"to send copyright cops abroad to help other countries enforce US laws". Am I to believe from this that copyright law sees no geographical concept of jurisdicion? I mean, I knew that international law could be used to prosecute people overseas, I had no idea that US law could be applied that way.
It's far more serious than that when it comes to vaccinations. In the population, there are people who simply can't be vaccinated because of immune disorders, and babies who haven't been vaccinated yet, or adults who just plain forgot to get it done. These people are protected by the 95+% herd immunity which prevents viruses from spreading so they die out. However if herd immunity drops to, say, 80% because of the half-assed research of some lawyer's lackey (*coughAndrewWakefield*), then the viruses can spread and find these vulnerable individuals. If we're talking measels, mumps, rubella, polio, and the other diseases which we kicked to the kerb with vaccination, well, other people's stupidity has left people crippled, sterile, disfigured, deformed, or dead.
And that's just Joe Public opting out of vaccination for no reason. The election of governments is basically a popularity contest, and if a government starts following the factually unsound requests of a misinformed population, well then you start doing things like swapping MRIs for X-rays or exploratory surgery because an MRI has magnetic fields and soon you're utterly screwed.
We don't have those in the UK, just FACT advertisements ("You wouldn't shoot a policeman..."). And even the FBI thing isn't an EULA - it's just a threat which makes certain assumptions about the nonexistence of fair-use (which have since been backed up by your hilarious DMCA).
If I buy a CD, in my view as a customer, I'm buying that disc and therefore I can use its contents any way I choose which does not infringe upon the publisher's copyright. I don't see an EULA stuck on the front of the case, so I'm clearly not being licenced the non-exclusive transferrable right to listen to the disk in up to three (3) CD players or whatever. When I buy a DVD, I expect that I should be able to stick the contents on a portable video player that doesn't have a DVD drive. I don't want to pay again for the ability to play the same damn thing on a different device, be it through iTunes or as a premium on the disc. However all the usage restrictions (which pirates so effortlessly bypass) mean I have to go and download the show off bittorrent to do that. The result? I've just uploaded copies of the video to people who are just pirating the film. So all that's been achieved is that they've caused a legitimate customer to become a small-scale pirate. Sorry, this is a bit of a rant. I appear to have a head cold.
Yeah, exactly that sort of oddness is why Vista's so unpopular for use in serious situations. My own gripes are mostly with file sharing over the network: XP machines refuse to see Vista's "Public" folders, but can see any other kinds of shares, while the Vista machines can't see "Shared Documents" folders, but can see any other kind of shares. Try as I might, I can't figure it out. Maybe it's something to do with the way Vista insists that I have "password protected" public folders, but provides no means to set up such authentication and never asks me for a password to access them. It's some sort of odd voodoo.
I'm not sure what your problem is, although I suspect you're probably just some dweeb who has a grudge against us for seducing your women with our oh-so-sexy accents. Anyway, as I was going to say, the UK has a mechanism for reporting programming like this, which frequently results in broadcasters having to make public apologies (see the global warming denialism show C4 showed earlier this year). The last time I checked North America wasn't so lucky.
The headcount was wrong. It should've had a few hundred to a thousand scientists elaborating on the theme of "this is bullshit" for every quack who appeared onscreen saying "please buy my expensive anti-EMF hat, from myself, a douchebag who managed to get the idiots at Panorama to give me free advertising".
I'd wager that anyone who got Vista preinstalled on a general-purpose box (not a gaming machine, and not a homebuild) would be pretty happy. It's actually quite well behaved if you're not trying to do Serious Business with it, and I've lived reasonably comfortably with an HP Vista Business notebook for the past 6 months. Alas these people are not the most vocal part of the customer base.
I figure if you have a group of people working on some project, inevitably a subset of that group will be asshats and run around in little cliques looking out for eachother rather than the project itself. Of course the only way to avoid that is to install more oversight to look out for and bust this sort of nonsense, which also goes against the spirit of the project (albeit in a comparatively benign way).
