How surreal it would be to have an object the size of a sugar cube that would be so heavy!
Tarrant: A neutron star? Avon: A microscopic fragment of one. It's the only possible explanation. It was unbelievably heavy. Dayna: So how could Egrorian have planted it aboard? Avon: He must have reprogrammed that automatic landing bay of his. Soolin: And you moved it on your own? Avon: I couldn't find Vila. Vila: I'm glad about that. Tarrant: Pity about the tachyon funnel, though. Avon: We had no choice. Vila: It's a trip I won't forget, Avon. Avon: Well, as you always say, Vila: you know you are safe with me.
I'm... gonna soak up the sun... I'm gonna tell everyone... to... lighten... up I'm gonna tell 'em that I've... got no one to blame... For every time I feel lame... I'm... looking... up
I'm gonna soak up the sun While it's still free I'm gonna soak up the sun Before it goes out on me
I'm surprised that there isn't more interest in the main issue in the case, the question of what is a "transitory" copy.... especially among you software developers out there!
"Transitory copy" is ripe for the same logic torture that "for limited times" was in copyright duration: it can be as long as you want so long as it is not actually forever. The real burden is proving the greater economic interest is on your side.
Yeah, I'm starting to feel burnt out on the issue. Whenever the Princes of the Plains and the Tribesmen of the Cold Hillsides do battle, it is always the Dwellers in the Forest who will come off worst.
This is why over the last year, I've acquired around 10 Super VHS VCRs (total cost around $1000).
Where did you find them so cheap these days? I haven't found any new much less than $300 each. D-VHS decks tend to play S-VHS tapes only at VHS quality.
I think the "wedge" refers to the slice of the brain contained on it and not the hard drive itself.
As with other things, the nomenclature shifts such that the device is referred to by its content or function. For all intents and purposes, if the drive only contains the wedge, the drive becomes the wedge made manifest.
Compare how you tell someone to "put in the movie" without regard to the medium on which it is stored (VHS tape, DVD) or the player (VCR, PS3). The storage material is immaterial; only the material stored upon it matters in casual parlance.
There's also how we hold on to some obsolete terms such as "dialing a phone" even when it is done on a keypad instead of a spinning rotary dial (even in science fiction, you have the DHD (Dial Home Device) which only ever spun rotary style on the animated Stargate Infinity). And though "don't touch that remote" has largely supplanted "don't touch that dial" for TVs, we still talk about "rewinding" video even when there is no spool of tape to be rewound, and probably will for a very long time to come.
The terms were coined in reference to the mechanism, but they stick around because it was never about the mechanism, only the effect.
How is this not boil down to corporate interests annexing the Internet for their own locked-down uses away from average citizens' private use?
It will come to only protected content being allowed to travel the Internet. Further, the individual real people will be denied the ability to protect their content because they can't be trusted not to wrap illegal content with private protection.
And sure enough, the formula says that the probability of 1 being the first digit of a binary number is 1.
Only because the number being 0 is mathematically insignificant.
Well, that and numbers like 0.1 in base 2 (0.5 in decimal) aren't considered. Include the fractional numbers [0-1) and it becomes a 50% probability again.
Include all the negative binary numbers and it's 33 1/3% (the third candidate is "-").
How do you sue a company that is basic[al]ly in control of the government?
Threaten to sue the law changes to say its impossible to sue that company!
Why would I want to make it impossible to sue a company, and how does my threatening to sue the changes made to the law accomplish that? And why would you even suggest something that's counter to your premise of how to sue the company?!
(Is that even possible? Maybe, given that cash has been prosecuted for being drug money.)
French corporations and government are entangled in ways that Americans might find unfamiliar.
AT&T's immunity for domestic wiretapping? Americans don't find that unfamiliar.
You don't understand, the whole reason of the DMCA is to undermine the fair use clauses. Fair use is the loophole in the whole copyright system. Fair use means "you're allowed to copy (under certain circumstances), if you're able to copy. The DMCA added simply (concerning this): "you're not allowed to circumvent copy protection".
