DRM America is worse than Soviet Russia. Soon there will be a media tax instead that everyone has to pay because the media industry says that everyone is guilty.
Just because the radio doesn't play "your" music doesn't mean that it can't introduce you to new music too. The point is that if you don't push new music through radio and other broadcast media people won't know about the new music.
But the music industry seems to fail to grasp the fact of a saturated market too. Kids today are playing computer games for hours instead of listen to music and drink beer.
The problem is that everyone today thinks that it takes a huge load of special effects to make a good Science Fiction movie - but in reality they are wrong.
Much of science fiction is about an idea, not laser swords and blowing up planets. Take a deep dive into the realm of Asimov, Heinlein, John Scalzi and Jack McDevitt and you realize that it's mostly about humans and their interaction as well as pushing one idea or another.
I would really like to see a movie based on "Stranger in a Strange Land" or a TV series based on "Dorsai!" by Gordon R. Dickson. Cut most of the crapload of special effects and have some subtle ones.
There are always life-threatening things. Kids can trip and strike their heads on the stairs, fall from a ladder or accidentally stab themselves with a screwdriver. Most cases aren't fatal and they survive and learn, rare cases are fatal but since you never know when it will happen you can't worry all the time. All of us has been kids and most of us has experienced things that could have killed or injured us but we did survive.
And what's really important is also to teach your kid to pay respect to other people - some kids don't care and just grab food from the table when they are visiting someone.
If they have to worry about their kids getting into something bizarre then they will have to worry the rest of their lives.
What they need to worry about is if some stalker will get after their kids for one reason or another. It's usually about sex, but doesn't have to be. Kids needs to be aware that they need to protect their identity well enough to at least be ambiguous about their age and location.
And when they are old enough to have their own mobile phone they can do a lot of stuff unsupervised. Result is that what they do on the computer may be what you see and on the phone what you don't.
Before installing a keylogger or other monitoring software - check if it is legal to do that where you live or you can be suffering from legal actions of invasion of privacy.
There may be laws around that were in effect before the internet that can be interpreted in a way that can make such methods illegal to the level of a prison sentence. In some areas recording a phone call is only permitted if at least one of the participants of the call is aware of it.
Just use a flash drive and then a USB port wired with 48V instead of 5V to burn it out. Hand it over and they can't make it work all you can claim is that it's on the drive and if they can't make it work maybe they had an ESD accident.
This is why you should always use Truecrypt on a removable or remote drive when working with questionable content.
Just don't forget that the swap/page and hibernate files as well as temporary files also needs to be overwritten with random data frequently.
So if the computer is set up to do that automatically - can that be classified as willful destruction of evidence?
And if you are using a remote storage - make sure that it's in a different country, that may mess up the court proceedings severely because then they have to go through the juridical process of another country.
And patent cases like these is why the the US is lagging more and more behind in development. Great ideas are stranding or shot down due to patent litigations and injunctions.
The IP property protection may be a lot weaker in China (and other Asian countries) but the bandwagon is rolling on there because in many cases it's not worth the effort to bring an IP infringement to court unless you also bribe the judge and a large part of the legal system at the same time.
They may have done that, but it may also mean that they did it just to make sure that there is no competition coming up until they have milked the last drop of oil from the crust of the earth. In this case they may not even need to be the most efficient player, and what they really fear is a player that's going to be competitive at the current prices of gasoline.
And the disadvantage with size - it won't fit in your pocket. You would have to be the size of Magnus Samuelsson to not look funny if you have your iPad in your pocket!
I agree - and where are my mod points when I need them? Parent to me modded "Insightful".
The movie industry doesn't seem to get it at all - and the big issue isn't Blu-Ray copying anyway - the future will be streaming video on the net instead. Then the movie industry can try to get paid per view instead.
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If & when they play new music depends on which radio station you actually listen to.
DRM America is worse than Soviet Russia. Soon there will be a media tax instead that everyone has to pay because the media industry says that everyone is guilty.
"Return to sender, Nobody with the name John Doe lives here."
Just because the radio doesn't play "your" music doesn't mean that it can't introduce you to new music too. The point is that if you don't push new music through radio and other broadcast media people won't know about the new music.
But the music industry seems to fail to grasp the fact of a saturated market too. Kids today are playing computer games for hours instead of listen to music and drink beer.
SyFy suffers from Syphilis. That's why they got that name.
And one thing with Syphilis is that it goes to your brain - somewhat in the same way as a LSD trip.
