The answer to the question is simple. Use a BFG to kill all the lawyers. Apply technology at what it does best to solve this problem. Eliminate the parasites that have ruined so many people , companies and projects.
What they meant is that the number of people going to the movies is down! The receipts are up because they are now charging $10.00 a person to go to the movies. They have offset the decline in attendance by a huge increase in the price of the tickets. So those that do choose to go to the movies are paying much more that previously.
I don't understand why people in general, and specifically the/. crowd, are surprised to learn about such accommodations? Anyone that knows even a little bit about networking should realize that unless they are encrypting their connections they are open to anyone along the line. What would be more interesting would be if there was a claim that they were breaking AES encryption in real time. That would be of interest. But since that is not the case there is nothing of real interest here. Nothing to see. Move along folks.
The amount of radiation released from a dyson sphere would depend on the efficiency of the material used to collect, store, and use the energy of the suns enclosed in the dyson sphere.
As to why we have not seen them yet? What makes us so important? We are less than fleas on a bit of mud circling a single insignificant sun. Why would they bother even if they knew we were here? If they can build such things as massive dyson spheres and control huge amounts of space and dark matter they probably have other things much more interesting that us to look at.
It is kind of like the UFO question. Why would intelligent beings with technology that can reach other worlds and solar systems take any interest in our insignificant little planet? And if they did why would they choose to do things like mutilate cattle, make crop circles, and anal probe farmers in Iowa? If there were aliens visiting this world they would most likely simply land and announce themselves. At which point we would either try to kill them or find out that the want us as a source of food or pets. As such the question of intelligent alien civilizations visiting the earth is mute. It has not happened and most likely will not happen. Actually there is strong evidence that there is no intelligent life on Earth at all. Just watch the news and you can reach that conclusion.
Then you will whine on how it's other peoples fault.
You apparently can not read very well. I never said there was no problem. I said that they need to adapt or move or die. Their choice. They are the ones trying to blame everyone else. Not me. So try to read things a little closer next time.
If only we could create a second, more secure Nigeria.
Very simple, simply apply a liberal number of nuclear weapons concentrating on population centers in Nigeria. Before you know it you have a much more secure Nigeria than ever before. At least for the next couple of centuries. What is the half life of plutonium anyway?
This is typical. He wants to throw away the Internet because it can not be controlled and scanned by the government. What a moron! Or is he simply pushing to get IPV6 implemented to replace IPV4? That would serve the same purpose for the most part.
Of course then the real criminals (those called politicians) would resort to other means to conduct their business. Like VPNs. Oh, wait, so could everyone else!
He needs to adapt or get out of the way. Change the laws and get the cooperation between agencies setup before investigations have to be initiated. But I guess that sounds like work. And we all know government employees work as little as possible.
Just throwing this out there, what if the dark matter that we are just now finding ways to detect and evaluate is the result of a species or device that is converting all available matter and energy in the universe to something such as replicators? Maybe this is the way the universe ends. Similar to any number of science fiction books that predict nanobots will result in the earth becoming covered by a gray goo which is the the result of nanobot deconstructors and constructors turning all raw material into more nanobots. It is probably just a matter of time before our galaxy intersects with one of these dark matter structures and the replicators take hold on this world and all others in this galaxy.
Another possibility is that the dark matter is nothing more than massive dyson spheres which surround all the stars that should be seen but can not because advanced species have created structures to capture all the energy of the stars in their sectors. Again, bad for us when they intersect our galaxy since they will quickly consume all the raw materials in our solar system and galaxy.
Why do people continue to blame others for the bad things in life that happen to them? The only ones that will really benefit from such law suits are the lawyers. They will get 33% off the top and then all the fees they incurred to bring the lawsuit. The people they represent will get a small fraction of anything that is actually awarded.
And if they do win the law suit in the next 15 to 20 years what will the do then? Actually move to someplace else? Doubtful. People have a bad habit to cling to places and things long after they have become useless.
