If it's not worth enough to go to the bother of registering it then it's not worth adding to the legal quagmire that is default copyright.
The problem with this is that a picture I take might be worth something, but that worth is less than what it would cost me in time/effort to get the money out of it (as opposed to an established publisher or news organization), so I don't. This legislation basically lets those established players hoover up that stuff and get money out of it, but without ever having to compensate the author.
I cannot imagine what a nightmare it will be to manage weapons access thru fingerprints into a large military unit.
Nowhere near the nightmare caused by all the soldiers that would die when their weapons refuse to fire. Or when an enemy figures out that a relatively cheap EMP generator will disarm an entire unit.
Today I think you have it backwards. If it does end up being an american, it will be all over the media, used as an excuse to take away more rights. If it is a "furriner" it will be all over the media, used as an excuse to take away more rights.
There, fixed that for ya. A common mistake to think our current Government in any way wants to serve us, defend our rights, and generally do the right thing. You're not the first to make that mistake.
This. I'm actually far more afraid of what the government will do in response to stuff like this than actually being a victim of something like this.
It's better than that... What about cars with built-in phones? If you can't use your phone's GPS functionality while driving, then you shouldn't be able to use your phone's driving capability while driving. Right?
Another thing to consider is the price of the car itself, though. Even if these batteries end up with a running cost of $2.00/gal equivalent, how much cheaper would an electric car be without the expensive batteries and charging circuitry. An electric motor by itself is going to be a lot cheaper to make (and definitely to maintain) than an ICE.
Even if it's not as cheap to run as a rechargeable electric, it might still be cheaper to own than an ICE-powered car, and actually affordable by the masses.
Seriously, ubiquitous cameras and fear of the police is all that is necessary. Please reference the article on secret compartments for how they instill fear of the police in otherwise reasonably honest citizens.
You know, it just occurred to me that the same sort of behavior might scare people away from recording everything, instead.
You walk down the street, recording with your G Glass, and while you don't notice it, some kind of unobtrusive crime happens in front of you that your camera catches. A few seconds later, you see a cat do something funny, so you post the video to the Internet. Then you get indicted for not snitching on the crime you "saw," sort of like what happened to the secret compartment guy.
People pitched the timesharing computing model for a lot of reasons, lack of control of the hardware and the software rental treadmill being two of the largest. Every time I hear someone gushing over The Cloud and Software As A Service, it's history repeating itself.
Just because your data center isnt' in-house, doesn't automatically mean "cloud" and "SaaS." I work for a company that does IT outsourcing, and what you're really time-sharing in most cases is the technical talent and expensive data center infrastructure, not the networks and servers.
Many of our customers may only have enough servers for a rack or three. They have the option of setting up redundant power, generators, weather-proof buildings, security, etc., but that would be prohibitively expensive, so we move them here, and they use ours. Even more silly is hiring several each (to provide 24/7 coverage) of firewall experts, windows experts, linux experts, exchange experts, industrial electricians, etc. when you really only need them for a few hours a month. Sure, you could try to find one or two people that could do all of that, but they tend to have to rely heavily on vendor support when they run into gnarly problems, so you're right back to having to rely on a third party.
We have a team of about 40 people that do nothing but firewalls, for example. Our customers just pay for whatever of our time they need. Basically the model allows a company to hire 1/8 of a rock-solid ASA admin, 1/10 of an exchange expert, 1/5 of an oracle dba, and half of a linux admin. Cheaper than hiring one person, and with much deeper knowledge of their fields than a jack-of-all-trades.
If the US military turns against its own population, it will be much more like Syria or Libya.
If the US government turns the US military against its own population, I'm guessing they'll find that a good chunk of the military will turn against them. I doubt it would be as one-sided as you think.
The only way that would come close to working is if they used external troops, or brainwashed State A's national guard against "those traitors over there in State B."
By comparing against countries that do have guns but also have gun laws?
Sure... so where is the country that has the exact same culture, politics, racial issues, etc. to compare to? Otherwise there are way too many variables to pin any differences in violent crime on the presence or lack of gun laws.
What business do religions have with marriage? Marriage is simply a legal agreement between two people that carries certain benefits and obligations. Why do religions keep insisting that they are somehow empowered to decide who can get married and how? And if some religions are allowed to conduct marriages, then why not let every religion do it? It's not like any of them are more 'real' then the others.
