Since these are the first two discs released with BD+, they're the first one to really test it in the field. I recall that the DVD release of The Matrix did a shake-down of compatible players as well. I personally know that Apple's DVD player software of the time was incompatible with the Follow the White Rabbit feature.
Though it appears it became instruction number 15, not 14:
JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 15
The act of making copyrighted sound recordings available for electronic distribution on a peer-to-peer network, without license from the copyright owners, violates the copyright owners' exclusive right of distribution, regardless of whether actual distribution has been shown.
Why couldn't this have been left as an item for the jury to determine for themselves? It is a matter at the heart of the case that effectively predetermines the verdict. Under what precedent is that instruction a decided matter of law?
I hope the jury sees that something that a computer purports as being available doesn't necessarily mean that it is actually available. The RIAA itself hires people to set up systems that purport to share files which are not in fact available to poison the well. Until actual distribution has taken place, you can't prove availability. I could put up a web page hyperlinking thousands of song tiles to file paths, but unless and until someone clicks on one, you don't know whether you'll get the file or a 404.
Otherwise, letting a pie cool on a windowsill becomes an explicit invitation to theft, leaving a door unlocked is an invitation for burglary, and wearing revealing clothing (or just being nude) is an invitation to rape.
Well, there you're taking a bet on which will run out first: toner or paper. If you run out of toner too quickly, the remaining paper may not be wasted.
That's the intention. Toner is far more expensive than paper, and harder to replace. You can get paper any place for a few bucks a ream. Toner, however, requires that you buy a replacement cartridge for that particular machine, and this generally costs $30-100. Yes, but by using up all the toner across more pages, you increase the expense. Reduce the pages to checkerboard, 50% black, and you can ruin twice as much paper for the same amount of wasted toner.
I find it amazing that people aren't using systems that store faxes for later print or purge. A single fax isn't that much data to store.
Three Words: Black Construction Paper. Well, there you're taking a bet on which will run out first: toner or paper. If you run out of toner too quickly, the remaining paper may not be wasted.
Of course hooking up a fax that immediately prints to a public line, particularly to a line that is being harassed by people who would know how to send faxes, is high stupidity. Don't they have an old Hayes Micromodem with auto-answer to blast out callers' ears instead?
Of course they could be making roosterteeth anti-comptetive like they are, by not allowing anyone to do what they did, so they have the monopoly:^) (no I don't think they'd ever do that) I think it was Disney that established that standing on the shoulders of giants is subject to a single-occupancy rule.
Not to mention [Rooster Teeth] were even cast in Halo 3. Hmm, someone should update the Halo 3 page on the Internet Movie Database with the credit particulars.
Kids have been drag-selecting check-buttons for years. The de-selection mode of it wasn't done because even the de-selection of even one such button was not implemented for anyone without an elevator key.
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IBM Patents Checking a Box
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This is another example of a really obvious patent that adds NOTHING to advance the state of the art. At the very least there should be a "de minimis non curat USPTO" grounds for rejecting patents like this ("the USPTO is not interested in trivial matters").
It does seem to make Rooster Teeth's sale of any new DVDs of Red vs. Blue in the future to be against the terms, unless they negotiate alternate terms. Everything they've made so far predates this license.
Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah) is filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies.
In an expanded definition, it is the convergence of filmmaking, animation and game development. Machinima is real-world filmmaking techniques applied within an interactive virtual space where characters and events can be either controlled by humans, scripts or artificial intelligence.
By combining the techniques of filmmaking, animation production and the technology of real-time 3D game engines, Machinima makes for a very cost- and time-efficient way to produce films, with a large amount of creative control.
So, one can never make a machinima version of Flatland? Or would it have to be "live-animated" using virtual 3D characters drawing 2D pictures on virtual panels, putting a terrible strain on the virtual animated character's wrists?
You think the moderators read the summaries before putting them on the front page? Compare the linked Firehose version of the summary to the front page version.
All is fine and dandy, but what if you already run your system in a VM? What if a rootkit injects itself as another virtualization layer (at either side of your good VM)? How do you detect this sort of thing? Presumably with virtualization detection inside your good VM. Each layer of the onion needs to detect whether it is virtualized and whether or not it is OK with that.
