You should also be charged with bribery, the local official either charged with bribery or fired for being stupid, and
And God help you if you ever tried to sell it. You should also get charged with fraud, and the hapless victim needs cure. In this case, the victim would probably sue the city for negligence in that the deed never should have been granted.
In the same vein, what about a corporation who buys a patent that later gets busted? Shouldn't a corp (or individual) who buys a patent that later gets borked through no fault of its own, get some sort of compensation?
More on this house biz...if you introduce "adverse possession" it gets tangled even further. But that's for another day:P.
In the end, it really sucks that the american legal system is based on the concept of "guilty until proven innocent" when it comes to civil matters. More often than not, simply letting a statement (lawsuit, claim) go unchallenged means you are agreeing with it. This forced (and often BINDING) "I automatically agree because I failed to bitch about it" stance, and the resulting default judgements (or lawyerese filibuster-via-lawsuit) are often a far cry from justice.
Actually according to the article, the author DID use it, and he got access revoked even though HE DID NOTHING WRONG, so it kinda runs counte rto bein gable to consume DRM'ed content in the first place
Whoever did this ripped this guy off big time.
If it weren't for microsoft's screwhappy lawyers and deep pockets, I'd be temped to sue.
Here's the RFC header, straight from the IETF's website
Network Working Group
Request for Comments: 2874
Category: Standards Track
And its current status is "experimental" so unless there's something not-so-technical deciding A6's fate, then you've made a mistake to call it deprecated.
Unless of course the IETF doesn't have this categorized right...
My concern about this is that it will make it MUCH easier for companies to get away with firing whoever they please.
Sure, companies may lose out if they act like jerks, but not before you're already suffering from not having a job.
Only when enough employees value their morals more than their financial survival will companies even bother paying attention.
It's all nice and good to say "to hell with evil", but what if that so called evil was holding you hostage by threatening your job or your life? A gun to your head, in any sense, can very much change your beliefs and perceptions.
If I want you to do what I want, then putting a gun to your head is very effective.
And with debt closing on all sides, losing your job may very well feel like getting your head blown off by a gun.
"So the solution is not so simple; unless you're saying that the real simple solution is to live puritan life 24/7 so that there is never a chance of anybody, anywhere, catching you doing things that might be perfectly acceptable in the situation you were in, but perhaps not so acceptable to your employer.. parents.. whoever/whatever.""
...Didn't Jesus try that? Not once did he insult, or post lewd pictures, or otherwise do anything that would be considered "politically incorrect".
The Pharisees tried to trick him many times too, and it didn't work.
"Give to Caesar what is Caesars, and to God what is God's"
"He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone"
Yet, as hard as he tried not to piss anyone off, the "powers that be" STILL managed to railroad him, get him a kangaroo court conviction, and haul him off to be crucified.
These are just examples of how even the most innocent person on earth can nevertheless become the butt of someone's vendetta.
You can still get screwed even if you're innocent.
The problem in this case is that is a matter of propriety.
Win or lose, it takes a crapload of money to fight a lawsuit. Get sued enough and you go out of business. This is the reason that DDoS's are so effective btw, you are hapless and simply cannot defend yourself. It's the same way with massive lawsuits.
So, some college gets a massive gun stuck to its head in the form of a massive lawsuit by the RIAA. They put the pressure on you to stop filesharing.
Quite simply, the college can do whatever the HELL IT WANTS TO. They own the physical media, computers, and cable you use to fileshare, so they get to make the rules about how it gets used. It is not a democracy, they own it and you gotta do whatever they damn well tell you. ITS THEIR EQUIPMENT.
Combine this with the threat of a massive lawsuit by the RIAA or any other organization, and you've effectively got a chain of duress. RIAA to college: "Stop this p2p stuff and I mean NOW or I'll sue and charge the crap out of you so fast you're head will spin", college to staff: "omg we're gonna get DDoS'ed by the legal system if we don't cave. Stop the students so the RIAA leaves us alone", and staff to students: "Thou shalt not fileshare on pain of getting in massive trouble".
All it is is just the RIAA holding the college hostage, and in effect getting ransom money in the form of its demands being met.
Duress and machismo flow from the RIAA down the chain of command until it finally reaches the students.
Such a right is called "Dissenting Shareholder Appraisal Rights"
A dissenting shareholder CANNOT outvote the majority, but they CAN have their shares appraised and fair market value paid to them BEFORE the opposed action takes place.
So, they can't stop it, but they CAN bail out.
Of course, this would probably strengthen the majority's vicegrip even tighter.
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Linux is a trademarked name. Don't typo it you insensitive clod!
True.
:P.
You should also be charged with bribery, the local official either charged with bribery or fired for being stupid, and
And God help you if you ever tried to sell it. You should also get charged with fraud, and the hapless victim needs cure. In this case, the victim would probably sue the city for negligence in that the deed never should have been granted.
In the same vein, what about a corporation who buys a patent that later gets busted? Shouldn't a corp (or individual) who buys a patent that later gets borked through no fault of its own, get some sort of compensation?
More on this house biz...if you introduce "adverse possession" it gets tangled even further. But that's for another day
In the end, it really sucks that the american legal system is based on the concept of "guilty until proven innocent" when it comes to civil matters. More often than not, simply letting a statement (lawsuit, claim) go unchallenged means you are agreeing with it. This forced (and often BINDING) "I automatically agree because I failed to bitch about it" stance, and the resulting default judgements (or lawyerese filibuster-via-lawsuit) are often a far cry from justice.
| Ufortunately there's always SOMEONE yelling trying to stop everything which is part of the reasons governments do so little.
