That is alright, just buy yourself a dirt cheap $200 machine and have it run as a print server and use Samba. Problem solved. Your Ubuntu machine passes its info to the windows box with Samba and it prints it out for you. No need to fiddle with drivers and what not.
Problem is lots of TOS's read something similar to EULA's... Full of Legalese and verbose crap that noone in their right minds would subject their brains to if they didnt need to.
Now if EULA's and TOS's were written in plain english using understandable terms then maybe people would read them.
We may live in a litigious society but that does not mean we need to stand for having legalese everywhere in 6 point font so people wont read it for any number of reasons up to and including being partially blind.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
It also applies to freedom of the press. If you are posting something on the internet then you are publishing it. Technically you could be considered a member of the press because you are now actively engaged in the reporting of events, this is the power of the Internet, anyone and everyone can be considered a publisher and member of the press without a huge outlay of millions of dollars of cash for presses and paper and ink and such. And if those events are negative to AT&T they're saying that they can cut your account because of it.
I think this is just for the patrols not for the important things like checkpoints and such. Could you imagine... 'X-Ray Machine: Nobody manning it between 2pm and 2:15pm' NOW's our chance!
I agree that the bricking of iPhones was a piss poor move. Though I suppose if they did release a Newton II that it would likely do everything that people wanted to hack their iPhones to do but lack the cell phone capability.
After all the technology for a Newton II and iPhone are not that unrelated.
Who knows maybe some of these people will get sick of Windows crap and actually try Linux...
I think its time for IT managers and stuff to start making presentations to PHB's showing how much $$$ they can save by simply avoiding the Microsoft upgrade treadmill. I mean just switching the OS alone will save them $200-600 a machine. Tack on open source replacements for things like MS Office, Photoshop and AutoCAD and you're talking huge savings.
Bill Gates: Ok so we need to get everyone to start using Vista so we can take over the world. Steve Ballmer: Gimme a few more chairs, I'll solve all our problems! Finance Guy: But we've already gone through the chair budget twice... Programmer: Why dont we just break Windows Update for XP? Bill Gates: Brilliant Idea! Steve Ballmer: Super, and I dont need to throw any chairs. Lets do it! Legal Guy: Wont that get us sued? Bill Gates: Who's gonna sue us? We're Microsoft!
Now if only this would catch on... we might actually see laws that are representative of what the people want instead of some asshole with a few hundred thousand dollars more than they should have in their pocket.
Of course I'd expect something like this coming from the Chinese. Simply means that most non-Chinese will not be playing this game and maybe even some Chinese will pass on it too.
Actually I think the DMCA only applies to Digital Rights Management with which one accesses COPYRIGHTED material with. Basically DMCA is Copyright on steroids.
So unless the iPhone that was hacked was also being used to access iTunes or whatever other DRMed crap it could be seen as legal. I'm not sure you can claim copyright on binary files since all they are at the core is mathematical algorithms
Just like you have the right to kick a traveling salesman off your property. You should have the right to kick a telemarketer off of your phone.
The Do Not Call list is like posting a sign that says 'No Solicitors' on your door. If one does come and knock on your door then you have every right to upset and if they refuse to leave you have every right to call the police to kick them off your property and/or give them a restraining order. The thing is that the list pre-emptively does it and applies fiscal penalties to not adhering to it which you hit these guys in the pocket they might actually listen.
The thing is that telemarketers are not a problem until recently. If you had an unlisted number then you wouldnt get called. With area codes filling up faster than ever before its now possible for telemarketers to start dialing 211-1111, 211-1112,... , 999-9999. And get plenty of hits. Excluding 555-*, 911*, 411* and other restricted/similar service numbers. Multiply that by all the area codes in the US and you have a problem and one that wont solve itself without either everyone getting pissed off and keeping an airhorn next to their phone... or legislating it.
Ofcourse that doesnt stop telemarketers they just outsource to India or something.