If you're able to privately circumvent copy protection, no one need know, and it can continue quietly. The real meat of the DMCA is where it says you're not allowed to traffic in or receive tools that circumvent copy protection. Since the task of breaking copy protection is beyond the reach of most individuals, this effectively prevents even private breaking of copy protection by banning distribution of the necessary tools.
The effectiveness of the copy protection then is determined by the ability of a single unaided individual to circumvent it. Unfortunately for the commercial copyright interests, the downloading of free tools is sufficiently on the down-low that they can't effectively halt their dissemination.
Still, the copy-protection industry cannot permit the distribution of the tools. To prevent that, they have to demonstrate that fair-use copying can be performed by any other means. If open distribution of circumvention tools becomes permitted, then copying can occur outside of their ability to detect or prosecute. Any access to tools deemed fair use creates access to tools for infringing uses. It's a lynch pin of the law that the court will take any excuse not to weaken, even to the extent of torturing logic.
If the MPAA didn't care about consumers then they wouldn't have given us... Reefer Madness.
It's pretty clear from the History section of the linked Wikipedia page that the MPAA did not bring us that movie. I wouldn't even lay the blame on the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association (MPPDA), its precursor.
I've been part of entire bus trips of minors watching pirated R-rated (for violence) movies and playing penny-ante poker while crossing state lines. I wouldn't have been surprised if some of those in the back of the bus weren't also engaging in sex acts, be it vaginal, oral, anal, mutual masturbation, or flashing other vehicles.
Crazy mixed case, especially when it is every other character, is common in a large subculture of the data piracy scene. Another trait is alphanumeric substitution of letters and adoption of alternative spellings, especially in combination (1337 5p33k -- "leet" (as in "elite") speak).
The bug in VHS was never really fixed. The issue is due to the way that VHS(and Beta) systems had to record video.
Analog video recorders match the tape movement and the rotation speed of the flying heads dynamically, such that the mechanical system is held in synchronization with the incoming video signal.
VCRs will suffer the effects of Macrovision signals passed through them without their engaging in any recording, preventing one from passing a DVD player's signal through a VCR just because one doesn't have enough inputs available on a TV. In this, VCRs are made to be more vulnerable to a copy protection scheme than they would be naturally.
However, the manufacturers of consumer digital transcoders and digital recorders have been mandated to detect the analog Macrovision protection and refuse to operate even though their hardware would otherwise be immune to this method of copy protection (though some have a hidden mode enabled at power-up to disable this detection).
I think though this is enforced through contract law in order to be permitted to encode video under certain codecs such as MPEG and DV and not by any law passed by Congress. It's likely in the standard specification for VHS technology as well.
Just wait. They'll figure out a way to implement the equivalent of TV-B-Gone into the projected image somehow that causes all camcorders to turn themselves off.
In fact, I'm surprised they haven't mandated that every new camera contain firmware such that the detection of brown dots in the camera's field of view forces the camera to lock itself down (possibly also emit an alarm) so that it won't release the tape or other memory or do any other recording until turned in to a copyright enforcement office^W^W^W repair service. Of course, only surveillance cameras will be immune to this requirement.
IIRC there was some confusion on the issue awhile back in that some small moon rocks were sealed inside paperweights and given as gifts very early on. This caused some brouhaha when someone who found themselves in possession of one wanted it authenticated and NASA hadn't known about it.
And without coming up with some technobabble that the data was still present in the interface buffer and you just need to subject the system to your multiphasic polydynamic transducer to get it to flush the buffer to the new drive to recover all the files.
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How surreal it would be to have an object the size of a sugar cube that would be so heavy!
Tarrant: A neutron star?
Avon: A microscopic fragment of one. It's the only possible explanation. It was unbelievably heavy.
Dayna: So how could Egrorian have planted it aboard?
Avon: He must have reprogrammed that automatic landing bay of his.
Soolin: And you moved it on your own?
Avon: I couldn't find Vila.
Vila: I'm glad about that.
Tarrant: Pity about the tachyon funnel, though.
Avon: We had no choice.
