I'm getting tired of articles about the RIAA. But I also keep being amazed about how an organization can be that clueless and detached from the real world.
As long as they have the legal fees they'll be in business. They're in this for the quick buck and to build enough precedents to haul in front of their bought and paid for Congresscritters to show that 'there is a serious problem and something must be done'. Their solution of course is to buy legislation to loot anybody they can target, with the taxpayer footing the bill. After all, it's cheaper for them to have the government do their dirty work and just cash the checks.
And no, they're not clueless, they're actually looking down the road a couple years to perpetual copyright, elimination of fair use, and all kinds of other nasty things that'll assure them of income whether they have a product worth buying or not.
"As punishment, all titles the the RIAA represent are now in the public domain. Next case."
Dood, share what you're smoking over there. Yeah, it's a great idea, but it's as likely as me becoming Miss America. For one thing, I'm in my 50's, and for another, I think they'd freak at the beard...
Personally, I'm surprised there's intelligent life on Earth. Or at least a reasonably close facimile thereof.
Mathematically speaking, how many star systems are there in our galaxy? Billions. How many galaxies are there? Billions. But there's only ONE planet with what could be considered intelligent life? I'm thinking the odds are against it.
Main problem I'm seeing with the 'Oh, no, we're all gonna be FOOD' crowd saying we should hide from any possible extraterrestrial contact is that yes, our radio signals are out there. At the current distance, the 'radio shell' is extremely weak. It's that pesky inverse square law. To get an idea, it'd be on the order of detecting a gnat's fart during a heavy metal rock concert. In New York City. From Buenos Aires.
Do I advocate Active SETI? You bet. Who knows what ET can teach us til we make contact? Of course, with our history we're liable to be declared a slum & placed offlimits til we get our heads on straight...
Obviously we need the Outsiders' reactionless, inertialess drive. It's only a trillion stars, we can pay in installments...
Depends on the exchange rate, of course. If we can get a rate of 1 to 1 or better, we can just slap it onto the US deficit. What's another trillion at this stage?
I don't see the bozos at Best Buy letting you use their demo computer to download anything then burn it off for your own use. Most demo computers I've seen have very little loaded on them, and bittorrent isn't one of the programs.
Look at it from this perspective: how much resources do you imagine the FBI is dedicating to copyright infringement given the number of embarrassing gaffes that the entertainment industry is making?
Look at it this way. How many kids that download an illegal MP3 are going to shoot at the 'arresting officers' when they come to confiscate their computer and ipod? Compare that to how many shoot back at the cops for things like drug dealing, bank robbery, and of course, we can't forget the terrorrorrorrorrists. It'd be a helluva lot safer to work the IP detail than it would to work real crimes.
Plus, think of all that money that law enforcement will get from selling off all those (properly wiped) computers.
Hell, if the cops decide not to wipe those computers before selling them (and why should they since it just adds cost to the computer for very little return and takes the time of some fairly competant people to do), they can just take the money, then go back out and confiscate the same computer again, and scam up even more stuff to sell, as it's a 'fact' that the new owner has possession of 'illegally downloaded' media. It can be a regular revolving cash cow for them.
Except you can't usually bid on your own property. And just because it's been siezed doesn't mean you can default on the payments for it. You'll get suded for that.
With everybody's computer taken and sold, there is now going to be a booming market in new computers, all preloaded with Vista. What a windfall this shall be for the computer manufacturers and Microsoft.
How do you prove you've never downloaded anything off the internet? You can't. Doesn't matter if you have legal copies of the CDs you've ripped down to MP3 and stored on your computer, even if you have the reciepts for them, how do you prove you didn't just download them instead of ripping them from CD?
And the theory that absence of evidence doesn't mean absense of crime is rather disturbing to me.
Okay, it's easy to format a drive, but why it is pre-formatted to NTFS?
Compatibility, most likely. As the old Windows98 machines get pulled and updated, more home computers end up running XP or (shudder) Vista. NTFS is a more efficient filesystem than FAT32 is.
A lawyer friend of mine remarked once about how 98% of lawyers screw it up for the rest of them. Personally, I'm wondering if the research into these fossil viri encoded into our genome will shed light on how we evolved lawyers.
"The Economist" seems to provide much better analysis of Russian politics than Washington provides. What exactly are our Russian "experts" in Washington doing?
No. It isnt, never was and never will be. It is utterly ridiculous bullshit. Being assimilated by the Borg would be a better concept for future than cowboys in space. 'One cant eat as as much as it makes you want to vomit' or something like that...
Funny you should mention that. Gene Roddenberry pitched Star Trek to Desilu & NBC by basically calling it 'Wagon Train in Space'. At the time, westerns were big bucks on tv.
Except for Serenity pretty much slamming the door on future stories.
The comic book series is going back in time, just like Star Trek did. I probably won't read them, not really into comic books. I'll have my kid tell me how it went.
And for the record, I own the DVDs for both the Firefly series and Serenity.
Too bad they don't seem to have any interest in taking the many valid criticisms and critiques and suggestions and incorporating them and fixing up the serious issues that abound with their proprietary spec.