So you'd rather cause a typo than a reversal?
Get your ^H budget straight man!
Big difference between getting DRM denied, and someone actively destroying a competitor's media.
Actually according to the article, the author DID use it, and he got access revoked even though HE DID NOTHING WRONG, so it kinda runs counte rto bein gable to consume DRM'ed content in the first place
Whoever did this ripped this guy off big time.
If it weren't for microsoft's screwhappy lawyers and deep pockets, I'd be temped to sue.
Yet another example of anti-competitive practices.
We need more geeks in the DOJ
Here's the RFC header, straight from the IETF's website
Network Working Group Request for Comments: 2874 Category: Standards TrackAnd its current status is "experimental" so unless there's something not-so-technical deciding A6's fate, then you've made a mistake to call it deprecated.
Unless of course the IETF doesn't have this categorized right...
That was me.
Stupid IE probably forgot to send the cookies...
*grumble*
Yup, another metacity link.
We need a mod down tag that just plain says "Spam"
What about A6 records? Aren't those the ones that were to support aggregation and renumbering?
Actually, v4 and v6 are quite independent. A single host can have BOTH at the same time.
/. keeps its v4's at least until my college switches to v6.
I'd hope
I think it's backward compatibility IIRC.
If I hadn't just spent my mod points on something else besides a topic I figured I'd want to post in, I'd have slammed you for flamebait.
/., thank you.
Please keep such racism off of
What you post translates to advocating capital punishment for being a victim of fraud.
If you are going to advocate capital punishment, call it like it is instead of hiding it behind silly synonyms.
SL needs something like the FDIC...
I think it's called "bribery"
What do you think "special interest" really means?
Such racism is not appreciated here.
In this litigious country you could probably be convicted of a hate crime just for making such a statement.
But racism is nasty anyway.
Even if microsoft wrested that from Novell, it WOULD be a gain for us.
Those of us who have no choice but to use windows will at LEAST not be required to suffer through crashes as well.
IT doesn't heal the wounds, but it would certainly get the salt out of it.
My concern about this is that it will make it MUCH easier for companies to get away with firing whoever they please.
Sure, companies may lose out if they act like jerks, but not before you're already suffering from not having a job.
Only when enough employees value their morals more than their financial survival will companies even bother paying attention.
It's all nice and good to say "to hell with evil", but what if that so called evil was holding you hostage by threatening your job or your life? A gun to your head, in any sense, can very much change your beliefs and perceptions.
If I want you to do what I want, then putting a gun to your head is very effective.
And with debt closing on all sides, losing your job may very well feel like getting your head blown off by a gun.
Oh, so THATS why the big bad ESA has gone RIAA on all my favorite rom sites...
"So the solution is not so simple; unless you're saying that the real simple solution is to live puritan life 24/7 so that there is never a chance of anybody, anywhere, catching you doing things that might be perfectly acceptable in the situation you were in, but perhaps not so acceptable to your employer.. parents.. whoever/whatever.""
...Didn't Jesus try that? Not once did he insult, or post lewd pictures, or otherwise do anything that would be considered "politically incorrect".
The Pharisees tried to trick him many times too, and it didn't work.
"Give to Caesar what is Caesars, and to God what is God's"
"He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone"
Yet, as hard as he tried not to piss anyone off, the "powers that be" STILL managed to railroad him, get him a kangaroo court conviction, and haul him off to be crucified.
These are just examples of how even the most innocent person on earth can nevertheless become the butt of someone's vendetta.
You can still get screwed even if you're innocent.
OOPS
I forgot to call it "what the RIAA *hopes* will happen". Kinda forgot to contrast it with the "way things would really work".
Who marked this funny? It actually sounds like it has a ring of "Insightful" to it.
The problem in this case is that is a matter of propriety.
Win or lose, it takes a crapload of money to fight a lawsuit. Get sued enough and you go out of business.
This is the reason that DDoS's are so effective btw, you are hapless and simply cannot defend yourself. It's the same way with massive lawsuits.
So, some college gets a massive gun stuck to its head in the form of a massive lawsuit by the RIAA. They put the pressure on you to stop filesharing.
Quite simply, the college can do whatever the HELL IT WANTS TO. They own the physical media, computers, and cable you use to fileshare, so they get to make the rules about how it gets used. It is not a democracy, they own it and you gotta do whatever they damn well tell you. ITS THEIR EQUIPMENT.
Combine this with the threat of a massive lawsuit by the RIAA or any other organization, and you've effectively got a chain of duress. RIAA to college: "Stop this p2p stuff and I mean NOW or I'll sue and charge the crap out of you so fast you're head will spin", college to staff: "omg we're gonna get DDoS'ed by the legal system if we don't cave. Stop the students so the RIAA leaves us alone", and staff to students: "Thou shalt not fileshare on pain of getting in massive trouble".
All it is is just the RIAA holding the college hostage, and in effect getting ransom money in the form of its demands being met.
Duress and machismo flow from the RIAA down the chain of command until it finally reaches the students.
All "hot" really means is that the molecules are moving fast.
The maximum temperature would probably be whatever the heck it would be if the molecules were moving at the speed of light.
Just some info.
Such a right is called "Dissenting Shareholder Appraisal Rights"
A dissenting shareholder CANNOT outvote the majority, but they CAN have their shares appraised and fair market value paid to them BEFORE the opposed action takes place.
So, they can't stop it, but they CAN bail out.
Of course, this would probably strengthen the majority's vicegrip even tighter.