This is because you're silly and somehow think that humans act in their own best interest. Like most people pirates feel the need to tell people about what they think is a great thing, in this case downloading entertainment for free.
Noone cares about Mickey Mouse, what people care about is that Disney has repeatedly managed to successfully lobby for copyright extensions each time Mickey Mouse is about to enter public domain.
I don't know much about chemistry but for Math I'd argue that the pen is only superior when time is an issue which is pretty much only if you're there in person trying to show something, for example you'd rather have your teacher draw it on the whiteboard rather then type it out in LaTeX, compile and then put it on overhead since class would probably be over by the time he got the first example up.
However in the case of an assignment or a prepared presentation I think LaTeX is the only way to go since it will vastly improve readability.
The point is to use the $9,250 figure that the RIAA uses to sue so your 186.000 dollars of MP3's would get you sued for 1,720,500,000. One harddrive worth almost 2 billion, so cute 3
There is noone I know off (with eyes and hands) that can't type a readable text, there are however many I know off that have problems producing readable text if they're writing it with a pen, I for example feel real physical pain if I try to write properly for too long.
It's easier for everyone involved if the assignments are typed and not penned.
I know some people will say "teach yourself to write with a pen properly" however I've spent years in a special writing class(for people that can't handwrite properly) and they still couldn't make me produce readable letters, it's also impossible for me to produce straight lines and anything that looks close to a circle.
I don't see how being fixed by the 156th comment by a 4 man programming team after 7 years by using what seems to be 20 failed patches can be seen as trivial
1) The court has at a prior point stated what I quoted above (That a copy has to be made for it to be copyright infringement, aka making available doesn't work.) 2)However, that part of the judgement is not dictum (dictum means it's precedent) 3) Irregardless of 2), Only that previous judgement, not any other judgement from any other court has any binding on this court, so it doesn't matter how many other courts the RIAA can convince about their making availible argument, it won't work in the 8th circuit. 4) They can't find any reason to disagree with the previous judgement.
As the Court fully explained in its September 24 Order, in National Car Rental System, Inc. v. Computer Associates International, Inc., the Eighth Circuit held that "[i]nfringement of [the distribution right] requires an actual dissemination of either copies or phonorecords."
Basically they said that even though their earlier decision was appealed by another court that appeal is not binding so they'll stand by their earlier decision which I quoted above.
IANAL but I think this just matters for this particular court and won't affect any other court.
From reading the article it seems to think every object with 4 feet and a straight back is a wooden chair and all the voices are probably prerecorded. It's not like it can invent new abstract objects on it's own.
Wikipedia: "The ideal hash function has four main properties: it is easy to compute the hash for any given data, it is extremely difficult to construct a text that has a given hash, it is extremely difficult to modify a given text without changing its hash, and it is extremely unlikely that two different messages will have the same hash. These requirements call for the use of advanced cryptography techniques, hence the name."
The whole point of the exercise is to find an algorithm that can't be easily reversed and that's far from impossible.
Besides, hashes are never completely broken, at most you can make various collision attacks, you never get away with putting in arbitrary data.
Well, personally I've found out about actual bank accounts I didn't know about. However that's always by mail(snail) and they never ask for any details.
They usually go either like "You havn't touched this account in our bank for years, we'd recommend you going past our local bank office and going through it".
or "We've closed this empty inactive account, thank you for your time"
1) I had forgotten what exactly the did at the plant, just remembered that it can't be done at home 2) They're not putting epoxy at the chip, they're using some kind of special chip/firmware that makes it impossible to read/write the firmware properly. You can still connect to it, it just refuses to be read properly.
Live does send out bits of code trying to detect cracked machines, however it is impossible to detect the hacked firmware and since the firmware is lying the only way to detect pirated games is by checking for data that should be there and sometimes isn't because of badly done copying.
You seem to be very confused about how cracking the 360 works.
The way the anti-piracy works is that they burn the game dvd's in a way that can't be done by a home burner and then they tell the dvd drive in the xbox to check for those signs of it being burned by a real burner.
The crackers get past this by installing new custom firmware on the dvd reader that tells the console that the dvd was industrially burned regardless if it is or not.
The reason some people get banned from live is that the live server sometimes asks questions regarding the data on the dvd and badly made copies sometimes have missing/bad data.
The new firmware you speak off isn't actually new firmware, it's a new dvd drive all together that apparently uses millitary technology to make the firmware tamper proof, the current work around is to just install another dvd reader and I suspect the anti-tamper itself will be cracked eventually.
The game console itself is never involved in this piracy war,, it's all waged in the dvd firmware.
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This is because you're silly and somehow think that humans act in their own best interest. Like most people pirates feel the need to tell people about what they think is a great thing, in this case downloading entertainment for free.
You're aware this is idle right?
The problem would be the gigantic energy requirement to send anything into the sun.
Noone cares about Mickey Mouse, what people care about is that Disney has repeatedly managed to successfully lobby for copyright extensions each time Mickey Mouse is about to enter public domain.
