You are naive if you think FCC will: 1. read your comments. 2. Refuse anything to MPAA. Listen carefully, this FCC is already "bought for", and is staying bought. Nothing you fools write to FCC will bring about any action against any MPAA/RIAA members. In fact it will twisted by FCC to support MPAA and i can see the FCC commissioner saying the outpouring of support for MPAA via their website is what forced FCC to allow MPAA to remotely block DVR from recording anything. If you bought a DVR; good luck using it, and am sorry to see you are throwing your money away.
Because, it is NOT a fact until it is proven. Like Bush stating with absolute certainity that Intelligent Design is what happened and that T-Rex was once a vegetarian. Its is not a Fact until it is proven. Why do we keep repeating the same chemical and physics experiments in school each year, even though it is known mixing H2So4 and Zinc will give you the same thing again and again. (PS: yes, i had to drag Bush into this controversy somehow. This is after all slashdot)
Unlikely, but could be true. I remember one ST:Voyager episode which sees Janeway coming across a secret matter which the Borg considered as "God". The civilization that tried to produce the same was wiped out. Possibly some blackholes, the small ones, are the result of such mis-guided experiments. And we might the next in line...If so, we will never live to see the downfall from grace of the american power.
Yes and No. IRS expects tax to be paid by the due date. Filing the return can get infinitely delayed. The IRS is interested only in your money, not in your scribbles.
Oh... Sorry, Sorry. I didn't know that. But then if a company uses products under GPL license, it can be sued by any developer who wrote a part of the code and force it to open the source code fully. After all a license becomes a legal contract when accepted by the company.
Panther was a shameless copy of T-34??? Not really. Yes, the Germans towed T-34 back to Germany and did reverse engineer it. But apart from the slope armor, the Panther was as alien as it will be today when compared to Israel's Merkava. The Panther was larger, had IR, quick start Petrol engine (flammable), and better crew spaces was faster.
Most of the USSR's manufacturing capabilities was in Europe, yes part of Russia is part of Europe. They were in Europe. Hitler forced them to relocate to East. Had japanese even staged a small attack, Stalin would have panicked to retain atleast major divisions in East, thus allowing Moscow to fall. Fall of Moscow would be psychologically devastating as Paris showed. The Japanese betrayed Hitler after he asked to invade from East. But that fool indulged them by declaring war against US after Pearl Harbor. Hmmm.. with allies like that, who needs enemies.
Really??? I thought GPL only forced you share the source code for any changes you may make to the source code supplied to you. Otherwise many banks which use Struts will have to provide source code to their whole online banking suites and thus enable many more 'legal' citibank-like cracks.
You are reading waaay too much into it as a conspiracy. Like Pearl Harbor. True, there were serious lapses: Yes the radar operators in Hawaii did report a large fleet of planes the station-in-charge asked for confirmation. But sheer foolishness, blindness could not be construed as sinister. Stalin thought like that and his regime almost collapsed (and yes, if the japanese had attacked in the East, USSR would have ceased to exist).
True. Very True. Opera 9.5 is the fastest browser i have seen. Firefox has features, but speed belongs to Opera. Plus Opera never crashes. Firefox 3.0 crashed two times in two days,
Or betray it before he even gets elected ? Ya, that bastard already betrayed you. Somehow i think McCain is a better candidate than Obama: Straight-shooter, doesn't lie, and is experienced.
God save us from their president. Excellent choice of words. My government repealed its anti-terror law, because, surprise, the communists think it violates citizen rights. The press is not controlled by corporates and we do have periodical 'outbreaks' of various scams like money-for-parliment-vote, etc., which resulted in expulsion of MPs. In fact various news channels vie with each other for such break-through corruption, , scandals, etc. Each day i open my newspaper i read only bad news first: criticism of policies, the central bank, inflation and stuff. In fact a telecom spying scandal broke out and a minister was forced to resign. The good news is rarely reported. I guess if the papers in a country are full of good news, then the jails of the country must be full of good people -:)
And the Supreme Court kicks the government's ass on various matters not to mention direct censuring and castration of the government-:) BUT, now the bad things: Rule of law is very thin, and someone who pokes his nose too often disappears.
Even Swedes are up in arms against the government for spying on them shamelessly.
You all talk here and you leave out streets and the congressmen. I bet a month's salary (to be donated to ACLU) that the bill WILL pass. Because none of you guys protested like your dads and moms did during Vietnam War. Sitting on your collective asses will not achieve anything. God save you guys from your president.
much larger community of far more intelligent people punching out code to circumvent these restrictions. True. All true. And how many would be risking jail to download and use the same? How good is it if you have a printing press, when all the roads out of your press are monitored by cops?
Didn't you know that it's "the year of the Linux desktop" every year until then. I assume you were being sarcastic...
