This system, ContentID, sets out penalties for 'repeat offenders' who generate too many copyright claims — but offers no corresponding penalties for rightsholders who make too many false claims of ownership.
I don't think that word, "rightsholders," really would be appropriate in this circumstance. Unless it means something completely other than what I would think -- which is a possibility, given that my spell check doesn't even recognize that it's an English word,
Wouldn't you expect that n hours after failing to receive commands, and if no coded 'safe' key input, a self-destruct system would trip in? Check that thing for ticking, guys; remember HMS Campbeltown!
As someone who provides support to customers for televisions, the overriding problem seems to be that the TVs are too complicated for a lot of people to change settings on/navigate.
In a sense, the "TV repairman" is back.
New TVs have gotten sufficiently complicated that my Mom can't use hers without occasional house calls for the kind of things you describe. I'm 6 hours away, so this means pestering my sister to come over or calling the neighbors for help. I guess that's OK if the whole TV industry is cool with equipment not really being general consumer tech anymore. She's probably not a desirable demographic anyway.
The article and the question are referring to the TECHNOLOGY behind TVs. How can we streamline the technology to make the viewing experience better? 90% of these comments are about how bad commercials are and how bad the shows have become. Missing the point a little aren't we?
Perhaps we're missing the point. Or perhaps TFA asked the wrong question.
My in-laws are the problem with TV in my house. If I had cable and a big screen they'd visit and stay forever with the volume turned up to 11. No cable means they drive 5 hours to come here on Friday evening, say hello to the grand-kid just before bedtime, have lunch with us the next day -- dutch treat -- and drive back home to watch the shows they missed before their recorder is full.
So what about the times during the day when things are slow and you are surfing/., should you get paid for that?
I don't see why not. If you're required to be somewhere for your job and not surfing/. in the comfort of your own home or favorite wifi-enabled establishment in the comfy garments of your own choosing, then yes, you get paid.
You don't get a refund on your car insurance or bus fare for days you didn't have much to do at work. The dry cleaner doesn't give you a break for clothes you only surfed the web in.
You're salaried. You're paid to do a job, whether it takes you 20 hours or 80 hours a week. If you want, I'll pay you an extra 50% of your hourly wage when you work more than 40 hours a week. Your hourly wage is $0/hour, here's $0.
a $800.00 used 250cc-500cc motorcycle will do far, far, FAR more than what this scooter can and still get 100+mpg. Plus you wont look dorky and it wont get stolen. A ninja 250 sportbike is dirt cheap even brand new, less than $4500.00 if you find an honest kawasaki dealer. Plus it has enough power to put a set of givi saddlebags on it so you can carry a LOT of stuff.
Can you get your money back on the electric toy scooter?
If the dude's looking to build his own lo-jack, fear of appearing dorky is not at issue here.
But re: the motorcycle vs. scooter . . . aren't there still college campuses that give priority parking to scooters? Like scooters having use of the bike racks vs. a motorcycle forced to use the student parking lot halfway across campus? That's the way it was at my school, but twas also many years ago.
I use "The Club" as icing on the cake combined with a hidden switch that turns off the PATS RFID antenna [1] and another switch for the fuel pump. If a thief gets past that, that is what insurance is for. But, they are going to fight for what they steal.
I agree -- The Club can be defeated easily. But it forces a thief to have to deal with it, and time is their enemy
[1]: The reason I turn off the PATS antenna is that for more sophisticated thieves, it will throw them off the scent, because all attempts they try at key cloning will not work. Of course, if that gets bypassed, the fuel pump switch ensures they won't go far.
Tow truck, shove into a cheap used metal shipping container, dismantle at your leisure - no tracking device will be able to get a signal through the steel walls.
Dump the stripped frame and body, buy it at the insurance auction, get the pink slip, and put the engine, transaxle, wheels, seats, etc. back in an sell it.
And yes, people DO do this. It's one reason insurance companies have begun crushing "strippers".
I liked the "icy-bathtub kidney thief" one better.
Since I'll be parking it on a college campus, it will be vulnerable to theft.
Just because YOU are a student, it doesn't mean that everybody else is going to be as untrustworthy as yourself.
