So I come back to the point which is don't blame the cable companies, Cable Labs, or cable cards. The root of the issue lies with the content providers. If the content guys could pull their heads out of their asses and figure out how to protect their content for reasonable cost, or otherwise establish a sustainable business model so they didn't have to protect it, we could all quit paying the price tag to keep their ridiculous profit margins safe.
This is why I never feel one iota of remorse when I download any TV content from Bittorrent. I have a DVR, if you stop me from recording, I will download your content from bittorrent. If my cable TV becomes worthless to me because everything is encrypted, I'll just dump cable, upgrade my telephone company provided high speed connection and watch everything over hulu. It would actually cost less than keeping cable....
Yep, because taking away their video games and weapons would JUST be to move to a civil society. Those actions would NEVER be used to oppress people's freedom.
C'mon. You've done a good job defending Chavez on defense and the general safety of his country.
Now go the distance. I'm only reading this comments thread to try and find out of anyone on/. has the balls to stand up and defend Chavez for taking video games away from his people.
Don't pull punches I'm waiting to see one of you liberal Chavez sympathizers defend THAT action HERE.
Yep, gotta cut science, engineering and exploration from the budget so we can use the money to fund science and engineering programs in the schools....
Whats unconstitutional about nationalizing a group of people excercising their FREE SPEECH RIGHTS to comment on and take action to encourage Free and Open Source software?
Um, lets see, wouldn't the government be breaking the FIRST AMENDMENT rights of that group and everyone in it if it took that group over??
Yep, I think I'll go with it would be unconstitutional because it violates the FIRST AMENDMENT right of the FSF and everyone in it.....
When the government shows up at your door in the future wanting to implant the chip in your brain to report to the RIAA and MPAA every time you watch or listen some of their content so they can automatically charge you for it, just remember that you and millions of others like you didn't really have much of an objection when this all was getting started.....
Man this makes me wish there was a fucking ( -1 Naive ) mod. We're still going to lose rights, it'll just be a different set we'll be losing. And by the indications of how things are currently going, we're going to be losing those rights faster....
You know whenever someone spouts this "list carbon as a pollutant" stuff I just bugs me.
Now we're listing the element responsible for LIFE ITSELF as a pollutant. Sure, we may be putting out too much CO2, but last time I checked, plants LOVE that stuff....
Pollutants are things that do _direct_ harm, Carbon isn't one.
Treating Carbon (or CO2) as a pollutant just seems completely wrong.
What you fail to realize is that the Bush administration was soundly and consistently lambasted in public for trying to fire any DOJ prosecutors. Every attempt to do so was painted (rightly or wrongly) as a purely political move.
Its not that hard to move from there to the realization that after the initial attempt to fire prosecutors from the DOJ, the Bush administration just might have stopped trying to discipline any of its prosecutors at all.
In light of that, you can easily see how the prosecutors going after Stevens might have been emboldened to act in, shall we say, less than professional ways.
And it appears that the judge in this case came to that conclusion...
In the end if the process is big enough and consuming memory at a fast enough pace there will eventually be nothing you can do except pull the plug and get about the business of rebuilding that particular server.
I'll take deflation over the hyper-inflation they seem to be attempting to create. Deflation will lead to a depression. Hyper-inflation will lead to a complete collapse of the US and total anarchy.
I'm frankly terrified of what the long term damage of this uninhibited printing of more money will do. I truly believe that the end result may be worse, way worse than the depression they're trying so hard to avoid...
The thing that pisses me off sooooo much is that if we had just LET THEM FAIL, AIG would have filed for bankruptcy and these contracts would have been nullified.
I've been against bailouts from the beginning. They've always appeared to me to be meant to keep the rich and powerful people (including the gov't) who SCREWED EVERYTHING UP in power and well off, while destroying everything and everyone else.
We have to endure this pain now. We have to let these giant corporations fail. We have to build everything back from the ground up. Trying as hard as the government is trying to prop up the failing companies and failed ideas that led to this mess is going to only make things much much worse.
