Digital tuning is inferior to analog tuning, because there isn't enough of a fine-grain control. Sure, in an analog tuner KSHE is 95 rather than 94.7, but atmospherics bend radio waves just like they bend light. Ever notice that blue skies aren't always the same color blue? That's because atmospheric pressure is changing the frequency of the light slightly, just as it changes the frequency of radio waves slightly. If the signal drifts to 94.8 because you're in Litchfield, your digital tuner will spew static along with your rock and roll, while you can tune that analog dial to 94.8127469247.
The very best tuner I ever had was analog, back in the seventies. I lived in Edwardsville, 40 or 50 miles away from a university right by Forest Park in St Louis (Washington U iirc). The college radio station was ten watts, and I could pick it up clearly in my on-campus apartment in Edwardsville. Picking up that station was like discerning a ten watt red night light from 40 miles away while a dozen fifty thousand watt blue searchlights are all shining at you as well. You're NOT going to hear that station in Edwardsville with any digital tuner made.
Digital tuners are better than analog only because they're dirt cheap and analog is not.
Oh, and you managed to reference the stupidest drug-addled song of my generation, a real channel changer (I'd almost rather hear hip-hop).
no one will be given enough alcohol to put them over the legal driving limit
Then it hardly mimics a real bar. I visit bars frequently (where do you think I get my colorful characters in my fiction from?) and at any time of day, even in the morning there are drunks. By four o'clock often half the people there are well over the legal limit.
And real bars don't just have college kids, they have all ages, from 21 to 101. They don't just have college kids and grads, they have illiterates who read at a first grade level and dropped out in the eighth grade.
I'd like to see the actual study, from what I see here the research will never give any meaningful results. You might as well have fifteen year olds drinking Pepsi and the study wouldn't be any worse.
Honestly, I think what has to change is our expectations.
If by "our" expectations, you mean you glassholes' expectations.
The only reason people value privacy is because we're accustomed to having it.
The only reason people value cell phones is because they're accustomed to having them. When I was your age, they didn't exist. But guess what? Privacy has existed since the beginning of our species, if it were worthless it would have gone away millenia ago.
Everything, everywhere will be recorded, stored forever, indexed, and posted online.
I'll tell you what, show up here (that's an old photo, a new one would have fifty Harleys in the lot; it's the HQ of the Outlaws MC, a biker gang who once tried to murder a friend of mine) wearing asshole glasses and see how long it takes for the ambulance to arrive. Actually the fire truck will show up first, luckily for you the paramedics are only a few blocks away.
In Felber's, the redneck bar caddy corner to the OMC, you'ld probably be laughed out of the place if not thrown out by the bartender (And I'd take Joe on before I tangled with Ruthe, and Joe was an Army ranger).
Oh, how the mighty slashdot community has fallen. First "troll" and now "funny"? That was insightful. An automobile, a telephone, Google Glass, even prosthetic feet don't make you a cyborg. A cyborg is an organism with an implanted device which allows the organism to function better. Look it up in Webster's or the OED, they both agree (and no, wictionary and the urban dictionaries are not accurate about much of anything except slang). Your glasses don't make you a cyborg, but my eye implant makes me one. Your artificial limb doesn't make you a cyborg, but your hip and knee implants do.
Dick Cheney used to be a cyborg, as he had a pacemaker. He's no longer a cyborg, now he's a chimera since he had a heart transplant.
Dumbest article I've read all week. What's happening to my beloved slashdot that ignorant stories like this get voted to the front page and insightful comments like the above are modded "troll" and "funny" by people with two digit IQs, voted and modded by people who five years ago wouldn't have been caught dead at slashdot.
The normals are starting to outnumber we nerds here, which is even a worse development than Beta (especially since we still have classic).
Don't you have wikipedia? That is the absolutely most retarded question I've heard all week! Do you want YOUR children sterilized? Trying to make the best human offspring for yourself is fine, but messing with someone else's genetics without their permission is just evil and I can't for the life of me figure out why ANYONE would think it was all right.
In other words - working that horrible high-stress job so that you'll one day be able to bring your children into a better life may actually be counter-productive
Either you didn't bother reading the summary, let alone TFA, or your reading comprehension is lacking badly. It isn't talking about your worrying about whether or not you'll get a raise, it's talking about severe mental or physical abuse. Your kids might have problems if you're a combat veteran.
