This must be the first time where preponderance of evidence (standard used for civil cases) was effectively applied to a criminal case and caused dismissal instead of the reasonable doubt standard.
What must be seen is whether the government would have any copyright over the creation of this NASA video. Since NASA is a Federal level agency, it's very possible that it does.
Isn't any media put out by any U.S. government entity, aka done on the taxpayers' dime, public domain, provided it is not classified or otherwise sensitive information?
I do recall seeing in the above article, that the footage is in fact public domain due to being taxpayer funded.
It'd be quite entertaining if Scripps Local News did this entirely on purpose, to raise awareness of the abusability of these procedures.
If the NASA plays hardball, this "Scripps Local News" will be majorly f***ed. Slashdotters are complaining all the time about the DMCA act. However, sending a DMCA notice when you don't own the copyright and when you are not representing the copyright holder is a criminal offense.
Looks like it's pretty much to the "water under the bridge" point now. From the article...
On Monday afternoon, a spokesperson for E.W. Scripps Company, owner of the news service, emailed Motherboard a statement apologizing for the accidental takedown. “We apologize for the temporary inconvenience experienced when trying to upload and view a NASA clip early Monday morning," wrote Michele Roberts. "We made a mistake. We reacted as quickly as possible to make the video viewable again
I appreciate that she's intelligent and I find it a big turnoff when women act dumb around technology. Some women can't do it and that's fine but I don't want the bullshit. Some men can't do it either. Many of the first programmers were women.
And even before I ever heard of Achmed the Dead Terrorist, I immediately thought, "But were they specifically promised that those would be 72 female virgins?
Or the tale of the Programmer and the Talking Frog...
A computer programmer happens across a frog in the road. The frog pipes up, "I'm really a beautiful princess and if you kiss me, I'll stay with you for a week". The programmer shrugs his shoulders and puts the frog in his pocket.
A few minutes later, the frog says "OK, OK, if you kiss me, I'll give you great sex for a week". The programmer nods and puts the frog back in his pocket.
A few minutes later, "Turn me back into a princess and I'll give you great sex for a whole year!". The programmer smiles and walks on.
Finally, the frog says, "What's wrong with you? I've promised you great sex for a year from a beautiful princess and you won't even kiss a frog?"
"I'm a programmer," he replies. "I don't have time for sex.... But a talking frog is pretty neat."
Just wait outside the courthouse for the asshole lawyer and smash his/her skull with a baseball bat. Works every time and its good for mind, body, soul and society.
Under the DMCA we aren't free to unlock the devices after we buy them. How is that freedom?
Considering the odds of anyone coming after you for unlocking hardware you legally own are slim to none, I would say, yes, you are actually free to do so. To hell with the DMfuckinCA. It has no teeth for matters like this.
Has to show some "good faith" in their attempts to stop people from recording music from their site. I'd be willing to bet that this is only a CYA move (sucks that they have to do so, but thats the world we live in)
Also watch out for some of the plugins that DL mp3s from youtube, my g/f had one that kept on delivering ads that were giving her computer mal-ware (or the plugin itself was installing it... but w/e)
Eh, plugins aren't needed. I showed my teen and tween nieces and nephews how to record Youtube videos into Audacity using their sound cards' What-U-Hear feature (seems to be a feature of Creative cards, not sure about other brands), and save them as mp3 files.
They learned fast, and have since passed that information on to their friends, who will probably pass it on to their friends, and so on, and so on, and so on.
I also showed them the UnPlug plugin for Firefox for when they want to save the videos in their original flv or mp4 form locally.
Politicians lie. Even when they're telling the truth. I once read that lie detectors must never be used on politicians, cos they overload and blow up. hinting at just how much they lie, and yes I do know it was a joke. or was it?:P
Using a lie detector on a politician is pointless. They'll never set it off because they never stop lying long enough for you to calibrate it.
Really no need anyway. You can always tell when a politician is lying. How can you tell? His mouth will be moving.
I would love to see more first posts that actually spoke to the topic instead of just small penis geeks getting their tiny rocks off.
