I think it's time we mandate autonomous driving systems in all cars from 2020 and replace the dashboard with a toy driving wheel, lots of blinkenlights, and a high powered combustion engine sound simulator. I can almost hear Jeremy Clarkson: "What do you mean I'm not really in charge? That was the best lap time I ever had!"
Damn right. You buy insurance against composers breaking your knees and still have to deal with performers, distributors, owners of mechanical rights, and all the other thugs. It's nothing but a blank media levy on the Internet. Free money for them, nothing for us.
The conditions required by the DoJ may be good for Internet video companies, and the government undoubtedly is very proud of itself now for balancing everyone's interests, but is the merger good for consumers? In the 70s for instance Sony fought for their right to sell video recorders, and incidentally people's right to buy and own such devices. Today Sony is a content producer themselves, and instead of fighting digital restrictions they cripple their own devices above and beyond legal limits such as the expiration of copyrights, fair use, or the first sale doctrine. What can we expect from Comcast becoming a member of the MPAA?
The virgin birth served the same purpose as all miraculous births in literature and religion, to foreshadow a mythical character, a chosen one. What's more, in "Revenge" Darth Sidious shares a story of one Darth Plagueis who "was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise, he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create life. He had such a knowledge of the dark side, he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying." To me at least this strongly hinted that Plagueis engineered Anakin, using Shmi as an unwitting vessel, and this untold backstory was one of the reasons Lucas introduced midi-chlorians. Still, to prop up the mythical elements of Star Wars with factual explanations was a poor decision. As for fishy, Shmi was sold to Cliegg Lars (father of Owen, who later raised Luke) shortly after Anakin left Tattoine, who freed her and married her. She died in Episode II before the Clone Wars began, with the Battle of Geonosis and the clash of Yoda and Dooku.
4. Records might be data-mined for "patterns of suspicious activity" to detect criminals. This might produce false positives.
It will produce false positives. Say you have a database of 60 millon people, 100,000 of which are criminals. If the system is 99% accurate it will correctly identify 99,000 criminals and accuse 600,000 innocent people of being criminals.
Generally speaking, if the ratio of law abiding citizens to criminals is r, then r innocent people will be wrongly accused for every criminal the system misses, regardless how accurate the system is. To reduce the false results it can only become more and more intrusive, making us all jailbirds.
If I were them I'd really like to beat my hands against my chest and cry "innocent until proven guilty, mother-fuckers", however this is civil, so they basically don't have to prove anything. We have a broken legal system.
Next time you're butt-raped in a broom closet you can thank our "broken" legal system that a judge can choose to believe the victim.
On a six month trip to Mars the crew will be almost completely on their own. We need a place to train the astronauts and test equipment and procedures. To put one example, has anyone ever attempted surgery in microgravity?
To me, this is illogical: they're beaming their transmissions onto my property. Why shouldn't I be able to put up an antenna, feed it into a receiver, and do whatever the hell I want with the resulting output?
You don't own the airwaves on your property. The government auctioned them off on your behalf.
From the Nov 2004 sitewide update email: "For year six [2005], we have a lot of exciting things planned, including UI updates, enhanced tools, new tools, and Subversion support (version
control). It will be an exciting year. We can't wait to show you."
The Commodore VIC-20 had a 6502 processor, and while they looked similar on the outside ( of the computer ), they were incredibly different in performance and capability. The 6510 was a BIG step forwards.
The only difference between 6502 an 6510 was a bidirectional I/O port, used in C64 to switch memory banks and drive the Datasette. The 1541 floppy drive also had a 6502 and it ran at exactly the same speed. That fact was exploited by bus accelerators e.g. in GEOS to transmit data without handshake.
Actually the 6502 in the VIC20 was clocked a bit higher but the C64 had much improved video and audio chips, maybe that's what you're talking about?
More advanced CPUs only appeared in C64DX/C65 prototypes and I recall an extension card featuring the 65816, with new opcodes, a 16 bit mode, and it was able to execute 6502 code at 4 MHz.
What about the infamous Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act? Requiring DRM in every TV, VCR and PC certainly promotes something, just not what the cursory reader has in mind. Interestingly this one started as the not quite as catchy Security Systems and Standards Certification Act.
Or the CAN SPAM act. Obligatory Simpson quote: Ha ha!
But you're wrong about the Internet Spyware Prevention Act being in the public interest. Contrary to its name it does not outlaw spyware, just regulate the practice, much like its ill devised SPAM cousin.
