Of course it's rarely the dead guy who cares about making more money, it's those who feel some eternal sense of entitlement.
I agree that copyrights are far too long. However, personally, I don't see any reason to relate the copyright term to the author's lifetime. It seems only right to me that an author can bequeath the copyrights to a work as he wishes, until they expire. Why not just a plain fixed term?
And I can't help but think that in today's victory of the family of Solomon Linda against the Mouse, there is some small justice.
I've also noticed their antivirus turn itself off for no reason, never to be turned on again
Yeah, that's a known problem. A friend reported those symptoms to me, and I went over his PC with a fine tooth comb looking for antivirus-terminating malware. When I discovered it was a 'feature' I was not happy.
Since VC7.1, Microsoft has had the most standards compliant compiler.
So when Herb Sutter posted:
"Microsoft and Gnu have both greatly improved in recent years and are both ship current compilers that are around 98-99%... conformance as measured by the major commercial test suites, which is pretty good -- good enough to build Boost and Loki without workarounds -- but EDG is the only "100% conformance" champ."
They gave up on UTP cabling for the 10gbe standard.
No, they just don't have a standard out yet; 802.3an is working on it though. It wasn't released simultaneously with the fibre standard because it's a harder problem. Then again, neither was gigabit. Or come to that even 100Mbit/s, depending exactly how you date it.
You were able to glean from the 15-word writeup that the defendant's lawyers were unprofessional?
Well, that's likely the truth: any sane lawyer would have told them to settle. Getting a summary judgement against you with a defence of "I didn't know it was illegal" sounds a bit lame. Possibly they weren't legally represented, this being a civil case; or the defendents were just too pig-headed to take advice.
You're right though the details are a bit thin: maybe there will be a better report in tomorrow's newspapers.
The more of these people who are legitimately caught via law enforcement instead of bullying extortionistic letters from the attorneys of the content cartels, the better.
Erm, this was a civil case, brought by the BPI against people who got the letter and declined to settle.
What are countries that have sold off their top-level domain going to do in 50 or 100 years when they want a national TLD?
In the case of Tuvalu, they are half way through a 12 year lease. In 50 or 100 years time, climate change may well have made the country uninhabitable, anyway, so it may be a moot point.
As for the others, I would need to be convinced they had sold the rights in perpetuity before getting too worried.
It's even worse in England. Here the League claim copyright on fixture lists: put your club's future games on a fan site and expect your ISP to receive a takedown notice.
Aren't we a bit late for a patent on a voltaic pile.
Either 200 years late or considerably more, depending on whether you think Volta has priority. Personally, I'm still open minded: there was a hell of a lot of empirical understanding of metallurgy and ceramics in ancient times.
Shipping refrigerated liquid H2 isn't exactly cheap, ya know.
It's not for export but to substitute for fossil fuel imports. Iceland is probably an exceptional case, though: very few other countries have more renewable energy than they know what to do with.
If they couldn't get the cannister out, would flooding the tube with some form of radiation blocking/absorbing material have worked? Maybe they could have injected it with molten lead, leaded water, or some other radiation dampening material.
Nah, it would just make it messier to deal with, and unlikely to very effective - you need a good mass of material to stop hard gamma, and a transport tube is not a good place to try to contain a radioactive liquid.
Rule 1 of radiation protection: inverse square law beats shielding; just stay the fuck away until it cools off a bit or you get a better plan.
He was smart enough to make friends with them because the Ethiopians would probably have kicked their asses. The reason it surprised me is that now, I have this image of a third world country where everyone is starving to death - NOT a super power.
Well, they still have the Ark of the Covenant, supposedly
Isn't the authorities being able to block a URL a problem?
I see no harm in the police going to the relevant ISP and asking them either not to register the username 'dfgdfbvbb', or to provide them information on the registrant. If the ISP wants a warrant for the latter, that's fine too.
I bet it doesn't. Website designers try to make sure that IE users don't get confronted with browser crashes because of bugs. FF still doesn't have the market position to ensure that they do the same for it.
I have found that IE crashes tend to be rather less reproducable than FF ones. So yes, there are probably fewer sites that kill IE cold; that doesn't necessarily mean it's more stable in terms of crashes per page view. I'm sure other people have different experiences though.
The only thing that it actually missed was the political situation in the world of today, but wh coul tell that at a time when the Soviet Union was at it's height
Well, Arthur C Clarke did predict the opening up (if not the collapse) of the Soviet Union in his book 2010 (written in about 1982). Also the emergence of the Chinese as a space power. Both look remarkably prescient.
Unfortunately, the film people turned it into a lame ass cold war movie.
All I have to do is aruge that the US proportion of Christianity is nontrivial. The guy said "hardly any". Which is total baloney.
True. I did find the narrow definition of Christianity implied in the parent post rather offensive. Glad to see the followups were, in general, somewhat more measured in tone.
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Of course it's rarely the dead guy who cares about making more money, it's those who feel some eternal sense of entitlement.
I agree that copyrights are far too long. However, personally, I don't see any reason to relate the copyright term to the author's lifetime. It seems only right to me that an author can bequeath the copyrights to a work as he wishes, until they expire. Why not just a plain fixed term?
And I can't help but think that in today's victory of the family of Solomon Linda against the Mouse, there is some small justice.
I've also noticed their antivirus turn itself off for no reason, never to be turned on again
Yeah, that's a known problem. A friend reported those symptoms to me, and I went over his PC with a fine tooth comb looking for antivirus-terminating malware. When I discovered it was a 'feature' I was not happy.
