And if you morons from the Govt would stop feeding terrorism it would be quite better, no?
Most terrorist attacks in Britain happen in or around London. Where's Parliament? London. I'd say they're suffering a bad case of confirmation bias. Perhaps if they took Parliament on the road, they might learn that things are actually a lot more peaceful than they assume it is. At the least, it'd force attackers to spread themselves around which would force them into the open instead of being able to hide within crowds in London.
I'm generally not a big fan of Britain, but even I expect they're capable of better than this. Their current response to the terrorist threats makes a mockery of their past history. This's cowardly paranoia at best.
As a copyright lawyer, let me just say that copyright law could stand to be a lot better at enriching copyright lawyers.
All that says is the process has been made so expensive by complexity that only the very deep pocketed few can afford to play. As one person mentioned, that "Warm Kitty" poem should have been public domain, yet a compilation which included it resurrected its copyright, stealing it back from the public to potentially enrich its rightsholders close to a century after it'd been written. "Big Bang Theory"'s creators thought they'd done what needed to be done, yet they now need to defend themselves anyway. Insane.
Ban usage of software, scanners, etc. that send notices en masse without human intervention.
A false DMCA takedown is perjury! If the courts would enforce that, this mess would disappear immediately. They don't bother, hence this mess. The solution's already there, just ignored.
... as only the content creator or copyright owner are the only ones who can know when their copyright is being infringed or not.
After reading the story about Big Bang Theory possibly infringing on the Warm Kitty poem, I believe this way overstates the case. Copyright law is such a mish-mash mess, the only thing it's good for is enriching copyright lawyers via entrail stirring games. Creators and rights owners are often just as much in the dark as potential infringers.
I hope those Founding Fathers are still beating each other over the head wherever they are for allowing this Pandora's Box to be opened in the first place. How anyone can defend the existence of this monstrosity escapes me.
My favorites are the morons with earbuds who walk around train crossing barriers. I can't think of a quicker or more effective way to just get it all over with. It's evolution in action. Give 'em a Darwin award and forget 'em. The silliest part of it is the engineers suffering PTSD over having killed the idiots. They didn't! The idiots killed the idiots, not the train. The train is just the weapon they used in unintentionally suiciding themselves.
From 2000 - 2010, there's about twelve incidents, about half of which were "Real IRA", and most were in or around London. 2010 - present, there's three. Assuming the IRA's pretty much pacified, that leaves Islamists these days. If you're not in London, Glasgow, or Birmingham, you're never going to see any and even there you're not going to see many.
It's that last bit there that gets me. Whole countries are made to shake in their boots about terror attacks while 99.9999...% of the population will never be affected by them in any way except by over-reacting to terror attacks.
Yes, Lockerbie was sad and infuriating, blowing up Thatcher's hotel was scary (though they missed her), the London Tube bombings were frightening, and I weep for the poor soldier hacked to death on the street. However, the Blitz in WW2 was far more worth the attention. Britain's hardly on fire these days, especially if you're nowhere near London.
FYI Tim, the head of government in Israel is the prime minister, not the president.
You're naive. The head of gov't in Israel is the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the hard-line Zionist "hawks" who control them. The politicians serve their interests or are replaced with those who will.
There are many countries which are generally controlled via consensus between the hawks and doves. A few such as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Soviet Russia, China, the modern US, and Israel have allowed the hawks to have control.
I no longer accept that the electorate (or ordinary citizens) in any of them have any real say in the matter. We get to supply the cannon fodder and pay the bills is all, and cheer for "our team."
I seldom use any of the web (for news) except via RSS.
While I'm here, about that number of countries vs. sovereign nations question, I'd just like to mention Texas (or even Quebec). I suspect a lot of people on both sides of those borders would happily fight to the death over that issue, and a lot of people would likely love to see that happen too.
After all, Canada is part of the British Empire ...
I think WW2 pretty much finished off the British Empire. We had The Commonwealth for some time afterward, but I'm not sure where that is these days. Canada "repatriated" its constitution a few decades ago cutting whatever ties were left, and now we just politely smile and clap (just like you in The Colonies do) when the royal family waves at us.
It's very funny watching the US go gaga over British royalty, as if they were Hollywood stars or something. Now, the Brits admire your imperialism while you admire their royalty. Very odd.
... and apparently a strong enough magnet can induce enough current to destroy the antenna too.
