There are all kinds of sacred cows here, that you criticize at your peril: the effectiveness of Linux, the evil of copyright in general and the recording industry in particular; the lack of merit to SCO's lawsuit... the list goes on. I am astonished as to the level of thought conformity that goes on here, under the guise of free speech.
While there are parts of the current copyright laws that need modification there is no reason to abolish it all together and much reason to keep the parts of it that encourage the making of creative works.
For example, attribution is a VERY important part of the copyright laws, that should in no way be abolished. Removing the laws that guarantee an author, musician, artist, etc. recognition for their works is the surest way to halt the creation of new works.
Destroying the laws that allow the creator of copyrighted works to make money off of his works is also very likely to reduce or even eliminate the incentive to create new works and the ability to make a living doing so.
What needs altering in the copyright laws are the sections dealing with work for hire and the length of time that copyrights last; these sections need to be altered to deter abuse of the copyright laws by, in today's world, large corporations, and to make it harder for artists to be exploited.
The destruction of copyright may seem to provide relief for the current issues concerning it, but that is no more a viable solution than disallowing the creation of works, so that there would be no artists to exploit.
Explanation: DVD Video titles in general are so cheap because the movies fixed therein have already had a theatrical run. CDs don't have anything analogous.
Do live preformances count at all? There are fewer of them, I know, but they cost a hell of a lot more and bring in more people at one time. That should equate to some extent, so that's less of a reason for why CDs are so expensive.
Except that the same kinds of things happen outside of sports events when someone's team loses (even for highschool games, where parents attack each other), and they don't complain about that (much). They'd have to shut them down first, since the people running samller video gaming events can still point fingers at the bigger guys. And we know that sports games are not about to be cancled because of some 'family' or 'parent' groups, because there is too much profit from them.
The Bible continues to say that the number of his (the anti-Christ) name is 666.
Actually... it says that 666 is the number for the beast's name. Remember, Roman numbers are Latin letters. What better way to give warning to who the beast will be without causing a ruckus, than by giving the number of a person's name, instead of the acutal name that might be badly associated with someone in political power?
Anyone know or want to find out what the numbers are for some terms one may find printed on a implant like this? Maybe G. W. Bush's name will provide an interesting find.
They probably both left the garage doors/openers to the default codes. Meaning any off-the-shelf universal opener would open their garage. You're not supposed to do that, you know. It says so in the manuals for those kinds of things.
Methinks the companies would not be held liable for your inability to follow directions.
The school spent $25,000 on the ID system. The $3 ID tags students wear around their necks at all times . ..
...except my school spent nearer to $30,000 for regular plastic ID cards for us to wear around our necks and a couple of cameras to watch the school parking lot. What's scary to me is that they also plan on making the kids in the junior high and elementary schools wear these IDs. Looks like someone else got to them first.
I've also been told by some of the faculty they want to make the cards act somewhere along the lines of how the RFID, for attendence and the like.
"Before, everything was done manually -- each teacher would take attendance and send it down to the office," he said. "Now it's automatic, and it saves us a lot of time."
This I like the least... we also just switched over to having the teachers use the computers for attendance. That was a bad call, especially since the computer writes out cut slips automatically when a student is marked absent, for which in most cases was a mistake on the teacher's part. Taking attendance before was much easier, since the teachers understood the system, and if a student needed to be somewhere else during that class, they could, and the teacher would just have to make a mental note of it and could mark an absence for the day in her book with no cut slip, since the student was where s/he was supposed to be. With the computers the teachers are required to mark the students absent if they are not in the room, even if they had called in (though most teacher fortunatly ignore this rule). Cut slips for everyone; just one big annoyecne.
The $3 ID tags students wear around their necks at all times incorporate the same Texas Instruments smart labels used in the wristbands worn by inmates at the Pima County jail in Texas.
Well, I've joked about my school turning into a prison . . . I guess I deserved to hear that anther school did, and mine just might follow even more closely in its tracks.
I don't see what good ID tags in schools will do. To many people refuse to wear them (though they oft face consequnces for it) for them to do any good for identification purposes. They're not about to stop terrorist attacks on the school, and there more of a hinderance than a help when it comes to getting students to be where the should be, since the students know where they should be more often than the school does. Unless those little peices of plastic can stop bullets, why bother? .....
What happens when these kids grow up thinking it's okay for Big Brother to track them everywhere they go? Looks like a generation that doesn't realize that they don't have privacy, freedoms, rights, etc. is being bred. No one ever fights if they don't know there's something to fight for. I thought the government couldn't win this under the guise of security . . . looks like they can.