Since VC7.1, Microsoft has had the most standards compliant compiler.
So when Herb Sutter posted:
"Microsoft and Gnu have both greatly improved in recent years and are both ship current compilers that are around 98-99%... conformance as measured by the major commercial test suites, which is pretty good -- good enough to build Boost and Loki without workarounds -- but EDG is the only "100% conformance" champ."
he was wrong?
They gave up on UTP cabling for the 10gbe standard.
No, they just don't have a standard out yet; 802.3an is working on it though. It wasn't released simultaneously with the fibre standard because it's a harder problem. Then again, neither was gigabit. Or come to that even 100Mbit/s, depending exactly how you date it.
100gbe will be fibre.
Probably.
You were able to glean from the 15-word writeup that the defendant's lawyers were unprofessional?
Well, that's likely the truth: any sane lawyer would have told them to settle. Getting a summary judgement against you with a defence of "I didn't know it was illegal" sounds a bit lame. Possibly they weren't legally represented, this being a civil case; or the defendents were just too pig-headed to take advice.
You're right though the details are a bit thin: maybe there will be a better report in tomorrow's newspapers.
The more of these people who are legitimately caught via law enforcement instead of bullying extortionistic letters from the attorneys of the content cartels, the better.
Erm, this was a civil case, brought by the BPI against people who got the letter and declined to settle.
What are countries that have sold off their top-level domain going to do in 50 or 100 years when they want a national TLD?
In the case of Tuvalu, they are half way through a 12 year lease. In 50 or 100 years time, climate change may well have made the country uninhabitable, anyway, so it may be a moot point.
As for the others, I would need to be convinced they had sold the rights in perpetuity before getting too worried.
It's even worse in England. Here the League claim copyright on fixture lists: put your club's future games on a fan site and expect your ISP to receive a takedown notice.
Aren't we a bit late for a patent on a voltaic pile.
Either 200 years late or considerably more, depending on whether you think Volta has priority. Personally, I'm still open minded: there was a hell of a lot of empirical understanding of metallurgy and ceramics in ancient times.
The British newspaper? How does it control MySpace? Surely you mean News Corp, the name of the parent company.
News International is the name of the main UK subsidiary of News Corp. Easy mistake for a Brit to make - I'd never heard of News Corp either.
Shipping refrigerated liquid H2 isn't exactly cheap, ya know.
It's not for export but to substitute for fossil fuel imports. Iceland is probably an exceptional case, though: very few other countries have more renewable energy than they know what to do with.
How many copyrights do most people own? If you guessed "none", you'd be right.
Only if they have never written a letter, posted on a message board, taken a photograph, made a sketch...
Did you read the whole thing or just scanned it?
I read it; several of the comments were asking why it was iPod specific. I was just pointing out that had morphed between the PR and the article.
What's an Ipod connection?
Something CNN made up that isn't in the companies PR
If they couldn't get the cannister out, would flooding the tube with some form of radiation blocking/absorbing material have worked? Maybe they could have injected it with molten lead, leaded water, or some other radiation dampening material.
Nah, it would just make it messier to deal with, and unlikely to very effective - you need a good mass of material to stop hard gamma, and a transport tube is not a good place to try to contain a radioactive liquid.
Rule 1 of radiation protection: inverse square law beats shielding; just stay the fuck away until it cools off a bit or you get a better plan.
He was smart enough to make friends with them because the Ethiopians would probably have kicked their asses. The reason it surprised me is that now, I have this image of a third world country where everyone is starving to death - NOT a super power.
Well, they still have the Ark of the Covenant, supposedly
Good - Victorias Secret product placement.
You've not seen Men in Black II, then?
That's a very bold generalization to make. It is almost RIAA-esqe.
It's just the dumb summary that said client banned from pirate trackers.
Why did F-Secure (and other AV researchers) have to cryptographically crack the code?
I didn't see any mention of cryptography in the article: it just sounded like plain old reverse engineering.
Isn't the authorities being able to block a URL a problem?
I see no harm in the police going to the relevant ISP and asking them either not to register the username 'dfgdfbvbb', or to provide them information on the registrant. If the ISP wants a warrant for the latter, that's fine too.
Actually, it is quite different in many ways from the US. The EU doesn't have a consistent foreign policy...
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I thought that was one of the similarities
I bet it doesn't. Website designers try to make sure that IE users don't get confronted with browser crashes because of bugs. FF still doesn't have the market position to ensure that they do the same for it.
I have found that IE crashes tend to be rather less reproducable than FF ones. So yes, there are probably fewer sites that kill IE cold; that doesn't necessarily mean it's more stable in terms of crashes per page view. I'm sure other people have different experiences though.
The only thing that it actually missed was the political situation in the world of today, but wh coul tell that at a time when the Soviet Union was at it's height
Well, Arthur C Clarke did predict the opening up (if not the collapse) of the Soviet Union in his book 2010 (written in about 1982). Also the emergence of the Chinese as a space power. Both look remarkably prescient.
Unfortunately, the film people turned it into a lame ass cold war movie.
True. I did find the narrow definition of Christianity implied in the parent post rather offensive. Glad to see the followups were, in general, somewhat more measured in tone.
Either the bible is accurate or inaccurate. Christianity is based on the notion that the Bible is 100% accurate and inspired directly by God.
Sigh, you really have no idea about Christianity, do you? Hardly any Christians believe that.