Actually, as a Christian, I think you've got it backwards. "Marriage" is between a man and a woman, before God, and the State needs to butt out. My pastor actually refuses to use the phrase "by the authority granted to me by the state of XYZ" in any ceremony he does, because he believes they have none.
A "marriage license" should really be called "a license to be treated as a single legal entity" or something like that, and it should be illegal to discriminate based on sex (or whatever else) when they're issued. (or maybe just stop discriminating against single people in the tax code and stuff, and make the state's involvement totally irrelevant)
While I agree mostly with what you've said, keep in mind that, as a contractor, he's been asked to provide a different service, to train the new guy, and is being compensated as both parties deem appropriate. I completely agree that the submitter shouldn't work for free, but if he's amicable to this agreement (as he appears to be) then there's no reason he can't continue. He's made his objections about hiring a newbie to do it, but it's their code to do with as they please.
Yeah, if you're getting paid to teach him your code, why not? Also, if, as you seem to think, they've bitten off more than they can chew, you might end up getting paid to teach him, then keep the contract anyway, when they realize it's not going to work. That might not happen if you just shove the code at them and leave.
"Ethan said he is having a hard time coming up with common phrases that a wife might say to her husband."
Let me get you started, kiddo:
1. No i don't want to have sex tonight 2. No i won't be cooking dinner tonight 3. No I don't want to have sex tonight 4. We are out of food, seriously there is nothing to eat [play this automatically any time user is near a refrigerator] 5. for the last time, no we aren't having sex tonight so shut up already!
AC because there *is* a snowballs chance in hell my wife might accidentally google and find this...
You're over-thinking this. The LazyWife version just needs to be shaped like a dildo.
It won't be for long. The E.U. high court's decision to allow the resale of used software (Usedsoft vs. Oracle) stated that giving a permanent license for an one-time payment concludes a sale, and the First Sale doctrine applies. Just because you name your EULA in a fancy manner, it doesn't change that it covers a sale. At least for the E.U., all ebook providers thus have to implement the infrastructure to allow a resale of used ebooks.
These are textbooks. They'd just stop giving you a "permanent license," and only license them for the term of the course (for the same price as the original dead tree edition, I'm sure).
Having worked in a company that big, there's nothing the CEO could have done about it. Everyone would have lied to him "oh, it's going good, it'll be great" if he asked, and he'd be so far out of development, he'd have no way of knowing that something was buggy or not ready. Just have to shuffle CEOs around so that they look like they are worth $100,000,000 per year, when they outsource on the basis of "supply and demand" and any of a million people would take his job, and apparently, not many could do it worse.
On the other hand, if he's the kind of person that punishes people for being honest so that everyone lies to him, then he does need to go.
In a company that size, your primary source of information is going to be other people, and if you can't create enough trust with them to get good information to make your decisions, then you can't do your job.
It surprises me that many debate the “security” of the fingerprint scanners while omitting the major flaw of any biometric system – it is not revocable. You cannot simply reset someone’s fingertips if the system for that instance has been compromised. With pretty much all other authentication there’s some mechanism to delete the bad entry: a password can be reset, a certificate can be revoked, a compromised key can end up in the black list, etc. None of this is possible with any biometric system. Even if it takes an elaborate trickery and a lot of resources to duplicate a finger, a hand, or a mockup of the retina scan, once it’s done, it cannot be “cancelled” at the biometric system level.
This is less a problem with biometrics, and more a problem with the way they're used. Using a fingerprint as the ONLY authentication is idiotic, but on the other hand (heh) which would you rather have on your bank's ATM? Card+PIN, or Card+PIN+fingerprint? I can't count the number of times I've rolled up to an ATM and found a card in it, or worse, the previous user left it on the "Do you want another transaction? Yes/No" screen. Replace the Yes/Enter button with a fingerprint scanner, and that's no longer an issue (until it gets vandalized and doesn't work...).
It's going to require a big company or two getting a consumer-initiated "death penalty" before they get the message. A national company is going to have to go tits up after a concerted and publicized boycott, and then you'll see things change.
I'm guessing whatever group tries to organize such a thing will quickly be labelled "terrorist" or "subversive" by the corporate funded government and get shut down. We're too big to fail! The economy will be damaged! It's national security, doncha know?
Turn over all the subscriber info to Canpire immediately. Let them send out demand letters. Then send out letters to all those subscribers explaining the exact nature of Canpire's business, on the theory that there's a least a handful of those subscribers with money, good lawyers, and short tempers;-)
Even better response that might ultimately be cheaper for the ISP than getting incessant requests:
Send out a letter to all subscribers describing the troll and their methods, then "if you receive demands of this nature, and are willing to fight them in court, contact us for legal assistance." Then either pay for lawyers or use the company ones.
