Maybe Ecuador just has a buffer size of 1 for their queue, and when they pushed Assange on the queue, they had to pop Barankov off? The pains of a small memory size and FIFO ordering.
So, a private citizen can file criminal charges against ANY individual if they pay for it?
In England, yes. Not in the United States of America. At least not until the MAFIAA gets Congress to change the laws here and make them a private police force, which may happen once the Department of Homeland Security gets thoroughly reamed by the courts.
Well then... I think I know a few thousand politicians who I'd like to charge with corruption and insider trading... If they don't change the law first...
I wish, but they can just claim privilege of office. The best way to deal with them is vote them out of office, but that is equally difficult to do.
If I had to make an analogy between FB and a government-owned social network, it would be that Facebook as it stands is like having glass walls on your house, but a government Facebook would be like having glass walls on your house next door to a police station.
Oh, I agree with you, but it wouldn't necessarily have to be next door to a police station -- cameras work wonders and they can be put anywhere. What bothers me of using Facebook as an intelligence gathering operation, regardless to who runs it, is that it only can see a snapshot in time, which means it lacks context. A coworker once remarked about a vacation trip I took that in every picture with me, I was holding a beer.
Nevermind the fact that I was the one taking the pictures and that there were all of a dozen or so pictures of me compared to the hundreds of pictures of other things -- just given those pictures I was a lush. I had maybe a dozen beers the whole entire 3 week trip, but I had a beer in every picture so I was an alcoholic.
Looking at pictures and Facebook postings gives little in the way of accurate intelligence, especially if the person posts a couple times between friends. I don't see how a government run site would be any different, other than the fact that you and I would be footing the bills.
I mean, if they trust the government and governmental involvement will help the public good, and FB is distrusted and evil, then surely everyone will drop FB and go to BigBrotherBook.
I thought that Facebook was already BigBrotherBook. After all, until recently your employer could fire you based on what they saw on Facebook (they still can, but they can't use it as evidence.) And they keep changing their security posture that requires you to opt-in to locking down your security over opening it up (not sure if they have changed this as a policy yet.) And don't get me started with Apps spying on you.
The simple fact is...no matter what service you use, someone is going to use it to "spy on you". The only way to fix this is to not use Facebook, and hope that nobody else loads pictures of you on Facebook.
Still, I agree, nationalizing Facebook is absolutely the wrong way to go, but since when has the government wanted to have less to do with our lives. Would rather have a government which follows the constitution, and leaves everything else to the people (I know, how libertarian of me.)
Excuse me, but where was the prophecy in Avatar? I don't recall hearing about one.
More specifically, according to the IMDB Synopsis:
While flying on a hunting sortie, Jake and Neytiri are suddenly pursued and attacked by a creature known to the Na'vi as toruk, a giant and brightly-colored flying mountain banshee with murderous intentions toward everything that flies. Neytiri says its name means "last shadow" -- the toruk's shadow, once seen, is usually the "last shadow one ever gets to see," as its attack is almost always fatal. Back at Hometree, Neytiri shows Jake the skeleton of a precursor of the present toruk. She tells him the last person to ride a toruk was her grandfather's grandfather, who used the animal to unite the five Na'vi tribes in a time of great sorrow. Such a person would earn the title Toruk Mato, "Rider of the Last Shadow."
Excuse me, but where was the prophecy in Avatar? I don't recall hearing about one.
Something about an outsider riding the biggest damn pterodactyl into battle, saving the people from the monster of the week. Haven't seen it in a while, but I am sure if you watch it again, you'll see it.
Sure, it was about something that happened in history, but the movie made no qualms about drawing parallels.
I thought it was The Smurfs meets Dances With Wolves.
I pointed to Dune (the story and the movies) when I saw it. Outsider who is despised by the populous arrives, is introduced to a love interest and all around awesome warrior, then gets wrapped up in a conflict his people started and becomes the victor in an all out battle royale against his own kind in order to fulfill a prophecy.
When I saw the ending credits had "Dune Entertainment", I started laughing hysterically.
Ah, that must mean they give a damn about me then... well, at least the can canceling Firefly part. Thanks Fox.
Jeesh Joss, you could at least create a pseudo-account when posting here. I do have to say the joke was funnier when you used it on "Done the Impossible".
