But anyone who uses STumbleUpon to find/. accidentally, and had not found it before, will be very, very quick to move on to something else, I think. So the joke stands!
As a US resident, I can tell you this sort of thing is business as usual here. Money = political influence = law enactment + enforcement = military force. It's pretty much all the same thing, and we have lots of it - lots of all of that. Well, not "we" as in all of us, but the elite here are VERY elite, and they intend to keep it that way. the American people enjoy a generally high standard of living and, as such, are unwilling to initiate change, even though things could be so much better for us, both here and around the world. But the greedy rich folks are VERY greedy and rich, and very good at staying rich and powerful. To the rest of the world, I apologize, as I am too fat and lazy to take matters into my own hands and make the world a better place by fixing my own country.
That's asking for it! It is one thing when you traffic in a schedule I substance, while holding an illegal firearm on your person, in a school zone, but when you bypass the tax man, you're REALLY asking to get caught!
Too bad it is so hard to get caught then. I have always said that certainty of apprehension and prosecution has a far bigger impact on crime rates than do long sentences, but in the US we go with the notion that banning lotsa stuff and throwing away the key once in a while is the best deterrent. And so we fail. For our legal system to work, and to deter crime, we need more cops and less resources dedicated to long-term incarceration.
Put another way, nobody wants to go to jail, even for a month, but every would-be criminal thinks they are going to get away scot-free and they generally do.
if, say, NBC, replays that footage and adds a logo in the lower right corner... NBC can then sue you if you save that footage to your harddrive. Since NASA made it public domain, they have no rights to it whatsoever, so anyone can take the content, re-broadcast it, and then claim copyright on that broadcasted content.
NBC, or whomever, can sue for whatever they want. That doesn't mean the case has merit or is a correct interpretation of the law. That's what the court is for. You can't rightfully take public domain content, slap a logo on it, and claim copyright over the content.
Which is a problem in a digital environment: How can you tell whether something came from the original (public domain) source, or the re-broadcaster? YouTube's auto-filters obviously can't.
Which is why Youtube's filters should not be trusted. I don't know if anyone has a right to force YT to change, so we need an alternative that is actually going to protect rights holders, rather than simply accepting false claims and acting brashly as judge and jury.
If the penalties for infringement are going to continue to be ridiculous, the penalties for blatant, fraudulent abuse should be at least as ridiculous to discourage this sort of thing.
Hmm, if I had a few more connections, things would be about to get very inconvenient at Scripps. Wouldn't it be a shame if the FBI raided them and shut them down completely for a few days in order to gather evidence? And you wouldn't want to be their tax attorney when the IRS comes knocking next season. When are we going to treat fraudulent takedown notices as the criminal activity they are?
Don't worry. Lots of companies put lots of things in their TOS, EULA, whatever that are not legally enforceable. Courts in the past have determined that consumers and licensees can't give up all of their legal rights, at least in some cases. If a class action suit becomes a legitimate possibility for Valve customers, a review will probably strike portions of their EULA as illegal or unenforceable. This is simply a tactic to discourage such cases and make it as hard as possible to sue them, but not impossible.
Microsoft is going to release its Surface tablet on the same day Windows 8 goes on general availability, Oct. 26
So of course this means that the Surface *might* be available before Christmas, and should receive enough software patches by Next April to make it fully functional.
Nobody can say if GNOME 3 is better or worse than GNOME 2.
That's not true, and I'll prove it: GNOME 2 worked and was okay, and GNOME 3 is a huge pile of stinky crap. Gnome 3 is worse than GNOME 2. I feel I am qualified to answer this because I try every new DE I can find time for and put them through their paces on multiple hardware setups. GNOME 2 was tops on my list because I liked that it worked reliably and predictably and mae sense in how it operates. KDE still looks nicer but is a pain to use, for me, though it is mostly okay. XFCE, Enlightenment, and LXDE have all had decent versions as well. It pains me to say it, but GNOME 3 is not just a big change, but is very, very bad as well.