All they'll end up with is a DDOS attack on their legal system... and you will end up in Gitmo for 25 years... The era of ParMaster is long gone. Nowadays hackers even in EU are too scared. After all if Habeus Corpus can be rejected, your simple act of hacking will end up serving 38 years in a Prison: Take the example of a student who hacked to increase his own grades).
Wrong. Media can and will win this war against consumers.
In 20 years i can guarantee that your Digital TV will only play legal DVD/HD/BD. Any self-burnt DVDs of Doctor Who you download will never even play. Each DVD/BD/ will have a RFID inside which will inform the Player it can play. Absent the chip, the player will not play. Much like the present "Wrong Region" messages you find on an US DVD Player. Oh, and each set of Blank DVD you buy at Tesco will NOT contain RFID and will work only on PCs/Macs for storage. Slowly but surely, the old tyme VCRs, DVD Players will fade away giving rise to machines running Windows CE ver 2020 which will deduct credit from your pre-paid DVD account every time you play American Pie or some other BD. Oh, and when you buy a DVD player, you need to buy a subscription for a specific amount: $100/year. Each time you buy a DVD you will $19.99, and viewing charges of $0.95/time which gets deducted from the DVD Player's prepaid amount. If your player has run out of credit, you either buy credit online & type the charge code into your player (which will authenticate over net), or use the crappy browser of the player to recharge so that you could watch the latest Netflix DVD that came in.
Interesting so far? Now, lets take it a step further: By 2035, players and screens will merge with cameras to form a single entertainment station. If you want to watch the latest blockbuster featuring Jessica's Alba's daughter, you can have a choice of viewing: DVD quality: $15.99, BD: $29.99, XDVD: $39.99 ONCE. The best thing is you need to pay this amount for EACH viewer who is going to view it and add their profiles to the Approved Viewer List of the station. Once done, irrespective of whether all viewers are in place, the movie will start. If someone, who is not authorised, enters the viewing area/sound area, the movie will stop and flash a message asking if you want to add one more viewer at a discounted price of $29.99 (with a timeout button defaulting to "Debit" within 10 seconds). If you select No, the movie will vanish from your screen and will not reappear until the person moves out. (Support will have a field day getting calls from viewers who were unable to resume the picture after the person moved away).
This supreme court will bend over and bare its collective back when the law passes. After all it arrested and convicted those who protested FOR Free Speech in its own lawn. EFF and ACLU run a serious risk of being disbanded if they chose to challenge the [passed] law in Supreme Court. I say contribute for Cindy Sheehan and make her defeat Pelosi. That will teach Pelosi a lesson.
dont think it is ethical to hang a company Ethical!!! Are you crazy? You are dealing with corporations. They have no ethics when it comes to ratting out your personal information to any marketer and forcing you to opt out. Corporation did NOT follow law when spying on you. They MUST be prosecuted under law, convicted and if necessary disbanded by force. After all if i spy on your telephone i will get 38 years in Jail. So muct the corporation: 38 years of suspension of operations, and none of its board and CEOs can work again for that time. Alternately propose that the board be behind bars for 38 years including CEO, etc.
But am afraid this law will pass. Much like Sweden's law even in face of heavy protest. In fact i bet a month's salary (to be donated to ACLU) this law will pass and grant immunity to telecoms.
After 9/11 the governments are moving to Big Brother since it gives them a very good reason to sidestep ACLU and like.
Marshal Stalin will be pleased and so would be Beria. Why can't we resurrect them both: They would make good leaders again.
Well the Soviets actually won the Battle of Kursk True, strategically Soviets won that battle. Tactically the Wehrmacht and SS Hitler Panzer divisions won every engagement fought in the battle at heavy cost, but strategically the Soviet Army won that battle front. As you have rightly pointed out 55,000 T-34s did make a statement. Stalin did make that memorable statement: "Quantity has a quality of its own". German panzer tactics were superior, but numbers ground them down. Luftwaffe Stukas did blast a two-kilometer wide hole in soviet ranks, but soviet aircraft made sure the hole would never be exploited. And the Wehrmacht workshops in Germany did not much help as each damaged tank had to be railroaded back to Germany. If only Albert Speer had been given control of production in 1930s, the outcome would be very different. Yes, you are right. Soviets did win the strategic battle: After that battle, Wehrmacht would never regain its numerical superiority against Soviets.
What saved them were the new and vastly superior T-34 Nope. What saved them was their ability to relocate the whole factories from behind enemy lines. Its true that Germans did not have T-34/76 equivalent during 1941. But there were not enough T-34 for the Germans to kill either. By 1943, The german Tiger and Panther were more than a match for T-34/76. And as the Battle of Kursk proved, the T-34 was inadequate to save the soviet butts. The Tiger's 88mm gun coupled with 88mm Flak battery was more than a match for the T-34. By 1944 the battle had swung in Soviet favor largely due to Fuhrers Standing Orders which enabled Stalin to capture millions of Wehrmacht POWs and thus essentially render Wehmarcht as a useless force.
