you made me doubt myself and while wikipedia isn't the most reliable source, it's quick and usually in the right direction on non-controversial articles.
While the ruling wasn't as strong as I remembered, it was about that there were non-infringing uses and not even that there were widespread use of said non-infringing uses, but just the capability of non-infringing uses.
Sony made it's initial money off a sliver of non-infringing purpose with the vcr (with its ability to record, not play that is). almost all uses of it were infringing but there was the one case of time shifting that was deemed non-infringing and that sliver was enough that the lawsuits were denied.
Soooo, as long as there's a non-infringing use for it, even if 99% of the capability is infringing, it should be allowed as was allowed by the prior ruling.
Of course, as IANAL and the law rarely does what is right (or even remains self consistent) when faced by big money.
I remember someone predicting that when Bush announced his planned trips to mars and the moon, it was really a politically astute way of dumping the space program without looking like he was dumping the space program. There was no provision for how to pay for these new missions and by the time actual funding was going to be needed, it would be somebody else's problem (without even having to paint the shuttles pink). Otherwise, the very real problems of what to do with the short term needs at NASA were going to be center stage and have to be dealt with in his administration. The lack of a shuttle replacement, problems with the existing shuttle's safety/reliability, how to maintain the ISS, etc.
the physics of it don't pan out though. any asteroid large enough to be a significant threat is not something we could damage with current nuclear yields and making larger bombs, while possible, would be more dangerous to have here than the remote chance of an asteroid impact.
we'd be better off investigating other means of modifying an asteroids path such as solar sails, robotic mass drivers, parking a small mass near it for gravitational deflection to name a few.
and for those that don't want or need such tools can probably get most (all?) of what they need relatively cheaply from say emachineshop or the like. also a good idea if you are bad with power tools unless you like having 3 1/2 fingers.
not sure if lawyers would be able to successfully argue that or not, but the intent of that provision was that you couldn't criminalize something and then try someone for committing the crime prior to it being a law. invalidating patent/copyright protections would not be making them criminal nor trying to prosecute a person or corporation for claiming a patent/copyright.
The fix would be to have the monitor hardware take the limited info and spread it around to the appropriate groups of pixels instead of trying to have the video card render and push billions of pixels through the video cable. 1920x1080? right, each pixel of input maps to blocks of 15x15 (to pull a number out of my ass) on the actual display. 960x540? each pixel maps to blocks of 30x30, etc.
Except a well designed hud would be reflected and focus adjusted for a relaxed eye (i.e. infinite distance) instead of trying to focus for 3 inches away. Still distracting but not the eye strain from going from focusing close to far to close you're describing.
I am reminded of a particular xkcd main times while perusing a slashdot science story. http://xkcd.com/675/
Oh, not in response to your response, more to the GP. Though I think you meant an proton/neutron and a neutrino of the right energy meeting at exactly the same time since we're talking about radioactive decay.
I use avant window navigator for a doc and gnome-do for quicksilver like launcher. found I couldn't quite get the gnome-do dock to do what I wanted visually or functionally but awn worked nicely.
Yeah, I wasn't expecting that data wasn't shared quickly but more that the source of this animations data might be entered in a less timely manner. interesting to know that the pulses are from moonlight and a little disturbing as to how much of our asteroid mapping is affected by weather. That we might miss the 'big one' because there was a storm on the wrong night...
You'll also notice that the discovery rate seems to "pulsate" with a period of about 12 times per year (this is most obvious in the 2000s when the discovery rate was mostly uniform throughout the year). I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to explain why that is (hint, skies need to be very dark to observe faint asteroids).
then why wouldn't it be 13 times per year?
I would guess that some of the data is submitted monthly and the tracts show when the data was submitted, not necessarily observed. there's also a lot of big pulses early on, far larger than the overall rate would see to indicate as within the normal deviation of observation rate at that point. hence, the thought that it's mapping based on submission date and some are submitting bulk results on a monthly or quarterly basis.
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Except if you're using one use cyphers it doesn't matter how public the broadcast is or how much of the broadcast is recorded as long as the cypher remains secret.
The former is mostly passive - you won't be able to detect this without seeing it visually (annoying - imagine having to check every part of your car before driving off from anywhere) or seeing someone tampering with your car (unlikely, unless you have a camera to monitor your car at all times).
The latter, you might be able to pick up with a sensor.
you could probably work up some sort of capacitance sensor to the frame of the car. When someone goes to install this, they'd change that briefly and you'd know to bother looking. False positives would be annoying from accidental contact though if frequent enough.
Given the costs of most college books, this might be cheaper than any other book required for their coursework. Wait, no, make that definitely cheaper than any other required book as Portal is down to the 10 - 20 buck range.
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you made me doubt myself and while wikipedia isn't the most reliable source, it's quick and usually in the right direction on non-controversial articles.
Sony vs. Universal City Studios
While the ruling wasn't as strong as I remembered, it was about that there were non-infringing uses and not even that there were widespread use of said non-infringing uses, but just the capability of non-infringing uses.
