pesky as the Bill of Rights can be to swift justice and severe vengeance, I do remember something about the the accused having a right to face their accuser. If the Intoxilyzer uses buggy firmware that results in inaccurate readings, then the accused has every right to question it.
Don't even argue that it might be buggy.
"If I touch this technisphere to the forehead of the accused and ask a question, it will tell us if he is lying" *performs action and asks question* "Outlook hazy, ask again"
In all seriousness, what would prevent a black box from doing any sort of action if it were treated in any manner outside of it's original qualification tests? Without the code, you can't know that. It could give a 0.1 BAC boost if you hold it at a 10% angle while administering the test.
Implementing American notions of security one goose-step at a time.
Now that is flamebait. I'm not aware of any mandatory web filters in the United States, are you aware of some? Or perhaps, did you just think that an article about Germany was a good time to blame the USA?
Relying on a miniature ecosystem for my survival would scare the hell out of me. Rockets I can trust for the most part. But wouldn't it suck to find out that you carried in some bacteria or fungi that caused a collapse of your ecosystem just after you left Earth's gravity well?
Citation needed. An unbalanced diet can require supplements, but a vegan diet can be balanced, at least according to the NIH, although it's harder than a non-vegan diet.
Citation: In space, there is a bit less biodiversity than on Earth. It wouldn't be a stretch to assume that it might be a bit difficult for astronauts to maintain a balanced diet if vegans here on Earth are having trouble doing so.
Do we really need to waste precious cargo space and weight to bring up food coloring? I suppose astronauts might want green or purple catchup too.
All the precious cargo space in the world is pretty pointless if your crew gets pissed off and starts smashing things because they have spent the last 6 months in radioactive isolation while eathing nothing but mushed bugs. Even the most adamant basement dweller of Slashdot would go nuts if subjected to the monotony that would be interplanetary space-travel.
Making an unlicensed copy causes the artwork to gain wider exposure, which should be considered valuable to the artist by any rational society.
What I think we can both agree on, is that the copyright law as it is now is broken and far too protective of the copyright owner.
I can't agree with you on your last point. If the copyright owner agreed with you, then it wouldn't be an unlicensed copy. Sometimes, you don't want or need wider exposure. It isn't your decision. It is the decision of the artist or copyright holder, and I believe that is a good thing.
Now considering that Joe Sixpack will most likely have no bloody idea, this does seem to be RIAA-sue-bait of sorts. At least the RIAA'll have *some* evidence now rather than some magically acquired IP address.
The email address, coupled with the IP address, will be much more convincing in court. Of course, either can be manipulated or unreliable, but when combined, it will hold water better than the old method of just the IP address.
I don't have a problem with this. There is so much personal information on my phone or laptop that should it get stolen or lost, having files wind up on a p2p network is the least of my worries.
The problem is you have every legal right to share music you legally purchased. Show me the law that says otherwise. It doesn't exist.
Well, umm. There is this:
The Congress shall have Power [. ..] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Which leads to this:
501. Infringement of copyright (a) Anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner as provided by sections 106 through 122 or of the author as provided in section 106A (a), or who imports copies or phonorecords into the United States in violation of section 602, is an infringer of the copyright or right of the author, as the case may be.
And what is it in sections 106 to 122?
Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords; (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work; (3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;...
I'm not sure what you meant by there is no law. But the concept of sharing in terms of P2P networks and making copies for your friends doesn't fall into the exceptions covered under US law.
I can't be bothered to learn how to properly rip HD content from a blu-ray when there are already experts who can do/have done it for me.
Spot on.
I used to love to tinker. I loved finding that shining program (usually not so shining, usually more like a command line with 15 parameters) that would take my CD/DVD/whatnot and pull the data off it and categorize it into my file library.
But as I move out of the college lifestyle, where I had time to do that sort of thing, I just don't have the time anymore to find the program, tweak it just right, tailor it for each movie/cd/whatever, and get the perfect rip.
I can go online, find someone who has already done the work, and reuse their work.
Well, based on the nature of these articles, I would imagine that this is what will be said next:
"Our intelligence capability is woefully unprepared and ill-equipped to adequately monitor terrorist activity in these growing sectors. To build an effective response to this new threat....... We need more money and power."
Windows too. Wonder how much more popular Linux would be in the developing world if Windows wasn't so easy to pirate? Microsoft is locking in a whole generation of consumers and it's costing them zero in marketing. Hard to argue with that isn't it?
