The Creative Commons license is perfect for this.

http://creativecommons.org/

BTW, I think Pearl Jam released one of their videos under a Creative Commons license, allowing fans to alter, re-cut, modify it to their hearts' content.

Yep. It used to be Open Source and used a modified open source Quake 2 fork, but the new version is closed source. The licensed the commercial version of Quake 3 so they could use anti-cheat and such.

Gee, it's almost like sometimes people use the same word in different contexts or something. Like, "jerk" can be both a noun and a verb. And as a noun, it can be used to describe an action, or to describe someone who pretends they don't understand what pirating (of intellectual property) is. The word has been used for centuries to describe the ripping off of another's creative work.

It's not a matter of it being "super regulated" or not. With the (very tightly controlled) approval of specific uses for two specific aircraft being the exception, all commercial use of UAS (regardless of size) is banned by the FAA. It's hard to be more regulated than "banned."

Yeah, well, China also tries to pass off dogs as lions . So, yeah.

Tell me, Slashdot, how difficult would it be to rewrite an insurance billing system to aggregate a policyholder's out-of-pocket costs?

Tell me, Slashdot, how much would insurance companies have to charge all their even remotely healthy people to cover the hundreds of thousands of dollars thrown away in a futile attempt to save every life using every possible means regardless of cost?

Do you really want to know why the delay was put in place? Basic mathematics. The insurance companies have actuarial tables which tell them down to 1-3% mark just how much it'll cost them to cover all their millions of customers. The new legislation skewed the numbers by forcing insurance companies to add tons and tons of very sick people who'll never pay into the pool what the pool will pay out on their behalf. As such, they have to adjust their rates to match, but that big a change wasn't politically feasible; the backlash would have sunk the politicians and the insurance companies. So the extra time was built in to ensure a feasible boiling frog effect.

Boil, froggy. Boil and believe the lie that at least we've all got our own pot of water now.

 

There's plenty of leadership there, just no followers. There are people who want to lead even farther into Obama's la-la land, just like there are people who want to lead towards a more libertarian atmosphere. When those types (the less-government-can-be-a-good-thing types) speak up, the left immediately calls them racists or whatnot. So they don't get many in congress to come along. You can bring a horse to water, etc.

Hang 'em high!

Not everyone has their PC near their TV, or a wireless gaming controller for their PC that will work. That is the appeal of a Steam Box, or Shield in this case.

Individually, I know you can display Shield games on your TV, and I know Shield can stream Steam games from your PC.

Can it do both at once? That seems to be an important question.

There are even recent import Chinese military SKSs but they're still more expensive than what the guys up in Canada are getting.

I held one of those M14s once but I didn't have the $1,000 in my pocket to buy it. It was sold before the week was out.

LK

I talk to some Canadian gun collectors and it's mind blowing how certain guns (Chinese SKSs) are significantly cheaper in Canada.

LK

I'd be fine with curbside delivery. It would save time and allow mail carriers to remain in their vehicles. That would speed things up. I don't like the idea of mail clusters. That's how mail is done in housing projects here and it's awful.

LK

That is the NSL program. If you are served a NSL, you have to hand over data and you're not allowed to even talk about the fact you were served a NSL. It is really fucked up and the law needs to change.

You are not however required to put in a backdoor or give direct access for all data all the time.

That is why Google is able to keep the NSA out of their servers and just FTP over data for specific requests when they are served a NSL.

I don't believe it is the case at least. Companies like Google are pretty unhappy about the affair, and have tried to talk about it as much as they're legally allowed to with their transparency reports, though they can't list NSL requests in said report. But they do mention that they're not allowed to talk about NSL letters, which is legally as much as they can say.

Google has even outlined their process for handing over data to the government (via FTP) because they refuse the government direct access to their servers.

I just don't believe Google would have handed over their private keys when there is zero reason they'd have to, when they've demonstrated they are willing to fight governments on such requests (US, China, Brazil and more).