If only. The way it actually works is that long before a court date is set the judge says "send me a brief" and each party has to write up their case.... If you hand in nothing, the judge will consider it a default and you immediately lose.
Is this true if you are representing yourself? I would think that there is a thin line between 'homework assignment' and a very terse 'Here's the court case that says this is fair use'. Does it really need to be more than a page long?
Years ago, I read about a case where a large company brought a trademark infringement suit against some grad students - law students. I don't remember the details, but the kids spent 3 years filing responses to briefs and motions filed by the company. At that point, for some reason I don't remember, the judge assigned to the case actually reviewed it and decided it had no merit, so found in favor of the defendants - the kids.
Since you'll spend the rest of your days bundling fries in kids' meals, the sort of precedent this sets will likely never effect you. No wait, one day James Blunt may stop in on a tour and catch you humming "Beautiful" and slap you with a lawsuit
I recall reading about someone getting sued for copyright infringement for having his player turned up loud enough other people could hear the music to which he was listening. Given that, I would not be surprised if someone got sued for infringement for humming or singing a song.
I keep seeing this argument brought up in every "frivolous suits" story, yet I fail to see this "chilling effect on legitimate lawsuits" happening in various other countries with a loser-pays system.
IANA, but, perhaps those countries have better protections against using process to delay real judgement? This is where having more money is key: If you can afford it, you have your lawyers keep filing things that require the other party to file responses. If they miss too many deadlines, you can then file for default judgement in your favor.
From the paper: "The resulting model is an automaton that represents the legitimate order of system calls that an application may issue. This automaton is then enforced by Korset's monitoring agent, which is built into the Linux kernel, by simulating every emitted system call."
Why couldn't malware makers then just insure their programs emulate this profile?
You still need good spam filtering. Spammers routinely spoof the sender address. FYI, there are mechanisms for securely authenticating senders, however, it requires everyone you receive email from to use and configure an email client that supports such authentication.
Same problem with driving/flying games. You don't have the tactile feedback of the Gs of turns and climbs and descents,
Actually, there are benefits to not "feeling" the plane bank, pitch and yawl. As a pilot muself, I know that seeing is, by far, the most important sense when flying. Your other senses can easily be fooled. I certinly became a much beter pilot when I finally learned to rely only on my eyes. Playing Descent helped me a lot. When visiting friends, I used to fly MS Flight Sim. If I had a decent PC, I'd fly Flight Gear (http://flightgear.org/).
IANAL, but reading Sound Exchange's FAQ, under "What licenses does Sound Exchange administer?", it states that SE handles royalites from compulsory licenses.
Again, IANAL, but it seems like it should be possible to specifically license a named recording to a named licensee (eg, a webcaster) without having the SE involved.
Of course, a real lawyer would have to be involved, which would probably be more expensive than the statutory royalty.
The idea that a popular piece of media, in this case a book, has more than 300 readers or people on a waiting list to read a book indicates to me 300 lost sales for the book publisher.
I suspect a lot of those 300 would not read the book at all if not for the library. And that some of those readers actually went out and payed a bookstore for a copy.
I think it is likely a negligible difference is sales.
Unless it is clearly stated that this is a loan, rental, lease, etc at the outset.
Which is exactly where the *AA is dragging us. I mean, if they actually let us keep the stuff we pay for, then they have to keep coming up with new stuff to make sure we keep paying them.
The real problem is not piracy, it is that the artists have found a way to bypass them and deliver directly to us.
Ares, although total crap will be ready to take the human flight crown in 2014
Assuming the funding is not reduced.
Given a projected deficit of US$400bn (http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/96xx/doc9648/08-2008-MBR.htm) for the current (2008) fiscal year and nearly US$445bn (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7547192.stm) for FY 2009, as well as US$9tr debt (http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np), I think we can expect that the Ares budget will be reduced substantially.
I hate being told I can't do something (ie: work 80 hours this week then work 20 the next).
Lucky you. Even though they are salaried, no one I know is allowed to work less than 40 hours per week with out it being charged against their vacation balance (or deducted from their paycheck) - no matter how many hours they worked the week before.
4. The employee has authority to hire or fire other employees.
"hire or fire" or "hire and fire" - there is a big difference.
From my observations, at most of my clients, any one "supervisor" or above can fire some one below them, but hiring requires approvals at every level up to the "vice president" level, any of which can veto the hiring decision.
The part I don't get, is that images.somesocialsite.com is presumably sending it as an image/gif mimetype, so why is the browser running it (passing it to the JVM)? This sounds like a browser bug.
I'm guessing you have it backwards. The referencing webpage marks up the file as a Java object. I imagine the GIF part is to get past the socialsite server's image validity tests so that it will agree to host the file.
In my experience, the server should be sending the file with a MINE type of image/gif, so the brwoser should be treating the file as a GIF.
Something I actually tried to do, once:
I uploaded an SVG image to an image hosting website. But, the website, not "knowing" what a SVG file is, sent "Content-type: text/plain". (SVG is XML based, so is actually text.) Several web browsers, including FF and others, dutifully displayed the actual XML text.