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You are naive if you think FCC will:
1. read your comments.
2. Refuse anything to MPAA.
Listen carefully, this FCC is already "bought for", and is staying bought.
Nothing you fools write to FCC will bring about any action against any MPAA/RIAA members.
In fact it will twisted by FCC to support MPAA and i can see the FCC commissioner saying the outpouring of support for MPAA via their website is what forced FCC to allow MPAA to remotely block DVR from recording anything.
If you bought a DVR; good luck using it, and am sorry to see you are throwing your money away.
Thanks. I just bought it on ebookmall and finished reading it.
Good story. No wonder it won the Hugo prize. Simple, good and immensely thrilling.
Because, it is NOT a fact until it is proven.
Like Bush stating with absolute certainity that Intelligent Design is what happened and that T-Rex was once a vegetarian. Its is not a Fact until it is proven.
Why do we keep repeating the same chemical and physics experiments in school each year, even though it is known mixing H2So4 and Zinc will give you the same thing again and again.
(PS: yes, i had to drag Bush into this controversy somehow. This is after all slashdot)
Unlikely, but could be true. I remember one ST:Voyager episode which sees Janeway coming across a secret matter which the Borg considered as "God". The civilization that tried to produce the same was wiped out.
Possibly some blackholes, the small ones, are the result of such mis-guided experiments.
And we might the next in line...If so, we will never live to see the downfall from grace of the american power.
Yes and No. IRS expects tax to be paid by the due date. Filing the return can get infinitely delayed.
The IRS is interested only in your money, not in your scribbles.
Oh... Sorry, Sorry.
I didn't know that.
But then if a company uses products under GPL license, it can be sued by any developer who wrote a part of the code and force it to open the source code fully.
After all a license becomes a legal contract when accepted by the company.
Panther was a shameless copy of T-34???
Not really.
Yes, the Germans towed T-34 back to Germany and did reverse engineer it.
But apart from the slope armor, the Panther was as alien as it will be today when compared to Israel's Merkava.
The Panther was larger, had IR, quick start Petrol engine (flammable), and better crew spaces was faster.
Hitler forced them to relocate to East.
Had japanese even staged a small attack, Stalin would have panicked to retain atleast major divisions in East, thus allowing Moscow to fall.
Fall of Moscow would be psychologically devastating as Paris showed.
The Japanese betrayed Hitler after he asked to invade from East. But that fool indulged them by declaring war against US after Pearl Harbor.
Hmmm.. with allies like that, who needs enemies.
Really???
I thought GPL only forced you share the source code for any changes you may make to the source code supplied to you.
Otherwise many banks which use Struts will have to provide source code to their whole online banking suites and thus enable many more 'legal' citibank-like cracks.
You are reading waaay too much into it as a conspiracy.
Like Pearl Harbor.
True, there were serious lapses: Yes the radar operators in Hawaii did report a large fleet of planes the station-in-charge asked for confirmation.
But sheer foolishness, blindness could not be construed as sinister.
Stalin thought like that and his regime almost collapsed (and yes, if the japanese had attacked in the East, USSR would have ceased to exist).
True. Very True.
Opera 9.5 is the fastest browser i have seen.
Firefox has features, but speed belongs to Opera.
Plus Opera never crashes.
Firefox 3.0 crashed two times in two days,
That WAS meant to be sarcastic.
Please go ahead. We have just bought immunity. MWhaaaaa!!!
Somehow i think McCain is a better candidate than Obama: Straight-shooter, doesn't lie, and is experienced.
No. Anyone who votes against this bill is made sure that he never receives campaign funds from telecoms.
My government repealed its anti-terror law, because, surprise, the communists think it violates citizen rights.
The press is not controlled by corporates and we do have periodical 'outbreaks' of various scams like money-for-parliment-vote, etc., which resulted in expulsion of MPs. In fact various news channels vie with each other for such break-through corruption, , scandals, etc. Each day i open my newspaper i read only bad news first: criticism of policies, the central bank, inflation and stuff. In fact a telecom spying scandal broke out and a minister was forced to resign. The good news is rarely reported.
I guess if the papers in a country are full of good news, then the jails of the country must be full of good people -:)
And the Supreme Court kicks the government's ass on various matters not to mention direct censuring and castration of the government-:)
BUT, now the bad things: Rule of law is very thin, and someone who pokes his nose too often disappears.
Even Swedes are up in arms against the government for spying on them shamelessly.
You all talk here and you leave out streets and the congressmen.
I bet a month's salary (to be donated to ACLU) that the bill WILL pass.
Because none of you guys protested like your dads and moms did during Vietnam War.
Sitting on your collective asses will not achieve anything.
God save you guys from your president.