You remind me of this person I knew who wouldn't let me into his home because he was afraid that I would steal things (because I wasn't middle class like the other people I was with). Well at least I'm not black. At least being poor means that you can make yourself look like a Winner, which is how successful salesmen are made: just ask Steve Jobs.
Anyways yeah, never trust people who try to improve their knowledge and education. I guess it must be some Promethean type thing. Meanwhile I won't even bother trying to answer your question because you demonstrated that you are an asshole unworthy of an answer. BTW, I could probably guess that you live in the United States of America, because only in a place that is so anti-socialist and pro-capitalist would they have students who would even think of stealing somebody's transportation at an institution of higher learning. When you can't even trust people at your own school; it's just a very sad commentary on where you live.
Wow! Could you come help at my next movie night? You seem to be really good at projection.
As a surgical resident, I spend a lot of my time on call, the last couple of years mostly at home, usually every other day. Your partner will quickly learn to disregard the nighttime calls, trust me! I just leave my pager and phone on a lowered volume, and try to get out of the room quickly when I have to actually talk to the other person...
In the third year of my wife's residency, I have yet to learn to disregard that damn pager. I'm just a much lighter sleeper than she is. So she sleeps in the call room for night call.
Whatever you measure will be gamed. Measure bugs fixed, and you will find people wasting time listing each tiny variation of a bug. Measure lines of code, you will get spaghetti code.
It almost seems better to measure a bunch of things and use a secret formula to determine productivity.
The important thing to do before trying to figure out how to measure something is to decide what it is that you want.
Actually, in my book there is only one feature that i wanna to see in every program/module/library. To.Be.Debugable. If i cannot debug it......sorry, but your code is crap.
Unfortunately, if you can't debug it, it's your source code that's crap. Because if you're debugging it, it's yours now . ..
Well you see friend, we have this thing called "multitasking" that most folks have gotten quite good at, even when they don't actually know they are doing it! The software runs in the background converting the LP, LP gets done a little flash of the icon tells the user 'hey flip the record over or put on another one" and then they do so and go back to their FB game.
So there's software that solves the problem of having to listen to an LP while you're copying/encoding it in order to listen to it later?
Except that for things that were traditionally thought of as "physical books" - like a difficult to copy book or LP - first sale doctrine has long trumped any aggressive "single party" contracts like these.
C30, C60, C90, go. I wasn't that hard to copy an LP.
But yes, a book was a pain in the ass, and not worth it unless you were using someone else's copier and paper -- and had nothing better to do and no money to not do it with.
3) Start sending out DMCA takedown notices to Warner, Sony, Universal...
Unfortunately, I think we all understand that this is for Warner, Sony, Universal and every other company to use against us, not for us to use against them.
If I create a simple, one page site the terms of service of which simply say "you are not permitted to use this web site unless you are Rinisari", I could turn them over to the authorities because they've committed a crime?
Why go to the trouble of creating a website? Since there are so many laws on the books and nobody really knows when or if they are breaking one, you could probably turn anyone over to the authorities.
Except that the "authorities" aren't just going to go persecute (and prosecute) anybody you point to and yell "J'accuse!" They're not your personal brute squad, or mine, and this power is certainly not meant for us.
If we were sufficiently important, and by important I mean net worth or -- better yet -- market cap, then they'd care and take action.
After so many lies and disappointments from this administration, I'm curious why you or anyone would expect otherwise, though I disagree with your "corporatocracy" remark as this is an expansion of government power.
Isn't it more an expansion of corporate power to give companies the right to make their own laws? If violating TOS is a crime, then a TOS is effectively law. The government's expansion is secondary to this. Theirs is the power to prosecute more "crimes" -- by broadening the definition of crime -- but it's the aggrieved party that has to report the crime in the first place, e.g. Microsoft, Arm & Hammer, Ford . . . whoever wrote the TOS in question.
And I'm pretty disappointed with the administration, too.
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This system, ContentID, sets out penalties for 'repeat offenders' who generate too many copyright claims — but offers no corresponding penalties for rightsholders who make too many false claims of ownership.
