In the US, we can't go after whacky religions due to the First Amendment's guarantees - that whole "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" thing is pretty hard to get around.
Whatever company that makes RAID (bug spray, not disk stuff)...
BUY!
The product will be needed soon, and in great quantities.
Sophistry To Kill First Sale Doctrine
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Why Bother With DRM?
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Really, if we distill the arguments for DRM down far enough, it becomes clear that the idea is to try to work around the First Sale Doctrine and kill the second-hand market.
I'd say you may be jumping the gun regarding the suit at this point, and indeed appear to be violently agreeing with it.
Let's keep in mind that this is just the original complaint, not a memorandum in support, which is where the issues you brought up are usually addressed.
This will have a few rounds of motions/memoranda and decisions to get to the point where they will argue the above points.
"Gen Kevin Chilton, who heads US Strategic Command, said he worries that foes will learn to disable or distort battlefield communications.
"Chilton said even as the Pentagon improves its network defences against hackers, he needs more people, training and resources to hone offensive cyber war capacity. At the same time, he asserted that the US would consider using military force against an enemy who attacks and disrupts the nation's critical networks."
Basically, they are considering dispatching air strikes or commando raids at hackers if they can identify their identity and location.
"Being crazy isn't enough; if you have enough votes, insanity is irrelevant."
True, but externalities have a way of really limiting such a parade of craziness. It could be a natural disaster, belief-caused famine, or an invasion of enemies - but eventually any insanity will be limited in scope.
Name: Pragmatics Established: Time Immemorial Gathering of the Tribe: Anyplace shit has to work. Major Deity: It Works Sacred Relic: It Works The Antichrist: Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work.
This is just a case of survival. Specter was down over 20 points in polls regarding the 2010 primaries, and would have certainly not made it to the General Election.
"That's less than what you pay for insurance for a transformer." - so relative to the transformer and insurance costs, it is relatively inexpensive. Plus, how big is the transformer? If it's much smaller than what it protects, it's "small".
Large and small are relative terms, not absolutes. A small planet is certainly much larger than a large potato.
Perfect Qualities For....
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Bringing Up Bill
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· Score: 4, Funny
It sounds like the perfect qualities and personality for conquering an industry. Maybe we should be glad that he stayed out of law, or we could have ended up with a real control-freak president here.
Even the appearance of a potential impropriety is itself an impropriety. Those are the rules that I had to deal with as an enlisted person in the USAF, and I would hope that a judge were held to at least that standard.
I say toss the case, and have a retrial before a verifiably unbiased judge.
Personally, I think the pirates deserved the sentence, but the trial is now tainted in my eyes. There's no way that I can respect this verdict because the trial itself appears to have been a "railroad job". Which means that no Swedish court ruling should be treated as credible if the ruling stands.
In American courts, IIRC, a judge who doesn't disclose a conflict of interest and recuse themselves faces impeachment (or removal) for this very reason.
Right now, we live in relatively stable times, but history shows that politics is subject to tsunamis of opinion shift. These usually happen when a major stress to the existing system occurs, and that is when you see revolution instead of evolution.
Let's keep in mind that the fringe isn't always crazy, sometimes it's just ahead or behind the curve of opinion. Other times, the different small/fringe groups incorporate parts several "mainstream" ideologies.
The false dichotomy between "Democrats" and "Republicans" is actually damaging, because that itself is what can promote "extremists" to either lash out violently, or end up as powerful elected officials.
With some representation and need for coalitions, we actually might see some sanity in policy, rather than just constant ad-hominum attacks, unfounded "ethics investigations", and nobody would care about Hannity.
As is, the system is feeding a level of polarization that is not healthy, nor conducive to good policy.
Plus, the constant extreme swings of a 2-party-only system condemns us to such a mismash of existing law that entire statutes become self-contradictory.
The reason why it is so strongly frowned upon is that satellite transponders have a limited amount of transmission power available, which must be shared and coordinated among all the users. Rogue transmitters screw up the planning and degrades the "legitimate" users' ability to communicate.
Servo motors can easily resolve 1/2500 of a revolution, and if mated to a relatively inexpensive 60:1 zero-backlash worm gear, effectively can position to within 1/150,000 of a revolution. That is some pretty serious precision that can be assembled for just a few hundred dollars.
Slashdot Mirror
At least someone realized that it was an epicly bad idea before the thing was released into the real world.
I wouldn't move from Pittsburgh to anywhere in California for any amount of money.
It's only become one of the top places in medicine on the planet. That's pretty good for an old steel town.
It is possible to build out the educational and corporate infrastructure in a "cheaper" place.
In the US, we can't go after whacky religions due to the First Amendment's guarantees - that whole "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" thing is pretty hard to get around.
