As your using IE 5 I strongly suggest you download the Proximatron. You can set a rule to re-enable your right mouse click. Among other great things like resizing frames and tables and blocking popups and ads.
And in all of this, I see the litigational genius of the MPAA's legal team. They've picked the perfect target, one that is going to have to work very, very hard to create any sort of judicial sympathy.
That really is the key point and one we must remember. The MPAA didn't just pick any web site at random for this case; THEY picked 2600. Hopefully this doesn't come down to reputations and is decided instead by the facts and laws.
Some of these sports are very important in some countries. Take curling: A town of a thousand people in Canada will probably have an indoor curling rink; in a town of 5000 it is probably guarenteed. The world curling competition probably gets more coverage than soccer and definetly more that any track event I can think of.
Well your hearing it now. Allowing the pro hockey players into the olympics really ticked me off. Of course I'm Canadian and we take our hockey pretty seriously up here:)
We get to see the NHLers compete all the time (eight channels with nothing but hockey off the satellite during the season) With the way they do time shifting now anyone with a Digital Dish or cable can watch every single NHL game with out recourse to a VCR. I want to see the amatuers play.
The Olympics are supposed to showcase the best athletes from each country. This doesn't happen anymore either. Most events require you to pre qualify for the games. If you can't run the 100m in less than a predetermined time than you are not allowed to compete even if your country wants to send you. So if Sweden doesn't have a really fast runner they don't get to send their Fastest runner. The likes of Eddie The Eagle will never again be seen ( They created a rule named after him).
So keep on to it untill the copyright has gone (thats after 30 years btw)
Copyright proctection is much longer than 30 years. The formula is kind of complicated but from this summary from the NMPA the term is somwhere between 70 and 120 years.
In general, the bill extends the term of copyright protection in the United States by 20 years for all works still in their term of protection. Specific provisions of the bill provide that:
for works (other than works made for hire) created on or after January 1, 1978, protection will endure for the life time of the author plus 70 years after his or her death;
for works made for hire created on or after January 1, 1978, protection will endure for 95 years from first publication or 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first;
for works created but not published or copyrighted before January 1, 1978, the term of protection will endure until December 31, 2047;
for works in their first 28-year term on January 1, 1978, the automatic renewal term is extended from 47 to 67 years (for example, a work first published in 1975 would be protected through the year 2070, or a 28- plus 67-year term);
for works in their renewal term on the effective date of the new law, protection will endure for a term of 95 years from the date copyright was originally secured (for example, a work first published in 1955 would be protected through the year 2050).
But that is where the fuzziness in copyright comes in. The authors of the IP only own the work if they never release it to the public. Once released to the public they no longer own the work; They merely have a state sanctioned monoply to control the first sale of the IP for a limited (or not so limited as is the case now) period of time. The person who bought the IP actually owns it. This is why the same book can be sold over and over with only the profit from the first sale going to the IP owners.
Whoa I don't know where you live but this is definately not the case anywhere I've been in the States (or Canada for that matter).
The police can ask you for any thing but you are under no obligation give it to them. Unless you are being arrested you have no obligation to provide them with any identification. Check points are a different thing as a drivers permit is a privilage not a right. So the police can demand the driver of a car produce identification (and proof of insurance/registration in most locales) but they can only ask the drunks in the back seat. Those drunks are not required to identify them selves.
That goes as well if your walking down the street. Most vargrancy type laws have been struck down as unconstitinal.
VMWare doesn't negate the need for a windows licence to run windows software; you still need an OS (windows in this case) to run on your Virtual Machine.
You've got me thinking. What is your reasoning here? Is it that the OEMs have no restrictions on what they can do because MS has already sold them the software?
Since my first days as a computer user neither I nor any 'normal' person has had any excessive problems with the traditional two button design, perhaps even finding it easier.
Riiight; Never worked tech support have we? I've had problems with people understanding what a click is never mind left/right/middle/side etc. From what I've seen of Mac users the OS seems well designed for a single mouse button. Though I admit I can't understand how they live with out a wheel.:)
In the case of DAT the recording industry succeeded in having consumer level equipement confirm to the SCMS copy protection scheme. Thereby effectively killing the format. Extensive but dated FAQ at http://www.minidisc.org/dat-heads-faq.ht ml
Now there is a scary senario; a War on Pirates[1]. I wonder if anyone in the sixties saw the "War on Drugs" coming and all the trampling of rights that entailed (like abuse of RICO and 1st admendment right issues like the recent meth bill).
On telus Mobility one uses #67; on normal land line the magic is invoked with *67. Note This is a toggle feature; it changes state everytime you use it.
I remember this. Olympics of the Mind in '87; Odyssey of the Mind in 88. Probably the first time I can remember being really pissed at some faceless corp for going way over board on legalities.
Sorry All I was confused. Junkbuster is not related to Proxomitron; it must have been one of the other packages I looked at. Proxomitron allows your to do on the fly find and replace of text in web pages; usually tags but you can do anything. Unfortuately Proxomitron is only availiable for Windows 9X/NT and is closed source.
As to where you would put the code: it goes into which ever filter set you wish it to appear in. Usually your default.cfg. Add it under Web Page filters.
I also have some other custom filters to do things like speed up the auto download on Tucows; show table borders and block specific personally offensive images at some sites. Email me if you'd like to take a look at my default.cfg.
Lots of command allow/disallow can be done with a proxy. I use Proximitron which is a GUI ontop of junkbuster. Anyone who can write a regexp can disable any commands they like.
