Comment Re:"Hard redirect" (Score 1) 376
Ohhhhh I hurt your fragile feelings? My bad. And look who's talking, a guy too coward to post your opinion using a name. Therefore, your petty opinion is worthless.
Comment Re:They'd become liable,thanks to DMCA (1998) (Score 1) 155
In short, the DMCA is a so incredibly retarded and unbalanced law (it give full power to the author of the request with no practical penalty for making a false request) that causes surprise to me how you Americans accept such bullshit.
Comment Re:Faulty logic (Score 1) 155
The example of the BronsCon (post below) is enough for you?
Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead 521
Elledan writes: Federal investigators in California have requested that BrightSource — owner of thermal solar plants — halt the construction of more (and bigger) plants until their impact on wildlife has been further investigated. "Unlike many other solar plants, the Ivanpah plant does not generate energy using photovoltaic solar panels. Instead, it has more than 300,000 mirrors, each the size of a garage door. Together, they cover 1,416 hectares. Each mirror collects and reflects solar rays, focusing and concentrating solar energy from their entire surfaces upward onto three boiler towers, each looming up to 40 stories high. The solar energy heats the water inside the towers to produce steam, which turns turbines that generate enough electricity for 140,000 homes." The concentrated solar energy chars and incinerates the feathers of passing birds. BrightSource estimates about a thousand bird die this way every year, but an environmental group claims the real number is much higher.
Comment Re:Why speed only a little? (Score 1) 475
Well, the problem is that the speed limit exists for several good reasons. One of these reasons is that the highway itself has a speed limit imposed by physics, that if you pass the same you simply will not be able to keep on track and will come out straight at the first turn. And the faster you go the harder it is to stop, until you reach a point that your car will simply be unable to stop by running faster than your brake system can handle. And also have the issue of safety margin: The closer you get to the limits of your car, the more danger you run in case of an accident.
Comment Re:"Hard redirect" (Score 1) 376
And what to do when justice fails, dumb one? lick the balls of the offender?
Comment Re:Dammit! Adam you rolled over... (Score 1) 63
The biggest problem I see in the north-american justice system is that you have to pay (and pay a lot) to defend yourself, as absurd and ridiculous that are the accusations against you. That way the bandit lawyers always win, because winning or losing the cause they will always make you lose a lot of money.
Comment Re: "Hard redirect" (Score 2) 376
You are a very naive guy. When the pen fails to do their job, is the time of sword.
Comment Re:nuisance fee (Score 1) 376
I'd rather pay this "fee" with a bullet in the head of the lawyer making the charging and send him back to their office ... Just the head.
Comment Re:"Hard redirect" (Score 3, Insightful) 376
And the correct way to handle this is to put Rightscorp staff in jail . And if that is not possible, then kill them at first sight with extreme prejudice.
Rightscorp's New Plan: Hijack Browsers Until Infingers Pay Up 376
A few weeks ago, Rightscorp announced plans to have ISPs disconnect repeat copyright infringers. mpicpp (3454017) wrote in with news that Rightscorp announced during their latest earnings call further plans to require ISPs to block all web access (using a proxy system similar to hotel / college campus wifi logins) until users admit guilt and pay a settlement fine (replacing the current system of ISPs merely forwarding notices to users). Quoting TorrentFreak: [Rightscorp] says 75,000 cases have been settled so far with copyright holders picking up $10 from each. ... What is clear is that Rightscorp is determined to go after "Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Cable Vision and one more" in order to "get all of them compliant" (i.e forwarding settlement demands). The company predicts that more details on the strategy will develop in the fall, but comments from COO & CTO Robert Steele hint on how that might be achieved. ...
"[What] we really want to do is move away from termination and move to what's called a hard redirect, like, when you go into a hotel and you have to put your room number in order to get past the browser and get on to browsing the web."
The idea that mere allegations from an anti-piracy company could bring a complete halt to an entire household or business Internet connection until a fine is paid is less like a "piracy speeding ticket" and more like a "piracy wheel clamp", one that costs $20 to have removed.
Comment Re:You have to understand (Score 1) 359
...they do not believe the explanation people give them, because they lack the obedience training...
Inability to accept a rational explanation is not inability to obey, is inability to reason.
Inability to accept a rational explanation is not inability to obey, is inability to reason.
Comment Re: Motive? (Score 1) 359
"Warlords" on Liberia are so, so stupid they may have had exactly this idea.
Comment Re:Stupidity (Score 1) 359
Welcome to the new world where - for good and for evil - a computer is now simple enough to be used by any ignorant.
Comment Re:Stupidity (Score 2) 359
You are more ignorant than you think. Usually these groups survive because diseases and stupid behaviors are usually not strong enough to kill all the members of the group. Think about, our furry ancestors were even more stupid, and yet some of then survived to continue the species.
