(My old programmer brain just threw an interrupt when I wrote down the numbers 6502... ahh... memories... maybe it means Windows will be so optimal by then, that it'll run on a 6502!).
OK, imagine that it's 2050 and computers can create seamless virtual realities that we have trouble telling apart from 'real' life. Imagine that your friend buys a new game, "Virtual How-to-host-a-murder 2050", and spends the next month solid playing it. It's very realistic, you go through endless scenarios where someone in the dinner party gets bludgeoned - except that in this game, it actually happens, and your friend is acting out beating someone to death with a lead pipe in the Conservatory. Over, and over again.
Yeah, I tend to assume when people talk about copyrighted content they don't realize everything is copyrighted, even their own writings, automatically. Even the Anonymous Cowards. It isn't that hard to say "unauthorized" before "copyrighted content".
Usually it isn't the person being responded to that needs the correction; it's the readers of his that need to be educated. (Besides, it isn't like you said "copywritten".)
BTW, I downloaded the documentary "Good Copy, Bad Copy" from TPB. I followed a link there from the website of the producers of the film. Oh, but that might be too controversial for them to host... er, I mean to tell other people where it is hosted.
Anyway, what's wrong with letting people know where criminal activity is taking place? If instead of The Pirate Bay it was called The Pirate Barrel and it advertised itself as an investigative search engine intended for use by copyright holders to catch those infringing copyright (but due to logistics it couldn't vet every user as being the holder of the copyright for each item being searched), would they be prosecuted as harshly? They could even get away with targeted advertising for law enforcement paraphernalia on the site, like CRIME SCENE tape, tamper-evident evidence bags, titanium handcuffs, iron-core batons, anti-ballistic riot gear, improved taser power supplies....
Newspapers tend to have a daily report of crimes committed in their readership's area, many of which are unsolved. That information could be used by people to find where to buy drugs, solicit prostitution, or other crimes. Should newspapers be barred from publishing such statistics?
(Actually, I've seen television field reporters lie about the location of crimes in an area, biasing intersections by one or two blocks.)
It's impossible to say what percentage of files on The Pirate Bay is illegal for two reasons: 1) It's subjective. What's illegal in one country might be legal in another, and what's legal before one judge might be illegal before another. 2) files are constantly being added. For example, try and determine what percentage of videos on YouTube contain cats doing something hilarious.
Carpetbagger the RIAAlly Prolonged: I will sue the Internet! I will sue everybody in it! Lawyer 1: Oh. Lawyer 2: Ridiculous! Lawyer 3: Is he all right? Lawyer 4: Look, it's utterly impossible. Think of all the new users uploadin' and downloadin' all the time. Carpetbagger: I don't care. I will sue them all. Individually. Personally. One by one. And... in IP-numerical order! There are cakes over there if you want them.
no publicly held business is going to buy a torrent website that facilitates in the transmission of almost exclusively copyrighted content
Um, almost all digital content is copyrighted. There are those that even claim new copyright over the digital forms of analog public domain works. It may even be bureaucratically impossible to release something into the public domain prematurely. Combined with how long that sufficient explicit copyright notices were no longer needed and renewals were no longer required, it would be nigh impossible for any digital work not to be copyrighted.
It has never been a condition of whether or not something was copyrighted; it was whether or not the copying was authorized by the copyright holder. (And that permission need not always be expressly written: it can be implicit in accordance with the medium.)
Yeah, I was mistaken on the site name. There was another site though that hosted MP3s for people for playback over the net. You only had to provide proof of ownership of a CD and it would provide pre-ripped MP3s (thus only having to store one copy of any track). If a CD wasn't available, it would rip yours and provide it to others who could prove ownership. I think RIAA threats caused it to shut down without going into the legal system or settlement.
I remember watching Nickelodeon as a kid. No commercials. If they needed to fill time for a show that ran short, they'd throw in educational shorts like identifying the stars in the constellation of Orion or an occasional music video (Fish heads, fish heads / Roly-poly fish heads / Fish heads, fish heads / Eat them up, yum!).