I then tried making a webpage included the type attribute, specifiying "xml/xml+svg". The web browsers continued to display the XML text.
Given this observed behavior, I would expect that, when servering up a GIF file, either the server failed to include "Content-type: image/gif", or the browser ignored the contact type from the server. Either of these, IMHO, is a bug.
PS, FYI, I ultimately got the SVG file to be displayed correctly by re-uploading it as an XML file. The server then sent "Content-type: xml/xml" and the web browsers figured out what to do with it.
If the users are using Linux, there is also ext3cow, which was discussed on/. (http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/02/0413253&from=rss), the newly announced Tux3 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/23/257), Wayback (http://wayback.sourceforge.net/) and others.
track changes made to a file (as a word processor does)
A word processor (or other office application) can track changes because the format of the file is specifically designed to allow such tracking. You data files, which you imply are text, are just data. Unlike a word processing document file, the editor is showing you everything in the file - there is nothing in the file to provide for change tracking.
Of course, the file format could be enhanced, but then everything that uses the data files would need to be changed.
As suggested elsewhere, your best bet is to use some kind of version control system. Some editors have support for interfacing to version control built in. Others require a plug-in extension. Assuming your users are using Microsoft Windows, one nice tool is TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.net). It integrates with Windows, directly, so you have access to version control from Windows Explorer (aka "My Computer", "My Documents", etc.) or even from the File Open dialog of many (though not all) applications.
Lines are cheap. Time added trying to figure out an obfuscated code structure because somebody wanted to save lines (ie, put the open brace on the same line instead of doing the above) is expensive.
1. Yes, "cuddled braces" can be hard to track.
2. Even when braces are not cuddled, I still use the brace matching feature available in any decent code editor.
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If only. The way it actually works is that long before a court date is set the judge says "send me a brief" and each party has to write up their case. ... If you hand in nothing, the judge will consider it a default and you immediately lose.
Is this true if you are representing yourself? I would think that there is a thin line between 'homework assignment' and a very terse 'Here's the court case that says this is fair use'. Does it really need to be more than a page long?
Years ago, I read about a case where a large company brought a trademark infringement suit against some grad students - law students. I don't remember the details, but the kids spent 3 years filing responses to briefs and motions filed by the company. At that point, for some reason I don't remember, the judge assigned to the case actually reviewed it and decided it had no merit, so found in favor of the defendants - the kids.
Since you'll spend the rest of your days bundling fries in kids' meals, the sort of precedent this sets will likely never effect you. No wait, one day James Blunt may stop in on a tour and catch you humming "Beautiful" and slap you with a lawsuit
I recall reading about someone getting sued for copyright infringement for having his player turned up loud enough other people could hear the music to which he was listening. Given that, I would not be surprised if someone got sued for infringement for humming or singing a song.
I keep seeing this argument brought up in every "frivolous suits" story, yet I fail to see this "chilling effect on legitimate lawsuits" happening in various other countries with a loser-pays system.
IANA, but, perhaps those countries have better protections against using process to delay real judgement? This is where having more money is key: If you can afford it, you have your lawyers keep filing things that require the other party to file responses. If they miss too many deadlines, you can then file for default judgement in your favor.
From the paper: "The resulting model is an automaton that represents the legitimate order of system calls that an application may issue. This automaton is then enforced by Korset's monitoring agent, which is built into the Linux kernel, by simulating every emitted system call."
Why couldn't malware makers then just insure their programs emulate this profile?
You still need good spam filtering. Spammers routinely spoof the sender address. FYI, there are mechanisms for securely authenticating senders, however, it requires everyone you receive email from to use and configure an email client that supports such authentication.
Same problem with driving/flying games. You don't have the tactile feedback of the Gs of turns and climbs and descents,
Actually, there are benefits to not "feeling" the plane bank, pitch and yawl. As a pilot muself, I know that seeing is, by far, the most important sense when flying. Your other senses can easily be fooled. I certinly became a much beter pilot when I finally learned to rely only on my eyes. Playing Descent helped me a lot. When visiting friends, I used to fly MS Flight Sim. If I had a decent PC, I'd fly Flight Gear (http://flightgear.org/).
The fees are hitting 70% of the REVENUE.
IIRC, Apple's iTunes store was paying 70% of revenue to the record companies when it first went online. I do not recall what they currently pay.
IANAL, but reading Sound Exchange's FAQ, under "What licenses does Sound Exchange administer?", it states that SE handles royalites from compulsory licenses.
Again, IANAL, but it seems like it should be possible to specifically license a named recording to a named licensee (eg, a webcaster) without having the SE involved.
Of course, a real lawyer would have to be involved, which would probably be more expensive than the statutory royalty.
The idea that a popular piece of media, in this case a book, has more than 300 readers or people on a waiting list to read a book indicates to me 300 lost sales for the book publisher.
I suspect a lot of those 300 would not read the book at all if not for the library. And that some of those readers actually went out and payed a bookstore for a copy.
