Right. Even if you don't sell books, if you tell people where a bookstore is, and it turns out the bookstore sells some pirate copies of a book, you are now the person who infringed the copyright.
This judge would say you're "displaying" the book by referencing where to get it, since you know that some people will take your advice and go to the store and get the book.
Google has restricted the development of competing mobile phone operating systems, which could have provided a platform for rival search engines.
Is that even possible?
It's true that I didn't write a competing phone OS. But I don't remember Google restricting me to unproductively drinking beer and staring at the garden instead of writing an OS. I thought that was something I chose. Interesting. I will have to hire a psychic and try to re-remember these summer evenings.
I disagree with your characterization of the photographer as a "cunt". It's perfectly reasonable thing for a photographer to want to control the display of a photograph that they took.
Wanting to control the photo is fine. The cunt part is that they sued innocent third parties instead of the site that had transmitted the unauthorized copies (which appears to be either instagram or twitter; I can't tell) nor the people who pirated the photo (the users of the web browsers).
A non-cunt would have sued whoever had committed the infringement, not the web sites that told people where they can find the photo.
After all these years, I still haven't figured this out: the sixth planet explodes (and presumably all its debris completely disappears in about 15 years). [deep breath] Ok!
But then Reliant visits the fifth planet, in the mistaken belief that it's the sixth? That's.. [another deep breath] a surprising mistake!
"The shock shifted the orbits" seems like a lot of handwaving to me. Anyone wanna explain?
Doing a facial scan of someone and storing where they have been and are going is an illegal search.
I am not a cop. Is there already a law that says I can't take a photograph of the Grand Canyon that has other people in it, where I chatted with them and discovered they're going to check out Monument Valley next? Or are you suggesting we need a new law to prevent me from doing that?
On thing's for sure: once I have that photo, you will never know what I did with it. Any laws against my further analyzing the photo cannot possibly be enforced. It's mine and you simply don't have the surveillance technology to be able to detect my thoughtcrimes.
Hamilton Beach has a new drip coffee maker, whose parts cost $0.17 less than the previous model but make coffee 2% faster!! (Why isn't this on Slashdot's front page yet?)
Oh, you use a French press? A French press, really. Looks like some snob is already getting ready for this weekend's celebrations, I see. Well, good for you! But some of us prefer drip coffee makers even though the coffee isn't nearly as good. And my favorite manufacturer is Hamilton Beach, which is why my coffee maker case-cover has a hole, to show off the Hamilton Beach logo.
What's more, respondents estimate that less than half (48 percent) of all business decisions are based on data.
So what you are saying, is that over half of all business decisions are based on "gut feelings"?
It's only estimated to be about half, based on their gut feelings. The data tells a different story about how much the data is getting used. I'm trying to make sense of the data but the math is actually kind of hard. But my gut tells me that this data tells me it's about half the decisions.
Someone steals something. Cops or vigilantes shoot you in the face, even though you had nothing to do with the crime at all. And while they're digging the bullet out of your brain, it occurs to you: don't steal, problem solved!
Let me guess how you figured this out.. the bullet is still in there, isn't it?
What other problems have you supplied good solutions to? I think someone needs to double-check your work, just in case...
All it takes to thwart any laser based weaponry is to come covered in something that reflects and scatters light well.
That's why these people made a laser rifle. The rifling causes the photons to have a twisting polarity, which allows them to drill through reflective surfaces.
Sites like YouTube, which offer millions of copies of almost every song imaginable, are now an unwitting player in the piracy ecosystem. Every day, countless people use special tools to extract music from video tracks before storing them on their local machines.
A large team of Microsoft's cleverest wizards have spent the last two years working on an invention that is going to change the world, and if you don't learn about this innovation and offer it to your clients or bosses, you can expect the "oh, you're over 40?" treatment for the rest of your career.
Though our patent expert has not yet reported on his particular finding, insiders are saying Microsoft's finest hackers have learned how to change color. That is, your screen is able to show many more colors than you're probably used to see, and by using a technique where the numbers behind the pixels are lower than they usually are (how low? stay tuned!) they're able to change how things appear, without the numbers being so low as to cause an imbalance.
We contacted lead Microsoft researcher, Fucky McFuckface, and asked, "Fuckface, how dark is it going to be?"
"That's McFuckface."
"Pardon me."
"Anyway, I'm not yet authorized to say exactly how dark it is, but our engineers were able to come up with some pretty low numbers for the pixel's color values."
"So then at least this much is confirmed, that you changed the numbers on the colors rather than the alpha channel?"
"Well, I don't want to give away too many secrets, but I think that cat is out of the bag. Yes, the colors are darker because we used some lower numbers for the pixel values. In the colors. It's kind of technical to explain but I think if you see it, you'll at least somewhat intuitively grasp what must be happening under the hood, even if it's not quite apparent exactly how we did it."
"What impact do you think this will have on future technology?"
