...until someone reverse engineers the RealPlayer code and makes it do whatever the hell they want it to (IE. Burn DRM protected crap and stuff like that).
All we can hope is that these old farts croak before they do much damage to the law landscape with 'precedent setting cases' based on faulty logic and not understanding basic technology.
Well if you dont know maybe we should get Senator Ted 'Tubes' Stevens to give you some edumacation on the internet tubes. Because when they're clogged with ads for penis enlargement, breast enlargement and viagra it dont let your race horse or lottery bets go through.
The terrorist attack of 9/11 lies solely on the shoulders of the government. I can tell you that 100% of the people in congress had locks on their doors. Why the hell was there not a lock on the door to the plane?
It is also not like they didnt know something like this could have happened either. Terrorists have only been hijacking planes since what was it the 70's? Combine that with suicide bombers in the homeland and they should have been able to put 2 and 2 together.
Its like seeing your house robbed and going 'Meh' and not putting a new lock on the door. If you get robbed again its all your fault.
Well to be technical, Novell has 2 options... They can choose to continue using GPLv2 components and become obsolete over time or they can move to GPLv3 and realize the Microsoft deal is dead in the water.
The FOSS community gets hung up on the philosophy because to be honest if you do not adhere to your original philosophy then you end up like Google's 'Do No Evil' philosophy. Basically it gets ignored or back burner-ed for the reasons of profit.
Remember that the GPL was about making free software available to all. It was also designed to protect developers and projects from the overreaching commercial interests that the Microsoft-Novell deal basically puts into writing. Just look at the terms of it, they explicitly exclude Open Office, Wine and I think Samba... If Microsoft was serious about extending the olive branch to the OSS community they would not have made these glaring exceptions in the Novell deal.
Or they will convince mommy and daddy to buy them a laptop. Even with parental control software installed they can just reformat it and/or use a Linux liveCD to get past any stupid filtering mechanisms in place.
Actually... There is a wonderful place EVE Online has called Singularity. It is a server 100% dedicated to testing and development. I still stand by my claim that a developer or GM does not need to play the game (at least in a live environment) to find out what is broken balance-wise. Plus on these test servers people actually expect things that would be considered rampant cheating in a live environment as commonplace or normal (IE. Giving people ships loaded to the gills and such).
Hello Mr. AC... I have a wonderful job opportunity for you at the MAFIAA.
Anyways yeah like someone else said, if it is using taxpayers money then you can argue that the state and by extension the people own the copyright on it. If the people want to post it on YouTube then they damn well can if they want to.
Especially if it is a live feed being streamed out to the internet for anyone to see and not some password protected site. Not like they can claim DMCA on something that had no DRM protection measures on it to begin with.
Yeah... It does not make sense that the very same people who may or may not have the power to magically poof a ship into existence for themselves should be permitted to play as a 'player' regardless if they pay for it or not.
You have to have some level of neutrality and/or transparency among your administration or you end up with things like this were every little thing gets blown into a big old drama fest. If your policy is to simply fire anyone who plays AND GM's then it is pretty clear. You should also make such incidents publicly known when they do occur so the community knows that you are serious about enforcement of your own rules upon yourself.
You know it is not just enough to cast your vote for the guy you want to be president but to actually go out and try to persuade everyone you know to do so as well (and hope they do the same to everyone they know, etc... 6 degrees of separation and all that).
IANAL, but isnt the whole 'Prior Art' thing can only be shown by...
a) A published work indicating how to do the patent BEFORE it was filed. b) An actual example of the patent being done the exact same way before the patent was filed.
Now I dont know about you but published means publically published. I dont believe internal documents qualify as 'published'.
The best way to make sure the entire world gets clean drinking water and adequate health care (I'm not going to say medicine specifically) is education.
If they learn how to filter water with local/cheap to import materials then they wont need to have water purification systems shipped in from the first world and more of the charity $$$'s can go towards actual food and medicines.