At minimum, you might have to argue one case, but if the trolls find out you're making this offer, they might just move on to an easier target.
TFA makes it sound like they're all speed cameras anyway, not line cameras, and points out that of the two cameras which were operating one was in a school zone where you really do want these things enforced.
A school zone would be even worse for automated enforcement. If the zone has a blinkenlight, does the camera start issuing citations EXACTLY when the light starts, or are they mis-timed? What about people already in the zone when the light comes on? If it doesn't have a blinkenlight, and just a sign that lists the active times, what about people whose clocks are out by a few minutes (IOW, EVERYONE), or if the camera's clock is off (possibly intentionally).
Automated enforcement of a school zone has the potential for issuing hundreds of bogus citations at the start/end of every active cycle that would be nearly impossible to prove/disprove, and way too easy for an unscrupulous company or city to milk for extra cash.
North Korea, on the other hand, has nothing to begin with, and they have an irrational despot calling the shots. Even China backed the last round of sanctions (rather than abstaining like they usually do)... that says it all.
I wonder, though, how long he would continue to call the shots if he really told his military leaders to nuke someone. Even if KJ-U is irrational, he's not going to be personally delivering any nukes.
As in most cases where invoked, the grammar nazi disclaimer is not necessary here. Noting a really amusing spelling error in a non-hostile way could never be taken as nazi behavior by rational beings.
The problem is, with the prevailing winds in Korea (SE in summer, NW in winter), if you nuke NK, you'd either end up poisoning S. Korea & Japan, or China, depending on the time of year, so those three would probably not let that happen.
I think our sense of distance gets kind of warped in the US since we're pretty spread out. Both Koreas together would just about fit inside of Kansas, so you're not just nuking "those guys way over there."
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If it's not worth enough to go to the bother of registering it then it's not worth adding to the legal quagmire that is default copyright.
The problem with this is that a picture I take might be worth something, but that worth is less than what it would cost me in time/effort to get the money out of it (as opposed to an established publisher or news organization), so I don't. This legislation basically lets those established players hoover up that stuff and get money out of it, but without ever having to compensate the author.
I cannot imagine what a nightmare it will be to manage weapons access thru fingerprints into a large military unit.
Nowhere near the nightmare caused by all the soldiers that would die when their weapons refuse to fire. Or when an enemy figures out that a relatively cheap EMP generator will disarm an entire unit.
Today I think you have it backwards. If it does end up being an american, it will be all over the media, used as an excuse to take away more rights. If it is a "furriner" it will be all over the media, used as an excuse to take away more rights.
There, fixed that for ya. A common mistake to think our current Government in any way wants to serve us, defend our rights, and generally do the right thing. You're not the first to make that mistake.
This. I'm actually far more afraid of what the government will do in response to stuff like this than actually being a victim of something like this.
It's better than that... What about cars with built-in phones? If you can't use your phone's GPS functionality while driving, then you shouldn't be able to use your phone's driving capability while driving. Right?
Another thing to consider is the price of the car itself, though. Even if these batteries end up with a running cost of $2.00/gal equivalent, how much cheaper would an electric car be without the expensive batteries and charging circuitry. An electric motor by itself is going to be a lot cheaper to make (and definitely to maintain) than an ICE.
Even if it's not as cheap to run as a rechargeable electric, it might still be cheaper to own than an ICE-powered car, and actually affordable by the masses.
Seriously, ubiquitous cameras and fear of the police is all that is necessary. Please reference the article on secret compartments for how they instill fear of the police in otherwise reasonably honest citizens.
You know, it just occurred to me that the same sort of behavior might scare people away from recording everything, instead.
You walk down the street, recording with your G Glass, and while you don't notice it, some kind of unobtrusive crime happens in front of you that your camera catches. A few seconds later, you see a cat do something funny, so you post the video to the Internet. Then you get indicted for not snitching on the crime you "saw," sort of like what happened to the secret compartment guy.
People pitched the timesharing computing model for a lot of reasons, lack of control of the hardware and the software rental treadmill being two of the largest. Every time I hear someone gushing over The Cloud and Software As A Service, it's history repeating itself.
Just because your data center isnt' in-house, doesn't automatically mean "cloud" and "SaaS." I work for a company that does IT outsourcing, and what you're really time-sharing in most cases is the technical talent and expensive data center infrastructure, not the networks and servers.
