Miranda was a convicted rapist and a very bad man. The police never informed him of his rights (you have a right to remain silent, etc.) He got off (in more ways than one) and in return for the suffering of his victims we have the right to remain silent. Thanks for taking one for the team, ladies!
Uh, no.
Miranda's original conviction -- based on the tainted confession -- was overturned. However, Miranda was convicted in the retrial, served 11 years, and then died in a bar fight four years after being paroled. See this.
The public doesn't care about it's rights (the ones they don't know they have in particular).
So who are these mysterious consumers who pushed Microsoft to change its policy then? Rest assured it's not a bunch of Linux geeks, the people Microsoft is least likely to listen to...
It's hard to believe Sony, of all companies, would make a product that didn't strip your fair use rights, or at least make the format proprietary.
Remember it was Sony that fought for VCR time-shifting rights in the 80's. As both an electronics and a content company -- and I think they're more the former than the latter -- they can be rather two-faced depending on which part of the company you're hearing from.
One system calls me 5-6 times a week, is from "Out of Area," I cannot call-trace it (*57 here, DC/Virginia), and the phone company says I have to pay them $5/month to make them stop. I cannot ask them to put me on a DNC (do not call) list because nobody ever answers, it's just an empty line for 5 seconds then it clicks to a dial tone.
It may not be a marketer, it may be a device "phoning home." There was a woman who would get called with such regularity she could set her clock by it. It turned out the caller was something like an oil tank, trying to call the previous owner of the number because it was time for servicing or something. So if you haven't had the number for long, that might be the reason. (Or it could be the device has the number wrong.)
The real problem with this approach is the transgenic transmission of the genes to non-mining plants.
A lot of that depends on whether the materials the plants mine exist commonly in nature. If mercury does not occur at high concentrations in most unpolluted soil, then the transfer of mercury-mining genes from plant to plant is not an issue -- only plants in polluted areas could mine anything anyway.
I'm probably going to get destroyed by all the super high res digital film fanatics out there, but here goes...
I'm not a fanatic, just a realist.
1) Just as you have to change film in a film camera, with a digital camera you need to unload the digital files to a higher-capacity, larger storage device. 120 GB drives cost a little over a dollar a gigabyte.
2) The cost of flash cards will go down, and the capacity will go up, by a significant amount every year. At some point it should be cheaper than film, in which case reloading the camera means taking out one card and putting in a new one.
3) The card is reusable, film is not. You can take 24 pictures, delete the bad ones, and shoot again. Or, if the camera is fast enough, every shot becomes multiple ones, from which you choose your favorite.
Photos have been just fine in terms of razor sharp quality and colour for the last 10 years...why do we need to make them 1000x better?/I.
We probably don't. But at some point, digital's advantages outweigh its steadily disappearing disadvantages.
most auto ticket things dont take into acount time ware you have no choice but to run a red light, for example if your sitting in the middle of an intersection tring to turn and the light turns red you have to turn or else your holding up trafic, the camera will take your pic.
Why is it a picture anyway? I guess they need the high-res for the plate, but in general there should be a video camera running whenever the light is going to turn red, so context can be captured.
Unfortunately we have so many red light runners* that it can be dangerous to stop at a light that's about to change, you'll get rear-ended.
(I joke about how friendly the people around D.C. are. If you think you might have gone through an intersection too late, there's always a person or two who will go through afterwards just to reassure you that you didn't.)
If we justify restricting EULAs as a "cost of incorporation", then small, unincorporated ISVs (like shareware many authors) end up taking the bad (restricted right to form contracts) without getting the good (liability shield).
Not at all. If you want a licensing agreement, sell over the internet, and get the purchaser to agree to the terms prior to purchasing. There's no need for EULAs.
Add in captive market pricing (drug in US $212, same drug in Peru $7 [...]
But what's the alternative? Change the price to $70 across the board, and Americans get cheaper drugs but most Peruvians can't afford them. And then the drug companies get hammered for killing Peruvians by charging so much for their drugs. Differential pricing allows the companies to make a profit but still sell drugs cheaply to people who couldn't afford it at the profit-making price.