So the last gen was the next gen, the generation before that was the superconsoles, and the next gen was going to be the HD era, but now the last gen is the old gen, the next gen is this gen, and the superconsoles are retro? Where does that put retro?
So, you've been modded +3 Informative for what is obviously a joke on the first reading, and is even more obviously a joke on closer examination. How's that feel?
I recall that QR codes were used as part of the 28 Weeks Later advertising campaign, in the UK at least. Huge ones hanging on the sides of buildings, to be exact.
The new part of it is that the scientists have discovered a way to recover normal behaviour. I guess folks were too busy going "HOLY SHIT ZOMBIES" to notice.
The difference between our atmosphere and the "vacuum" of space is quantitative, not qualitative. Solids, liquids, and gases (even very, very low pressure gases) can all transmit mechanical vibrations (what we call sound) to some degree.
Neither the interstellar medium nor the stellar medium is a true vacuum though. The solar wind comes out of the sun faster than the speed of sound in the interstellar medium, in the same way that the expanding sphere of gases from an explosion moves faster than the speed of sound in the air around it. The breakneck expansion of the solar wind and the pressure of the interstellar medium (such as there is) eventually come into equilibrium once you get far enough from the sun. This boundary is your shock front, or in this specific case, the termination shock. What's interesting to me is that changes in the pressure of the solar wind should set up shock waves in the interstellar medium. Please note IANAAstronomer, just an interested postgrad with Google at hand.
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I would've thought it was easy to produce one gigawatt of renewable power cheaper than coal. Just subsidise, subsidise, subsidise, and sell on the equipment when you're done. Easy. Okay, maybe it doesn't scale too well...
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"to send copyright cops abroad to help other countries enforce US laws". Am I to believe from this that copyright law sees no geographical concept of jurisdicion? I mean, I knew that international law could be used to prosecute people overseas, I had no idea that US law could be applied that way.
"Leverage" is a noun, perhaps they mean "lever"? Or more likely, "use"?
It's far more serious than that when it comes to vaccinations. In the population, there are people who simply can't be vaccinated because of immune disorders, and babies who haven't been vaccinated yet, or adults who just plain forgot to get it done. These people are protected by the 95+% herd immunity which prevents viruses from spreading so they die out. However if herd immunity drops to, say, 80% because of the half-assed research of some lawyer's lackey (*coughAndrewWakefield*), then the viruses can spread and find these vulnerable individuals. If we're talking measels, mumps, rubella, polio, and the other diseases which we kicked to the kerb with vaccination, well, other people's stupidity has left people crippled, sterile, disfigured, deformed, or dead.
And that's just Joe Public opting out of vaccination for no reason. The election of governments is basically a popularity contest, and if a government starts following the factually unsound requests of a misinformed population, well then you start doing things like swapping MRIs for X-rays or exploratory surgery because an MRI has magnetic fields and soon you're utterly screwed.
In addition, I'm curious as to what "Verizon Security Advisor" is. The only references I can find to it are, uh, people reporting this story...
In Parlimentary Republican Iceland, game breaks Windows!
We don't have those in the UK, just FACT advertisements ("You wouldn't shoot a policeman..."). And even the FBI thing isn't an EULA - it's just a threat which makes certain assumptions about the nonexistence of fair-use (which have since been backed up by your hilarious DMCA).
I was wondering about that. It'd be kind of hard to put something in the Arctic and cool it to the temperature of a warm summer's day.
If I buy a CD, in my view as a customer, I'm buying that disc and therefore I can use its contents any way I choose which does not infringe upon the publisher's copyright. I don't see an EULA stuck on the front of the case, so I'm clearly not being licenced the non-exclusive transferrable right to listen to the disk in up to three (3) CD players or whatever. When I buy a DVD, I expect that I should be able to stick the contents on a portable video player that doesn't have a DVD drive. I don't want to pay again for the ability to play the same damn thing on a different device, be it through iTunes or as a premium on the disc. However all the usage restrictions (which pirates so effortlessly bypass) mean I have to go and download the show off bittorrent to do that. The result? I've just uploaded copies of the video to people who are just pirating the film. So all that's been achieved is that they've caused a legitimate customer to become a small-scale pirate. Sorry, this is a bit of a rant. I appear to have a head cold.
