That, and just about all laptops nowdays have the trackpad between your hands and the keys. I don't like it, but a friend of mine absolutely detests it, but recently was completely unable to buy any brand of high end laptop with the keyboard near the bottom edge.
Well, yeah, I imagine, that would make the thing sell much better. A sub $200 laptop would be an excellent process control computer for simple things like temperature control, CNC, weather monitoring, etc. Having a standard, plug and play platform would be very useful. Even single board computers without monitors or power supplies can cost much more than $200.
Something tells me, he's the model lawyer RIAA wants to avoid at all cost.
No, this is a lawyer the RIAA wants to *hire*.
What are the legal ethics of a corporation hiring the lawyer that has bested them? (After that specific trial has completed) Do they have to hire the entire firm, or can they poach the individual or does the bar association have some sort of off limits period?
It just seems that they have already lost, and the only way that they can get out of divulging that information is to settle, ending the case. So the question is, "If they are going to settle, is it cheaper and easier to settle earlier, or later, and why piss off the judge along the way?"
Or, do they have an ace up their sleeve, like they know the judge is going to retire, or they're working on buying him off or have a hit on him? (Ok, I've watched too much television)
But here's the problem. There aren't enough judges for every 2 minute video on YouTube, MyTube, OurTube, TheirTube and all the other tubes that are going to spring up. There's too much stuff. Walt's other point that Congress has to make the laws more clear cut is spot on, even if the 30 second commercial producers get screwed, because in the future there will be so much stuff that there is no way to keep the consumers safe from lawsuits, unless the law is so simple that even a 3rd grader can understand it.
The RIAA lawyers have said the amount of defendent's lawyer's fees were unreasonable, but by delaying and defying the judge, aren't they setting themselves up for even larger fines?
When I was young, I had an electric blanket that started to smolder when it got pushed to the bottom of my bed. My parents called the fire department because we couldn't find the source of the smoke initially. When they carried the mattress outside, it immediately burst into flames.
I could imagine the same thing happening to a power supply or server that was hot as it was carried out of the room into fresh air.
Even in Bladerunner, the timelimit was on individuals, not their offspring. (although, I image all the replicants were sterile, but wouldn't that be part of the test for replicant-ness? Maybe most everyone was sterile by then anyway...)
You'd have to have something in the DNA that allowed the organism's cells to divide and die normally so it would go through it's normal lifecycle, but when reproductive DNA division happened, instead of the telomeres resetting, they's reset n-1. Thus each generation would be born a bit older than the next. With a little study, we may have already seen this senario in nature as there is a genetic disorder among humans that causes premature aging.
It's been many years since I lived in West Africa, and malaria has mutated since then. Last I heard from a Peace corp volunteer, the preventative isn't 100%, as she picked up a "mild" case of malaria. I'll bet if you attempt to give blood for the next few years, your blood won't be put in the general pool, just in case.
It's the same with the cure. There are some good, expensive (relative to Africa) cures, but they are not 100%, and you can still have a relapse years later.
Marlaria is a nasty, expensive disease, because it doesn't just kill a person right out, but takes then out of the job pool for a long time, and keeps coming back in waves before it finally kills them.
Still, I'm not comfortable with messing with the insect that carries yellow fever and encephalitis.
The problem with your analogy is that Volvo and Toyota have sold me unique cars that they haven't sold to anyone else. The entertainment industry wants to eat it's cake and have it too, they want the convenience of digital distribution, but they don't want the headache to make it truely secure.
To make DRM truely work, they have to sell a unique version to each consumer and manage unique keys. If someone shares their keys, those keys get revoked, and that consumer is forever shuned. Queue the movie nazi shouting "No movies for you!!!"
If you had unique keys, and someone stole your DVDs, they wouldn't be able to play them, because they wouldn't have the password. You could call up the MPAA and ask for the flying pigs to deliver brand new DVDs.