I do like the idea of compulsory licensing, though; I think it is reasonably promising without having to restructure the whole system.
But why is the marketing of drugs such a factor? Do people really pressure their doctors to prescribe Celebrex rather than taking ibuprofen?
There is a dearth of substances out there that fight depression (St. Johns Wort), cancer, and other ailments
A dearth means a lack of, a shortage of, etc. You mean a plethora or a variety or a number of substances, not the opposite. There is a dearth of *testing* on those substances, and I remember seeing something about the FDA or NIH planning to spend a significant amount on testing these substances. I don't know if that went anywhere, though.
OK.. one good thing. My company moved away from the city. About 1 hour west.
Seems like this is the real answer. Why do you need so many people in such a small area? There's plenty of room in the country, just spread out a bit. But no, we squash together like sardines in small regions.
I am in complete diagreement with everyone here on this issue, I believe.
You are incorrect. In generally, slashdotters want to shorten copyright, not remove it completely. But we generally agree it should be long enough for most authors to make most of their profit.
The copyright owners of these works are the writers, who are famously poor (a few exceptions aside)
So the current system isn't working all that well for you either, is it? And I doubt you're making much from works you wrote 75 years ago, or from selling the rights to your works 75 years hence.
Neither do I hope that the future demands digitized books, wherin writers will never make any money ever.
Computer people have managed to make money off of digitized information, I don't see that authors will be particularly less successful. In the case of on-demand printing, the overhead for an author to get a book "published" is much lower; you need merely get your book formatted for the printer, and get it on the listings. But you don't have to do as much to convince a publisher it's worth their time and money to publish it.
Now that you mention it, I remember long ago seeing a Mapplethorpe hologram at Siggraph. It was of a large schlong, and the 3-D effect was rather inadequacy-inducing...
It sounds like DTI does it by varying the backlight, whereas Sharp uses a standard backlight and blocks some of the light from in front of the pixels. DTI's should be lower power or it should be brighter, since it doesn't throw away half of the illumination.
That may be true, but do you realize the scale of the uproar that would occur if they decided to charge for these programs?
It's not the charging or lack thereof, it's that they spend on development. If they stopped funding the Mozilla team, I believe the progress on that project would grind nearly to a halt. So effectively they are giving me Mozilla, because the Big Mo today still isn't quite all there.
Re:Why can't we think for ourselves?
on
Ready, Steady, Evolve
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
If your existence came into being based on totally random events, then your brain also was the result of a random event.
One line of thinking is to believe that God set it all up: the Big Bang, evolution, killer asteroids all to get to this point. If God is omnipotent and omniscient, there's no reason to believe God couldn't have figured out exactly the starting conditions to create humans. And in so doing, God not only demonstrates that ability, but also gives us li'l children of his a world with all sorts of clues about how it works and how it came to be how it is. And now our task, should we choose to accept it, is to create a universe where we have defeated the Four Horsemen and our own flaws because it's the Right Thing To Do.
To me, God starting with the Big Bang and getting to here is a lot more impressive than doing a little sculpting in 4004 B.C.
Speaking of which, there was a bluegrass-like rendition of Beethoven's Ninth in a Cingular commercial. If anyone has more of that than their brief snippet, I'd love to get a copy. (I e-mailed Cingular's PR, and they told me who the various performers were, but no info on whether they'd actually done anything like a full movement.)
"And turn off that racket!" "Racket? It's Brahms! Brahm's Third 'Racket'..."
Slashdot Mirror
But CD-ROM isn't a random-access read-write medium.
And this matters because...? Just grab another cheap blank when you need to copy more files.
Sorry, dag - Union Pacific beat you to it by about 4 decades.
Actually, the LMS has that beat by about 30 years. See this.
Miranda was a convicted rapist and a very bad man. The police never informed him of his rights (you have a right to remain silent, etc.) He got off (in more ways than one) and in return for the suffering of his victims we have the right to remain silent. Thanks for taking one for the team, ladies!
Uh, no.
Miranda's original conviction -- based on the tainted confession -- was overturned. However, Miranda was convicted in the retrial, served 11 years, and then died in a bar fight four years after being paroled. See this.