I think it is likely a negligible difference is sales.
Unless it is clearly stated that this is a loan, rental, lease, etc at the outset.
Which is exactly where the *AA is dragging us. I mean, if they actually let us keep the stuff we pay for, then they have to keep coming up with new stuff to make sure we keep paying them.
The real problem is not piracy, it is that the artists have found a way to bypass them and deliver directly to us.
Right, because us geeks have absolutely no way whatsoever to tamper with hardware.
According to the DMCA, we don't.
Ares, although total crap will be ready to take the human flight crown in 2014
Assuming the funding is not reduced.
Given a projected deficit of US$400bn (http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/96xx/doc9648/08-2008-MBR.htm) for the current (2008) fiscal year and nearly US$445bn (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7547192.stm) for FY 2009, as well as US$9tr debt (http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np), I think we can expect that the Ares budget will be reduced substantially.
I hate being told I can't do something (ie: work 80 hours this week then work 20 the next).
Lucky you. Even though they are salaried, no one I know is allowed to work less than 40 hours per week with out it being charged against their vacation balance (or deducted from their paycheck) - no matter how many hours they worked the week before.
4. The employee has authority to hire or fire other employees.
"hire or fire" or "hire and fire" - there is a big difference.
From my observations, at most of my clients, any one "supervisor" or above can fire some one below them, but hiring requires approvals at every level up to the "vice president" level, any of which can veto the hiring decision.
I remember seeing the TLC. Unfortunately, the box made it seem like any other so-called "pre-computer".
A description is at http://www.applefritter.com/node/239
$14.99 is a "ridiculous" price? Really?
Does FF trust it? If so, maybe FF should not be trusted.
I have helped some of my clients get SSL certs. Even the $100 certs seemed way too easy to get.
Disclaimer: Web stuff is a hobby for me.
If the file is small enough, the service might not resize it.
The part I don't get, is that images.somesocialsite.com is presumably sending it as an image/gif mimetype, so why is the browser running it (passing it to the JVM)? This sounds like a browser bug.
I'm guessing you have it backwards. The referencing webpage marks up the file as a Java object. I imagine the GIF part is to get past the socialsite server's image validity tests so that it will agree to host the file.
In my experience, the server should be sending the file with a MINE type of image/gif, so the brwoser should be treating the file as a GIF.
Something I actually tried to do, once:
I uploaded an SVG image to an image hosting website. But, the website, not "knowing" what a SVG file is, sent "Content-type: text/plain". (SVG is XML based, so is actually text.) Several web browsers, including FF and others, dutifully displayed the actual XML text.
I then tried making a webpage included the type attribute, specifiying "xml/xml+svg". The web browsers continued to display the XML text.
Given this observed behavior, I would expect that, when servering up a GIF file, either the server failed to include "Content-type: image/gif", or the browser ignored the contact type from the server. Either of these, IMHO, is a bug.
PS, FYI, I ultimately got the SVG file to be displayed correctly by re-uploading it as an XML file. The server then sent "Content-type: xml/xml" and the web browsers figured out what to do with it.
Then what's to prevent Blizzard from cracking the server and leaving MDY to face content charges?
If the users are using Linux, there is also ext3cow, which was discussed on /. (http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/02/0413253&from=rss), the newly announced Tux3 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/23/257), Wayback (http://wayback.sourceforge.net/) and others.
track changes made to a file (as a word processor does)
A word processor (or other office application) can track changes because the format of the file is specifically designed to allow such tracking. You data files, which you imply are text, are just data. Unlike a word processing document file, the editor is showing you everything in the file - there is nothing in the file to provide for change tracking.
Of course, the file format could be enhanced, but then everything that uses the data files would need to be changed.
As suggested elsewhere, your best bet is to use some kind of version control system. Some editors have support for interfacing to version control built in. Others require a plug-in extension. Assuming your users are using Microsoft Windows, one nice tool is TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.net). It integrates with Windows, directly, so you have access to version control from Windows Explorer (aka "My Computer", "My Documents", etc.) or even from the File Open dialog of many (though not all) applications.
>Here's a language with no braces:
IF condition THEN
statement1
ELSE
statement2
ENDIF
Shouldn't that be:
IF condition
THEN
statement1
ELSE
statement2
ENDIF
>Here's a language with no braces:
>
> IF condition THEN
> statement1
> ELSE
> statement2
> ENDIF
Shouldn't that be:
IF condition ;)
THEN
statement1
ELSE
statement2
ENDIF
Lines are cheap. Time added trying to figure out an obfuscated code structure because somebody wanted to save lines (ie, put the open brace on the same line instead of doing the above) is expensive.
1. Yes, "cuddled braces" can be hard to track.
2. Even when braces are not cuddled, I still use the brace matching feature available in any decent code editor.
I really don't get this obsession people have with putting braces on separate lines.
Conceptually, the braces are equivalent to "begin" and "end", so some people will look at:
} else {
and see:
end else begin