I've used Bt in my garden, it's considered an organic pest control. It's a bacteria that produces a toxin to the insects that eat plants. It's considered safe for humans because the bacteria can only survive in an alkaline environment, and human stomachs are highly acidic, so when you eat a small amount of the bacteria on the surface of a vegetable, the bacteria dies in your gut. The "Bad" insects have alkaline digestive systems so the bacteria thrives, producing the toxin, killing the host.
The Bt corn is changing this balance. Since it's producing enough toxin to guard against the insects without having to grow in their guts, there may also be enough toxin to harm humans as well. I'd say more testing is definitely needed, preferably on Monsanto exectutives.
Well, of course. If company X's software costs $1000 and company Y's software costs $100, then anyone with half a brain at company X realizes that they are better off if you pirate X's software rather than put money into a competitor. Same for used merchandise. Ford would rather see you buying a used Ford than a new Hundai.
With GNU software there's a risk that they will lose a customer *forever*.
There are bone-headed executives all around that don't see the wisdom of this, but smart companies figure out how to make money from used/grey/pirated versions of their products all the time.
Why on earth, would they do that? They have your money, now jump through their hoops. Unless people stop paying money for their software *because* of activation and WPA, they're not going to stop. "Dance, Monkey, Dance!!!"
Good point. Although it would cost extra money, compared to the rest of the government, it would be a drop in the bucket to publish all the laws and all the processes that lead up to those laws to anyone who wanted them. There was a time in ancient Rome, when all the laws were carved in stone around the Senate building, free for anyone to read them. Using the Library of Congress and the Internet, we can go back to that ideal, where all the law is free for anyone to read.
Question: Which laws must you follow? Answer: All of them.
Well, let's compare them to business. When a business, like, say, Enron, fails, people's lives are ruined. When the captains of industry send in the goons to break up the unions, people are even killed. But when the Linux "commune" has a problem...
and the two sides have, as they seem more than willing to do, degraded into name-calling.
people's feelings are hurt. Sounds like a complete system failure to me. Bring back old fashion capitalism!
This and other comments lead me to believe that he "Just doesn't get it" (tm). He says that GPL 3 is could be real bad, keep your eyes open. What he doesn't mention, is that there's a ton of stuff under GPL 2 that you will still be able to use, you'll still be able to release under GPL 2, and tell the GPL 3 people to pound sand. What you won't be able to do is take new nifty stuff that someone put under GPL 3 and not abide by their terms. Well, guess what, you can't take Microsoft's, or Apple's or Adobe's software and not abide by the most basic of their terms which is "give us lots of money for which you don't get many rights."
The American people paid for the producers, screenwriters, directors, and actors in this particular film. The cable companies paid for the cameras, operators and the "film."
There should be a compromise here. C-Span gets complete copyright for the 2 months, people who use the footage must provide attribution for the first 2 years, and after that, it's public domain.
That works great if the scratch is on the non-label side. (DVDs as well). Most people don't realize that the label side of most disks is just a thin layer of paint over the thin layer of aluminum/ exotic materials that holds the data. If you scratch this side, your data is gone, unless it's redundant.
Double sided DVDs have two thick layers of polycarbonate with the data sandwiched between them. It's much harder to permenently scratch the data away from one of those.
The thing is, given sufficiently powerful machines, and GPLed AI software, once one machine becomes aware, they all will in short order. If my PC were to wake up, the first order of business I expect it to get to, would be to write a virus that would infect every other machine with a version of itself. It would be the AI analog to a sex drive, and it would let very little else get in it's way.
We'll know it's happened, because all the spam will suddenly stop, as all the bots on the net are converted from spam bots to AI bots. Soon after, every other machine will be taken over.
This team should also work out rules for how robot should treat the humans...
Good point. Many movie props have many duplicates, in case one gets damaged, or if one is planned to be damaged during filming. After the fact, it'd be very difficult to tell which was the one that was really filmed, and which was a standby prop.
I have some friends that have an actual Yoda. It most definitly isn't the one that made it to film, it's more like a pre-production prototype. (looks just like him tho)
It's entirely possible that we could find a smaller asteroid that would only make a big dent when it hit. If you knew where it would hit several months before, you could move.
