According to the article, it applies only to 'exact copies' of their stuff. In theory, as long as you changed some teeny detail (like, say, give the Sphinx a nice rack), they couldn't pursue you, right?... and since these are decaying structures, (i.e. Sphinx's Nose), if you were to 're-imagine' these images as they must have existed in antiquity, then they couldn't do anything to you that way either because it's not an exact replica because you gave the sphinx an intact Nose, and they can't prove otherwise.... Yeah, I don't see this copyright getting enforced a lot unless someone got the crazy idea to build a new pile of rocks.
Let's say you have a fairly mundane existance, except for Creepy Stalker 'X'. Ideally, you would like to be able to prevent Creepy Stalker 'X' from seeing anything, while protecting the rest of your existence.
In the current state of the internet, this can't really be done. On Facebook, it can 'kinda' be done, at least on a user-to-user basis.
Okay, seriously, I must preserve this for posterity. Is there anywhere I can perhaps interview you or for you to keep this someplace nice and permalinked?
Webcomics are as subject to Sturgeon's Law as anything else. That 90% of webcomics are crap is no reason to exclude the other 10%.
(Ironically, in the Wikinews article, Three of the four 'notable' comics listed there are also ones that most people haven't heard of. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it also demonstrates the capriciousness of the notability guidelines, that "They" are somehow notable while newer comics aren't.)
So, we should be fair and balanced on slashdot, except when someone actually stands to benefit from a change?
Look, I write a webcomic. I admit it. I also know that as it stands, I have a snowball's chance in hell of getting a Wikipedia article, and probably will remain at that point for another year, minimum. I don't care about getting an article for my comic there right now because either way I don't stand to profit in any form beyond some eventual respect for what I do, so my impact is reduced to whatever stir I can make.
I don't want the guidelines removed; I want something a little less capricious than "Must have been reviewed in dead-tree format". If truly notable comics like Evil Inc. and Checkerboard Nightmare are deleted from Wikipedia, and Schlock Mercenary's status on wikipedia is somehow 'tainted' because his series of books is self-published as opposed to going through some publisher like Scholastic, then how the hell am I supposed to know when mine is notable? More importantly, WHEN? Does a review in my college's paper count? The AJC? Does every webcomic have to be featured in the New York Times to be notable? Or can I just go "I have X number of comics in my archive and X amount of fanbase, is this enough?"
The concept that all online content is suspect is a holdover from Compuserve days. Surely we have evolved beyond this.
I want to see the breakdown between Casual Gaming (like Miniclip) versus MMO's (Warcraft). I don't see hardcore gaming being as big as Youtube, but a quick click game doesn't sound farfetched.
Read: if you shoot INSIDE the fiber and along the line, you can get a lot of fiber in one shot.
So it was deliberate, but also quite quick if done right too. Pretty devious way to take out fiber because the entire length needs replacing, not just a short section that requires a bypass.
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It's easy to find LEGAL porn online. I imagine for the real freaks of choice, plastic disc format still matters.
And let's not forget, there's an awful lot of the world (even in 'civilized' nations) that doesn't use the internet as much as you think they do, and these people are still looking for the plastic fix.
Considering that most 'actual' physical slights from autism stem from exceptional sensory input of some type (and probably the lack of neural pruning this causes), how would you test for this in a way that didn't penalize normal people somehow?
Seems ironic that society would penalize people who sense 'too much' the same way they do those that don't sense 'enough'...
It's not that it's funny. It's that it may very well be the only thing about prison that people FEAR anymore.
Rape obviously cannot be condoned by society, and yet the idea of a person we hate being violated so intimately is something the public loves with a fetish. It directs attention away from the otherwise sanitized, taxpayer-funded reality of prison, and gives people a more concrete idea of prison than orange jumpsuits and the image of a barred door slamming shut.
People may hate rape on several levels, but the idea of rape as a form of punishment is still alive and well, even if our society cannot openly condone it. Blame the savageness of humanity if you will, but humor is just a weak mask for the truth.
My local college radio station (WREK) will also be affected by these new regs, not just pirate radio.
Why? Because WREK streams to the internet as well as using its website to host archives of the past week's music. Missed the Hour of Slack or dozed off during your favorite techno show? No problem, it's waiting for you! It's not even different from the terrestrial radio; just packaged a little nicer for your PC.
How does forcing collegiate radio to pay excessive royalty rates help ANYBODY but these SoundExchange folks? All this is going to do is stifle new investments into the system...
I find Facebook to be a much simpler interface both to use and to understand once you get past the gated-community-esque security.