Its hard and its not fun, but its time for the US to take its medicine. The bailouts and stimulus must stop. Hard as it is to say, I think we need to let everything fall down and then move in and start picking up the pieces and build something new.... I'm referring to the economy here, not necessarily the government. But I fear that it may need to end up getting scrapped and rebuilt too....
I think Tom Tom may want to look to IBM for help. After all once Apple builds their GPS app for the iPhone, they're going to be competing with Tom Tom.
Boy, you've made a very good argument for an ANTITRUST case. Perhaps the government will look at this and get the antitrust case against Microsoft right this time....
I like the way you think. You should take this post and post it as a comment on Card's Rhino Times column http://greensboro.rhinotimes.com/ . This is a great idea.
That's what I keep thinking on this. If the state court nullifies an amendment to the state constitution, which was passed according to that constitution, they will have effectively given themselves unlimited lawmaking powers by fiat.
If Google, or anyone else, wants to stop this they have to go to federal court, because to ask the state court to throw out the law is to as them to throw out the state constitution. That precedent would be exceedingly dangerous. If I were a CA resident and the state supreme court threw out a legally passed constitutional amendment, the next amendment I'd propose would be one that throws out the current members of that court.
The only valid path I see for people against prop 8 is to get the Federal courts to declare it unconstitutional within the framework of the US Constitution, thus superceeding it being able to be in the California constitution.
I think you are confusing "Consensus" with "repeating experimental results." If scientists agree because they've gotten the same results in similar experiments, thats a big deal. If scientists agree because they have the same opinions, that means nothing.
Consensus is worth nothing to science. Repeated experimental results are of upmost importance.
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So I come back to the point which is don't blame the cable companies, Cable Labs, or cable cards. The root of the issue lies with the content providers. If the content guys could pull their heads out of their asses and figure out how to protect their content for reasonable cost, or otherwise establish a sustainable business model so they didn't have to protect it, we could all quit paying the price tag to keep their ridiculous profit margins safe.
This is why I never feel one iota of remorse when I download any TV content from Bittorrent. I have a DVR, if you stop me from recording, I will download your content from bittorrent. If my cable TV becomes worthless to me because everything is encrypted, I'll just dump cable, upgrade my telephone company provided high speed connection and watch everything over hulu. It would actually cost less than keeping cable....
Yep, because taking away their video games and weapons would JUST be to move to a civil society. Those actions would NEVER be used to oppress people's freedom.
C'mon. You've done a good job defending Chavez on defense and the general safety of his country.
Now go the distance. I'm only reading this comments thread to try and find out of anyone on /. has the balls to stand up and defend Chavez for taking video games away from his people.
Don't pull punches I'm waiting to see one of you liberal Chavez sympathizers defend THAT action HERE.
I wanna see some fireworks!!
I agree completely mod GP way up. The organization with the power to "Fix" the internet will have the power to control it.
You just have to ask yourself "how much money would the RIAA pay to 'fix' the internet?" to see how bad this could get.
I think EC2 was wrongly included in this study. Its a different breed of animal that "services on the web" like the google and microsoft stuff.
In my experience, its also pretty reliable and extremely useful.
Yep, gotta cut science, engineering and exploration from the budget so we can use the money to fund science and engineering programs in the schools....
Whats unconstitutional about nationalizing a group of people excercising their FREE SPEECH RIGHTS to comment on and take action to encourage Free and Open Source software?
Um, lets see, wouldn't the government be breaking the FIRST AMENDMENT rights of that group and everyone in it if it took that group over??
Yep, I think I'll go with it would be unconstitutional because it violates the FIRST AMENDMENT right of the FSF and everyone in it.....
Fine you go on thinking that.
When the government shows up at your door in the future wanting to implant the chip in your brain to report to the RIAA and MPAA every time you watch or listen some of their content so they can automatically charge you for it, just remember that you and millions of others like you didn't really have much of an objection when this all was getting started.....
Man this makes me wish there was a fucking ( -1 Naive ) mod. We're still going to lose rights, it'll just be a different set we'll be losing. And by the indications of how things are currently going, we're going to be losing those rights faster....
Exactly, this makes much more sense than calling it a pollutant.