The problem is that everyone today thinks that it takes a huge load of special effects to make a good Science Fiction movie - but in reality they are wrong.
Much of science fiction is about an idea, not laser swords and blowing up planets. Take a deep dive into the realm of Asimov, Heinlein, John Scalzi and Jack McDevitt and you realize that it's mostly about humans and their interaction as well as pushing one idea or another.
I would really like to see a movie based on "Stranger in a Strange Land" or a TV series based on "Dorsai!" by Gordon R. Dickson. Cut most of the crapload of special effects and have some subtle ones.
Editing can be a lot of things - and for things that are disturbing the impact of the image without changing the content.
A branch shadow disturbing, a body part in the grass below the wall or even a pile of feces.
Doesn't have to be the same spray can and the same time.
Spraying on a warm and a cold wall will yield different result, as will different spray cans.
But I wouldn't be surprised if the western painting was done by the photographer.
Because they have a culture originating from letting the customers do the testing.
And it may well be that Anonymous isn't one group but several groups using the same name/cover.
Isn't that a passing problem?
This because it looks like the US is declining and China is rising.
It is also like kid-proofing your house. Don't. The kid will get some bumps and that is how you learn: by failing.
Reminds me of a sticker: "I kid-proofed my house but the kids still gets in."
There are always life-threatening things. Kids can trip and strike their heads on the stairs, fall from a ladder or accidentally stab themselves with a screwdriver. Most cases aren't fatal and they survive and learn, rare cases are fatal but since you never know when it will happen you can't worry all the time. All of us has been kids and most of us has experienced things that could have killed or injured us but we did survive.
And what's really important is also to teach your kid to pay respect to other people - some kids don't care and just grab food from the table when they are visiting someone.
If they have to worry about their kids getting into something bizarre then they will have to worry the rest of their lives.
What they need to worry about is if some stalker will get after their kids for one reason or another. It's usually about sex, but doesn't have to be. Kids needs to be aware that they need to protect their identity well enough to at least be ambiguous about their age and location.
And when they are old enough to have their own mobile phone they can do a lot of stuff unsupervised. Result is that what they do on the computer may be what you see and on the phone what you don't.
Before installing a keylogger or other monitoring software - check if it is legal to do that where you live or you can be suffering from legal actions of invasion of privacy.
There may be laws around that were in effect before the internet that can be interpreted in a way that can make such methods illegal to the level of a prison sentence. In some areas recording a phone call is only permitted if at least one of the participants of the call is aware of it.
Just use a flash drive and then a USB port wired with 48V instead of 5V to burn it out. Hand it over and they can't make it work all you can claim is that it's on the drive and if they can't make it work maybe they had an ESD accident.
This is why you should always use Truecrypt on a removable or remote drive when working with questionable content.
Just don't forget that the swap/page and hibernate files as well as temporary files also needs to be overwritten with random data frequently.
So if the computer is set up to do that automatically - can that be classified as willful destruction of evidence?
And if you are using a remote storage - make sure that it's in a different country, that may mess up the court proceedings severely because then they have to go through the juridical process of another country.
"I don't have BP here you insensitive clod!"
And patent cases like these is why the the US is lagging more and more behind in development. Great ideas are stranding or shot down due to patent litigations and injunctions.
The IP property protection may be a lot weaker in China (and other Asian countries) but the bandwagon is rolling on there because in many cases it's not worth the effort to bring an IP infringement to court unless you also bribe the judge and a large part of the legal system at the same time.
They may have done that, but it may also mean that they did it just to make sure that there is no competition coming up until they have milked the last drop of oil from the crust of the earth. In this case they may not even need to be the most efficient player, and what they really fear is a player that's going to be competitive at the current prices of gasoline.
Or have the patents dismissed as overly broad.
And the disadvantage with size - it won't fit in your pocket. You would have to be the size of Magnus Samuelsson to not look funny if you have your iPad in your pocket!
That site got slashdotted! :)
I agree - and where are my mod points when I need them? Parent to me modded "Insightful".
The movie industry doesn't seem to get it at all - and the big issue isn't Blu-Ray copying anyway - the future will be streaming video on the net instead. Then the movie industry can try to get paid per view instead.
And don't forget that a tablet is just a touch-screen phone on steroids, and in a year or two the phone will be more powerful than the tablet.
I foresee a huge volume of tablets being available on Ebay in the near future when the hype has run out.
And the few that are still fond of their tablet can stick around at Ebay buying a few extra to have as spares.