That was my thought, the iPad isn't even a decent ebook reader. Plus has this person never heard of Nook or Kindle? B&N, Amazon and a fair number of other stores out there will carry and sell ebooks. Amazon even has a self publishing option for those that can't or don't want to find a publisher.
I take it from your tone, that whenever you get an extreme whether warning for thunderstorms that you go outside with your lightning rod to prove that the govenrment can't do anything right.
I give my conditional approval to the notion. It sounds to me like something that should have been done a long time ago. As fewer and fewer people watch TV and listen to the radio, those emergency broadcasts are reaching fewer and fewer people. Plus, with the number of phones out there that support text messages, and will support this the likelihood of ever being somewhere that there isn't somebody else with a phone is going to be relatively low.
The main thing which concerns me about it is if it's over used it could be a very efficient means of spreading FUD ahead of elections.
If you file in the same country as the registry you're fine. Just because you can access a domain from anywhere in the world, does not mean that you need to have a trademark that covers the whole world. You're not going to have a court in Venezuela or Sweden with the power to issue binding orders on domain registrars operating out of the US. Which has caused a lot of trouble for some European nations with bans on the trade of Nazi memorabilia.
It's been advised for as long as I can remember to proactively trademark your domain name. Anybody who's done that previously shouldn't have anything to worry about. The people that do have something to worry about either didn't trademark it or are running fan sites.
Yes, with Roku and the increasing number of other set top options for streaming video to the TV, it would make far more sense for them to go online only. Plus, it would allow them to restructure their shows sort of the way that HBO does to have plot points coming where they make sense rather than around the schedule for ad breaks.
But, my main concern would be being required to pay for a premium TV channel and not having other options.
In this case it's double moot as the seed was authorized by the copyright holder and there isn't likely to be any evidence that the people downloading actually provided any of the bits that other people downloaded, let alone who provided what bits to whom.
ISPs aren't responsible for what people do with their connection, unless of course you want to have them filtering the crap out of everything. This is one of the few ways in which the US telecom industry doesn't suck.
No, he's correct, and any store that posts such minimums for service is in violation of their agreement with the Visa or Mastercard. The GGP wasn't referring to a Chineses restaurant in China, those places are unlikely to take credit at all, but in the US presumably. And they don't get charged that much in terms of processing fees.
Indeed, and they refuse to let you have your money back. I ended up reporting their fraudulent points program to the Attorney General's office because not only do they require you to buy points, but they won't sell them to you in just the increments necessary to make a purchase and carry differing sizes of bundles between their store sites. That has presumably changed, but the whole system was set up in such a way that the consumer is unable to buy just one thing in many cases without overpaying.
I think they'll likely argue that torrenting involves uploading as well as downloading. I'm sure though that they don't have any evidence that any of those people also uploaded to a party not authorized to receive a copy. I'd expect this to get shot down on the grounds of it being a rehash of the discarded making available theory.
Indeed, there are ways in which the US has been embarrassing itself lately, what with the TSA groping and warrantless wiretapping, but torrenting movies isn't a right, let's keep in mind the real freedoms that we've lost.
That's not to say that I think this sort of abuse of power is right, because it's clearly not, but even the worst consequences of it aren't as bad as some of the other things happening in even the other developed nations.
The issue is that if any of those 23,000 people didn't do it, then we've chucked our values down the toilet to bend over for corporate greed. If they've got the goods fine, but they should have to go through the process of filing separate suits for each and every one of those people, unless they can demonstrate that the IPs belong to the same person or they're acting together.
Filing suit is their right, but it isn't their right to do it in such an economical way, make them pay for all the suits necessary and see if they still feel that this is a valuable use of the court's time.
What's more, I doubt very much that all those addresses really correspond to people for which that one court has jurisdiction.
That's a mighty fine straw man you've got there. It'd be a shame if somebody were to say, point out that copyright is about controlling distribution not consumption.
I'd expect it to be tossed. The US Copyright Group can't provide the torrent and then sue people for using a lawfully provided torrent. Unless of course the US Copyright Group didn't have the right to distribute those files, in which case they'd be liable for say, eleventy billion dollars.
I've been to Germany, you guys have some pretty significant advantages to us. For one thing, your infrastructure was rebuilt more or less from scratch about 60 years ago. Giving a substantial opportunity to redesign the grid, ours is significantly older than that and just expanded for the increased capacity that we now need. But ignoring that, most of our power has to travel many hundreds of miles to get here, through rough terrain the likes of which you just don't have in Germany, servicing numerous small communities on the way.