Sony made it's initial money off a sliver of non-infringing purpose with the vcr (with its ability to record, not play that is). almost all uses of it were infringing but there was the one case of time shifting that was deemed non-infringing and that sliver was enough that the lawsuits were denied.
Soooo, as long as there's a non-infringing use for it, even if 99% of the capability is infringing, it should be allowed as was allowed by the prior ruling.
Of course, as IANAL and the law rarely does what is right (or even remains self consistent) when faced by big money.
The one that doesn't contribute to unicorn slaughter and gypsy scalping?
I remember someone predicting that when Bush announced his planned trips to mars and the moon, it was really a politically astute way of dumping the space program without looking like he was dumping the space program. There was no provision for how to pay for these new missions and by the time actual funding was going to be needed, it would be somebody else's problem (without even having to paint the shuttles pink). Otherwise, the very real problems of what to do with the short term needs at NASA were going to be center stage and have to be dealt with in his administration. The lack of a shuttle replacement, problems with the existing shuttle's safety/reliability, how to maintain the ISS, etc.
the physics of it don't pan out though. any asteroid large enough to be a significant threat is not something we could damage with current nuclear yields and making larger bombs, while possible, would be more dangerous to have here than the remote chance of an asteroid impact.
we'd be better off investigating other means of modifying an asteroids path such as solar sails, robotic mass drivers, parking a small mass near it for gravitational deflection to name a few.
not his fault. someone must've beat him to it as there was already a scene (sort of) in Drawn Together a couple years back.
and for those that don't want or need such tools can probably get most (all?) of what they need relatively cheaply from say emachineshop or the like. also a good idea if you are bad with power tools unless you like having 3 1/2 fingers.
not sure if lawyers would be able to successfully argue that or not, but the intent of that provision was that you couldn't criminalize something and then try someone for committing the crime prior to it being a law. invalidating patent/copyright protections would not be making them criminal nor trying to prosecute a person or corporation for claiming a patent/copyright.
that, is hilarious
not necessarily. sometimes new products can come with significant manufacturing cost reductions, not often, but sometimes.
The fix would be to have the monitor hardware take the limited info and spread it around to the appropriate groups of pixels instead of trying to have the video card render and push billions of pixels through the video cable. 1920x1080? right, each pixel of input maps to blocks of 15x15 (to pull a number out of my ass) on the actual display. 960x540? each pixel maps to blocks of 30x30, etc.
since it's a replacement for a run of the mill glass eye I imagine he just pops it out and puts in a new one?
Except a well designed hud would be reflected and focus adjusted for a relaxed eye (i.e. infinite distance) instead of trying to focus for 3 inches away. Still distracting but not the eye strain from going from focusing close to far to close you're describing.
oi, that should be electron not election obviously.
well, really the neutrino is needed just to conserve lepton number so it could be:
the relationship I was getting at was more along the lines of electron capture vs positron emission than time reversing normal beta+/- decay.
I am reminded of a particular xkcd main times while perusing a slashdot science story. http://xkcd.com/675/
Oh, not in response to your response, more to the GP. Though I think you meant an proton/neutron and a neutrino of the right energy meeting at exactly the same time since we're talking about radioactive decay.
I use avant window navigator for a doc and gnome-do for quicksilver like launcher. found I couldn't quite get the gnome-do dock to do what I wanted visually or functionally but awn worked nicely.
Yeah, I wasn't expecting that data wasn't shared quickly but more that the source of this animations data might be entered in a less timely manner. interesting to know that the pulses are from moonlight and a little disturbing as to how much of our asteroid mapping is affected by weather. That we might miss the 'big one' because there was a storm on the wrong night...
Sorry, the race card isn't valid during a black presidency http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-16-2008/the-race-card
Well, this story has all three. The guy might've just broken the speed of light.
You'll also notice that the discovery rate seems to "pulsate" with a period of about 12 times per year (this is most obvious in the 2000s when the discovery rate was mostly uniform throughout the year). I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to explain why that is (hint, skies need to be very dark to observe faint asteroids).
then why wouldn't it be 13 times per year?
I would guess that some of the data is submitted monthly and the tracts show when the data was submitted, not necessarily observed. there's also a lot of big pulses early on, far larger than the overall rate would see to indicate as within the normal deviation of observation rate at that point. hence, the thought that it's mapping based on submission date and some are submitting bulk results on a monthly or quarterly basis.
Except if you're using one use cyphers it doesn't matter how public the broadcast is or how much of the broadcast is recorded as long as the cypher remains secret.
The former is mostly passive - you won't be able to detect this without seeing it visually (annoying - imagine having to check every part of your car before driving off from anywhere) or seeing someone tampering with your car (unlikely, unless you have a camera to monitor your car at all times). The latter, you might be able to pick up with a sensor.
you could probably work up some sort of capacitance sensor to the frame of the car. When someone goes to install this, they'd change that briefly and you'd know to bother looking. False positives would be annoying from accidental contact though if frequent enough.
Given the costs of most college books, this might be cheaper than any other book required for their coursework. Wait, no, make that definitely cheaper than any other required book as Portal is down to the 10 - 20 buck range.
I bet that course is a total piece of cake
That's a lie