As some already know, a geostationary orbit causes the satellite to remain in a fixed location when observed from Earth. This is quite useful since you just need to point an stationary antenna at it and not have to have the antenna actively track it. However, the number of slots to put a geostationary satellite in is strictly limited. So when the satellite is no longer useful, it needs to be moved in order to free up the slot it was using, so another satellite can be placed there.
In order to free up that slot, they move the satellite into a "graveyard" orbit 300 km above the geostationary orbital path. Why above instead of below? If they went below, the the old satellites would be in the way of newer satellites being moved into geostationary orbits. Why not deorbit the old satellite entirely? In order to move the satellite into the graveyard orbit, it needs a delta-v of approximately 11 m/s, whereas to deorbit it, the required delta-v would be approximately 1500 m/s.
As soon as someone creates a self aware AI that's capable of self direction as to what it wants to do, then allow it to hold patents, copyrights, and other forms of intellectual property. But until such an AI is created, it's just a tool, and tools don't own property.
It says descendants, not grandchild. So, by a plain reading, it looks like it could potentially go on forever. Or at least until noone has Charles in their family tree. So, if I'm wrong, please tell me why.
I really wish that for those occupations that require an oath of office would actually put teeth into the oath. Namely that violating the oath they swore would result in the immediate removal from whatever job or office requiring that oath plus ineligibility from ever holding an office or job requiring an oath since there prior history indicates that they're oath breakers.
Such teeth would do wonders for politicians that seem to forget such "trivial" details such as the constitution they swore to to follow and protect. Additionally, it would be a "one strike and you're out" for police officers who seem to forget that they swore to follow the constitution of the United States as well as the constitution of the state in which they're employed.
But I suspect they would fail at Airports. The clothing looks like it's intended to defend against general surveillance where whole body images are being taken. Doubtful they would work against a kiosk style system where the camera is aimed at a single head. As for the hood, it's likely that the TSA worker would simply require you to remove it.
But definitely interesting clothing. Gotta wonder how long that clothing would remain an effective countermeasure against general surveillance.
a better theory is that Elizabeth Warren's people were fully aware of Facebook's policy and decided to take advantage of the automated system. What better method of "getting your message across" than to have your ad taken down via an automated mechanism so you could scream about how horrible everything is?
The Chinese Robber Fallacy requires the overall population to be large as compared to the guilty population. And yes, big numbers look impressive. So I decided to go to google and find out how many police officers California has in total. That way I could get a nice order of magnitude estimate on what percentage of police officers were bad apples.
Well, the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies had the total number of officers in California at 79,431.
Ouch. That's a fairly small number, given the list of 12,000. Now let's assume that we have only 1,200 per year. So a rough order of magnitude tells me that 1,200/79,431 = 1.5% of the police force is crooked.
Not quite as bad as feared, but still too high in my opinion.
If memory serves, there has been more than one case where a DMCA takedown notice has been sent for content uploaded by the actual copyright holder's representatives. It would be extremely ... appropriate ... for those repeat offenders to be taken completely offline. I wonder how the RIAA et. al. would react as various recording companies get booted due to repeat infringement.
I learned a long time ago that the ugliest thing in the world is a mirror. After all, a mirror shows you your own flaws and no one likes to see their flaws..
Sounds to me like Midgette is a pretty darn good mirror for Dejan Lazic.
But unfortunately, the first thing I noticed upon it being used is that it has a single locking shackle (the shackle has only 1 notch in it). Single locking shackles are used for low security locks.
So, are you claiming that everyone needs to run their own email server? After all, the third party doctrine means that google, yahoo, hotmail, etc. need to disclose your email to the authorities without requiring a warrent. And email is pretty much an essential element of modern society.
They say they won't automatically collect the information.
The person complaining about the app says that it wants permission to send messages to his contacts in his name without his approval.