More like Conservipedia - right-wing, wrong, and totally resistant to editing. ZING! I'm here all night, folks! Take my wife!
Yeah, exactly that sort of oddness is why Vista's so unpopular for use in serious situations. My own gripes are mostly with file sharing over the network: XP machines refuse to see Vista's "Public" folders, but can see any other kinds of shares, while the Vista machines can't see "Shared Documents" folders, but can see any other kind of shares. Try as I might, I can't figure it out. Maybe it's something to do with the way Vista insists that I have "password protected" public folders, but provides no means to set up such authentication and never asks me for a password to access them. It's some sort of odd voodoo.
I'm not sure what your problem is, although I suspect you're probably just some dweeb who has a grudge against us for seducing your women with our oh-so-sexy accents. Anyway, as I was going to say, the UK has a mechanism for reporting programming like this, which frequently results in broadcasters having to make public apologies (see the global warming denialism show C4 showed earlier this year). The last time I checked North America wasn't so lucky.
The headcount was wrong. It should've had a few hundred to a thousand scientists elaborating on the theme of "this is bullshit" for every quack who appeared onscreen saying "please buy my expensive anti-EMF hat, from myself, a douchebag who managed to get the idiots at Panorama to give me free advertising".
I'd wager that anyone who got Vista preinstalled on a general-purpose box (not a gaming machine, and not a homebuild) would be pretty happy. It's actually quite well behaved if you're not trying to do Serious Business with it, and I've lived reasonably comfortably with an HP Vista Business notebook for the past 6 months. Alas these people are not the most vocal part of the customer base.
I figure if you have a group of people working on some project, inevitably a subset of that group will be asshats and run around in little cliques looking out for eachother rather than the project itself. Of course the only way to avoid that is to install more oversight to look out for and bust this sort of nonsense, which also goes against the spirit of the project (albeit in a comparatively benign way).
So the last gen was the next gen, the generation before that was the superconsoles, and the next gen was going to be the HD era, but now the last gen is the old gen, the next gen is this gen, and the superconsoles are retro? Where does that put retro?
So, you've been modded +3 Informative for what is obviously a joke on the first reading, and is even more obviously a joke on closer examination. How's that feel?
I recall that QR codes were used as part of the 28 Weeks Later advertising campaign, in the UK at least. Huge ones hanging on the sides of buildings, to be exact.
The new part of it is that the scientists have discovered a way to recover normal behaviour. I guess folks were too busy going "HOLY SHIT ZOMBIES" to notice.
"Insightful"?! Slashdot moderation terrifies me sometimes.
Kill it with fire.
The difference between our atmosphere and the "vacuum" of space is quantitative, not qualitative. Solids, liquids, and gases (even very, very low pressure gases) can all transmit mechanical vibrations (what we call sound) to some degree.
Neither the interstellar medium nor the stellar medium is a true vacuum though. The solar wind comes out of the sun faster than the speed of sound in the interstellar medium, in the same way that the expanding sphere of gases from an explosion moves faster than the speed of sound in the air around it. The breakneck expansion of the solar wind and the pressure of the interstellar medium (such as there is) eventually come into equilibrium once you get far enough from the sun. This boundary is your shock front, or in this specific case, the termination shock. What's interesting to me is that changes in the pressure of the solar wind should set up shock waves in the interstellar medium. Please note IANAAstronomer, just an interested postgrad with Google at hand.
D'oh! Mod grandparent "uncaffienated".
I would've thought it was easy to produce one gigawatt of renewable power cheaper than coal. Just subsidise, subsidise, subsidise, and sell on the equipment when you're done. Easy. Okay, maybe it doesn't scale too well...
Dibs on his heart, I want a perfect black body for some physics demonstrations.