However judges take into account the 'spirt' of the law, and are often interested in how something behaves or what it actually does as opposed to the technological implementation
While that does make sense, by the same logic wouldn't anyone who has an antenna connected to a computer/DVR and then connected that to their TV be doing the same thing and also be illegal?
But essentially all that Aereo is doing is providing a "cloud" (or "remote") version of the DVR box that many people have in their homes.
I have a computer in my apartment that I have set up as a dedicated DVR with a TV tuner card and a digital antenna connected to it. I use that to record the shows I am interested in from the broadcast channels, and watch them at a later date. I also use the network cables in my apartment to "stream" that video to my xbox and watch the show on my TV in the living room (the DVR and antenna are in the bedroom).
Is my setup illegal too? Am I required to license the ability to "re-transmit" the content to myself? The only functional difference is that Aereo is providing the same thing as a service so that people don't have to setup their own antennas and computers.
There were many factors that went into the decision to drop the bombs, but the main reason was to end the war quickly (again for several reasons). Sure, the Japanese were essentially defeated already and many of them wanted to surrender, but all indications were that the emperor was unwilling to surrender and that they would fight until the last man. The projected casualties for the planned invasion of the Japanese mainland were around 1.5 million when counting both Japanese and Allied forces (which is more than what the bombs killed, even including the lasting effects), so it may have actually ended up saving lives. However, the primary motivation for using the bombs was to get Japan to surrender before the Russians got involved, because Truman didn't want to have to split up Japan like what happened to Germany after the war.
In retrospect (as was also pointed out by others below), it was also the right decision because it showed the world what the weapons were actually capable of, and how horrible they are (a science experiment as you called it), which has resulted in us not using them again since. Had that not happened, we likely would have used them in the next major conflict and made things much worse. There had been people pushing to drop the first bomb on an uninhabited island near Japan as a demonstration, but that likely wouldn't have had quite the same effect.
Or maybe all the other advanced civilizations are also worrying about sports playoffs and celebrity gossip and can't be bothered to worry about going to other planets. If we're willing to spend more money on sports (or basically anything) than funding NASA, is it so hard to believe that other civilizations wouldn't be doing the same?
What we don't know is what happens to it - what's the "main sequence" behavior of technological civilizations like ours? What do they become?
Maybe they all end up occupying themselves with reality TV shows and video games that they can't be bothered to worry about leaving their planet or exploring the universe...
But why? That's the question you need to answer. Why would any civilization advanced enough for true interstellar travel even be slightly interested in smashing the Earth with a relativistic weapon, or any other kind of weapon?
That's simple: to eliminate us before we could become a threat to them, because why take any chances.
Actually, the phone is cheaper buying it unlocked. I got mine the first day it was available.
Unlocked Nexus One: $529
T-mobile 500 Talk + Text + Web: $59.99/mo (without contract)
T-mobile setup fee: $30 (they charge a one time fee for new accounts without a contract)
Total price over 2 years: $529 + $59.99/mo * 24mo + $30 = $1998.76
Nexus One with T-mobile contract: $179
T-mobile 500 Talk + Text + Web: $79.99/mo (with contract)
Total price over 2 years: $179 + 79.99/mo * 24mo = $2098.76
So, over the entire two year period, I saved (will save): $2098.76 - $1998.79 = $100
and just when someone is about to change the main story (even for the better), something happens in the last 5minutes of the episode to revert all the things to the state they were at the start.
I just took the "defensive driving" course here in Arizona because I had the option of doing that rather than paying the ticket, and ironically it's 90% just explaining the driving laws and safe driving habits. So it really IS a refresher course.
As the other poster pointed out, MythTV works quite well and the hauppage cards are quite good. The pcHDTV card from http://www.pchdtv.com/ also works well from my experience, I've used both. But Windows Media Center also works surprisingly well. I switched to that so I could move the PC to another room and only have my Xbox 360 hooked up to my TV (actually, I had a projector, but that's beside the point) and stream the video to that.
MCE is a little less useful than MythTv because it adds DRM to your recordings (though I hear its not too hard to remove), but if all you're planning on doing is watching it and then deleting it, then it works beautifully. It has the added benefit of it "just works" with the Xbox 360 and its remote (My experience with getting a remote to work with MythTV was less than pleasant).
Of course, I recently broke down and got DirectTV because (ironically) when the digital transition finally happened, my reception of the digital channels (in my apartment) suddenly became less reliable.
99942 Apophis will make a near pass to Earth in 2029
I saw that episode: Carter discovered that the asteroid was composed of mostly Naquadah, and that detonating the bomb would cause a chain reaction and destroy the entire solar system. They managed to use the hyperdrive on the cargo ship to safely make the asteroid pass through to the other side of the Earth and thwart Apophis' latest plan...
The only reason I don't have a DVR is because I cannot find one with the features I want: ability to burn shows to disc, ability to add my own HDD, not allowing content to be erased by the networks or expire and my choice of subscription services for listings. For now I just watch everything "online" since no one wants to manufacture a device like that.