You mean you wonder how much more popular Linux would be if it adopted a model where copying it and distributing it to as many people as possible without legal repercussions or copyright infringement lawsuits?
We've been going about it the wrong way all this time!
I agree with you in principle, but I have to disagree with you on your analysis.
While you say that copyright was fine, until the public became aware of it, I would argue that copyright was not fine. It has morphed from the original concept of protecting works for a long enough time so that the creator could gather compensation to something that exists for such a long duration that copyrights today are effectively granted in perpetuity.
The life of the author plus 50/70 years is a damned long time. And it has now placed copyrights beyond the lives of human beings. That has made them the currency of corporations, and are no longer within the means of trade for us mere mortals.
I disagree entirely with how copyrights have become the currency for corporations.
I'm terrible at dealing with sarcasm. At work, I'm very straight forward, and all but the most extreme bits of sarcasm are usually lost on me. I'll take what you say at face value and work from there.
It's worked out well for me, but maybe I'm just being demented.
My wife is quite aware that I would NEVER purchase a diamond. She liked the look, so we decided to get a moissanite. The difference in price was a 1 month long honeymoon in Bavaria.
What is now starting to bother me, is that I see moissanites being sold as 'almost diamonds' and at 75% of the price. The main reason I won't purchase a diamond, even a Canadian one, is that because it is the inflated prices that have allowed all the abuses to continue. Since the Canadian Diamonds are being sold at nearly an identical price point, I've no good words for them.
I believe the mathematical term for its shape is a "prolate sphereoid."
Oblate spheroid.
Still, both you and the OP have the right idea, the earth would 'quickly' reform into a near spherical shape. It is the largest of the non-gas planets and would probably reform the fastest as opposed to smaller bodies like Mercury, or Pluto.
A good example would be Mimas. It had an impact so massive that the crater looks to be about 20% of the side facing us. I'd wager that an impact like that scaled up and applied to the Earth would quickly be erased (by non environmental factors) on a scale of 1 billion years. Smaller craters would likely be visible for far longer than those that would actually crack the planet to the mantle.
I fucking am. Fuck these game publishers with their shitty products that don't work worth a damn--why would I pay for that abuse? These asshats are just like Ford or GM.
I would normally prefer to see posts such as yours marked down as flamebait, but every now and then it is good to have one come to light so that everyone might see how your rationale is actually hurting your cause.
You contradict yourself in your own post. You feel the game is worth playing, but at the same time call it a shitty product that doesn't work worth a damn?
If you really wanted to make a point, a better approach would be to not purchase the game, and not pirate it either. By pirating it, you just give them ammunition to keep pushing DRM as evidence that it isn't yet good enough.
It will never be good enough, but you won't convince them of that by pirating it.
xxx times less than yyy == yyy/xxx. It's common language these days, learn it!
He wasn't asking how to express it, he was asking them to include YYY if you are going to call something XXX times fainter than YYY so that he has some clue as to the starting point.
This object is 100 times lighter than object B. That doesn't tell you much since object B could be a gnat, a basketball, or a galaxy.
Many retailers get promotional boxes before the game is available to promote pre-orders. They could just use the same boxes. Plus the keys are usually printed on the material that's normally kept locked away anyway, whether it's the manual, the jewel case/sleeve, or on the CD itself.
Doesn't Toys R Us keep their games/consoles in a glass case? In front of the case are slips of paper, one per game in stock. You grab the slip of paper and take it to the counter, and trade it for the game.
No activation necessary. It's very low tech, and actually makes stocking the shelves a lot easier.
If Apple listens to user complaints perhaps they can listen to this one:
A file on my drive got corrupted and resulted in me loading a new OS (ubuntu to be exact). However why is it that iTunes demands that I erase my iPhone before it will let me associate it with my PC. It won't let me add new music to the phone without first erasing the phone. I've added several albums to my phone which have not yet been backed up before the drive crash. I'm forced to 'crack' my phone because Apple is enforcing a rather annoying feature.
This problem is common enough as a simple google search for 'disable erase and synch' turns up many many results. The answer unfortunately is that there is no 'approved' method to avoid erasing your phone/mp3 player in the event that you have upgraded your OS.
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pesky as the Bill of Rights can be to swift justice and severe vengeance, I do remember something about the the accused having a right to face their accuser. If the Intoxilyzer uses buggy firmware that results in inaccurate readings, then the accused has every right to question it.
Don't even argue that it might be buggy.
