Remember, the CEOs of tech companies failed to constrain costs in the late 1990s, and we know what happened to them. Be very careful in spending. Consider whether this port is absolutly necesssary.
"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program." -Larry Niven
No, that's a situation where it would be a criminal matter, and the higher standard would apply. In any case, my post was not about my point of view -- it was about the reality of how these civil copyright cases work. Perhaps there is a flaw in it, but that is a flaw in the system, and not merely in my reporting on it.
One of the urban myths about the Japanese Yakuza, is that if they wanted to knock one of their own members without getting into trouble with the law is to send them on a business trip to Singapore (or Indonesia) but have someone put heroine in their luggage and then tip off the authorities.
In Signapore and Indonesia the punishment for drug trafficking is death...
It wouldn't be too farfetched for a person to compromise someones box and then set them up. As in... Put child porn and then troll chat rooms and forums looking for undercover cops or register a file sharing website under their name and address and then upload thousands of mp3s and to their home computers.
Remember, the standard of proof is a preponderance of the evidence. So long as it is even slightly more likely than not that the person with the WAP did it, as opposed to some mysterious other person, that is sufficient proof that he did do it. It's criminal trials prosecuted by the government that use the higher standard of beyond a reasonable doubt. That is not the standard used here.
When I went to jury duty, before they divided us up to criminal and civil they explained the difference between resonable doubt for criminal and then what entails a civil case.
This speach was about 5 minutes and I was still confused what perponderance of evidence meant versus reasonable doubt.
I'm pretty sure if I ended up on a civil trial I would have just judged it the same as a criminal one.
I figure the more likely scenario is that Paramount told the guy, "If you let us have your computers, we won't sue you." The guy, not being a lawyer and thinking that was a good deal, said, "Okay,"
Reminds of something I was reading while I was proof reading my friends paper (she is a lawschool student) and it was about how 80% of our states searches and seizures are not done through warrants. Out of those it was 10% probable cause (the police suspect something is going on), 1% of that with immediate threat (like the police witness the crime or the crime was in progress), and the rest was consent in which the police knocked and asked if they could come in and the person said yes which waives their rights.
Her paper goes on to discuss the issues over how much consent is needed before you waive your rights to a warrant. She's not a lawyer yet so take that as a grain of salt and the figures may not be exact, but I thought it was interesting since I didn't realize the high number of searches and seizures without warrants (at least in our state).
This would require a mandatory, permanent Internet connection for your BD player and I doubt we'll see stuff like that in consumer electronics in the next 10 years.
Actually, you'd just need a single part on the disc that would be CDR or CDRW like (possibly on the inner or outer rim seperate from the Blu-Ray media) in which the Blu-ray drive burns in serial number code on to that part with a seperate type of laser. If you put the disc in another blu-ray drive it would check for this number to see if it matches and if not it doesn't play.
The cheapness of CDR components would make this trivial to get this working in a player.
I hope I didn't just give MPAA any ideas, but perhaps this could be defeated with a sharpee;)
Do not befriend the users. Do not tell them what is actually going wrong. Never accept blame. Do not rush to complete requests.
Here are the reasons why:
If you befriend them, they will cease to be able to do the simplest thing without your help. This is fine if they're hot, but not if they're not.
I work for an outsource support desk company and we are told to do the opposite of what you are saying. We are to befriend, make the feel good about themselves, accept the blame, and encourage them to call back even if we didn't resolve their problem. Of course, we bill them for it... So if they call back, the more we do business.
Apparently the local desks don't mind because the more we talk to them, the more they don't... It is a painful way to make a living though.
Anthropocentrism is not bullshit. It's probably a necessary component to human society, and other than extremely arrogant forms of it (such as global warming as being both human-caused and within the grasp of human control to stop) it is a healthy mindset for humans to have.
I for one hope that silicon based sentient life doesn't hold the same views about itself when they show up.
I can take my DVD and basically expect to play it in any DVD player in the US. My friends, the dvd on the TV in the living room, the dvd on my computer. I put it in and it works. I don't really bother with copies because the blank DVD-Rs are almost exspensive as buying it in the stores and chances are I'd download the torrent before I'd hit up google to download a free dvd copy utility.
If I can't do this with Blu-ray as far as taking the disc with me and playing it on any device then I'd say that is invasive.
Chances are is that someone will release a "region free" Blu-ray player just like the region free dvd players now to get around this though.
...leads to wasting more time customizing the DesktopOS rather than using programs to do actual tasks.
