I would ask two further questions. For those who live in countries where voting IS compulsory, ever have an instance when there was no one you wanted to vote for? What then?
And if maintaining one's citizenship were predicated on voting, would voting be predicated on being a citizen?
If it's the only reason the iTMS uses DRM is because of "the executives", then why don't labels get to choose whether or not they want DRM on songs they sell through iTunes?
Or perhaps a generous infusion of Exxon "advertising" allows one to focus less on certain pesky environmental (oil spills) and economic (profiteering) issues?
Either your history and ethics teachers should be barred from further lectures, or you weren't paying attention in class.
The insane were leaving you guys alone fine, germany deliberately did not want to engage america, and I doubt japan really did either, but where semi-forced into it by america itself (no excuse for bombing pearl harbour I know, but it argues against your comment of "insane people not leaving you alone") for the express purpose of convincing the majority of americans that going into the war was a necessary evil.
America pushed Japan into war? We didn't just randomly shutoff oil to Japan. The FDR administration did that in response to Japan's invasion of China. Despite what Japan and Germany were doing, there was a significant portion of the American population who wanted to ignore the facts and stay at home. "Not our problem". Japan's answer to losing American oil was to get it from elsewhere in Asia, by force. They knew that America was not going to stand for that either. Solution? Bomb America's Pacific fleet so they don't have the abiltiy to interfere.
Do not equate the popularity in circles of "Amateur Hour" shows and vapid quasi-celebrities as a blanket indictment of the American public. If your position were correct, extortion would be expunged as well as there would be no point. I think you'll find the FBI would beg to differ.
No, I think this sort of harassment could indeed find a foothold in the States.
The/. comment is misleading. The technique to digitally capture the surface of a human body will not help make digital movies with no actors. You still need a real actor to do the job; the described technique only projects the original actor's image on the new actor. The age of the digital actor is not here yet, although this technique may be useful for ressurrecting dead actors.
Actually, I think the background article is misleading. Seems like Perlman & Co tried to explain what they were working on and the reporter extrapolated incorrectly. For instance, note that the reporter says you use a fluorescent light. But a fluorescent light won't pick up the phosphorescent paint (cetainly not with any efficiency). You'd need a blacklight to see the paint properly.
Yes, the reporter says this could be used with dead actors, but the technique described relies on using enhanced motion capture from the real actor. If the actor in question is dead, where are you getting the face from to paint and create the motion capture? The answer is that you can't. The best you can do is paste an image map of the dead actor on an armature created from this process. It would still seem to be suspect if the armature does not accurately conform to the contours of the dead actor's face.
Keep in mind that Ms Stewart, of the Chicago Teachers Union, doesn't care about the education that kids in Chicago receive. Her only concern is the impact to the union. As president of the union, she will categorically object to any proposal, program, grant, etc that would divert money from union members. Virtual schools serve students who theoretically could be in classrooms featuring union-member teachers. Ergo, this is an untenable situation and must be put down lest people get other screwy non-union ideas (like school vouchers so poor kids might be able to attend non-union private schools).
I would think the major insurers would love to have an "always on" camera to monitor outside activity and inside activity. It would make such a nice complement to the acceleration, speed, distance and braking data they can get from your car's on-board computer.
Customer: This other car came out of nowhere and ran me off the road! Insurer: Well we don't find any evidence of another vehicle, Sir, but according to the on-board video surveill... er, protection system, you were drinking a beer and having an animated conversation on your cell phone when you went off the road.
Photosynthesis varies relative to visible wavelengths. In general though, it takes a nose dive around 650 nm (wavelength). Heat though doesn't come from the visible spectrum, it's in the infrared. That's between 750 and 1000 nm.
If this thing relies on receiving an RF signal, then all it takes to defeat it is someone using a broadcast signal with the proper frequency and sufficient power to overcome the activation signal. The ammo wouldn't be able to discern anything other than the defeat signal.
Then again, incorporating a receiver module into the bullet is guaranteed to make ammo prohibitively expensive.
Two things stuck out at me wrt Cleland's position.
While Cleland wants to make sure you know exactly who's behind "net neutrality" (Microsoft, Google and Yahoo), he's standing in front of the anonymous NetCompetition.org. That would be the US telcos, cable companies, lobbyists and trade groups. Surely they are the bastions of fairness, light, hope and the American Way.