I attempted that a few days ago. Granted, I was going for on topic humorous instead of insightful or informative (something about eating too much space turkey made our galaxy's super massive black hole too lethargic).
Submitted my post, and it was still the only post thus far for the discussion. Hit reload, and it was still the only post. Then a few minutes later, I hit reload again, and it was no longer the first post. For some reason, it was bumped down to 6th position even though it was the only post for a short while.
How did that happen? Doesn't matter really, but it still piqued my curiosity about how postings get prioritized here.
Just more evidence that eating turkey makes you sleepy. It would appear that our galaxy's super massive black hole ate too much space turkey, and now it is having a nice long nap.
This universe is God's experiment in free will. Some people will show that they give a smurf about overcoming temptation to break from God's purpose. Those who do will be rewarded when the earth is rebuilt; those who do not will be destroyed.
That sounds like quite the impressively psychotic cosmic horror these people worship and revere.
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This must be the first time where preponderance of evidence (standard used for civil cases) was effectively applied to a criminal case and caused dismissal instead of the reasonable doubt standard.
Or did this not ever even go to court?
Why not just support human life extension research? Or at least human reversible hibernation... Time travel is not possible.
Of course it's possible, but only forward, and only at the rate of 1 second per second.
More then you used too, that's for sure.
Took a few moments to figure out where the Fuck-Up Fairy struck on that one. Then suddenly, viola! There it was.
No they couldn't have, becuase you post as AC. Besides, nobody wants to partner with someone who can't even speak properly.
Are you the type of person who would cut off your nose despite your face?
Do you consider things for all intensive purposes?
Do you think I am making a mute point?
Maybe you could care less?
Now you are just acting totally retarted. This is just too rediculous to continue. :p
Yep, they can, and they have! Start at Title 17 USC, Section 101.
Or just go read here - http://www.cendi.gov/publications/04-8copyright.html#311
What must be seen is whether the government would have any copyright over the creation of this NASA video. Since NASA is a Federal level agency, it's very possible that it does.
Isn't any media put out by any U.S. government entity, aka done on the taxpayers' dime, public domain, provided it is not classified or otherwise sensitive information?
I do recall seeing in the above article, that the footage is in fact public domain due to being taxpayer funded.
...so where do we complain?
According to some stuff I just made up, apparently EA is now handling all DMCA takedown complaints.
Okay, to quote the Grim Reaper in Episode 5 of The Grim Reaper Show, "That's fucking hilarious."
"All out of fucks to give" is now entering my arsenal of comebacks.
...so where do we complain?
Complaints? That's next door. This is "Being Hit On the Head" lessons in here.
It'd be quite entertaining if Scripps Local News did this entirely on purpose, to raise awareness of the abusability of these procedures.
If the NASA plays hardball, this "Scripps Local News" will be majorly f***ed. Slashdotters are complaining all the time about the DMCA act. However, sending a DMCA notice when you don't own the copyright and when you are not representing the copyright holder is a criminal offense.
Looks like it's pretty much to the "water under the bridge" point now. From the article...
On Monday afternoon, a spokesperson for E.W. Scripps Company, owner of the news service, emailed Motherboard a statement apologizing for the accidental takedown. “We apologize for the temporary inconvenience experienced when trying to upload and view a NASA clip early Monday morning," wrote Michele Roberts. "We made a mistake. We reacted as quickly as possible to make the video viewable again
Yes, it refers to big female breasts ; how is that sexist?
If it somehow read 'BIG BICEPS' would anyone care?
It could have also meant that the programmer's employers are a bunch of doofuses, aka nothing but a bunch of big boobs.
I appreciate that she's intelligent and I find it a big turnoff when women act dumb around technology. Some women can't do it and that's fine but I don't want the bullshit. Some men can't do it either. Many of the first programmers were women.
As a matter of fact, The first programmer was a lady.
And even before I ever heard of Achmed the Dead Terrorist, I immediately thought, "But were they specifically promised that those would be 72 female virgins?
Or the tale of the Programmer and the Talking Frog...
A computer programmer happens across a frog in the road. The frog pipes up, "I'm really a beautiful princess and if you kiss me, I'll stay with you for a week". The programmer shrugs his shoulders and puts the frog in his pocket.