Now, eugenics means breeding certain traits out of a species. If we breed a certain trait out of our species, how do we know that the removed trait isn't completely necessary for survival in a human 5000 years from now when we head into the next ice age, or if we screw the climate up enough that normal high temperatures in Argentina are 175F? We have never in our history been able to predict the future. Eugenics is like trying to fix a car that won't start when you know absolutely nothing about cars, you're likely to ruin it beyond repair. We are simply too ignorant.
I can't believe that shit got modded up, especially "insightful". Christ, slashdot PLEASE bring back the metamoderation that actually worked. There are way too many idiots being modded up. Is this some of the soylent people with/. mod points trying to get folks to leave/.?
Seriously, any time a "UI designer" sits down to re-invent something, the result is inevitably terrible. They focus on whatever new-age idea they have is, and often completely miss the core problem while coming up with some genius solution to a minor one.
Er, Android is a shitty design? iPhone? If a UI designer designs a shitty UI, he's a shitty designer. Unfortunately, non-shitty UI designers are as rare as four leaf clovers.
However, 99% pf the time I agree. I don't understand why automobile designers design shit the way they do. Stupid design decisions, like putting the ash tray underneath the vent, ensuring ashes get blown all over the car. My car has the CD changer positioned so when you put it in park wearing gloves, you inevitably hit the "CD eject" button. I've seen new cars with all the controls on a touchscreen. WTF??? How stupid can people be, anyway?
I'd add one thing to your UI list which perhaps summarizes it: Don't make the driver take his eyes off of the road. Ever. For any reason. My car is good about that, controls for the radio are on the steering wheel. Too bad the climate controls aren't as well.
Much as I donâ(TM)t normally lean in the nancy-state direction, I actually wish these complex touchscreen interfaces were disabled while driving.
There's nothing "nanny state" about that. Nanny states try to protect you from yourself, but your touchscreen UI endangers me. I don't even have to buy the damned touchscreen car for it to injure or kill me. "Nanny state" laws are laws against things like consensual sex, gambling, smoking pot, etc -- things that will not harm anyone but the willing participants.
yes I know the passenger could adjust it while you safely drive
Only if you have a passenger. No passenger? GPS voice-only. Like fifty years ago, if you want to read a map get the fuck off the highway!
In public, I want ubiquitous recording BY THE INDIVIDUALS.
So do I, but I don't want surreptitious photography by ANYONE, government, corporate, or civilian. If you pull out your phone and aim it at me I know you're taking my picture and I can react accordingly (like hold the joint behind my back).
And guess what? In Illinois, being a glasshole can put you in jail, at least for audio. It is illegal to record someone without their permission.
When you're wearing asshole glasses (which is of course where "glasshole" comes from) I don't know if you're recording or not. You are violating my rights. The only way to not be a glasshole is keep the damned things in your pocket, or better yet, don't buy the God damned things.
Also know that in certain bars I frequent, your asshole glasses may be broken along with your nose by someone who doesn't want his drunken behavior filmed. Of course, the yuppie assholes who will be wearing these stupid looking things would never have the guts to step foot in the neighborhood, let alone one of the bars.
And if you think iPhone robbery is scary, do you know how easy it would be to get your stupid asshole glasses off of your face?
If I walk into an establishment and someone is wearing asshole glasses, I will tell the proprieter that he goes or I do, and I'll leave if the glasshole is allowed to stay.
The only way to avoid being a glasshole is to never wear asshole glasses.
That's exactly the problem. There are WAY too many people here who don't belong; it is, after all, a nerd site and we're not exactly normal. The more normal people that show up here, the more the quality of the submissions (and especially comments, "they're car's are over their") deteriorate. Unfortunately, that's the audience Dice is after.
Which makes me think of Stairway to Heaven; I checked, the Jesus freaks were right. But there's no way possible that anyone could have done that on purpose. It's clearly just a wild coincidence.
I remind the Jesus freaks that a prayer said backwards is a prayer to Satan, so that song is in fact a Christian song.
Ever hear Helter Skelter backwards? It changes to "I like smack" (and, well, that one may have been deliberate).
The Panic of 1873 and the subsequent depression had several underlying causes, of which economic historians debate the relative importance. Post-war inflation, rampant speculative investments (overwhelmingly in railroads), a large trade deficit, ripples from economic dislocation in Europe resulting from the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), property losses in the Chicago (1871) and Boston (1872) fires, and other factors put a massive strain on bank reserves, which plummeted in New York City during September and October 1873 from $50 million to $17 million.
Note those fires were mentioned in TFA.
