YouTube>Most Viewed>All time... Now find a single video that does not contain a copyrighted soundtrack or a copyrighted performance!
Yes, even the guitar kid is stealing from RIAA! Johann Pachelbel's music is in the public domain, but the concert performance soundtrack he uses as a backdrop IS NOT. And no, it isn't "fair use" to steal someone else's soundtrack.
The original point stands, remove all videos that "creatively" "borrow" others' music and other IP, and you are left with nothing.
No wonder YouTube is so popular: if I smeared shit all over Haystacks or Mona Lisa, it'd still look pretty damn good; remove the paintings, however, and what do you get?
Seing how their US$ 1 Billion is about to go down the drain the moment all copywrighted content is pulled, Google must be very pleased that YouTube is becoming something other than a repository of ripped TV shows and RIAA-infringing wannabe "artists".
They are exploitable if you make the target visit a webpage you scripted that contains the exploits. Which is not that hard if you send a link in a personal message to someone who knows you (a virus could harvest email addresses/names from your computer and it will look like coming from you): "Hey Bob, our office party pictures are online here. Love, Jane"
As I understand it, the Quicktime bug of yesterday is particularly bad since it will load automatically without asking if you wish to run it first.
As I recall, qemu had an option to do fast emulation, but it only worked on certain architectures (e.g. on PowerPC you can only use a slow way x86 emulation). You would also need to run it as root and be OK with an occasional kernel panic.
Good. Very good. How much longer can we tolerate the cantankerous boors turning our cities into places of bestial debauchery?
An ideal society must always strive to be a surveillance state. In the old times the good people were never alone, but always watched by an impartial Judge that saw every transgression and metted out the punishment accordingly; God was that Judge.
Now, the cameras extend the same heavenly ideal to the godless heathen scum that spit on the street, jump ahead of elderly women in a queue, and steal the pennies from the blind.
It is interesting to notice that those voicing their discontent are precisely the ones treating our streets as their personal sty.
The problem with prizes is that they generally do not provide nearly enough funds to finance steady progress. As a pointer to how much money is actually required, NIH budget last year was around USD 27 Billion. And that's just from one source, for one year, in one country!
As opposed to hacking Xboxes, most of real research cannot be done without major steady investment. Doing that in one's basement or during time off works for some things but not others.
Also consider that most researchers cannot pay the millions in costs out of pocket in the hopes of winning a prize down the road.
What I'd like to see is a couple of those field-programmable thingie cores that can reconfigure their circuits to a specialized calculation a program is doing... Wishful thinking but still...
They are "special" where their public intelligence duties are concerned.
The same as doctors are "special" in their duties of preserving human life (even though killing off certain patients would save our insurance companies money)
Cops are "special" in that they uphold the rule of the law and not the will of a dictator (the reason Clinton could not throw all the Republican voters in jail in this country).
Shouldn't the voters decide what the truth is?
No. Voting the Earth flat will not make it so. Evolution will not disapear no matter what people believe. It will not stop raining the moment you impeach your Local8 weatherman. Voters can make up their policy given the facts, but they should not make up the facts
Because ideally scientists provide information for making decisions (military, financial, etc.). The same reason you check your weather before deciding to have a picknick. And the same reason you look at a label on the bottle before deciding whether to drink it... Instead of drinking something first, then deciding what it should say on the label ("joro spider toxin?")
A recent example is Iraq:
What should have been: (WMDs found?) -> (if YES, should we go to war?) -> (if YES, go to war) Instead we got: (we want to go to war) -> (WMDs found?) -> (if NO say YES) -> (if YES, go to war)
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YouTube>Most Viewed>All time... Now find a single video that does not contain a copyrighted soundtrack or a copyrighted performance!
Yes, even the guitar kid is stealing from RIAA! Johann Pachelbel's music is in the public domain, but the concert performance soundtrack he uses as a backdrop IS NOT. And no, it isn't "fair use" to steal someone else's soundtrack.
The original point stands, remove all videos that "creatively" "borrow" others' music and other IP, and you are left with nothing.
No wonder YouTube is so popular: if I smeared shit all over Haystacks or Mona Lisa, it'd still look pretty damn good; remove the paintings, however, and what do you get?
Seing how their US$ 1 Billion is about to go down the drain the moment all copywrighted content is pulled, Google must be very pleased that YouTube is becoming something other than a repository of ripped TV shows and RIAA-infringing wannabe "artists".