"Oh, this is absolutely transformative. I think that over the next ten years, most software engineers are going to have to learn how to type in low numbers when specifying colors."
"You mean, everyone will be expected to? Anyone and everyone?"
"Well, I think the market will expect it, yes, so successful startups will certainly be attempting to get a piece of the action. We will, of course, protect our IP."
"Thank you, Fucky."
Everyone, keep your eye on this story. Whatever screenshots that you're seeing today, I would be hesitant to begin reverse engineering what colors they used, as that might not end up exactly what consumers end up experiencing. You don't want to put man-months of expensive tech labor #2f2f2fing everything and then find out your shitty 1.0 product doesn't even do the #1f1f1f or #3f3f3f that hyperconnected always-on-the-go modern consumers expect.
Do they have the right to regulate intrastate connections?
Say a person in California is communicating with another person in California, but it's over the internet and may possibly pass through another state. (I suppose CA is one of the states where this is less likely, but...) Is that interstate commerce too?
If it can suggest to me some shows that I will enjoy and would otherwise have missed, and it doesn't cost me any money, then I'm all for it.
That's the spirit! It's nice to finally see that some people are team players instead of looking for darkness in everything.
Now please finish entering your masturbation log (the period of July 1 - 5 appears to be incomplete). We need this data so that our algorithms can most accurately forecast when it will be the best time to show another porn ad. And you know the drill: it's free to have it scheduled for you, and a mere $0.23 to instead scheduled it to appear in the feed for that special someone.
Most sites are like Reddit, in this regard. Pretty sure/. is another. Indeed, exceptions are relatively rare, though one of those exceptions does happen to currently be pretty popular (Facebook).
Long term living on Earth won't work for us. Eventually an asteroid big enough will hit, statistically speaking.
Asteroids hitting us and wiping us out doesn't need to be a good answer; it just needs to be the best answer. It might be that for all planets everywhere in the universe, waiting for a killer asteroid is easier than colonizing other worlds.
That we have basically no measurement of any of this data means..
..that here are a lot of terms that you might want to study in order to get a better understanding of.. everything.
It doesn't really take variables that you have no data on and say to compute something; it takes variables that you have no data on, and shoves them in your face, saying "you need to get more data, because imagine the things you could figure out if you had any fucking clue what these numbers might actually be."
If you're taking it too literally, then take a step back. Fermi and Drake aren't so much trying to really give you an answer as remind you how damn hard the problems really are.
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Right. Even if you don't sell books, if you tell people where a bookstore is, and it turns out the bookstore sells some pirate copies of a book, you are now the person who infringed the copyright.
This judge would say you're "displaying" the book by referencing where to get it, since you know that some people will take your advice and go to the store and get the book.
Is that even possible?
It's true that I didn't write a competing phone OS. But I don't remember Google restricting me to unproductively drinking beer and staring at the garden instead of writing an OS. I thought that was something I chose. Interesting. I will have to hire a psychic and try to re-remember these summer evenings.
Wanting to control the photo is fine. The cunt part is that they sued innocent third parties instead of the site that had transmitted the unauthorized copies (which appears to be either instagram or twitter; I can't tell) nor the people who pirated the photo (the users of the web browsers).
A non-cunt would have sued whoever had committed the infringement, not the web sites that told people where they can find the photo.
After all these years, I still haven't figured this out: the sixth planet explodes (and presumably all its debris completely disappears in about 15 years). [deep breath] Ok!
But then Reliant visits the fifth planet, in the mistaken belief that it's the sixth? That's .. [another deep breath] a surprising mistake!
"The shock shifted the orbits" seems like a lot of handwaving to me. Anyone wanna explain?
Pretty damn cool. No kidding, this sounds like an outstanding, great product that people have wanted all decade long.
Unfortunately, the decade that I'm talking about is the 1990s. TV commercials, seriously? It's Y2K, time to get a Tivo.
I am not a cop. Is there already a law that says I can't take a photograph of the Grand Canyon that has other people in it, where I chatted with them and discovered they're going to check out Monument Valley next? Or are you suggesting we need a new law to prevent me from doing that?
On thing's for sure: once I have that photo, you will never know what I did with it. Any laws against my further analyzing the photo cannot possibly be enforced. It's mine and you simply don't have the surveillance technology to be able to detect my thoughtcrimes.
Hamilton Beach has a new drip coffee maker, whose parts cost $0.17 less than the previous model but make coffee 2% faster!! (Why isn't this on Slashdot's front page yet?)
Oh, you use a French press? A French press, really. Looks like some snob is already getting ready for this weekend's celebrations, I see. Well, good for you! But some of us prefer drip coffee makers even though the coffee isn't nearly as good. And my favorite manufacturer is Hamilton Beach, which is why my coffee maker case-cover has a hole, to show off the Hamilton Beach logo.