Horse flu wasn't the only factor; there had been some speculative bubbles and other causes, but it was certainly a contributing factor and possibly the trigger.
Indeed, since we're NOT one nation "under God", we are a secular society that worships mostly money above all.
But that's not what's killing America. What's killing America is its wolves in sheep's clothing, like Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, and all the other rich, greedy, selfish bastards who pretend to be Christians and actually run things.
And like someone else already said, making children recite a pledge teaches them that lying is not only acceptable but preferred. This is far from being under God, it's in contradiction to everything these "Christians' " bibles say.
I don't understand why "first post" is important to anyone who doesn't have anything useful to say. It isn't hard to get and it's easy to actually contribute to the discussion in a first post. That is useful, you're the one starting the conversation. But just posting FRIST POST is fucking stupid.
You're splitting hairs. What he obviously means is that he listens to everything he's exposed to. Me, about the only music I don't like are disco, hip-hop, and opera (nails on a blackboard screeching). Marylin Manson? Love his stuff. Tennessee Ernie Ford? Even better but it's getting scarce, thanks to perpetual copyright. My grandmother used to love listening to his gospel music, today I can find no gospel music by him although you can hear Sixteen Tons on jukeboxes and college radio stations.
Someone measuring what I listened to would probably think I was gay (lots of great rockers are/were gay), Republican (I like country) but... what about Steppenwolf Monster?
That "I know your political leanings from your music" is bullshit. half the time I not only don't listen to the lyrics, lots of times you can't even understand the singer.
It works the same way with cars and roads. Often, going five miles out of your way will get you there half an hour faster because the interstate is 70MPH and the shorter route is badly congested and only doing 25.
+5 funny, Bhudda wouldn't have sued anyone (great parody, good job) Christ isn't happy either, he doesn't much like lawyers. Or greedy, selfish people, and neither does Bhudda.
There isn't a single religion I know of except mammon worshipers (the US's primary religion) that have anything good to say about society's actions. It seems society has forgotten everything ever said by any sage or wise man and has become sociopathic.
Just be glad you weren't born black, I'm sure it's a huge burden.
It didn't seem to burden Redd Foxx, Bill Cosby, Barack Obama, Samuel L. Jackson... a more honest statement would be "just be glad you weren't born POOR."
Just be glad you weren't born a woman, I'm sure it's a huge burden.
I am glad I wasn't born a woman. But it has to do with menstruation, menopause, pregnancy, and the stupid requirement to wear high heel shoes, not a perception of fewer rights.
Similarly, the same goes for homosexuals. I'm glad I was fortunate to be born a middle class heterosexual male.
The deal is, I sort of think all information should be free, and copyright should be extremely limited, maybe to the original product only and only for 10 years. I believe in content archival, people not owning information (even a book or video or software is knowledge and information). I believe all content if it exists should be open and available for people to experience, without stupid laws that prevent it (which is what copyright is). It also conflicts with personal liberty, because it gives the copyright holder the right to tell the individual what they can and cannot do.. which I am totally against.
I certainly agree with that paragraph. I also think it should only apply to works "affixed to a tangible medium", which to my mind should rule out copyright on digital works and should only apply to commerce. Sharing files should be legal, selling physical copies of someone's work should not until the copyright expires, and it should expire far faster than it does.
Note my sig, I hold registered copyright on a book and two obsolete computer programs (they stopped making the computers the programs ran on thirty years ago).
Ten years should be plenty long for any computer program and maybe too long. But if copyright on literature were only ten years, Asimov wouldn't have made a dime on the Foundation trilogy; its original publisher had poor marketing. But half a century is way too long. Any creative effort, like science and engineering, is built on what came before. Imagine how technology would stagnate if patents lasted as long as copyrights, that's how culture is stagnating under ridiculously long copyright lengths.
A boulder-sized asteroid won't hurt anyone. The one in Russia was heavier than the Eiffel Tower. You don't think the scientists at NASA have considered this??
I just RTFA, you won't be seeing it with the naked eye or even binoculars. Still don't know how big a telescope you'll need, but they're talking boulder-sized. Probably only the most serious of hobbyists will have the equipment but I'm probably wrong about that.
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Digital tuning is inferior to analog tuning, because there isn't enough of a fine-grain control. Sure, in an analog tuner KSHE is 95 rather than 94.7, but atmospherics bend radio waves just like they bend light. Ever notice that blue skies aren't always the same color blue? That's because atmospheric pressure is changing the frequency of the light slightly, just as it changes the frequency of radio waves slightly. If the signal drifts to 94.8 because you're in Litchfield, your digital tuner will spew static along with your rock and roll, while you can tune that analog dial to 94.8127469247.