If I had kids, I wouldn't let them watch the Nickelodeon of today.
Jarod: I was taken from my family [a child genius] Young Sydney: Thirty-six hours and he's already demonstrating more talent than any of our others. [exploited by the Centre] Jarod:How many people died because of what I thought up? Jarod: Since I broke out... [escaped] Jarod:...I've spent every moment searching for my past. [title logo:] [the pretender] Miss Parker: He's a Pretender, a genius who can become anyone that he wants to be. Sydney: The Centre wants him alive. Miss Parker: "Preferably". Miss Parker: He defends the weak and abused.... Jarod: Life's a gift.
Hospital patient: Are you a doctor? Jarod: I am today.
"Unfortunately, no one can be told where copyrighted material is. You have to find it for yourself."
If only this also meant the end of intrusive advertising by agents of the copyright holder. Taken to the extreme and off-line, those would be the only people authorized to tell you where any copyrighted material could be found to be consumed according to Judge Posner. You could tell people you saw a particular movie and recommend they see it too, but you couldn't tell them where: they'd have to find an official advertisement of showing times on their own.
Combined with the opinion than links to links to copyrighted material are themselves links to copyrighted material, you couldn't even tell someone where theaters showing movies could be found, or how they could find where they can find where they are found. So you can't tell them where to buy a newspaper.
What do you say? Should we end the free ride copyright holders get from word-of-mouth publicity?
From the coverage I've seen on television, he was interested in what the children would look like as adults. Naked adults.
Is this much different than feeding a photo of the child into an aging program, then removing the adult version's clothes? Or just waiting for the child to become of legal age, taking their picture, and then removing the clothes? Or a child posing nude after achieving adult age? aside photographs as a child? with the child's face pasted on the adult body? How about age regression software?
How many of you out there fantasized about the Olsen Twins becoming of legal age (until they started becoming more like Gelflings)?
Keep in mind, one of these children is a celebrity minor.
It says that the fountains of the great broke open. this means that the water may have been hot as well, thereby contributing to the sterilization of living matter so that fossils could form.
Careful. Once you get supervolcanoes involved, you start infringing on the intellectual property of the Ch-urk-ch of Scientology.
At least with frames I can right-click and display the desired frame in it's own window or tab and get a correct URL to bookmark the content.
Yeah, that doesn't always work. Some of those pages use Javascript to check to see if they're in their frameset and, if not, will use more Javascript to redirect you back to the frameset. If you're lucky, it will be a frameset that contains the page you wanted and you can bookmark that.
Of course it still doesn't help when they contain text whose flow has been fixed to a specific width and the frames aren't wide enough to read entire lines and aren't resizeable (and worse, omit scroll bars).
I don't even like how sidebar content wastes real-estate further down the page.
The article is spread annoyingly over multiple pages, like everything at the site, and the print version omits the graphs.
Things like that is why I have Repaginate installed, and for sites where I use it regularly, I keep a special style in Stylish that removes the redundant information. So far I just use that for Amazon.com when looking through upcoming DVD releases by date, identifying what classes to suppress using CSSViewer.
Before using Stylish, I used EditCSS + CSSViewer to build the rules I needed. It's been awhile since I've needed to build new rules.
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Don't bother with the fence. Fences can be tagged. Bullets in flight, much less so.
Why would a tagger so skilled to able to tag a bullet in flight want to have a bullet with his tag on it?
(My old programmer brain just threw an interrupt when I wrote down the numbers 6502 ... ahh ... memories ... maybe it means Windows will be so optimal by then, that it'll run on a 6502!).
If it's good enough for a T-800....
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I'm not your troglodyte, clod!
I see a lot of new faces here tonight, which means that a lot of you have been breaking the first two rules or fight club.
But on the upside, looks like we'll be enforcing the eighth and final rule a lot tonight.
Can any politicos here shed some light onto who the clowns are on this federal commission?
DJ 3000: Those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.
Bill: [laughs] How does it keep up with the news like that?