MySpace, to me, feels like Geocities with marginally better hosting capabilities and a wall to post on. The fact that it's being marketed as a 'social network' seems trite when all it's really doing is focusing on the lowest common denominator. Admittedly, I'm sure it's that part that's scaring people, but only because the internet has a much lower barrier to access than it used to back when places like Tripod and Geocities were king.
I'm having enough headaches working on my webcomic's site, now you're telling me I gotta account for mobile viewing, too? I've shrunken that thing small enough for the rest of the internet, it's not fitting in the iPhone's screen!
I may as well be designing for the DS... though speaking of the DS, wouldn't it have similar UI issues too?
Logically, the best way to make FTL communications is not to make them beat the speed of light per se, but to make them able to travel back in time so they APPEAR to be FTL when in fact the messages sent took far longer to get to their destination.
This would give us communication that appears to be FTL, but with the consequence that we still can't send organic materials back in time the same way ('cause they'd probably age ridiculously by the time they got there), AND it would get around the pesky paradoxes of traveling back in time since you're never sending anything later than what time it already currently is - The message is the only thing traveling back in time, in other words.
Since you're comparing 'from launch', aren't you actually confirming that the PS3 is ON TRACK compared to similar 360 sales? (ergo, it's not losing 'cause people won't pay, it's losing 'cause it's the newer console)
Course, when you do like I did and toss the Wii in there for kicks, you notice it's climbing a lot faster than both.
As a comic artist, I'm interested if you'd explain which comics, if any, are 'designed' for the PSP.
The cynic in me says any comic that works off vertical scrolling would fit the bill just fine, but if there's a handheld-specific comic and a reason it 'must' be on the PSP/DS, I'd love to hear it.
If you were to actually counter my position with something reasonably factual, be my guest. I'm making reference to the 'official' reform stance here, so I don't know where you're getting the idea I'm wrong.
Perhaps the other branches of Judaism have different ideas, or perhaps you have conflicting data from a certain rabbi. Feel free to state them here, but don't plain tell me I'm 'wrong' because I state a subsection's beliefs.
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According to the article, it applies only to 'exact copies' of their stuff. In theory, as long as you changed some teeny detail (like, say, give the Sphinx a nice rack), they couldn't pursue you, right? ... and since these are decaying structures, (i.e. Sphinx's Nose), if you were to 're-imagine' these images as they must have existed in antiquity, then they couldn't do anything to you that way either because it's not an exact replica because you gave the sphinx an intact Nose, and they can't prove otherwise. ... Yeah, I don't see this copyright getting enforced a lot unless someone got the crazy idea to build a new pile of rocks.
Let's say you have a fairly mundane existance, except for Creepy Stalker 'X'. Ideally, you would like to be able to prevent Creepy Stalker 'X' from seeing anything, while protecting the rest of your existence.
In the current state of the internet, this can't really be done. On Facebook, it can 'kinda' be done, at least on a user-to-user basis.
Would pronouncing it 'give-a-byte' help?
... have my babies? XD
Okay, seriously, I must preserve this for posterity. Is there anywhere I can perhaps interview you or for you to keep this someplace nice and permalinked?
Webcomics are as subject to Sturgeon's Law as anything else. That 90% of webcomics are crap is no reason to exclude the other 10%.
(Ironically, in the Wikinews article, Three of the four 'notable' comics listed there are also ones that most people haven't heard of. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it also demonstrates the capriciousness of the notability guidelines, that "They" are somehow notable while newer comics aren't.)
So, we should be fair and balanced on slashdot, except when someone actually stands to benefit from a change?
Look, I write a webcomic. I admit it. I also know that as it stands, I have a snowball's chance in hell of getting a Wikipedia article, and probably will remain at that point for another year, minimum. I don't care about getting an article for my comic there right now because either way I don't stand to profit in any form beyond some eventual respect for what I do, so my impact is reduced to whatever stir I can make.
I don't want the guidelines removed; I want something a little less capricious than "Must have been reviewed in dead-tree format". If truly notable comics like Evil Inc. and Checkerboard Nightmare are deleted from Wikipedia, and Schlock Mercenary's status on wikipedia is somehow 'tainted' because his series of books is self-published as opposed to going through some publisher like Scholastic, then how the hell am I supposed to know when mine is notable? More importantly, WHEN? Does a review in my college's paper count? The AJC? Does every webcomic have to be featured in the New York Times to be notable? Or can I just go "I have X number of comics in my archive and X amount of fanbase, is this enough?"
The concept that all online content is suspect is a holdover from Compuserve days. Surely we have evolved beyond this.
I tripped up logging in. Cut me some slack here. :-p
I want to see the breakdown between Casual Gaming (like Miniclip) versus MMO's (Warcraft). I don't see hardcore gaming being as big as Youtube, but a quick click game doesn't sound farfetched.
