The FCC can't regulate what apps Apple makes available in their store. However, they might be able to force Apple to open the platform to other stores. Then again, Apple is free to kill the platform to prevent that (would they? could they be forced to if AT&T's contract demands of restrictions can't be met?).
And if Apple gets off by saying a 3G network is not an Internet network but rather a digital telephony network through which the Internet can be tunneled, expect other providers like cable and DSL to make similar declarations to justify restricting what their users can put through their television delivery and wired analog telephony networks.
It's called jury nullification, and I'd think most judges won't let you argue for it, make juries swear an oath to uphold the law and follow the judge's instructions, and/or issue jury instructions that, if followed, preclude nullification.
I'm more interested in performance at resolutions 3840x1024 and 5040x1050 myself (max resolution capabilities of the analog and digital Matrox TripleHeads2Go respectively).
Reaching a black hole is not impossible with current technology, but it is beside the point.
Yes it is. It would take millennia if not millions of years to reach the closest black hole with current technology. We can't build anything that would be able to power itself for that long, nevermind that humanity would most likely be extinct by the time we reached it.
Well, good thing then that we're working on building our own locally. Anyone care for spaghetti?
I'd be interested in just the unfinished portions, particularly the green screen and wires parts. The finished parts I'd just wait for the theatrical release to see and commercial home release to possess, but it would be fun and a lot easier to remix than isolating the action in the final product.
However, at the end of the story:
The leak came as a new campaign against film piracy launched in UK cinemas.
In a change from recent years, the adverts move away from the message that piracy is theft.
Audiences will instead see a trailer, fronted by Dr Who actor Noel Clarke, thanking them for paying to come and watch a film.
Anyone have a cam or leaked print of that yet? PSAs and promotional materials should be fair use/game.
Speaking of which, have you noticed how the center channel bleeds in and out on the left and right channels in 5.1 commercials on TV? Why is that?
BTW, kudos to the slashdot editors for correcting this to "estimated several hundred thousand times". TFA still has what would be read as "several one hundred thousand times".
There are times when you can use numbers and times when you must use words.
Still, monitoring, not filtering, is the course of action if you want to actually make arrests. Instead of blocking access, you log access to any sites on the list and start investigations on those that go to them. Since the authorities don't want to be hassled by investigating false leads, those maintaining the list will have an interest in ensuring that it is accurate instead of the "set it and forget it" filtering mentality from infomercials that allows for anything someone doesn't like to be made to disappear without accountability.
At least, when you are sure those doing the investigations aren't themselves corrupt and the system doesn't just *bing* send a "so@so accessed this page" IM to the politician that added the site to the list.
I have Time Warner, and I find their dvr service in many ways superior to TiVo.
Yeah, well Time Warner rigged their cable boxes so that TiVos can't reliably change channels according to schedule, and that bug has persisted for years without remedy since they put the "mystro" software on their Scientific Atlanta boxes. (Series1 units are SOL, having to stick to straight analog cable; Series2 have to employ padding to try to avoid the guide data update on the cable box's information bar that wipes out the digits while the TiVo is still signaling a channel change.)
So far my TiVo Series3 has been fine with its two CableCards installed (after some signal strength problems were resolved), though I'll need TWC's SDV Adapter Box by April 16th to continue using it. Who knows how they'll manage to bugger it up this time.
Actually there's a not insignificant delay with all live broadcast sports. This used to be easily verifiable by taking a small, battery powered, portable TV to a game, but now you need one that has an ATSC tuner.
Prisoner: There's a message through the grapevine, Johnny. Johnny: Yeah? What is it? Prisoner: Johnny and the Mothers are playing "Stompin' at the Savoy" in Vermont tonight. Johnny: Vermin's going to kill my brother at the Savoy theater tonight! Prisoner: I didn't say that. Johnny: No, but I know this grapevine.
I missed it as well, and only because it fell on a Sunday that year. I don't have enough time to read slashdot at home; I only have the down time at work to do it waiting for code to compile. (Office sword fighting is for when everyone's machines are locked up due to problems with the remote mounted user directories.)