The trick is to get a desktop to doesn't need customization out of the box and still get everything you need by default. The only one that almost gets it right is OS X, but it can use a bit of work too.
I don't care if you're some kind of whiz-bang gamer, if you are the only person responsible for the safe operation of a huge chunk of fast moving metal, shouldn't you be concentrating overwhelmingly on that task alone?
Driving is not a single task. You have to move a wheel, use you right foot for gas and break, (and if you have manual you have to use your right hand for shift and left foot for clutch) and then you have to pay attention to sounds, multiple moving objects and where you as a person are going as well as the motion path you have to travel.
Now, you've got to fiddle with the radio adjust the heat and many other things one does while driving. Not to mention everyone else is doing the same thing.
Throwing a cell phone in the mix may not even put the camel over the top because one has to not pay attention to all those above without wrecking.
If you drive poorly while using a cell phone, chances are you will drive poorly because you have to activily drive rather than passivley drive and are unable to react according because even though you were paying attention to driving you were paying attention too much to your actions and there for failed to notice external changes such as a car slamming on its brakes in front of you.
Learning better hand eye coordination and multi-tasking is the best hope for this, but it doesn't cure aggressive driving.
Yes, but a passenger is MUCH more likely to alert you of an impending danger(they can see where you are, and of course don't want to die) than a person on a cell phone.
Mom: *screams blood curtling cry* Look out! Me: *slams on brakes* WHAT??!! *cars honking angry as they pass* Mom: Oh he didn't pull out in front of us. Sorry. Me: Well... He would have had to run a red light from a complete stop!
that really is an affront to mankind (uh, okay, that's kinda extreme)...these kids are already struggling with obesity (read the data folks, our kids are mostly fat), and putting more distractions in front of them during quite possibly the only time in which they might eat and interact directly with their parents and siblings is just wrong,
Do you really think that most parents want to interact with their kids or get them to shut up for just A SMALL FRACTION OF THE GODDAMN DAY YOU LITTLE WORTHLESS BRAT!!! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST SIT STILL AND ACT LIKE THE JONE'S KID!!! IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK! AND NO YOU CAN'T HAVE DESERT! SSSSHHHH!! JUST ZIP IT!!
Lets see, we have had two world wars both started by the germans.
Are you saying that people that are alive today are responsible for something that most of them weren't even born at the time?
With that thinking, I can blame you for slavery of blacks and the genocide of Indians in the 1800's!
No sir. I refuse to take the responsiblity of a generation that I wasn't around to have my say in nor will I blame anyone.
But you know what... Our generation is responsible for what is going on right now in the middle east! We were alive and well come voting time in 2000 and 2004.
It's just scary to realize how similiar the Chinese economy is to the Japanese economy of 20 years ago, and how China is pretty much guarenteed to hit the wall within the next decade, just like Japan did.
Japan hit a wall mostly because it has only a limited workforce which is currently aging. That and it has to import all its raw materials.
China does not have to worry about an aging or limited workforce nor does it have to worry about importing all of its raw materials (except for oil but we have the same reliance problem).
Sony could no less repent than a rock on the ground. Unless you have some type of being that feels emotions then stop trying anthromorphize corporations.
I think the kind of over-sexualized images you see in games has a negative effect on society's attitudes towards women, but that doesn't have to be the motivation to change it. If game makers would go with the demand and sell games women want to buy, I think the market would take care of itself.
And I think the market has been taking care of it self with potrayal as women as "whores/sluts" on reality TV, t-shirt slogan upheaval, female musicians, and various other outlets that aren't even related to gaming or even geeks.
I mean how many of us watch shows about Paris Hilton or pay attention to actual fashion today. I don't really keep up with it but every time I go to a mall I realize how much part of this culture is not all the fault of males.
But there are parts of that which are the fault of males... Especially the porn part *coughs*
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Remember, the CEOs of tech companies failed to constrain costs in the late 1990s, and we know what happened to them. Be very careful in spending. Consider whether this port is absolutly necesssary.
"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program."
-Larry Niven
No, that's a situation where it would be a criminal matter, and the higher standard would apply. In any case, my post was not about my point of view -- it was about the reality of how these civil copyright cases work. Perhaps there is a flaw in it, but that is a flaw in the system, and not merely in my reporting on it.
One of the urban myths about the Japanese Yakuza, is that if they wanted to knock one of their own members without getting into trouble with the law is to send them on a business trip to Singapore (or Indonesia) but have someone put heroine in their luggage and then tip off the authorities.