France doesn't have anything like that.
At least in that copyright-crazy USA, no official government work product can be copyrighted, as it's been produced with public funds.
So the Itanic still floats? Or is it just a life vest that was tossed over the side?
Any practical space program from scratch will cost closer to $50B than $50M.
Whatever company that makes RAID (bug spray, not disk stuff)...
BUY!
The product will be needed soon, and in great quantities.
Really, if we distill the arguments for DRM down far enough, it becomes clear that the idea is to try to work around the First Sale Doctrine and kill the second-hand market.
I'd say you may be jumping the gun regarding the suit at this point, and indeed appear to be violently agreeing with it.
Let's keep in mind that this is just the original complaint, not a memorandum in support, which is where the issues you brought up are usually addressed.
This will have a few rounds of motions/memoranda and decisions to get to the point where they will argue the above points.
The Times of India has a story about this. FTA:
"Gen Kevin Chilton, who heads US Strategic Command, said he worries that foes will learn to disable or distort battlefield communications.
"Chilton said even as the Pentagon improves its network defences against hackers, he needs more people, training and resources to hone offensive cyber war capacity. At the same time, he asserted that the US would consider using military force against an enemy who attacks and disrupts the nation's critical networks."
Basically, they are considering dispatching air strikes or commando raids at hackers if they can identify their identity and location.
(What could POSSIBLY go wrong there...)
It becomes a steal. They can buy back much of the "IP" at fire-sale prices, while still holding a priority claim on what is left.
"Being crazy isn't enough; if you have enough votes, insanity is irrelevant."
True, but externalities have a way of really limiting such a parade of craziness. It could be a natural disaster, belief-caused famine, or an invasion of enemies - but eventually any insanity will be limited in scope.
The cult of Pragmatism:
Name: Pragmatics
Established: Time Immemorial
Gathering of the Tribe: Anyplace shit has to work.
Major Deity: It Works
Sacred Relic: It Works
The Antichrist: Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work.
This is just a case of survival. Specter was down over 20 points in polls regarding the 2010 primaries, and would have certainly not made it to the General Election.
"That's less than what you pay for insurance for a transformer." - so relative to the transformer and insurance costs, it is relatively inexpensive. Plus, how big is the transformer? If it's much smaller than what it protects, it's "small".
Large and small are relative terms, not absolutes. A small planet is certainly much larger than a large potato.
It sounds like the perfect qualities and personality for conquering an industry. Maybe we should be glad that he stayed out of law, or we could have ended up with a real control-freak president here.
Even the appearance of a potential impropriety is itself an impropriety. Those are the rules that I had to deal with as an enlisted person in the USAF, and I would hope that a judge were held to at least that standard.
I say toss the case, and have a retrial before a verifiably unbiased judge.
Personally, I think the pirates deserved the sentence, but the trial is now tainted in my eyes. There's no way that I can respect this verdict because the trial itself appears to have been a "railroad job". Which means that no Swedish court ruling should be treated as credible if the ruling stands.
In American courts, IIRC, a judge who doesn't disclose a conflict of interest and recuse themselves faces impeachment (or removal) for this very reason.
Right now, we live in relatively stable times, but history shows that politics is subject to tsunamis of opinion shift. These usually happen when a major stress to the existing system occurs, and that is when you see revolution instead of evolution.
Let's keep in mind that the fringe isn't always crazy, sometimes it's just ahead or behind the curve of opinion. Other times, the different small/fringe groups incorporate parts several "mainstream" ideologies.
The false dichotomy between "Democrats" and "Republicans" is actually damaging, because that itself is what can promote "extremists" to either lash out violently, or end up as powerful elected officials.
With some representation and need for coalitions, we actually might see some sanity in policy, rather than just constant ad-hominum attacks, unfounded "ethics investigations", and nobody would care about Hannity.
As is, the system is feeding a level of polarization that is not healthy, nor conducive to good policy.
Plus, the constant extreme swings of a 2-party-only system condemns us to such a mismash of existing law that entire statutes become self-contradictory.
It's time to change addresses when you get 15k spams a day.
The reason why it is so strongly frowned upon is that satellite transponders have a limited amount of transmission power available, which must be shared and coordinated among all the users. Rogue transmitters screw up the planning and degrades the "legitimate" users' ability to communicate.
Judge: See you again in 90 days for further contempt proceedings.
This case resulted in a sentence of 5-years probation, restitution, and mental health counseling.
Servo motors can easily resolve 1/2500 of a revolution, and if mated to a relatively inexpensive 60:1 zero-backlash worm gear, effectively can position to within 1/150,000 of a revolution. That is some pretty serious precision that can be assembled for just a few hundred dollars.