Yes, they are supported by some psychological experiments that were set out to pinpoint violent games as the culprit of increased violent potential. Still, the results were rather shaky and the one mentioned in particular apparently did not believe in control groups. In fact, from the study done, an equally likely conclusion could be that Myst has an incredible calming effect and deters violence, while the Wolfenstein players were acting at normal levels of aggression. To get there, you have to scroll past the study into the violent potential of Mario. I don't know though, I think another good control group might be people playing a high intensity racing game and the effects of playing sports.
In fact, it might just be that adrenaline increases violent potential.
While the US does suffer from a nasty trade deficit, I fail to see how it ties to IP. While IP certainly would make America boatloads of money if it was somehow enforced internationally (Asia and South America respect America's IP?), it seems more like America is *importing* more IP than *exporting*. It seems more likely it would hurt parts of Europe and Canada, where the fallout recession would hit America.
I'm interested in seeing what factual basis you are making this on? IP does protect large anti-competative companies, and some IP vendors, but I fail to see how there's any actual tie to the US Economy. I'd argue that lessening IP laws will eventually bolster US's economy in the long run and allow for much more diversity domestically... While I'm no economist, just taking some figures from the CIA World Factbook...
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos /us.html#Econ
US exports are at: $1.024 trillion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Commodity wise:
agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn) 9.2%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) 15.0% (2003)
US imports: $1.869 trillion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Commodity wise:
agricultural products 4.9%, industrial supplies 32.9% (crude oil 8.2%), capital goods 30.4% (computers, telecommunications equipment, motor vehicle parts, office machines, electric power machinery), consumer goods 31.8% (automobiles, clothing, medicines, furniture, toys) (2003)
Most rulings they make are going to have a bearing on how the law is applied. Interpreting the law is arguably more significant of a power than creating law. The main power of the other branches stems more from the ability to allocate funds and war. Either way, I think it is odd how little attention is paid to judges in comparison to representatives.
While there is a large crowd that pirates photoshop, the GIMP really blows away anything that has come with windows. It really is a nice program once you get used to the interface. It handles all kinds of formats, and while there's alot more to it, it's great for touching up photos. One thing I have been meaning to try out is Avidemux for video editing. The fact that you can edit videos and share them online for free isn't something that everyone realizes they can do. Never mind the digital media fan who goes a step further and starts using Blender. I think pre-installing these kinds of things really does add value to a system, particularly to the large number of users who don't have a clue what they're doing. It would be nice if Dell set the home url for the browsers to a page that was following trends and gave a bit of a "Welcome to Web 2.0!". It would blow my mind more if they went ahead and preinstalled stumbleupon for firefox out of the box. There's a large amount of stuff for free that people would love, and just don't have a clue it's there for the taking. I can't understand why pc distributors aren't exploiting it to the fullest to add value and draw repeat business. My best guess is windows.
One thing I haven't seen is a Windows coming with OpenOffice, Firefox, The Gimp, and Audacity preinstalled. Sure, anyone could go download those for free, but how many 'regular joes' know to do so? Every new install of Windoes I've seen has come preloaded with crapware. Most 'mom and pops' won't want to actually buy a full version of Microsoft Office, so OpenOffice preinstalled fits their needs much better. I honestly think that when people see how much "more" a prebuilt linux system has to offer, there will be some very happy customers.
If Dell doesn't lose too many income earning deals with software companies because of this, this will be a huge win for Dell.
Why would a company need to be reasonable with its verification process? If it's not expressly put forth in the law, I'd imagine it would be hard to argue a company was not complying if it agressively sought out to put all the users in a big database for "verification" purposes. Sounds like great spam bait for the whole state. Really it only screws the small and middle sized legitimate sites.
I'm sure a large marketing media company run Rupert Murdock could never find any use for being "forced" by the government to collect "verification" information on all of its users. They certainly could be no benefit for that kind of company to create that kind of customer database.
Are the majority of people over there 40's so out of touch they don't see how backwards this is? Do they think that these kids could not reach a website hosted in a foreign country? Do they think that children using the internet unmonitered can't access porn? What next? Are they going to propose the equivelant of an FCC for the internet and a large firewall of censorship?
Those bastards at SUN, going through a midlife crisis and open sourcing things! They're causing global warming with their high energy consumption! Quick! Someone get batman!