Then there's the issue of painting the other camp as describing some unknown phantom: Amazingly, the proponents of this radical change in policy don't even have any real evidence of a problem, only unsubstantiated assertions about hypothetical problems.
Then he lands several unsustantiated assertions himself (somewhat edited): high cost to consumers, slower Internet, higher prices, less choice, less privacy, more government surveillance
Nice bit of self-promotion there Bruce. Do you make any money from your site? It'd be a shame if we were to just off-handedly dismiss you as insincere because you made money, even indirectly, from any of your opinions.
Then again, like your own site, perhaps we should ban you too if we don't like what you say.
When the hell did sincerity become a barometer of fact anyways?
In this case Apple is the one that is evading these safeguards in order to get more for itself.
You know this for a fact because you know Chinese labor law? Please tell us what labor laws in China Apple is violating. What exactly is a living wage in that part of China? How does that compare to what these workers are paid (given about a $1 = Y8 rate of exchange) or what non-Apple workers are paid?
All those corporate contributions are obviously bribes. They should be illegal - corporations shouldn't be allowed to bribe any public official.
To be fair, can we agree to amend to the following:
All those [corporate | union] contributions are obviously bribes. They should be illegal - [corporations | unions] shouldn't be allowed to bribe any public official.
There is nothing remotely common between this situation and Germany of the 1930s and 40s. Your willingness to paint this as such indicates that you either are exceedingly ill-informed, or you DO know better and prefer spreading FUD. I'm willing to bet that it's the former.
I suggest you try living in Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico or Texas as a tax paying citizen. There are wealth of social, work and financial issues which you cannot comprehend from the comfort of your parents' basement.
Apple would never allow an OSX laptop to retail at $300 in the U.S., which is what OLPC is doing.
RTFA. There is no point in bashing Jobs or Apple for a non-event. The laptop will NOT be available of sale. The petition that is linked was assembled in the hope that they could convince Negroponte to go along.
However, here is what the Media Project has announced about the so-called $300 buy-one-donate-two "offer":
We appreciate your interest in the $100 Laptop initiative.
If your message is related to purchasing: please note that the $100 laptops--not yet in production--will not be available for sale. The laptops will only be distributed to schools directly through large government initiatives.
Inquiries about buying the laptop regretfully cannot be answered.
I don't care what people think their right is in a fair trial The ACLU would disagree with you
If someone doesn't want information about a crime committed out in the open Not all information is relevant to the commission of an alleged crime. Oops, sorry. In this case what you were doing was legal but you won't be able to do it anymore since the folks who actually were committing a crime have changed their tactics.
Treason is treason, and violating one's oath to uphold the Constitution is treasonous RTFM. Go back and read the Constitution again. Look at Article III, Section 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
If someone had a program in place to identify and prosecute those who would injure American citizens, and someone else decided to render that program unusable, whom do you think would be more likely guilty of treason?
Sounds like someone wasn't smart enough to get through engineering school and still has feelings of inadequacy.
I have never seen a company run into the ground by technical staff. I only wish I could say the same about managers. They frequently take about as much time analyzing a problem to underand the solution, as you have with this story about Apple. As is common with Slashdot stories, there's not information here to arrive at any objective conclusion.
"In other news, a New York law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against the estate of Spanish surrealist artist Joan Miro and a group calling itself the Artists Rights Society. The suit was filed on behalf of millions of seven to nine year old children world wide. The firm, Dewey, Cheatham & Howe, claim that numerous pieces by the late artist infringe on the implied copyrighted works of elementary school children who, owing to their age, have been by and large drawing in a flat linear style mimiced by Miro. In filing the suite, DCH released a statement saying that Miro had knowingly been copying the works of children for years without proper attribution or remuneration."
Apple has NOT dumped PortalPlayer entirely. At least, not yet.
Instead, Apple announced that PortalPlayer's latest chip will not be used in an upcoming version of the iPod Nano. PortalPlayer is the supplier for this particular chip in the current Nano and Video iPods. The announcement made no mention of changing the supplier for the current product line.
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I would ask two further questions. For those who live in countries where voting IS compulsory, ever have an instance when there was no one you wanted to vote for? What then?
