Chilly

Quite a good standard you have there.

Yeah, and the Buffalo News is one of the best newspapers in the US.

HEY EVERYONE! Cartman's gonna fight the midget!

!@#$ you, words are like bullets. And good lord, when a midget hopped on my bus today, it was hard to restrain myself from breaking out Cartman.

Really? I thought last week's was better

Wheel of fortune style. I'll give you rstlne. In fact, I'll even give you blg and an o. Here's the clue: People Who Annoy You. Puzzle: N_GGERS

I'm surprised Ron Paul hasn't gotten mentioned, cept for a #4, given all the right-wing libertarian types on this board.

Texas is considering moving theirs up as well according to the local news. Elections should be all the SAME god damned day, with the SAME god damned resources. I don't necessarily advocate mandatory media time, but an EVEN playing field is what is needed. Of course, the politicians who exploit the system are the ones in office, which means it will never get changed.

Ah, the irony of bringing up stereotype with independent thought. Berger and Luckman would be proud. :grin:

Easy game to predict too, sorry big guy.

Wait... fellow horn? Or just rooting for us?

Something we can both agree on. Though I don't necessarily know it is "to bring it up to speed with the times". I think in this instance the DMCA is serving the internet more than it is serving the media companies, as it is protecting new startup sites, but because of a copyright violation medium, the more powerful lobbyists of the media companies will win with congress.

Ah, airlines are complicated but video filtering is simple.

Really hard thing to have to do.

Its interesting that you bring up Napster. It was in that case in which the appellate court ruled that the plaintiff had to notify Napster of potential copyright infringement on their system before Napster had a duty to remove the material. In addition, YouTube has substantial non-infringing use, something that Napster could not prove. Speculation. Google has licensed the AudibleMagic filtering technology (which is the one that MySpace is using). We'll see about implementation on a scale as large as YouTube. Implementing something like that on a site with over 35 million videos, and 35,000 new videos a day, is pretty damned complicated. This isn't something that happens overnight. Google isn't perfect, but they are in the right in this instance.

You're right, it won't mean anything in court. Of course, the DMCA says that Google is fine. I would assume Google could be liable in older, non-digital copyright laws, but we'll see. Ad revenue certainly complicates things. lol. So, Google can find 10 clips of Viacom's copywrited material and this means they have the manpower to police ALL of YouTube? Dude, these were clips that were named EXACTLY what they were and thus extremely easy to find. You aren't getting a BIG part of this. There is absolutely NO EASY WAY for Google to police YouTube. lol, you didn't solve sh--. Do you really think the people who are interested in this content and want to see this content are going to police it to be removed? The people who use YouTube don't want the content removed, the MEDIA companies do. How the !@#$ do you know its a sh------- deal? Because Viacom claimed it was? There are also PLENTY of alternatives to GooTube. Ah, blind hate for Google, gotta love it.

Yup, I had them picked too.

I smell a PEBKAC error.

You can listen to it through MMOD as well. They have an option for audio only.

A guy tried to break into my truck. He's a long legged pissed off puerto rican. OH BOB SAGET

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How do you propose they easily filter or remove this? Filtering isn't easy, and YouTube gets a TON of traffic. Uploaded by other people, too. I guess thats why Viacom went with competitor Joost.com to sign a deal with, eh? Viacom didn't demand that the videos be removed until negotiations with Google fell through and they went with a competitor. Google has done a damn good job of making sure Viacom's content is removed as well. I wanted to watch the new South Park episode again the next day, after it aired last week, and it came up on YouTube about 10 times. Every single one of those had already been removed by Google when I went to watch it.

Its not filtering technology. People can report anything as inappropriate, and YouTube has a 24/7 staff which reviews this as they come in. They do a prompt job of removing such videos. The one filtering technology that might work is from Audible Magic Corp., which late last year obtained rights to a system for scanning video clips and looking for signature vectors -- such as a unique digital fingerprint -- to compare with vectors stored in a database. MySpace is currently testing this. And how the hell is google "bullying" anyone?

Apparently they beat Texas A&M, according to http://www.ncaasports.com Aww they finally fixed it

hrm. I went to the ginger man pint night tonight, then I dont' remember what happaned. And god damn I'm drunk.