A few minutes later, the frog says "OK, OK, if you kiss me, I'll give you great sex for a week". The programmer nods and puts the frog back in his pocket.
A few minutes later, "Turn me back into a princess and I'll give you great sex for a whole year!". The programmer smiles and walks on.
Finally, the frog says, "What's wrong with you? I've promised you great sex for a year from a beautiful princess and you won't even kiss a frog?"
"I'm a programmer," he replies. "I don't have time for sex.... But a talking frog is pretty neat."
I'll be getting back to having a hobby once I've paid off the mortgage and our son is in school... as long as my wife doesn't pop out another one.
You do have a choice in the matter. If you don't want another one, you take whatever measures are needed to prevent it from happening.
Yes, but apart from DNS, databases, FTP, NTP and streaming, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Wine, orgies, and the ability to joke about Uranus?
But you neglected the most important part of living in Oregon, are you a duck or beaver?
As someone who grew up in Oregon (Baker City to be exact), but is now a resident of Washington (Sound area)...
QUACK!!!
Just wait outside the courthouse for the asshole lawyer and smash his/her skull with a baseball bat. Works every time and its good for mind, body, soul and society.
Gives new meaning to jumping the shark.
Under the DMCA we aren't free to unlock the devices after we buy them. How is that freedom?
Considering the odds of anyone coming after you for unlocking hardware you legally own are slim to none, I would say, yes, you are actually free to do so. To hell with the DMfuckinCA. It has no teeth for matters like this.
Has to show some "good faith" in their attempts to stop people from recording music from their site. I'd be willing to bet that this is only a CYA move (sucks that they have to do so, but thats the world we live in)
Also watch out for some of the plugins that DL mp3s from youtube, my g/f had one that kept on delivering ads that were giving her computer mal-ware (or the plugin itself was installing it... but w/e)
Eh, plugins aren't needed. I showed my teen and tween nieces and nephews how to record Youtube videos into Audacity using their sound cards' What-U-Hear feature (seems to be a feature of Creative cards, not sure about other brands), and save them as mp3 files.
They learned fast, and have since passed that information on to their friends, who will probably pass it on to their friends, and so on, and so on, and so on.
I also showed them the UnPlug plugin for Firefox for when they want to save the videos in their original flv or mp4 form locally.
Politicians lie. Even when they're telling the truth. :P
I once read that lie detectors must never be used on politicians, cos they overload and blow up. hinting at just how much they lie, and yes I do know it was a joke. or was it?
Using a lie detector on a politician is pointless. They'll never set it off because they never stop lying long enough for you to calibrate it.
Really no need anyway. You can always tell when a politician is lying. How can you tell? His mouth will be moving.
I don't know about you, but every condom I wear is too small and thus breaks.
Perhaps you need to switch from size XX-s to just X-s?
It certainly made my sister's final months in her bone cancer battle much more bearable for her.
I would love to see more first posts that actually spoke to the topic instead of just small penis geeks getting their tiny rocks off.
I attempted that a few days ago. Granted, I was going for on topic humorous instead of insightful or informative (something about eating too much space turkey made our galaxy's super massive black hole too lethargic).
Submitted my post, and it was still the only post thus far for the discussion. Hit reload, and it was still the only post. Then a few minutes later, I hit reload again, and it was no longer the first post. For some reason, it was bumped down to 6th position even though it was the only post for a short while.
How did that happen? Doesn't matter really, but it still piqued my curiosity about how postings get prioritized here.
Just more evidence that eating turkey makes you sleepy. It would appear that our galaxy's super massive black hole ate too much space turkey, and now it is having a nice long nap.
This universe is God's experiment in free will. Some people will show that they give a smurf about overcoming temptation to break from God's purpose. Those who do will be rewarded when the earth is rebuilt; those who do not will be destroyed.
That sounds like quite the impressively psychotic cosmic horror these people worship and revere.
There should be a quota! I'm tired of having to flirt with all the gay guys in IT. I needs me some women!
Correction. You need to come out of the closet.
Or work in a non-Mac oriented IT department? :D