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I think it's time we mandate autonomous driving systems in all cars from 2020 and replace the dashboard with a toy driving wheel, lots of blinkenlights, and a high powered combustion engine sound simulator. I can almost hear Jeremy Clarkson: "What do you mean I'm not really in charge? That was the best lap time I ever had!"
Damn right. You buy insurance against composers breaking your knees and still have to deal with performers, distributors, owners of mechanical rights, and all the other thugs. It's nothing but a blank media levy on the Internet. Free money for them, nothing for us.
The conditions required by the DoJ may be good for Internet video companies, and the government undoubtedly is very proud of itself now for balancing everyone's interests, but is the merger good for consumers? In the 70s for instance Sony fought for their right to sell video recorders, and incidentally people's right to buy and own such devices. Today Sony is a content producer themselves, and instead of fighting digital restrictions they cripple their own devices above and beyond legal limits such as the expiration of copyrights, fair use, or the first sale doctrine. What can we expect from Comcast becoming a member of the MPAA?
The virgin birth served the same purpose as all miraculous births in literature and religion, to foreshadow a mythical character, a chosen one. What's more, in "Revenge" Darth Sidious shares a story of one Darth Plagueis who "was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise, he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create life. He had such a knowledge of the dark side, he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying." To me at least this strongly hinted that Plagueis engineered Anakin, using Shmi as an unwitting vessel, and this untold backstory was one of the reasons Lucas introduced midi-chlorians. Still, to prop up the mythical elements of Star Wars with factual explanations was a poor decision. As for fishy, Shmi was sold to Cliegg Lars (father of Owen, who later raised Luke) shortly after Anakin left Tattoine, who freed her and married her. She died in Episode II before the Clone Wars began, with the Battle of Geonosis and the clash of Yoda and Dooku.
It will produce false positives. Say you have a database of 60 millon people, 100,000 of which are criminals. If the system is 99% accurate it will correctly identify 99,000 criminals and accuse 600,000 innocent people of being criminals.
Generally speaking, if the ratio of law abiding citizens to criminals is r, then r innocent people will be wrongly accused for every criminal the system misses, regardless how accurate the system is. To reduce the false results it can only become more and more intrusive, making us all jailbirds.
Next time you're butt-raped in a broom closet you can thank our "broken" legal system that a judge can choose to believe the victim.
That's by far the best answer in this whole thread, you really deserve a reward. Here's a picture of ten dollars.
On a six month trip to Mars the crew will be almost completely on their own. We need a place to train the astronauts and test equipment and procedures. To put one example, has anyone ever attempted surgery in microgravity?
Sure you can. Did you never hear about the DMCA?
The allies seized and resold the *trademark* Aspirin after WWI.
How do they know this is a planet and not a large sun spot?
Why not. If you legally purchased the internet.
You don't own the airwaves on your property. The government auctioned them off on your behalf.
OMG I can see it!!!!!!
No wait, that's goose bumps.
Me thinks their good rules and its unlikely that you're proposal will of any affect.
Can we please stop the government bashing.
From the Nov 2004 sitewide update email: "For year six [2005], we have a lot of exciting things planned, including UI updates, enhanced tools, new tools, and Subversion support (version control). It will be an exciting year. We can't wait to show you."
The only difference between 6502 an 6510 was a bidirectional I/O port, used in C64 to switch memory banks and drive the Datasette. The 1541 floppy drive also had a 6502 and it ran at exactly the same speed. That fact was exploited by bus accelerators e.g. in GEOS to transmit data without handshake.
Actually the 6502 in the VIC20 was clocked a bit higher but the C64 had much improved video and audio chips, maybe that's what you're talking about?
More advanced CPUs only appeared in C64DX/C65 prototypes and I recall an extension card featuring the 65816, with new opcodes, a 16 bit mode, and it was able to execute 6502 code at 4 MHz.
What about the infamous Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act? Requiring DRM in every TV, VCR and PC certainly promotes something, just not what the cursory reader has in mind. Interestingly this one started as the not quite as catchy Security Systems and Standards Certification Act.
Or the CAN SPAM act. Obligatory Simpson quote: Ha ha!
But you're wrong about the Internet Spyware Prevention Act being in the public interest. Contrary to its name it does not outlaw spyware, just regulate the practice, much like its ill devised SPAM cousin.