That's a little unfair: I'm sure there are plenty of people that want to manufacture a device like that, but they aren't allowed to (by the media companies). This is why you can only get Cable Cards in "approved" Microsoft machines (at least last I checked).
I built a MythTV box several years ago with a lot of hard drive space for many of the same reasons that you described, I'd record stuff in full HD from the OTA broadcasts and do whatever I wanted with them. It worked great, but eventually I got an xbox 360 and it was more convenient to put Windows Media Center on the box and and use the extender. And really, I've come to realize that I don't even tend to keep stuff around very long anyway, and delete most stuff after I watch it the first time. If I want to watch it again, I can usually watch it online, or if its a show I really like I will support it by buying the DVDs/Blu-rays when they come out.
Here's a simple thought experiment: If Evolution is false, what created swine flu?
So after looking up what (wikipedia says) "Intelligent Design" means, I realized it wasn't what I thought it was. We need a new name for what I had been thinking it was: The belief that the universe was created by an intelligence (i.e. God), but which doesn't violate our existing scientific knowledge. (Perhaps there is a name for this and I just don't know it).
I don't think its a stretch to think that the universe could have been created by God, rather than some random events. We simply use science to understand how God created it.
The only other possible explanation is that God is a dick, and I don't believe that.
Well, fundamentalists would try to argue that "evil" created it and God simply allowed it to happen. But I think there are other explanations such as: maybe things like that exist to challenge us and push us to create solutions, or perhaps God is a scientist himself and we're all part of his elaborate experiment and tampering with it to much would taint the results.
After all, if there were no disease and no problems and everyone was peaceful and happy there wouldn't really be any motivation for us to better ourselves and a complete lack of anything bad would more or less prove the existence of God, which would negate that whole "free will" thing.
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The "general population", and the "population of qualified tech workers" are two very different things...
Could force Amazon to develop teleportation technology for delivering packages instead...
So it's alright as long as I am ordering missiles from Amazon?
However judges take into account the 'spirt' of the law, and are often interested in how something behaves or what it actually does as opposed to the technological implementation
While that does make sense, by the same logic wouldn't anyone who has an antenna connected to a computer/DVR and then connected that to their TV be doing the same thing and also be illegal?
But essentially all that Aereo is doing is providing a "cloud" (or "remote") version of the DVR box that many people have in their homes.
I have a computer in my apartment that I have set up as a dedicated DVR with a TV tuner card and a digital antenna connected to it. I use that to record the shows I am interested in from the broadcast channels, and watch them at a later date. I also use the network cables in my apartment to "stream" that video to my xbox and watch the show on my TV in the living room (the DVR and antenna are in the bedroom).
Is my setup illegal too? Am I required to license the ability to "re-transmit" the content to myself? The only functional difference is that Aereo is providing the same thing as a service so that people don't have to setup their own antennas and computers.
There were many factors that went into the decision to drop the bombs, but the main reason was to end the war quickly (again for several reasons). Sure, the Japanese were essentially defeated already and many of them wanted to surrender, but all indications were that the emperor was unwilling to surrender and that they would fight until the last man. The projected casualties for the planned invasion of the Japanese mainland were around 1.5 million when counting both Japanese and Allied forces (which is more than what the bombs killed, even including the lasting effects), so it may have actually ended up saving lives. However, the primary motivation for using the bombs was to get Japan to surrender before the Russians got involved, because Truman didn't want to have to split up Japan like what happened to Germany after the war.
In retrospect (as was also pointed out by others below), it was also the right decision because it showed the world what the weapons were actually capable of, and how horrible they are (a science experiment as you called it), which has resulted in us not using them again since. Had that not happened, we likely would have used them in the next major conflict and made things much worse. There had been people pushing to drop the first bomb on an uninhabited island near Japan as a demonstration, but that likely wouldn't have had quite the same effect.
Or maybe all the other advanced civilizations are also worrying about sports playoffs and celebrity gossip and can't be bothered to worry about going to other planets. If we're willing to spend more money on sports (or basically anything) than funding NASA, is it so hard to believe that other civilizations wouldn't be doing the same?
What we don't know is what happens to it - what's the "main sequence" behavior of technological civilizations like ours? What do they become?
Maybe they all end up occupying themselves with reality TV shows and video games that they can't be bothered to worry about leaving their planet or exploring the universe...
But why? That's the question you need to answer. Why would any civilization advanced enough for true interstellar travel even be slightly interested in smashing the Earth with a relativistic weapon, or any other kind of weapon?
That's simple: to eliminate us before we could become a threat to them, because why take any chances.
Since they're not (and can not) delete the actual information itself being stored on the 3rd party website, there are 2 major problems:
1. They will need to keep track of each deletion request indefinitely to prevent the information from being re-indexed on the next crawl.
