I'm sure is the RIAA asked Napster to create a "spying client" for them it would be done. It shouldn't be too hard for them to add another client to the "approved" list that the server will accept. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\=\
Microsoft will claim that free software is bad for business, we'll point out that it's actually not bad for anything but their profits, and the cycle will continue.
If your business IS making profit then it is bad for your business
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"For instance: ".NET". If I understand correctly, this is a software subscription service"
I hate to inform you of this, but you are wrong..NET is an application framework. It supplies objects and procedure calls for programers to use in creating their applications. It's up to the developer to do the subscription stuff. It's perfrectly possible to create a.NET application that is not subscription based. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\
Smart tags DO NOT CHANGE THE HTML IN THE PAGE. All they do is add a little link icon next to key words. This is just like the way a browser underlines links and turns them blue. All that is happening here is that if the browser sees a key word it puts some dots around it. If the user puts the mouse over the dots a link menu pops up and offeres more information. No text on the page is changed at all, no links are changed, no graphics are changed. In fact, there is even a metatag that the page author can use to totally disable it. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\
ok, by your wording 90% of people never change thier default settings. If this is off by default then what would be the point of putting it in in the first place, if only 10% would use it? If a person is annoyed by it they can find a way to turn it off. I think having it on by default is a better choice, give people who don't know any better more information, and if they really don't like it give the option to turn them off. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\
Re:The problem with Napster and the RIAA
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I create a song i now have the right to distribute that song teh way I want, cause I created it I have that right you copy a song of mine without my permission my right to distribute that song the way I want no longer exists because once you made a copy you took controll from me I no longer have the right do distribute my song the way I want i had something, now I don't And it's all your fault. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\
In any case, my point was that "their servers, their right to what's on them" simply isn't true, or at least it ignores a very important aspect of the situation. Of course you can't cause damage, or threaten the president, or anything similarly forbidden/illegal
actually.. someone did use the message board to threaten the president.So a law was broken
Just because something is owned by the goverment doesn't give us the right to use it for whatever we want. For example, you couldn't go out and spraypaint a goverment owned building, or "Barrow" a goverment owned truck. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\
ask your mom if she would rather visit is portal, or an internet media hub and see which one she chooses. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\=\
I think Micrsosft really needs this deal with AOL, if only to look like they are being less monopolistic. If they put both MSN and AOL on the desktop it shows that they are not abusing thier monopoly, at least in the ISP area. It makes be wonder if AOL is holding that fact over Miscrsoft's head and making them jump through hoops to get this deal. I wonder how bad Microsoft really does need this deal. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\
I think a powerplant it's self would make a nice memorial. Not only cool to look at, but also functional. Why not put the waste to good use? I doubt it would be any more dangerous in a powerplant then it would be in some ordinary memorial. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\=\=\
Please feel free to mod my post down. Dang, I really wish there was a panic button to remove a comment made by mistake like this. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\
Of course this story isnt about the RIAA at all, it's a about a totally different, unrelated company that sells recordings of old radio show. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\
What about adding something to the end of the URL, or the beginning, that tells the browser what NS to resolve with? ex. www.cnn.com is in 2 servers. Allow http://ns1/www.cnn.com to go to teh first name server, and http://ns2/www.cnn.com to resolve from the second? =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\=\
The adromeda virus wasn't from another planet, It was scooped out of the upper atmospere by a satalite. When the satalite returned to earth the container holding the sample broke and contaminated a town, and wiped out a jet. I don't think the book says anything about Mars, or other planets. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\=\
I heard this story on NPR yesterday. There is another reason why they want a quarentine around the rocks, to keep earth bacteria out of the samples. If something from the earth gets in and contaminated the samples it may be very hard to tell what came from earth, and what's from Mars. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\
Umm... Napster was hardly rich when they were sued, in fact they were not bringing in any money as I recall. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\=\
That's not really a fair comparison. I have a fridn who owns some property that is covered, on all sides, by property owned by someone else. My friend has been granted a Right of Way over a small section of the land so that he can access his property. My friend wanted to run electricity to his property and did so along the right of way. The person who owned that property sued my friend because he had wires run over thier property without permission. They won the case. If I use your logic in my example the people getting sued would have been the company running the wires. I really don't see how that is right. The company running the wires didin't do anything wrong, my friend did. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\
"We didn't get harassed, but a cop lived down the street and I'm sure it was only a matter of time. Had he knocked on my door and asked what the lights were for, I would have simply smiled and said, "Wouldn't you like to know?"" I don't see the problem with explaining what the lights were for. People are naturaly curious. If a neighbor came to me and asked me that same question I wouldn't have any problem explaining or even showing them, even if that neighbor happened to be a cop. Ohh well, guess I just don't get it. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\
"When I make an unauthorized copy, you haven't lost anything real."
