From the article: Back in November 2017, Playboy Entertainment Group sued Boing Boing, accusing it of violating the company’s copyright when, in February 2016, the website simply linked to a separate online collection of "Every Playboy Playmate Centerfold Ever." That portfolio, which was hosted on Imgur, has since been removed. Imgur did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment.
Because Boing Boing has advertising on its site, Playboy argued, it is profiting from those unauthorized images.
However in a Wednesday order, US District Judge Fernando Olguin slammed Playboy Entertainment in polite legalese.
"The court is skeptical that plaintiff has sufficiently alleged facts to support either its inducement or material contribution theories of copyright infringement," he wrote.
... Communities have monopoly agreements with ISPs (comcast/att/etc) that restrict the ability to get a new ISP to the home....
So, with the new FCC ruling overriding states abilities to setup their own NN rules, will this ALSO override these state/city agreements, effectively opening up these right-of-ways and last mile runs?
If the FCC does trump these, then the FCC/FTC will have to write a ruling on this one way or another. I assume if the "we choose to not write one" option is pursued, then a court case forcing the issue will come about.
If the FCC ruling does NOT trump these, then setting up additional clauses in the agreements could easily have other provisions such as requiring zero-rating for all content (replace with legal wiggle words that aren't "NN" but have the same effect).
The FCC and large ISPs can't have it both ways - we just have to be smart about using the new laws to our favor.
"I see you're trying to fix a linear accelerator, would you like some help?"
And who is responsible when the system tells the human to incorrectly repair something? If taken to the extreme companies will (attempt to) hire the least expensive human asset and expect the computer system to provide infallible information.
...but all that asshole driving as a teenager does tend to sharpen up those driving skills.
No, they tended to take themselves out of the gene pool, problem solved. (Yes, they would occasionally take others out too, but that's a much smaller number.)
So why not have a management client tool that is a native Windows app that you can run on your desktop?
For the complex applications that make good use of a GUI, these can be setup this way.
And a well written CLI tool run on the server (or possibly remotely) could do all of that too, just more complex command lines. (Or a curses-like menu system.)
How about this failsafe: Once Iran is confident that they can take control of all our drone aircraft, we put in a small yield bomb of some sort with a multi-hour delay. The delay timer is started once the lock between the drone and the US transmitter is broken. A few hours is probably enough to get the aircraft back to their base where they start dismantling it and *boom*.
And we can have the drones refuel at a remote automated location, so only maintenance is the only time a user would have to get close to the explosive. (Aircraft crews work with potentially armed bombs all the time, so it's not that big of a problem to surmount.)
I guess a Chrome browser pulling up that page, the Javascript PC Emulator booting X to run Chrome to run a Native Client PC emulator would be a neat hack...
You have forgotten the DEC Rainbow. But that's ok, everyone else has also forgoten the Rainbow.
Which is sad really. It was a dual-processor system - a Zilog Z80 and an Intel 8080 CPU. When it ran CP/M the Z80 did everything, but when it ran MS-DOS the 8080 was the primary CPU and the Z80 handled the IO.
The architecture was even better thought through and didn't break up the RAM like the IBM PC did (hence the 640K "limit"). I remember booting my Rainbow 100B and getting 720KB of usable RAM without trying very hard.
Sadly, the only real games that got ported to it were the Zork line of Infocom games, and a few DEC written graphical games. (Anyone remember "SCRAM"? Probably not the most marketable game since the objective was to descend to the lowest level of a failing nuclear reactor and "scram it" to keep it from going critical...)
Ken, you have no idea how much your "little company" got me started in computers. Thank you!
...and with the price of flash memory so low, it would be pretty easy to hide a little digital camera to snap photos of the person as they put the card in and/or stood in front of the machine. It would be easy to download those too and if they saw a few with the manager and a customer standing and pointing at the machine they would know that the gig was up and to just walk away.
I'm really thinking the cash idea is the way to go from now on.:-(
Seconded. Just a year ago I upgraded from my 4+ year old laptop with a 17" 1920x1200 resolution screen (LOVED IT!) to a new 18" laptop with 1920x1080. I thought I wouldn't notice those missing 120 lines...boy was I wrong.
My only options at the time (taking other requirements into consideration) were to drop down to a 16" screen (and missing some other features), or go up to this laptop that's trying to be a portable home-theatre system...and that's the crux of this problem.
