I don't know how comfortable I am with comparing someone downloading mp3s or defacing a web site with chidren playing with deadly weapons. I also don't like the idea of more or less giving blanket responsibility for any given hack to the person who owns the computer that it was launched from. While I agree that people should be responsible for their property, I think that it's somewhat unreasonable to expect every single computer owner to know the proper ways to prevent their machine from being hacked into. Perhaps I'm underestimating the general computer using population, but most folks I talk to wouldn't know a virus from an e-mail from Aunt Mae. I can just see Grandma getting hauled off by the police for defacing the web site of PETA because she has no idea what a firewall is.
It's very difficult to pin down who (by who, I mean which person, not which computer) was responsible for any given act. Passwords can be stolen, IPs can be spoofed and short of having a picture of someone sitting in front of a keyboard entering commands, it's nigh impossible to prove that any one person did anything on the internet.
This could actually be more accurate than we think. Interesting that this announcement comes so soon after having won the case against Verizon. (Even though that is still under appeal as far as I know.)
"There are currently 32,679 retail game titles available and 418 shareware game titles and this does not include; adult, casino, sequels and new releases in past 6 months. We will be working with developers to develop a licensing model to distribute all of these titles electronically to our customer's."
Or paraphrased si vous preferer: There are 32,679 games out there...hopefully the people that made them will let us let you download them! Plus we have bad grammar!
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...a strange social experiment by the/. team to see how many people will come up with the same joke in a given period of time?
I live in Massachusetts, along with/. and I'm finding just the opposite. I can't find a GCN to save my life but I could walk into Toys R Us right now and pick up an Xbox.
This is good to see as far as I'm concerned. I like to see a company "fight fire with fire". They started trying to sue everyone they could, which seems to be a knee-jerk reaction nowadays. When they saw that wasn't getting them anywhere, they fought back.
Do I think that this is the end of the situation? Nope. But it certainly makes things more interesting.
I can't believe that it's actually legal for them to tell people they can't read aloud. Are they hiding behind the DMCA because it's an e-book? Perhaps now the people who instituted that piece of toilet paper that passes for a law will see the error of their ways.
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...ABC makes a show worthy of my Tivo's drive space, I'll worry.
...for a Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor add-on for my Delor..er...Nissan.
...why the DMCA was and continues to be a bad piece of legislation. A hasty, unenlightened answer to appease the lobbyists.
I don't know how comfortable I am with comparing someone downloading mp3s or defacing a web site with chidren playing with deadly weapons. I also don't like the idea of more or less giving blanket responsibility for any given hack to the person who owns the computer that it was launched from. While I agree that people should be responsible for their property, I think that it's somewhat unreasonable to expect every single computer owner to know the proper ways to prevent their machine from being hacked into. Perhaps I'm underestimating the general computer using population, but most folks I talk to wouldn't know a virus from an e-mail from Aunt Mae. I can just see Grandma getting hauled off by the police for defacing the web site of PETA because she has no idea what a firewall is.
It's very difficult to pin down who (by who, I mean which person, not which computer) was responsible for any given act. Passwords can be stolen, IPs can be spoofed and short of having a picture of someone sitting in front of a keyboard entering commands, it's nigh impossible to prove that any one person did anything on the internet.
Well, I guess we've answered the whole "water on Mars" question, huh Fred?
This could actually be more accurate than we think. Interesting that this announcement comes so soon after having won the case against Verizon. (Even though that is still under appeal as far as I know.)
This is the line that's the kicker:
"There are currently 32,679 retail game titles available and 418 shareware game titles and this does not include; adult, casino, sequels and new releases in past 6 months. We will be working with developers to develop a licensing model to distribute all of these titles electronically to our customer's."
Or paraphrased si vous preferer: There are 32,679 games out there...hopefully the people that made them will let us let you download them! Plus we have bad grammar!
...a strange social experiment by the /. team to see how many people will come up with the same joke in a given period of time?
Hmmm...
I live in Massachusetts, along with /. and I'm finding just the opposite. I can't find a GCN to save my life but I could walk into Toys R Us right now and pick up an Xbox.
...by Osama Bin Laden that there would be an "unprecedented attack on US interests".
According to the Washington Post, the Palestinian Democratic Party is denying any role in the attack...
I am a die hard AMD guy. However, if they start with this, the Athlon in my computer now will be the last AMD chip I ever purchase.
Don't they remember Cyrix?
This is good to see as far as I'm concerned. I like to see a company "fight fire with fire". They started trying to sue everyone they could, which seems to be a knee-jerk reaction nowadays. When they saw that wasn't getting them anywhere, they fought back.
Do I think that this is the end of the situation? Nope. But it certainly makes things more interesting.
...so it has all the drawbacks of tape. You have to rewind it, you can't instantly skip to a specific chapter, etc.
DVD is here to stay. At least until recordable DVDs get cheaper...
I can't believe that it's actually legal for them to tell people they can't read aloud. Are they hiding behind the DMCA because it's an e-book? Perhaps now the people who instituted that piece of toilet paper that passes for a law will see the error of their ways.
Doubtful, though.
This ruling may have transferred power for states to feds, but is this necessarily a bad thing?
:)
If states cannot be trusted to uphold their own laws and conduct accurate votes, then maybe it should be controlled by the government.
Just watch out for Big Brother, now.
Yeah, we're glad you live in Canada, too.
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ABC is doing the same thing.
Hmmm. That's strange. I thought that a tie was decided through hand-to-hand mortal combat on PPV...
Actually, I thought the same thing. According to abcnews.com, though, Gore has pulled ahead in Cali...
I think you're misunderstanding the reason (at least IMHO) for the posting of this article.
I don't believe that it was posted as a place to get up-to-the-minute news reports regarding the election, rather as a place to converse about it.
I'm pretty sure that this was just a facilitation article. What it ends up facilitating can't be controlled.
Yeah, if Bush wins, Barbara Striesand said she's moving to France.
GO BUSH!!!!
Exit polls, my friend, exit polls.
We'll see, though...
Well, it seems as though Bush is going to carry Florida and Alaska...
Alaska's polls don't close for another 10 minutes.
They're not counting the votes there yet...
Here are the current numbers in California:
Bush: 53% 490,606
Gore: 43% 397,646
That's with 22% of the precints reporting. Gore, however, is still the winner of the state according to them...