Every two years or so Voyager \d crosses the (heliosheath | heliopause | bow shock | edge of the cosmic wind | edge of the Oort cloud |... ) and this arbitrary boundary is used as a pretext to run off a press release.
Several of the compositions on the record are protected by master rights and were licensed specifically for the record, which is why you can't buy a CD of the Voyager Golden Record -- the recordings aren't licensed for sale.
You write wrapper functions into the sqlite VFS layer that encrypt and decrypt the file on accesses. It's actually very easy to do (never tried, but have read posts on it and all the hooks are there.)
Complete Paramount and Desilu film and television library, including all Star Trek syndicated TV and feature films.
Complete CBS and Viacom television library, Aaron Spelling's library, MTV, Showtime, TNT, SpikeTV...
Carolco catalogue: Total Recall, Terminator 2, LA Story, Oliver Stone's Stone's The Doors
Most of the Cannon Films library, which is sortof a laugh but has a ton of genre scifi films from the 80s that we love: Invasion, USA, Runaway Train, Cyborg etc.
The CW (heh!)
Basically anything with a Paramount logo on it after 1970. Depressingly, Paramount sold most of its back catalogue off in the 50s. It never held indefesible rights to the Alfred Hitchcock films it produced, those reverted to his estate (thank god).
Fox:
Any Alien film
Any Star Wars film (a mixed bag to be sure)
Any Predator film, any Die Hard film
20th TV, so Fringe, Firefly, 24, Family Guy, American Dad , Simpsons, etc.
Fox is huge hunk chunk of the contemporary adult library and makes a ton of good new content. Disney:
Any Pixar film
Basically any film made in the last 30 years you can take a 10 year old to see without worrying about what's in it
Bascially any film made previous to the last 30 years that a 10 year old would WANT to see
Touchstone: Dead Poets Society, almost anything Ron Howard made in the 80s, Wes Anderson's films, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Much Jerry Bruckheimer, through Touchstone of Hollywood Pictures: The Rock, Pirates of the Carribean, but older films like Con Air and The Ref to name only a few.
Hollywood Pictures, genre films of the 90s: Arachnophobia, etc.
These three studios control maybe half the modern library real estate. Warner Bros, controls basically the entire classic film library, Sony much of the remaining TV and both control most of the remaining franchises.
If you lend your car to Joe Bob Inc and then the company goes bust, what do you think will happen?
If you have a contract with Joe Bob stating that you are leasing it to them, or storing it on their property as part of a bailment, you retain title to the car and no one can attach it. If you are leaving your car with Joe Bob to get the bumpers refinished, and then they turn around and sell it in foreclosure sale, they've stolen your car. Merely "loaning" property to another does not give the other a right to sell it or convert it, that's larceny.
What the Internet might need is something like a Bill of Lading. Bills of Lading are just commercial contracts, but their terms are quite regulated and come from centuries of both state and private custom. The role of the state is to regularize the procedure and make sure it's easy to understand and that terms of the contact are always executed exactly as the contract states, so that there's no grey zone where the cloud vendor can appropriate your data or unilaterally change the price to access it.
If the data is personalized, maps names to genders, birthdates, SSNs, street addresses or phone numbers, the disposition of the data is a safety issue. Just a corner case.
I dunno, what do you tell the boss when it breaks? Normally the prospect of losing a vast store of data would make you desire a backup more, not less.
If you are just protecting against service provider default, you can backup you could data elsewhere on the cloud, ya know, as long as the data on A and A' are on machines owned by different people.
OTOH, if you're storing tens of terabytes of data and gigs of diffs, are you sure you couldn't come up with a cheaper solution than a cloud provider in your closet at the shop? For over a certain dataset size, access rate, and data asset value, the cost of maintaining the data versus the cost of losing it versus the cost of indemnifying it against different kinds of losses makes keeping the server on your premises the best option.
A police officer enforcing a racist law for instance, should not be able to use the law as a defense.
Uh, if a policeman lives in a state with racist laws, and he does not wish to enforce those laws, he must resign, and if he enforces the law, it is the responsibility of the legislators. In a state like South Africa, racism was law: it was voted on by the small-r republican legislature of a completely legitimate sovereign government. You would now throw all of South Africa's police in jail, because the men at the top who write the laws were voted out of office, and what they fought for and believed in had suddenly become illegal? This is why South Africa had a Truth and Reconciliation commission, and most of the police, though they were racist and did very bad things, were not brought to account -- it would have been monstrous and unfair to people who were only trying to act lawfully and uphold the order of their state, such as it was.
