wtf is up with all these apple might buy X rumors
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It's a load of horse manure, plain and simple, and it's not news. Now when Apple does buy someone, then it's news, but till then it's not and it doesn't matter.
Whoops my bad, the settlement only covers the US / American writers, however, just the same, I'm pretty sure that the writers guild should have no say over orphaned works
Personally, I think the agreement and the lawsuit should be thrown out. As per boingboing (http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/17/google-book-search-s-1.html), this settlement potentially, baring something unforeseen, gives google a near monopoly on search and distribution on the majority of all the books ever published. While that alone is a pretty good argument for the settlement to be voided, the fact that an organization which only represents roughly 8000 writers out of all the writers in the world is claiming to be able to give away a right for writers who aren't part of it's membership. Now I'm not sure just how many writers there are in the world, past and present, but with a population of roughly 6.77 billion people on the planet, I'm pretty sure it's a huge amount more than 8000 and the writers guild shouldn't have the ability to give those rights away. For it's members, sure, but not for all the other writers in the world.
this really isn't much different than something that happened up here in Canada recently. Recently the Ontario court ordered a website to disclose what personal information it has on 8 anonymous posters, information including email and ip addresses. Now while I don't necessarily agree with the decision, it is legal for a court to do so, just as it's legal for the police to look up the records of everyone who phoned you / who you phoned, etc. It's up to the poster(s) to take steps to protect their anonymity, for example throw away email addresses that would be too time consuming to track down who it belongs to, especially across international jurisdictions, use TOR to mask your IP address, etc. Things on the internet are only as private and anonymous as you make them, don't trust others to ensure your privacy.
That's entirely possible, but stating in an article that "For example, the words 'horror' and 'terror' were not allowed in the titles of comics. Werewolves, vampires, zombies, and similar creatures of the night were forbidden." Only to have it to not be 100% true, to me seems like you have an axe to grind against the CCA, whether or not you do. At no point did you mention that it was one person that had a problem with the fact that an astronaut character was black, rather you stated in the article "the CCA objected to the depiction of a black man as an astronaut in a comic." One person is not the CCA, one person is one person. He/she may have had a fair amount of pull within the organization, but to say that the CCA did blah and blah and then respond to my post with one person may have done blah is contradictory. George W Bush was a lousy president and at times came off as quite the moron IMO, does this justify me as saying all Americans are morons? the code has gone through quite a few revisions in it's lifetime, something that you do not mention in your article. Highlights from the 1954 version:
* Crimes shall never be presented in such a way as to create sympathy for the criminal, to promote distrust of the forces of law and justice, or to inspire others with a desire to imitate criminals.
* If crime is depicted it shall be as a sordid and unpleasant activity.
* Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates a desire for emulation.
* In every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds.
* Scenes of excessive violence shall be prohibited. Scenes of brutal torture, excessive and unnecessary knife and gunplay, physical agony, gory and gruesome crime shall be eliminated.
* No comic magazine shall use the word horror or terror in its title.
* All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted.
* All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated.
* Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue and in no case shall evil be presented alluringly, nor so as to injure the sensibilities of the reader.
* Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited.
* Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, or words or symbols which have acquired undesirable meanings are forbidden.
* Nudity in any form is prohibited, as is indecent or undue exposure.
* Suggestive and salacious illustration or suggestive posture is unacceptable.
* Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities.
* Illicit sex relations are neither to be hinted at nor portrayed. Violent love scenes as well as sexual abnormalities are unacceptable.
* Seduction and rape shall never be shown or suggested.
* Sex perversion or any inference to same is strictly forbidden.
global also streams quite a few of the US shows, such as Heroes and House, along with quite a few others here in Canada. Now, what would be nice is if you went to a site that streams videos, such as scifi.com and if you tried to stream osmehting that they've licensed out to someone else in your country, it took you to the correct website, so you don't have to dick around with trying to figure out where to go to see it.