Scientists will keep a constant vigil on the team via cameras erected in each of the facility's three modules. Those who survive more than 100 days will earn a $20,000 reward.
Is this a russian attempt at the Big Brother/Survivor franchise?
"Reality" TV has certainly diluted the meaning of the verb "to survive".
(The heirs of those that expire will get a free copy of the home game.)
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Just by the fact that the software is copyrighted, there is, by definition, and End User License Agreement.
You shouldn't buy your dictionaries from the Business Software Alliance. Their definitions have embedded propaganda.
But the case is about Google TELLING SOMEONE THE URL.
Google News tells more than the URL. It also tells the title of the story, who publishes it, how long ago, the byline, the first sentence of the story (maybe two if the first is pithy), who else is reporting it, and how many sites it has found related articles on.
At most the only thing Google could be infringing on in this collection of facts is reproduction of that first sentence. Reporting the title has to be fair use; any catalog of news articles would include that.
Perhaps they want to establish limits on how much one can agglomerate exercises in fair use. While one could have an argument over repeated use of fair-use excerpts from one story eventually giving access to the full story, that shouldn't apply to disparate stories even from the same news source.
Not to say I haven't used Google News to read a full news story using creative search terms to get the surrounding context. The publishing site had pulled the whole article and Google News doesn't include cache links. Google didn't make it easy, only possible.
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Yet Microsoft put the R&D into the Xbox 360 game console's proprietary hard drive interface.
Microsoft is Microsoft. A rent-to-own company is not Microsoft.
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The FCC can't regulate what apps Apple makes available in their store. However, they might be able to force Apple to open the platform to other stores. Then again, Apple is free to kill the platform to prevent that (would they? could they be forced to if AT&T's contract demands of restrictions can't be met?).
And if Apple gets off by saying a 3G network is not an Internet network but rather a digital telephony network through which the Internet can be tunneled, expect other providers like cable and DSL to make similar declarations to justify restricting what their users can put through their television delivery and wired analog telephony networks.
Reasonable limits aren't.
It's called jury nullification, and I'd think most judges won't let you argue for it, make juries swear an oath to uphold the law and follow the judge's instructions, and/or issue jury instructions that, if followed, preclude nullification.
I'm allergic to cortisol, you insensitive clod!
What do you meme by that?
I'm more interested in performance at resolutions 3840x1024 and 5040x1050 myself (max resolution capabilities of the analog and digital Matrox TripleHeads2Go respectively).
Reaching a black hole is not impossible with current technology, but it is beside the point.
Yes it is. It would take millennia if not millions of years to reach the closest black hole with current technology. We can't build anything that would be able to power itself for that long, nevermind that humanity would most likely be extinct by the time we reached it.
Well, good thing then that we're working on building our own locally. Anyone care for spaghetti?
So just like a piece of grit?
There's always Hawking Radiation.
So that's the source of that Jersey smell?
I'd be interested in just the unfinished portions, particularly the green screen and wires parts. The finished parts I'd just wait for the theatrical release to see and commercial home release to possess, but it would be fun and a lot easier to remix than isolating the action in the final product.
However, at the end of the story:
The leak came as a new campaign against film piracy launched in UK cinemas.
In a change from recent years, the adverts move away from the message that piracy is theft.
Audiences will instead see a trailer, fronted by Dr Who actor Noel Clarke, thanking them for paying to come and watch a film.
Anyone have a cam or leaked print of that yet? PSAs and promotional materials should be fair use/game.
Speaking of which, have you noticed how the center channel bleeds in and out on the left and right channels in 5.1 commercials on TV? Why is that?
"estimated several 100,000 times"
BTW, kudos to the slashdot editors for correcting this to "estimated several hundred thousand times". TFA still has what would be read as "several one hundred thousand times".
There are times when you can use numbers and times when you must use words.
Still, monitoring, not filtering, is the course of action if you want to actually make arrests. Instead of blocking access, you log access to any sites on the list and start investigations on those that go to them. Since the authorities don't want to be hassled by investigating false leads, those maintaining the list will have an interest in ensuring that it is accurate instead of the "set it and forget it" filtering mentality from infomercials that allows for anything someone doesn't like to be made to disappear without accountability.