A policeman can never exercise judgement on the legitimacy of laws, otherwise you're simply trading a racist legislature for a tyrannical police. Saying that a policeman shouldn't be able to use a racist law to defend his racist action means that he is obligated to judge laws, because he'll be the one thrown in jail when the political winds suddenly blow the other direction. Orders are different because the war ends, people leave the army, and orders can only bind soldiers -- a state is for legal purposes eternal and plenary, its laws apply to all on the soil, and there is no ability to escape its jurisdiction, short of emigration.
This is how Germany research assassinations work (Max Planck, Fraunhofer, Leibniz, UFZ, Helmholz, etc...) and to a lower degree how Mexico works (Cinvestav).
Typo of the day. I myself belong to several professional defenestrations and get my health care through a unabomber.
That is not what this is about, what this is about is how they treated him.
You were happy to characterize it as "orders are orders" as long as the AC was claiming they were acting under orders, and now you say it's not about orders at all. Maybe your original argument was a little obnoxious?
No law says that suspects are to be assaulted and cursed at or called derogatory names.
No law entitles suspects to courtesy and a juice box, either. There are two forces at work here: first, police are militarized by the constant drumbeat of anti-terrorism, happily fueled by our own people, and second, the crime of pedophilia is basically considered the mark of Cain, people never escape the accusation and people who are convicted, even after being released from prison, are reduced to subhuman existence. If you were to conduct these raids in a humane or at least civilized manner, you might accidently treat a pedophile like a human being, and no one wants to take that chance...:)
Police don't follow orders, they enforce laws. An order is not a law -- a soldier cannot be ordered to do something unlawful, but there is no such thing as an "unlawful law," particularly one that is adopted through completely normal constitutional action.
Are we really going to hold police responsible for the laws they enforce, when we ourselves vote for our legislators, and often times actually vote for our laws through propositions? If you're going to hold the police responsible for the laws they enforce, then they must have the right to decline to enforce laws they believe are unpopular. Do you really want policemen, from ICE agents to county sheriffs, deciding what laws are "proper" and which aren't?
and will probably remain that way until more citizens start greeting these home invasions with kinetic resistance.
I somehow doubt that kinetic resistance (ie. murder people, er "washing away blood with blood") will cause police to back down; and I for one would not be crazy about living in a city where somebody other than the police is able to bring sufficient "kinetic resistance" to settle disputes. It'd probably be more useful to cut that "homeland security" grant they used to buy their guns, vests, training, mobile incident response unit... They assault houses because they fancy themselves soldiers, and a lot of them have been, as a matter of fact.
They've gotten lazy, really. They can't just wait until the guy gets in his car and pulls out of his driveway?
If the cell nearest you is saturated with other subscribers, your phone will find a cell with the next-best reception; that cell may be further away and you might have a worse connection. If a particular network of cells is oversubscribed, in a high-density at busy times there's a good chance you're connecting over an un-ideal cell because the closest one is busy.
Hrm. The Netflix web client uses Silverlight, that's sorta the point -- more people use the Silverlight route (or HTPC route) than a Roku. Stated as a happy Roku owner, but I know I'm in a minority, just as all principled Silverlight abstainers should know they are in a minority.
The iTunes Store costs a billion dollars to run, and that was just last year. I think you underestimate how much of that money goes straight back to the content owners. For every piece of licensed music Apple keeps only pennies, and the store's most bandwidth-intensive operation, shipping iOS updates, receives no income.
Just like you don't HAVE to include HP's printers that run Android, or the MP3 players that run Android, or the e-readers that run Android, or the Sony TVs that run Android.
It depends on what you're trying to prove. HP printers and Nooks don't allow you to install 3rd-party apps, unless you're a ricer and you modify them. I work for Sony, I don't know what those TVs run, but if it's Android (maybe you mean Google TV?) it isn't the kind of Android you can buy apps for. If you're a mobile developer the total share of the addressable app market is the most important number. HP printers, STBs (including Apple TV) and ROM-locked e-readers aren't your customers, but iPad and iPod touch owners are.
Unless you're a location-based app developer, in which case your platform needs GPS and thus you're not interested in iPod touches and most iPads.
Unless you're an audio-based app developer, in which case iOS's APIs are better.
Unless you're a modder writing a system utility, in which case Android (apart from most Android phone manufacturers) gives you more options.
Unless you're an ISV that wants better access to paying customers and wants platform DRM, in which case iOS is your man.
And on and on. Market share won't decide the "winner" of this market like Windows won in the 90s, the network effects just aren't the same: developers are cheaper and making multiple versions of an app is much easier, data formats all pass over the web now and platform specific data formats are dead.