I'd say that sending the messages in his name doesn't imply collecting information on his contacts and storing said information on an Amtrak controlled server.
Not sure about the INFINITY mark. After all, Carrion did finally stop his lawsuits. Also dealing with INFINITY is rather ... difficult. After half of INFINITY is still INFINITY.
With modern books, there's no reason at all for OCR and editing of OCR errors. After all, the book is created with a word processor. Looking at some publishers. Baen Books: "Electronic submissions are strongly preferred."
Tor Books: They want submissions via email as "should be in something approximating standard manuscript format and be sent as *.doc (not docx), *.rtf, or plain-text attachments."
Pan MacMillan India: They want book proposals to be emailed. If you don't use email, the following quote applies "Hard copy proposals are not preferred and will not be returned, so please retain a copy."
Seems to me that electronic copies are the preferred media for new book submissions. After all, it's rather easy to change formats and layouts. And electronic typesetting is the current standard. OCR is just for handling older books that are being republished in the electronic age.
"With its budget, informants, national security letters, subpoenas, advances in surveillance tech, etc, the FBI has the jump on far less organized and less powerful criminal enterprises."
I agree wholeheartedly. The FBI is a far better funded criminal enterprise with far more capabilities and tools than the other less organized and less powerful criminal enterprises.
fairly simple. Yes, one can get into a lot of technicalities as to what is copying and such. And frankly, the copying of data in order to see if it meets the collection criteria is a technical necessity. The real question is "Is the data being examined stored for an unreasonable length of time?" With unreasonable being pretty much anything over a couple of seconds MAX. So NSA would be permitted to sniff all the traffic over the backbone and filter it for legal material and store that legal material. But anything else is forgotten within seconds. And such a method would fit the diagram done by the EFF presentation. But unfortunately, the NSA isn't doing that. What it looks like the NSA is doing is intercepting the data and storing it for an indeterminate length of time for future queries. And THAT is unacceptable.
the people arrested are being screwed over big time.
The problem is the arrest itself. When an officer arrests someone that information is then send onward to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) as well as being stored locally. So even though the DA doesn't prosecute the person arrested, they still have a record in a national database about being arrested. And that little record can definitely stand in their way for future employment.
Let's see. In the United States copyright started with a 14 year term that could be renewed for another 14 years. Later extended to 28 years with a 14 year renewal. Seems more than long enough to encourage new works while giving the artist plenty of time to exploit his or her exclusive control of the material.
Now it's life of the author plus an additional 70 years. Quite frankly, that's insane. Why so much time? Especially when you consider that communications today is so much faster and easier than it was back in the early 1800's and that progress is so much faster.
The problem Blizzard has is the exploit reveals to the cheaters information that they shouldn't have. And unfortunately, that information is needed to be available on the computers of all the players. Blizzard for quite a while has been attempting to use technical measures to detect cheating and to make cheating more difficult. Some measures are: 1. Encrypting the data stream between the players and the servers. 2. The Warden program (which in itself raised a nasty publicity storm since what warden did was look for processes running on an user's computer looking for programs and window titles indicative of known cheat programs).
And what would happen is that the cheat providers would analyze what warden was doing. Then make changes to the cheat that would bypass warden. In turn Blizzard would take note of the new cheat, modify warden to detect it and so forth and so on. As for the encrypted data stream, well it's easy enough for a cheat program to either look at the memory image of the player's program to get the data needed directly, or to extract the encryption key.
Basically, Blizzard is stuck in a continuous cycle of cheat, counter-measure, counter-counter-measure, counter-counter-...-counter-measure, etc.. So they're going after the cheat providers via the legal system. And yes, they're distorting copyright quite severely.