Not to mention Guild Wars, which is still very popular world wide. Me thinks someone has misinterpreted the shut down of tabula rasa as more than just a decision to remove some dead wood
I have to agree. The ad is slightly misleading in that the iPhone isn't as fast as the commercial shows (I know, I have one, but I didn't buy it for the speed shown in the add), however, comparatively speaking, the ad is intended to show that a 3G phone is exponentially faster than an Edge based phone, and it most definitely is.
and..., if there is a living relative to complain, could the Python's be punished under the DMCA? Afterall, ancient greek is pretty much the same as a nearly unbreakable form of encryption isn't it;)
Yes, software did have some form of copy protection long before DRM became a buzzword, code wheels, specially colored code lookup books, parallel / serial port dongles, etc, and yes, DirectX was regularly installed without the end user being asked. However, small thing, DirectX is not a form of copy protection, it's a DEVELOPMENT LIBRARY containing various things such a graphics and sound functions that actually allowed the games programmed with it to be games. OpenGL is another such Development Library. If a piece of software is programmed using one of these libraries, then the end user kind of needs the relevant parts of the library in order for said software to function. As for your other examples, such as map editors etc, again, you've missed the point. DRM software such as secuROM basically acts like a system level driver, it takes in the various software calls, such as those going to your CD/DvD drive and decides whether or not your allowed to perform the action being attempted, map editors and other such included bonus software do not. Someone tried to do a real world example with regards to breaking into a house and it didn't work so well, however I'm going to try another. DRM software is like setting up a security system on your house, and then letting the security company decide who you're allowed to open the door for. Some DRM is relatively innocuous (disk required in drive types) others aren't and interfere with everything you do. As for GTA:SA, that's just bad coding, much like the uninstall process for Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor, whoops I installed in the non-default location so now my windows system files just got nuked.
As does Canada, and so far as I understand it, our standards goes beyond those of the US. Just because a product has the UL label on it, doesn't mean it'll pass and get the CSA label.
Yeah, the same government that has decided in some school districts that "Tag" is a violent game and kids might get hurt playing it and so it's not allowed to be played there anymore during recess.
Personally, I liked how they did it for UT, and UT 03/04, Cd is required to play for the first 3 months or so, then release a patch that removes that requirement.
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It's a load of horse manure, plain and simple, and it's not news. Now when Apple does buy someone, then it's news, but till then it's not and it doesn't matter.
Whoops my bad, the settlement only covers the US / American writers, however, just the same, I'm pretty sure that the writers guild should have no say over orphaned works
Personally, I think the agreement and the lawsuit should be thrown out. As per boingboing (http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/17/google-book-search-s-1.html), this settlement potentially, baring something unforeseen, gives google a near monopoly on search and distribution on the majority of all the books ever published. While that alone is a pretty good argument for the settlement to be voided, the fact that an organization which only represents roughly 8000 writers out of all the writers in the world is claiming to be able to give away a right for writers who aren't part of it's membership. Now I'm not sure just how many writers there are in the world, past and present, but with a population of roughly 6.77 billion people on the planet, I'm pretty sure it's a huge amount more than 8000 and the writers guild shouldn't have the ability to give those rights away. For it's members, sure, but not for all the other writers in the world.
Yeah, little early guys, It's not yet April 1st here, in Europe sure, but since when has /. been Europe-centric :)
this really isn't much different than something that happened up here in Canada recently. Recently the Ontario court ordered a website to disclose what personal information it has on 8 anonymous posters, information including email and ip addresses. Now while I don't necessarily agree with the decision, it is legal for a court to do so, just as it's legal for the police to look up the records of everyone who phoned you / who you phoned, etc. It's up to the poster(s) to take steps to protect their anonymity, for example throw away email addresses that would be too time consuming to track down who it belongs to, especially across international jurisdictions, use TOR to mask your IP address, etc. Things on the internet are only as private and anonymous as you make them, don't trust others to ensure your privacy.
Lars probably realized that the sound quality on his 'official' cd was crap, and he'd heard that the pirated version of the internet was of much better quality than they sold to their fans. http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/10/01/metallica-faces-criticism-over-sound-quality-of-death-magnetic/
That's entirely possible, but stating in an article that "For example, the words 'horror' and 'terror' were not allowed in the titles of comics. Werewolves, vampires, zombies, and similar creatures of the night were forbidden." Only to have it to not be 100% true, to me seems like you have an axe to grind against the CCA, whether or not you do. At no point did you mention that it was one person that had a problem with the fact that an astronaut character was black, rather you stated in the article "the CCA objected to the depiction of a black man as an astronaut in a comic." One person is not the CCA, one person is one person. He/she may have had a fair amount of pull within the organization, but to say that the CCA did blah and blah and then respond to my post with one person may have done blah is contradictory. George W Bush was a lousy president and at times came off as quite the moron IMO, does this justify me as saying all Americans are morons? the code has gone through quite a few revisions in it's lifetime, something that you do not mention in your article. Highlights from the 1954 version:
* Crimes shall never be presented in such a way as to create sympathy for the criminal, to promote distrust of the forces of law and justice, or to inspire others with a desire to imitate criminals.