Many of our customers may only have enough servers for a rack or three. They have the option of setting up redundant power, generators, weather-proof buildings, security, etc., but that would be prohibitively expensive, so we move them here, and they use ours. Even more silly is hiring several each (to provide 24/7 coverage) of firewall experts, windows experts, linux experts, exchange experts, industrial electricians, etc. when you really only need them for a few hours a month. Sure, you could try to find one or two people that could do all of that, but they tend to have to rely heavily on vendor support when they run into gnarly problems, so you're right back to having to rely on a third party.
We have a team of about 40 people that do nothing but firewalls, for example. Our customers just pay for whatever of our time they need. Basically the model allows a company to hire 1/8 of a rock-solid ASA admin, 1/10 of an exchange expert, 1/5 of an oracle dba, and half of a linux admin. Cheaper than hiring one person, and with much deeper knowledge of their fields than a jack-of-all-trades.
If the US military turns against its own population, it will be much more like Syria or Libya.
If the US government turns the US military against its own population, I'm guessing they'll find that a good chunk of the military will turn against them. I doubt it would be as one-sided as you think.
The only way that would come close to working is if they used external troops, or brainwashed State A's national guard against "those traitors over there in State B."
By comparing against countries that do have guns but also have gun laws?
Sure... so where is the country that has the exact same culture, politics, racial issues, etc. to compare to? Otherwise there are way too many variables to pin any differences in violent crime on the presence or lack of gun laws.
What business do religions have with marriage? Marriage is simply a legal agreement between two people that carries certain benefits and obligations. Why do religions keep insisting that they are somehow empowered to decide who can get married and how? And if some religions are allowed to conduct marriages, then why not let every religion do it? It's not like any of them are more 'real' then the others.
Actually, as a Christian, I think you've got it backwards. "Marriage" is between a man and a woman, before God, and the State needs to butt out. My pastor actually refuses to use the phrase "by the authority granted to me by the state of XYZ" in any ceremony he does, because he believes they have none.
A "marriage license" should really be called "a license to be treated as a single legal entity" or something like that, and it should be illegal to discriminate based on sex (or whatever else) when they're issued. (or maybe just stop discriminating against single people in the tax code and stuff, and make the state's involvement totally irrelevant)
While I agree mostly with what you've said, keep in mind that, as a contractor, he's been asked to provide a different service, to train the new guy, and is being compensated as both parties deem appropriate. I completely agree that the submitter shouldn't work for free, but if he's amicable to this agreement (as he appears to be) then there's no reason he can't continue. He's made his objections about hiring a newbie to do it, but it's their code to do with as they please.
Yeah, if you're getting paid to teach him your code, why not? Also, if, as you seem to think, they've bitten off more than they can chew, you might end up getting paid to teach him, then keep the contract anyway, when they realize it's not going to work. That might not happen if you just shove the code at them and leave.
"Ethan said he is having a hard time coming up with common phrases that a wife might say to her husband."
Let me get you started, kiddo:
1. No i don't want to have sex tonight
2. No i won't be cooking dinner tonight
3. No I don't want to have sex tonight
4. We are out of food, seriously there is nothing to eat [play this automatically any time user is near a refrigerator]
5. for the last time, no we aren't having sex tonight so shut up already!
AC because there *is* a snowballs chance in hell my wife might accidentally google and find this...
You're over-thinking this. The LazyWife version just needs to be shaped like a dildo.
It won't be for long. The E.U. high court's decision to allow the resale of used software (Usedsoft vs. Oracle) stated that giving a permanent license for an one-time payment concludes a sale, and the First Sale doctrine applies. Just because you name your EULA in a fancy manner, it doesn't change that it covers a sale. At least for the E.U., all ebook providers thus have to implement the infrastructure to allow a resale of used ebooks.
These are textbooks. They'd just stop giving you a "permanent license," and only license them for the term of the course (for the same price as the original dead tree edition, I'm sure).
Having worked in a company that big, there's nothing the CEO could have done about it. Everyone would have lied to him "oh, it's going good, it'll be great" if he asked, and he'd be so far out of development, he'd have no way of knowing that something was buggy or not ready. Just have to shuffle CEOs around so that they look like they are worth $100,000,000 per year, when they outsource on the basis of "supply and demand" and any of a million people would take his job, and apparently, not many could do it worse.
On the other hand, if he's the kind of person that punishes people for being honest so that everyone lies to him, then he does need to go.
