copyright laws were created so that some other guy with a printing press or vinyl press wouldn't make and sell copies of a book or recording all on his own without regard to the creator
That's not quite true in the US. Copyright law here was created to "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". It's not about some obligation to reward authors or artists, but simply to provide an incentive for them to create, for the ends of benefit of the public.
I can't stand the lag on wireless mice, so I never touch them if I can avoid it.
But anyway, if you are using a mouse for development you are probably doing it wrong. Keep your hands on the keyboard as much as possible. Learn how to do everything from the keyboard. Reaching for the mouse is a cache miss, and it is going to be at least an order of magnitude slower than performing the same action with keyboard shortcuts. Really, it's true. If you have a local Emacs or vi guru, watch him/her and see how fast they go. The editor becomes and extension of the body, kind of like driving a car.
Unfortunately, a lot of IDEs have very fundamental flaws requiring the mouse, or discouraging the keyboard. One of the best, and most common examples of this is the search dialog box. If and editor brings up a new little window for search, rather than an integrated one, find a new editor because that one is crap. It's slow, meaning you can't hit ctrl+f or whatever and immediately type your search in because there is a delay. It also has focus issues. And it probably doesn't search incrementally either.
SoundExchange doesn't actually have a website anymore so I can't link to any direct information, but here is Wikipedia's article,
SoundExchange collects and distributes royalties for all artists and copyright owners covered under the statutory licenses; these parties do not need to be members of SoundExchange for royalties to be collected on their behalf and distributed to them."
So let's say you sing into your computer microphone your own song, so it is 100% written and performed by you, then let an Internet radio station play it. SoundExchange will collect royalties for it and there is no way to opt-out of this. That's right, it is required to pay them for something you created.
Supposedly if you register with them they might give you a cut, but only after they take out an "administrative fee".
Yeah, it's total bullshit. It really is stealing. That's how fucked up copyright is in the US.
When a credit card number is compromised the holder has no liability for any fraudulent charges incurred. Just check your statements monthly, like when you pay it, and you have absolutely nothing to worry about. This gives incentive for the CC companies to have good security measures in place.
The price is right but the money ends up being used to sue helpless people to oblivion. I stopped spending money on any music years ago because of that.
As for the credit card thing: if your credit card number was compromised you just report it (they'll probably catch it before you do anyway) within 60 days, they mail you a new card, and that's it. My experience with doing this has been painless and taken only a couple minutes. You aren't responsible, and can't be, for any fraudulent charges. No liability, no worries.
If it didn't suck so much it also wouldn't matter so much to have alternatives be popular. Because it's, by far, the worst non-niche browser and at the same time the most popular it does so much harm to the web.
That would be great if launch codes were leaked, because that would basically announce that the codes need to be changed (rendering the old codes useless), and better measures taken to prevent future leaks. If the system was set up right in the first place, changing all the codes shouldn't take a long time.
What's worse is if someone malicious gets them and doesn't tell anyone about it.
As a general point: Wikileaks does much more good than it does harm. "Bad" leaks happen whether or not Wikileaks exists or not.
Or take another example: airport security. Assume that all the new airport security measures increase the waiting time at airports by -- and I'm making this up -- 30 minutes per passenger. There were 760 million passenger boardings in the United States in 2007. This means that the extra waiting time at airports has cost us a collective 43,000 years of extra waiting time. Assume a 70-year life expectancy, and the increased waiting time has "killed" 620 people per year -- 930 if you calculate the numbers based on 16 hours of awake time per day. So the question is: If we did away with increased airport security, would the result be more people dead from terrorism or fewer?
I'll just live life how I want to regardless of any unjust laws, which includes downloading and uploading whatever the hell I want. Enjoying life, without preventing others from enjoying their lives, is #1.
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There is one here:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4996141
copyright laws were created so that some other guy with a printing press or vinyl press wouldn't make and sell copies of a book or recording all on his own without regard to the creator
That's not quite true in the US. Copyright law here was created to "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". It's not about some obligation to reward authors or artists, but simply to provide an incentive for them to create, for the ends of benefit of the public.
Burma Shave
If you have a roof then you must have something to hide!
I can't stand the lag on wireless mice, so I never touch them if I can avoid it.
