"The Recording Industry Association of America welcomed the report. RIAA chairman Mitch Bainwol said the 'commitment of focus, energy and resources outlined in this report is music to our ears.'"
>Didn't Willie Nelson do a series of commercials for
>XM a while back about how it allowed him to listen
>to music freely whenever and wherever he wanted?
>Or how dissenting voices regarding the Iraq invasion were barely heard?
They were heard all the time, they just didn't make any convincing arguments. There wasn't a day that went by that I didn't see "protestors" in a newspaper, etc. The only problem was they were saying "Bush=Hitler" and "Oil Grab", nobody was saying they didn't have WMD, didn't hear it from France, Germany, Arab states, etc. If the best statement a person could give was to call a person another name (and extreme at that) with no facts you WILL get ignored.
Actually there were plenty of people saying that they needed to see more evidence of WMD before goint to war. The NY Times admitted recently that many of these articles were given less prominent space than articles that just reported the facts on the war effort. Here a some link for you::http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/st ory/0,7792,857271,00.html>
>Or how every "history" movie (especially WWII) is ahistoric and highly pro-American. With the exception of Vietnam movies.
So you are saying that to be liberal you've got to be anti-american? That america should have actually lost those wars?
When did he say that? Or are you just trying to discredit him through bad argument? He simply said that you don't have to be pro-American all the time, you can expose some of the problems with our efforts. Self-criticism can be used for the betterment of the country. Pro- and anti- are strong opposites, but not everyone has to be as polar, as you'd like to make it seem.
I don't think the parent post is a troll; it is actually slightly insightful.
The problem is that even if the players in the display industry are the ones pushing OLEDs, someone has to take the first step and the first chance at being burned. Also, you still have to convince the consumer that the new product you're unveiling is better than your old one AND the current product of all the other big players. People don't (or shouldn't?) buy new things that are perceived as inferior.
1. If you have to "say your password" at each atm to use your card, isn't that less save? Now they have to put up a cam and find a way to copy your card. (pin / card). A cam seems harder to install then a audio recording device.(the article states there is a high accuracy recording of the voice needed, which is possible so to be considered)
Don't we already have problems with rogue ATMs that log all your information for misuse? Imagine now recording everyone's voiceprint and their secret password. Somehow this sounds like data just asking to be misused.
How many people will use the same email/ISP password in the credit card so they don't forget it? Then there goes security as anyone and everyone reads their passwords aloud.
>Two, DDOS and many other types/styles of web
>attacks, which dont need to break security can
>easily be driected at say the midwestern states, or
>the liberal states... rendering their sum vote
>count down, thus allowing the other states a
>greater showing.
The one redeeming part of the electoral college is that even if 1 person votes in a state, the state still gets equal representation in the outcome of the election. So, DDOS attacks wouldn't affect us on a state-by-state basis. But your point is intact if people were to perform DDoSes on liberal counties within a state.
You also have to factor in the time it takes to burn those DVDs. Much less time is spent dragging and dropping files into an FTP GUI than swapping 2.5 million DVDs in your drive.
If I can reply to my own comment...
As far as I understand, HBO self-regulates (in a way) in order to keep the government from taking an interest in their operation. I'm sure that XM radio would be similarly interested in keeping regulation off their back. If ClearChannel is riding them about what they're doing with traffic and weather, it would probably be in their best interest not to draw further fire with the Howard Stern show.
But I'm not a business executive.
Or, for an already-common analogy, how many people paid extra fees to use on a dual-CPU box (most commercial software includes provisions limiting its use to on a per-CPU basis as well)? Answer? No one. Even businesses usually overlook that one, for "mere" duals.
Actually Windows 2000/XP's license allows it to be used on 1 or 2 CPU machines.
They're likely referring to the demographics of the neighborhood (or at least who drives through it). That's simple given that they own radio stations in each area and probably already understand the demographics of their audience. (Or, it's not so simple if they're truely targetting demographics on a billboard by billboard level.)
Automated theorem provers have been around for a long time, if you can express your thoughts using first order logic. Here's a program from 1986...
lisp code
Slashdot Mirror
Be careful, that's what got Bush re-elected in the first place.
The funny thing about this redundancy is that we all posted within a minute of another...
Apparently you haven't been watching TV! :)
I don't think the parent post is a troll; it is actually slightly insightful. The problem is that even if the players in the display industry are the ones pushing OLEDs, someone has to take the first step and the first chance at being burned. Also, you still have to convince the consumer that the new product you're unveiling is better than your old one AND the current product of all the other big players. People don't (or shouldn't?) buy new things that are perceived as inferior.
Doesn't this remind you of the police station in that movie? Next we'll have tickets automatically being printed out of our parking meters.
Cellphones used to bring down the wireless network too at my school.
1. If you have to "say your password" at each atm to use your card, isn't that less save? Now they have to put up a cam and find a way to copy your card. (pin / card). A cam seems harder to install then a audio recording device.(the article states there is a high accuracy recording of the voice needed, which is possible so to be considered) Don't we already have problems with rogue ATMs that log all your information for misuse? Imagine now recording everyone's voiceprint and their secret password. Somehow this sounds like data just asking to be misused.
How many people will use the same email/ISP password in the credit card so they don't forget it? Then there goes security as anyone and everyone reads their passwords aloud.
>attacks, which dont need to break security can
>easily be driected at say the midwestern states, or
>the liberal states... rendering their sum vote
>count down, thus allowing the other states a
>greater showing.
The one redeeming part of the electoral college is that even if 1 person votes in a state, the state still gets equal representation in the outcome of the election. So, DDOS attacks wouldn't affect us on a state-by-state basis. But your point is intact if people were to perform DDoSes on liberal counties within a state.
"so the capacity is 2,563,701 DVDs."
You also have to factor in the time it takes to burn those DVDs. Much less time is spent dragging and dropping files into an FTP GUI than swapping 2.5 million DVDs in your drive.
This comment was in response to a poster saying that ClearChannel has been running ads bemoaning the problems with satellite radio...
The point, which seems to be misunderstood from the score, is that its akin to the RIAA/MPAA.
If I can reply to my own comment... As far as I understand, HBO self-regulates (in a way) in order to keep the government from taking an interest in their operation. I'm sure that XM radio would be similarly interested in keeping regulation off their back. If ClearChannel is riding them about what they're doing with traffic and weather, it would probably be in their best interest not to draw further fire with the Howard Stern show. But I'm not a business executive.
Are they the same problems that affect the "little guy" like the stunt man and the costume designers?
Is XM regulated by the FCC? Could they carry Howard Stern? That'd be a great way to sock it to ClearChannel.
Or, for an already-common analogy, how many people paid extra fees to use on a dual-CPU box (most commercial software includes provisions limiting its use to on a per-CPU basis as well)? Answer? No one. Even businesses usually overlook that one, for "mere" duals. Actually Windows 2000/XP's license allows it to be used on 1 or 2 CPU machines.
I wonder if a browser cache of Slashdot would be tantamount to illegal recording of a conversation...
They're likely referring to the demographics of the neighborhood (or at least who drives through it). That's simple given that they own radio stations in each area and probably already understand the demographics of their audience. (Or, it's not so simple if they're truely targetting demographics on a billboard by billboard level.)
Maybe now that we're experts in Martian exploration we can send one of these to Iraq to finally find the WMDs or to SCO to locate the infringing code.
I guess one lucky winner will have his/her e-mail address published on AOL's page... ;)
Can't wait to test this product's robustness on the South Park DVDs... ;)
Wonder if it overheats and explodes...
Automated theorem provers have been around for a long time, if you can express your thoughts using first order logic. Here's a program from 1986... lisp code