Climate change is going to happen, ignoring the discussion about it being man made or not, it will happen. People need to do what they did long before the lawyers and green peace got involved, adapt to the changes. In the past various warming and cooling periods forced people to migrate to different areas of the globe. Well guess what, they need to do that now, or find a way to live in the changed environment. If their traditional hunting and fishing is disrupted by the climate change then they need to find something else to hunt and fish. If nothing is available then they need to find a way to import what they need. If they don't have the jobs and money to do that then MOVE SOMEPLACE ELSE THAT HAS WHAT THEY NEED! It is not going to cost that much to move a family to a different location. Load up the dog sled and head south.
This also goes for those on the coast that get hit with hurricanes. (Funny that the last couple of hurricane seasons have been much quieter than predicted...) If you can't afford the insurance for the house you bought on the coast then sell it and move in land. DON'T EXPECT THE REST OF US TO PAY FOR YOUR BAD CHOICE!
You should put this in terms that/. readers can understand. Copyright for songs is similar to copyright for programs. It takes time and sweat to create a good program. But once it is created it can be copied and used time and again with out any additional effort. The problem as I see it is that for some reason people want to use copyright to generate a perpetual cash cow. Copyright should be used to allow the original author to get the benefits of the effort. But we don't want the best programmer in the world to create a single program and then go retire. Let them get the benefits but make the copyright short enough so that they will go out and create another great master piece. IMHO copyright of 20 or 30 years should be more than enough to achieve the desired effect. If it continues as is they will extend copyright to infinite which eventually will suffocate the music and programming industry in law suits over who holds the copyright to that particular three lines of code that you happened to include in the next great program or the five notes that were used in that song. We can not live off of law suits. There must be new things created. And as most intelligent people realize most things are built on the work of others. A little from here a little from their, eventually someone puts a number of good ideas together and generates a master piece.
There was a short story I read many years ago that predicted this very thing. It got to the point that all the possible music combinations had been created and nothing new could be created without violating copyright. That is the day the music will die.
This is going to end badly. The company that can't seem to get a number of critical fixes in place is going to setup a system that uses a virus to propagate patches? This has to be a plot to really bad B movie coming soon to a theater near you.
"It had to happen eventually...They said it would make things better...Microsoft Virus 1.0...Initially it looked benign...Even helpful...But then it was subverted and changed...Within days 100% of all Windows systems were infected...Users data was compromised and exposed on the Internet...Nothing could stop it!...Oh the humanity of it all!
This summer at a theater near you, no one can hear your computer scream on the Internet!
Now that the strike has been resolved, will we even notice the difference when the writers go back to work? Really. From what I could tell the level of writing did not seem to drop that much. Sure there were a few shows that have been delayed being put back on the air. But did you really miss them that much?
I was kind of hoping people would learn to read a book. You know, those things that sit on the shelf next to the TV gathering dust. They have pages with letters that make up words on them. Oh, never mind. Go back to watching Three and Half Men or what ever pablum you are addicted to.
Initiate a 15 year plan to move the U.S. from a gasoline based transportation infrastructure to a hydrogen fuel cell based infrastructure. This would require building a number of nuclear plants to generate the hydrogen as well as supply the power for new factories to support the new infrastructure. Oil companies would be mandated to assist with the conversion as well as automobile manufacturers to create vehicles in all classes trucks, buses, SUV, sedans, etc that run on fuel cells.
This would generate jobs as well as get the economy moving again.
I would also start the process of pulling all U.S. troops from overseas assignments. The only way U.S. troops would remain overseas is if the host country paid us for the protection. The extraction of troops from Iraq would be prefaced on getting the Iraqi military up to speed to handle their own internal issues.
There would be a brief foray into Pakistan to finally capture/confirm dead Bin Laden. After that they would be on their own.
A set of security measures would be implemented to protect against ballistic missiles as well as scanning all cargo vessels interring out waters for nuclear or biological weapons.
A very simple tax plan would be implemented, 10% no deductions. This would put more money in the hands of the people that earned it which would stimulate the economy.
This is just what we need. A cheap exo-skeleton that anyone can buy and wear all the time. Once it becomes popular people will think they are the six million dollar man, lifting things over their heads.
