I would support DRM if it allowed for fair use and was an open format of some sort, that developers could implement for free. I really don't know what kind of DRM that would be though.
I really think piracy needs to be prevented through law enforcement, not technology. Similar to traffic tickets. It would limit (but not eliminate) piracy, while at the same time bringing in revenue to be used for education or something. Don't fine a DVD pirate $250,000 or whatever. Charge em $100 or something, but do it much more often.
I can not claim to know much about New Hampshire, but I can say that the Free State Project probably picked it for reasons exactly like this. That is to say, I am not surprised by a vote from New Hampshire that is opposed to government involvement in business.
Why is a 3rd party doing this, instead of Microsoft? If they have such confidence in the security of their new software, I would think they would be open to such a thing. Seems like a win/win to me. Either they get big media attention for having secure software, or they get attention for having bugs, but they were fixed, and it looks like Microsoft was actually doing something to make that happen.
Best I can figure is that the people who own iPhone.com figured it would be better to get the free advertising than to sell it. Also they were trying to keep the iPhone a secret. Or maybe now that they are admitting they are working on a phone, they will try and buy it.
and that not every Japanese schoolgirl is secretly a magical warrior princess fighting for Peace and Love(tm). All of the Japanese documentaries (they call them "anime") I have watched say otherwise. Get your facts strait before posting! Thanks.
360 Achievements More Popular Than Microsoft Imagined Because Microsoft has no imagination;-)
(Sorry, couldn't pass that one up.)
Having played many a MMORPG myself, I have seen how addicted people get to, well, just numbers. The goal is to have higher numbers than other people. That makes you special/better. Doesn't matter if the numbers mean anything or not.
I had no idea that was possible. I would never have imagined they would do something so stupid, even Microsoft.
What other "features" do they have that I don't know about? I fear to think.
According to the data, drinking a moderate amount of alcohol -- up to four drinks per day in men and two drinks per day in women -- reduces the risk of death from any cause by roughly 18 percent, the team reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Will it reduce my chances of dying after being hit by a bus by 18%?
No, what they usually have is the consent of the other person, who doesn't care about your privacy. The person I send mail to has the right to do whatever they want with it. So does my mail provider assuming they tell me their 'privacy policy' before hand. I guess where I would start to have an ethical problem would be if the mail provider of the person I sent the mail to released it to the government. I never agreed to their privacy policy.
But federal prosecutors say they don't need a search warrant to read your e-mail messages if those messages happen to be stored in someone else's computer. That seems perfectly reasonable to me, assuming they do have a search warrant to look at that other person's computer.
I would have dropped out too if my parents had not made me go. Kids do not like going to school. When the parents stop caring, kids stop going to school.
The question is why do parents think an education would not be valuable to their children?
If you don't know anything about the candidate or issues, no, don't vote.
But really, with sites like vote-smart.org, it really is not too difficult to get a basic understanding of who you are voting for fairly quickly. Anybody can spare a couple hours before an election to do some basic research.
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They have something similar to that.
I would support DRM if it allowed for fair use and was an open format of some sort, that developers could implement for free. I really don't know what kind of DRM that would be though.
I really think piracy needs to be prevented through law enforcement, not technology. Similar to traffic tickets. It would limit (but not eliminate) piracy, while at the same time bringing in revenue to be used for education or something. Don't fine a DVD pirate $250,000 or whatever. Charge em $100 or something, but do it much more often.
It really could work.
I can not claim to know much about New Hampshire, but I can say that the Free State Project probably picked it for reasons exactly like this. That is to say, I am not surprised by a vote from New Hampshire that is opposed to government involvement in business.
Why is a 3rd party doing this, instead of Microsoft? If they have such confidence in the security of their new software, I would think they would be open to such a thing. Seems like a win/win to me. Either they get big media attention for having secure software, or they get attention for having bugs, but they were fixed, and it looks like Microsoft was actually doing something to make that happen.
Best I can figure is that the people who own iPhone.com figured it would be better to get the free advertising than to sell it. Also they were trying to keep the iPhone a secret. Or maybe now that they are admitting they are working on a phone, they will try and buy it.
This is obviously nothing more than a Microsoft plot to kill Linux users with exploding computers.
(Sorry, couldn't pass that one up.)
Having played many a MMORPG myself, I have seen how addicted people get to, well, just numbers. The goal is to have higher numbers than other people. That makes you special/better. Doesn't matter if the numbers mean anything or not.
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Sorry. Just grabbed it from the location bar. Assumed it would work.
You know what happens when you assume?
Maybe they meant 284 business days?
Were there only 284 days in 2006? http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/1 2/21/1836240/
I had no idea that was possible. I would never have imagined they would do something so stupid, even Microsoft. What other "features" do they have that I don't know about? I fear to think.
The article is blocked for me here at work as "Proxy Avoidance". I find long summaries useful in such cases.
I would have dropped out too if my parents had not made me go. Kids do not like going to school. When the parents stop caring, kids stop going to school. The question is why do parents think an education would not be valuable to their children?
If you don't know anything about the candidate or issues, no, don't vote.
But really, with sites like vote-smart.org, it really is not too difficult to get a basic understanding of who you are voting for fairly quickly. Anybody can spare a couple hours before an election to do some basic research.
100,000 years? We will have nuked ourselves into oblivion well before then.