What's strange is that with the current advances in television and where it is going - TiVo, on demand television, YouTube... This law would really only serve to regulate the viewing habits of the poor. I suppose in a cold logical way, one might argue that it's only the poor people who can't handle viewing violence on television. Personally though, I think that's load of crap. I'm sure the media companies are all for this - there's clearly no market for porn or violence or movies like Crank. I blame Hillary.
Automatic machine processes don't obey copyright law. Is your browser violating copyright law? Is each of the servers passing all the information between you and the content provider, copying the information without permission? Could Belgium sue AT&T? It seems pretty clear AT&T is distributing their information without permission for profit.
Perhaps the real problem is that phones don't have built in parental controls. Clearly, children must have parental permission to use any electronic device that lets them communicate with the outside world. Not just that, but the government should take the initiative by making punative laws, because parents can't be trusted to make intelligent decisions about electronic devices. It's only logical that some of today's children will become terrorists. We'd better keep them in the stone age so we can keep them under control.
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While I'll admit everyone and their mother is on myspace, they're running on an insecure, spam laden, ad laden, and unreliable heap of garbage running under the massive media bandwagon of Rupert Murdock. It reminds me alot of AOL... With lots of music... Which YouTube is arguably a better medium for... While facebook is a better medium for networking now that they finally got on the bandwagon of opening up. Myspace needs a complete overhaul.
Besides being an excellent RSS reader and RSS feed, lj will actually let you use it for free without ads.
It would not surpise me if Georgia would claim jursidiction because it is a service offered to people living in Georgia - reguardless of what state you're in. Perhaps the correct responce would be to block IP addresses in Georgia and not let people in Georgia use a "social networking site". I mean, what qualifies something as a "social networking site" when it comes to the law? Sure you look at myspace, and think, well might as well have them burn, but take a site like LiveJournal... Its intent does not really match that of a "social networking site", but it could arguably be one. Or take it a step further, how different is hosting a website with a search feature built in? IANAL, but I imagine that it could be argued down unconstitutional. I think it is reasonable to say that communicating in a forum through a social networking site is free speech. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure there is a federal law that requires the law to be enforced equally across the board, so it should also say kids can't use e-mail, google, or really do anything on the internet without parental permission...
So the tactic the Fox is considering is to punish the people actually paying them money, to get at the ones pirating their material. It *could* work, or it *could* just increase piracy of Fox movies. The decision for the regular person would be:
A. Wait two weeks to spend money for a movie.
B. Pirate the movie for free, possibly a week in advance.
So to the average consumer there's alot more incentive to pirate things. But perhaps, Fox will get Canadians to sympathize with the plight of the Americans, and make life harder on themselves so Fox will be nicer to them...
That sounds right to me... Bypass the HR and talk to someone else in the company to get what you were promised. Talk to the high ups of who you will be working with. If they don't do anything about it, get out of there ASAP... I also advise being unproductive if you're barreled into this situation.
My knee jerk reaction was to be angry at Vitter, but looking at the actual law, it becomes clear that origionally linked article is quite misleading. From what I can tell, just having a readership of 500 or more is not enough - you have to be paid by an organization... This is similiar to requiring a "viral Sony advertisement" to disclose that Sony is paying them, instead of just loving sony for their products...
Yes.
"India can live without Microsoft packages and even progress but Microsoft will find it tough without a huge country like India buying their software packages,"
But can they live without Novell Enterprise?
http://www.novell.com/linux/
There is no wolf in sheep's clothing. There is no wolf in sheep's clothing. There is no wolf in sheeps clothing...
Are there other programs besides Kazaa that can connect to the Kazaa network, like the detection software used? How would you detect these programs? What if these programs had been deleted? Have you done a comprehensive study on alternative software that connects to Kazaa networks? Can you provide a comprehensive list of all the programs that have been deleted from the system? Are you able to identify the function of each of these programs? Is it plausible that a virus or malware program could connect to the kazaa network? Is the computer completely free from malware that potentially could have faked this Kazaa information? If you were given a computer filled with malware, would you be able to seperate the malware programs from the non-malware programs, much unlike Steve Ballmer and a team of his top Microsoft engineers who were unable to do so? Are you sure you could find these programs?
If the son is an adult, does that not mean if there was copyright infringement, it was not the current defendant? The defendant *has* already turned over all relevant information, and there was no evidence of the defendant infringing on copyright...