It's only estimated to be about half, based on their gut feelings. The data tells a different story about how much the data is getting used. I'm trying to make sense of the data but the math is actually kind of hard. But my gut tells me that this data tells me it's about half the decisions.
I'll revise my estimate as more guts come in.
Someone steals something. Cops or vigilantes shoot you in the face, even though you had nothing to do with the crime at all. And while they're digging the bullet out of your brain, it occurs to you: don't steal, problem solved!
Let me guess how you figured this out.. the bullet is still in there, isn't it?
What other problems have you supplied good solutions to? I think someone needs to double-check your work, just in case...
Ok, I'll bite: Why? What would I get out of this?
Will you pay me?
How does that help the majority who aren't illegal aliens? Your proposed strategy only works if everyone leaves the states, alien or citizen.
That's why these people made a laser rifle. The rifling causes the photons to have a twisting polarity, which allows them to drill through reflective surfaces.
So, people are still taping FM radio, huh?
You have to admit, nobody would ever do that.
A large team of Microsoft's cleverest wizards have spent the last two years working on an invention that is going to change the world, and if you don't learn about this innovation and offer it to your clients or bosses, you can expect the "oh, you're over 40?" treatment for the rest of your career.
Though our patent expert has not yet reported on his particular finding, insiders are saying Microsoft's finest hackers have learned how to change color. That is, your screen is able to show many more colors than you're probably used to see, and by using a technique where the numbers behind the pixels are lower than they usually are (how low? stay tuned!) they're able to change how things appear, without the numbers being so low as to cause an imbalance.
We contacted lead Microsoft researcher, Fucky McFuckface, and asked, "Fuckface, how dark is it going to be?"
"That's McFuckface."
"Pardon me."
"Anyway, I'm not yet authorized to say exactly how dark it is, but our engineers were able to come up with some pretty low numbers for the pixel's color values."
"So then at least this much is confirmed, that you changed the numbers on the colors rather than the alpha channel?"
"Well, I don't want to give away too many secrets, but I think that cat is out of the bag. Yes, the colors are darker because we used some lower numbers for the pixel values. In the colors. It's kind of technical to explain but I think if you see it, you'll at least somewhat intuitively grasp what must be happening under the hood, even if it's not quite apparent exactly how we did it."
"What impact do you think this will have on future technology?"
"Oh, this is absolutely transformative. I think that over the next ten years, most software engineers are going to have to learn how to type in low numbers when specifying colors."
"You mean, everyone will be expected to? Anyone and everyone?"
"Well, I think the market will expect it, yes, so successful startups will certainly be attempting to get a piece of the action. We will, of course, protect our IP."
"Thank you, Fucky."
Everyone, keep your eye on this story. Whatever screenshots that you're seeing today, I would be hesitant to begin reverse engineering what colors they used, as that might not end up exactly what consumers end up experiencing. You don't want to put man-months of expensive tech labor #2f2f2fing everything and then find out your shitty 1.0 product doesn't even do the #1f1f1f or #3f3f3f that hyperconnected always-on-the-go modern consumers expect.
Do they have the right to regulate intrastate connections?
Say a person in California is communicating with another person in California, but it's over the internet and may possibly pass through another state. (I suppose CA is one of the states where this is less likely, but...) Is that interstate commerce too?
That's the spirit! It's nice to finally see that some people are team players instead of looking for darkness in everything.
Now please finish entering your masturbation log (the period of July 1 - 5 appears to be incomplete). We need this data so that our algorithms can most accurately forecast when it will be the best time to show another porn ad. And you know the drill: it's free to have it scheduled for you, and a mere $0.23 to instead scheduled it to appear in the feed for that special someone.
Are these PDP-11s or VAXen or what? And what type?
Oh, and what year does the purchase happen? (Because in 2018 I wouldn't pay $700 for the awesomest VAX ever.)
Home Assistant doesn't. But wait .. its domain name does. How did you know that was going to happen?!?
Um.. if a radio is intended to be used illegally, then is using it really "abuse?"
Turning the radio off, or going behind its back and getting a legal permit, would be ways to abuse it.
Most sites are like Reddit, in this regard. Pretty sure /. is another. Indeed, exceptions are relatively rare, though one of those exceptions does happen to currently be pretty popular (Facebook).
It happened.
Why are you singling out humanity? I don't hear any dogs or trees or paramecia saying they look at the situation any differently.
Asteroids hitting us and wiping us out doesn't need to be a good answer; it just needs to be the best answer. It might be that for all planets everywhere in the universe, waiting for a killer asteroid is easier than colonizing other worlds.
..that here are a lot of terms that you might want to study in order to get a better understanding of .. everything.
It doesn't really take variables that you have no data on and say to compute something; it takes variables that you have no data on, and shoves them in your face, saying "you need to get more data, because imagine the things you could figure out if you had any fucking clue what these numbers might actually be."
If you're taking it too literally, then take a step back. Fermi and Drake aren't so much trying to really give you an answer as remind you how damn hard the problems really are.