Nope. If I were to take someone's life I would be taking away thier right to live. I havn't moved that life from one place to another, I took it, and it jsut went away. If I copy software I take away the owner's right to distribute it the way he wanted. Copyright laws give the creator the right to distribute the works way they want. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\
Since when? You are taking away the owner's copyright's. The person who created the music owns the rights to distribute(copy) the music any way they want. They granted another company some of those rights too, but NOT you. If you copy music and give it to someone else you have taken those rights away from the people they belong to. Think of it this way, you are not taking away something physical from someone, but you are taking away thier rights as a person. You would probably get all defensive if a goverment tried to take away some of your rights. So how can you justify taking away someone elses rights? =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\=\
There is no copyright involved with matches. Matches are physical entities that can be wholy transfered to other people. Music has copyrights associated with it. You do not have the right to distribute that music without the owner's consent. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\=\
That doesn't change the fact that it is theft. Taking something without permission is still illegal. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\
I wasn't aiming the comment at you, but more so at the general slashdot population. You just happened to have a comment that my idea kinda fit with. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\
You seem to say that privacy is not a right; let me ask you a counter question: "What gives you the right to know anything about me other than that which I myself choose to tell you?"
Gee, what ever happened to "Information wants to be free"? Most people seem to want access to any piece of information they desire, but yet have a huge fear of losing controll of thier own information. We can't have it both ways. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\
How exactly was this found anyway? Do people really have that much time on thier hands to go downloading Word documents and checking the revision history? Now that I know stuff like that is out there I'm going to be looking for it. This seems to really resemble that thing where the US goverment released declassified documents in PDF format but left the orriginal text intact under the blackout lines, =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\
It's quite simple. If you don't send spam then you are not a spammer. Spam to me is email that advertises something from a company that I never asked to recieve. If I go to your web page and sign up for a news letter and then you send me one every week that isn't spam. But if you buy a list of email addresses and my name happens to be on it, and I never asked you to send me an advertisment well then, that's spam to me. At least that is the way I feel about it. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\
Online RPGS potentially have this problem right now. Usually the way it works if the game is sold for about $30-$40, and you pay $10 to play after that. What if the company that owns Everquest or Ultima Online decides they no longer want to run the game? They close thier servers, all the players are SOL. UO has server emulators out there. I guess the same thing could be done with the subscription software. Someone would have to write a server to "emulate" the real keyserver. I wonder if a company could sue someone for providing software keys after the original company stopped providing them. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\
To the worry that a non-expiring key would be broken: Make the standard software not be able to not expire. When and if the non-expiring key is required, issue a new.dll or patch that will accept a non-expiring key, issued with the key.
Someone else could just release a.dll that makes it so it doesn't even NEED a key. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\
Player 2 sees RR - doesn't know if Player 1 passed because he saw RB or RR./blockquote)
you get one piece of information from each person who passes. If there are 3 people you can alway know after 2 people pass. But this is all a moot point anyway because someone else just pointed out to me that the rules say that they must all guess at the same time.
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I believe we did the same thing to one of thier planesa few years ago. Thier plane was in distress, landed on one of our airfields. We kept the crew of thier plane for over 2 months before sending them home. We also send thier plane back with them... in over 80 little boxxes. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\=\
how about "We are very sorry we were flying an airplane full of survalence equipment in disputed airspace. We are sorry for using the equipment to listen in on all your private radio traffic. And ohh yeah, we are sorry for destroying all the evidence that we were listening to your radio transmissions." =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\
you don't get me, player 2 would know his color once player one passes. Knowing that player 1 saw 2 different colors means that what player 2 must have the opposite color of player 3 =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\
They can still pass though, acording to your quote. If they decide to pass then they they will know that they all have the same color. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\
you can still always win if you pass when you see 2 hats of the same color. even if they are ALL the same color.