There's a technical term for this. It's called 'Not Invented Here Sysndrome'. If they can't totally control it, they're just not interested in it.
Nothing to see here, just bizz as usual, move along, move along...
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As long as they have the legal fees they'll be in business. They're in this for the quick buck and to build enough precedents to haul in front of their bought and paid for Congresscritters to show that 'there is a serious problem and something must be done'. Their solution of course is to buy legislation to loot anybody they can target, with the taxpayer footing the bill. After all, it's cheaper for them to have the government do their dirty work and just cash the checks.
And no, they're not clueless, they're actually looking down the road a couple years to perpetual copyright, elimination of fair use, and all kinds of other nasty things that'll assure them of income whether they have a product worth buying or not.
Dood, share what you're smoking over there. Yeah, it's a great idea, but it's as likely as me becoming Miss America. For one thing, I'm in my 50's, and for another, I think they'd freak at the beard...
One in office
One in jail.
No exceptions.
sudo -s
in a terminal. Makes you root till you type 'exit'. I do it for manually running apt-get and compiling stuff.
Mathematically speaking, how many star systems are there in our galaxy? Billions. How many galaxies are there? Billions. But there's only ONE planet with what could be considered intelligent life? I'm thinking the odds are against it.
Main problem I'm seeing with the 'Oh, no, we're all gonna be FOOD' crowd saying we should hide from any possible extraterrestrial contact is that yes, our radio signals are out there. At the current distance, the 'radio shell' is extremely weak. It's that pesky inverse square law. To get an idea, it'd be on the order of detecting a gnat's fart during a heavy metal rock concert. In New York City. From Buenos Aires.
Do I advocate Active SETI? You bet. Who knows what ET can teach us til we make contact? Of course, with our history we're liable to be declared a slum & placed offlimits til we get our heads on straight...
With wrestlers.
Depends on the exchange rate, of course. If we can get a rate of 1 to 1 or better, we can just slap it onto the US deficit. What's another trillion at this stage?
I just love mad science, particularly when taught by Mr Medulla. Just don't confuse your rays with your beams...
I don't see the bozos at Best Buy letting you use their demo computer to download anything then burn it off for your own use. Most demo computers I've seen have very little loaded on them, and bittorrent isn't one of the programs.
Look at it this way. How many kids that download an illegal MP3 are going to shoot at the 'arresting officers' when they come to confiscate their computer and ipod? Compare that to how many shoot back at the cops for things like drug dealing, bank robbery, and of course, we can't forget the terrorrorrorrorrists. It'd be a helluva lot safer to work the IP detail than it would to work real crimes.
Plus, think of all that money that law enforcement will get from selling off all those (properly wiped) computers.
Hell, if the cops decide not to wipe those computers before selling them (and why should they since it just adds cost to the computer for very little return and takes the time of some fairly competant people to do), they can just take the money, then go back out and confiscate the same computer again, and scam up even more stuff to sell, as it's a 'fact' that the new owner has possession of 'illegally downloaded' media. It can be a regular revolving cash cow for them.
Except you can't usually bid on your own property. And just because it's been siezed doesn't mean you can default on the payments for it. You'll get suded for that.
With everybody's computer taken and sold, there is now going to be a booming market in new computers, all preloaded with Vista. What a windfall this shall be for the computer manufacturers and Microsoft.
How do you prove you've never downloaded anything off the internet? You can't. Doesn't matter if you have legal copies of the CDs you've ripped down to MP3 and stored on your computer, even if you have the reciepts for them, how do you prove you didn't just download them instead of ripping them from CD?
And the theory that absence of evidence doesn't mean absense of crime is rather disturbing to me.
I'm thinking it wouldn't last more than 6 or 7 episodes. WAY too intellectual for most of FOX's audience.
Compatibility, most likely. As the old Windows98 machines get pulled and updated, more home computers end up running XP or (shudder) Vista. NTFS is a more efficient filesystem than FAT32 is.
A lawyer friend of mine remarked once about how 98% of lawyers screw it up for the rest of them. Personally, I'm wondering if the research into these fossil viri encoded into our genome will shed light on how we evolved lawyers.
Especially if they come up with a cure...
Nixon, you're back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And here I thought they just took your head...
Closest is 'Rodina'.
Working for Team B of course.
Even worse than the 'new' Bionic Woman is the 'new & improved' Flash Gordon.
Funny you should mention that. Gene Roddenberry pitched Star Trek to Desilu & NBC by basically calling it 'Wagon Train in Space'. At the time, westerns were big bucks on tv.
The comic book series is going back in time, just like Star Trek did. I probably won't read them, not really into comic books. I'll have my kid tell me how it went.
And for the record, I own the DVDs for both the Firefly series and Serenity.
Make sure you save some for me. I wanna be sedated...
That doesn't explain the gerbil, though. Rescue party?
There's a technical term for this. It's called 'Not Invented Here Sysndrome'. If they can't totally control it, they're just not interested in it.
Nothing to see here, just bizz as usual, move along, move along...