And I was having such an awesome birthday so far til I read this and remembered that Firefly was cancelled after 1 season but we're on who knows what season of American Idol and America's Got Talent and the rest of the Fox line-up which consist of similar nonsense.
Sorry about that.
In the words of Marvin the Paranoid Android, "I'm so depressed."
I'm cynical of anything Fox does any more. They made a big deal about "Terra Nova", only to cancel it after one season. I thought it was good...though they jumped the shark at the end. Every show on Fox I've ever been interested in watching they cancelled prematurely, with Futurama being the only one that lasted longer than a Season.
Hate to say it, but if Fox gave a damn about me, Firefly would still be on the air, celebrating its 9th season and 100th or so episode and reality TV would be a distant memory of a failed business model.
However, in this case, Fox doesn't care about the tremendous piles of money they left on the table for what, an exclusive deal that nobody in their right mind would have approved. That is the tragedy of the monopoly, someone else could have monetized better and Steven Spielberg could have walked away with far more money. But he chose a bad distributor and got locked into the deal. I hope he learned from his mistake and took the distribution rights somewhere else, along with assuring the contract he wrote with the next distributor included a back-out clause if the distributor didn't do their job.
Somebody better hire that guy to replace Matt Lauer at NBC.
Then again, for most of us, we have Jon Stewart who does a better job in covering the news than NBC, so maybe Comedy Central could just cover the Olympics in two years and have this guy as one of the hosts.
God, where the hell did I take the word unfathomable from?
It worked. I think you said it quite well. As someone who has, on occasion, written fan fiction (and been beaten for it,) I agree with your statement.
I have no interest in making money off my work, that is what I have a job for, and thus it was written solely to add more to what the original author had left out of their story. It gave an alternative picture to what they wrote, and it furthered their story which they could no longer do themselves because they have been dead for 70+ years.
What bothers me most is the authors, lawyers, and commenters here that say "just go off and write something original." What if there is more to the story than the original author decided to write? What if there is a different way of looking at the story (The Wind Done Gone)? This AC has gone loopy thinking that only original works are creative...I've seen fan fiction that is far more creative than the original material.
It isn't about the money for most of these folks, and often it isn't about the fame either (which is why quite a few of them do it anonymously.) It is about sharing -- furthering the story -- and keeping a good story from dying. And in some cases, like my favorite fan-fiction of all time, the Barney fan-fiction, it is an extremely creative (and violent) parody of the original material (Barney the Purple Dinosaur who attempts to take over the world...)
NBC live-streamed more events than ever online for free, and you're complaining about what they did on television?
Only if you had a cable TV or satellite subscription (I do not,) and the cable company was able to correctly configure the third-party authentication for you to access the streams. I used a proxy, my sister used a friend's userid and password to access the NBC site. I think I got the better deal.
I had a cable internet subscription, but when I used the access credentials for that to attempt to access the stream, I was told I needed to be a cable TV subscriber in order to access the site.
I watched live from the US. The BBC did an excellent job.
If NBC did one thing right, it was to make Joe Sixpack aware of proxies. Now there are a ton more people out there that are suddenly aware that they can get around geolocking by using a proxy server. Expect the majors to try and legislate/incriminate that activity in the future as they realize that people who aren't being serviced by them can be serviced by others using a proxy.
People are now using Netflix through proxies to grab material not released in their own country and proxies are also allowing folks to access ITunes and Amazon to grab stuff not being provided to them because of major stupidity. They are so willing to screw the customer and leave money sitting on the table, but then when technology or a competitor who has a better business sense then they do show up and break their monopoly, they get all bent out of shape.
It's lazy and selfish not to use language correctly. It's lazy because it's easy, just read it out loud to yourself, and pay attention to your intention. It's selfish because what would take a minute or so for the writer to do once makes everyone who tries to read their writing stumble trying to read it. Your saving a minute costs the collective hours when added up.
Certainly when there isn't an edit function for comments...I admit my only laziness when writing comments here is not using the preview button and carefully reading my response, but I always make at least one mistake even when I do sit down and preview my comment carefully. It is just part of human nature, and the reason why copy editors never review their own work and always turn it over to a colleague.
Even though I spent several years as a copy editor for a newspaper, I tend to ignore errors because it is usually so easy to understand what someone meant, especially when they use "their" instead of "they're" or vice-versa. It almost seems like more work for me and my laziness to get upset and respond. I can't understand someone who drops all communication simply because of an error.
or someone who has the attention span of a gold fish.