The display industry is so facinated on the HDTV aspect that they think EVERYTHING needs to max out at 1920x1080, or the cinema spec of 16:9. My wifes new desktop came with a 1600x900 screen and it really sucks. With all the menubars that IE and Firefox insist on putting at the top, and then the big taskbar at the bottom you end up having a narrow band to read in. Add in the fact that most sites put adds down the left and right sides, and the effective usable resolution of the screen is about 640x480.
And don't get me started on the "glossy" screens that are standard today...yech.
Bogus -- no computer is capable of calculating THAT irrationally..... If you stuff it with enough buggy old Pentium CPUs it might...and it would have the overall speed of the "real thing" too...hmmm.
Who rated this "Funny"? I think "Informative" is closer to the truth...
(and the truth hurts.)
Dan -- "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (Who can watch the watchmen?) -- from the Satires of Juvenal "I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them." -- Isaac Asimov (Author)
Maybe NASA could get some cash by selling "Martian Graffiti" by the letter. The person/company with the highest bid gets to have their name/logo written in the dust by the wheels of the Rovers as they go about their business...:)
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Meanwhile, a federal judge has dismissed a case Playboy brought against Happy Mutants, the parent company of Boing Boing for doing something similar.
The article on Ars: https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
From the article:
Back in November 2017, Playboy Entertainment Group sued Boing Boing, accusing it of violating the company’s copyright when, in February 2016, the website simply linked to a separate online collection of "Every Playboy Playmate Centerfold Ever." That portfolio, which was hosted on Imgur, has since been removed. Imgur did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment.
Because Boing Boing has advertising on its site, Playboy argued, it is profiting from those unauthorized images.
However in a Wednesday order, US District Judge Fernando Olguin slammed Playboy Entertainment in polite legalese.
"The court is skeptical that plaintiff has sufficiently alleged facts to support either its inducement or material contribution theories of copyright infringement," he wrote.
... Communities have monopoly agreements with ISPs (comcast/att/etc) that restrict the ability to get a new ISP to the home. ...
So, with the new FCC ruling overriding states abilities to setup their own NN rules, will this ALSO override these state/city agreements, effectively opening up these right-of-ways and last mile runs?
If the FCC does trump these, then the FCC/FTC will have to write a ruling on this one way or another. I assume if the "we choose to not write one" option is pursued, then a court case forcing the issue will come about.
If the FCC ruling does NOT trump these, then setting up additional clauses in the agreements could easily have other provisions such as requiring zero-rating for all content (replace with legal wiggle words that aren't "NN" but have the same effect).
The FCC and large ISPs can't have it both ways - we just have to be smart about using the new laws to our favor.
For all the pain this has called me, I'm glad our national nightmare is finally over!
or
And for each of those, they present some example contents that could be used to verify it is part of this infection.
"I see you're trying to fix a linear accelerator, would you like some help?"
And who is responsible when the system tells the human to incorrectly repair something? If taken to the extreme companies will (attempt to) hire the least expensive human asset and expect the computer system to provide infallible information.
I quickly read the Wired article hoping to find a joke but didn't find the punchline...
Dan
...but all that asshole driving as a teenager does tend to sharpen up those driving skills.
No, they tended to take themselves out of the gene pool, problem solved. (Yes, they would occasionally take others out too, but that's a much smaller number.)
So, maybe cars today are too safe?
Use the Archive.org link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110724142332/http://www.zx81museum.net/adverts.html
I tried the Coral Cache link:
http://www.zx81museum.net.nyud.net/adverts.html
But it returns "500 Internal Server Error".
Dan
Use Archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110724142332/http://www.zx81museum.net/adverts.html
Dan
So why not have a management client tool that is a native Windows app that you can run on your desktop?
For the complex applications that make good use of a GUI, these can be setup this way.
And a well written CLI tool run on the server (or possibly remotely) could do all of that too, just more complex command lines. (Or a curses-like menu system.)
How about this failsafe:
Once Iran is confident that they can take control of all our drone aircraft, we put in a small yield bomb of some sort with a multi-hour delay. The delay timer is started once the lock between the drone and the US transmitter is broken. A few hours is probably enough to get the aircraft back to their base where they start dismantling it and *boom*.
And we can have the drones refuel at a remote automated location, so only maintenance is the only time a user would have to get close to the explosive. (Aircraft crews work with potentially armed bombs all the time, so it's not that big of a problem to surmount.)
