it's been ruled multiples times by the courts that downloading for personal usage is legal. Also that uploading is legal, as obviously to download, someone has to upload.
I'm not arguing with what Canadian law says, I just wanted to say that it really isn't that obvious that uploading would be legal based on the logic that for downloading to happen someone has to upload.
According to the DMCA, people are supposed to be able to make backup copies of media for personal use. But then, distributing tools to allow circumvention of encryption and copy protection measures is not allowed. Wouldn't it be rather... obvious that the distribution of these tools should be legal, since they are required for consumers to exercise their privilege to make personal copies?
And hiding information that can be found just makes people want to discover it. What right does another person have to this information that I don't? I doubt people were angry, just curious.
I agree, frankly I feel there is a bit of upset over a loss of self-righteous enjoyment journalists gets from their positions in TFA. OMG, someone spilled the beans you didn't want to. You must be sad. Professional journalists are worried about the public and Web 2.0 usurping their jobs. Not because they have no talent (even though many don't) but because the media organizations as a whole care more about sensationalist tabloid gossip than hard news to really care about those traits. The public doesn't care about about decent writing and reporting either as long as they get their celebrity gossip. Why pay a person a salary for a well written article when a intelligent blogger will write one that's cuts the mustard enough for the customer, just to see their name in print on a news website?
Okay, so if the building was running DC, what did the electronics and appliances inside plug into?
Well, electronics run on DC power to begin with. With a minimal "power supply" that just branches off different voltages, they could plug the electronics right in to the wall.
Kinda ironic, Tesla's AC system is supposedly the "winner" here but arguably there would be greater use for a DC power system inside homes (except for most major appliances they came with).
Do CFL bulbs even use AC power? or does the base convert to DC before the tubes?
What's worse is accidental use of the stupid touch pad. You're typing along and zoom your cursor goes flying somewhere crazy and you've just deleted something important or done something equally as horrible. Touch pads are horrible devices.
I don't want a "palm pad" or anything else that is the same height as the keyboard right in front of it where my hands are. If laptop makers switched the locations of the keyboard and the touchpad, both problems would be solved. Put the keyboard at the front of the bottom half and the trackpad over it. With the area on either side of the touchpad no longer at the bottom, they can be used for media control buttons, speakers (depth allowing), or even a secondary touch display.
I know this is going to increase thickness a bit, but having upgradeable graphics cards would be nice. Same with optical drives. I know there's a couple laptops where the graphics are on a daughtercard pretty much, but until it becomes a more commonplace feature with a standard interface, there wont be an industry/market of new cards for laptops like there are for desktops.
Because seriously, there's a reason for OS X users to upgrade-- and little to none for XP users to do so.
Leopard does feature better Japanese support. See Apple's "300 features" page here and here. I'm not saying that makes the upgrade worth it necessarily. But it does add additional incentive for Japanese users.
17 years (!) after Windows 95-style open-and-save dialog boxes debuted, and I still can't simply drag and drop the folders *I* want into and out of the "Places" bar.
Yes, that's exactly what we'll all be saying in another 5 years when the next version of Windows comes out and they still have not added the ability.
You have got to be kidding me, that is nuts?!?! So what is to stop someone plugging a high drain item into the lighting circuit and overloading it? Or don't they have the concept of separate power and lighting circuits?
No, we don't. Usually a single circuit on the breaker panel will coincide to one or maybe two rooms of the house (depending on the size of the rooms and their intended usage). And there will be separate circuits for individual outlets meant for major appliances (refrigerators, stoves, washer/dryers, central heating/cooling).
why can't people just be disciplined enough to switch off their monitors before leaving for home/office?
Remember old beige Macintoshes? The monitor power actually ran through the computer, so when you shut down the machine the monitor was powered down, too.
One of those nice little touches we lost on the way to cost cutting and standardization with the PC industry.
Between displaying 100% white at the highest brightness and the blackest black at the lowest brightness, there is only a 5-10% difference depending on resolution and refresh rates.
"Judge Vaughn Walker ruled today that AT&T, Verizon, Cingular (now part of AT&T), Sprint, and BellSouth (also part of AT&T now) must all maintain any data or papers related to the NSA spying case that Walker is overseeing in California.
"Now, Mr. Telco, you be good now and don't destroy any of those documents that may incriminate you in the future, okay? We don't know what documents you have, but we'll ask you to not shred them until we actually can proceed to ask you for them."
Really why is the system set up this way? It's like telling a suspected murderer to please not dispose of the murder weapon if he has it until the prosecutor can get a search warrant.
What is it with the mainstream media and their strange assumptions regarding technology and violence. I find it peculiar that as soon as some youngster starts shooting people for no reason, the media will investigate what video games he used to play, Facebook profiles, Youtube videos and whatnot.
Especially when in the "Technology" segment immediately following is a thinly veiled marketing segment for the latest gadget or website.
If you were wise enough to make backups of the DRMed files, you should have made a backup of your iTunes library file, which I believe might hold the authorization rights.
Hmmmmm...I wonder what will happen to all those iTunes songs once Apple moves to a new DRM or non-DRM format in the future and stops supporting their old format???
Well, since iTunes doesn't verify you have rights to the songs with Apple's servers every time you play them, unlike these MLB clips, nothing would happen.
If your hard drive got corrupted and you had to reinstall everything, you aren't allowed to redownload the lost files. Just like if your house burns down the record companies don't have to replace your crispy CDs.
That's funny. I thought RFID was electronic tagging.