Of course over the next couple of hundred years we will evolve into nothing more than a brain and some nerve endings that will activate the exo-skeleton's. Wonder when they will start making them look like Daleks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek
I wonder if the loss revenue is directly related to the increases spending in the legal department where they apparently have to spend time tracking down all these trademark infringement cases.
They will have to change tactics and instead of stopping these people before they use such an image wait until after they have printed and distributed them. Then claim triple damages. What a cash cow that could be!
Can anyone say hydrogen? Of course hydrogen is more flammable than helium. But that only means that better methods of handling it must be created. Once the price of helium reaches the right level it will be very cost effective to employ hydrogen in those cases where its "unique" property is needed.
Of course the other way to solve this shortage is to look to the other planets in the solar system. Maybe this is the business model that will spur space exploration. Making a helium run to Jupiter might be the solution to keeping all those clowns in helium filled balloons.
Simple, learn to say "Do you want fries with that?"
The other answer, which probably what most of the other writers will provide, is to sale services to customize the software for users. The first job though is guaranteed to make you some money.
No you have that backwards. The RIAA have deep pockets. They can buy politicians by the barrel full. Politicians will continue to flock to the RIAA banner as long as they pay. The political system runs on money not votes. Get that straight and it will all make more sense.
In this case the RIAA apparently failed to make a timely donation to the politicians in question. That will be rectified soon.
The founding fathers knew this. When they setup congress the House and Senate were created to make sure the smaller states did not get short shrift. All states get equal representation in the Senate. The House provided a way to give the states a measure of representation based on population.
The posts complaining about gerrymandering have more of a point that trying to reallocate how the House is allocated. And if you want a really big problem that needs to be addressed then look no further than the electoral college. Of course that one depends on which side you fell on in the last couple of elections.
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The answer to the question is simple. Use a BFG to kill all the lawyers. Apply technology at what it does best to solve this problem. Eliminate the parasites that have ruined so many people , companies and projects.
What they meant is that the number of people going to the movies is down! The receipts are up because they are now charging $10.00 a person to go to the movies. They have offset the decline in attendance by a huge increase in the price of the tickets. So those that do choose to go to the movies are paying much more that previously.
I don't understand why people in general, and specifically the /. crowd, are surprised to learn about such accommodations? Anyone that knows even a little bit about networking should realize that unless they are encrypting their connections they are open to anyone along the line. What would be more interesting would be if there was a claim that they were breaking AES encryption in real time. That would be of interest. But since that is not the case there is nothing of real interest here. Nothing to see. Move along folks.
The amount of radiation released from a dyson sphere would depend on the efficiency of the material used to collect, store, and use the energy of the suns enclosed in the dyson sphere.
As to why we have not seen them yet? What makes us so important? We are less than fleas on a bit of mud circling a single insignificant sun. Why would they bother even if they knew we were here? If they can build such things as massive dyson spheres and control huge amounts of space and dark matter they probably have other things much more interesting that us to look at.
It is kind of like the UFO question. Why would intelligent beings with technology that can reach other worlds and solar systems take any interest in our insignificant little planet? And if they did why would they choose to do things like mutilate cattle, make crop circles, and anal probe farmers in Iowa? If there were aliens visiting this world they would most likely simply land and announce themselves. At which point we would either try to kill them or find out that the want us as a source of food or pets. As such the question of intelligent alien civilizations visiting the earth is mute. It has not happened and most likely will not happen. Actually there is strong evidence that there is no intelligent life on Earth at all. Just watch the news and you can reach that conclusion.
You apparently can not read very well. I never said there was no problem. I said that they need to adapt or move or die. Their choice. They are the ones trying to blame everyone else. Not me. So try to read things a little closer next time.
To say nothing of how such a system could be used to initiate very targeted attacks against specific individuals. :)
"Life is hard then you die."
If you are lucky!
This guy is angling for a huge budget to do with what he wants. Which is probably scouring the Internet for free porn during office hours.