"If I touch this technisphere to the forehead of the accused and ask a question, it will tell us if he is lying"
*performs action and asks question*
"Outlook hazy, ask again"
In all seriousness, what would prevent a black box from doing any sort of action if it were treated in any manner outside of it's original qualification tests? Without the code, you can't know that. It could give a 0.1 BAC boost if you hold it at a 10% angle while administering the test.
That is sage advice for those of us who live in states with implied consent laws.
Implementing American notions of security one goose-step at a time.
Now that is flamebait. I'm not aware of any mandatory web filters in the United States, are you aware of some? Or perhaps, did you just think that an article about Germany was a good time to blame the USA?
This is called a slippery slope argument and it is a logical fallacy.
The Slippery Slope is a logical fallacy. But with respect to politics and shaping opinion things are hardly ever logical.
How often do you hear government officials claiming "This lays the groundwork for future legislation regarding..."
Incremental, deliberate, and with the best of intentions.
Relying on a miniature ecosystem for my survival would scare the hell out of me. Rockets I can trust for the most part. But wouldn't it suck to find out that you carried in some bacteria or fungi that caused a collapse of your ecosystem just after you left Earth's gravity well?
Citation needed. An unbalanced diet can require supplements, but a vegan diet can be balanced, at least according to the NIH, although it's harder than a non-vegan diet.
Citation: In space, there is a bit less biodiversity than on Earth. It wouldn't be a stretch to assume that it might be a bit difficult for astronauts to maintain a balanced diet if vegans here on Earth are having trouble doing so.
Do we really need to waste precious cargo space and weight to bring up food coloring? I suppose astronauts might want green or purple catchup too.
All the precious cargo space in the world is pretty pointless if your crew gets pissed off and starts smashing things because they have spent the last 6 months in radioactive isolation while eathing nothing but mushed bugs. Even the most adamant basement dweller of Slashdot would go nuts if subjected to the monotony that would be interplanetary space-travel.
Making an unlicensed copy causes the artwork to gain wider exposure, which should be considered valuable to the artist by any rational society.
What I think we can both agree on, is that the copyright law as it is now is broken and far too protective of the copyright owner.
I can't agree with you on your last point. If the copyright owner agreed with you, then it wouldn't be an unlicensed copy. Sometimes, you don't want or need wider exposure. It isn't your decision. It is the decision of the artist or copyright holder, and I believe that is a good thing.
Now considering that Joe Sixpack will most likely have no bloody idea, this does seem to be RIAA-sue-bait of sorts. At least the RIAA'll have *some* evidence now rather than some magically acquired IP address.
The email address, coupled with the IP address, will be much more convincing in court. Of course, either can be manipulated or unreliable, but when combined, it will hold water better than the old method of just the IP address.
I don't have a problem with this. There is so much personal information on my phone or laptop that should it get stolen or lost, having files wind up on a p2p network is the least of my worries.
The problem is you have every legal right to share music you legally purchased. Show me the law that says otherwise. It doesn't exist.
Well, umm. There is this:
The Congress shall have Power [. . .] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Which leads to this:
501. Infringement of copyright
(a) Anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner as provided by sections 106 through 122 or of the author as provided in section 106A (a), or who imports copies or phonorecords into the United States in violation of section 602, is an infringer of the copyright or right of the author, as the case may be.
And what is it in sections 106 to 122?
Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: ...
(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
I'm not sure what you meant by there is no law. But the concept of sharing in terms of P2P networks and making copies for your friends doesn't fall into the exceptions covered under US law.
I can't be bothered to learn how to properly rip HD content from a blu-ray when there are already experts who can do/have done it for me.
Spot on.
I used to love to tinker. I loved finding that shining program (usually not so shining, usually more like a command line with 15 parameters) that would take my CD/DVD/whatnot and pull the data off it and categorize it into my file library.
But as I move out of the college lifestyle, where I had time to do that sort of thing, I just don't have the time anymore to find the program, tweak it just right, tailor it for each movie/cd/whatever, and get the perfect rip.
I can go online, find someone who has already done the work, and reuse their work.
Is there anything more to be said?
Well, based on the nature of these articles, I would imagine that this is what will be said next:
"Our intelligence capability is woefully unprepared and ill-equipped to adequately monitor terrorist activity in these growing sectors. To build an effective response to this new threat.... ... We need more money and power."
Windows too. Wonder how much more popular Linux would be in the developing world if Windows wasn't so easy to pirate? Microsoft is locking in a whole generation of consumers and it's costing them zero in marketing. Hard to argue with that isn't it?
You mean you wonder how much more popular Linux would be if it adopted a model where copying it and distributing it to as many people as possible without legal repercussions or copyright infringement lawsuits?