Also education will sooner or later lead to locals taking up the health care professions (Doctors, Nurses, Surgeons) in their home countries. If they learn these skills then at best the first world would only need to supply medicine instead of sending doctors and medicine over.
Actually I built this computer myself. I used a Windows XP Professional student version ($35!). I still got them stupid AOL icons on my desktop... Maybe the its all non-OEM versions that do this (IE. Retail). Not 100% sure on that though.
Yes that is what we're told. If you are in public there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. Honestly, if I was the student I'd be suing the school over the whole 40 days thing as 'cruel and unusual punishment' since its overly excessive academic punishment (Imagine getting life in prison for parking in a handicapped spot). Also it is a violation of first amendment rights and if there is any lies in the video (such as the bit about her hygiene) then its up to the teacher to sue the kid responsible and introduce them to the adult world of small claims court. Think of it as giving them a learning experience they wont forget
Also I've done some pretty bad things in school like telling the principal to 'fuck off' and such. I've never been suspended for more than 3 days. Thankfully that was all in grade school, I hit high school and it was almost instant maturity. I graduated from high school with honors and honor roll for the entirety of my 2 year college program (Its an IT related one so it was pretty easy)
Or it could be because they're trying to sell a steaming load of cow dung under the guise of it being a gold nugget. Photoshop is good but its not worth $600 no matter how you slice it. The only reason companies artificially inflate their prices to these ridiculous extremes is so that they can also inflate their 'piracy' claims as well. Hey it worked oh so well for the RIAA and the $750 per song claim
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...until someone reverse engineers the RealPlayer code and makes it do whatever the hell they want it to (IE. Burn DRM protected crap and stuff like that).
Yeah I mean its not like any judge doesnt know what a website is
All we can hope is that these old farts croak before they do much damage to the law landscape with 'precedent setting cases' based on faulty logic and not understanding basic technology.
Dont forget to include a random 'Your call is important to us, please stay on the line' after every 30 seconds of music
Well if you dont know maybe we should get Senator Ted 'Tubes' Stevens to give you some edumacation on the internet tubes. Because when they're clogged with ads for penis enlargement, breast enlargement and viagra it dont let your race horse or lottery bets go through.
The terrorist attack of 9/11 lies solely on the shoulders of the government. I can tell you that 100% of the people in congress had locks on their doors. Why the hell was there not a lock on the door to the plane?
It is also not like they didnt know something like this could have happened either. Terrorists have only been hijacking planes since what was it the 70's? Combine that with suicide bombers in the homeland and they should have been able to put 2 and 2 together.
Its like seeing your house robbed and going 'Meh' and not putting a new lock on the door. If you get robbed again its all your fault.
...The user interface
Problem Solved
Well to be technical, Novell has 2 options... They can choose to continue using GPLv2 components and become obsolete over time or they can move to GPLv3 and realize the Microsoft deal is dead in the water.
The FOSS community gets hung up on the philosophy because to be honest if you do not adhere to your original philosophy then you end up like Google's 'Do No Evil' philosophy. Basically it gets ignored or back burner-ed for the reasons of profit.
Remember that the GPL was about making free software available to all. It was also designed to protect developers and projects from the overreaching commercial interests that the Microsoft-Novell deal basically puts into writing. Just look at the terms of it, they explicitly exclude Open Office, Wine and I think Samba... If Microsoft was serious about extending the olive branch to the OSS community they would not have made these glaring exceptions in the Novell deal.
Oh Yeah! Well I patent Layer-42 ultra security engine! (Patent Pending).
Layer-42 is available under GPLv3.
Or they will convince mommy and daddy to buy them a laptop. Even with parental control software installed they can just reformat it and/or use a Linux liveCD to get past any stupid filtering mechanisms in place.
Especially Microsoft software
But seriously... Why didnt they choose Open Office? It is the OBVIOUS choice.
At least it seems to be selling better than Vista!