Between GNOME 3 being a stinker and the GNOME Project struggling for direction, I don't know which is the cause and which is the effect, but the two facts seem to be tightly linked.
Exactly. This is really not a big deal at all (except to 3D printer enthusiasts) and nothing to worry about. The bulk of a handgun or rifle is generally nonfunctional and can be made out of anything rigid. The "business" bits are still steel.
I bet he's pissed that I can choose not to buy his software
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Yep, he sounds just like the MPAA/RIAA - they can't get over the fact that we've stopped buying a lot of their crap after we finally began to realize that a) a lot of it is crap and, b) we don't need it all. Sure, a lot of their stuff gets pirated, but sales also came down because of lowered demand and lowered product quality. Matt Gemmell is whining because he hasn't figured out how to get rich yet selling junk in a flooded market with tons of alternatives. Blame the market, not yourself, haha, yeah...
Many, many of us like Android as it is, moe or less. So if you can't make money from developing for it, too bad. Maybe it is your company that is broken, not Android, Matt Gemmell. So exercise your right to try to make money any of 10000000 other ways. I unfortunately can't make much money playing baseball (while a minority of the best players do very well for themselves), but I attribute that mainly to my own abilities, not baseball being broken.
A "tehtered" jailbreak is like having to lug around a heavy weight chained to your ankle. You can do it, and it is better than still being in jail, but it is not ideal. This is the ball-and-chain jailbreak.
Let me just say that psychology students are as bright as an university students, though they may be a bit different than the ones you are used to. My best advice: get ready for your office hours to be VERY busy. You will have a bit of learning on the job to do, you may not connect with your audience as well as you'd like at first (due in part to a different type of student, as well as how the course applies to their needs, more so than your abilities), and serious psych students are not bashful about showing up at a professor's door.
I'm not sure what a "doctor watson" mode would be. Would it be like the old movie version?
I would register for that, or probably any class taught as if it were an old movie, preferably in a 1920s or 1930s style, or like a Three Stooges flick. "You's guys gotta buckle down, see, and cut all the hubbub. HEY wise guy! Pay attention in the back, you numskulls, before I get sore at ya's, see. Why I oughta..."
On second thought, maybe I will attempt to lecture in character. It will bring an added sense of focus for both I and the students, or something. Hmm...
Don't load ANY of your gear into a U-Haul truck. Move it if you must, but step one is to get a truck from another provider, because U-Haul vehicles are almost always rolling piles of crap with bald tires, crumby brakes, sketchy steering, and a million other problems that arise from the complete lack of maintenance they receive. Get a decent truck (from Budget, Penske, or ANYONE other than U-Haul, and consider a professional mover) unless you want to take the very real chance of having a breakdown and having to unload/load everything again. Seriously, it would be like using duct tape to hold that loose wing onto your airplane because you are only flying 50 miles - it might just work out fine, but that is a chance you need not take.
Actual vehicle choice aside, you may find a professional moving company that is well insured and capable of handling your delicate equipment. They work quickly and efficiently and are reliable. You do the unhooking and setup and let them handle the transport. Tell them exactly what you are moving and why, and ask them to explain how they will secure everything in transit. I am a major proponent of DIY everything, but I am also a big fan of professional movers.
If it is too late for all that, get everyone to back their minivans, SUVs, and "sport" wagons up to the door and start chuckin' the good stuff in the back... and hope your backups and insurance are in order.
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But anyone who uses STumbleUpon to find /. accidentally, and had not found it before, will be very, very quick to move on to something else, I think. So the joke stands!
And have you heard about this intercom computer thing? I hear there is a lot of porn there, and you can play games.
FILM AT ELEVEN.
Duh, this is the internet, isn't it?
There is a term for this: responsible disease prevention.