If you're an American tax payer as I am, the only ones laughing will be the contractors...
"Oh, you want a secured and encrypted command and control signal too? That's another $2Billion and about 3 years for the proof of concept..."
Dan
How's the "Native Client" a big step when we've already seen the Javascript PC Emulator:
http://bellard.org/jslinux/
I guess a Chrome browser pulling up that page, the Javascript PC Emulator booting X to run Chrome to run a Native Client PC emulator would be a neat hack...
Dan
Eh, I kinda just realized that I'm coming off like a jerk. Sorry for my comments.
Wow, I'm impressed. The first sign of self-monitoring I've seen on Slashdot in a long time!
I sincerely wish more people would actually apologize like Sancho when they have an inkling they might have gone over the line.
You've restored my faith in the Slashdot community a bit.
Dan
You have forgotten the DEC Rainbow. But that's ok, everyone else has also forgoten the Rainbow.
Which is sad really. It was a dual-processor system - a Zilog Z80 and an Intel 8080 CPU. When it ran CP/M the Z80 did everything, but when it ran MS-DOS the 8080 was the primary CPU and the Z80 handled the IO.
The architecture was even better thought through and didn't break up the RAM like the IBM PC did (hence the 640K "limit"). I remember booting my Rainbow 100B and getting 720KB of usable RAM without trying very hard.
Sadly, the only real games that got ported to it were the Zork line of Infocom games, and a few DEC written graphical games. (Anyone remember "SCRAM"? Probably not the most marketable game since the objective was to descend to the lowest level of a failing nuclear reactor and "scram it" to keep it from going critical...)
Ken, you have no idea how much your "little company" got me started in computers. Thank you!
Dan
Since we're talking about discoveries that may lead to faster computers, these are the solutions it may use:
* Texas A&M Research Brings Racetrack Memory a Bit Closer -> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/01/0552254/Texas-AampM-Research-Brings-Racetrack-Memory-a-Bit-Closer
* SanDisk, Nikon and Sony Develop 500MB/sec 2TB Flash CardSanDisk, Nikon and Sony Develop 500MB/sec 2TB Flash Card -> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/01/1322255/SanDisk-Nikon-and-Sony-Develop-500MBsec-2TB-Flash-Card
My great-grandchildren will have screaming fast cell phones!
Dan
Great, now I know I'm even WORSE at solving it than ever...
Dan
...and with the price of flash memory so low, it would be pretty easy to hide a little digital camera to snap photos of the person as they put the card in and/or stood in front of the machine. It would be easy to download those too and if they saw a few with the manager and a customer standing and pointing at the machine they would know that the gig was up and to just walk away.
I'm really thinking the cash idea is the way to go from now on. :-(
Dan
At most gas stations the price setting is done remotely from inside the building (probably along with the big digital sign price too).
Dan
Seconded. Just a year ago I upgraded from my 4+ year old laptop with a 17" 1920x1200 resolution screen (LOVED IT!) to a new 18" laptop with 1920x1080. I thought I wouldn't notice those missing 120 lines...boy was I wrong.
My only options at the time (taking other requirements into consideration) were to drop down to a 16" screen (and missing some other features), or go up to this laptop that's trying to be a portable home-theatre system...and that's the crux of this problem.
The display industry is so facinated on the HDTV aspect that they think EVERYTHING needs to max out at 1920x1080, or the cinema spec of 16:9. My wifes new desktop came with a 1600x900 screen and it really sucks. With all the menubars that IE and Firefox insist on putting at the top, and then the big taskbar at the bottom you end up having a narrow band to read in. Add in the fact that most sites put adds down the left and right sides, and the effective usable resolution of the screen is about 640x480.
And don't get me started on the "glossy" screens that are standard today...yech.
Dan
Now they can give those birds a rest!
Dan
Dan
Who rated this "Funny"? I think "Informative" is closer to the truth...
(and the truth hurts.)
Dan
--
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (Who can watch the watchmen?) -- from the Satires of Juvenal
"I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them." -- Isaac Asimov (Author)
Must be using one of those late 90's Pentium CPUs...
(Afterall, this is Slashdot and you wouldn't be using Windows Calculator or Excel, would you?)
Dan
Maybe NASA could get some cash by selling "Martian Graffiti" by the letter. The person/company with the highest bid gets to have their name/logo written in the dust by the wheels of the Rovers as they go about their business... :)
Dan