You could "broadcast" it to lots of your friends and then they could record copies for themselves under the audio home recording act and the RIAA couldn't say anything. On that note, could we get P2P labeled as a "broadcast/webcast" medium, so that for a relativly small webcast fee everyone could "record" whatever music they wanted to?
Also on that note, what programs are there that will record streaming audio?
Checking an answer is infinitely easier than solving a problem. Calling is like checking to make sure the phone book listing is right, it's a helluva lot easier.
It's like if you walked into a party and started looking to see if anyone you know is there, and the host walks up to you and says "I think you know her in the corner over there." You can just look and see that, yes, you know her. However, looking through all the people to find out if you know anyone would have taken a long time.
Quantum computing may allow us to check all of the answers at once, without solving the problem in the first place, which will make P = NP, and open up a whole new realm of things. (Maybe we'll have answers without problems . . . 42? Heh.)
4) They will have to pay their own money to make their own tape, and the "record industry" will give their music to a prettier classmate to create a cover song for a totally lame commercial that ruins any hip appeal their song might have had.
That sounds a hell of a lot like a vanity press . . . which, of course, authors are told to avoid at all costs. Shouldn't we be just as enthusiastic at telling musicians to avoid this kind of scam at all costs?
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All of those "what is my ip" sites always seem to give me false info....
http://checkip.dyndns.org/ works better.
Err... if you have duct tape, you don't need gravity.
There are all kinds of sacred cows here, that you criticize at your peril: the effectiveness of Linux, the evil of copyright in general and the recording industry in particular; the lack of merit to SCO's lawsuit ... the list goes on. I am astonished as to the level of thought conformity that goes on here, under the guise of free speech.
Try reading at 0 or -1.
While there are parts of the current copyright laws that need modification there is no reason to abolish it all together and much reason to keep the parts of it that encourage the making of creative works.
For example, attribution is a VERY important part of the copyright laws, that should in no way be abolished. Removing the laws that guarantee an author, musician, artist, etc. recognition for their works is the surest way to halt the creation of new works.
Destroying the laws that allow the creator of copyrighted works to make money off of his works is also very likely to reduce or even eliminate the incentive to create new works and the ability to make a living doing so.
What needs altering in the copyright laws are the sections dealing with work for hire and the length of time that copyrights last; these sections need to be altered to deter abuse of the copyright laws by, in today's world, large corporations, and to make it harder for artists to be exploited.
The destruction of copyright may seem to provide relief for the current issues concerning it, but that is no more a viable solution than disallowing the creation of works, so that there would be no artists to exploit.
Explanation: DVD Video titles in general are so cheap because the movies fixed therein have already had a theatrical run. CDs don't have anything analogous.
Do live preformances count at all? There are fewer of them, I know, but they cost a hell of a lot more and bring in more people at one time. That should equate to some extent, so that's less of a reason for why CDs are so expensive.
Except that the same kinds of things happen outside of sports events when someone's team loses (even for highschool games, where parents attack each other), and they don't complain about that (much). They'd have to shut them down first, since the people running samller video gaming events can still point fingers at the bigger guys. And we know that sports games are not about to be cancled because of some 'family' or 'parent' groups, because there is too much profit from them.
The people you elect are elected to represent your best interests.
And that just plain sucks, because it means popular soverignty has no role, although popular soverignty should have an important one.
I don't feel like RTFA, but this seems relevent.
The Bible continues to say that the number of his (the anti-Christ) name is 666.
Actually... it says that 666 is the number for the beast's name. Remember, Roman numbers are Latin letters. What better way to give warning to who the beast will be without causing a ruckus, than by giving the number of a person's name, instead of the acutal name that might be badly associated with someone in political power?
Anyone know or want to find out what the numbers are for some terms one may find printed on a implant like this? Maybe G. W. Bush's name will provide an interesting find.
They probably both left the garage doors/openers to the default codes. Meaning any off-the-shelf universal opener would open their garage. You're not supposed to do that, you know. It says so in the manuals for those kinds of things.
Methinks the companies would not be held liable for your inability to follow directions.
You really have to link to something they'll believe, 'cause they sure as hell are stubborn: viruses, not viri.
Remember, viri is the plural of man in latin, and virii isn't even a word.
What about the RIAA labels? Have they been making any profit?
More importantly: How much have the artists made?
