Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Also, why does it not understand that series links can be daily rather than weekly?
Umm, bad programming.
It sounds like mysky might be best run through google calendar, which does all of these things fine.
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One thing EVERYONE who visits the US should do - that copy of the green form they staple in your passport - the airline's supposed to take it when you check in to leave - sometimes they forget - if they do the INS thinks you're still in the country - don't go to the gates until you're sure the airline took it from you
I've only been to the states twice, but both times the departing airline has forgotten and I've either had to remind them, or stop myself going on the plane to return to the counter to double check that it really does say "take this out before you leave".
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Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Kill your Television
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I hear from reliable sources that his old show on NBC was very funny. And at least he's not Leno, who is a reliable Sucker of Funny from any room. Blah.
If I was in the audience, I think I'd have to be physically restrained from strangling Paul Schaffer. The interplay they have where he keeps talking behind the host? Turns me green and makes me start ripping my shirt off.
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I really despise Letterman. It's just not a funny show. Not even close.
I'd rather Key had declined to be honest :)
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Cool story Hadyn. Well done.
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Surely the next most depressing thing apart from the spiralling numbers to be locked up, is the tiny, tiny amount for sommunity psych and probation services: $19million from $1.8billion over four years. WTF?
That's capital costs, so expansion of those offices to accommodate more staff etc.
As for private prisons, they may help with the short-term capital outlay to get new prisons built, but they will absolutely make the long-term situation worse.
I think, though I haven't checked, what's more likely in New Zealand is that the government builds the prison, and then contracts out the management of it to a private company. So no change to the capital outlay.
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As a friend of mine pointed out, the disorganisation of the protest movement against the Pittsburgh G20 is such that they have five or six different hashtags in use, and key organisers (like, say the legal helpline for protesters) aren't using any.
"Young people these days. All tweeting and shit. Never a thought for just occupying something and getting themselves dragged off on national TV. Hashtag that bitch!"
Ahem.
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I don't want to be arguing with a law professor, as I'm sure he knows his stuff, but the case law says for a work to be "original" there must be a degree of skill and labour involved in its creation. Simply scannng a photo into a system wouldn't, I'd have thought, meet that test.
He related it to reproducing a photograph in a book.
A photograph might be out of copyright, but your publication of it is in copyright. So if we wanted a legal copy of that image we had to go to the original photograph, and not scan the one in the book. He then said it was very unlikely we'd ever have any problems scanning them from the books, so that's what we do.
His thoughts were that publishing on a web site was the same as publishing in a book, in legal terms.
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But the web image almost certainly is a copy. The definition of "copy" (see section 2 of the Copyright Act 1994) covers "in relation to any description of work, reproducing, recording, or storing the work in any material form (including any digital format), in any medium and by any means".
That would be copying one digital file to another digital file. Or printing it out again on a printer. Or printing out another photo from the original negative.
The process of scanning an image certainly is making a new original. It's not the same as the original, though it will look similar.
(at least this is what we've been told by a local Professor of law who deals with civil torts and intellectual property)
I should note, this hasn't been properly tested in court, so this was his best practice advice. Gordon's advice on the source of the original is as likely to be an issue for libraries.