But really, you only need the layer expecting to run on the hardware to be able to detect anyone virtualizing it instead.
Unless having the hardware running a trusted VM running an untrusted VM running the applications that are fine with being virtualized by the trusted VM--a sort of VM-in-the-middle using another rootkit exploit on the trusted VM to hide itself--is a problem.
I think a popup from the AV asking "Noted changed behaviour. Did you change your hardware?" wouldn't be too common And this is why it is soft and hard, not over and under:
"Noted changed behavior. Did you change your underware?"
Well, trees, doors, walls, signs, etc tend to not move a lot. So usually all you need to send are the players themselves, bullets, and that's about it. And grenades, rockets, dropped weaponry, vehicles, runaway trains, lifts, conveyor belts, barrels, crates, flats, various movable debris, where the flag/skull/bomb is.... Granted, not all of these are moving all the time and/or in a non-predetermined manner.
Fog-filled levels however seem to be quite demanding at least on the local hardware. I sure hope fog isn't something that needs to be tracked.
And that's just what I can come up with from Halo 2; I don't have Halo 3 yet.
You're comment is funny and rightly modded as such, but it really ISN'T censorship. Censorship applies to the Government taking action to silence speech; not when a corporation does it. No, anyone can engage in censorship over someone they have power over. Parents censor television and the Internet from their children. Only when our government does it is it unconstitutional, and since ours is prohibited from doing it, we also disapprove when other governments do it.
Yes, corporations can be censors just as parents can be (and increasingly schools are in order to quell disruptions before they are conceived). There's just no laws or terms in the Constitution against it.
At one point I thought I might as well/dev/null any message that lacks a FQDN (fully-qualified domain name) in its Message-ID, or at least one that was syntactically valid... until I discovered that some of the places that send me billing statements by e-mail also lack FQDNs, such as Time-Warner Cable.
Well, that and RFC 822 technically doesn't require a FQDN in the Message-ID header, and that the header itself is optional under that RFC.
"Councilor Chesku and his wife. Maybe we should have stopped them leaving the surveillance zone. We are supposed to watch everyone."
"That is the meaning of surveillance, yes. Have you been studying in your spare time, Forres?"
"Sir?"
"You think we should have stopped them, do you?"
"It is standard procedure."
"For a member of the High Council there's no such thing as standard procedure."
"The book says --"
"Never mind what the book says, Section Leader. All you have to worry about's what I say, right?"
"Absolutely, sir."
"Absolutely, Section Leader. And what I say is that if a High Councilor wishes to swing stark naked through the trees and spit on the surveillance scanners, then swinging stark naked through the trees, spitting on the surveillance scanners becomes standard procedure, at least for him. Or his wife."
"Now there's a thought."
"Huh! Not one to dwell on, given your present rank."
"One law for the rich, eh Major?"
"There's no law for the rich, Forres, and even less for the rich, personal friends of the President."
[Forres puts his feet up on the console] "They are only civilians, though."
"Do you want to join them?" [Nods at feet]
[Forres takes feet down] "Sorry, sir."
"If you want to get on in this man's army, Forres, you've got to learn to distinguish between civilians who are and civilians who aren't."
"Sir." [Thinks twice] "Are and aren't what, sir?"
"When you know that, Section Leader, you'll be ready for promotion."
Chicagoans should go out of their way to act "suspicious" in front of these cameras if they want to prevent the onset of a nanny state. In Boston, that would be considered "hoax terroristic behavior".
Boston on thoughtcrime: Our thoughts make you guilty.
Should get really interesting when they integrate this system with the latest US Army battlebots! "Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply."
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Why couldn't this have been left as an item for the jury to determine for themselves? It is a matter at the heart of the case that effectively predetermines the verdict. Under what precedent is that instruction a decided matter of law?
I hope the jury sees that something that a computer purports as being available doesn't necessarily mean that it is actually available. The RIAA itself hires people to set up systems that purport to share files which are not in fact available to poison the well. Until actual distribution has taken place, you can't prove availability. I could put up a web page hyperlinking thousands of song tiles to file paths, but unless and until someone clicks on one, you don't know whether you'll get the file or a 404.
