I believe it may have been something to do with the ripping feature of WMP. Back when I used Windows, I used WMP for ripping (winamp for playing though). When you first try to rip something, it defaults to WMA, and if you try to change it, it brings up a page describing the "advantages" and "sound quality improvements" of WMA over MP3. Had it caught on, WMA would have become the standard just from people ripping music and sharing it via P2P.
Come to think of it, Microsoft was using P2P technology to push a proprietary "standard" in order to kill the current P2P music format!...
I just bought a laptop with a blu-ray drive and installed ubuntu on it. I too would like to be able to use it, but I would not sacrifice the security, stability and freedom for it.
Including DRM in an OS is not the way to deal with blu-ray, teaching sony/RIAA/MPAA that DRM is bad for everyone is the way to do it. I shudder to think of when you finally get a new medium (crystal, cube, block, etc) for storing data and there is no way to use it with OpenSource software.
Not only does DRM remove our fair-use rights, but it also impedes development of software and hardware since eventually many of these formats get taken as "standard" and they cripple open systems.
From what I've seen lately, if you put edubuntu on a bunch of machines, the kids will figure out how to use them before the teacher finds the power switch.
Never use the ignorance and laziness of an adult as an excuse to stifle the education and development of a child!
Every time something like this comes up people start talking about the best way to get out of the TSA's grasp or to use hidden volumes, etc...
If you give it a random name ending with ".dll" or ".cab" and put it inside game's application folder, no TSA agent will ever find it in the first place. Anyone who goes through security with a file called "Encrypted_Data.AES" on their desktop is a fucking idiot and deserves to be arrested for sheer stupidity!
Actually, they do have that, I don't have the links on me, but I believe that truecrypt has some kind of a system where you can do exactly that.
You can also do a "hidden" encrypted volume, where you put one encrypted volume into the end of a larger one, and there is no way to prove that the random data at the end of the large volume is anything but random garbage. It allows you en decrypt what they think is the entire volume, but then having a "hidden" one that is mathematically impossible to prove as more data.
I don't think you quite understand the whole reason for this particular anti-trust lawsuit. Having IE bundled with Windows is not the main problem. It's not even that Microsoft is using Windows to for IE on users. The big problem is that they are using this forced-upon-the-user browser to control a separate market, the WEB. If IE were even remotely as close to the web standards as Firefox/Safari/Opera/Chrome, then there wouldn't be a big problem.
What they are doing is using an OS monopoly to control the design aspects of the web to make standards compliant websites not work properly, thus forcing web designers to break standards and make it almost impossible for regular browsers, who do play by the rules, to compete.
If Microsoft would had made their browser standards compliant and play nicely with standards-based websites, they probably could have avoided the majority of these allegations.
Exactly what personal gain do you believe the woman was attempting to receive? Even if she was using the phone to cheat on a test, I doubt the score on a single high school test would be enough to constitute a high enough gain to warrant a fraud charge.
Now if she was copying work off of a third party (website, etc), you may be able to use copyright fraud, but that's a bit of a push given the details supplied about the incident.
Piracy may be grossly exagerated, but also is a real problem. The media companies may be stupid and behind the times but their concern is valid. Their product is becoming worthless before their eyes.
So if we were to find a huge gold vein containing trillions of dollars worth of gold, should the laws be bent (and potentially broken) to keep their profit margins up even though they now offer a nearly useless product?
Seeing as Canada did not become an independent country until July 1st, 1867, some/most of those "British" that burned it down were what became Canada. Sure they were not "Canadians" at the time, but they are still our heritage.
From Wikipedia: "In the broadest sense, a fraud is a deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual."
Does the rule of inclusion elude you? Fraud is performed through lying, but lying does not necessarily imply fraud. Just as a DUI requires you to be driving, yet driving is not illegal.
I don't think the parent was trying to say that she did not warrant punishment, just that it shouldn't be a "criminal" case. As annoying and obnoxious as she may have been, it does not warrant having a criminal record! This type of situation should have been dealt with at the school level (suspension, etc) but not in a criminal case.
There are kids that get physically assaulted by other students in high school and all that happens is maybe a suspension the first 3 or 4 times. For these kinds of assaults to get mere administrative punishment and a texter to get a criminal record is absolutely STUPID. It pisses me off when people complain about problems not being dealt with while big important ones get completely ignored.
That's why you just get your kid to install the entire program, that way you never even see the EULA. As far as the courts are concerned, all you did was purchase the software, your kid is definitely the one that agreed to the EULA.
A really fun prank is to go to a buffet dinner and put a good spoonful of horseradish into the butter, and stir. Then wait for those gluttonous relatives to load a big knife-full of butter onto their buns!
Tell you what, take a new windows computer, straight from BestBuy with Norton pre-installed. Then take an Ubuntu computer straight from dell, no firewall installed. Now stick them both Online with Internet-facing IPs and no router/firewall in the way and tell me which one lasts longer!
And don't blame windows popularity, you should see how many bots are out there scanning port 22 for ssh servers.
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I believe it may have been something to do with the ripping feature of WMP. Back when I used Windows, I used WMP for ripping (winamp for playing though). When you first try to rip something, it defaults to WMA, and if you try to change it, it brings up a page describing the "advantages" and "sound quality improvements" of WMA over MP3. Had it caught on, WMA would have become the standard just from people ripping music and sharing it via P2P.
Come to think of it, Microsoft was using P2P technology to push a proprietary "standard" in order to kill the current P2P music format!...
I just bought a laptop with a blu-ray drive and installed ubuntu on it. I too would like to be able to use it, but I would not sacrifice the security, stability and freedom for it.