OK, imagine that it's 2050 and computers can create seamless virtual realities that we have trouble telling apart from 'real' life. Imagine that your friend buys a new game, "Virtual How-to-host-a-murder 2050", and spends the next month solid playing it. It's very realistic, you go through endless scenarios where someone in the dinner party gets bludgeoned - except that in this game, it actually happens, and your friend is acting out beating someone to death with a lead pipe in the Conservatory. Over, and over again.
Wasn't that the plot of the movie eXistenZ?
Yes... but a scraper that scrapes bugs off the flypaper would also scrape the glue off the fly paper, rendering it pretty useless, right?
That's why your scraper uses an edge made of pure anti-protons. Absolutely pure!
More like Star Trek's planet-eating Doomsday Machine.
Yeah, I tend to assume when people talk about copyrighted content they don't realize everything is copyrighted, even their own writings, automatically. Even the Anonymous Cowards. It isn't that hard to say "unauthorized" before "copyrighted content".
Usually it isn't the person being responded to that needs the correction; it's the readers of his that need to be educated. (Besides, it isn't like you said "copywritten".)
BTW, I downloaded the documentary "Good Copy, Bad Copy" from TPB. I followed a link there from the website of the producers of the film. Oh, but that might be too controversial for them to host... er, I mean to tell other people where it is hosted.
Anyway, what's wrong with letting people know where criminal activity is taking place? If instead of The Pirate Bay it was called The Pirate Barrel and it advertised itself as an investigative search engine intended for use by copyright holders to catch those infringing copyright (but due to logistics it couldn't vet every user as being the holder of the copyright for each item being searched), would they be prosecuted as harshly? They could even get away with targeted advertising for law enforcement paraphernalia on the site, like CRIME SCENE tape, tamper-evident evidence bags, titanium handcuffs, iron-core batons, anti-ballistic riot gear, improved taser power supplies....
Newspapers tend to have a daily report of crimes committed in their readership's area, many of which are unsolved. That information could be used by people to find where to buy drugs, solicit prostitution, or other crimes. Should newspapers be barred from publishing such statistics?
(Actually, I've seen television field reporters lie about the location of crimes in an area, biasing intersections by one or two blocks.)
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It's impossible to say what percentage of files on The Pirate Bay is illegal for two reasons: 1) It's subjective. What's illegal in one country might be legal in another, and what's legal before one judge might be illegal before another. 2) files are constantly being added. For example, try and determine what percentage of videos on YouTube contain cats doing something hilarious.
Carpetbagger the RIAAlly Prolonged: I will sue the Internet! I will sue everybody in it!
Lawyer 1: Oh.
Lawyer 2: Ridiculous!
Lawyer 3: Is he all right?
Lawyer 4: Look, it's utterly impossible. Think of all the new users uploadin' and downloadin' all the time.
Carpetbagger: I don't care. I will sue them all. Individually. Personally. One by one. And... in IP-numerical order! There are cakes over there if you want them.
no publicly held business is going to buy a torrent website that facilitates in the transmission of almost exclusively copyrighted content
Um, almost all digital content is copyrighted. There are those that even claim new copyright over the digital forms of analog public domain works. It may even be bureaucratically impossible to release something into the public domain prematurely. Combined with how long that sufficient explicit copyright notices were no longer needed and renewals were no longer required, it would be nigh impossible for any digital work not to be copyrighted.
It has never been a condition of whether or not something was copyrighted; it was whether or not the copying was authorized by the copyright holder. (And that permission need not always be expressly written: it can be implicit in accordance with the medium.)
Yeah, I was mistaken on the site name. There was another site though that hosted MP3s for people for playback over the net. You only had to provide proof of ownership of a CD and it would provide pre-ripped MP3s (thus only having to store one copy of any track). If a CD wasn't available, it would rip yours and provide it to others who could prove ownership. I think RIAA threats caused it to shut down without going into the legal system or settlement.
I still can't think of its name.
So this doesn't mean we are ripe for AllOfMP3.com to return?