Not to diminish your argument, but Mythbusters proved that goldfish have an excellent attention span and are actually quite intelligent. Unlike this troll.
I expect an apology for Goldie (my imaginary goldfish) and her fellow members of the Carassius auratus auratus species.
Please stop using the word "piracy" in your article titles. You only lend the word more legitimacy.
I sure hope you called Disney and asked them to stop using Pirates of the Caribbean in their parks and in their crappy movies. Those uses did far more to add legitimacy than Captain Cook and his brotheren of privateers did.
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Small buffer?
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In England, yes. Not in the United States of America. At least not until the MAFIAA gets Congress to change the laws here and make them a private police force, which may happen once the Department of Homeland Security gets thoroughly reamed by the courts.
Well then... I think I know a few thousand politicians who I'd like to charge with corruption and insider trading... If they don't change the law first...
I wish, but they can just claim privilege of office. The best way to deal with them is vote them out of office, but that is equally difficult to do.
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Re: Re: Re: Damn you
Are you using Tor for proxying your connection? All four messages come with different snowflakes. Kinda cool.
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Oh, I agree with you, but it wouldn't necessarily have to be next door to a police station -- cameras work wonders and they can be put anywhere. What bothers me of using Facebook as an intelligence gathering operation, regardless to who runs it, is that it only can see a snapshot in time, which means it lacks context. A coworker once remarked about a vacation trip I took that in every picture with me, I was holding a beer.
Nevermind the fact that I was the one taking the pictures and that there were all of a dozen or so pictures of me compared to the hundreds of pictures of other things -- just given those pictures I was a lush. I had maybe a dozen beers the whole entire 3 week trip, but I had a beer in every picture so I was an alcoholic.
Looking at pictures and Facebook postings gives little in the way of accurate intelligence, especially if the person posts a couple times between friends. I don't see how a government run site would be any different, other than the fact that you and I would be footing the bills.
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I thought that Facebook was already BigBrotherBook. After all, until recently your employer could fire you based on what they saw on Facebook (they still can, but they can't use it as evidence.) And they keep changing their security posture that requires you to opt-in to locking down your security over opening it up (not sure if they have changed this as a policy yet.) And don't get me started with Apps spying on you.
The simple fact is...no matter what service you use, someone is going to use it to "spy on you". The only way to fix this is to not use Facebook, and hope that nobody else loads pictures of you on Facebook.
Still, I agree, nationalizing Facebook is absolutely the wrong way to go, but since when has the government wanted to have less to do with our lives. Would rather have a government which follows the constitution, and leaves everything else to the people (I know, how libertarian of me.)
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More specifically, according to the IMDB Synopsis:
While flying on a hunting sortie, Jake and Neytiri are suddenly pursued and attacked by a creature known to the Na'vi as toruk, a giant and brightly-colored flying mountain banshee with murderous intentions toward everything that flies. Neytiri says its name means "last shadow" -- the toruk's shadow, once seen, is usually the "last shadow one ever gets to see," as its attack is almost always fatal. Back at Hometree, Neytiri shows Jake the skeleton of a precursor of the present toruk. She tells him the last person to ride a toruk was her grandfather's grandfather, who used the animal to unite the five Na'vi tribes in a time of great sorrow. Such a person would earn the title Toruk Mato, "Rider of the Last Shadow."
The Shai-Hulud of the Dune series.
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Something about an outsider riding the biggest damn pterodactyl into battle, saving the people from the monster of the week. Haven't seen it in a while, but I am sure if you watch it again, you'll see it.
Sure, it was about something that happened in history, but the movie made no qualms about drawing parallels.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Market for 3D
I pointed to Dune (the story and the movies) when I saw it. Outsider who is despised by the populous arrives, is introduced to a love interest and all around awesome warrior, then gets wrapped up in a conflict his people started and becomes the victor in an all out battle royale against his own kind in order to fulfill a prophecy.
When I saw the ending credits had "Dune Entertainment", I started laughing hysterically.
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Re: Re: Fox
Jeesh Joss, you could at least create a pseudo-account when posting here. I do have to say the joke was funnier when you used it on "Done the Impossible".
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Re: Re: Fox
Sorry about that.
In the words of Marvin the Paranoid Android, "I'm so depressed."