ex. I see 2 red, so i pass, next person sees 2 red, BUT they also know that i passed. Now they know that i saw 2 hats of the same color. If 2 people pass then they know that all the hats are the same color. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\
If it makes sence in teh context of the game then it's ok with me. Say there is an RTS set int eh current day United States, It minght make sence to see a Coke billboard by the road. Heck, it would be fun to blow it up in a huge ball of fire. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\
They also talk of adding it to games like Everquest. If you don't know that's a fantasy RPG set in a fictional world way back durring the sword, armour, and magic type time. I really doubt it would add anything to see a big "Drink Coke: billboard in the middle of an ogre infested battlefield. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\=\=\=\
Sorry about the spelling, but I don't think you understand. A Solar sail traveling from one star to another could you the sail to stop it's motion. Once the object gets close to the other star deploy the sail and the star's radiation pushes the other way, slowing you down. Think about it. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\
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Nope. If I were to take someone's life I would be taking away thier right to live. I havn't moved that life from one place to another, I took it, and it jsut went away. If I copy software I take away the owner's right to distribute it the way he wanted. Copyright laws give the creator the right to distribute the works way they want.= \=\=\=\
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There is no copyright involved with matches. Matches are physical entities that can be wholy transfered to other people. Music has copyrights associated with it. You do not have the right to distribute that music without the owner's consent.\ =\=\=\=\=\
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That doesn't change the fact that it is theft. Taking something without permission is still illegal.\ =\
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Yeah, he just gets electricuted once the cab gets too far away. :)\ =\=\
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I wasn't aiming the comment at you, but more so at the general slashdot population. You just happened to have a comment that my idea kinda fit with.\ =\
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How exactly was this found anyway? Do people really have that much time on thier hands to go downloading Word documents and checking the revision history? Now that I know stuff like that is out there I'm going to be looking for it. This seems to really resemble that thing where the US goverment released declassified documents in PDF format but left the orriginal text intact under the blackout lines,\ =\=\=\=\
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It's quite simple. If you don't send spam then you are not a spammer. Spam to me is email that advertises something from a company that I never asked to recieve. If I go to your web page and sign up for a news letter and then you send me one every week that isn't spam. But if you buy a list of email addresses and my name happens to be on it, and I never asked you to send me an advertisment well then, that's spam to me. At least that is the way I feel about it.= \=\=\
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That's my point.\ =\=\=\=\
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You said ti yourself, it's a mirror, not a magnifying glass.\ =\=\=\=\
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Online RPGS potentially have this problem right now. Usually the way it works if the game is sold for about $30-$40, and you pay $10 to play after that. What if the company that owns Everquest or Ultima Online decides they no longer want to run the game? They close thier servers, all the players are SOL. UO has server emulators out there. I guess the same thing could be done with the subscription software. Someone would have to write a server to "emulate" the real keyserver. I wonder if a company could sue someone for providing software keys after the original company stopped providing them.= \=\=\=\
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Player 2 sees RR - doesn't know if Player 1 passed because he saw RB or RR. /blockquote)
you get one piece of information from each person who passes. If there are 3 people you can alway know after 2 people pass. But this is all a moot point anyway because someone else just pointed out to me that the rules say that they must all guess at the same time.
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I believe we did the same thing to one of thier planesa few years ago. Thier plane was in distress, landed on one of our airfields. We kept the crew of thier plane for over 2 months before sending them home. We also send thier plane back with them... in over 80 little boxxes.= \=\=\=\=\
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how about "We are very sorry we were flying an airplane full of survalence equipment in disputed airspace. We are sorry for using the equipment to listen in on all your private radio traffic. And ohh yeah, we are sorry for destroying all the evidence that we were listening to your radio transmissions."= \=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\
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you don't get me, player 2 would know his color once player one passes. Knowing that player 1 saw 2 different colors means that what player 2 must have the opposite color of player 3= \=\
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They can still pass though, acording to your quote. If they decide to pass then they they will know that they all have the same color.\ =\=\=\=\
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you can still win 100% of the time. (click my userinfo and read my other post to see how)\ =\=\=\
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you can still always win if you pass when you see 2 hats of the same color. even if they are ALL the same color. ex. I see 2 red, so i pass, next person sees 2 red, BUT they also know that i passed. Now they know that i saw 2 hats of the same color. If 2 people pass then they know that all the hats are the same color.\ =\=\=\=\
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Ohh I see, so to stop censorship we should start censoring people who censor things?= \=\=\=\=\
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If it makes sence in teh context of the game then it's ok with me. Say there is an RTS set int eh current day United States, It minght make sence to see a Coke billboard by the road. Heck, it would be fun to blow it up in a huge ball of fire.= \=\=\=\
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They also talk of adding it to games like Everquest. If you don't know that's a fantasy RPG set in a fictional world way back durring the sword, armour, and magic type time. I really doubt it would add anything to see a big "Drink Coke: billboard in the middle of an ogre infested battlefield.\ =\=\=\=\=\=\=\
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Sorry about the spelling, but I don't think you understand. A Solar sail traveling from one star to another could you the sail to stop it's motion. Once the object gets close to the other star deploy the sail and the star's radiation pushes the other way, slowing you down. Think about it.= \=\=\
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