No, it protects the tiny minority of creative authors, software engineers, musicians, artists etc. from those who view their work as having ZERO value - namely, file sharers.
Your fiinger must have slipped; you mean the RIAA, no?
It's not ethical or moral to steal others work - regardless of whether or not you disagree with the RIAA.
Stealing a song on a CD is not stealing. It's copyright infringement. You oughta get off your yankee property rights are paramount high-horse, the whole planet doesn't think like you do.
And where I live, not only copying a song for my own private use is legal, sharing it on a P2P network is legal, too. And I live a day's drive from the U.S. federal capital (actually, if I climb on my house roof on a nice day - like today - I can see your country).
Fortunately, the United States legal system is designed to work against mob rule like that. It's meant to protect minorities, even if the majority think that things should be otherwise.
Yup, it protects the tiny minority of RIAA members against the hordes of savage, uncircumsized file-sharers...
For endeavouring to manufacture a machine implementing a method of establishing a tally of votes for public-office candidate without the usage of a paper-trail???
What right do you have, mere pipsqueak, to infringe on a big croporation's inalienable right to pillage, rape and plunder the world's ressources and people for the benefit of their bottom-line-happy shareholders?
If God had intended people to be more powerful than croporations, it would have endowed them with a dollar generator!
...we'll learn what that last song on the White Album means.
As silly as it seems, I never heard the full song until I downloaded it on Napster, since the crappy disk-changing phonograph we had when I was a kid would bring back the pick-up arm when it went out that far towards the center of the record...
Next up, people will discover the revolutionary idea of seperating the toilet from the shower, bath and sink.
This is disgustingly stupid. That's the one thing that turns me off with France, is that the john is separate from the bath, which is plainly stupid because I always take a shower after having a dump, which beats the shit out of smearing crap all over your bunghole with toilet paper.
At least, the orientals have the sense to use water to wash their butts instead of shit-paper.
Unfortunately, around here, snobs start to do that, too (and I've seen it in a few old houses, too).
bathroom it the worse place for it though. i had a roommate in college who had a cat; the box was in our bathroom. whenever i'd get out of the shower, i'd step on those little clay pellets that the cat would invariably fling all over the floor. and being clayey pellets, they'd stick to my feet and be fairly unpleasant.
The problem is easily solved by putting the box in the bathtub. All the crumbs stay in the bathtub which you hose down with the telephone shower before taking a shower.
Of course, you remove the box before using the bath tub...
And it forces you to thoroughly scrub the bathtub with bleach each time you want to take a bath, so it keeps the bathtub presentable.
I only wish the (french) roommate would not forget to put back the box in the bathub after he takes his monthly shower... (But at least, he doesn't swipe the deodorant).
Remembering the seventies energy crush, there was plenty of designs for underground houses (go to the library and peruse old Popular Science and Popular Mechanics back issues from that era).
Building underground makes sense; where I live, there is also an extensive downtown underground network (in light gray on this map;interconnected city blocks are in pink) which everyone raves about (especially during winter), so it's not that silly an idea.
However, the most striking feature of the house is the master closet adjacent to the master bedroom which leads to two bathrooms. I've been reading an interesting series of books about the evolution of the architectural distribution of rooms as social customs evolved. A long time ago, in France, posh houses had precisely that, dressing rooms adjacent to the bedroom that led to bathrooms (the only difference was that the husband and wife had separate bedrooms). The setting makes a lot of sense.
And it proves that history repeats itself... There is a lot to learn from the past.
Well, no not really. You can't use WinXP unless you agree to their rules. It's in the EULA, and regardless of how you feel about the EULA (it stinks), that's the way it works.
Utter bollocks. Microsoft, no matter what they say (or do) are not above the LAW.
They can say whatever they want in their EULA, but they can only have courts enforce what is LEGAL.
Does anyone know if there is a way to get an installable version of Windows off of a rescue CD, or failing that, rebuild the install CD from a running version of windows?
In soviet^h^h^h^h^hcroporate Amerika, saying how to do so is a violation of the DMCA.
I paid for my copy of Windows XP and I expect to get my use out of it whether it follows MSFTs rules or not. I would assume the same rings true elsewhere. Who the hell wants to pay 20%+ of their PC cost for Windows if they cant even use it?
No. You paid for a license that lets you use Windows on a very specific the way Microsoft intends it and not otherwise, laws to the contrary be dammed.
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But being a limey seemingly doesn't prevent you from being a tightass like those yankees.
Stealing a song on a CD is not stealing. It's copyright infringement. You oughta get off your yankee property rights are paramount high-horse, the whole planet doesn't think like you do.
And where I live, not only copying a song for my own private use is legal, sharing it on a P2P network is legal, too. And I live a day's drive from the U.S. federal capital (actually, if I climb on my house roof on a nice day - like today - I can see your country).What were the development costs of the X-15 program???
What goes up must come down... :) :) :)
And it's proeminently visible in the $50 back picture of the new US bills.
The greatest detective ever, Sherlock Holmes, was an amateur...
For endeavouring to manufacture a machine implementing a method of establishing a tally of votes for public-office candidate without the usage of a paper-trail???
If God had intended people to be more powerful than croporations, it would have endowed them with a dollar generator!
At least, the orientals have the sense to use water to wash their butts instead of shit-paper.
Unfortunately, around here, snobs start to do that, too (and I've seen it in a few old houses, too).
Of course, you remove the box before using the bath tub...
And it forces you to thoroughly scrub the bathtub with bleach each time you want to take a bath, so it keeps the bathtub presentable.
I only wish the (french) roommate would not forget to put back the box in the bathub after he takes his monthly shower... (But at least, he doesn't swipe the deodorant).Building underground makes sense; where I live, there is also an extensive downtown underground network (in light gray on this map;interconnected city blocks are in pink) which everyone raves about (especially during winter), so it's not that silly an idea.
However, the most striking feature of the house is the master closet adjacent to the master bedroom which leads to two bathrooms. I've been reading an interesting series of books about the evolution of the architectural distribution of rooms as social customs evolved. A long time ago, in France, posh houses had precisely that, dressing rooms adjacent to the bedroom that led to bathrooms (the only difference was that the husband and wife had separate bedrooms). The setting makes a lot of sense.And it proves that history repeats itself... There is a lot to learn from the past.
Utter bollocks. Microsoft, no matter what they say (or do) are not above the LAW.
They can say whatever they want in their EULA, but they can only have courts enforce what is LEGAL.I've been having a 240 gigabyte e-mail account ever since I put two 120 gig drives on my mail server...
"The terrorists have won", Ashcroft will croon...
Geee! If slashdotters get to read the article, where is the world going to????