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As some already know, a geostationary orbit causes the satellite to remain in a fixed location when observed from Earth. This is quite useful since you just need to point an stationary antenna at it and not have to have the antenna actively track it. However, the number of slots to put a geostationary satellite in is strictly limited. So when the satellite is no longer useful, it needs to be moved in order to free up the slot it was using, so another satellite can be placed there. In order to free up that slot, they move the satellite into a "graveyard" orbit 300 km above the geostationary orbital path. Why above instead of below? If they went below, the the old satellites would be in the way of newer satellites being moved into geostationary orbits. Why not deorbit the old satellite entirely? In order to move the satellite into the graveyard orbit, it needs a delta-v of approximately 11 m/s, whereas to deorbit it, the required delta-v would be approximately 1500 m/s.
Let an AI hold a patent
As soon as someone creates a self aware AI that's capable of self direction as to what it wants to do, then allow it to hold patents, copyrights, and other forms of intellectual property. But until such an AI is created, it's just a tool, and tools don't own property.
It doesn't say grandchildren
It says descendants, not grandchild. So, by a plain reading, it looks like it could potentially go on forever. Or at least until noone has Charles in their family tree. So, if I'm wrong, please tell me why.
Oaths ought to actually mean something.
I really wish that for those occupations that require an oath of office would actually put teeth into the oath. Namely that violating the oath they swore would result in the immediate removal from whatever job or office requiring that oath plus ineligibility from ever holding an office or job requiring an oath since there prior history indicates that they're oath breakers. Such teeth would do wonders for politicians that seem to forget such "trivial" details such as the constitution they swore to to follow and protect. Additionally, it would be a "one strike and you're out" for police officers who seem to forget that they swore to follow the constitution of the United States as well as the constitution of the state in which they're employed.
Interesting garments
But I suspect they would fail at Airports. The clothing looks like it's intended to defend against general surveillance where whole body images are being taken. Doubtful they would work against a kiosk style system where the camera is aimed at a single head. As for the hood, it's likely that the TSA worker would simply require you to remove it. But definitely interesting clothing. Gotta wonder how long that clothing would remain an effective countermeasure against general surveillance.
Seems to me that
a better theory is that Elizabeth Warren's people were fully aware of Facebook's policy and decided to take advantage of the automated system. What better method of "getting your message across" than to have your ad taken down via an automated mechanism so you could scream about how horrible everything is?
Re: Re: That can't be right...
The Chinese Robber Fallacy requires the overall population to be large as compared to the guilty population. And yes, big numbers look impressive. So I decided to go to google and find out how many police officers California has in total. That way I could get a nice order of magnitude estimate on what percentage of police officers were bad apples. Well, the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies had the total number of officers in California at 79,431. Ouch. That's a fairly small number, given the list of 12,000. Now let's assume that we have only 1,200 per year. So a rough order of magnitude tells me that 1,200/79,431 = 1.5% of the police force is crooked. Not quite as bad as feared, but still too high in my opinion.
Hmm. There is an aspect to this that may have been overlooked.
If memory serves, there has been more than one case where a DMCA takedown notice has been sent for content uploaded by the actual copyright holder's representatives. It would be extremely ... appropriate ... for those repeat offenders to be taken completely offline. I wonder how the RIAA et. al. would react as various recording companies get booted due to repeat infringement.
Re: Regarding 'when'?
I learned a long time ago that the ugliest thing in the world is a mirror. After all, a mirror shows you your own flaws and no one likes to see their flaws..
Sounds to me like Midgette is a pretty darn good mirror for Dejan Lazic.
The Noke looked good for a short while.
But unfortunately, the first thing I noticed upon it being used is that it has a single locking shackle (the shackle has only 1 notch in it). Single locking shackles are used for low security locks.
Re: tab
So, are you claiming that everyone needs to run their own email server? After all, the third party doctrine means that google, yahoo, hotmail, etc. need to disclose your email to the authorities without requiring a warrent. And email is pretty much an essential element of modern society.
Re: Re: Amtrak app
Not sure if they're lying.
They say they won't automatically collect the information.
The person complaining about the app says that it wants permission to send messages to his contacts in his name without his approval.