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Yes, they are supported by some psychological experiments that were set out to pinpoint violent games as the culprit of increased violent potential. Still, the results were rather shaky and the one mentioned in particular apparently did not believe in control groups. In fact, from the study done, an equally likely conclusion could be that Myst has an incredible calming effect and deters violence, while the Wolfenstein players were acting at normal levels of aggression. To get there, you have to scroll past the study into the violent potential of Mario. I don't know though, I think another good control group might be people playing a high intensity racing game and the effects of playing sports. In fact, it might just be that adrenaline increases violent potential.
While the US does suffer from a nasty trade deficit, I fail to see how it ties to IP. While IP certainly would make America boatloads of money if it was somehow enforced internationally (Asia and South America respect America's IP?), it seems more like America is *importing* more IP than *exporting*. It seems more likely it would hurt parts of Europe and Canada, where the fallout recession would hit America.
I'm interested in seeing what factual basis you are making this on? IP does protect large anti-competative companies, and some IP vendors, but I fail to see how there's any actual tie to the US Economy. I'd argue that lessening IP laws will eventually bolster US's economy in the long run and allow for much more diversity domestically... While I'm no economist, just taking some figures from the CIA World Factbook... https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos /us.html#Econ
US exports are at: $1.024 trillion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Commodity wise:
agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn) 9.2%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) 15.0% (2003)
US imports: $1.869 trillion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Commodity wise:
agricultural products 4.9%, industrial supplies 32.9% (crude oil 8.2%), capital goods 30.4% (computers, telecommunications equipment, motor vehicle parts, office machines, electric power machinery), consumer goods 31.8% (automobiles, clothing, medicines, furniture, toys) (2003)
Most rulings they make are going to have a bearing on how the law is applied. Interpreting the law is arguably more significant of a power than creating law. The main power of the other branches stems more from the ability to allocate funds and war. Either way, I think it is odd how little attention is paid to judges in comparison to representatives.
SCOTUS interprets the laws. They don't make them. So I'd say no... IANAL
One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the laws will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new SCOTUS overlords.
Kind of like killer games? The media loves Hillary. Hillary hates games. Hillary pushes media regulation. Conformity controls people.
While there is a large crowd that pirates photoshop, the GIMP really blows away anything that has come with windows. It really is a nice program once you get used to the interface. It handles all kinds of formats, and while there's alot more to it, it's great for touching up photos. One thing I have been meaning to try out is Avidemux for video editing. The fact that you can edit videos and share them online for free isn't something that everyone realizes they can do. Never mind the digital media fan who goes a step further and starts using Blender. I think pre-installing these kinds of things really does add value to a system, particularly to the large number of users who don't have a clue what they're doing. It would be nice if Dell set the home url for the browsers to a page that was following trends and gave a bit of a "Welcome to Web 2.0!". It would blow my mind more if they went ahead and preinstalled stumbleupon for firefox out of the box. There's a large amount of stuff for free that people would love, and just don't have a clue it's there for the taking. I can't understand why pc distributors aren't exploiting it to the fullest to add value and draw repeat business. My best guess is windows.
One thing I haven't seen is a Windows coming with OpenOffice, Firefox, The Gimp, and Audacity preinstalled. Sure, anyone could go download those for free, but how many 'regular joes' know to do so? Every new install of Windoes I've seen has come preloaded with crapware. Most 'mom and pops' won't want to actually buy a full version of Microsoft Office, so OpenOffice preinstalled fits their needs much better. I honestly think that when people see how much "more" a prebuilt linux system has to offer, there will be some very happy customers. If Dell doesn't lose too many income earning deals with software companies because of this, this will be a huge win for Dell.
Why would a company need to be reasonable with its verification process? If it's not expressly put forth in the law, I'd imagine it would be hard to argue a company was not complying if it agressively sought out to put all the users in a big database for "verification" purposes. Sounds like great spam bait for the whole state. Really it only screws the small and middle sized legitimate sites.
I'm sure a large marketing media company run Rupert Murdock could never find any use for being "forced" by the government to collect "verification" information on all of its users. They certainly could be no benefit for that kind of company to create that kind of customer database.
Are the majority of people over there 40's so out of touch they don't see how backwards this is? Do they think that these kids could not reach a website hosted in a foreign country? Do they think that children using the internet unmonitered can't access porn? What next? Are they going to propose the equivelant of an FCC for the internet and a large firewall of censorship?
Those bastards at SUN, going through a midlife crisis and open sourcing things! They're causing global warming with their high energy consumption! Quick! Someone get batman!