Very simple, simply apply a liberal number of nuclear weapons concentrating on population centers in Nigeria. Before you know it you have a much more secure Nigeria than ever before. At least for the next couple of centuries. What is the half life of plutonium anyway?
This is typical. He wants to throw away the Internet because it can not be controlled and scanned by the government. What a moron! Or is he simply pushing to get IPV6 implemented to replace IPV4? That would serve the same purpose for the most part.
Of course then the real criminals (those called politicians) would resort to other means to conduct their business. Like VPNs. Oh, wait, so could everyone else!
He needs to adapt or get out of the way. Change the laws and get the cooperation between agencies setup before investigations have to be initiated. But I guess that sounds like work. And we all know government employees work as little as possible.
Just throwing this out there, what if the dark matter that we are just now finding ways to detect and evaluate is the result of a species or device that is converting all available matter and energy in the universe to something such as replicators? Maybe this is the way the universe ends. Similar to any number of science fiction books that predict nanobots will result in the earth becoming covered by a gray goo which is the the result of nanobot deconstructors and constructors turning all raw material into more nanobots. It is probably just a matter of time before our galaxy intersects with one of these dark matter structures and the replicators take hold on this world and all others in this galaxy.
Another possibility is that the dark matter is nothing more than massive dyson spheres which surround all the stars that should be seen but can not because advanced species have created structures to capture all the energy of the stars in their sectors. Again, bad for us when they intersect our galaxy since they will quickly consume all the raw materials in our solar system and galaxy.
Why do people continue to blame others for the bad things in life that happen to them? The only ones that will really benefit from such law suits are the lawyers. They will get 33% off the top and then all the fees they incurred to bring the lawsuit. The people they represent will get a small fraction of anything that is actually awarded.
And if they do win the law suit in the next 15 to 20 years what will the do then? Actually move to someplace else? Doubtful. People have a bad habit to cling to places and things long after they have become useless.
Climate change is going to happen, ignoring the discussion about it being man made or not, it will happen. People need to do what they did long before the lawyers and green peace got involved, adapt to the changes. In the past various warming and cooling periods forced people to migrate to different areas of the globe. Well guess what, they need to do that now, or find a way to live in the changed environment. If their traditional hunting and fishing is disrupted by the climate change then they need to find something else to hunt and fish. If nothing is available then they need to find a way to import what they need. If they don't have the jobs and money to do that then MOVE SOMEPLACE ELSE THAT HAS WHAT THEY NEED! It is not going to cost that much to move a family to a different location. Load up the dog sled and head south.
This also goes for those on the coast that get hit with hurricanes. (Funny that the last couple of hurricane seasons have been much quieter than predicted...) If you can't afford the insurance for the house you bought on the coast then sell it and move in land. DON'T EXPECT THE REST OF US TO PAY FOR YOUR BAD CHOICE!
You should put this in terms that /. readers can understand. Copyright for songs is similar to copyright for programs. It takes time and sweat to create a good program. But once it is created it can be copied and used time and again with out any additional effort. The problem as I see it is that for some reason people want to use copyright to generate a perpetual cash cow. Copyright should be used to allow the original author to get the benefits of the effort. But we don't want the best programmer in the world to create a single program and then go retire. Let them get the benefits but make the copyright short enough so that they will go out and create another great master piece. IMHO copyright of 20 or 30 years should be more than enough to achieve the desired effect. If it continues as is they will extend copyright to infinite which eventually will suffocate the music and programming industry in law suits over who holds the copyright to that particular three lines of code that you happened to include in the next great program or the five notes that were used in that song. We can not live off of law suits. There must be new things created. And as most intelligent people realize most things are built on the work of others. A little from here a little from their, eventually someone puts a number of good ideas together and generates a master piece.
There was a short story I read many years ago that predicted this very thing. It got to the point that all the possible music combinations had been created and nothing new could be created without violating copyright. That is the day the music will die.
This is going to end badly. The company that can't seem to get a number of critical fixes in place is going to setup a system that uses a virus to propagate patches? This has to be a plot to really bad B movie coming soon to a theater near you.