Wierd. I first started out thinking of keys which just stored a value via stored magnetic charge vs. antenna based, and you take it back around that way via antennas.
A powerful magnet is a great way to wipe the contents of any magnetic storage medium, from RFID keys to hard drives, but it'd take a pretty powerful magnet to fry an RFID antenna, though I suppose not impossible.
I imagine any RFID devices would be geshtupfed by the Magnaflux as well.
Depends on the type of RFID, transmitting vs. receiving. An outfit I worked with was using RFID keys which were essentially high tech radio antennas. A base station transmitted a signal then reported back which keys had been detected within range of the transmitter. The keys themselves were otherwise inert.
Not every employer is in a recession free industry for one thing. Gaps happen if you're not one of those blessed with a waiting room full of expectant patients, or whatever.
Unfortunately, there's a long tail of fail ahead of us before it all completely locks up and freezes. Every purchase we make going forward can run into this "Friends of Hue" phenomenon with little to no warning.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Canada is officially bilingual, so let's look at its usage in french.
I once told a couple I couldn't join a church because I'd be lying if I did. I don't believe. A guy who overheard us talking said he'd joined five churches. That's where he gets his best business contacts.
I'm starting to think governments and freedom aren't on the same side.
Read some history. Imperial Rome looked a lot like today looks. The same players play the same game now as they were then for the same reasons. When gov'ts mention freedom and things like inalienable rights, it's for PR purposes only. WW2 was great PR. The West vs. Communism was great PR. The Drug War is great PR. Al Quaida is great PR. There's always a mailed fist inside the velvet glove.
In theory, the alternatives are worse. As a die-hard "hope for the best and expect the worst" kind of guy, I can't agree.
This is an example of the political problems in Canada. When a government gets a parliamentary majority, it is a law unto itself for five years. Typically, the only real restraint is the array of provincial governments with contrary agendas.
You state an instance of consistency which doesn't exist. When I moved from one province to another, I was told to identify myself with the (federal) Employment Insurance scheme to get my "proof of S.I.N." (Social Insurance Number) so I could then find employment in that province. This federal agency wouldn't accept a Canadian passport it had issued as valid ID. They insisted instead on a provincially issued birth certificate (which anyone can buy through the mail).
Typical Liberal idiocracy. Won't allow anyone freedom of speech on their own site so to silence the masses they hide the fact there are other places to go.
What is wrong with your head? What's that to do with liberalism? Gatekeepers of all stripes and shades of attempted monopoly do this!!! This isn't a liberal vs. conservative thing. Idiot.
It is hard to evaluate the merits of an idea when the math is bad.
Fair enough, but also note they're signing people up in droves and the more they sign up spreads the cost of #2 & #3. Cutting those two in half gets them into the $60 total range. That's less than I pay for 1 Mb.
There have been European court rulings that specifically drew a distinction between software in general and software that contained a creative component.
The computer programmer in me tells me they know nothing about computer programming.
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Most terrorist attacks in Britain happen in or around London. Where's Parliament? London. I'd say they're suffering a bad case of confirmation bias. Perhaps if they took Parliament on the road, they might learn that things are actually a lot more peaceful than they assume it is. At the least, it'd force attackers to spread themselves around which would force them into the open instead of being able to hide within crowds in London.
I'm generally not a big fan of Britain, but even I expect they're capable of better than this. Their current response to the terrorist threats makes a mockery of their past history. This's cowardly paranoia at best.
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All that says is the process has been made so expensive by complexity that only the very deep pocketed few can afford to play. As one person mentioned, that "Warm Kitty" poem should have been public domain, yet a compilation which included it resurrected its copyright, stealing it back from the public to potentially enrich its rightsholders close to a century after it'd been written. "Big Bang Theory"'s creators thought they'd done what needed to be done, yet they now need to defend themselves anyway. Insane.
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Re: No automation
A false DMCA takedown is perjury! If the courts would enforce that, this mess would disappear immediately. They don't bother, hence this mess. The solution's already there, just ignored.
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After reading the story about Big Bang Theory possibly infringing on the Warm Kitty poem, I believe this way overstates the case. Copyright law is such a mish-mash mess, the only thing it's good for is enriching copyright lawyers via entrail stirring games. Creators and rights owners are often just as much in the dark as potential infringers.
I hope those Founding Fathers are still beating each other over the head wherever they are for allowing this Pandora's Box to be opened in the first place. How anyone can defend the existence of this monstrosity escapes me.