The very best tuner I ever had was analog, back in the seventies. I lived in Edwardsville, 40 or 50 miles away from a university right by Forest Park in St Louis (Washington U iirc). The college radio station was ten watts, and I could pick it up clearly in my on-campus apartment in Edwardsville. Picking up that station was like discerning a ten watt red night light from 40 miles away while a dozen fifty thousand watt blue searchlights are all shining at you as well. You're NOT going to hear that station in Edwardsville with any digital tuner made.
Digital tuners are better than analog only because they're dirt cheap and analog is not.
Oh, and you managed to reference the stupidest drug-addled song of my generation, a real channel changer (I'd almost rather hear hip-hop).
no one will be given enough alcohol to put them over the legal driving limit
Then it hardly mimics a real bar. I visit bars frequently (where do you think I get my colorful characters in my fiction from?) and at any time of day, even in the morning there are drunks. By four o'clock often half the people there are well over the legal limit.
And real bars don't just have college kids, they have all ages, from 21 to 101. They don't just have college kids and grads, they have illiterates who read at a first grade level and dropped out in the eighth grade.
I'd like to see the actual study, from what I see here the research will never give any meaningful results. You might as well have fifteen year olds drinking Pepsi and the study wouldn't be any worse.
Honestly, I think what has to change is our expectations.
If by "our" expectations, you mean you glassholes' expectations.
The only reason people value privacy is because we're accustomed to having it.
The only reason people value cell phones is because they're accustomed to having them. When I was your age, they didn't exist. But guess what? Privacy has existed since the beginning of our species, if it were worthless it would have gone away millenia ago.
Everything, everywhere will be recorded, stored forever, indexed, and posted online.
Welcome to Orwell's dystopia, glasshole.
I'll tell you what, show up here (that's an old photo, a new one would have fifty Harleys in the lot; it's the HQ of the Outlaws MC, a biker gang who once tried to murder a friend of mine) wearing asshole glasses and see how long it takes for the ambulance to arrive. Actually the fire truck will show up first, luckily for you the paramedics are only a few blocks away.
In Felber's, the redneck bar caddy corner to the OMC, you'ld probably be laughed out of the place if not thrown out by the bartender (And I'd take Joe on before I tangled with Ruthe, and Joe was an Army ranger).
Oh, how the mighty slashdot community has fallen. First "troll" and now "funny"? That was insightful. An automobile, a telephone, Google Glass, even prosthetic feet don't make you a cyborg. A cyborg is an organism with an implanted device which allows the organism to function better. Look it up in Webster's or the OED, they both agree (and no, wictionary and the urban dictionaries are not accurate about much of anything except slang). Your glasses don't make you a cyborg, but my eye implant makes me one. Your artificial limb doesn't make you a cyborg, but your hip and knee implants do.
Dick Cheney used to be a cyborg, as he had a pacemaker. He's no longer a cyborg, now he's a chimera since he had a heart transplant.
Dumbest article I've read all week. What's happening to my beloved slashdot that ignorant stories like this get voted to the front page and insightful comments like the above are modded "troll" and "funny" by people with two digit IQs, voted and modded by people who five years ago wouldn't have been caught dead at slashdot.
The normals are starting to outnumber we nerds here, which is even a worse development than Beta (especially since we still have classic).
And what's wrong with eugenics?
Don't you have wikipedia? That is the absolutely most retarded question I've heard all week! Do you want YOUR children sterilized? Trying to make the best human offspring for yourself is fine, but messing with someone else's genetics without their permission is just evil and I can't for the life of me figure out why ANYONE would think it was all right.
In other words - working that horrible high-stress job so that you'll one day be able to bring your children into a better life may actually be counter-productive
Either you didn't bother reading the summary, let alone TFA, or your reading comprehension is lacking badly. It isn't talking about your worrying about whether or not you'll get a raise, it's talking about severe mental or physical abuse. Your kids might have problems if you're a combat veteran.
Now, eugenics means breeding certain traits out of a species. If we breed a certain trait out of our species, how do we know that the removed trait isn't completely necessary for survival in a human 5000 years from now when we head into the next ice age, or if we screw the climate up enough that normal high temperatures in Argentina are 175F? We have never in our history been able to predict the future. Eugenics is like trying to fix a car that won't start when you know absolutely nothing about cars, you're likely to ruin it beyond repair. We are simply too ignorant.