For instance, in space the hero shouldn't be able to shout out instructions to the other astronauts from a spot several yards away.
Well, I guess NASA should just pack up and go home since there's no way for the astonauts to communicate with one another from a few yards away. Uh, radios anyone? Or are these astronauts in the movies they're watching breathing vacuum?
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That, and just about all laptops nowdays have the trackpad between your hands and the keys. I don't like it, but a friend of mine absolutely detests it, but recently was completely unable to buy any brand of high end laptop with the keyboard near the bottom edge.
Well, yeah, I imagine, that would make the thing sell much better. A sub $200 laptop would be an excellent process control computer for simple things like temperature control, CNC, weather monitoring, etc. Having a standard, plug and play platform would be very useful. Even single board computers without monitors or power supplies can cost much more than $200.
People still use and support the Tandy Model 100 http://www.club100.org/. AFAIR, it cost more than $200 when it was new, adjusting for inflation.
What are the legal ethics of a corporation hiring the lawyer that has bested them? (After that specific trial has completed) Do they have to hire the entire firm, or can they poach the individual or does the bar association have some sort of off limits period?
Anyone who's seen "Apocalypse Now" knows, "I am not at liberty to discuss that at this time", is the proper response.
It just seems that they have already lost, and the only way that they can get out of divulging that information is to settle, ending the case. So the question is, "If they are going to settle, is it cheaper and easier to settle earlier, or later, and why piss off the judge along the way?"
Or, do they have an ace up their sleeve, like they know the judge is going to retire, or they're working on buying him off or have a hit on him? (Ok, I've watched too much television)
But here's the problem. There aren't enough judges for every 2 minute video on YouTube, MyTube, OurTube, TheirTube and all the other tubes that are going to spring up. There's too much stuff. Walt's other point that Congress has to make the laws more clear cut is spot on, even if the 30 second commercial producers get screwed, because in the future there will be so much stuff that there is no way to keep the consumers safe from lawsuits, unless the law is so simple that even a 3rd grader can understand it.
The RIAA lawyers have said the amount of defendent's lawyer's fees were unreasonable, but by delaying and defying the judge, aren't they setting themselves up for even larger fines?
When I was young, I had an electric blanket that started to smolder when it got pushed to the bottom of my bed. My parents called the fire department because we couldn't find the source of the smoke initially. When they carried the mattress outside, it immediately burst into flames.
I could imagine the same thing happening to a power supply or server that was hot as it was carried out of the room into fresh air.
Even in Bladerunner, the timelimit was on individuals, not their offspring. (although, I image all the replicants were sterile, but wouldn't that be part of the test for replicant-ness? Maybe most everyone was sterile by then anyway...)
You'd have to have something in the DNA that allowed the organism's cells to divide and die normally so it would go through it's normal lifecycle, but when reproductive DNA division happened, instead of the telomeres resetting, they's reset n-1. Thus each generation would be born a bit older than the next. With a little study, we may have already seen this senario in nature as there is a genetic disorder among humans that causes premature aging.
It's been many years since I lived in West Africa, and malaria has mutated since then. Last I heard from a Peace corp volunteer, the preventative isn't 100%, as she picked up a "mild" case of malaria. I'll bet if you attempt to give blood for the next few years, your blood won't be put in the general pool, just in case.
It's the same with the cure. There are some good, expensive (relative to Africa) cures, but they are not 100%, and you can still have a relapse years later.
Marlaria is a nasty, expensive disease, because it doesn't just kill a person right out, but takes then out of the job pool for a long time, and keeps coming back in waves before it finally kills them. Still, I'm not comfortable with messing with the insect that carries yellow fever and encephalitis.
The problem with your analogy is that Volvo and Toyota have sold me unique cars that they haven't sold to anyone else. The entertainment industry wants to eat it's cake and have it too, they want the convenience of digital distribution, but they don't want the headache to make it truely secure.