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Are you sure about that? Take a look at this.
From 2000 - 2010, there's about twelve incidents, about half of which were "Real IRA", and most were in or around London. 2010 - present, there's three. Assuming the IRA's pretty much pacified, that leaves Islamists these days. If you're not in London, Glasgow, or Birmingham, you're never going to see any and even there you're not going to see many.
It's that last bit there that gets me. Whole countries are made to shake in their boots about terror attacks while 99.9999...% of the population will never be affected by them in any way except by over-reacting to terror attacks.
Yes, Lockerbie was sad and infuriating, blowing up Thatcher's hotel was scary (though they missed her), the London Tube bombings were frightening, and I weep for the poor soldier hacked to death on the street. However, the Blitz in WW2 was far more worth the attention. Britain's hardly on fire these days, especially if you're nowhere near London.
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You're naive. The head of gov't in Israel is the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the hard-line Zionist "hawks" who control them. The politicians serve their interests or are replaced with those who will.
There are many countries which are generally controlled via consensus between the hawks and doves. A few such as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Soviet Russia, China, the modern US, and Israel have allowed the hawks to have control.
I no longer accept that the electorate (or ordinary citizens) in any of them have any real say in the matter. We get to supply the cannon fodder and pay the bills is all, and cheer for "our team."
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It's very dry humor. Dancing bear and singing pig dry. I gave it a funny just for encouragement.
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Re: RSS
I seldom use any of the web (for news) except via RSS.
While I'm here, about that number of countries vs. sovereign nations question, I'd just like to mention Texas (or even Quebec). I suspect a lot of people on both sides of those borders would happily fight to the death over that issue, and a lot of people would likely love to see that happen too.
RIP Ian Murdock. Damn && sniffle, sniffle! :-(
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I think WW2 pretty much finished off the British Empire. We had The Commonwealth for some time afterward, but I'm not sure where that is these days. Canada "repatriated" its constitution a few decades ago cutting whatever ties were left, and now we just politely smile and clap (just like you in The Colonies do) when the royal family waves at us.
It's very funny watching the US go gaga over British royalty, as if they were Hollywood stars or something. Now, the Brits admire your imperialism while you admire their royalty. Very odd.
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Wierd. I first started out thinking of keys which just stored a value via stored magnetic charge vs. antenna based, and you take it back around that way via antennas.
A powerful magnet is a great way to wipe the contents of any magnetic storage medium, from RFID keys to hard drives, but it'd take a pretty powerful magnet to fry an RFID antenna, though I suppose not impossible.
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Depends on the type of RFID, transmitting vs. receiving. An outfit I worked with was using RFID keys which were essentially high tech radio antennas. A base station transmitted a signal then reported back which keys had been detected within range of the transmitter. The keys themselves were otherwise inert.
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Re: Re: REALLY??
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Unfortunately, there's a long tail of fail ahead of us before it all completely locks up and freezes. Every purchase we make going forward can run into this "Friends of Hue" phenomenon with little to no warning.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Canada is officially bilingual, so let's look at its usage in french.
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Read some history. Imperial Rome looked a lot like today looks. The same players play the same game now as they were then for the same reasons. When gov'ts mention freedom and things like inalienable rights, it's for PR purposes only. WW2 was great PR. The West vs. Communism was great PR. The Drug War is great PR. Al Quaida is great PR. There's always a mailed fist inside the velvet glove.
In theory, the alternatives are worse. As a die-hard "hope for the best and expect the worst" kind of guy, I can't agree.
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Re: Obviously...
You state an instance of consistency which doesn't exist. When I moved from one province to another, I was told to identify myself with the (federal) Employment Insurance scheme to get my "proof of S.I.N." (Social Insurance Number) so I could then find employment in that province. This federal agency wouldn't accept a Canadian passport it had issued as valid ID. They insisted instead on a provincially issued birth certificate (which anyone can buy through the mail).
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What is wrong with your head? What's that to do with liberalism? Gatekeepers of all stripes and shades of attempted monopoly do this!!! This isn't a liberal vs. conservative thing. Idiot.
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Re: The Power of Taxes
Fair enough, but also note they're signing people up in droves and the more they sign up spreads the cost of #2 & #3. Cutting those two in half gets them into the $60 total range. That's less than I pay for 1 Mb.
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"Creative component"?
The computer programmer in me tells me they know nothing about computer programming.
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