Um, no. Use of a jamming signal is very much NOT a legal solution, not in the US at least. Plus in order to cover an area as large as a stadium, you are either going to have to A) have a LOT of low power devices all over the stadium or B) use a single higher power transmitter that is almost certainly going to leak over into surrounding areas. Just wait until your jammer affects the phone of somebody that isn't even at the game and just happens to be nearby and they aren't able to call 911 when something happens. Can we say lawsuit? Can we say BIG freaking lawsuit?
@Valkor Not just Apple. Microsoft too with the Zune would also fall under this. Probably some others as well. If those two both get on the same side in trying to take these guys down they may have bitten off more than they can chew. We all know they've both got rabidly vicious lawyers.
While I don't know that there are too many wolves in Alaska, the number of predators will tend to balance itself out with the available food supply, there ARE too many deer in most of the US. Because man has gone and chased out most of the predators of the deer, especially wolves but also coyotes, cougars, etc, there is much less control on their population. They still breed but fewer of them die off and so they overforage and overpoop which harms the ecosystem. This results in a number of deer starving and/or dying of various diseases that wouldn't normally happen. Basically, since man has eliminated the natural predators of the deer, man must take their place in the food chain.
I know around here there are still plenty of hunters, but I also live in the south. I also know that the government sponsors hunts even in wildlife preserve areas to keep populations under control. A few months ago, Ft Campbell even held a deer hunt and let the public come in and go hunting (there were a limited number of slots, of course). Not sure why the army couldn't do it. You would think they would be well equipped and that it would be good practice for the troops but, hey, whatever.
@DarkHelmet You stole my thunder as they like to say on talk radio. The idea that it's a green card infused with carbon, thus removing it from the atmosphere, was exactly what I thought of.
Then again, diamonds are also carbon. Maybe the carbon is in the form of diamond dust mixed with the plastic. Might explain the $500/yr fee.
All they had to do was hire a US attorney to go to court and request a subpoena for the information. Or, you know, have their diplomat request help from the US Attorney's office for the same. I'm sure Yahoo would have been glad to hand it over in that case.
Hephaestus, I could see another way it could go too. The RIAA convince their pets in congress to introduce a bill that adds a new tax, excuse me, a license fee to every internet connection. Say $5 or $10/mo. A reverse compulsory license if you will. The money would then go into a pot to be split among the various IP holders to cover things like youtube videos and music on websites and such.
Or, worse, a license fee that gets added into your income taxes when you file. Say $20/person/yr. If you have two parents and three kids then you would have to pay $100. I believe there are about 350 million people in the US so multiply that by $20 and you have 7 billion USD/yr of free money for these people. And, yet, the artists would STILL not see the royalties. The executives and lobbyists would probably see a nice bonus though.
Can we PLEASE just line all these people up along a wall and shoot them firing squad style?
Next on ASCAP's agenda, trying to one up PRS by calling up random people and demanding a performance license if they hear music from the radio or TV in the background. Oh, and demanding a performance license from, well, pretty much everyone if you have a radio in your car and you have more than one person in it.
...using a car sound system that isn't voice activated. Good for Ford (Sync), bad for pretty much everyone else.
Or we could just mandate that by, say, 2015 every new car sold must have the ability to drive itself with little or no input from a human. If your car can't do that then you'll just have to take public transit.
Seriously. My kids are 9 and 11 and we still don't let them use a sharp knife usually. If we go out to eat and there is a steak knife in the silverware, my youngest pulls it out and gingerly hands it to me.
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population control
I know around here there are still plenty of hunters, but I also live in the south. I also know that the government sponsors hunts even in wildlife preserve areas to keep populations under control. A few months ago, Ft Campbell even held a deer hunt and let the public come in and go hunting (there were a limited number of slots, of course). Not sure why the army couldn't do it. You would think they would be well equipped and that it would be good practice for the troops but, hey, whatever.
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Then again, diamonds are also carbon. Maybe the carbon is in the form of diamond dust mixed with the plastic. Might explain the $500/yr fee.
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If they wanted the information
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Or, worse, a license fee that gets added into your income taxes when you file. Say $20/person/yr. If you have two parents and three kids then you would have to pay $100. I believe there are about 350 million people in the US so multiply that by $20 and you have 7 billion USD/yr of free money for these people. And, yet, the artists would STILL not see the royalties. The executives and lobbyists would probably see a nice bonus though.
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Next on ASCAP's agenda, trying to one up PRS by calling up random people and demanding a performance license if they hear music from the radio or TV in the background. Oh, and demanding a performance license from, well, pretty much everyone if you have a radio in your car and you have more than one person in it.
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Or we could just mandate that by, say, 2015 every new car sold must have the ability to drive itself with little or no input from a human. If your car can't do that then you'll just have to take public transit.
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