You ask why do we need to focus on both? Simple, for the same reason the RIAA only touts their victories and never mentions anything about their defeats. It may not be relevant for the purpose of a legal victory but it very well may mean the difference in a moral victory and/or the court of public opinion that may actually cause some actions and consequences for the actions they are taking that may be legal... Such as say a Boycott. Although I'm sure they'll try and spin it as piracy going up and go on a bigger suing spree.
If we focus on the most helpless and most defenseless people in our society and their INNOCENCE in the matter. It is possible to garner more public support against the RIAA. If the rich but innocent jerk would get the job done for this purpose then I'd be all for using them but it wont. Until the people see the RIAA for the evil twisted corporation that it is using an outdated business model and an army of lawyers willing to sue anyone that even copies a single song then people will continue to ignore it. It does not help that the media (which is owned by the RIAA/MPAA or its friends) is reporting on this and propagandizing the 'evils of p2p sharing' while subsequently and completely ignoring the fact that fair use rights do exist and that piracy numbers are always artificially inflated for the benefit of the 'wronged party'... Just like Photoshop, you can say its worth $600 or something like that but the fact remains the price is artificially inflated and so every pirated copy is costing them $600 (ya right! The thing is probably worth more like $60-120). I could make a program and say its worth $1,000,000 and count the illegal copies out there and come up with a damages number in the billions once it gets widely distributed.
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That is alright, just buy yourself a dirt cheap $200 machine and have it run as a print server and use Samba. Problem solved. Your Ubuntu machine passes its info to the windows box with Samba and it prints it out for you. No need to fiddle with drivers and what not.
Oh wow sounds like just about every other MMO... well at least EVE Online the expansions are free.
Problem is lots of TOS's read something similar to EULA's... Full of Legalese and verbose crap that noone in their right minds would subject their brains to if they didnt need to.
Now if EULA's and TOS's were written in plain english using understandable terms then maybe people would read them.
We may live in a litigious society but that does not mean we need to stand for having legalese everywhere in 6 point font so people wont read it for any number of reasons up to and including being partially blind.
They might not be able to play Halo 3 but they can still get as much porn as they want.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
It also applies to freedom of the press. If you are posting something on the internet then you are publishing it. Technically you could be considered a member of the press because you are now actively engaged in the reporting of events, this is the power of the Internet, anyone and everyone can be considered a publisher and member of the press without a huge outlay of millions of dollars of cash for presses and paper and ink and such. And if those events are negative to AT&T they're saying that they can cut your account because of it.
I think this is just for the patrols not for the important things like checkpoints and such. Could you imagine... 'X-Ray Machine: Nobody manning it between 2pm and 2:15pm' NOW's our chance!
Yeah but clearly this is a first amendment issue. Isnt AT&T subjected to Common Carrier rules for their internet access at the moment?
So your post boils down to a 'No'?
I agree that the bricking of iPhones was a piss poor move. Though I suppose if they did release a Newton II that it would likely do everything that people wanted to hack their iPhones to do but lack the cell phone capability.
After all the technology for a Newton II and iPhone are not that unrelated.
You forgot the words 'Class Action' in your subject title. I'm sure plenty of these hacked iPhone owners can get together and bitchslap Apple.
Cant be any worse than the uber-rich minority persecuting anyone without super wealth...
Who knows maybe some of these people will get sick of Windows crap and actually try Linux...
I think its time for IT managers and stuff to start making presentations to PHB's showing how much $$$ they can save by simply avoiding the Microsoft upgrade treadmill. I mean just switching the OS alone will save them $200-600 a machine. Tack on open source replacements for things like MS Office, Photoshop and AutoCAD and you're talking huge savings.
Digital Rights Management
They're managing your rights to use their software. Therefore the term DRM is a valid use. Thank you for your concern though.
Oh wait I forgot its Digital Consumer Enablement now...
Live by the lawsuit, die by the lawsuit.
Media Defender-like exchange?
Bill Gates: Ok so we need to get everyone to start using Vista so we can take over the world.
Steve Ballmer: Gimme a few more chairs, I'll solve all our problems!
