the asteroid off of our orbit. No. The primary source of deflection force remains Earth's gravity. Any collision will have an entropic effect on the asteroid's vector resulting in a course deviation toward Earth, not away. It would take a very fast satellite indeed to catch up with the asteroid from behind to push it away.
How could it be verified that despite the lack of a recent collision with another galaxy, these particular phenomenon were at some point dormant like ours, then reignited? By the velocity vectors of surrounding matter affected by the blast? A collision would give the local matter directionality whereas a spontaneous reignition would send matter out in all directions uniformly.
Haven't you watched CSI: Stellar Cartography Unit?
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Will they also be searching my steam trunk full of punched cards? My box of microfiche? My ball of knotted twine?
IMO, using copyright to enforce the destruction of the work is antithetical to the goals of copyright. It's a violation of the "limited times" clause: if it ceases to exist, the time is no longer limited as it can never enter the public domain.
Pressing Select does exactly nothing.
It's an important statement that shows the system is known to be inherently unfair.
Computer: Space Commander Travis, you are charged under Section Three of the War Crimes Statute Code, Jenkin One, with the murder of one thousand, four hundred and seventeen unarmed civilians on the planet Serkasta, Date Code Beta two zero zero one.
Samor: How do you answer the charge?
Travis: I am not guilty.
Samor: Be seated. Major Thania, does the defense have an opening declaration?
Thania: We reserve our opening declaration, sir.
Samor: Very well. Enter prosecution data.
Computer: Prosecution data begins. Identities and death certifications of all victims are entered.
Thania: Objection.
Samor: Hold.
Computer: Holding.
Thania: Defense requests the names of the alleged victims and the cause of death in each case be specified.
Samor: All of them?
Thania: If it pleases the arbiter.
Samor: Do you realize how long that will take, Major?
Thania: A man's life is at stake, sir.
Samor: [deliberately] I know what is at stake.
Thania: My apologies, sir. I meant no disrespect.
Samor: [with impatience] Since you have at your disposal instant recall of all prosecution "data" I fail to see what purpose will be served by having the computer intone a catalogue of one thousand corpses!
Thania: I may wish to challenge elements of that catalogue before they are entered in the judgment program, sir.
[Samor confers with his fellow arbiters. During the pause, Bercol and Rontane talk privately.]
Bercol: Playing for time?
Rontane: And playing for Servalan. The computer will find Travis guilty--there's no doubt of that--but those three are responsible for the sentence.
Bercol: So?
Rontane: So, uh, after hearing all the blood-spattered details--
Bercol: --they'll vote for the maximum penalty.
Samor: [annoyed] Motion... sustained. Victims names and causes of death will be specified.
Bercol: [Still privately to Rontane] Do you think that Travis knows what she's doing to him?
Rontane: A psychotic like Travis? Who can tell what he's thinking?
Unfortunately, chronological erasures will not work. You'll have to feed it a tapeworm to hunt down and destroy any undesired files.
TV series centered around a product line aren't new. They've marketed them to children for years (Transformers, GI Joe, My Little Pony, really anything that had a line of tie-in toys). And what else is The Price is Right than a game show about products? (Wheel of Fortune used to be that way too, where each round was followed by shopping for products, "and the rest on a gift certificate.")
The loss of velocity changes the vector, the change of vector is locally a closer pass to Earth. That's the direction it would be deflected by any possible satellite impact in its near pass to Earth. It won't be deflected to any other course by a satellite impact within Earth's gravitational influence.
The point is that the satellite doesn't deflect the asteroid. The Earth deflects it. The satellite just slows it down giving Earth more effect. So there isn't an alternate satellite-asteroid impact equally probable to move it further out of a future impact course. The probabilities are biased toward greater likelihood of impact with Earth in 2036 if it hits a satellite on this pass.
(I should have just said, "No," and left it at that.)
It sure would suck if the satellite the asteroid hit was one not in its proper orbit because the method to put in in its proper orbit was patented and its owner couldn't afford the fee to license the patent.
And there are @media types addressing the topic as well. Pardon the appearance; I'm having to compensate for a lack of style for definition lists under Slashdot's stylesheet:
Two words. Sing them with me:
Flash! Aaa-aah!
I once worked for a web design company (back when image maps were generally server-side supported, not client-side) that had truly bad design choices. One for a page that used a server-side image map, they tried to include text links at the bottom of the page so that the links could still be followed by search engines. Except they couldn't get the text to position itself precisely on enough clients that it wouldn't break their (NetObjects Fusion) layout table... so they turned the text links into an image of text links and made it another server-side image map.
This was when the boss angrily declared, "I am not an idiot!" when I tried to point out the problem to him.
The last thing I ever did for that company was finally give them something they really wanted: a frameset that constrained the usable real-estate on a page to be no more than 640x480. They then converted their own website to use that frameset and quickly went out of business.
The parent company though still publishes a free, local, ad-supported business magazine. Their website even as an "Accessibility Statement" page.
But could they vocalize? Perhaps pitch was more important for their communication.
I've been to Hollywood, I've been to Redwood
I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold
I've been in my mind, it's such a fine line,
That keeps me searching for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old
Any collision will slow the asteroid down, increasing Earth's effect on the trajectory. It's moving too fast for a satellite to hit it from behind and deflect it away, and it would have to be a damn big collision to offset Earth's pull. One satellite collision could be enough to make a miss a hit. It would need to hit a hell of a lot more satellites to make that hit a miss again on the other side of the planet.
And here I was going to make a Janos Bartok and Nicodemus Legend reference. Something about upgrading from Tesla coils to lasers.
(BTW, the merchandising links are wrong: those are the Legend (1985) movie soundtracks. A pity there's no option for correcting them.)
Haven't you watched CSI: Stellar Cartography Unit?
To be fair, it is still a way and not the (only) way that we know of now.