Vila: It's a trip I won't forget, Avon.
Avon: Well, as you always say, Vila: you know you are safe with me.
Please, please, please don't let them call it deuterium ore .
from the gonna-soak-up-the-sun dept.
I'm... gonna soak up the sun...
I'm gonna tell everyone... to... lighten... up
I'm gonna tell 'em that I've... got no one to blame...
For every time I feel lame... I'm... looking... up
I'm gonna soak up the sun
While it's still free
I'm gonna soak up the sun
Before it goes out on me
I'm surprised that there isn't more interest in the main issue in the case, the question of what is a "transitory" copy.... especially among you software developers out there!
"Transitory copy" is ripe for the same logic torture that "for limited times" was in copyright duration: it can be as long as you want so long as it is not actually forever. The real burden is proving the greater economic interest is on your side.
Yeah, I'm starting to feel burnt out on the issue. Whenever the Princes of the Plains and the Tribesmen of the Cold Hillsides do battle, it is always the Dwellers in the Forest who will come off worst.
This is why over the last year, I've acquired around 10 Super VHS VCRs (total cost around $1000).
Where did you find them so cheap these days? I haven't found any new much less than $300 each. D-VHS decks tend to play S-VHS tapes only at VHS quality.
When I see it three times in a single post, I had to say something.
It's the Beetlejuice rule.
I think the "wedge" refers to the slice of the brain contained on it and not the hard drive itself.
As with other things, the nomenclature shifts such that the device is referred to by its content or function. For all intents and purposes, if the drive only contains the wedge, the drive becomes the wedge made manifest.
Compare how you tell someone to "put in the movie" without regard to the medium on which it is stored (VHS tape, DVD) or the player (VCR, PS3). The storage material is immaterial; only the material stored upon it matters in casual parlance.
There's also how we hold on to some obsolete terms such as "dialing a phone" even when it is done on a keypad instead of a spinning rotary dial (even in science fiction, you have the DHD (Dial Home Device) which only ever spun rotary style on the animated Stargate Infinity). And though "don't touch that remote" has largely supplanted "don't touch that dial" for TVs, we still talk about "rewinding" video even when there is no spool of tape to be rewound, and probably will for a very long time to come.
The terms were coined in reference to the mechanism, but they stick around because it was never about the mechanism, only the effect.
How is this not boil down to corporate interests annexing the Internet for their own locked-down uses away from average citizens' private use?
It will come to only protected content being allowed to travel the Internet. Further, the individual real people will be denied the ability to protect their content because they can't be trusted not to wrap illegal content with private protection.
Or better yet, putting GPS on police cars.
Including their plainclothes cars. And on their personal, off-duty cars.
And make sure they give real-time information, none of this store-and-retrieve-later stuff.
And sure enough, the formula says that the probability of 1 being the first digit of a binary number is 1.
Only because the number being 0 is mathematically insignificant.
Well, that and numbers like 0.1 in base 2 (0.5 in decimal) aren't considered. Include the fractional numbers [0-1) and it becomes a 50% probability again.
Include all the negative binary numbers and it's 33 1/3% (the third candidate is "-").
How do you sue a company that is basic[al]ly in control of the government?
Threaten to sue the law changes to say its impossible to sue that company!
Why would I want to make it impossible to sue a company, and how does my threatening to sue the changes made to the law accomplish that? And why would you even suggest something that's counter to your premise of how to sue the company?!
(Is that even possible? Maybe, given that cash has been prosecuted for being drug money.)
AT&T's immunity for domestic wiretapping? Americans don't find that unfamiliar.
You don't understand, the whole reason of the DMCA is to undermine the fair use clauses. Fair use is the loophole in the whole copyright system. Fair use means "you're allowed to copy (under certain circumstances), if you're able to copy. The DMCA added simply (concerning this): "you're not allowed to circumvent copy protection".
If you're able to privately circumvent copy protection, no one need know, and it can continue quietly. The real meat of the DMCA is where it says you're not allowed to traffic in or receive tools that circumvent copy protection. Since the task of breaking copy protection is beyond the reach of most individuals, this effectively prevents even private breaking of copy protection by banning distribution of the necessary tools.