2. Google is only one search engine; there are many others.
Actually, the phone is cheaper buying it unlocked. I got mine the first day it was available.
Unlocked Nexus One: $529
T-mobile 500 Talk + Text + Web: $59.99/mo (without contract)
T-mobile setup fee: $30 (they charge a one time fee for new accounts without a contract)
Total price over 2 years: $529 + $59.99/mo * 24mo + $30 = $1998.76
Nexus One with T-mobile contract: $179
T-mobile 500 Talk + Text + Web: $79.99/mo (with contract)
Total price over 2 years: $179 + 79.99/mo * 24mo = $2098.76
So, over the entire two year period, I saved (will save): $2098.76 - $1998.79 = $100
I got my Nexus One the first day it was available, and I haven't experienced any problems what-so-ever. I am very happy with it.
And just for completeness: I previously had my RAZR2 on Verizon (though I was looking at getting a Droid or iPhone at the end of the month anyway).
and just when someone is about to change the main story (even for the better), something happens in the last 5minutes of the episode to revert all the things to the state they were at the start.
Someone's been watching Smallville!
Yes, but fists of fury!
I just took the "defensive driving" course here in Arizona because I had the option of doing that rather than paying the ticket, and ironically it's 90% just explaining the driving laws and safe driving habits. So it really IS a refresher course.
Carter, I can see my house from here!
I'm sure that's at least partially because the show got cancelled and they needed an ending fast.
I'm confused... what do they need webcams for in this project? I actually read the article and it didn't mention what they were for either.
This actually reminded me of the mini-series The Triangle a few years back.
As the other poster pointed out, MythTV works quite well and the hauppage cards are quite good. The pcHDTV card from http://www.pchdtv.com/ also works well from my experience, I've used both. But Windows Media Center also works surprisingly well. I switched to that so I could move the PC to another room and only have my Xbox 360 hooked up to my TV (actually, I had a projector, but that's beside the point) and stream the video to that.
MCE is a little less useful than MythTv because it adds DRM to your recordings (though I hear its not too hard to remove), but if all you're planning on doing is watching it and then deleting it, then it works beautifully. It has the added benefit of it "just works" with the Xbox 360 and its remote (My experience with getting a remote to work with MythTV was less than pleasant).
Of course, I recently broke down and got DirectTV because (ironically) when the digital transition finally happened, my reception of the digital channels (in my apartment) suddenly became less reliable.
99942 Apophis will make a near pass to Earth in 2029
I saw that episode: Carter discovered that the asteroid was composed of mostly Naquadah, and that detonating the bomb would cause a chain reaction and destroy the entire solar system. They managed to use the hyperdrive on the cargo ship to safely make the asteroid pass through to the other side of the Earth and thwart Apophis' latest plan...
The only reason I don't have a DVR is because I cannot find one with the features I want: ability to burn shows to disc, ability to add my own HDD, not allowing content to be erased by the networks or expire and my choice of subscription services for listings. For now I just watch everything "online" since no one wants to manufacture a device like that.
That's a little unfair: I'm sure there are plenty of people that want to manufacture a device like that, but they aren't allowed to (by the media companies). This is why you can only get Cable Cards in "approved" Microsoft machines (at least last I checked).
I built a MythTV box several years ago with a lot of hard drive space for many of the same reasons that you described, I'd record stuff in full HD from the OTA broadcasts and do whatever I wanted with them. It worked great, but eventually I got an xbox 360 and it was more convenient to put Windows Media Center on the box and and use the extender. And really, I've come to realize that I don't even tend to keep stuff around very long anyway, and delete most stuff after I watch it the first time. If I want to watch it again, I can usually watch it online, or if its a show I really like I will support it by buying the DVDs/Blu-rays when they come out.
Cats want cheeseburgers, not fish!
Fundamentalists also claim that only God can create life. So which way is it?
Did I say that I was a fundamentalist, or that I agreed with that opinion? No, I did not.
Here's a simple thought experiment: If Evolution is false, what created swine flu?
So after looking up what (wikipedia says) "Intelligent Design" means, I realized it wasn't what I thought it was. We need a new name for what I had been thinking it was: The belief that the universe was created by an intelligence (i.e. God), but which doesn't violate our existing scientific knowledge. (Perhaps there is a name for this and I just don't know it).
I don't think its a stretch to think that the universe could have been created by God, rather than some random events. We simply use science to understand how God created it.
The only other possible explanation is that God is a dick, and I don't believe that.
Well, fundamentalists would try to argue that "evil" created it and God simply allowed it to happen. But I think there are other explanations such as: maybe things like that exist to challenge us and push us to create solutions, or perhaps God is a scientist himself and we're all part of his elaborate experiment and tampering with it to much would taint the results.
After all, if there were no disease and no problems and everyone was peaceful and happy there wouldn't really be any motivation for us to better ourselves and a complete lack of anything bad would more or less prove the existence of God, which would negate that whole "free will" thing.