The point is that I doubt very much that if we just deployed whatever technology you're using that it would result in any better result than what we presently have.
I think that's a pretty good bet. You can't build a replica of the inside of the buildings, but you can at least make a mock up of the rest. I'm not sure why they'd use a computer simulation unless they really had to. OTOH, the secret service moved over eventually so who knows.
Does anybody actually take the tea party seriously? Granted it's hard to define a movement with no membership requirements, but there's plenty of nutters in there to make the rest seem a bit dodgy. The best think the GOP could do at this point is distance themselves from it.
It wasn't an assassination. Technically speaking Osama could have surrendered, it's just that he'd have to do it immediately without any hesitation to be accepted. But he could have surrendered. I don't think that anybody seriously believed that he could be taken alive.
/dev/null? Don't they know that's not secure? This is exactly why I store all my backups in/dev/rand, it just amazes me after all these years how it just keeps on securely storing my data.
A repository shouldn't go down for that long. And you certainly shouldn't have all repositories going down at once. Most distros, at least all the big ones, have plenty of mirrors available such that something like this taking down one shouldn't be that much of an issue. Beyond that, the security problem which led to this for Sony could much more easily be handled with just a throttling of the sites as this would have required a dozen or more servers to be incompetently administered.
I know you're joking, but there isn't any particular reason for us to convert. And that's really the biggest hindrance to us doing so. There are a few areas like science and inter-operating with other countries where converting would be useful, but the reality is that for most things it's just not that helpful. And we tend to do a lot of things, like cooking, with fractions rather than decimals.
More than that, I don't see an undertaking that substantial to be worth the cost and confusion in the middle.
That depends where you live. Around here the power is rarely out for more than a moment, and even those times are infrequent. And really the only reason we notice at all anymore is because we're more used to having devices like computers that can reveal a power outage over night.
But in general, the power grid is what you make of it, if you're utility sucks, then you're going to get poor reliability. Around here we have a public utility which handles it and they by and large do a good job.
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That was my thought, the iPad isn't even a decent ebook reader. Plus has this person never heard of Nook or Kindle? B&N, Amazon and a fair number of other stores out there will carry and sell ebooks. Amazon even has a self publishing option for those that can't or don't want to find a publisher.
I take it from your tone, that whenever you get an extreme whether warning for thunderstorms that you go outside with your lightning rod to prove that the govenrment can't do anything right.
I give my conditional approval to the notion. It sounds to me like something that should have been done a long time ago. As fewer and fewer people watch TV and listen to the radio, those emergency broadcasts are reaching fewer and fewer people. Plus, with the number of phones out there that support text messages, and will support this the likelihood of ever being somewhere that there isn't somebody else with a phone is going to be relatively low.
The main thing which concerns me about it is if it's over used it could be a very efficient means of spreading FUD ahead of elections.
If you file in the same country as the registry you're fine. Just because you can access a domain from anywhere in the world, does not mean that you need to have a trademark that covers the whole world. You're not going to have a court in Venezuela or Sweden with the power to issue binding orders on domain registrars operating out of the US. Which has caused a lot of trouble for some European nations with bans on the trade of Nazi memorabilia.
It's been advised for as long as I can remember to proactively trademark your domain name. Anybody who's done that previously shouldn't have anything to worry about. The people that do have something to worry about either didn't trademark it or are running fan sites.
Yes, with Roku and the increasing number of other set top options for streaming video to the TV, it would make far more sense for them to go online only. Plus, it would allow them to restructure their shows sort of the way that HBO does to have plot points coming where they make sense rather than around the schedule for ad breaks.
But, my main concern would be being required to pay for a premium TV channel and not having other options.
In this case it's double moot as the seed was authorized by the copyright holder and there isn't likely to be any evidence that the people downloading actually provided any of the bits that other people downloaded, let alone who provided what bits to whom.
ISPs aren't responsible for what people do with their connection, unless of course you want to have them filtering the crap out of everything. This is one of the few ways in which the US telecom industry doesn't suck.
No, he's correct, and any store that posts such minimums for service is in violation of their agreement with the Visa or Mastercard. The GGP wasn't referring to a Chineses restaurant in China, those places are unlikely to take credit at all, but in the US presumably. And they don't get charged that much in terms of processing fees.