The effectiveness of the copy protection then is determined by the ability of a single unaided individual to circumvent it. Unfortunately for the commercial copyright interests, the downloading of free tools is sufficiently on the down-low that they can't effectively halt their dissemination.
Still, the copy-protection industry cannot permit the distribution of the tools. To prevent that, they have to demonstrate that fair-use copying can be performed by any other means. If open distribution of circumvention tools becomes permitted, then copying can occur outside of their ability to detect or prosecute. Any access to tools deemed fair use creates access to tools for infringing uses. It's a lynch pin of the law that the court will take any excuse not to weaken, even to the extent of torturing logic.
If the MPAA didn't care about consumers then they wouldn't have given us... Reefer Madness.
It's pretty clear from the History section of the linked Wikipedia page that the MPAA did not bring us that movie. I wouldn't even lay the blame on the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association (MPPDA), its precursor.
This was my answer to that message when displayed in theaters.
NKB.
I've been part of entire bus trips of minors watching pirated R-rated (for violence) movies and playing penny-ante poker while crossing state lines. I wouldn't have been surprised if some of those in the back of the bus weren't also engaging in sex acts, be it vaginal, oral, anal, mutual masturbation, or flashing other vehicles.
what's up with the crazy caps lock?
Crazy mixed case, especially when it is every other character, is common in a large subculture of the data piracy scene. Another trait is alphanumeric substitution of letters and adoption of alternative spellings, especially in combination (1337 5p33k -- "leet" (as in "elite") speak).
The bug in VHS was never really fixed. The issue is due to the way that VHS(and Beta) systems had to record video.
Analog video recorders match the tape movement and the rotation speed of the flying heads dynamically, such that the mechanical system is held in synchronization with the incoming video signal.
VCRs will suffer the effects of Macrovision signals passed through them without their engaging in any recording, preventing one from passing a DVD player's signal through a VCR just because one doesn't have enough inputs available on a TV. In this, VCRs are made to be more vulnerable to a copy protection scheme than they would be naturally.
However, the manufacturers of consumer digital transcoders and digital recorders have been mandated to detect the analog Macrovision protection and refuse to operate even though their hardware would otherwise be immune to this method of copy protection (though some have a hidden mode enabled at power-up to disable this detection).
I think though this is enforced through contract law in order to be permitted to encode video under certain codecs such as MPEG and DV and not by any law passed by Congress. It's likely in the standard specification for VHS technology as well.
Just keep the distance.
Tried that once, except the damn thing kept invading my camp and stealing my stuff.
And the polar bears. Don't get me started about the polar bears.
Just wait. They'll figure out a way to implement the equivalent of TV-B-Gone into the projected image somehow that causes all camcorders to turn themselves off.
In fact, I'm surprised they haven't mandated that every new camera contain firmware such that the detection of brown dots in the camera's field of view forces the camera to lock itself down (possibly also emit an alarm) so that it won't release the tape or other memory or do any other recording until turned in to a copyright enforcement office^W^W^W repair service. Of course, only surveillance cameras will be immune to this requirement.
Always modded strange, never charming.
If only they still made nice mid-sized sedans.
1985 Accord : 2000 lbs
1992 Accord : 2800 lbs
2008 Accord : 3200 lbs
There's that word again: "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a something wrong with the Earth's gravitational pull?
IIRC there was some confusion on the issue awhile back in that some small moon rocks were sealed inside paperweights and given as gifts very early on. This caused some brouhaha when someone who found themselves in possession of one wanted it authenticated and NASA hadn't known about it.
I think they just calculated the replacement cost.
So that's why we're going back to the Moon?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Legged_Freaks
I didn't know this was based on a true story.
What's so freakish about eight people having legs?
And without coming up with some technobabble that the data was still present in the interface buffer and you just need to subject the system to your multiphasic polydynamic transducer to get it to flush the buffer to the new drive to recover all the files.