Vreel is entering beta very soon. They've liscensed the DivX web player and will offer videos up to 1 GB, or up to 8.5 GB if you sign up for a premium account. With support for h.264 encoding. Looks like it will incorporate all the best features of the sorely missed Stage6.
You'll excuse me if I don't put much faith into determining a 1 or 2 degree global temperature variation over hundreds of thousands of years by looking at ice core samples. I'm not a climate researcher, but common sense tells me that inferring hundreds of thousands of years of climate history to an accuracy of 1 or 2 degrees C through proxy measurements of systems we're just beginning to understand is ridiculous.
Why don't we be honest with ourselves and admit we really don't know what's going on, but just to be on the safe side we should move to cleaner sources of energy. It couldn't hurt.
The key phrase there is 'healthy adult life'. Just because people are living to be 80 or 90 these days does not mean they're able to do the things they'd like to at that age. There are plenty of medical conditions that come with aging that, while not life threatening with modern medicine, will keep you from enjoying retirement at that age. Unless you're idea of a rich retirement is playing cards twice a week and going to bingo.
At 70 or 80 you just don't have the energy anymore, and you'll wish you had more time earlier in your life to do the things you wanted to do. At least this is the general feeling I've gotten from the elderly people I've met through my grandparents.
How about we figure out what exactly gravity *is* first, then we can decide whether we need a new type of invisible matter to explain what's going on out there.
"Turanga Leela made her first appearance in the series, in "Space Pilot 3000", as a Fate Assignment Officer; a worker who implanted career chips into cryogenically frozen individuals, notably Fry, who were newly thawed."
Give it a couple years and maybe we'll see a new headline, "IBM Seeks Fate Assignment Officers".
How does that work? If they modify the terms of the contract then the contract has changed. The old one no longer applies, and you should be required to sign the new one if you want to keep receiving the service. If you choose not to sign the new contract you should be allowed to cancel your service with no penalty, since it was the company that modified the agreement.
That should be common sense, I'm amazed that it doesn't work that way. Wait... on second thought, no I'm not.
On the other hand, the more contaminants you expose your immune system to the more effective it becomes. I've been eating beef for over 20 years and I've yet to fall over deaghnbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
I'm interested in knowing what's the worst that could happen to the people behind Mediasentry if found guilty? What kind of fines are we talking about here? Could they face jail terms? Or will it just mean they have to dissolve the company and start again under a different name?
"So it is less than 1%. I'm curious why this doesn't that bode well for the field?"
Because science doesn't work on consensus, it works by constantly challenging new theories and being willing to be the devils advocate. The minute you have forced consensus you no longer have science.
CO2 content 2x higher than it has ever been in the history of our planet? Where are you pulling this garbage from?
CO2 levels were [b]11x higher[/b] 500 million years ago. 3x as high just 100 million years ago. This is all through proxy measurement, but if it's even remotely accurate then atmospheric CO2 levels today are some of the lowest in the last 500 million years. There's a nice article all about it that you might want to read.
That would work if this were a simple matter of traffic management. It's not. ISP's are being coerced into acting as 'traffic cops' for content holders. This has more to do with controlling digital distribution than with 5% of users using more bandwidth than others.
"Universal also raised the question of whether a particular use of copyrighted material constitutes fair use is a "fact-intensive inquiry," arguing that it is difficult for copyright owners to predict whether a court eventually may rule in their favor."
Well isn't that a crying shame, they can't shotgun automated DMCA notices without the threat of consequence anymore. Boohoo.
What do you expect? Almost the entire animal kingdom is polygamous to some degree and has been for millions of years. It takes more than a few thousand years to get rid of instincts that deeply engrained.
Besides the idea of being faithful to one partner throughout your life is nothing more than a piece of religious morality pushed by the Christian church (among others). There's some weak evidence that humans transitioned to monogamy around the time of Homo Erectus, but that line of study is pretty wishy washy at this point.
I'm curious, how does college radio factor into all this? The station in my city plays all kinds of music, jazz, indie, metal, mainstream, you name it. AFAIK they don't pay the music industry a dime to do this, but they don't make any money either. Once a year they hold a funding drive that basically pays for the transmitter and equipment. Does this fall under fair use? Or am I wrong in thinking they don't pay royalties for what they play?
But the point is the person making 10,000 a year won't be fined 50,000. It's a fixed percentage, which is a lot easier for individuals to handle and hits corporations just as hard. It's still a big blow for someone living just above the poverty line, but that's what a fine is.
I know we're talking about damages here, but percentage based fines would go a long way to solving the disparity between fining a corporation or an individual. 10% of last year's revenue speaks the same language no matter how much money you're making.
That's what it should mean, in reality it's more like a speedbump. They'll just try the same thing again, packaged in a slightly different way, and they'll keep on trying until they get a group of commissioners that agrees with them. This will go on until they're given stiff fines for their actions. Fines based on a percentage of their revenue, instead of a fixed number.
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Or it might indicate that a sample size of 16 isn't exactly good science.
Vreel is entering beta very soon. They've liscensed the DivX web player and will offer videos up to 1 GB, or up to 8.5 GB if you sign up for a premium account. With support for h.264 encoding. Looks like it will incorporate all the best features of the sorely missed Stage6.