Finance Guy: But we've already gone through the chair budget twice...
Programmer: Why dont we just break Windows Update for XP?
Bill Gates: Brilliant Idea!
Steve Ballmer: Super, and I dont need to throw any chairs. Lets do it!
Legal Guy: Wont that get us sued?
Bill Gates: Who's gonna sue us? We're Microsoft!
Now if only this would catch on... we might actually see laws that are representative of what the people want instead of some asshole with a few hundred thousand dollars more than they should have in their pocket.
Sounds almost like the RIAA/MPAA tactics...
Mod Parent up, its funny!
Of course I'd expect something like this coming from the Chinese. Simply means that most non-Chinese will not be playing this game and maybe even some Chinese will pass on it too.
It wouldnt be going 17000 km/h if the object in orbit is in geostationary orbit.
Which reminds me does anyone have at torrent of the blog posts this guy was foaming at the mouth to get removed?
Actually I think the DMCA only applies to Digital Rights Management with which one accesses COPYRIGHTED material with. Basically DMCA is Copyright on steroids.
So unless the iPhone that was hacked was also being used to access iTunes or whatever other DRMed crap it could be seen as legal. I'm not sure you can claim copyright on binary files since all they are at the core is mathematical algorithms
They do leap years in dates wrong, too.
No its just that the formula for calculating leap years and such is patented and we're waiting for the patent to expire.
Some of the best movies I've watched have been low budget things.
And honestly I'd rather watch a cat falling off a chair then some of the stuff Hollywood defecates out and/or ruins.
It is not unconstitutional.
... , 999-9999. And get plenty of hits. Excluding 555-*, 911*, 411* and other restricted/similar service numbers. Multiply that by all the area codes in the US and you have a problem and one that wont solve itself without either everyone getting pissed off and keeping an airhorn next to their phone... or legislating it.
Just like you have the right to kick a traveling salesman off your property. You should have the right to kick a telemarketer off of your phone.
The Do Not Call list is like posting a sign that says 'No Solicitors' on your door. If one does come and knock on your door then you have every right to upset and if they refuse to leave you have every right to call the police to kick them off your property and/or give them a restraining order. The thing is that the list pre-emptively does it and applies fiscal penalties to not adhering to it which you hit these guys in the pocket they might actually listen.
The thing is that telemarketers are not a problem until recently. If you had an unlisted number then you wouldnt get called. With area codes filling up faster than ever before its now possible for telemarketers to start dialing 211-1111, 211-1112,
Ofcourse that doesnt stop telemarketers they just outsource to India or something.
You ask why do we need to focus on both? Simple, for the same reason the RIAA only touts their victories and never mentions anything about their defeats. It may not be relevant for the purpose of a legal victory but it very well may mean the difference in a moral victory and/or the court of public opinion that may actually cause some actions and consequences for the actions they are taking that may be legal... Such as say a Boycott. Although I'm sure they'll try and spin it as piracy going up and go on a bigger suing spree.
If we focus on the most helpless and most defenseless people in our society and their INNOCENCE in the matter. It is possible to garner more public support against the RIAA. If the rich but innocent jerk would get the job done for this purpose then I'd be all for using them but it wont. Until the people see the RIAA for the evil twisted corporation that it is using an outdated business model and an army of lawyers willing to sue anyone that even copies a single song then people will continue to ignore it. It does not help that the media (which is owned by the RIAA/MPAA or its friends) is reporting on this and propagandizing the 'evils of p2p sharing' while subsequently and completely ignoring the fact that fair use rights do exist and that piracy numbers are always artificially inflated for the benefit of the 'wronged party'... Just like Photoshop, you can say its worth $600 or something like that but the fact remains the price is artificially inflated and so every pirated copy is costing them $600 (ya right! The thing is probably worth more like $60-120). I could make a program and say its worth $1,000,000 and count the illegal copies out there and come up with a damages number in the billions once it gets widely distributed.
As many as get caught for DUI... Which is commonplace among politicians.