But anyway, if you are using a mouse for development you are probably doing it wrong. Keep your hands on the keyboard as much as possible. Learn how to do everything from the keyboard. Reaching for the mouse is a cache miss, and it is going to be at least an order of magnitude slower than performing the same action with keyboard shortcuts. Really, it's true. If you have a local Emacs or vi guru, watch him/her and see how fast they go. The editor becomes and extension of the body, kind of like driving a car.
Unfortunately, a lot of IDEs have very fundamental flaws requiring the mouse, or discouraging the keyboard. One of the best, and most common examples of this is the search dialog box. If and editor brings up a new little window for search, rather than an integrated one, find a new editor because that one is crap. It's slow, meaning you can't hit ctrl+f or whatever and immediately type your search in because there is a delay. It also has focus issues. And it probably doesn't search incrementally either.
Unfortunately in the US, there is no clear legal mechanism for releasing a work into the public domain, so your comment probably only applies to very, very old recordings.
As for free, if you mean Free Culture music then that's not true: they still get to collect royalties for those as well.
SoundExchange doesn't actually have a website anymore so I can't link to any direct information, but here is Wikipedia's article,
SoundExchange collects and distributes royalties for all artists and copyright owners covered under the statutory licenses; these parties do not need to be members of SoundExchange for royalties to be collected on their behalf and distributed to them."
So let's say you sing into your computer microphone your own song, so it is 100% written and performed by you, then let an Internet radio station play it. SoundExchange will collect royalties for it and there is no way to opt-out of this. That's right, it is required to pay them for something you created.
Supposedly if you register with them they might give you a cut, but only after they take out an "administrative fee".
Yeah, it's total bullshit. It really is stealing. That's how fucked up copyright is in the US.
My monitor at work sits like this 100% of the time. I love it. I can make much better use of the screen.
This is why: Online Attack Hits US Government Web Sites
Honestly, when was the last time you went to ftc.gov?
I send people here all the time to point out credit card misconceptions.
When a credit card number is compromised the holder has no liability for any fraudulent charges incurred. Just check your statements monthly, like when you pay it, and you have absolutely nothing to worry about. This gives incentive for the CC companies to have good security measures in place.
The price is right but the money ends up being used to sue helpless people to oblivion. I stopped spending money on any music years ago because of that.
As for the credit card thing: if your credit card number was compromised you just report it (they'll probably catch it before you do anyway) within 60 days, they mail you a new card, and that's it. My experience with doing this has been painless and taken only a couple minutes. You aren't responsible, and can't be, for any fraudulent charges. No liability, no worries.
This whole "license" thing is just your imagination. It doesn't exist. When you buy a CD you bought that single physical copy, that's it.
So yes, that makes all those other uses probably copyright infringement. Does it matter? Not really. Copyright law is best ignored.
If it didn't suck so much it also wouldn't matter so much to have alternatives be popular. Because it's, by far, the worst non-niche browser and at the same time the most popular it does so much harm to the web.
Nope, I still wouldn't touch Mono with a 10-foot pole. It's best avoided.
It's actually been like that since the "new" user pages were introduced months ago. I doubt it will be fixed anytime soon.
That would be great if launch codes were leaked, because that would basically announce that the codes need to be changed (rendering the old codes useless), and better measures taken to prevent future leaks. If the system was set up right in the first place, changing all the codes shouldn't take a long time.
What's worse is if someone malicious gets them and doesn't tell anyone about it.
As a general point: Wikileaks does much more good than it does harm. "Bad" leaks happen whether or not Wikileaks exists or not.
Yup, which makes this !opensource, unlike the incorrect statement in the summary that further dilutes the meaning.
That's not how copyright works.
Will the real Smidge please stand up? Please stand up?
Wow! I don't think it could have been said any better! Bookmarked for future reference.
Uhhmm.... never heard of rsync?
I do have the right to copy whatever published data I want. You have it backwards in that no one has the right to stop me.
Or take another example: airport security. Assume that all the new airport security measures increase the waiting time at airports by -- and I'm making this up -- 30 minutes per passenger. There were 760 million passenger boardings in the United States in 2007. This means that the extra waiting time at airports has cost us a collective 43,000 years of extra waiting time. Assume a 70-year life expectancy, and the increased waiting time has "killed" 620 people per year -- 930 if you calculate the numbers based on 16 hours of awake time per day. So the question is: If we did away with increased airport security, would the result be more people dead from terrorism or fewer?
I'll just live life how I want to regardless of any unjust laws, which includes downloading and uploading whatever the hell I want. Enjoying life, without preventing others from enjoying their lives, is #1.