I don't think that word, "rightsholders," really would be appropriate in this circumstance. Unless it means something completely other than what I would think -- which is a possibility, given that my spell check doesn't even recognize that it's an English word,
Wouldn't you expect that n hours after failing to receive commands, and if no coded 'safe' key input, a self-destruct system would trip in? Check that thing for ticking, guys; remember HMS Campbeltown!
What could possibly go wrong?
As someone who provides support to customers for televisions, the overriding problem seems to be that the TVs are too complicated for a lot of people to change settings on/navigate.
In a sense, the "TV repairman" is back.
New TVs have gotten sufficiently complicated that my Mom can't use hers without occasional house calls for the kind of things you describe. I'm 6 hours away, so this means pestering my sister to come over or calling the neighbors for help. I guess that's OK if the whole TV industry is cool with equipment not really being general consumer tech anymore. She's probably not a desirable demographic anyway.
The article and the question are referring to the TECHNOLOGY behind TVs. How can we streamline the technology to make the viewing experience better? 90% of these comments are about how bad commercials are and how bad the shows have become. Missing the point a little aren't we?
Perhaps we're missing the point. Or perhaps TFA asked the wrong question.
My in-laws are the problem with TV in my house. If I had cable and a big screen they'd visit and stay forever with the volume turned up to 11. No cable means they drive 5 hours to come here on Friday evening, say hello to the grand-kid just before bedtime, have lunch with us the next day -- dutch treat -- and drive back home to watch the shows they missed before their recorder is full.
That and there's no more Arrested Development.
So what about the times during the day when things are slow and you are surfing /., should you get paid for that?
I don't see why not. If you're required to be somewhere for your job and not surfing /. in the comfort of your own home or favorite wifi-enabled establishment in the comfy garments of your own choosing, then yes, you get paid.
You don't get a refund on your car insurance or bus fare for days you didn't have much to do at work. The dry cleaner doesn't give you a break for clothes you only surfed the web in.
You're salaried. You're paid to do a job, whether it takes you 20 hours or 80 hours a week. If you want, I'll pay you an extra 50% of your hourly wage when you work more than 40 hours a week. Your hourly wage is $0/hour, here's $0.
I'm done! I can go home early, right?
How did it not make sense? Fill text boxes with text, that is about it.
That's pretty much all I could think of, too.
You can't have an inalienable right to someone else's property.
You can't have all the cookies you want without a tummyache either, but WTF does this have to do with the topic?
And Abe Lincoln.
Something tells me, though, it refers to reefer in this context.
A Gettysburg Address joke? Why not, we are nerds here.
a $800.00 used 250cc-500cc motorcycle will do far, far, FAR more than what this scooter can and still get 100+mpg. Plus you wont look dorky and it wont get stolen. A ninja 250 sportbike is dirt cheap even brand new, less than $4500.00 if you find an honest kawasaki dealer. Plus it has enough power to put a set of givi saddlebags on it so you can carry a LOT of stuff.
Can you get your money back on the electric toy scooter?
If the dude's looking to build his own lo-jack, fear of appearing dorky is not at issue here.
But re: the motorcycle vs. scooter . . . aren't there still college campuses that give priority parking to scooters? Like scooters having use of the bike racks vs. a motorcycle forced to use the student parking lot halfway across campus? That's the way it was at my school, but twas also many years ago.
Tow truck, shove into a cheap used metal shipping container, dismantle at your leisure - no tracking device will be able to get a signal through the steel walls.
Dump the stripped frame and body, buy it at the insurance auction, get the pink slip, and put the engine, transaxle, wheels, seats, etc. back in an sell it.
And yes, people DO do this. It's one reason insurance companies have begun crushing "strippers".
I liked the "icy-bathtub kidney thief" one better.
Since I'll be parking it on a college campus, it will be vulnerable to theft.
Just because YOU are a student, it doesn't mean that everybody else is going to be as untrustworthy as yourself.
You remind me of this person I knew who wouldn't let me into his home because he was afraid that I would steal things (because I wasn't middle class like the other people I was with). Well at least I'm not black. At least being poor means that you can make yourself look like a Winner, which is how successful salesmen are made: just ask Steve Jobs.