So it's $100 cheaper than the same size ipod
With a 90 day warranty, instead of one year. Perhaps they have less confidence in its shock resistance.
That's "a millennia," not "an millenia."
As long as we're being pedantic, that's "a millennium"; millennia is the plural form.
The public doesn't care about it's rights (the ones they don't know they have in particular).
So who are these mysterious consumers who pushed Microsoft to change its policy then? Rest assured it's not a bunch of Linux geeks, the people Microsoft is least likely to listen to...
It's hard to believe Sony, of all companies, would make a product that didn't strip your fair use rights, or at least make the format proprietary.
Remember it was Sony that fought for VCR time-shifting rights in the 80's. As both an electronics and a content company -- and I think they're more the former than the latter -- they can be rather two-faced depending on which part of the company you're hearing from.
On the otherhand, can anyone explain exactly why Ashcroft was choosen as the defendent?
Because he's the U.S. Attorney General. From 1993-2000, Janet Reno's name was on all cases of vs. the federal government. As in, Eldred vs. Reno.
One system calls me 5-6 times a week, is from "Out of Area," I cannot call-trace it (*57 here, DC/Virginia), and the phone company says I have to pay them $5/month to make them stop. I cannot ask them to put me on a DNC (do not call) list because nobody ever answers, it's just an empty line for 5 seconds then it clicks to a dial tone.
It may not be a marketer, it may be a device "phoning home." There was a woman who would get called with such regularity she could set her clock by it. It turned out the caller was something like an oil tank, trying to call the previous owner of the number because it was time for servicing or something. So if you haven't had the number for long, that might be the reason. (Or it could be the device has the number wrong.)
"Hello? Can I speak to Anne [or some other name that no one in my house has]? Hello?"
In that case, pick up, say "Sure, hold on a moment..." and then put the phone down. Pick it up again and hang it up once the off-hook warning plays.
The real problem with this approach is the transgenic transmission of the genes to non-mining plants.
A lot of that depends on whether the materials the plants mine exist commonly in nature. If mercury does not occur at high concentrations in most unpolluted soil, then the transfer of mercury-mining genes from plant to plant is not an issue -- only plants in polluted areas could mine anything anyway.
I don't think this is true. There is always somebody that will find any given problem interesting. If not, it probably wasn't worth doing.
How many people do you know who would find cleaning public toilets interesting?
As far as I can tell, people ARE downloading apache, and using it more than it's closed source counterparts...
All right, so open source is used more for web serving and penguin downhill racing simulators. Anything else?
I'm probably going to get destroyed by all the super high res digital film fanatics out there, but here goes...
I'm not a fanatic, just a realist.
1) Just as you have to change film in a film camera, with a digital camera you need to unload the digital files to a higher-capacity, larger storage device. 120 GB drives cost a little over a dollar a gigabyte.
2) The cost of flash cards will go down, and the capacity will go up, by a significant amount every year. At some point it should be cheaper than film, in which case reloading the camera means taking out one card and putting in a new one.
3) The card is reusable, film is not. You can take 24 pictures, delete the bad ones, and shoot again. Or, if the camera is fast enough, every shot becomes multiple ones, from which you choose your favorite.
Photos have been just fine in terms of razor sharp quality and colour for the last 10 years...why do we need to make them 1000x better?/I.
We probably don't. But at some point, digital's advantages outweigh its steadily disappearing disadvantages.
most auto ticket things dont take into acount time ware you have no choice but to run a red light, for example if your sitting in the middle of an intersection tring to turn and the light turns red you have to turn or else your holding up trafic, the camera will take your pic.
Why is it a picture anyway? I guess they need the high-res for the plate, but in general there should be a video camera running whenever the light is going to turn red, so context can be captured.
Unfortunately we have so many red light runners* that it can be dangerous to stop at a light that's about to change, you'll get rear-ended.
(I joke about how friendly the people around D.C. are. If you think you might have gone through an intersection too late, there's always a person or two who will go through afterwards just to reassure you that you didn't.)
