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The longest recorded range for a kill by a sniper is 1.51 miles. That distinction is held by a Canadian sharpshooter, accomplished in 2002 in Afghanistan. The bullet dropped 156 feet during its four-second flight.
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Gore's Current TV inlined an image from The New Yorker's website, which The New Yorker had licensed from an accomplished photojournalist. This is rude, theft of The New Yorker's bandwidth, and an unambiguous violation of the photographer's copyright. ("I found it on the internet" is not a licensing scheme. If you don't have permission, you can't use it, end of story.) Current TV refused to pay a $2,000 licensing fee ($500 plus a $1,500 "WTF, man?" penalty). The photographer sued in small claims court and, of course, won. But Current TV appealed the matter and, appallingly, a judge has ruled against the photographer without explanation. Shame on this judge, shame on Current TV, and shame on Al Gore, who is reportedly well aware of his network's legal case.
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This is the first-ever MIME-encoded e-mail, from back in 1992. Bravo, Telephone Chords.
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Hmm, the NYT article says Current TV used the photo by “inlining or framing”. I’m not a big fan of framing, but it’s different from what I’d call inlining. Framing would include the original HTML context of the image (though that might not include credits). It’s strange that neither Current TV nor the judge gave any explanation of their side. Presumably Current TV’s lawyers made some sort of argument for the defense.
That’s a good point—the two are totally different things technologically. I’d seen the second word (“framing”) and dismissed it as an explanatory word for the great majority of readers not familiar with inlining. But, of course, it’s plausible that they displayed it in a frame. Even that raises a whole thicket of issue. If they used an iframe of the width and height of the image in question, with contents that consisted solely of that image, that’s functionally the same as inlining. OTOH, if they had a Digg/About.com-style top frame on the top 10% of the page, and the bottom 90% was simply turned over to The New Yorker’s site, then that’s an entirely different matter.
Yeah, an explanation here would be good.