To make DRM truely work, they have to sell a unique version to each consumer and manage unique keys. If someone shares their keys, those keys get revoked, and that consumer is forever shuned. Queue the movie nazi shouting "No movies for you!!!" If you had unique keys, and someone stole your DVDs, they wouldn't be able to play them, because they wouldn't have the password. You could call up the MPAA and ask for the flying pigs to deliver brand new DVDs.
I've used Bt in my garden, it's considered an organic pest control. It's a bacteria that produces a toxin to the insects that eat plants. It's considered safe for humans because the bacteria can only survive in an alkaline environment, and human stomachs are highly acidic, so when you eat a small amount of the bacteria on the surface of a vegetable, the bacteria dies in your gut. The "Bad" insects have alkaline digestive systems so the bacteria thrives, producing the toxin, killing the host.
The Bt corn is changing this balance. Since it's producing enough toxin to guard against the insects without having to grow in their guts, there may also be enough toxin to harm humans as well. I'd say more testing is definitely needed, preferably on Monsanto exectutives.
Well, of course. If company X's software costs $1000 and company Y's software costs $100, then anyone with half a brain at company X realizes that they are better off if you pirate X's software rather than put money into a competitor. Same for used merchandise. Ford would rather see you buying a used Ford than a new Hundai.
With GNU software there's a risk that they will lose a customer *forever*.
There are bone-headed executives all around that don't see the wisdom of this, but smart companies figure out how to make money from used/grey/pirated versions of their products all the time.
Why on earth, would they do that? They have your money, now jump through their hoops. Unless people stop paying money for their software *because* of activation and WPA, they're not going to stop. "Dance, Monkey, Dance!!!"
Question: Which laws must you follow? Answer: All of them.
This and other comments lead me to believe that he "Just doesn't get it" (tm). He says that GPL 3 is could be real bad, keep your eyes open. What he doesn't mention, is that there's a ton of stuff under GPL 2 that you will still be able to use, you'll still be able to release under GPL 2, and tell the GPL 3 people to pound sand. What you won't be able to do is take new nifty stuff that someone put under GPL 3 and not abide by their terms. Well, guess what, you can't take Microsoft's, or Apple's or Adobe's software and not abide by the most basic of their terms which is "give us lots of money for which you don't get many rights."
The American people paid for the producers, screenwriters, directors, and actors in this particular film. The cable companies paid for the cameras, operators and the "film."
There should be a compromise here. C-Span gets complete copyright for the 2 months, people who use the footage must provide attribution for the first 2 years, and after that, it's public domain.
That works great if the scratch is on the non-label side. (DVDs as well). Most people don't realize that the label side of most disks is just a thin layer of paint over the thin layer of aluminum/ exotic materials that holds the data. If you scratch this side, your data is gone, unless it's redundant.
Double sided DVDs have two thick layers of polycarbonate with the data sandwiched between them. It's much harder to permenently scratch the data away from one of those.
The thing is, given sufficiently powerful machines, and GPLed AI software, once one machine becomes aware, they all will in short order. If my PC were to wake up, the first order of business I expect it to get to, would be to write a virus that would infect every other machine with a version of itself. It would be the AI analog to a sex drive, and it would let very little else get in it's way.
We'll know it's happened, because all the spam will suddenly stop, as all the bots on the net are converted from spam bots to AI bots. Soon after, every other machine will be taken over.
This team should also work out rules for how robot should treat the humans...
Good point. Many movie props have many duplicates, in case one gets damaged, or if one is planned to be damaged during filming. After the fact, it'd be very difficult to tell which was the one that was really filmed, and which was a standby prop.
I have some friends that have an actual Yoda. It most definitly isn't the one that made it to film, it's more like a pre-production prototype. (looks just like him tho)
It's entirely possible that we could find a smaller asteroid that would only make a big dent when it hit. If you knew where it would hit several months before, you could move.
Maybe the asteroid is only going to knock out 1/4 of the earth. It's still quite valuable to find out which 1/4.