I'd say that sending the messages in his name doesn't imply collecting information on his contacts and storing said information on an Amtrak controlled server.
Re: The Streisand Scale
Not sure about the INFINITY mark. After all, Carrion did finally stop his lawsuits. Also dealing with INFINITY is rather ... difficult. After half of INFINITY is still INFINITY.
Re: Re:
With modern books, there's no reason at all for OCR and editing of OCR errors. After all, the book is created with a word processor.
Looking at some publishers.
Baen Books: "Electronic submissions are strongly preferred."
Tor Books: They want submissions via email as "should be in something approximating standard manuscript format and be sent as *.doc (not docx), *.rtf, or plain-text attachments."
Pan MacMillan India: They want book proposals to be emailed. If you don't use email, the following quote applies "Hard copy proposals are not preferred and will not be returned, so please retain a copy."
Seems to me that electronic copies are the preferred media for new book submissions. After all, it's rather easy to change formats and layouts. And electronic typesetting is the current standard. OCR is just for handling older books that are being republished in the electronic age.
Gotta love the message.
To quote you:
"With its budget, informants, national security letters, subpoenas, advances in surveillance tech, etc, the FBI has the jump on far less organized and less powerful criminal enterprises."
I agree wholeheartedly. The FBI is a far better funded criminal enterprise with far more capabilities and tools than the other less organized and less powerful criminal enterprises.
My main issue is ...
fairly simple. Yes, one can get into a lot of technicalities as to what is copying and such. And frankly, the copying of data in order to see if it meets the collection criteria is a technical necessity. The real question is
"Is the data being examined stored for an unreasonable length of time?" With unreasonable being pretty much anything over a couple of seconds MAX. So NSA would be permitted to sniff all the traffic over the backbone and filter it for legal material and store that legal material. But anything else is forgotten within seconds. And such a method would fit the diagram done by the EFF presentation. But unfortunately, the NSA isn't doing that. What it looks like the NSA is doing is intercepting the data and storing it for an indeterminate length of time for future queries. And THAT is unacceptable.
Even with the DA not prosecuting ...
the people arrested are being screwed over big time.
The problem is the arrest itself. When an officer arrests someone that information is then send onward to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) as well as being stored locally. So even though the DA doesn't prosecute the person arrested, they still have a record in a national database about being arrested. And that little record can definitely stand in their way for future employment.
Know the history
Let's see. In the United States copyright started with a 14 year term that could be renewed for another 14 years. Later extended to 28 years with a 14 year renewal. Seems more than long enough to encourage new works while giving the artist plenty of time to exploit his or her exclusive control of the material.
Now it's life of the author plus an additional 70 years. Quite frankly, that's insane. Why so much time? Especially when you consider that communications today is so much faster and easier than it was back in the early 1800's and that progress is so much faster.
Re: Isn't there any other way?
The problem Blizzard has is the exploit reveals to the cheaters information that they shouldn't have. And unfortunately, that information is needed to be available on the computers of all the players. Blizzard for quite a while has been attempting to use technical measures to detect cheating and to make cheating more difficult. Some measures are:
1. Encrypting the data stream between the players and the servers.
2. The Warden program (which in itself raised a nasty publicity storm since what warden did was look for processes running on an user's computer looking for programs and window titles indicative of known cheat programs).
And what would happen is that the cheat providers would analyze what warden was doing. Then make changes to the cheat that would bypass warden. In turn Blizzard would take note of the new cheat, modify warden to detect it and so forth and so on. As for the encrypted data stream, well it's easy enough for a cheat program to either look at the memory image of the player's program to get the data needed directly, or to extract the encryption key.
Basically, Blizzard is stuck in a continuous cycle of cheat, counter-measure, counter-counter-measure, counter-counter-...-counter-measure, etc.. So they're going after the cheat providers via the legal system. And yes, they're distorting copyright quite severely.