As a US resident, I can tell you this sort of thing is business as usual here. Money = political influence = law enactment + enforcement = military force. It's pretty much all the same thing, and we have lots of it - lots of all of that. Well, not "we" as in all of us, but the elite here are VERY elite, and they intend to keep it that way. the American people enjoy a generally high standard of living and, as such, are unwilling to initiate change, even though things could be so much better for us, both here and around the world. But the greedy rich folks are VERY greedy and rich, and very good at staying rich and powerful. To the rest of the world, I apologize, as I am too fat and lazy to take matters into my own hands and make the world a better place by fixing my own country.
Who is going to suddenly start using Linux + GNOME3?
The users of the recently announced GNOME OS?
Well, one of them might, and the other one will give up on it immediately after install and switch to another OS.
Everyone uses them, except you, because your post is a shitpost.
We weren't aware that we were using them, so thanks for clearing that up.
Sincerely,
Almost Everyone
That's asking for it! It is one thing when you traffic in a schedule I substance, while holding an illegal firearm on your person, in a school zone, but when you bypass the tax man, you're REALLY asking to get caught!
Too bad it is so hard to get caught then. I have always said that certainty of apprehension and prosecution has a far bigger impact on crime rates than do long sentences, but in the US we go with the notion that banning lotsa stuff and throwing away the key once in a while is the best deterrent. And so we fail. For our legal system to work, and to deter crime, we need more cops and less resources dedicated to long-term incarceration.
Put another way, nobody wants to go to jail, even for a month, but every would-be criminal thinks they are going to get away scot-free and they generally do.
if, say, NBC, replays that footage and adds a logo in the lower right corner... NBC can then sue you if you save that footage to your harddrive. Since NASA made it public domain, they have no rights to it whatsoever, so anyone can take the content, re-broadcast it, and then claim copyright on that broadcasted content.
NBC, or whomever, can sue for whatever they want. That doesn't mean the case has merit or is a correct interpretation of the law. That's what the court is for. You can't rightfully take public domain content, slap a logo on it, and claim copyright over the content.
Which is a problem in a digital environment: How can you tell whether something came from the original (public domain) source, or the re-broadcaster? YouTube's auto-filters obviously can't.
Which is why Youtube's filters should not be trusted. I don't know if anyone has a right to force YT to change, so we need an alternative that is actually going to protect rights holders, rather than simply accepting false claims and acting brashly as judge and jury.
If the penalties for infringement are going to continue to be ridiculous, the penalties for blatant, fraudulent abuse should be at least as ridiculous to discourage this sort of thing.
Hmm, if I had a few more connections, things would be about to get very inconvenient at Scripps. Wouldn't it be a shame if the FBI raided them and shut them down completely for a few days in order to gather evidence? And you wouldn't want to be their tax attorney when the IRS comes knocking next season. When are we going to treat fraudulent takedown notices as the criminal activity they are?
Don't worry. Lots of companies put lots of things in their TOS, EULA, whatever that are not legally enforceable. Courts in the past have determined that consumers and licensees can't give up all of their legal rights, at least in some cases. If a class action suit becomes a legitimate possibility for Valve customers, a review will probably strike portions of their EULA as illegal or unenforceable. This is simply a tactic to discourage such cases and make it as hard as possible to sue them, but not impossible.
Microsoft is going to release its Surface tablet on the same day Windows 8 goes on general availability, Oct. 26
So of course this means that the Surface *might* be available before Christmas, and should receive enough software patches by Next April to make it fully functional.
Nobody can say if GNOME 3 is better or worse than GNOME 2.
That's not true, and I'll prove it: GNOME 2 worked and was okay, and GNOME 3 is a huge pile of stinky crap. Gnome 3 is worse than GNOME 2. I feel I am qualified to answer this because I try every new DE I can find time for and put them through their paces on multiple hardware setups. GNOME 2 was tops on my list because I liked that it worked reliably and predictably and mae sense in how it operates. KDE still looks nicer but is a pain to use, for me, though it is mostly okay. XFCE, Enlightenment, and LXDE have all had decent versions as well. It pains me to say it, but GNOME 3 is not just a big change, but is very, very bad as well.