It's correct English as long as you're careful about how you craft the sentence
Can't we just use "he" for gender neutral, these new pronouns give me a headache.
End user is a legal term and not something you're meant to redefine on a whim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_user
Read and understand. Then stop failing at communicating.
When you use the code, you're an end user.
When you give the code to someone else, you're a distributor.
It's not complex.
And what does the state want money for? Social policies.
I don't know much about chemistry but for Math I'd argue that the pen is only superior when time is an issue which is pretty much only if you're there in person trying to show something, for example you'd rather have your teacher draw it on the whiteboard rather then type it out in LaTeX, compile and then put it on overhead since class would probably be over by the time he got the first example up.
However in the case of an assignment or a prepared presentation I think LaTeX is the only way to go since it will vastly improve readability.
The point is to use the $9,250 figure that the RIAA uses to sue so your 186.000 dollars of MP3's would get you sued for 1,720,500,000. One harddrive worth almost 2 billion, so cute 3
There is noone I know off (with eyes and hands) that can't type a readable text, there are however many I know off that have problems producing readable text if they're writing it with a pen, I for example feel real physical pain if I try to write properly for too long.
It's easier for everyone involved if the assignments are typed and not penned.
I know some people will say "teach yourself to write with a pen properly" however I've spent years in a special writing class(for people that can't handwrite properly) and they still couldn't make me produce readable letters, it's also impossible for me to produce straight lines and anything that looks close to a circle.
I don't see how being fixed by the 156th comment by a 4 man programming team after 7 years by using what seems to be 20 failed patches can be seen as trivial
Maybe I should have brought more context.
Reading the PDF it basically says this:
1) The court has at a prior point stated what I quoted above (That a copy has to be made for it to be copyright infringement, aka making available doesn't work.)
2)However, that part of the judgement is not dictum (dictum means it's precedent)
3) Irregardless of 2), Only that previous judgement, not any other judgement from any other court has any binding on this court, so it doesn't matter how many other courts the RIAA can convince about their making availible argument, it won't work in the 8th circuit.
4) They can't find any reason to disagree with the previous judgement.
As the Court fully explained in its September 24 Order, in National Car
Rental System, Inc. v. Computer Associates International, Inc., the Eighth Circuit
held that "[i]nfringement of [the distribution right] requires an actual
dissemination of either copies or phonorecords."
Basically they said that even though their earlier decision was appealed by another court that appeal is not binding so they'll stand by their earlier decision which I quoted above.
IANAL but I think this just matters for this particular court and won't affect any other court.
Math can only be done either by hand or by LaTeX. Generally I do it by hand then I type it out in LaTeX to improve readability.
I wouldn't accept any that was handwritten, half that crap is ineligible.
From reading the article it seems to think every object with 4 feet and a straight back is a wooden chair and all the voices are probably prerecorded. It's not like it can invent new abstract objects on it's own.
Wikipedia:
"The ideal hash function has four main properties: it is easy to compute the hash for any given data, it is extremely difficult to construct a text that has a given hash, it is extremely difficult to modify a given text without changing its hash, and it is extremely unlikely that two different messages will have the same hash. These requirements call for the use of advanced cryptography techniques, hence the name."
The whole point of the exercise is to find an algorithm that can't be easily reversed and that's far from impossible.
Besides, hashes are never completely broken, at most you can make various collision attacks, you never get away with putting in arbitrary data.
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Steve McIntyre = Scientist
"the plural of data is not anecdote"
should be
"the plural of anecdote is not data"
Well, personally I've found out about actual bank accounts I didn't know about. However that's always by mail(snail) and they never ask for any details.
They usually go either like "You havn't touched this account in our bank for years, we'd recommend you going past our local bank office and going through it".
or "We've closed this empty inactive account, thank you for your time"
1) I had forgotten what exactly the did at the plant, just remembered that it can't be done at home
2) They're not putting epoxy at the chip, they're using some kind of special chip/firmware that makes it impossible to read/write the firmware properly. You can still connect to it, it just refuses to be read properly.
Live does send out bits of code trying to detect cracked machines, however it is impossible to detect the hacked firmware and since the firmware is lying the only way to detect pirated games is by checking for data that should be there and sometimes isn't because of badly done copying.
You seem to be very confused about how cracking the 360 works.
The way the anti-piracy works is that they burn the game dvd's in a way that can't be done by a home burner and then they tell the dvd drive in the xbox to check for those signs of it being burned by a real burner.
The crackers get past this by installing new custom firmware on the dvd reader that tells the console that the dvd was industrially burned regardless if it is or not.
The reason some people get banned from live is that the live server sometimes asks questions regarding the data on the dvd and badly made copies sometimes have missing/bad data.
The new firmware you speak off isn't actually new firmware, it's a new dvd drive all together that apparently uses millitary technology to make the firmware tamper proof, the current work around is to just install another dvd reader and I suspect the anti-tamper itself will be cracked eventually.
The game console itself is never involved in this piracy war,, it's all waged in the dvd firmware.
Isn't it already illegal to fire someone based on their political affiliation? I don't see why you'd need more then that.