I can't believe that shit got modded up, especially "insightful". Christ, slashdot PLEASE bring back the metamoderation that actually worked. There are way too many idiots being modded up. Is this some of the soylent people with /. mod points trying to get folks to leave /.?
Seriously, any time a "UI designer" sits down to re-invent something, the result is inevitably terrible. They focus on whatever new-age idea they have is, and often completely miss the core problem while coming up with some genius solution to a minor one.
Er, Android is a shitty design? iPhone? If a UI designer designs a shitty UI, he's a shitty designer. Unfortunately, non-shitty UI designers are as rare as four leaf clovers.
However, 99% pf the time I agree. I don't understand why automobile designers design shit the way they do. Stupid design decisions, like putting the ash tray underneath the vent, ensuring ashes get blown all over the car. My car has the CD changer positioned so when you put it in park wearing gloves, you inevitably hit the "CD eject" button. I've seen new cars with all the controls on a touchscreen. WTF??? How stupid can people be, anyway?
I'd add one thing to your UI list which perhaps summarizes it: Don't make the driver take his eyes off of the road. Ever. For any reason. My car is good about that, controls for the radio are on the steering wheel. Too bad the climate controls aren't as well.
Much as I donâ(TM)t normally lean in the nancy-state direction, I actually wish these complex touchscreen interfaces were disabled while driving.
There's nothing "nanny state" about that. Nanny states try to protect you from yourself, but your touchscreen UI endangers me. I don't even have to buy the damned touchscreen car for it to injure or kill me. "Nanny state" laws are laws against things like consensual sex, gambling, smoking pot, etc -- things that will not harm anyone but the willing participants.
yes I know the passenger could adjust it while you safely drive
Only if you have a passenger. No passenger? GPS voice-only. Like fifty years ago, if you want to read a map get the fuck off the highway!
In public, I want ubiquitous recording BY THE INDIVIDUALS.
So do I, but I don't want surreptitious photography by ANYONE, government, corporate, or civilian. If you pull out your phone and aim it at me I know you're taking my picture and I can react accordingly (like hold the joint behind my back).
And guess what? In Illinois, being a glasshole can put you in jail, at least for audio. It is illegal to record someone without their permission.
When you're wearing asshole glasses (which is of course where "glasshole" comes from) I don't know if you're recording or not. You are violating my rights. The only way to not be a glasshole is keep the damned things in your pocket, or better yet, don't buy the God damned things.
Also know that in certain bars I frequent, your asshole glasses may be broken along with your nose by someone who doesn't want his drunken behavior filmed. Of course, the yuppie assholes who will be wearing these stupid looking things would never have the guts to step foot in the neighborhood, let alone one of the bars.
And if you think iPhone robbery is scary, do you know how easy it would be to get your stupid asshole glasses off of your face?
If I walk into an establishment and someone is wearing asshole glasses, I will tell the proprieter that he goes or I do, and I'll leave if the glasshole is allowed to stay.
The only way to avoid being a glasshole is to never wear asshole glasses.
That's exactly the problem. There are WAY too many people here who don't belong; it is, after all, a nerd site and we're not exactly normal. The more normal people that show up here, the more the quality of the submissions (and especially comments, "they're car's are over their") deteriorate. Unfortunately, that's the audience Dice is after.
Which makes me think of Stairway to Heaven; I checked, the Jesus freaks were right. But there's no way possible that anyone could have done that on purpose. It's clearly just a wild coincidence.
I remind the Jesus freaks that a prayer said backwards is a prayer to Satan, so that song is in fact a Christian song.
Ever hear Helter Skelter backwards? It changes to "I like smack" (and, well, that one may have been deliberate).
I'm not sure why the summary thinks "the US economy was brought to its knees." Nowhere in the article does it say what data they are using.
You never heard of the Panic of 1873 or the Long Depression?
Note those fires were mentioned in TFA.
Horse flu wasn't the only factor; there had been some speculative bubbles and other causes, but it was certainly a contributing factor and possibly the trigger.
Indeed, since we're NOT one nation "under God", we are a secular society that worships mostly money above all.
But that's not what's killing America. What's killing America is its wolves in sheep's clothing, like Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, and all the other rich, greedy, selfish bastards who pretend to be Christians and actually run things.