You'll excuse me if I don't put much faith into determining a 1 or 2 degree global temperature variation over hundreds of thousands of years by looking at ice core samples. I'm not a climate researcher, but common sense tells me that inferring hundreds of thousands of years of climate history to an accuracy of 1 or 2 degrees C through proxy measurements of systems we're just beginning to understand is ridiculous.
Why don't we be honest with ourselves and admit we really don't know what's going on, but just to be on the safe side we should move to cleaner sources of energy. It couldn't hurt.
The key phrase there is 'healthy adult life'. Just because people are living to be 80 or 90 these days does not mean they're able to do the things they'd like to at that age. There are plenty of medical conditions that come with aging that, while not life threatening with modern medicine, will keep you from enjoying retirement at that age. Unless you're idea of a rich retirement is playing cards twice a week and going to bingo.
At 70 or 80 you just don't have the energy anymore, and you'll wish you had more time earlier in your life to do the things you wanted to do. At least this is the general feeling I've gotten from the elderly people I've met through my grandparents.
How about we figure out what exactly gravity *is* first, then we can decide whether we need a new type of invisible matter to explain what's going on out there.
"Turanga Leela made her first appearance in the series, in "Space Pilot 3000", as a Fate Assignment Officer; a worker who implanted career chips into cryogenically frozen individuals, notably Fry, who were newly thawed."
Give it a couple years and maybe we'll see a new headline, "IBM Seeks Fate Assignment Officers".
How does that work? If they modify the terms of the contract then the contract has changed. The old one no longer applies, and you should be required to sign the new one if you want to keep receiving the service. If you choose not to sign the new contract you should be allowed to cancel your service with no penalty, since it was the company that modified the agreement.
That should be common sense, I'm amazed that it doesn't work that way. Wait... on second thought, no I'm not.
On the other hand, the more contaminants you expose your immune system to the more effective it becomes. I've been eating beef for over 20 years and I've yet to fall over deaghnbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
But now Microsoft employees have one thing Google employees don't: strong wrists.
Blazing fast internet connections among 1.1 million people and the biggest LAN parties the world has ever seen.
Buddhabrot in 4D (in 3D, in 2D). The Mandelbrot fractal never looked so good.
I'm interested in knowing what's the worst that could happen to the people behind Mediasentry if found guilty? What kind of fines are we talking about here? Could they face jail terms? Or will it just mean they have to dissolve the company and start again under a different name?
"So it is less than 1%. I'm curious why this doesn't that bode well for the field?"
Because science doesn't work on consensus, it works by constantly challenging new theories and being willing to be the devils advocate. The minute you have forced consensus you no longer have science.
CO2 content 2x higher than it has ever been in the history of our planet? Where are you pulling this garbage from?
CO2 levels were [b]11x higher[/b] 500 million years ago. 3x as high just 100 million years ago. This is all through proxy measurement, but if it's even remotely accurate then atmospheric CO2 levels today are some of the lowest in the last 500 million years. There's a nice article all about it that you might want to read.
That would work if this were a simple matter of traffic management. It's not. ISP's are being coerced into acting as 'traffic cops' for content holders. This has more to do with controlling digital distribution than with 5% of users using more bandwidth than others.
"Universal also raised the question of whether a particular use of copyrighted material constitutes fair use is a "fact-intensive inquiry," arguing that it is difficult for copyright owners to predict whether a court eventually may rule in their favor."
Well isn't that a crying shame, they can't shotgun automated DMCA notices without the threat of consequence anymore. Boohoo.
What do you expect? Almost the entire animal kingdom is polygamous to some degree and has been for millions of years. It takes more than a few thousand years to get rid of instincts that deeply engrained.
Besides the idea of being faithful to one partner throughout your life is nothing more than a piece of religious morality pushed by the Christian church (among others). There's some weak evidence that humans transitioned to monogamy around the time of Homo Erectus, but that line of study is pretty wishy washy at this point.
We left capitalism by the wayside when we gave corporations the ability to directly influence politics. We're firmly in the domain of Corporatism now.
I'm curious, how does college radio factor into all this? The station in my city plays all kinds of music, jazz, indie, metal, mainstream, you name it. AFAIK they don't pay the music industry a dime to do this, but they don't make any money either. Once a year they hold a funding drive that basically pays for the transmitter and equipment. Does this fall under fair use? Or am I wrong in thinking they don't pay royalties for what they play?
The first installment of Slashdot's 434 part series Better Know a Noob!
Old internet meme that was snuck in. This video might shed some light on it.
Indiana Jones and The Quest to Regain His Dignity...
Or why don't we just cut right to the chase to keep this franchise going another 20 years:
That Kid From Transformers and Indiana Jones
But the point is the person making 10,000 a year won't be fined 50,000. It's a fixed percentage, which is a lot easier for individuals to handle and hits corporations just as hard. It's still a big blow for someone living just above the poverty line, but that's what a fine is.
I know we're talking about damages here, but percentage based fines would go a long way to solving the disparity between fining a corporation or an individual. 10% of last year's revenue speaks the same language no matter how much money you're making.
That's what it should mean, in reality it's more like a speedbump. They'll just try the same thing again, packaged in a slightly different way, and they'll keep on trying until they get a group of commissioners that agrees with them. This will go on until they're given stiff fines for their actions. Fines based on a percentage of their revenue, instead of a fixed number.