Read: if you shoot INSIDE the fiber and along the line, you can get a lot of fiber in one shot.
So it was deliberate, but also quite quick if done right too. Pretty devious way to take out fiber because the entire length needs replacing, not just a short section that requires a bypass.
It's easy to find LEGAL porn online. I imagine for the real freaks of choice, plastic disc format still matters.
And let's not forget, there's an awful lot of the world (even in 'civilized' nations) that doesn't use the internet as much as you think they do, and these people are still looking for the plastic fix.
Because enough (older) people still think this guy is important enough to have any pull whatsoever, basically.
Isn't the sign of a good site that people are able to get what they want QUICKLY?
This can only 'help' pages that take forever to load...
Considering that most 'actual' physical slights from autism stem from exceptional sensory input of some type (and probably the lack of neural pruning this causes), how would you test for this in a way that didn't penalize normal people somehow?
Seems ironic that society would penalize people who sense 'too much' the same way they do those that don't sense 'enough'...
It's not that it's funny. It's that it may very well be the only thing about prison that people FEAR anymore.
Rape obviously cannot be condoned by society, and yet the idea of a person we hate being violated so intimately is something the public loves with a fetish. It directs attention away from the otherwise sanitized, taxpayer-funded reality of prison, and gives people a more concrete idea of prison than orange jumpsuits and the image of a barred door slamming shut.
People may hate rape on several levels, but the idea of rape as a form of punishment is still alive and well, even if our society cannot openly condone it. Blame the savageness of humanity if you will, but humor is just a weak mask for the truth.
They're probably getting older, too.
Perhaps the less coding you do the higher you get up in the management ladder is for a reason, after all...
My local college radio station (WREK) will also be affected by these new regs, not just pirate radio.
Why? Because WREK streams to the internet as well as using its website to host archives of the past week's music. Missed the Hour of Slack or dozed off during your favorite techno show? No problem, it's waiting for you! It's not even different from the terrestrial radio; just packaged a little nicer for your PC.
How does forcing collegiate radio to pay excessive royalty rates help ANYBODY but these SoundExchange folks? All this is going to do is stifle new investments into the system...
I find Facebook to be a much simpler interface both to use and to understand once you get past the gated-community-esque security.
MySpace, to me, feels like Geocities with marginally better hosting capabilities and a wall to post on. The fact that it's being marketed as a 'social network' seems trite when all it's really doing is focusing on the lowest common denominator. Admittedly, I'm sure it's that part that's scaring people, but only because the internet has a much lower barrier to access than it used to back when places like Tripod and Geocities were king.
I'm having enough headaches working on my webcomic's site, now you're telling me I gotta account for mobile viewing, too? I've shrunken that thing small enough for the rest of the internet, it's not fitting in the iPhone's screen!
I may as well be designing for the DS... though speaking of the DS, wouldn't it have similar UI issues too?
Coke Memorabilia Collectors took me by surprise too. And this is while in Atlanta no less.
It would only need to hop back in time when it reached its destination so that it arrived at the time it was sent - think 'rubber-band' time travel.
Logically, the best way to make FTL communications is not to make them beat the speed of light per se, but to make them able to travel back in time so they APPEAR to be FTL when in fact the messages sent took far longer to get to their destination.
This would give us communication that appears to be FTL, but with the consequence that we still can't send organic materials back in time the same way ('cause they'd probably age ridiculously by the time they got there), AND it would get around the pesky paradoxes of traveling back in time since you're never sending anything later than what time it already currently is - The message is the only thing traveling back in time, in other words.
Since you're comparing 'from launch', aren't you actually confirming that the PS3 is ON TRACK compared to similar 360 sales? (ergo, it's not losing 'cause people won't pay, it's losing 'cause it's the newer console)
Course, when you do like I did and toss the Wii in there for kicks, you notice it's climbing a lot faster than both.
As a comic artist, I'm interested if you'd explain which comics, if any, are 'designed' for the PSP.
The cynic in me says any comic that works off vertical scrolling would fit the bill just fine, but if there's a handheld-specific comic and a reason it 'must' be on the PSP/DS, I'd love to hear it.
Whole other can of worms, especially since over half of new parents in the United States circumcise their kid ANYWAY.
And hell, let's forget all about the health benefits and relative (lack of) impact on the kid's life otherwise here...
If you were to actually counter my position with something reasonably factual, be my guest. I'm making reference to the 'official' reform stance here, so I don't know where you're getting the idea I'm wrong.
Perhaps the other branches of Judaism have different ideas, or perhaps you have conflicting data from a certain rabbi. Feel free to state them here, but don't plain tell me I'm 'wrong' because I state a subsection's beliefs.