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Your gene pool needs some chlorine.
They are exploitable if you make the target visit a webpage you scripted that contains the exploits. Which is not that hard if you send a link in a personal message to someone who knows you (a virus could harvest email addresses/names from your computer and it will look like coming from you): "Hey Bob, our office party pictures are online here. Love, Jane"
As I understand it, the Quicktime bug of yesterday is particularly bad since it will load automatically without asking if you wish to run it first.
As I recall, qemu had an option to do fast emulation, but it only worked on certain architectures (e.g. on PowerPC you can only use a slow way x86 emulation). You would also need to run it as root and be OK with an occasional kernel panic.
Good. Very good. How much longer can we tolerate the cantankerous boors turning our cities into places of bestial debauchery?
An ideal society must always strive to be a surveillance state. In the old times the good people were never alone, but always watched by an impartial Judge that saw every transgression and metted out the punishment accordingly; God was that Judge.
Now, the cameras extend the same heavenly ideal to the godless heathen scum that spit on the street, jump ahead of elderly women in a queue, and steal the pennies from the blind.
It is interesting to notice that those voicing their discontent are precisely the ones treating our streets as their personal sty.
Brian, is that you?
And yes, we will be giving you a PS3. And a Wii and a 360 after tonight. Just LEAVE ALONE MY DAUGHTER.
If I were you, I'd go for the portly girl on the left.
Not only is she probably more intelligent and well-rounded, she won't bitch and cheat on you. And your family bliss is a McDonnalds away!
(sorry sorry)
The problem with prizes is that they generally do not provide nearly enough funds to finance steady progress. As a pointer to how much money is actually required, NIH budget last year was around USD 27 Billion. And that's just from one source, for one year, in one country!
As opposed to hacking Xboxes, most of real research cannot be done without major steady investment. Doing that in one's basement or during time off works for some things but not others.
Also consider that most researchers cannot pay the millions in costs out of pocket in the hopes of winning a prize down the road.
Plus one gets to say: "I am a certified horologist"
best of luck to you.
How exactly do they make vinegar? From sour grapes?
Best Republican President? Clinton.
Best Linux Distro: FreeBSD.
Sad but true.
That's like that other study that regular sex in women made them pretty and in fit.
Beware, just because the H1Ber makes less than you does not mean he is less intelligent than you.
If the odor was spread out evenly, how did they know it was coming from you?
My point? Just because he spreads lies does not mean he is stupid. In this particular case, he probably gets paid rather well to do what he does.-
If anything, that makes him a whore, not an idiot.
Praise the Lord (and pass the ammo).
frontal lobotomy destroys you as a person. the more of your brain tissue is lobotomized, the more you become a "vegetable"
WTF are you smoking? Who would use a window as a doorstop... Especially on Slashdot, where most readers live Windows-Free?
(since their mothers' basements do not have any)
The "idiot" probably makes more in a week than you and me in our entire lives.
What I'd like to see is a couple of those field-programmable thingie cores that can reconfigure their circuits to a specialized calculation a program is doing... Wishful thinking but still...
They are "special" where their public intelligence duties are concerned.
The same as doctors are "special" in their duties of preserving human life (even though killing off certain patients would save our insurance companies money)
Cops are "special" in that they uphold the rule of the law and not the will of a dictator (the reason Clinton could not throw all the Republican voters in jail in this country).
Shouldn't the voters decide what the truth is?
No. Voting the Earth flat will not make it so. Evolution will not disapear no matter what people believe. It will not stop raining the moment you impeach your Local8 weatherman. Voters can make up their policy given the facts, but they should not make up the facts
Because ideally scientists provide information for making decisions (military, financial, etc.). The same reason you check your weather before deciding to have a picknick.
And the same reason you look at a label on the bottle before deciding whether to drink it... Instead of drinking something first, then deciding what it should say on the label ("joro spider toxin?")
A recent example is Iraq:
What should have been: (WMDs found?) -> (if YES, should we go to war?) -> (if YES, go to war)
Instead we got: (we want to go to war) -> (WMDs found?) -> (if NO say YES) -> (if YES, go to war)
That would depend on what the meaning of "is" is.
What was an ogre doing in Germany anyways?
Particularly that one needs to be female to compete in a Miss Europe contest these days.