I, for one, look forward to playing Stephen Hawking in Unreal Tournament 2004.
w3rd.
Solar weather just goes through weird phases, just like earth weather. That's all.
And all of the little alien guys on the sun are looking at earth asking "What's with all of 'dem white things on that blue one?"
A hurricane....just earth weather...that's all.
/\/0 j00 ll4/\/\4!!!! 17'$ "h4xX0|2z."
The school spent $25,000 on the ID system. The $3 ID tags students wear around their necks at all times . . .
...except my school spent nearer to $30,000 for regular plastic ID cards for us to wear around our necks and a couple of cameras to watch the school parking lot. What's scary to me is that they also plan on making the kids in the junior high and elementary schools wear these IDs. Looks like someone else got to them first.
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I've also been told by some of the faculty they want to make the cards act somewhere along the lines of how the RFID, for attendence and the like.
"Before, everything was done manually -- each teacher would take attendance and send it down to the office," he said. "Now it's automatic, and it saves us a lot of time."
This I like the least... we also just switched over to having the teachers use the computers for attendance. That was a bad call, especially since the computer writes out cut slips automatically when a student is marked absent, for which in most cases was a mistake on the teacher's part. Taking attendance before was much easier, since the teachers understood the system, and if a student needed to be somewhere else during that class, they could, and the teacher would just have to make a mental note of it and could mark an absence for the day in her book with no cut slip, since the student was where s/he was supposed to be. With the computers the teachers are required to mark the students absent if they are not in the room, even if they had called in (though most teacher fortunatly ignore this rule). Cut slips for everyone; just one big annoyecne.
The $3 ID tags students wear around their necks at all times incorporate the same Texas Instruments smart labels used in the wristbands worn by inmates at the Pima County jail in Texas.
Well, I've joked about my school turning into a prison . . . I guess I deserved to hear that anther school did, and mine just might follow even more closely in its tracks.
I don't see what good ID tags in schools will do. To many people refuse to wear them (though they oft face consequnces for it) for them to do any good for identification purposes. They're not about to stop terrorist attacks on the school, and there more of a hinderance than a help when it comes to getting students to be where the should be, since the students know where they should be more often than the school does. Unless those little peices of plastic can stop bullets, why bother?
What happens when these kids grow up thinking it's okay for Big Brother to track them everywhere they go? Looks like a generation that doesn't realize that they don't have privacy, freedoms, rights, etc. is being bred. No one ever fights if they don't know there's something to fight for. I thought the government couldn't win this under the guise of security . . . looks like they can.
I wonder how many fish they thought to be extinct they'll find doing this . . .
And the difference between adware and spyware would be....?
Someone please enlighten me, because as far as I can tell they both suck.
You could "broadcast" it to lots of your friends and then they could record copies for themselves under the audio home recording act and the RIAA couldn't say anything. On that note, could we get P2P labeled as a "broadcast/webcast" medium, so that for a relativly small webcast fee everyone could "record" whatever music they wanted to?
Also on that note, what programs are there that will record streaming audio?
Am I the only one who finds it sad that they have to move outside of the US to excercise free speech?
someone .... on slashdot .... supporting .... M$ outlook .....
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*head explodes*
http://www.claymath.org/Millennium_Prize_Problems/ P_vs_NP/
Read, please. I'm not talking about an algebraic equation.
P != NP
Checking an answer is infinitely easier than solving a problem. Calling is like checking to make sure the phone book listing is right, it's a helluva lot easier.
It's like if you walked into a party and started looking to see if anyone you know is there, and the host walks up to you and says "I think you know her in the corner over there." You can just look and see that, yes, you know her. However, looking through all the people to find out if you know anyone would have taken a long time.
Quantum computing may allow us to check all of the answers at once, without solving the problem in the first place, which will make P = NP, and open up a whole new realm of things. (Maybe we'll have answers without problems . . . 42? Heh.)
"citing First Amendment grounds."
I thought the First Amendment didn't protect commercial speech (e.g. Big Tobacco, etc.)?
The rights of the individual take precedence to the rights of corporations, why doesn't anyone who is supposed to remember that remember it?!
4) They will have to pay their own money to make their own tape, and the "record industry" will give their music to a prettier classmate to create a cover song for a totally lame commercial that ruins any hip appeal their song might have had.
That sounds a hell of a lot like a vanity press . . . which, of course, authors are told to avoid at all costs. Shouldn't we be just as enthusiastic at telling musicians to avoid this kind of scam at all costs?