In the US this is true, at least as far as we know about Apple and AT&T, but Verizon/Apple have never disclosed their backend deal, and we don't know what happens anywhere else.
Don't let anybody ever tell you you ask confusing, non-sequitir questions, Talderas. You just keep shining on, making sense of the world the way you see it, and maybe someday they'll let you use the scissors with the pointy ends.
Keep in mind that these numbers are not simply based on how many iPhones have sold. The 50% number includes "Related Products and Services" such as carrier agreements, services, and accessories. Anything brought from the App Store is classified as iTunes revenue. iPod Touch and the iPad were not calculated as a part of the iPhone revenue.
And/or I think you're claiming that alternative SSO systems could be worse, but I'm claiming its already as bad as it can be. Unless I summarized you wrong, there's probably nothing else to do but civilly agree to disagree and wish you a happy day.
Authentication and SSO are the new horizon in Internet rentier economy, the only thing that'll keep consumers on an equal footing are rules for what information can and cannot be collected, and rules requiring everyone have equal access.
Don't know about GOOG and Facebook, but I've done SSL business with Verisign a few times in the past, and all they wanted for SSL certs was cold hard cash.
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Every two years or so Voyager \d crosses the (heliosheath | heliopause | bow shock | edge of the cosmic wind | edge of the Oort cloud | ... ) and this arbitrary boundary is used as a pretext to run off a press release.
Several of the compositions on the record are protected by master rights and were licensed specifically for the record, which is why you can't buy a CD of the Voyager Golden Record -- the recordings aren't licensed for sale.
RIAA doesn't own the copyright to any music.
That was a Pioneer -- the Voyagers don't have pictures of nekkid people bolted directly to the side.
You write wrapper functions into the sqlite VFS layer that encrypt and decrypt the file on accesses. It's actually very easy to do (never tried, but have read posts on it and all the hooks are there.)
Actually TNT is Warner Bros., sorry!
Paramount:
Fox:
Fox is huge hunk chunk of the contemporary adult library and makes a ton of good new content. Disney:
These three studios control maybe half the modern library real estate. Warner Bros, controls basically the entire classic film library, Sony much of the remaining TV and both control most of the remaining franchises.
If you have a contract with Joe Bob stating that you are leasing it to them, or storing it on their property as part of a bailment, you retain title to the car and no one can attach it. If you are leaving your car with Joe Bob to get the bumpers refinished, and then they turn around and sell it in foreclosure sale, they've stolen your car. Merely "loaning" property to another does not give the other a right to sell it or convert it, that's larceny.
What the Internet might need is something like a Bill of Lading. Bills of Lading are just commercial contracts, but their terms are quite regulated and come from centuries of both state and private custom. The role of the state is to regularize the procedure and make sure it's easy to understand and that terms of the contact are always executed exactly as the contract states, so that there's no grey zone where the cloud vendor can appropriate your data or unilaterally change the price to access it.
If the data is personalized, maps names to genders, birthdates, SSNs, street addresses or phone numbers, the disposition of the data is a safety issue. Just a corner case.
I dunno, what do you tell the boss when it breaks? Normally the prospect of losing a vast store of data would make you desire a backup more, not less.
If you are just protecting against service provider default, you can backup you could data elsewhere on the cloud, ya know, as long as the data on A and A' are on machines owned by different people.
OTOH, if you're storing tens of terabytes of data and gigs of diffs, are you sure you couldn't come up with a cheaper solution than a cloud provider in your closet at the shop? For over a certain dataset size, access rate, and data asset value, the cost of maintaining the data versus the cost of losing it versus the cost of indemnifying it against different kinds of losses makes keeping the server on your premises the best option.
Uh, if a policeman lives in a state with racist laws, and he does not wish to enforce those laws, he must resign, and if he enforces the law, it is the responsibility of the legislators. In a state like South Africa, racism was law: it was voted on by the small-r republican legislature of a completely legitimate sovereign government. You would now throw all of South Africa's police in jail, because the men at the top who write the laws were voted out of office, and what they fought for and believed in had suddenly become illegal? This is why South Africa had a Truth and Reconciliation commission, and most of the police, though they were racist and did very bad things, were not brought to account -- it would have been monstrous and unfair to people who were only trying to act lawfully and uphold the order of their state, such as it was.
A policeman can never exercise judgement on the legitimacy of laws, otherwise you're simply trading a racist legislature for a tyrannical police. Saying that a policeman shouldn't be able to use a racist law to defend his racist action means that he is obligated to judge laws, because he'll be the one thrown in jail when the political winds suddenly blow the other direction. Orders are different because the war ends, people leave the army, and orders can only bind soldiers -- a state is for legal purposes eternal and plenary, its laws apply to all on the soil, and there is no ability to escape its jurisdiction, short of emigration.