And like someone else already said, making children recite a pledge teaches them that lying is not only acceptable but preferred. This is far from being under God, it's in contradiction to everything these "Christians' " bibles say.
I don't understand why "first post" is important to anyone who doesn't have anything useful to say. It isn't hard to get and it's easy to actually contribute to the discussion in a first post. That is useful, you're the one starting the conversation. But just posting FRIST POST is fucking stupid.
However, the "first (-1, Offtopic)" is amusing.
You're splitting hairs. What he obviously means is that he listens to everything he's exposed to. Me, about the only music I don't like are disco, hip-hop, and opera (nails on a blackboard screeching). Marylin Manson? Love his stuff. Tennessee Ernie Ford? Even better but it's getting scarce, thanks to perpetual copyright. My grandmother used to love listening to his gospel music, today I can find no gospel music by him although you can hear Sixteen Tons on jukeboxes and college radio stations.
Someone measuring what I listened to would probably think I was gay (lots of great rockers are/were gay), Republican (I like country) but... what about Steppenwolf Monster?
That "I know your political leanings from your music" is bullshit. half the time I not only don't listen to the lyrics, lots of times you can't even understand the singer.
And MUSIC? How about internet postings?
It works the same way with cars and roads. Often, going five miles out of your way will get you there half an hour faster because the interstate is 70MPH and the shorter route is badly congested and only doing 25.
And the longer route will use less gas.
For you car analogy guys...
So did my old Chevy. Citation: "Car Bombs" from The Paxil Diaries (in print soon).
Audio CDs are digital. Music went digital when CDs began.
They wouldn't complain anyway, corpses don't care what you do to them.
+5 funny, Bhudda wouldn't have sued anyone (great parody, good job) Christ isn't happy either, he doesn't much like lawyers. Or greedy, selfish people, and neither does Bhudda.
There isn't a single religion I know of except mammon worshipers (the US's primary religion) that have anything good to say about society's actions. It seems society has forgotten everything ever said by any sage or wise man and has become sociopathic.
Selfishness and greed and having no thought for your fellow man are not normal. Someone needs to find a cure for our sick society before it succumbs completely to this deadly disease.
Wikipedia says it was twenty meters with a mass of 12,000-13,000 metric tonnes. That's quite a bit larger than an SUV.
We all have burdens.
Just be glad you weren't born black, I'm sure it's a huge burden.
It didn't seem to burden Redd Foxx, Bill Cosby, Barack Obama, Samuel L. Jackson... a more honest statement would be "just be glad you weren't born POOR."
Just be glad you weren't born a woman, I'm sure it's a huge burden.
I am glad I wasn't born a woman. But it has to do with menstruation, menopause, pregnancy, and the stupid requirement to wear high heel shoes, not a perception of fewer rights.
Similarly, the same goes for homosexuals. I'm glad I was fortunate to be born a middle class heterosexual male.
The deal is, I sort of think all information should be free, and copyright should be extremely limited, maybe to the original product only and only for 10 years. I believe in content archival, people not owning information (even a book or video or software is knowledge and information). I believe all content if it exists should be open and available for people to experience, without stupid laws that prevent it (which is what copyright is). It also conflicts with personal liberty, because it gives the copyright holder the right to tell the individual what they can and cannot do .. which I am totally against.
I certainly agree with that paragraph. I also think it should only apply to works "affixed to a tangible medium", which to my mind should rule out copyright on digital works and should only apply to commerce. Sharing files should be legal, selling physical copies of someone's work should not until the copyright expires, and it should expire far faster than it does.
Note my sig, I hold registered copyright on a book and two obsolete computer programs (they stopped making the computers the programs ran on thirty years ago).
Ten years should be plenty long for any computer program and maybe too long. But if copyright on literature were only ten years, Asimov wouldn't have made a dime on the Foundation trilogy; its original publisher had poor marketing. But half a century is way too long. Any creative effort, like science and engineering, is built on what came before. Imagine how technology would stagnate if patents lasted as long as copyrights, that's how culture is stagnating under ridiculously long copyright lengths.
No, I mean my problem-solving abilities have deteriorated and I'm more scatter brained than when I was young.
A boulder-sized asteroid won't hurt anyone. The one in Russia was heavier than the Eiffel Tower. You don't think the scientists at NASA have considered this??
I just RTFA, you won't be seeing it with the naked eye or even binoculars. Still don't know how big a telescope you'll need, but they're talking boulder-sized. Probably only the most serious of hobbyists will have the equipment but I'm probably wrong about that.