Grandma should be allowed put a different name on the ticket than the one on her credit card. All the grandchild needs is some ID with a matching name on it. Problem solved.
They would try and get you with resisting arrest. So the entire pretense for arresting you is resisting arrest. Doesn't matter what the resistance is; vocal, thought, physical..
Just ask politely if you're under arrest. If not, carry right on doing whatever it is you were doing..
There are other crazy laws on the books like this, like being drunk...in public.
Um, yes, but there's written laws for that. So far there's no law against photography and a cop really ought to know that.
FTA: "We simulated this by copying 100GB of mixed files (OS files, multiple game installs, MP3s and larger video files ) to the SSD, deleting them, and then repeating the process ten times,"
Surely you should be deleting half the files - every other file - then rewriting them. If you copy a bunch of files then delete them all you're leaving the drive in pretty much the same state as it was at the start, the only difference between passes wil be due to the wear levelling algorithms inside the drive. Overall performance at the end will mostly be a result of the initial condition of the drive, not what happened during the test.
The earth has been both hotter and cooler than it is now.
Sure, but it was hotter a loooong time ago, when there weren't major financial centers on the coastlines.
I'm all for taking better care of the planet, but the global warming nuts haven't really provided much evidence
Sure they have, you're just closing your eyes/ears to it all and avoiding looking directly at it because it doesn't suit your beliefs.
Pretty much all the "hotter and cooler" periods you refer to were a result of atmospheric chemistry. We've been changing the chemistry since the Industrial revolution. The greenhouse effect is well understood and was first speculated about in the 19th century. We can't expect to raise the CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and not change the global temperatures, it simply doesn't work that way.
Almost everywhere we look the ice is melting, spring is arriving earlier, plants and animals are migrating northwards, etc., etc. None of these things are speculation or opinion, they're measurable and observable (unlike the arguments presented by the deniers which are mostly hand waving and anecdotes).
Democracy is democracy. You get the votes, you get the power.
Can you name a democratic country where everything the government does makes sense (eg. "war on drugs" is prevalent in most of the world). Is having the country run by Christians or oil magnates really any more sensible than pirates?
I'm sure the newspapers and TV stations will be all over it. The headlines tomorrow will be nothing but apologies for dragging him through the mud for months on end and how the climatologists are right after all.
$350k would be more believable (as a reference, West Coast Choppers charges well over $100,000 for one of their bikes and they've got a production line going for most of the parts).
Either they're doing it at a massive loss just to get famous or the thing you end up with will look nothing like the pics (more likely).
Windows 8 will be centered around the "Windows App Store" - a brilliant innovation I think you'll agree. Microsoft is again leading the world forwards into a new era.
They probably cost them about as much as the home cassette recorder cost them in the 1980s. WHen I was a student twin tape decks were the norm and most people had shelves stacked high with copied tapes in their dorm rooms.
They weathered that one by... offering consumers something much nicer, shinier, and more convenient, ie. CDs. CDs were expensive but people bought them anyway because they were desirable.
So...it's not just about money and getting things for free, it's about convenience and desirability.
Right now the pirates are offering a service which is both more convenient *and* more desirable then what the RIAA is offering, ie. no DRM to prevent you playing it wherever you want to, you don't have to have a full album, just the song you heard on the radio, you can edit your current 'mixtape' in seconds, etc.
Apple is listening to what consumers really want (ie. iPods and immediate access to *everything* with listen-before-you-buy ability) and they're doing Ok.
The stick-in-the-mud RIAA with its shops full of 1990's-era, mostly-filler CDs? Not so much.
I feel that if they managed to get the torrent sites shut down...
I'm not sure they can. They've been trying for the last ten years and the site just went offshore.
If they sue enough users and/or get enough Internet connections disconnected, another, more encrypted, less trackable system will spring up to replace the torrents. It already happened three or four times - Napster, eDonkey, Gnutella, etc. were all replaced by newer, less lawyerable protocols.
Nope. The problem is that they spend the $200 on their iPhones or DVDs.
DVD sales are up, cinema attendence is continually breaking records, Apple is selling millions of iPhones... something has to give, and that 'something' is the thing which is easiest to copy/get for free, ie. music.
I do agree 100% with the sentiment that even if the RIAA gets every law and every copy protection it can possibly dream up it won't make any more money than it's making now. People aren't going to put down their iPods and stop going to the cinema with their friends just so they can have another CD on their shelf.
OTOH... the world will be a far worse place to live in if we let them do it.
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Grandma should be allowed put a different name on the ticket than the one on her credit card. All the grandchild needs is some ID with a matching name on it. Problem solved.
Can I patent this process please?
Sure it does...rigth click on any folder, select "properties", go to the "security" tab and knock yourself out with all the options.
Exactly. We don't believe for a minute they're going to repeal any laws worth repealing so let's just mock them.
For more examples see the petitions site: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/
Do you really think there's terrorists everywhere constantly planning attacks?
I'm pretty sure there aren't.
They would try and get you with resisting arrest. So the entire pretense for arresting you is resisting arrest. Doesn't matter what the resistance is; vocal, thought, physical..
Just ask politely if you're under arrest. If not, carry right on doing whatever it is you were doing. .