Including DRM in an OS is not the way to deal with blu-ray, teaching sony/RIAA/MPAA that DRM is bad for everyone is the way to do it. I shudder to think of when you finally get a new medium (crystal, cube, block, etc) for storing data and there is no way to use it with OpenSource software.
Not only does DRM remove our fair-use rights, but it also impedes development of software and hardware since eventually many of these formats get taken as "standard" and they cripple open systems.
From what I've seen lately, if you put edubuntu on a bunch of machines, the kids will figure out how to use them before the teacher finds the power switch.
Never use the ignorance and laziness of an adult as an excuse to stifle the education and development of a child!
Every time something like this comes up people start talking about the best way to get out of the TSA's grasp or to use hidden volumes, etc...
If you give it a random name ending with ".dll" or ".cab" and put it inside game's application folder, no TSA agent will ever find it in the first place. Anyone who goes through security with a file called "Encrypted_Data.AES" on their desktop is a fucking idiot and deserves to be arrested for sheer stupidity!
Actually, they do have that, I don't have the links on me, but I believe that truecrypt has some kind of a system where you can do exactly that.
You can also do a "hidden" encrypted volume, where you put one encrypted volume into the end of a larger one, and there is no way to prove that the random data at the end of the large volume is anything but random garbage. It allows you en decrypt what they think is the entire volume, but then having a "hidden" one that is mathematically impossible to prove as more data.
I don't think you quite understand the whole reason for this particular anti-trust lawsuit. Having IE bundled with Windows is not the main problem. It's not even that Microsoft is using Windows to for IE on users. The big problem is that they are using this forced-upon-the-user browser to control a separate market, the WEB. If IE were even remotely as close to the web standards as Firefox/Safari/Opera/Chrome, then there wouldn't be a big problem.
What they are doing is using an OS monopoly to control the design aspects of the web to make standards compliant websites not work properly, thus forcing web designers to break standards and make it almost impossible for regular browsers, who do play by the rules, to compete.
If Microsoft would had made their browser standards compliant and play nicely with standards-based websites, they probably could have avoided the majority of these allegations.
That's ok, in a couple weeks those 3 lovely little red lights will turn on and we'll never have to listen to him again anyways ;)
What if they are gay (read: male) and they are offering YOU a drink?
Exactly what personal gain do you believe the woman was attempting to receive? Even if she was using the phone to cheat on a test, I doubt the score on a single high school test would be enough to constitute a high enough gain to warrant a fraud charge.
Now if she was copying work off of a third party (website, etc), you may be able to use copyright fraud, but that's a bit of a push given the details supplied about the incident.
Piracy may be grossly exagerated, but also is a real problem. The media companies may be stupid and behind the times but their concern is valid. Their product is becoming worthless before their eyes.
So if we were to find a huge gold vein containing trillions of dollars worth of gold, should the laws be bent (and potentially broken) to keep their profit margins up even though they now offer a nearly useless product?
Wait, which is which?
Seeing as Canada did not become an independent country until July 1st, 1867, some/most of those "British" that burned it down were what became Canada. Sure they were not "Canadians" at the time, but they are still our heritage.
Ummm, thanks?...
From Wikipedia: "In the broadest sense, a fraud is a deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual."
Does the rule of inclusion elude you? Fraud is performed through lying, but lying does not necessarily imply fraud. Just as a DUI requires you to be driving, yet driving is not illegal.
I don't think the parent was trying to say that she did not warrant punishment, just that it shouldn't be a "criminal" case. As annoying and obnoxious as she may have been, it does not warrant having a criminal record! This type of situation should have been dealt with at the school level (suspension, etc) but not in a criminal case.
There are kids that get physically assaulted by other students in high school and all that happens is maybe a suspension the first 3 or 4 times. For these kinds of assaults to get mere administrative punishment and a texter to get a criminal record is absolutely STUPID. It pisses me off when people complain about problems not being dealt with while big important ones get completely ignored.
That's why you just get your kid to install the entire program, that way you never even see the EULA. As far as the courts are concerned, all you did was purchase the software, your kid is definitely the one that agreed to the EULA.
Wouldn't that be "takeoffyoutubers"?
Wow, I figured that would be included. I guess it's the bacon that they figure is a "luxury" topping.
Actually, this raises my big question about how they are going to categorize "Canadian" content
With TV/Radio the question is not that hard to answer, but when you are talking about websites, it really gets kind of confusing.
Now I didn't read the article, but the summary specifically says "Internet" not "Web." So what content does this apply to then?
Sigh, if only slashdot comments could hold 2 dimensional wikipedia style tables...
I though we made our opinion of joining the United States quite clear when we burned down your precious white house in 1814...
Yeah, ok, we'll push all the traffic from an entire hosting company though a single SSH tunnel....
Actually, the commercial states "$5 for any regular foot long."
That excludes ones such as (I believe) seafood, meatball, cheese steak and a couple others. It's all in the details...
A really fun prank is to go to a buffet dinner and put a good spoonful of horseradish into the butter, and stir. Then wait for those gluttonous relatives to load a big knife-full of butter onto their buns!
Try being on the other side of that "snip". Not that I was, but it's something to think about.
Tell you what, take a new windows computer, straight from BestBuy with Norton pre-installed. Then take an Ubuntu computer straight from dell, no firewall installed. Now stick them both Online with Internet-facing IPs and no router/firewall in the way and tell me which one lasts longer!
And don't blame windows popularity, you should see how many bots are out there scanning port 22 for ssh servers.