I'm cynical of anything Fox does any more. They made a big deal about "Terra Nova", only to cancel it after one season. I thought it was good...though they jumped the shark at the end. Every show on Fox I've ever been interested in watching they cancelled prematurely, with Futurama being the only one that lasted longer than a Season.
Fox, the network for those with ADHD.
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Re: Fox
Oops, James Cameron not Steven Spielberg. Wikipedia IS my friend.
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Fox
However, in this case, Fox doesn't care about the tremendous piles of money they left on the table for what, an exclusive deal that nobody in their right mind would have approved. That is the tragedy of the monopoly, someone else could have monetized better and Steven Spielberg could have walked away with far more money. But he chose a bad distributor and got locked into the deal. I hope he learned from his mistake and took the distribution rights somewhere else, along with assuring the contract he wrote with the next distributor included a back-out clause if the distributor didn't do their job.
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What, NBC Worried?
Then again, for most of us, we have Jon Stewart who does a better job in covering the news than NBC, so maybe Comedy Central could just cover the Olympics in two years and have this guy as one of the hosts.
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It worked. I think you said it quite well. As someone who has, on occasion, written fan fiction (and been beaten for it,) I agree with your statement.
I have no interest in making money off my work, that is what I have a job for, and thus it was written solely to add more to what the original author had left out of their story. It gave an alternative picture to what they wrote, and it furthered their story which they could no longer do themselves because they have been dead for 70+ years.
What bothers me most is the authors, lawyers, and commenters here that say "just go off and write something original." What if there is more to the story than the original author decided to write? What if there is a different way of looking at the story (The Wind Done Gone)? This AC has gone loopy thinking that only original works are creative...I've seen fan fiction that is far more creative than the original material.
It isn't about the money for most of these folks, and often it isn't about the fame either (which is why quite a few of them do it anonymously.) It is about sharing -- furthering the story -- and keeping a good story from dying. And in some cases, like my favorite fan-fiction of all time, the Barney fan-fiction, it is an extremely creative (and violent) parody of the original material (Barney the Purple Dinosaur who attempts to take over the world...)
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Only if you had a cable TV or satellite subscription (I do not,) and the cable company was able to correctly configure the third-party authentication for you to access the streams. I used a proxy, my sister used a friend's userid and password to access the NBC site. I think I got the better deal.
I had a cable internet subscription, but when I used the access credentials for that to attempt to access the stream, I was told I needed to be a cable TV subscriber in order to access the site.
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Re: Let 'em die
If NBC did one thing right, it was to make Joe Sixpack aware of proxies. Now there are a ton more people out there that are suddenly aware that they can get around geolocking by using a proxy server. Expect the majors to try and legislate/incriminate that activity in the future as they realize that people who aren't being serviced by them can be serviced by others using a proxy.
People are now using Netflix through proxies to grab material not released in their own country and proxies are also allowing folks to access ITunes and Amazon to grab stuff not being provided to them because of major stupidity. They are so willing to screw the customer and leave money sitting on the table, but then when technology or a competitor who has a better business sense then they do show up and break their monopoly, they get all bent out of shape.
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Certainly when there isn't an edit function for comments...I admit my only laziness when writing comments here is not using the preview button and carefully reading my response, but I always make at least one mistake even when I do sit down and preview my comment carefully. It is just part of human nature, and the reason why copy editors never review their own work and always turn it over to a colleague.
Even though I spent several years as a copy editor for a newspaper, I tend to ignore errors because it is usually so easy to understand what someone meant, especially when they use "their" instead of "they're" or vice-versa. It almost seems like more work for me and my laziness to get upset and respond. I can't understand someone who drops all communication simply because of an error.
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Hell, if we are going to go that far, how about Armageddon, which was released 2 months after Deep Impact. And A Bugs Life one month after Antz.
Disney has been providing knock-offs of Dreamworks for a while.
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Not to diminish your argument, but Mythbusters proved that goldfish have an excellent attention span and are actually quite intelligent. Unlike this troll.
I expect an apology for Goldie (my imaginary goldfish) and her fellow members of the Carassius auratus auratus species.
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Re: "Piracy"
I sure hope you called Disney and asked them to stop using Pirates of the Caribbean in their parks and in their crappy movies. Those uses did far more to add legitimacy than Captain Cook and his brotheren of privateers did.
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