Otherwise, letting a pie cool on a windowsill becomes an explicit invitation to theft, leaving a door unlocked is an invitation for burglary, and wearing revealing clothing (or just being nude) is an invitation to rape.
That's the intention. Toner is far more expensive than paper, and harder to replace. You can get paper any place for a few bucks a ream. Toner, however, requires that you buy a replacement cartridge for that particular machine, and this generally costs $30-100. Yes, but by using up all the toner across more pages, you increase the expense. Reduce the pages to checkerboard, 50% black, and you can ruin twice as much paper for the same amount of wasted toner.
I find it amazing that people aren't using systems that store faxes for later print or purge. A single fax isn't that much data to store.
Of course hooking up a fax that immediately prints to a public line, particularly to a line that is being harassed by people who would know how to send faxes, is high stupidity. Don't they have an old Hayes Micromodem with auto-answer to blast out callers' ears instead?
Kids have been drag-selecting check-buttons for years. The de-selection mode of it wasn't done because even the de-selection of even one such button was not implemented for anyone without an elevator key.
It does seem to make Rooster Teeth's sale of any new DVDs of Red vs. Blue in the future to be against the terms, unless they negotiate alternate terms. Everything they've made so far predates this license.
Yeah guys, it's so simple. Maybe you need a refresher course. It's all pedoists and terrorphiles these days.
"Lawyers quibbles can get you killed." -- Doctor Who, "The Invasion of Time" Part 1
But really, you only need the layer expecting to run on the hardware to be able to detect anyone virtualizing it instead.
Unless having the hardware running a trusted VM running an untrusted VM running the applications that are fine with being virtualized by the trusted VM--a sort of VM-in-the-middle using another rootkit exploit on the trusted VM to hide itself--is a problem.
"Noted changed behavior. Did you change your underware?"
Fog-filled levels however seem to be quite demanding at least on the local hardware. I sure hope fog isn't something that needs to be tracked.
And that's just what I can come up with from Halo 2; I don't have Halo 3 yet.
Yes, corporations can be censors just as parents can be (and increasingly schools are in order to quell disruptions before they are conceived). There's just no laws or terms in the Constitution against it.
I assume then it will also ignore Team Knight Rider which had its own claim to the continuity and managed one season.
I just hope it isn't based on Knight Rider 2010.
At one point I thought I might as well /dev/null any message that lacks a FQDN (fully-qualified domain name) in its Message-ID, or at least one that was syntactically valid... until I discovered that some of the places that send me billing statements by e-mail also lack FQDNs, such as Time-Warner Cable.
Well, that and RFC 822 technically doesn't require a FQDN in the Message-ID header, and that the header itself is optional under that RFC.
I just hope Thirdpipe isn't anything like Thirdspace, full of spam-creatures that seek to destroy real content.
The Tamarians, their language: Shaka, when the walls fell.
"Maybe we should have stopped them, sir."
"Stopped them?"
"Councilor Chesku and his wife. Maybe we should have stopped them leaving the surveillance zone. We are supposed to watch everyone."
"That is the meaning of surveillance, yes. Have you been studying in your spare time, Forres?"
"Sir?"
"You think we should have stopped them, do you?"
"It is standard procedure."
"For a member of the High Council there's no such thing as standard procedure."
"The book says --"
"Never mind what the book says, Section Leader. All you have to worry about's what I say, right?"
"Absolutely, sir."
"Absolutely, Section Leader. And what I say is that if a High Councilor wishes to swing stark naked through the trees and spit on the surveillance scanners, then swinging stark naked through the trees, spitting on the surveillance scanners becomes standard procedure, at least for him. Or his wife."
"Now there's a thought."
"Huh! Not one to dwell on, given your present rank."
"One law for the rich, eh Major?"
"There's no law for the rich, Forres, and even less for the rich, personal friends of the President."
[Forres puts his feet up on the console]
"They are only civilians, though."
"Do you want to join them?"
[Nods at feet]
[Forres takes feet down]
"Sorry, sir."
"If you want to get on in this man's army, Forres, you've got to learn to distinguish between civilians who are and civilians who aren't."
"Sir."
[Thinks twice]
"Are and aren't what, sir?"
"When you know that, Section Leader, you'll be ready for promotion."
Boston on thoughtcrime: Our thoughts make you guilty.