Typo of the day. I myself belong to several professional defenestrations and get my health care through a unabomber.
You were happy to characterize it as "orders are orders" as long as the AC was claiming they were acting under orders, and now you say it's not about orders at all. Maybe your original argument was a little obnoxious?
No law entitles suspects to courtesy and a juice box, either. There are two forces at work here: first, police are militarized by the constant drumbeat of anti-terrorism, happily fueled by our own people, and second, the crime of pedophilia is basically considered the mark of Cain, people never escape the accusation and people who are convicted, even after being released from prison, are reduced to subhuman existence. If you were to conduct these raids in a humane or at least civilized manner, you might accidently treat a pedophile like a human being, and no one wants to take that chance... :)
Police don't follow orders, they enforce laws. An order is not a law -- a soldier cannot be ordered to do something unlawful, but there is no such thing as an "unlawful law," particularly one that is adopted through completely normal constitutional action.
Are we really going to hold police responsible for the laws they enforce, when we ourselves vote for our legislators, and often times actually vote for our laws through propositions? If you're going to hold the police responsible for the laws they enforce, then they must have the right to decline to enforce laws they believe are unpopular. Do you really want policemen, from ICE agents to county sheriffs, deciding what laws are "proper" and which aren't?
I somehow doubt that kinetic resistance (ie. murder people, er "washing away blood with blood") will cause police to back down; and I for one would not be crazy about living in a city where somebody other than the police is able to bring sufficient "kinetic resistance" to settle disputes. It'd probably be more useful to cut that "homeland security" grant they used to buy their guns, vests, training, mobile incident response unit... They assault houses because they fancy themselves soldiers, and a lot of them have been, as a matter of fact.
They've gotten lazy, really. They can't just wait until the guy gets in his car and pulls out of his driveway?
If the cell nearest you is saturated with other subscribers, your phone will find a cell with the next-best reception; that cell may be further away and you might have a worse connection. If a particular network of cells is oversubscribed, in a high-density at busy times there's a good chance you're connecting over an un-ideal cell because the closest one is busy.
Read slashdot sometime s/Open/Agile
I'm really more of an idea rat.
Hrm. The Netflix web client uses Silverlight, that's sorta the point -- more people use the Silverlight route (or HTPC route) than a Roku. Stated as a happy Roku owner, but I know I'm in a minority, just as all principled Silverlight abstainers should know they are in a minority.
The iTunes Store costs a billion dollars to run, and that was just last year. I think you underestimate how much of that money goes straight back to the content owners. For every piece of licensed music Apple keeps only pennies, and the store's most bandwidth-intensive operation, shipping iOS updates, receives no income.
It depends on what you're trying to prove. HP printers and Nooks don't allow you to install 3rd-party apps, unless you're a ricer and you modify them. I work for Sony, I don't know what those TVs run, but if it's Android (maybe you mean Google TV?) it isn't the kind of Android you can buy apps for. If you're a mobile developer the total share of the addressable app market is the most important number. HP printers, STBs (including Apple TV) and ROM-locked e-readers aren't your customers, but iPad and iPod touch owners are.
Unless you're a location-based app developer, in which case your platform needs GPS and thus you're not interested in iPod touches and most iPads.
Unless you're an audio-based app developer, in which case iOS's APIs are better.
Unless you're a modder writing a system utility, in which case Android (apart from most Android phone manufacturers) gives you more options.
Unless you're an ISV that wants better access to paying customers and wants platform DRM, in which case iOS is your man.
And on and on. Market share won't decide the "winner" of this market like Windows won in the 90s, the network effects just aren't the same: developers are cheaper and making multiple versions of an app is much easier, data formats all pass over the web now and platform specific data formats are dead.
In the US this is true, at least as far as we know about Apple and AT&T, but Verizon/Apple have never disclosed their backend deal, and we don't know what happens anywhere else.
Don't let anybody ever tell you you ask confusing, non-sequitir questions, Talderas. You just keep shining on, making sense of the world the way you see it, and maybe someday they'll let you use the scissors with the pointy ends.
Second paragraph:
Apple is now the largest cellphone manufacturer on Earth by revenue.
Authentication and SSO are the new horizon in Internet rentier economy, the only thing that'll keep consumers on an equal footing are rules for what information can and cannot be collected, and rules requiring everyone have equal access.
Verisign has a good business but it also is skating for where the puck will be.