I remember watching Nickelodeon as a kid. No commercials. If they needed to fill time for a show that ran short, they'd throw in educational shorts like identifying the stars in the constellation of Orion or an occasional music video (Fish heads, fish heads / Roly-poly fish heads / Fish heads, fish heads / Eat them up, yum!).
If I had kids, I wouldn't let them watch the Nickelodeon of today.
Narrator: There are Pretenders among us.
Jarod: I was taken from my family ...I've spent every moment searching for my past.
[a child genius]
Young Sydney: Thirty-six hours and he's already demonstrating more talent than any of our others.
[exploited by the Centre]
Jarod: How many people died because of what I thought up?
Jarod: Since I broke out...
[escaped]
Jarod:
[title logo:] [the pretender]
Miss Parker: He's a Pretender, a genius who can become anyone that he wants to be.
Sydney: The Centre wants him alive.
Miss Parker: "Preferably".
Miss Parker: He defends the weak and abused....
Jarod: Life's a gift.
Hospital patient: Are you a doctor?
Jarod: I am today.
"Unfortunately, no one can be told where copyrighted material is. You have to find it for yourself."
If only this also meant the end of intrusive advertising by agents of the copyright holder. Taken to the extreme and off-line, those would be the only people authorized to tell you where any copyrighted material could be found to be consumed according to Judge Posner. You could tell people you saw a particular movie and recommend they see it too, but you couldn't tell them where: they'd have to find an official advertisement of showing times on their own.
Combined with the opinion than links to links to copyrighted material are themselves links to copyrighted material, you couldn't even tell someone where theaters showing movies could be found, or how they could find where they can find where they are found. So you can't tell them where to buy a newspaper.
What do you say? Should we end the free ride copyright holders get from word-of-mouth publicity?
Damn, she's going to be at a tremendous disadvantage come the Gathering.
From the coverage I've seen on television, he was interested in what the children would look like as adults. Naked adults.
Is this much different than feeding a photo of the child into an aging program, then removing the adult version's clothes? Or just waiting for the child to become of legal age, taking their picture, and then removing the clothes? Or a child posing nude after achieving adult age? aside photographs as a child? with the child's face pasted on the adult body? How about age regression software?
How many of you out there fantasized about the Olsen Twins becoming of legal age (until they started becoming more like Gelflings)?
Keep in mind, one of these children is a celebrity minor.
It says that the fountains of the great broke open. this means that the water may have been hot as well, thereby contributing to the sterilization of living matter so that fossils could form.
Careful. Once you get supervolcanoes involved, you start infringing on the intellectual property of the Ch-urk-ch of Scientology.
Come to that, why not put it under USAMRIID? Doesn't their charter include military investigations into criminal abuses of science and technology?
Jobs, who returned to work Apple's campus...
The Jobs-meister, working the campus!
FYI, TFA has the word "at" inserted in that sentence.
At least with frames I can right-click and display the desired frame in it's own window or tab and get a correct URL to bookmark the content.
Yeah, that doesn't always work. Some of those pages use Javascript to check to see if they're in their frameset and, if not, will use more Javascript to redirect you back to the frameset. If you're lucky, it will be a frameset that contains the page you wanted and you can bookmark that.
Of course it still doesn't help when they contain text whose flow has been fixed to a specific width and the frames aren't wide enough to read entire lines and aren't resizeable (and worse, omit scroll bars).
I don't even like how sidebar content wastes real-estate further down the page.
I see your point, but there are plenty of examples on both sides. Change, lunge, and plunge all lose the e, while munge, tinge, and singe do not.
Chang, lung, and plung aren't verbs.
Basically, munging munge mungs it. Seems appropriate to me.
The article is spread annoyingly over multiple pages, like everything at the site, and the print version omits the graphs.
Things like that is why I have Repaginate installed, and for sites where I use it regularly, I keep a special style in Stylish that removes the redundant information. So far I just use that for Amazon.com when looking through upcoming DVD releases by date, identifying what classes to suppress using CSSViewer.
Before using Stylish, I used EditCSS + CSSViewer to build the rules I needed. It's been awhile since I've needed to build new rules.