Actually... There is a wonderful place EVE Online has called Singularity. It is a server 100% dedicated to testing and development. I still stand by my claim that a developer or GM does not need to play the game (at least in a live environment) to find out what is broken balance-wise. Plus on these test servers people actually expect things that would be considered rampant cheating in a live environment as commonplace or normal (IE. Giving people ships loaded to the gills and such).
Hello Mr. AC... I have a wonderful job opportunity for you at the MAFIAA. Anyways yeah like someone else said, if it is using taxpayers money then you can argue that the state and by extension the people own the copyright on it. If the people want to post it on YouTube then they damn well can if they want to. Especially if it is a live feed being streamed out to the internet for anyone to see and not some password protected site. Not like they can claim DMCA on something that had no DRM protection measures on it to begin with.
Yeah... It does not make sense that the very same people who may or may not have the power to magically poof a ship into existence for themselves should be permitted to play as a 'player' regardless if they pay for it or not.
You have to have some level of neutrality and/or transparency among your administration or you end up with things like this were every little thing gets blown into a big old drama fest. If your policy is to simply fire anyone who plays AND GM's then it is pretty clear. You should also make such incidents publicly known when they do occur so the community knows that you are serious about enforcement of your own rules upon yourself.
You know it is not just enough to cast your vote for the guy you want to be president but to actually go out and try to persuade everyone you know to do so as well (and hope they do the same to everyone they know, etc... 6 degrees of separation and all that).
IANAL, but isnt the whole 'Prior Art' thing can only be shown by...
a) A published work indicating how to do the patent BEFORE it was filed.
b) An actual example of the patent being done the exact same way before the patent was filed.
Now I dont know about you but published means publically published. I dont believe internal documents qualify as 'published'.
You know why that is? They made the number up! Quick someone patent the number 235 before they use it in a lawsuit!
The best way to make sure the entire world gets clean drinking water and adequate health care (I'm not going to say medicine specifically) is education. If they learn how to filter water with local/cheap to import materials then they wont need to have water purification systems shipped in from the first world and more of the charity $$$'s can go towards actual food and medicines. Also education will sooner or later lead to locals taking up the health care professions (Doctors, Nurses, Surgeons) in their home countries. If they learn these skills then at best the first world would only need to supply medicine instead of sending doctors and medicine over.
Actually I built this computer myself. I used a Windows XP Professional student version ($35!). I still got them stupid AOL icons on my desktop... Maybe the its all non-OEM versions that do this (IE. Retail). Not 100% sure on that though.
its possible to legally play on Linux I'm not interested.
Uhh WTF? I thought the default installation of Windows XP spit out stupid things like AOL Trial links on the desktop? Dell isnt unique in that regard.
Yes that is what we're told. If you are in public there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. Honestly, if I was the student I'd be suing the school over the whole 40 days thing as 'cruel and unusual punishment' since its overly excessive academic punishment (Imagine getting life in prison for parking in a handicapped spot). Also it is a violation of first amendment rights and if there is any lies in the video (such as the bit about her hygiene) then its up to the teacher to sue the kid responsible and introduce them to the adult world of small claims court. Think of it as giving them a learning experience they wont forget
Also I've done some pretty bad things in school like telling the principal to 'fuck off' and such. I've never been suspended for more than 3 days. Thankfully that was all in grade school, I hit high school and it was almost instant maturity. I graduated from high school with honors and honor roll for the entirety of my 2 year college program (Its an IT related one so it was pretty easy)
Of course not, now where is the Linux funded study by a Harvard Business School Professor about Microsoft's standard EULA?
One prime number should be enough for anyone! They've already got theirs but everyone knows its 0x09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0
Yeah you sell more at a higher price. This is why Windows Vista is flying off the shelves right?
Or it could be because they're trying to sell a steaming load of cow dung under the guise of it being a gold nugget. Photoshop is good but its not worth $600 no matter how you slice it. The only reason companies artificially inflate their prices to these ridiculous extremes is so that they can also inflate their 'piracy' claims as well. Hey it worked oh so well for the RIAA and the $750 per song claim