In Signapore and Indonesia the punishment for drug trafficking is death...
It wouldn't be too farfetched for a person to compromise someones box and then set them up. As in... Put child porn and then troll chat rooms and forums looking for undercover cops or register a file sharing website under their name and address and then upload thousands of mp3s and to their home computers.
Remember, the standard of proof is a preponderance of the evidence. So long as it is even slightly more likely than not that the person with the WAP did it, as opposed to some mysterious other person, that is sufficient proof that he did do it. It's criminal trials prosecuted by the government that use the higher standard of beyond a reasonable doubt. That is not the standard used here.
When I went to jury duty, before they divided us up to criminal and civil they explained the difference between resonable doubt for criminal and then what entails a civil case.
This speach was about 5 minutes and I was still confused what perponderance of evidence meant versus reasonable doubt.
I'm pretty sure if I ended up on a civil trial I would have just judged it the same as a criminal one.
I figure the more likely scenario is that Paramount told the guy, "If you let us have your computers, we won't sue you." The guy, not being a lawyer and thinking that was a good deal, said, "Okay,"
Reminds of something I was reading while I was proof reading my friends paper (she is a lawschool student) and it was about how 80% of our states searches and seizures are not done through warrants. Out of those it was 10% probable cause (the police suspect something is going on), 1% of that with immediate threat (like the police witness the crime or the crime was in progress), and the rest was consent in which the police knocked and asked if they could come in and the person said yes which waives their rights.
Her paper goes on to discuss the issues over how much consent is needed before you waive your rights to a warrant. She's not a lawyer yet so take that as a grain of salt and the figures may not be exact, but I thought it was interesting since I didn't realize the high number of searches and seizures without warrants (at least in our state).
The big problem with trying to secure wipe your drive is that it takes hours...
;)
Unless you have really powerful magnets. But most people don't don't have a MRI Machine in their basement.
Shows that suck should be cancelled, that's how it works. Stop this 'Sign of the Times' crap and just move on. Lots of shows get cancelled.
Explain Firefly and Farscape?
but I watch g4tv.com and Filter to look at hot girls!
You know for $5 a month more on your cable/satellite bill you can watch them naked on 200 channels up.
This would require a mandatory, permanent Internet connection for your BD player and I doubt we'll see stuff like that in consumer electronics in the next 10 years.
;)
Actually, you'd just need a single part on the disc that would be CDR or CDRW like (possibly on the inner or outer rim seperate from the Blu-Ray media) in which the Blu-ray drive burns in serial number code on to that part with a seperate type of laser. If you put the disc in another blu-ray drive it would check for this number to see if it matches and if not it doesn't play.
The cheapness of CDR components would make this trivial to get this working in a player.
I hope I didn't just give MPAA any ideas, but perhaps this could be defeated with a sharpee
Do not befriend the users. Do not tell them what is actually going wrong. Never accept blame. Do not rush to complete requests.
Here are the reasons why:
If you befriend them, they will cease to be able to do the simplest thing without your help. This is fine if they're hot, but not if they're not.
I work for an outsource support desk company and we are told to do the opposite of what you are saying. We are to befriend, make the feel good about themselves, accept the blame, and encourage them to call back even if we didn't resolve their problem. Of course, we bill them for it... So if they call back, the more we do business.
Apparently the local desks don't mind because the more we talk to them, the more they don't... It is a painful way to make a living though.
*first* thing to do would be to check the physical connection (aka power cord) and found your problem right away.
Actually you would check the power outlet first and then the cord... Or the surge protector or UPS, but I'm getting symanetec.
Anthropocentrism is not bullshit. It's probably a necessary component to human society, and other than extremely arrogant forms of it (such as global warming as being both human-caused and within the grasp of human control to stop) it is a healthy mindset for humans to have.
I for one hope that silicon based sentient life doesn't hold the same views about itself when they show up.
Well, current DVDs already have invasive DRM.
I can take my DVD and basically expect to play it in any DVD player in the US. My friends, the dvd on the TV in the living room, the dvd on my computer. I put it in and it works. I don't really bother with copies because the blank DVD-Rs are almost exspensive as buying it in the stores and chances are I'd download the torrent before I'd hit up google to download a free dvd copy utility.
If I can't do this with Blu-ray as far as taking the disc with me and playing it on any device then I'd say that is invasive.
Chances are is that someone will release a "region free" Blu-ray player just like the region free dvd players now to get around this though.
...leads to wasting more time customizing the DesktopOS rather than using programs to do actual tasks.