In a company that size, your primary source of information is going to be other people, and if you can't create enough trust with them to get good information to make your decisions, then you can't do your job.
It surprises me that many debate the “security” of the fingerprint scanners while omitting the major flaw of any biometric system – it is not revocable. You cannot simply reset someone’s fingertips if the system for that instance has been compromised. With pretty much all other authentication there’s some mechanism to delete the bad entry: a password can be reset, a certificate can be revoked, a compromised key can end up in the black list, etc. None of this is possible with any biometric system. Even if it takes an elaborate trickery and a lot of resources to duplicate a finger, a hand, or a mockup of the retina scan, once it’s done, it cannot be “cancelled” at the biometric system level.
This is less a problem with biometrics, and more a problem with the way they're used. Using a fingerprint as the ONLY authentication is idiotic, but on the other hand (heh) which would you rather have on your bank's ATM? Card+PIN, or Card+PIN+fingerprint? I can't count the number of times I've rolled up to an ATM and found a card in it, or worse, the previous user left it on the "Do you want another transaction? Yes/No" screen. Replace the Yes/Enter button with a fingerprint scanner, and that's no longer an issue (until it gets vandalized and doesn't work...).
And switch to water, for a start.
Now they can figure out who has it, before it is too late.
Now insurance companies can figure out who will get it, so they can make sure they don't get stuck with you.
I suppose most Alzheimer's patients would be on Medicare, but the long term care insurance companies would love this.
Fresh grads from the top Universities. Duh!
One of the first things I learned at college was to eat pizza and drink Dr. Pepper while working without getting my computer greasy/sticky.
It's going to require a big company or two getting a consumer-initiated "death penalty" before they get the message. A national company is going to have to go tits up after a concerted and publicized boycott, and then you'll see things change.
I'm guessing whatever group tries to organize such a thing will quickly be labelled "terrorist" or "subversive" by the corporate funded government and get shut down. We're too big to fail! The economy will be damaged! It's national security, doncha know?
Turn over all the subscriber info to Canpire immediately. Let them send out demand letters. Then send out letters to all those subscribers explaining the exact nature of Canpire's business, on the theory that there's a least a handful of those subscribers with money, good lawyers, and short tempers ;-)
Even better response that might ultimately be cheaper for the ISP than getting incessant requests:
Send out a letter to all subscribers describing the troll and their methods, then "if you receive demands of this nature, and are willing to fight them in court, contact us for legal assistance." Then either pay for lawyers or use the company ones.
At minimum, you might have to argue one case, but if the trolls find out you're making this offer, they might just move on to an easier target.
TFA makes it sound like they're all speed cameras anyway, not line cameras, and points out that of the two cameras which were operating one was in a school zone where you really do want these things enforced.
A school zone would be even worse for automated enforcement. If the zone has a blinkenlight, does the camera start issuing citations EXACTLY when the light starts, or are they mis-timed? What about people already in the zone when the light comes on? If it doesn't have a blinkenlight, and just a sign that lists the active times, what about people whose clocks are out by a few minutes (IOW, EVERYONE), or if the camera's clock is off (possibly intentionally).
Automated enforcement of a school zone has the potential for issuing hundreds of bogus citations at the start/end of every active cycle that would be nearly impossible to prove/disprove, and way too easy for an unscrupulous company or city to milk for extra cash.
North Korea, on the other hand, has nothing to begin with, and they have an irrational despot calling the shots. Even China backed the last round of sanctions (rather than abstaining like they usually do)... that says it all.
I wonder, though, how long he would continue to call the shots if he really told his military leaders to nuke someone. Even if KJ-U is irrational, he's not going to be personally delivering any nukes.
As in most cases where invoked, the grammar nazi disclaimer is not necessary here. Noting a really amusing spelling error in a non-hostile way could never be taken as nazi behavior by rational beings.
Oh, stop being such a grammar Nazi Nazi.
The harshest sanctions yet? Are the UN planning to make a *gasp* sternly worded phone-call?
Worse. They're planning on calling them a "lot of second-hand electric donkey-bottom biters."
The problem is, with the prevailing winds in Korea (SE in summer, NW in winter), if you nuke NK, you'd either end up poisoning S. Korea & Japan, or China, depending on the time of year, so those three would probably not let that happen.
I think our sense of distance gets kind of warped in the US since we're pretty spread out. Both Koreas together would just about fit inside of Kansas, so you're not just nuking "those guys way over there."