At least, when you are sure those doing the investigations aren't themselves corrupt and the system doesn't just *bing* send a "so@so accessed this page" IM to the politician that added the site to the list.
I have Time Warner, and I find their dvr service in many ways superior to TiVo.
Yeah, well Time Warner rigged their cable boxes so that TiVos can't reliably change channels according to schedule, and that bug has persisted for years without remedy since they put the "mystro" software on their Scientific Atlanta boxes. (Series1 units are SOL, having to stick to straight analog cable; Series2 have to employ padding to try to avoid the guide data update on the cable box's information bar that wipes out the digits while the TiVo is still signaling a channel change.)
So far my TiVo Series3 has been fine with its two CableCards installed (after some signal strength problems were resolved), though I'll need TWC's SDV Adapter Box by April 16th to continue using it. Who knows how they'll manage to bugger it up this time.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then.
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
[badoop]
Dark Helmet: Go back to then.
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
[badoop]
Dark Helmet: Go back to then.
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
[badoop]
Announcer: [V.O.] With TiVo, you can play with live TV.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
[badoop]
Actually there's a not insignificant delay with all live broadcast sports. This used to be easily verifiable by taking a small, battery powered, portable TV to a game, but now you need one that has an ATSC tuner.
They've only got a single unit showing content 58 seconds into the future. I've watched 20 minutes into the future back in 1987 using only a VCR.
my comp science teacher once said, "With IPV6, there will be enough IP addresses for every toaster on mars"
"That word is racist! I don't like it!"
Come to think of it... There are no toasters on mars... So his comment makes no sense.
"Say something, Gaius. Tell [him] you won't have racial epithets used in your presence!"
Prisoner: There's a message through the grapevine, Johnny.
Johnny: Yeah? What is it?
Prisoner: Johnny and the Mothers are playing "Stompin' at the Savoy" in Vermont tonight.
Johnny: Vermin's going to kill my brother at the Savoy theater tonight!
Prisoner: I didn't say that.
Johnny: No, but I know this grapevine.
I missed it as well, and only because it fell on a Sunday that year. I don't have enough time to read slashdot at home; I only have the down time at work to do it waiting for code to compile. (Office sword fighting is for when everyone's machines are locked up due to problems with the remote mounted user directories.)
Scientists will keep a constant vigil on the team via cameras erected in each of the facility's three modules. Those who survive more than 100 days will earn a $20,000 reward.
Is this a russian attempt at the Big Brother/Survivor franchise?
"Reality" TV has certainly diluted the meaning of the verb "to survive".
(The heirs of those that expire will get a free copy of the home game.)
Just by the fact that the software is copyrighted, there is, by definition, and End User License Agreement.
You shouldn't buy your dictionaries from the Business Software Alliance. Their definitions have embedded propaganda.
But the case is about Google TELLING SOMEONE THE URL.
Google News tells more than the URL. It also tells the title of the story, who publishes it, how long ago, the byline, the first sentence of the story (maybe two if the first is pithy), who else is reporting it, and how many sites it has found related articles on.
At most the only thing Google could be infringing on in this collection of facts is reproduction of that first sentence. Reporting the title has to be fair use; any catalog of news articles would include that.
Perhaps they want to establish limits on how much one can agglomerate exercises in fair use. While one could have an argument over repeated use of fair-use excerpts from one story eventually giving access to the full story, that shouldn't apply to disparate stories even from the same news source.
Not to say I haven't used Google News to read a full news story using creative search terms to get the surrounding context. The publishing site had pulled the whole article and Google News doesn't include cache links. Google didn't make it easy, only possible.
Yet Microsoft put the R&D into the Xbox 360 game console's proprietary hard drive interface.
Microsoft is Microsoft. A rent-to-own company is not Microsoft.
Answered my own question, so I'll share: iedr.ie
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by the way, isn't it already April 1 in Ireland?
Hmm, UTC/GMT +1 currently, so yes by nearly an hour at the time you posted.
Where do I go to register .ie domains, and can foreigners to Ireland register domains?