And how many would be risking jail to download and use the same?
How good is it if you have a printing press, when all the roads out of your press are monitored by cops? Didn't you know that it's "the year of the Linux desktop" every year until then. I assume you were being sarcastic...
The era of ParMaster is long gone. Nowadays hackers even in EU are too scared. After all if Habeus Corpus can be rejected, your simple act of hacking will end up serving 38 years in a Prison: Take the example of a student who hacked to increase his own grades).
Wrong.
Media can and will win this war against consumers.
In 20 years i can guarantee that your Digital TV will only play legal DVD/HD/BD. Any self-burnt DVDs of Doctor Who you download will never even play. Each DVD/BD/ will have a RFID inside which will inform the Player it can play. Absent the chip, the player will not play.
Much like the present "Wrong Region" messages you find on an US DVD Player. Oh, and each set of Blank DVD you buy at Tesco will NOT contain RFID and will work only on PCs/Macs for storage.
Slowly but surely, the old tyme VCRs, DVD Players will fade away giving rise to machines running Windows CE ver 2020 which will deduct credit from your pre-paid DVD account every time you play American Pie or some other BD.
Oh, and when you buy a DVD player, you need to buy a subscription for a specific amount: $100/year. Each time you buy a DVD you will $19.99, and viewing charges of $0.95/time which gets deducted from the DVD Player's prepaid amount.
If your player has run out of credit, you either buy credit online & type the charge code into your player (which will authenticate over net), or use the crappy browser of the player to recharge so that you could watch the latest Netflix DVD that came in.
Interesting so far?
Now, lets take it a step further:
By 2035, players and screens will merge with cameras to form a single entertainment station. If you want to watch the latest blockbuster featuring Jessica's Alba's daughter, you can have a choice of viewing: DVD quality: $15.99, BD: $29.99, XDVD: $39.99 ONCE. The best thing is you need to pay this amount for EACH viewer who is going to view it and add their profiles to the Approved Viewer List of the station.
Once done, irrespective of whether all viewers are in place, the movie will start.
If someone, who is not authorised, enters the viewing area/sound area, the movie will stop and flash a message asking if you want to add one more viewer at a discounted price of $29.99 (with a timeout button defaulting to "Debit" within 10 seconds). If you select No, the movie will vanish from your screen and will not reappear until the person moves out.
(Support will have a field day getting calls from viewers who were unable to resume the picture after the person moved away).
This supreme court will bend over and bare its collective back when the law passes.
After all it arrested and convicted those who protested FOR Free Speech in its own lawn.
EFF and ACLU run a serious risk of being disbanded if they chose to challenge the [passed] law in Supreme Court.
I say contribute for Cindy Sheehan and make her defeat Pelosi. That will teach Pelosi a lesson.
Corporation did NOT follow law when spying on you. They MUST be prosecuted under law, convicted and if necessary disbanded by force. After all if i spy on your telephone i will get 38 years in Jail. So muct the corporation: 38 years of suspension of operations, and none of its board and CEOs can work again for that time. Alternately propose that the board be behind bars for 38 years including CEO, etc.
But am afraid this law will pass. Much like Sweden's law even in face of heavy protest. In fact i bet a month's salary (to be donated to ACLU) this law will pass and grant immunity to telecoms.
After 9/11 the governments are moving to Big Brother since it gives them a very good reason to sidestep ACLU and like.
Marshal Stalin will be pleased and so would be Beria. Why can't we resurrect them both: They would make good leaders again.
Tactically the Wehrmacht and SS Hitler Panzer divisions won every engagement fought in the battle at heavy cost, but strategically the Soviet Army won that battle front.
As you have rightly pointed out 55,000 T-34s did make a statement. Stalin did make that memorable statement: "Quantity has a quality of its own".
German panzer tactics were superior, but numbers ground them down.
Luftwaffe Stukas did blast a two-kilometer wide hole in soviet ranks, but soviet aircraft made sure the hole would never be exploited.
And the Wehrmacht workshops in Germany did not much help as each damaged tank had to be railroaded back to Germany.
If only Albert Speer had been given control of production in 1930s, the outcome would be very different.
Yes, you are right. Soviets did win the strategic battle: After that battle, Wehrmacht would never regain its numerical superiority against Soviets.
Its true that Germans did not have T-34/76 equivalent during 1941. But there were not enough T-34 for the Germans to kill either.
By 1943, The german Tiger and Panther were more than a match for T-34/76. And as the Battle of Kursk proved, the T-34 was inadequate to save the soviet butts.
The Tiger's 88mm gun coupled with 88mm Flak battery was more than a match for the T-34.
By 1944 the battle had swung in Soviet favor largely due to Fuhrers Standing Orders which enabled Stalin to capture millions of Wehrmacht POWs and thus essentially render Wehmarcht as a useless force.