There are other crazy laws on the books like this, like being drunk...in public.
Um, yes, but there's written laws for that. So far there's no law against photography and a cop really ought to know that.
FTA: "We simulated this by copying 100GB of mixed files (OS files, multiple game installs, MP3s and larger video files ) to the SSD, deleting them, and then repeating the process ten times,"
Surely you should be deleting half the files - every other file - then rewriting them. If you copy a bunch of files then delete them all you're leaving the drive in pretty much the same state as it was at the start, the only difference between passes wil be due to the wear levelling algorithms inside the drive. Overall performance at the end will mostly be a result of the initial condition of the drive, not what happened during the test.
Hope they've got a big server....
I'll be sure to remember that next time I go to a voting booth.
Your argument against was...?
The earth has been both hotter and cooler than it is now.
Sure, but it was hotter a loooong time ago, when there weren't major financial centers on the coastlines.
I'm all for taking better care of the planet, but the global warming nuts haven't really provided much evidence
Sure they have, you're just closing your eyes/ears to it all and avoiding looking directly at it because it doesn't suit your beliefs.
Pretty much all the "hotter and cooler" periods you refer to were a result of atmospheric chemistry. We've been changing the chemistry since the Industrial revolution. The greenhouse effect is well understood and was first speculated about in the 19th century. We can't expect to raise the CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and not change the global temperatures, it simply doesn't work that way.
Almost everywhere we look the ice is melting, spring is arriving earlier, plants and animals are migrating northwards, etc., etc. None of these things are speculation or opinion, they're measurable and observable (unlike the arguments presented by the deniers which are mostly hand waving and anecdotes).
You'd have to get 4% of the people to vote for you, good luck with that.
PS: If it's really your thing there are countries which will oblige you without going through all that hassle.
Democracy is democracy. You get the votes, you get the power.
Can you name a democratic country where everything the government does makes sense (eg. "war on drugs" is prevalent in most of the world). Is having the country run by Christians or oil magnates really any more sensible than pirates?
I'm sure the newspapers and TV stations will be all over it. The headlines tomorrow will be nothing but apologies for dragging him through the mud for months on end and how the climatologists are right after all.
Plus ... people won't be able to flip one of the batteries around for storage of electronic things without the batteries leaking.
$350k would be more believable (as a reference, West Coast Choppers charges well over $100,000 for one of their bikes and they've got a production line going for most of the parts).
Either they're doing it at a massive loss just to get famous or the thing you end up with will look nothing like the pics (more likely).
$35k seems like a steal to me.
(Assuming they can deliver, which I"m not too sure about...)
Sure... apart from all the scars, the pain and the expense of all the removal sessions.
Windows 8 will be centered around the "Windows App Store" - a brilliant innovation I think you'll agree. Microsoft is again leading the world forwards into a new era.
They probably cost them about as much as the home cassette recorder cost them in the 1980s. WHen I was a student twin tape decks were the norm and most people had shelves stacked high with copied tapes in their dorm rooms.
They weathered that one by ... offering consumers something much nicer, shinier, and more convenient, ie. CDs. CDs were expensive but people bought them anyway because they were desirable.
So...it's not just about money and getting things for free, it's about convenience and desirability.
Right now the pirates are offering a service which is both more convenient *and* more desirable then what the RIAA is offering, ie. no DRM to prevent you playing it wherever you want to, you don't have to have a full album, just the song you heard on the radio, you can edit your current 'mixtape' in seconds, etc.
Apple is listening to what consumers really want (ie. iPods and immediate access to *everything* with listen-before-you-buy ability) and they're doing Ok.
The stick-in-the-mud RIAA with its shops full of 1990's-era, mostly-filler CDs? Not so much.
I feel that if they managed to get the torrent sites shut down...
I'm not sure they can. They've been trying for the last ten years and the site just went offshore.
If they sue enough users and/or get enough Internet connections disconnected, another, more encrypted, less trackable system will spring up to replace the torrents. It already happened three or four times - Napster, eDonkey, Gnutella, etc. were all replaced by newer, less lawyerable protocols.
For this to work you're not allowed to know *which* coin is heads.
If you open one of your hands and look at one of them the probability function collapses back to 50%.
The trick is to get somebody else to look at them for you...
See! I *did* mess up what Americans think of as "billion" and "trillion"...
In that case, yeah, you're screwed. Building gas powered plants is a bad idea.
Nope. The problem is that they spend the $200 on their iPhones or DVDs.
DVD sales are up, cinema attendence is continually breaking records, Apple is selling millions of iPhones ... something has to give, and that 'something' is the thing which is easiest to copy/get for free, ie. music.
I do agree 100% with the sentiment that even if the RIAA gets every law and every copy protection it can possibly dream up it won't make any more money than it's making now. People aren't going to put down their iPods and stop going to the cinema with their friends just so they can have another CD on their shelf.
OTOH ... the world will be a far worse place to live in if we let them do it.
Nope.
"I have just tossed a 10 pence coin and it has come up heads, what is the probability that another coin toss will come up heads?"
Is *not* the same as:
"I just tossed two coins and one of them was heads, what is the probability that the other one was heads as well?"
Or a pair of underpants which can impress on demand...