Comment A new compund? (Score 2) 84
Researchers in Boston found a substance that can destroy living things without any possible defense. The rest of us call it the Charles River.
SciFi, Discovery, the nature type channels that all benefit the most from good quality...
Yes, they definitely would benefit from better quality.
Oh, you meant picture quality.
If you want to be "well rounded" there's enough sports broadcast over the airwaves. You don't need cable for that level of sports.
Cable sports is only necessary for the obsessed wannabes that are just another version of the GamerGate stereotype.
The only professional sport that is on the over-the-air broadcasters around here is the NFL. The local MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS teams are all on regional cable channels.
I didn't catch his name. What was it again?
That would be Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter.
Are you certain that it's Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter?
There's conclusive evidence that star-eating life in our galaxy does not exist: Our sun is still shining bright. Unless you're seriously stupid enough to think that somehow star-eating life would leave us alone for some reason.
There's also conclusive evidence that cow-eating life on our planet does not exist: there are plenty of cows around.
If they can do those things, then they will do those things regardless of tax.
Exactly. I always find it rather amusing that so many "free-market capitalists" forget this very basic principle of a free market.
On top of it all, the premise of the games is... ridiculous. Primarily as some kind of a deterrent and punishment - when the spectacle around it makes it into entertainment. Seriously, even if it was a show only for the families of the contestants in order to torture them for some made up reason - THEY WOULD NOT CARE for most of the contestants.
There is no reason for anyone other than their immediate family AND MOST CERTAINLY anyone outside their district to care about anyone other than THEIR "tributes". And if they would care - it would be only in a way that EVERYONE would still love the winner in the end.
Doesn't sound much different than most of the reality shows on TV now. Look around at how many people watch stupid competitions and then highly anticipate who will get voted off the island.
Copyright begins with first publication/release/distribution. An upthread example shows a guy working on a trillogy where the first book was done in 2001 and that 20 years would be too short.
Being part of a series has absolutely no effect on copyright. If the first book in a series is published in 2001 and the last book in the series is published in 2021, the copyright for the first book will expire in 2001 + X and the copyright on the last book will expire in 2021 + X. There is no copyright on the series; each book has an independent copyright.
If Disney grabs $NEXT_BIG_HIT from the pd and creates a hot new princess tale/etc. then that same PD still needs to be available for others to use in the same manner - it can't be locked back up.
This is already true. Copyright covers a specific creative expression (e.g. book, movie, etc.). You can't copyright an idea or basic story. If you want to take the original story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and make a movie from it, you aren't infringing Disney's copyright if your movie doesn't contain anything that was added by Disney to their version of the movie.
You can't block a DDOS at your doorstep; it has to be blocked on the Internet backbone itself.
If the bottleneck is your border router, sure. For many services, I would imagine that the bottleneck hit by a DDoS attack is in the processing, which should be easily mitigated by blocking requests at the border router.
"Show business is just like high school, except you get paid." - Martin Mull