* If crime is depicted it shall be as a sordid and unpleasant activity.
* Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates a desire for emulation.
* In every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds.
* Scenes of excessive violence shall be prohibited. Scenes of brutal torture, excessive and unnecessary knife and gunplay, physical agony, gory and gruesome crime shall be eliminated.
* No comic magazine shall use the word horror or terror in its title.
* All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted.
* All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated.
* Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue and in no case shall evil be presented alluringly, nor so as to injure the sensibilities of the reader.
* Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited.
* Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, or words or symbols which have acquired undesirable meanings are forbidden.
* Nudity in any form is prohibited, as is indecent or undue exposure.
* Suggestive and salacious illustration or suggestive posture is unacceptable.
* Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities.
* Illicit sex relations are neither to be hinted at nor portrayed. Violent love scenes as well as sexual abnormalities are unacceptable.
* Seduction and rape shall never be shown or suggested.
* Sex perversion or any inference to same is strictly forbidden.
Uhm, the Tomb of Dracula, which had both vampires and werewolves in it, is a CCA approved comic.
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/thumb/d/d8/Tomb_of_Dracula_18.jpg/300px-Tomb_of_Dracula_18.jpg
global also streams quite a few of the US shows, such as Heroes and House, along with quite a few others here in Canada. Now, what would be nice is if you went to a site that streams videos, such as scifi.com and if you tried to stream osmehting that they've licensed out to someone else in your country, it took you to the correct website, so you don't have to dick around with trying to figure out where to go to see it.
Not to mention Guild Wars, which is still very popular world wide. Me thinks someone has misinterpreted the shut down of tabula rasa as more than just a decision to remove some dead wood
I have to agree. The ad is slightly misleading in that the iPhone isn't as fast as the commercial shows (I know, I have one, but I didn't buy it for the speed shown in the add), however, comparatively speaking, the ad is intended to show that a 3G phone is exponentially faster than an Edge based phone, and it most definitely is.
Hmm, lasers for the datacenter, i think these will do fine.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/northrop-grummans-weaponized-laser-on-sale-now-definitely-won/
and..., if there is a living relative to complain, could the Python's be punished under the DMCA? Afterall, ancient greek is pretty much the same as a nearly unbreakable form of encryption isn't it ;)
Yes, software did have some form of copy protection long before DRM became a buzzword, code wheels, specially colored code lookup books, parallel / serial port dongles, etc, and yes, DirectX was regularly installed without the end user being asked. However, small thing, DirectX is not a form of copy protection, it's a DEVELOPMENT LIBRARY containing various things such a graphics and sound functions that actually allowed the games programmed with it to be games. OpenGL is another such Development Library. If a piece of software is programmed using one of these libraries, then the end user kind of needs the relevant parts of the library in order for said software to function. As for your other examples, such as map editors etc, again, you've missed the point. DRM software such as secuROM basically acts like a system level driver, it takes in the various software calls, such as those going to your CD/DvD drive and decides whether or not your allowed to perform the action being attempted, map editors and other such included bonus software do not. Someone tried to do a real world example with regards to breaking into a house and it didn't work so well, however I'm going to try another. DRM software is like setting up a security system on your house, and then letting the security company decide who you're allowed to open the door for. Some DRM is relatively innocuous (disk required in drive types) others aren't and interfere with everything you do. As for GTA:SA, that's just bad coding, much like the uninstall process for Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor, whoops I installed in the non-default location so now my windows system files just got nuked.
I think Canada would have to invade if that actually happened :D
Cause it's not a virus, it's one of the other forms of malware that an antiVIRUS program doesn't detect.
nananananananananana I CAN'T HEAR YOU nananananananananana
As does Canada, and so far as I understand it, our standards goes beyond those of the US. Just because a product has the UL label on it, doesn't mean it'll pass and get the CSA label.
just get one of those 64GB thumb drives from corsair and swallow it before you return :)
Uhm wasn't husband of the James Kim family, James Kim?
Yeah, the same government that has decided in some school districts that "Tag" is a violent game and kids might get hurt playing it and so it's not allowed to be played there anymore during recess.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-06-26-recess-bans_x.htm
Personally, I liked how they did it for UT, and UT 03/04, Cd is required to play for the first 3 months or so, then release a patch that removes that requirement.
You mean like the youtube mythbusters about women and farting? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHcDP_Yew-g
There is a checkbox in the options to turn on / make visible the home button
Because an EMP would be so good for someone in the audience with a pacemaker