Indeed, and they refuse to let you have your money back. I ended up reporting their fraudulent points program to the Attorney General's office because not only do they require you to buy points, but they won't sell them to you in just the increments necessary to make a purchase and carry differing sizes of bundles between their store sites. That has presumably changed, but the whole system was set up in such a way that the consumer is unable to buy just one thing in many cases without overpaying.
I think they'll likely argue that torrenting involves uploading as well as downloading. I'm sure though that they don't have any evidence that any of those people also uploaded to a party not authorized to receive a copy. I'd expect this to get shot down on the grounds of it being a rehash of the discarded making available theory.
Indeed, there are ways in which the US has been embarrassing itself lately, what with the TSA groping and warrantless wiretapping, but torrenting movies isn't a right, let's keep in mind the real freedoms that we've lost.
That's not to say that I think this sort of abuse of power is right, because it's clearly not, but even the worst consequences of it aren't as bad as some of the other things happening in even the other developed nations.
The issue is that if any of those 23,000 people didn't do it, then we've chucked our values down the toilet to bend over for corporate greed. If they've got the goods fine, but they should have to go through the process of filing separate suits for each and every one of those people, unless they can demonstrate that the IPs belong to the same person or they're acting together.
Filing suit is their right, but it isn't their right to do it in such an economical way, make them pay for all the suits necessary and see if they still feel that this is a valuable use of the court's time.
What's more, I doubt very much that all those addresses really correspond to people for which that one court has jurisdiction.
That's a mighty fine straw man you've got there. It'd be a shame if somebody were to say, point out that copyright is about controlling distribution not consumption.
I'd expect it to be tossed. The US Copyright Group can't provide the torrent and then sue people for using a lawfully provided torrent. Unless of course the US Copyright Group didn't have the right to distribute those files, in which case they'd be liable for say, eleventy billion dollars.
I've been to Germany, you guys have some pretty significant advantages to us. For one thing, your infrastructure was rebuilt more or less from scratch about 60 years ago. Giving a substantial opportunity to redesign the grid, ours is significantly older than that and just expanded for the increased capacity that we now need. But ignoring that, most of our power has to travel many hundreds of miles to get here, through rough terrain the likes of which you just don't have in Germany, servicing numerous small communities on the way.
The point is that I doubt very much that if we just deployed whatever technology you're using that it would result in any better result than what we presently have.
LOL, and Google says they aren't evil. They could've saved several years worth of work if they'd just pointed that out in bigger letters.
I think that's a pretty good bet. You can't build a replica of the inside of the buildings, but you can at least make a mock up of the rest. I'm not sure why they'd use a computer simulation unless they really had to. OTOH, the secret service moved over eventually so who knows.
Does anybody actually take the tea party seriously? Granted it's hard to define a movement with no membership requirements, but there's plenty of nutters in there to make the rest seem a bit dodgy. The best think the GOP could do at this point is distance themselves from it.
It wasn't an assassination. Technically speaking Osama could have surrendered, it's just that he'd have to do it immediately without any hesitation to be accepted. But he could have surrendered. I don't think that anybody seriously believed that he could be taken alive.
C) PR damage control (sorry guys, you screwed the pooch and have already lost your reputation for security).
Wait, Sony had a reputation for security? Why was I not informed?
/dev/null? Don't they know that's not secure? This is exactly why I store all my backups in /dev/rand, it just amazes me after all these years how it just keeps on securely storing my data.
A repository shouldn't go down for that long. And you certainly shouldn't have all repositories going down at once. Most distros, at least all the big ones, have plenty of mirrors available such that something like this taking down one shouldn't be that much of an issue. Beyond that, the security problem which led to this for Sony could much more easily be handled with just a throttling of the sites as this would have required a dozen or more servers to be incompetently administered.
I know you're joking, but there isn't any particular reason for us to convert. And that's really the biggest hindrance to us doing so. There are a few areas like science and inter-operating with other countries where converting would be useful, but the reality is that for most things it's just not that helpful. And we tend to do a lot of things, like cooking, with fractions rather than decimals.
More than that, I don't see an undertaking that substantial to be worth the cost and confusion in the middle.
That depends where you live. Around here the power is rarely out for more than a moment, and even those times are infrequent. And really the only reason we notice at all anymore is because we're more used to having devices like computers that can reveal a power outage over night.
But in general, the power grid is what you make of it, if you're utility sucks, then you're going to get poor reliability. Around here we have a public utility which handles it and they by and large do a good job.