Anyways yeah, never trust people who try to improve their knowledge and education. I guess it must be some Promethean type thing. Meanwhile I won't even bother trying to answer your question because you demonstrated that you are an asshole unworthy of an answer. BTW, I could probably guess that you live in the United States of America, because only in a place that is so anti-socialist and pro-capitalist would they have students who would even think of stealing somebody's transportation at an institution of higher learning. When you can't even trust people at your own school; it's just a very sad commentary on where you live.
Wow! Could you come help at my next movie night? You seem to be really good at projection.
As a surgical resident, I spend a lot of my time on call, the last couple of years mostly at home, usually every other day. Your partner will quickly learn to disregard the nighttime calls, trust me! I just leave my pager and phone on a lowered volume, and try to get out of the room quickly when I have to actually talk to the other person...
In the third year of my wife's residency, I have yet to learn to disregard that damn pager. I'm just a much lighter sleeper than she is. So she sleeps in the call room for night call.
Whatever you measure will be gamed. Measure bugs fixed, and you will find people wasting time listing each tiny variation of a bug. Measure lines of code, you will get spaghetti code. It almost seems better to measure a bunch of things and use a secret formula to determine productivity.
The important thing to do before trying to figure out how to measure something is to decide what it is that you want.
If you don't have a use case for reuse, you shouldn't try to code for it. To many 'interfaces' are single use, see 'servlet' vs. 'http servlet'.
This is an especially good policy if you're a contractor paid by the hour.
Actually, in my book there is only one feature that i wanna to see in every program/module/library. To.Be.Debugable. If i cannot debug it......sorry, but your code is crap.
Unfortunately, if you can't debug it, it's your source code that's crap. Because if you're debugging it, it's yours now . . .
Well you see friend, we have this thing called "multitasking" that most folks have gotten quite good at, even when they don't actually know they are doing it! The software runs in the background converting the LP, LP gets done a little flash of the icon tells the user 'hey flip the record over or put on another one" and then they do so and go back to their FB game.
So there's software that solves the problem of having to listen to an LP while you're copying/encoding it in order to listen to it later?
"Case and point" By the way.
That's some kind of tennis-based legal term?
Except that for things that were traditionally thought of as "physical books" - like a difficult to copy book or LP - first sale doctrine has long trumped any aggressive "single party" contracts like these.
C30, C60, C90, go. I wasn't that hard to copy an LP.
But yes, a book was a pain in the ass, and not worth it unless you were using someone else's copier and paper -- and had nothing better to do and no money to not do it with.
Example? I looked at a few LPs on google images but couldn't see what you're talking about.
My God, I'm old.
Yeah, I kinda got that part, my post was more intended as a sort of joke. Evidently it failed.... :P
I thought it was, but I also have a penchant for stating the obvious. Especially if it's depressing.
3) Start sending out DMCA takedown notices to Warner, Sony, Universal...
Unfortunately, I think we all understand that this is for Warner, Sony, Universal and every other company to use against us, not for us to use against them.
If I create a simple, one page site the terms of service of which simply say "you are not permitted to use this web site unless you are Rinisari", I could turn them over to the authorities because they've committed a crime?
Why go to the trouble of creating a website? Since there are so many laws on the books and nobody really knows when or if they are breaking one, you could probably turn anyone over to the authorities.
Except that the "authorities" aren't just going to go persecute (and prosecute) anybody you point to and yell "J'accuse!" They're not your personal brute squad, or mine, and this power is certainly not meant for us.
If we were sufficiently important, and by important I mean net worth or -- better yet -- market cap, then they'd care and take action.
After so many lies and disappointments from this administration, I'm curious why you or anyone would expect otherwise, though I disagree with your "corporatocracy" remark as this is an expansion of government power.
Isn't it more an expansion of corporate power to give companies the right to make their own laws? If violating TOS is a crime, then a TOS is effectively law. The government's expansion is secondary to this. Theirs is the power to prosecute more "crimes" -- by broadening the definition of crime -- but it's the aggrieved party that has to report the crime in the first place, e.g. Microsoft, Arm & Hammer, Ford . . . whoever wrote the TOS in question.
And I'm pretty disappointed with the administration, too.