Are you saying that if you copy software you haven't taken away the author's right to distribute the software the way he wants? =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\
They could never get a warrant, because they could not justify it. So instead, they went through my trash, tapped my phones, put my house under surveilance, followed me to work and stooping me and giving me tickets and they trying to search my car.
Hmm.. looks like you could have saved 5 months of trouble if you had just shown them what it was being used for. It would have made them look like idiots too. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\
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I'm sure is the RIAA asked Napster to create a "spying client" for them it would be done. It shouldn't be too hard for them to add another client to the "approved" list that the server will accept.= \=\=\=\=\
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Smart tags DO NOT CHANGE THE HTML IN THE PAGE. All they do is add a little link icon next to key words. This is just like the way a browser underlines links and turns them blue. All that is happening here is that if the browser sees a key word it puts some dots around it. If the user puts the mouse over the dots a link menu pops up and offeres more information. No text on the page is changed at all, no links are changed, no graphics are changed. In fact, there is even a metatag that the page author can use to totally disable it.= \=\=\
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ok, by your wording 90% of people never change thier default settings. If this is off by default then what would be the point of putting it in in the first place, if only 10% would use it? If a person is annoyed by it they can find a way to turn it off. I think having it on by default is a better choice, give people who don't know any better more information, and if they really don't like it give the option to turn them off.\ =\=\=\
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I create a song\ =\=\=\=\
i now have the right to distribute that song teh way I want, cause I created it
I have that right
you copy a song of mine without my permission
my right to distribute that song the way I want no longer exists because once you made a copy you took controll from me
I no longer have the right do distribute my song the way I want
i had something, now I don't
And it's all your fault.
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Just because something is owned by the goverment doesn't give us the right to use it for whatever we want. For example, you couldn't go out and spraypaint a goverment owned building, or "Barrow" a goverment owned truck.\ =\=\=\=\
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"internet media hub" is 150% buzzword compliant.
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ask your mom if she would rather visit is portal, or an internet media hub and see which one she chooses.
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I think Micrsosft really needs this deal with AOL, if only to look like they are being less monopolistic. If they put both MSN and AOL on the desktop it shows that they are not abusing thier monopoly, at least in the ISP area. It makes be wonder if AOL is holding that fact over Miscrsoft's head and making them jump through hoops to get this deal. I wonder how bad Microsoft really does need this deal.= \=\=\=\
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Hmmm.. lets rebuild the statue of liberty out of plutonium, that way it was be self lighting :)\ =\=\
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I think a powerplant it's self would make a nice memorial. Not only cool to look at, but also functional. Why not put the waste to good use? I doubt it would be any more dangerous in a powerplant then it would be in some ordinary memorial.= \=\=\=\=\=\
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I'm sorry, i posted in the wrong story :-/
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Please feel free to mod my post down. Dang, I really wish there was a panic button to remove a comment made by mistake like this.
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Of course this story isnt about the RIAA at all, it's a about a totally different, unrelated company that sells recordings of old radio show.= \=\=\=\
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What about adding something to the end of the URL, or the beginning, that tells the browser what NS to resolve with?= \=\=\=\=\
ex. www.cnn.com is in 2 servers. Allow http://ns1/www.cnn.com to go to teh first name server, and http://ns2/www.cnn.com to resolve from the second?
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The adromeda virus wasn't from another planet, It was scooped out of the upper atmospere by a satalite. When the satalite returned to earth the container holding the sample broke and contaminated a town, and wiped out a jet. I don't think the book says anything about Mars, or other planets.\ =\=\=\=\=\
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I heard this story on NPR yesterday. There is another reason why they want a quarentine around the rocks, to keep earth bacteria out of the samples. If something from the earth gets in and contaminated the samples it may be very hard to tell what came from earth, and what's from Mars.= \=\=\=\
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Umm... Napster was hardly rich when they were sued, in fact they were not bringing in any money as I recall.= \=\=\=\=\
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That's not really a fair comparison. I have a fridn who owns some property that is covered, on all sides, by property owned by someone else. My friend has been granted a Right of Way over a small section of the land so that he can access his property. My friend wanted to run electricity to his property and did so along the right of way. The person who owned that property sued my friend because he had wires run over thier property without permission. They won the case. If I use your logic in my example the people getting sued would have been the company running the wires. I really don't see how that is right. The company running the wires didin't do anything wrong, my friend did.\ =\=\=\
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They could edit source files and add back doors.\ =\=\=\=\
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"We didn't get harassed, but a cop lived down the street and I'm sure it was only a matter of time. Had he knocked on my door and asked what the lights were for, I would have simply smiled and said, "Wouldn't you like to know?""= \=\=\
I don't see the problem with explaining what the lights were for. People are naturaly curious. If a neighbor came to me and asked me that same question I wouldn't have any problem explaining or even showing them, even if that neighbor happened to be a cop. Ohh well, guess I just don't get it.
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"When I make an unauthorized copy, you haven't lost anything real."
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Are you saying that if you copy software you haven't taken away the author's right to distribute the software the way he wants?
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