If we justify restricting EULAs as a "cost of incorporation", then small, unincorporated ISVs (like shareware many authors) end up taking the bad (restricted right to form contracts) without getting the good (liability shield).
Not at all. If you want a licensing agreement, sell over the internet, and get the purchaser to agree to the terms prior to purchasing. There's no need for EULAs.
Add in captive market pricing (drug in US $212, same drug in Peru $7 [...]
But what's the alternative? Change the price to $70 across the board, and Americans get cheaper drugs but most Peruvians can't afford them. And then the drug companies get hammered for killing Peruvians by charging so much for their drugs. Differential pricing allows the companies to make a profit but still sell drugs cheaply to people who couldn't afford it at the profit-making price.
I do like the idea of compulsory licensing, though; I think it is reasonably promising without having to restructure the whole system.
But why is the marketing of drugs such a factor? Do people really pressure their doctors to prescribe Celebrex rather than taking ibuprofen?
There is a dearth of substances out there that fight depression (St. Johns Wort), cancer, and other ailments
A dearth means a lack of, a shortage of, etc. You mean a plethora or a variety or a number of substances, not the opposite. There is a dearth of *testing* on those substances, and I remember seeing something about the FDA or NIH planning to spend a significant amount on testing these substances. I don't know if that went anywhere, though.
OK.. one good thing. My company moved away from the city. About 1 hour west.
Seems like this is the real answer. Why do you need so many people in such a small area? There's plenty of room in the country, just spread out a bit. But no, we squash together like sardines in small regions.
I am in complete diagreement with everyone here on this issue, I believe.
You are incorrect. In generally, slashdotters want to shorten copyright, not remove it completely. But we generally agree it should be long enough for most authors to make most of their profit.
The copyright owners of these works are the writers, who are famously poor (a few exceptions aside)
So the current system isn't working all that well for you either, is it? And I doubt you're making much from works you wrote 75 years ago, or from selling the rights to your works 75 years hence.
Neither do I hope that the future demands digitized books, wherin writers will never make any money ever.
Computer people have managed to make money off of digitized information, I don't see that authors will be particularly less successful. In the case of on-demand printing, the overhead for an author to get a book "published" is much lower; you need merely get your book formatted for the printer, and get it on the listings. But you don't have to do as much to convince a publisher it's worth their time and money to publish it.
Now that you mention it, I remember long ago seeing a Mapplethorpe hologram at Siggraph. It was of a large schlong, and the 3-D effect was rather inadequacy-inducing...
(...for most people, at any rate.)
It sounds like DTI does it by varying the backlight, whereas Sharp uses a standard backlight and blocks some of the light from in front of the pixels. DTI's should be lower power or it should be brighter, since it doesn't throw away half of the illumination.
That may be true, but do you realize the scale of the uproar that would occur if they decided to charge for these programs?
It's not the charging or lack thereof, it's that they spend on development. If they stopped funding the Mozilla team, I believe the progress on that project would grind nearly to a halt. So effectively they are giving me Mozilla, because the Big Mo today still isn't quite all there.
If your existence came into being based on totally random events, then your brain also was the result of a random event.
One line of thinking is to believe that God set it all up: the Big Bang, evolution, killer asteroids all to get to this point. If God is omnipotent and omniscient, there's no reason to believe God couldn't have figured out exactly the starting conditions to create humans. And in so doing, God not only demonstrates that ability, but also gives us li'l children of his a world with all sorts of clues about how it works and how it came to be how it is. And now our task, should we choose to accept it, is to create a universe where we have defeated the Four Horsemen and our own flaws because it's the Right Thing To Do.
To me, God starting with the Big Bang and getting to here is a lot more impressive than doing a little sculpting in 4004 B.C.
orgazmo podunk and his jug band?
Speaking of which, there was a bluegrass-like rendition of Beethoven's Ninth in a Cingular commercial. If anyone has more of that than their brief snippet, I'd love to get a copy. (I e-mailed Cingular's PR, and they told me who the various performers were, but no info on whether they'd actually done anything like a full movement.)
"And turn off that racket!"
"Racket? It's Brahms! Brahm's Third 'Racket'..."