And if maintaining one's citizenship were predicated on voting, would voting be predicated on being a citizen?
but the issue in Montgomery County today did not have a damn thing to do with how the electronic voting machines work or their accuracy.
This was entirely human error.
But hey, yelling "fire" makes for a great headline.
If it's the only reason the iTMS uses DRM is because of "the executives", then why don't labels get to choose whether or not they want DRM on songs they sell through iTunes?
RIAA is the one insisting on DRM.
Or perhaps a generous infusion of Exxon "advertising" allows one to focus less on certain pesky environmental (oil spills) and economic (profiteering) issues?
Either your history and ethics teachers should be barred from further lectures, or you weren't paying attention in class.
The insane were leaving you guys alone fine, germany deliberately did not want to engage america, and I doubt japan really did either, but where semi-forced into it by america itself (no excuse for bombing pearl harbour I know, but it argues against your comment of "insane people not leaving you alone") for the express purpose of convincing the majority of americans that going into the war was a necessary evil.
America pushed Japan into war? We didn't just randomly shutoff oil to Japan. The FDR administration did that in response to Japan's invasion of China. Despite what Japan and Germany were doing, there was a significant portion of the American population who wanted to ignore the facts and stay at home. "Not our problem". Japan's answer to losing American oil was to get it from elsewhere in Asia, by force. They knew that America was not going to stand for that either. Solution? Bomb America's Pacific fleet so they don't have the abiltiy to interfere.
Do not equate the popularity in circles of "Amateur Hour" shows and vapid quasi-celebrities as a blanket indictment of the American public. If your position were correct, extortion would be expunged as well as there would be no point. I think you'll find the FBI would beg to differ.
No, I think this sort of harassment could indeed find a foothold in the States.
The /. comment is misleading. The technique to digitally capture the surface of a human body will not help make digital movies with no actors. You still need a real actor to do the job; the described technique only projects the original actor's image on the new actor. The age of the digital actor is not here yet, although this technique may be useful for ressurrecting dead actors.
Actually, I think the background article is misleading. Seems like Perlman & Co tried to explain what they were working on and the reporter extrapolated incorrectly. For instance, note that the reporter says you use a fluorescent light. But a fluorescent light won't pick up the phosphorescent paint (cetainly not with any efficiency). You'd need a blacklight to see the paint properly.
Yes, the reporter says this could be used with dead actors, but the technique described relies on using enhanced motion capture from the real actor. If the actor in question is dead, where are you getting the face from to paint and create the motion capture? The answer is that you can't. The best you can do is paste an image map of the dead actor on an armature created from this process. It would still seem to be suspect if the armature does not accurately conform to the contours of the dead actor's face.
Keep in mind that Ms Stewart, of the Chicago Teachers Union, doesn't care about the education that kids in Chicago receive. Her only concern is the impact to the union. As president of the union, she will categorically object to any proposal, program, grant, etc that would divert money from union members. Virtual schools serve students who theoretically could be in classrooms featuring union-member teachers. Ergo, this is an untenable situation and must be put down lest people get other screwy non-union ideas (like school vouchers so poor kids might be able to attend non-union private schools).
What about your insurance company?
I would think the major insurers would love to have an "always on" camera to monitor outside activity and inside activity. It would make such a nice complement to the acceleration, speed, distance and braking data they can get from your car's on-board computer.
Customer: This other car came out of nowhere and ran me off the road!
Insurer: Well we don't find any evidence of another vehicle, Sir, but according to the on-board video surveill... er, protection system, you were drinking a beer and having an animated conversation on your cell phone when you went off the road.
Let's go back to biology, shall we?
Photosynthesis varies relative to visible wavelengths. In general though, it takes a nose dive around 650 nm (wavelength). Heat though doesn't come from the visible spectrum, it's in the infrared. That's between 750 and 1000 nm.
Duh!
If this thing relies on receiving an RF signal, then all it takes to defeat it is someone using a broadcast signal with the proper frequency and sufficient power to overcome the activation signal. The ammo wouldn't be able to discern anything other than the defeat signal.
Then again, incorporating a receiver module into the bullet is guaranteed to make ammo prohibitively expensive.
Two things stuck out at me wrt Cleland's position.