What's strange is that with the current advances in television and where it is going - TiVo, on demand television, YouTube... This law would really only serve to regulate the viewing habits of the poor. I suppose in a cold logical way, one might argue that it's only the poor people who can't handle viewing violence on television. Personally though, I think that's load of crap. I'm sure the media companies are all for this - there's clearly no market for porn or violence or movies like Crank. I blame Hillary.
Automatic machine processes don't obey copyright law. Is your browser violating copyright law? Is each of the servers passing all the information between you and the content provider, copying the information without permission? Could Belgium sue AT&T? It seems pretty clear AT&T is distributing their information without permission for profit.
IIRC, JavaME has already been released under GPLv2.
Perhaps the real problem is that phones don't have built in parental controls. Clearly, children must have parental permission to use any electronic device that lets them communicate with the outside world. Not just that, but the government should take the initiative by making punative laws, because parents can't be trusted to make intelligent decisions about electronic devices. It's only logical that some of today's children will become terrorists. We'd better keep them in the stone age so we can keep them under control.
Hello Troll, howdydoooo While I'll admit everyone and their mother is on myspace, they're running on an insecure, spam laden, ad laden, and unreliable heap of garbage running under the massive media bandwagon of Rupert Murdock. It reminds me alot of AOL... With lots of music... Which YouTube is arguably a better medium for... While facebook is a better medium for networking now that they finally got on the bandwagon of opening up. Myspace needs a complete overhaul. Besides being an excellent RSS reader and RSS feed, lj will actually let you use it for free without ads.
It would not surpise me if Georgia would claim jursidiction because it is a service offered to people living in Georgia - reguardless of what state you're in. Perhaps the correct responce would be to block IP addresses in Georgia and not let people in Georgia use a "social networking site". I mean, what qualifies something as a "social networking site" when it comes to the law? Sure you look at myspace, and think, well might as well have them burn, but take a site like LiveJournal... Its intent does not really match that of a "social networking site", but it could arguably be one. Or take it a step further, how different is hosting a website with a search feature built in? IANAL, but I imagine that it could be argued down unconstitutional. I think it is reasonable to say that communicating in a forum through a social networking site is free speech. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure there is a federal law that requires the law to be enforced equally across the board, so it should also say kids can't use e-mail, google, or really do anything on the internet without parental permission...
So the tactic the Fox is considering is to punish the people actually paying them money, to get at the ones pirating their material. It *could* work, or it *could* just increase piracy of Fox movies. The decision for the regular person would be: A. Wait two weeks to spend money for a movie. B. Pirate the movie for free, possibly a week in advance. So to the average consumer there's alot more incentive to pirate things. But perhaps, Fox will get Canadians to sympathize with the plight of the Americans, and make life harder on themselves so Fox will be nicer to them...
That sounds right to me... Bypass the HR and talk to someone else in the company to get what you were promised. Talk to the high ups of who you will be working with. If they don't do anything about it, get out of there ASAP... I also advise being unproductive if you're barreled into this situation.
My knee jerk reaction was to be angry at Vitter, but looking at the actual law, it becomes clear that origionally linked article is quite misleading. From what I can tell, just having a readership of 500 or more is not enough - you have to be paid by an organization... This is similiar to requiring a "viral Sony advertisement" to disclose that Sony is paying them, instead of just loving sony for their products...
Yes. "India can live without Microsoft packages and even progress but Microsoft will find it tough without a huge country like India buying their software packages," But can they live without Novell Enterprise? http://www.novell.com/linux/ There is no wolf in sheep's clothing. There is no wolf in sheep's clothing. There is no wolf in sheeps clothing...
Are there other programs besides Kazaa that can connect to the Kazaa network, like the detection software used? How would you detect these programs? What if these programs had been deleted? Have you done a comprehensive study on alternative software that connects to Kazaa networks? Can you provide a comprehensive list of all the programs that have been deleted from the system? Are you able to identify the function of each of these programs? Is it plausible that a virus or malware program could connect to the kazaa network? Is the computer completely free from malware that potentially could have faked this Kazaa information? If you were given a computer filled with malware, would you be able to seperate the malware programs from the non-malware programs, much unlike Steve Ballmer and a team of his top Microsoft engineers who were unable to do so? Are you sure you could find these programs? If the son is an adult, does that not mean if there was copyright infringement, it was not the current defendant? The defendant *has* already turned over all relevant information, and there was no evidence of the defendant infringing on copyright...