Dude, if I had mod points you'd so be getting them, just for the great movie references alone.
You know whenever someone spouts this "list carbon as a pollutant" stuff I just bugs me.
Now we're listing the element responsible for LIFE ITSELF as a pollutant. Sure, we may be putting out too much CO2, but last time I checked, plants LOVE that stuff....
Pollutants are things that do _direct_ harm, Carbon isn't one.
Treating Carbon (or CO2) as a pollutant just seems completely wrong.
What you fail to realize is that the Bush administration was soundly and consistently lambasted in public for trying to fire any DOJ prosecutors. Every attempt to do so was painted (rightly or wrongly) as a purely political move.
Its not that hard to move from there to the realization that after the initial attempt to fire prosecutors from the DOJ, the Bush administration just might have stopped trying to discipline any of its prosecutors at all.
In light of that, you can easily see how the prosecutors going after Stevens might have been emboldened to act in, shall we say, less than professional ways.
And it appears that the judge in this case came to that conclusion...
To continue your analogy.
In the end if the process is big enough and consuming memory at a fast enough pace there will eventually be nothing you can do except pull the plug and get about the business of rebuilding that particular server.
I'll take deflation over the hyper-inflation they seem to be attempting to create. Deflation will lead to a depression. Hyper-inflation will lead to a complete collapse of the US and total anarchy.
I'm frankly terrified of what the long term damage of this uninhibited printing of more money will do. I truly believe that the end result may be worse, way worse than the depression they're trying so hard to avoid...
The thing that pisses me off sooooo much is that if we had just LET THEM FAIL, AIG would have filed for bankruptcy and these contracts would have been nullified.
I've been against bailouts from the beginning. They've always appeared to me to be meant to keep the rich and powerful people (including the gov't) who SCREWED EVERYTHING UP in power and well off, while destroying everything and everyone else.
We have to endure this pain now. We have to let these giant corporations fail. We have to build everything back from the ground up. Trying as hard as the government is trying to prop up the failing companies and failed ideas that led to this mess is going to only make things much much worse.
Its hard and its not fun, but its time for the US to take its medicine. The bailouts and stimulus must stop. Hard as it is to say, I think we need to let everything fall down and then move in and start picking up the pieces and build something new.... I'm referring to the economy here, not necessarily the government. But I fear that it may need to end up getting scrapped and rebuilt too....
This is really cool.
Now... where'd I put that knife....?
Try telling that to Mal.....
I think Tom Tom may want to look to IBM for help. After all once Apple builds their GPS app for the iPhone, they're going to be competing with Tom Tom.
Boy, you've made a very good argument for an ANTITRUST case. Perhaps the government will look at this and get the antitrust case against Microsoft right this time....
I like the way you think. You should take this post and post it as a comment on Card's Rhino Times column http://greensboro.rhinotimes.com/ . This is a great idea.
Yes, it must be republicans are the only politicians that are evil....
Because democrats would never, ever come up with bad laws....
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That took all of two seconds to find on google.
That's what I keep thinking on this. If the state court nullifies an amendment to the state constitution, which was passed according to that constitution, they will have effectively given themselves unlimited lawmaking powers by fiat.
If Google, or anyone else, wants to stop this they have to go to federal court, because to ask the state court to throw out the law is to as them to throw out the state constitution. That precedent would be exceedingly dangerous. If I were a CA resident and the state supreme court threw out a legally passed constitutional amendment, the next amendment I'd propose would be one that throws out the current members of that court.
The only valid path I see for people against prop 8 is to get the Federal courts to declare it unconstitutional within the framework of the US Constitution, thus superceeding it being able to be in the California constitution.
The most classic irony would be if IBM were to buy UNIX from SCO for say 5 million dollars.
And thinking on it, if that were to end up being the case, then SCO's case against them was never really worth billions was it...?
That because their comment was insightful.
I think you are confusing "Consensus" with "repeating experimental results." If scientists agree because they've gotten the same results in similar experiments, thats a big deal. If scientists agree because they have the same opinions, that means nothing.
Consensus is worth nothing to science. Repeated experimental results are of upmost importance.