While Cleland wants to make sure you know exactly who's behind "net neutrality" (Microsoft, Google and Yahoo), he's standing in front of the anonymous NetCompetition.org. That would be the US telcos, cable companies, lobbyists and trade groups. Surely they are the bastions of fairness, light, hope and the American Way.
Then there's the issue of painting the other camp as describing some unknown phantom:
Amazingly, the proponents of this radical change in policy don't even have any real evidence of a problem, only unsubstantiated assertions about hypothetical problems.
Then he lands several unsustantiated assertions himself (somewhat edited):
high cost to consumers, slower Internet, higher prices, less choice, less privacy, more government surveillance
Gee, no Global Warming and Avian Flu?
There's the Angeles National Forest. It's just to the north of the city, but still part of LA County.
Nice bit of self-promotion there Bruce. Do you make any money from your site? It'd be a shame if we were to just off-handedly dismiss you as insincere because you made money, even indirectly, from any of your opinions.
Then again, like your own site, perhaps we should ban you too if we don't like what you say.
When the hell did sincerity become a barometer of fact anyways?
In this case Apple is the one that is evading these safeguards in order to get more for itself.
You know this for a fact because you know Chinese labor law? Please tell us what labor laws in China Apple is violating. What exactly is a living wage in that part of China? How does that compare to what these workers are paid (given about a $1 = Y8 rate of exchange) or what non-Apple workers are paid?
All those corporate contributions are obviously bribes. They should be illegal - corporations shouldn't be allowed to bribe any public official.
To be fair, can we agree to amend to the following:
All those [corporate | union] contributions are obviously bribes. They should be illegal - [corporations | unions] shouldn't be allowed to bribe any public official.
There is nothing remotely common between this situation and Germany of the 1930s and 40s. Your willingness to paint this as such indicates that you either are exceedingly ill-informed, or you DO know better and prefer spreading FUD. I'm willing to bet that it's the former.
I suggest you try living in Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico or Texas as a tax paying citizen. There are wealth of social, work and financial issues which you cannot comprehend from the comfort of your parents' basement.
RTFA. There is no point in bashing Jobs or Apple for a non-event. The laptop will NOT be available of sale. The petition that is linked was assembled in the hope that they could convince Negroponte to go along.
However, here is what the Media Project has announced about the so-called $300 buy-one-donate-two "offer":
The ACLU would disagree with you
If someone doesn't want information about a crime committed out in the open
Not all information is relevant to the commission of an alleged crime. Oops, sorry. In this case what you were doing was legal but you won't be able to do it anymore since the folks who actually were committing a crime have changed their tactics.
Treason is treason, and violating one's oath to uphold the Constitution is treasonous
RTFM. Go back and read the Constitution again. Look at Article III, Section 3.
If someone had a program in place to identify and prosecute those who would injure American citizens, and someone else decided to render that program unusable, whom do you think would be more likely guilty of treason?
Can someone who is a lawyer tell me what is the point or benefit of half a gag order (or perhaps that's a half-assed gag order.)?
Sounds like someone wasn't smart enough to get through engineering school and still has feelings of inadequacy.
I have never seen a company run into the ground by technical staff. I only wish I could say the same about managers. They frequently take about as much time analyzing a problem to underand the solution, as you have with this story about Apple. As is common with Slashdot stories, there's not information here to arrive at any objective conclusion.
"In other news, a New York law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against the estate of Spanish surrealist artist Joan Miro and a group calling itself the Artists Rights Society. The suit was filed on behalf of millions of seven to nine year old children world wide. The firm, Dewey, Cheatham & Howe, claim that numerous pieces by the late artist infringe on the implied copyrighted works of elementary school children who, owing to their age, have been by and large drawing in a flat linear style mimiced by Miro. In filing the suite, DCH released a statement saying that Miro had knowingly been copying the works of children for years without proper attribution or remuneration."
Apple has NOT dumped PortalPlayer entirely. At least, not yet.
Instead, Apple announced that PortalPlayer's latest chip will not be used in an upcoming version of the iPod Nano. PortalPlayer is the supplier for this particular chip in the current Nano and Video iPods. The announcement made no mention of changing the supplier for the current product line.
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Somewhere? Or did we already burn down the server with the media, too?
MOD PARENT UP.
Then, rescind parent's Slashdot account for thinking through the issue and making sense.