The following code in junkbuster/proxomitron will remove the right mouse click disable "feature"
Name = "Allow Right Click" Active = TRUE Bounds = "<script*</script>" Limit = 256 Match = "*document.onmousedown=*"
Something I find very handy as lots of sites have picked this annoy habit up. I notice because I have no standard tool bar showing on IE; I use right mouse clicks to move back/forward
Of course if you happen to be away from your computer for two weeks in the wilds of British Columbia on a photo trek the fact that you lost all the exposure information you had stored when your palm locks up could be a bit irritating. Go ahead ask me how I know:(
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Ya, 20 hours on AOL would be worse
As your using IE 5 I strongly suggest you download the Proximatron. You can set a rule to re-enable your right mouse click. Among other great things like resizing frames and tables and blocking popups and ads.
I love this though I would modify it to: Make every web designer hold their breath until their page loads at 56K. If they die, they deserved it.
That really is the key point and one we must remember. The MPAA didn't just pick any web site at random for this case; THEY picked 2600. Hopefully this doesn't come down to reputations and is decided instead by the facts and laws.
Very true you could put it up on the web. The question is who is going to believe you over CNN?
Maybe MTB is the same in California?
Might be interesting to see (assuming IBM Doesn't change their mind about being sponsor) if whoever runs the olympic site runs it on IBM Big Iron.
We get to see the NHLers compete all the time (eight channels with nothing but hockey off the satellite during the season) With the way they do time shifting now anyone with a Digital Dish or cable can watch every single NHL game with out recourse to a VCR. I want to see the amatuers play.
The Olympics are supposed to showcase the best athletes from each country. This doesn't happen anymore either. Most events require you to pre qualify for the games. If you can't run the 100m in less than a predetermined time than you are not allowed to compete even if your country wants to send you. So if Sweden doesn't have a really fast runner they don't get to send their Fastest runner. The likes of Eddie The Eagle will never again be seen ( They created a rule named after him).
Copyright proctection is much longer than 30 years. The formula is kind of complicated but from this summary from the NMPA the term is somwhere between 70 and 120 years.
In general, the bill extends the term of copyright protection in the United States by 20 years for all works still in their term of protection. Specific provisions of the bill provide that:
for works (other than works made for hire) created on or after January 1, 1978, protection will endure for the life time of the author plus 70 years after his or her death;
for works made for hire created on or after January 1, 1978, protection will endure for 95 years from first publication or 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first;
for works created but not published or copyrighted before January 1, 1978, the term of protection will endure until December 31, 2047; for works in their first 28-year term on January 1, 1978, the automatic renewal term is extended from 47 to 67 years (for example, a work first published in 1975 would be protected through the year 2070, or a 28- plus 67-year term);
for works in their renewal term on the effective date of the new law, protection will endure for a term of 95 years from the date copyright was originally secured (for example, a work first published in 1955 would be protected through the year 2050).
But that is where the fuzziness in copyright comes in. The authors of the IP only own the work if they never release it to the public. Once released to the public they no longer own the work; They merely have a state sanctioned monoply to control the first sale of the IP for a limited (or not so limited as is the case now) period of time. The person who bought the IP actually owns it. This is why the same book can be sold over and over with only the profit from the first sale going to the IP owners.
The police can ask you for any thing but you are under no obligation give it to them. Unless you are being arrested you have no obligation to provide them with any identification. Check points are a different thing as a drivers permit is a privilage not a right. So the police can demand the driver of a car produce identification (and proof of insurance/registration in most locales) but they can only ask the drunks in the back seat. Those drunks are not required to identify them selves.
That goes as well if your walking down the street. Most vargrancy type laws have been struck down as unconstitinal.
VMWare = Virtual Machine != emulator
You've got me thinking. What is your reasoning here? Is it that the OEMs have no restrictions on what they can do because MS has already sold them the software?
Riiight; Never worked tech support have we? I've had problems with people understanding what a click is never mind left/right/middle/side etc. From what I've seen of Mac users the OS seems well designed for a single mouse button. Though I admit I can't understand how they live with out a wheel.:)
In the case of DAT the recording industry succeeded in having consumer level equipement confirm to the SCMS copy protection scheme. Thereby effectively killing the format. Extensive but dated FAQ at http://www.minidisc.org/dat-heads-faq.ht ml
[1] A much catchier name though
edit is too good for them; make them use EDLIN.
On telus Mobility one uses #67; on normal land line the magic is invoked with *67. Note This is a toggle feature; it changes state everytime you use it.
I remember this. Olympics of the Mind in '87; Odyssey of the Mind in 88. Probably the first time I can remember being really pissed at some faceless corp for going way over board on legalities.
As to where you would put the code: it goes into which ever filter set you wish it to appear in. Usually your default.cfg. Add it under Web Page filters.
I also have some other custom filters to do things like speed up the auto download on Tucows; show table borders and block specific personally offensive images at some sites. Email me if you'd like to take a look at my default.cfg.
Lots of command allow/disallow can be done with a proxy. I use Proximitron which is a GUI ontop of junkbuster. Anyone who can write a regexp can disable any commands they like.
The following code in junkbuster/proxomitron will remove the right mouse click disable "feature"
Name = "Allow Right Click"
Active = TRUE
Bounds = "<script*</script>"
Limit = 256
Match = "*document.onmousedown=*"
Something I find very handy as lots of sites have picked this annoy habit up. I notice because I have no standard tool bar showing on IE; I use right mouse clicks to move back/forward
Of course if you happen to be away from your computer for two weeks in the wilds of British Columbia on a photo trek the fact that you lost all the exposure information you had stored when your palm locks up could be a bit irritating. Go ahead ask me how I know :(
Ah, read the article Sony has. the 77mm disk are even usable on an iMac
Hey, Maybe now that MS is split we'll see mac floppy support in windows.