I know, I know. You meant in the person's body, not their clothing. We can defeat this program with some carefully placed rumors of kidnappers wrapping kids in tinfoil before running off with them.
Personally, my fear would be more on the safety implications of a car designed to fold in on itself in the event of a collision.
I'm more interested in how it protects in a head-on collision. I guess it's supposed to deflect the car over the arched windshield and rounded fenders, because there is no front bumper, let alone any sort of crumple zone. A car sitting as low as those would (looking at the wheel size) would have the driver kissing the front grill of any medium size SUV.
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I'm not arguing with what Canadian law says, I just wanted to say that it really isn't that obvious that uploading would be legal based on the logic that for downloading to happen someone has to upload.
According to the DMCA, people are supposed to be able to make backup copies of media for personal use. But then, distributing tools to allow circumvention of encryption and copy protection measures is not allowed. Wouldn't it be rather... obvious that the distribution of these tools should be legal, since they are required for consumers to exercise their privilege to make personal copies?
I agree, frankly I feel there is a bit of upset over a loss of self-righteous enjoyment journalists gets from their positions in TFA. OMG, someone spilled the beans you didn't want to. You must be sad. Professional journalists are worried about the public and Web 2.0 usurping their jobs. Not because they have no talent (even though many don't) but because the media organizations as a whole care more about sensationalist tabloid gossip than hard news to really care about those traits. The public doesn't care about about decent writing and reporting either as long as they get their celebrity gossip. Why pay a person a salary for a well written article when a intelligent blogger will write one that's cuts the mustard enough for the customer, just to see their name in print on a news website?
Well, electronics run on DC power to begin with. With a minimal "power supply" that just branches off different voltages, they could plug the electronics right in to the wall.
Kinda ironic, Tesla's AC system is supposedly the "winner" here but arguably there would be greater use for a DC power system inside homes (except for most major appliances they came with).
Do CFL bulbs even use AC power? or does the base convert to DC before the tubes?
I don't want a "palm pad" or anything else that is the same height as the keyboard right in front of it where my hands are. If laptop makers switched the locations of the keyboard and the touchpad, both problems would be solved. Put the keyboard at the front of the bottom half and the trackpad over it. With the area on either side of the touchpad no longer at the bottom, they can be used for media control buttons, speakers (depth allowing), or even a secondary touch display.
In one scenario, somebody else gets your job, in the other nobody gets your job.
I know this is going to increase thickness a bit, but having upgradeable graphics cards would be nice. Same with optical drives. I know there's a couple laptops where the graphics are on a daughtercard pretty much, but until it becomes a more commonplace feature with a standard interface, there wont be an industry/market of new cards for laptops like there are for desktops.
Leopard does feature better Japanese support. See Apple's "300 features" page here and here. I'm not saying that makes the upgrade worth it necessarily. But it does add additional incentive for Japanese users.
I'm a teenage girl with Tourette Syndrome you insensitive clod!
Yes, that's exactly what we'll all be saying in another 5 years when the next version of Windows comes out and they still have not added the ability.
Why not? Clinton staffers removed the "W" key from many keyboards before they left.
That would suck. Imagine hundreds of geeks getting a box in the mail from NewEgg filled with a product you have no use for.
No, we don't. Usually a single circuit on the breaker panel will coincide to one or maybe two rooms of the house (depending on the size of the rooms and their intended usage). And there will be separate circuits for individual outlets meant for major appliances (refrigerators, stoves, washer/dryers, central heating/cooling).
Damn you! I was going to say they're waiting for the checks to clear the bank. :-)
Remember old beige Macintoshes? The monitor power actually ran through the computer, so when you shut down the machine the monitor was powered down, too.
One of those nice little touches we lost on the way to cost cutting and standardization with the PC industry.
Blackle seems to say differently. And people have done the math.
"Now, Mr. Telco, you be good now and don't destroy any of those documents that may incriminate you in the future, okay? We don't know what documents you have, but we'll ask you to not shred them until we actually can proceed to ask you for them."
Really why is the system set up this way? It's like telling a suspected murderer to please not dispose of the murder weapon if he has it until the prosecutor can get a search warrant.
Especially when in the "Technology" segment immediately following is a thinly veiled marketing segment for the latest gadget or website.
If you were wise enough to make backups of the DRMed files, you should have made a backup of your iTunes library file, which I believe might hold the authorization rights.
Well, since iTunes doesn't verify you have rights to the songs with Apple's servers every time you play them, unlike these MLB clips, nothing would happen.
If your hard drive got corrupted and you had to reinstall everything, you aren't allowed to redownload the lost files. Just like if your house burns down the record companies don't have to replace your crispy CDs.
Argh! Atrocious!
I, for one, welcome our unlikely superheros.
Established industry company blasts another company's initiative to become a competitor in the same market. Film at 11!
That's funny. I thought RFID was electronic tagging.
I know, I know. You meant in the person's body, not their clothing. We can defeat this program with some carefully placed rumors of kidnappers wrapping kids in tinfoil before running off with them.
No, ladies. Skipping class is easy! All you have to do is take off your shirts.
We could leave more room for other stories if we just ran more more titled simply "U.S. Consumers Clueless"
I'm more interested in how it protects in a head-on collision. I guess it's supposed to deflect the car over the arched windshield and rounded fenders, because there is no front bumper, let alone any sort of crumple zone. A car sitting as low as those would (looking at the wheel size) would have the driver kissing the front grill of any medium size SUV.