Between GNOME 3 being a stinker and the GNOME Project struggling for direction, I don't know which is the cause and which is the effect, but the two facts seem to be tightly linked.
Exactly. This is really not a big deal at all (except to 3D printer enthusiasts) and nothing to worry about. The bulk of a handgun or rifle is generally nonfunctional and can be made out of anything rigid. The "business" bits are still steel.
Nokia Aborts Meltemi Linux-Based Feature Phone
Nokia, Linux-Based Free Crappy Phone Dead
I bet he's pissed that I can choose not to buy his software
br Yep, he sounds just like the MPAA/RIAA - they can't get over the fact that we've stopped buying a lot of their crap after we finally began to realize that a) a lot of it is crap and, b) we don't need it all. Sure, a lot of their stuff gets pirated, but sales also came down because of lowered demand and lowered product quality. Matt Gemmell is whining because he hasn't figured out how to get rich yet selling junk in a flooded market with tons of alternatives. Blame the market, not yourself, haha, yeah...
Many, many of us like Android as it is, moe or less. So if you can't make money from developing for it, too bad. Maybe it is your company that is broken, not Android, Matt Gemmell. So exercise your right to try to make money any of 10000000 other ways. I unfortunately can't make much money playing baseball (while a minority of the best players do very well for themselves), but I attribute that mainly to my own abilities, not baseball being broken.
"$1,295 tool...the perfect gizmo for nefarious purposes." Major editing there, but my point stands: too expensive to toss around.
A "tehtered" jailbreak is like having to lug around a heavy weight chained to your ankle. You can do it, and it is better than still being in jail, but it is not ideal. This is the ball-and-chain jailbreak.
So there is irrational rabid hate for it.
...in addition to the fact that it genuinely sucks. DOUBLE WHAMMY.
Let me just say that psychology students are as bright as an university students, though they may be a bit different than the ones you are used to. My best advice: get ready for your office hours to be VERY busy. You will have a bit of learning on the job to do, you may not connect with your audience as well as you'd like at first (due in part to a different type of student, as well as how the course applies to their needs, more so than your abilities), and serious psych students are not bashful about showing up at a professor's door.
I'm not sure what a "doctor watson" mode would be. Would it be like the old movie version?
I would register for that, or probably any class taught as if it were an old movie, preferably in a 1920s or 1930s style, or like a Three Stooges flick. "You's guys gotta buckle down, see, and cut all the hubbub. HEY wise guy! Pay attention in the back, you numskulls, before I get sore at ya's, see. Why I oughta..."
On second thought, maybe I will attempt to lecture in character. It will bring an added sense of focus for both I and the students, or something. Hmm...
Don't load ANY of your gear into a U-Haul truck. Move it if you must, but step one is to get a truck from another provider, because U-Haul vehicles are almost always rolling piles of crap with bald tires, crumby brakes, sketchy steering, and a million other problems that arise from the complete lack of maintenance they receive. Get a decent truck (from Budget, Penske, or ANYONE other than U-Haul, and consider a professional mover) unless you want to take the very real chance of having a breakdown and having to unload/load everything again. Seriously, it would be like using duct tape to hold that loose wing onto your airplane because you are only flying 50 miles - it might just work out fine, but that is a chance you need not take.
Actual vehicle choice aside, you may find a professional moving company that is well insured and capable of handling your delicate equipment. They work quickly and efficiently and are reliable. You do the unhooking and setup and let them handle the transport. Tell them exactly what you are moving and why, and ask them to explain how they will secure everything in transit. I am a major proponent of DIY everything, but I am also a big fan of professional movers.
If it is too late for all that, get everyone to back their minivans, SUVs, and "sport" wagons up to the door and start chuckin' the good stuff in the back... and hope your backups and insurance are in order.