The trick is to get a desktop to doesn't need customization out of the box and still get everything you need by default. The only one that almost gets it right is OS X, but it can use a bit of work too.
I hope that $75 billion includes fiber to the curb in every house in America.
I love IPv6 and all, but lets do the fiber first and then deal with the protocol.
IPv6 isn't going to happen, because it doesn't need to happen. I can get to all the web sites I need.
I'm sure the train barons said the same thing about traveling to cities on rail when asked about that new fandangled auto-mobile.
Wow -- complaining that Opera should start innovating is kind of like saying that Mac OS ripped off Windows.
No. No No. No... Microsoft ripped off Apple.
Of course Apple ripped off Xerox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism
I don't care if you're some kind of whiz-bang gamer, if you are the only person responsible for the safe operation of a huge chunk of fast moving metal, shouldn't you be concentrating overwhelmingly on that task alone?
Driving is not a single task. You have to move a wheel, use you right foot for gas and break, (and if you have manual you have to use your right hand for shift and left foot for clutch) and then you have to pay attention to sounds, multiple moving objects and where you as a person are going as well as the motion path you have to travel.
Now, you've got to fiddle with the radio adjust the heat and many other things one does while driving. Not to mention everyone else is doing the same thing.
Throwing a cell phone in the mix may not even put the camel over the top because one has to not pay attention to all those above without wrecking.
If you drive poorly while using a cell phone, chances are you will drive poorly because you have to activily drive rather than passivley drive and are unable to react according because even though you were paying attention to driving you were paying attention too much to your actions and there for failed to notice external changes such as a car slamming on its brakes in front of you.
Learning better hand eye coordination and multi-tasking is the best hope for this, but it doesn't cure aggressive driving.
Yes, but a passenger is MUCH more likely to alert you of an impending danger(they can see where you are, and of course don't want to die) than a person on a cell phone.
Mom: *screams blood curtling cry* Look out!
Me: *slams on brakes* WHAT??!! *cars honking angry as they pass*
Mom: Oh he didn't pull out in front of us. Sorry.
Me: Well... He would have had to run a red light from a complete stop!
that really is an affront to mankind (uh, okay, that's kinda extreme)...these kids are already struggling with obesity (read the data folks, our kids are mostly fat), and putting more distractions in front of them during quite possibly the only time in which they might eat and interact directly with their parents and siblings is just wrong,
Do you really think that most parents want to interact with their kids or get them to shut up for just A SMALL FRACTION OF THE GODDAMN DAY YOU LITTLE WORTHLESS BRAT!!! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST SIT STILL AND ACT LIKE THE JONE'S KID!!! IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK! AND NO YOU CAN'T HAVE DESERT! SSSSHHHH!! JUST ZIP IT!!
Lets see, we have had two world wars both started by the germans.
Are you saying that people that are alive today are responsible for something that most of them weren't even born at the time?
With that thinking, I can blame you for slavery of blacks and the genocide of Indians in the 1800's!
No sir. I refuse to take the responsiblity of a generation that I wasn't around to have my say in nor will I blame anyone.
But you know what... Our generation is responsible for what is going on right now in the middle east! We were alive and well come voting time in 2000 and 2004.
It's just scary to realize how similiar the Chinese economy is to the Japanese economy of 20 years ago, and how China is pretty much guarenteed to hit the wall within the next decade, just like Japan did.
Japan hit a wall mostly because it has only a limited workforce which is currently aging. That and it has to import all its raw materials.
China does not have to worry about an aging or limited workforce nor does it have to worry about importing all of its raw materials (except for oil but we have the same reliance problem).
Now we have a communist economic powerhouse and noone seems to be raising a stink. Why is that?
Might be that war we are involved in the middle east.
Sony Repents Over CD Debacle
Sony could no less repent than a rock on the ground. Unless you have some type of being that feels emotions then stop trying anthromorphize corporations.
I think the kind of over-sexualized images you see in games has a negative effect on society's attitudes towards women, but that doesn't have to be the motivation to change it. If game makers would go with the demand and sell games women want to buy, I think the market would take care of itself.
And I think the market has been taking care of it self with potrayal as women as "whores/sluts" on reality TV, t-shirt slogan upheaval, female musicians, and various other outlets that aren't even related to gaming or even geeks.
I mean how many of us watch shows about Paris Hilton or pay attention to actual fashion today. I don't really keep up with it but every time I go to a mall I realize how much part of this culture is not all the fault of males.
But there are parts of that which are the fault of males... Especially the porn part *coughs*