I'm curious where the fair use doctrine fits in here. Four minutes of a movie ain't much if, for example, it's a two-hour movie.

Since the intent wasn't even to film the movie, but to video the birthday celebration, I think they'd be hard-pressed to prove intent to distribute or any other principle on which one would gain from having these four minutes in a personal video.

Today it's red balloons, in ten years it will be people who are found (for whatever reason) to be socially undesirable. Be sure to thank DARPA, MIT, and all the other entrants when they kick in your front door.

"The key difference between government and corporate power: governments are ultimately answerable to their citizens, whereas corporations are ultimately answerable to their shareholders. That means among other things that corporations can and will ruin the lives of their employees or residents of the surrounding area (via pollution mostly) if it increases their profits, can and will bilk their customers if they can get away with it, and don't really mind a large population of unemployed, broke, desperate people."

Sure, corporations need to increase profits, but that gives customers power. If a corporation is doing something you don't agree with, you can go to another one. This is the great thing about the free market.

It seems people are against monopolies, but have no problems when the government, a large monopoly that can play by different rules and has virtually no regulation does the exact same thing.

When a government controls something, they have the ultimate power because if you don't do what they say, you are subject to fines or possibly jail time. No corporation has this power. In addition to this, governments have no incentive to innovate. They are going to get your tax dollars either way.

They don't mind unemployed, broke, and desperate people? Now I know you are nuts. Corporations aren't drug dealers. They want people with money to be able to buy their products.

Some corporations "bilk their customers". However, if this happens enough, they get a bad reputation and people stop buying from them.

Government regulation caused our mortgage meltdown., not the lack of. Take a look at the community reinvestment act, the predictions made in 1995, and what happened to our economy.

Thanks Metamechanical - I skipped the last couple of paragraphs of the interview. As a UI designer, I still think folks are getting a little tunnel visioned on this. To me, it's almost like saying the mouse can only be used for menu opening or something. I think there are a lot of possibilities here that we will soon discover.

>>>you want the same line to carry the same traffic, plus internet traffic, plus ip headers, plus voip/tcp/udp/whateverp headers. And you think you'll get something decent? Good luck with that.

Yes. The analog phone line is limited from 0 to 4000 hertz bandwidth. It's worse quality than AM radio (~10,000 hertz). If you do VOIP over a dialup modem, you can use digital compression equal to 48k AAC+SBR and achieve FM quality (0-to-15,000 hertz). So yes it's more efficient and it also sounds better.

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Yes 48k AAC+SBR can sound as good as FM radio - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=520194

The problem with systems (such as Windows) that do not have a good central repository is that users will immediately start searching the Internet at random for their software. Once installed, most of that software (assuming it's not malware) either bogs down the system with its own updater or gets hopelessly out of date and never gets patches to fix any security holes in it.

Actually, the problem with systems (such as Windows) is that when they try to do such things, they get charged with antitrust, get accused of 'bundelling' and 'stifling competition' and all sorts of crap like that.

If KSM puts the KVM module on par with Xen in terms of performance then I think the writing is on the wall for Xen's demise.

He isn't talking about some evil mind control, what he is saying is that when you learn and use your brain, connections change. Therefore, if you are trying to get the "up" motion on the keyboard down, there will be a change in your brain activity that will be reinforced by getting it right. So yes, he is right that using this device will change how things are working, but such change would be no different than learning to type in Dvorak or using a different controller for the first time. Nothing dangerous.

Unless you have 18 or 12 foot high walls in your bedroom, then it looks like you just did the math to be able to cover your floor 4 times.

This is exactly what Liberty will say.
The response will be "You would say that. You probably have explosives / children / real butter in your house.If you have nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear."

I think I might start buying up old microwave ovens and putting the mesh from the windows under my wallpaper.

Newspapers were once the only source of information

Person-to-person news dissemination predates newspapers by several thousand years, and didn't stop when newspapers came into being. Newspapers were for a while a prominent form of information because they had broader reach without change and each outlet had a reputation that could be traded on, but they were never the only source of information. And modern technology provides frameworks for narrowing the gaps between centralized media like newspapers and P2P mechanisms in terms of accountability and reach.

This might just be a last-minute chance for me to lose my virginity. They take the LHC off for another year, and I *know* I can pull it off this time!!


Any takers? :)

If you were the sysadmin, you could rightly claim it was a security exercise specifically targeting the wetware.

Yes. It sucks when the previous administration makes you a billionaire. Thank you sir may I have another?