"It had to happen eventually...They said it would make things better...Microsoft Virus 1.0...Initially it looked benign...Even helpful...But then it was subverted and changed...Within days 100% of all Windows systems were infected...Users data was compromised and exposed on the Internet...Nothing could stop it!...Oh the humanity of it all!
This summer at a theater near you, no one can hear your computer scream on the Internet!
I think he has been watching to much Futurama. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Big_Piece_of_Garbage there is a link describing the episode.
Then you never met the CEO of V2R.
Now that the strike has been resolved, will we even notice the difference when the writers go back to work? Really. From what I could tell the level of writing did not seem to drop that much. Sure there were a few shows that have been delayed being put back on the air. But did you really miss them that much?
I was kind of hoping people would learn to read a book. You know, those things that sit on the shelf next to the TV gathering dust. They have pages with letters that make up words on them. Oh, never mind. Go back to watching Three and Half Men or what ever pablum you are addicted to.
Initiate a 15 year plan to move the U.S. from a gasoline based transportation infrastructure to a hydrogen fuel cell based infrastructure. This would require building a number of nuclear plants to generate the hydrogen as well as supply the power for new factories to support the new infrastructure. Oil companies would be mandated to assist with the conversion as well as automobile manufacturers to create vehicles in all classes trucks, buses, SUV, sedans, etc that run on fuel cells.
This would generate jobs as well as get the economy moving again.
I would also start the process of pulling all U.S. troops from overseas assignments. The only way U.S. troops would remain overseas is if the host country paid us for the protection. The extraction of troops from Iraq would be prefaced on getting the Iraqi military up to speed to handle their own internal issues.
There would be a brief foray into Pakistan to finally capture/confirm dead Bin Laden. After that they would be on their own.
A set of security measures would be implemented to protect against ballistic missiles as well as scanning all cargo vessels interring out waters for nuclear or biological weapons.
A very simple tax plan would be implemented, 10% no deductions. This would put more money in the hands of the people that earned it which would stimulate the economy.
This is just what we need. A cheap exo-skeleton that anyone can buy and wear all the time. Once it becomes popular people will think they are the six million dollar man, lifting things over their heads.
Of course over the next couple of hundred years we will evolve into nothing more than a brain and some nerve endings that will activate the exo-skeleton's. Wonder when they will start making them look like Daleks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek
I wonder if the loss revenue is directly related to the increases spending in the legal department where they apparently have to spend time tracking down all these trademark infringement cases.
They will have to change tactics and instead of stopping these people before they use such an image wait until after they have printed and distributed them. Then claim triple damages. What a cash cow that could be!
Can anyone say hydrogen? Of course hydrogen is more flammable than helium. But that only means that better methods of handling it must be created. Once the price of helium reaches the right level it will be very cost effective to employ hydrogen in those cases where its "unique" property is needed.
Of course the other way to solve this shortage is to look to the other planets in the solar system. Maybe this is the business model that will spur space exploration. Making a helium run to Jupiter might be the solution to keeping all those clowns in helium filled balloons.
"How do I make money on open source software?"
Simple, learn to say "Do you want fries with that?"
The other answer, which probably what most of the other writers will provide, is to sale services to customize the software for users. The first job though is guaranteed to make you some money.
"decrease your chances of being re-elected..."?
No you have that backwards. The RIAA have deep pockets. They can buy politicians by the barrel full. Politicians will continue to flock to the RIAA banner as long as they pay. The political system runs on money not votes. Get that straight and it will all make more sense.
In this case the RIAA apparently failed to make a timely donation to the politicians in question. That will be rectified soon.
The founding fathers knew this. When they setup congress the House and Senate were created to make sure the smaller states did not get short shrift. All states get equal representation in the Senate. The House provided a way to give the states a measure of representation based on population.
The posts complaining about gerrymandering have more of a point that trying to reallocate how the House is allocated. And if you want a really big problem that needs to be addressed then look no further than the electoral college. Of course that one depends on which side you fell on in the last couple of elections.