We've been going about it the wrong way all this time!
I agree with you in principle, but I have to disagree with you on your analysis.
While you say that copyright was fine, until the public became aware of it, I would argue that copyright was not fine. It has morphed from the original concept of protecting works for a long enough time so that the creator could gather compensation to something that exists for such a long duration that copyrights today are effectively granted in perpetuity.
The life of the author plus 50/70 years is a damned long time. And it has now placed copyrights beyond the lives of human beings. That has made them the currency of corporations, and are no longer within the means of trade for us mere mortals.
I disagree entirely with how copyrights have become the currency for corporations.
I mean, isn't that the quintessential first 'educational' game that we all played at one point or another?
I'm terrible at dealing with sarcasm. At work, I'm very straight forward, and all but the most extreme bits of sarcasm are usually lost on me. I'll take what you say at face value and work from there.
It's worked out well for me, but maybe I'm just being demented.
My wife is quite aware that I would NEVER purchase a diamond. She liked the look, so we decided to get a moissanite. The difference in price was a 1 month long honeymoon in Bavaria.
What is now starting to bother me, is that I see moissanites being sold as 'almost diamonds' and at 75% of the price. The main reason I won't purchase a diamond, even a Canadian one, is that because it is the inflated prices that have allowed all the abuses to continue. Since the Canadian Diamonds are being sold at nearly an identical price point, I've no good words for them.
I believe the mathematical term for its shape is a "prolate sphereoid."
Oblate spheroid.
Still, both you and the OP have the right idea, the earth would 'quickly' reform into a near spherical shape. It is the largest of the non-gas planets and would probably reform the fastest as opposed to smaller bodies like Mercury, or Pluto.
A good example would be Mimas. It had an impact so massive that the crater looks to be about 20% of the side facing us. I'd wager that an impact like that scaled up and applied to the Earth would quickly be erased (by non environmental factors) on a scale of 1 billion years. Smaller craters would likely be visible for far longer than those that would actually crack the planet to the mantle.
Not quite. I don't leave my face behind everywhere I go.
With the ubiquitous nature of security cameras, I'd not be surprised if you left your face in more places than your fingerprints.
Not according to the Supreme Court. I feel that it was a terrible decision.
You need to infringe on the rights of one of these posters and rip one...for posterity's sake :)
I wallpapered my room with a similar poster when I went to school.
I fucking am. Fuck these game publishers with their shitty products that don't work worth a damn--why would I pay for that abuse? These asshats are just like Ford or GM.
I would normally prefer to see posts such as yours marked down as flamebait, but every now and then it is good to have one come to light so that everyone might see how your rationale is actually hurting your cause.
You contradict yourself in your own post. You feel the game is worth playing, but at the same time call it a shitty product that doesn't work worth a damn?
If you really wanted to make a point, a better approach would be to not purchase the game, and not pirate it either. By pirating it, you just give them ammunition to keep pushing DRM as evidence that it isn't yet good enough.
It will never be good enough, but you won't convince them of that by pirating it.
xxx times less than yyy == yyy/xxx.
It's common language these days, learn it!
He wasn't asking how to express it, he was asking them to include YYY if you are going to call something XXX times fainter than YYY so that he has some clue as to the starting point.
This object is 100 times lighter than object B. That doesn't tell you much since object B could be a gnat, a basketball, or a galaxy.
Many retailers get promotional boxes before the game is available to promote pre-orders. They could just use the same boxes. Plus the keys are usually printed on the material that's normally kept locked away anyway, whether it's the manual, the jewel case/sleeve, or on the CD itself.
Doesn't Toys R Us keep their games/consoles in a glass case? In front of the case are slips of paper, one per game in stock. You grab the slip of paper and take it to the counter, and trade it for the game.
No activation necessary. It's very low tech, and actually makes stocking the shelves a lot easier.
If Apple listens to user complaints perhaps they can listen to this one:
A file on my drive got corrupted and resulted in me loading a new OS (ubuntu to be exact). However why is it that iTunes demands that I erase my iPhone before it will let me associate it with my PC. It won't let me add new music to the phone without first erasing the phone. I've added several albums to my phone which have not yet been backed up before the drive crash. I'm forced to 'crack' my phone because Apple is enforcing a rather annoying feature.
This problem is common enough as a simple google search for 'disable erase and synch' turns up many many results. The answer unfortunately is that there is no 'approved' method to avoid erasing your phone/mp3 player in the event that you have upgraded your OS.