Sometimes, the law is does not fit the situation. For example, you could prevent people from shooting eachother by making guns illegal in the US (as if that would ever happen). The result, however, would be that only the criminals would have guns.
You could prevent people from speeding, by inserting electronics in their cars that would sense the speed limit. But this could be disasterous in an emergency situation.
According to Georgia Law, the missionary position is the only allowed sexual position. In order to prevent people from doing it doggie style, they would need to put cameras everywhere. The world's largest porn collection would be in the hands of your government. Even if you followed the law, they would have your entire sexual history. Just how confortable are you with that thought?
In order to prevent you from pumping your veins with something nasty, there will be a camera in your shower. The government will keep all your activities in the shower in their archives for at least seven years. Do you trust them with those video tapes?
Then some day, your wife dies on the way to the hospital, because your car couldn't go above speed limit. If you were able to break the law by speeding, she would have gotten there in time, she would have been saved. And you want to speak up about this problem, blame the government. Do you still trust the government at that time?
While your suit against the government goes on, some journalist manages to get hold a video tape from the government archive, with your wife sucking you. This is evidence that you broke the law, and the government will claim that you actually killed her to get rid of evidence. You get the chair.
The conclusion: The more freedom you give up, the more privacy you give up, the more power you give the government, the more they will screw you over. And they will use that power to do more of the things overseas that generate terrorist attacks, because YOU won't be able to tell them that they can't.
The government's job is not to protect the people, but to find out what people want and then enforce that. The people is the authority that decides over the government, and the government then enforces that will and administers the collective finances.
Spaghetti code is when you write a program in 100% assembly, and then go over with find/replace in order to change all labels to names of food, particularly pasta dishes.
I have done this, but unfortunately, I don't have the source code in ASCII at the moment. It's in this old token-format of Turbo Assembler for Atari ST...
But wouldn't it be nice if double-free()ing didn't fsck things up? Or are we going to play the "the application should know not to double-free()" game, the same way Microsoft enjoyed playing the "the client should know not to ask for resources it doesn't have access to, because it is not the responsibility of the server to know" game?
Actually, the transactional document is the receipt you got from the store. This document says that you bought a physical copy. It doesn't say that you licensed the software contained therein.
When I buy the package in the store, I buy the physical media, and I have not yet entered an agreement with the publisher. I then open the box and start installing. Up comes the license. I agree to the license. However, the license would then only cover the installed copy, not the physical media, since I already own the physical media myself.
After the install, I should then be able to sell the physical media again; the buyer begins the new installation. When the license comes up, this would be a brand new license, which is completely independent from the license *I* agreed to.
Yes, I'm guilty of having thoughts and opinions that are in conflict with the thoughts and opinions of the government. For example, I'm antizionist (NOT to be confused with antisemitist, which is a completely different thing). And I'm even against the DMCA!
The US DoD is already monitoring my web page (which I actually find quite amusing, but raises the question of whether they might also be tapping my phone, e-mail, etc). What is there to stop them from declaring me to be a terrorist, and send their Star Wars troops on me, just for having a differing opinion? After all, they are at WAR with terrorism, and are therefore allowed to liquidate you without questioning or trial.
...ever seen Brazil? It shows where we're headed with all of this. "Oh, the system can't be wrong, the system is perfect!"
Your friend should visit his local RCMP office and ask those questions to the directly. If he can't get any answers, he should seek asylum with another country.
Actually, mass has EVERYTHING to do with gravity. Gravity is a function of the size of the two masses that are attracting eachother, the square of the distance between the two centres of gravity, and the gravitational constant, which I do not remember off the top of my head.
Meaning, that the farther away from the centre of Earth you are, the lower the gravity.
By calculating the gravity at a specific height, you can also calculate the velocity required to stay in orbit at that height. Notice that low orbits require a higher velocity than higher orbits.
Escape velocity is when the kinetic energy exceeds the gravitational pull, allowing you to escape the system.
Any questions? Start digging in your high school physics books.
Kilograms have nothing to do with weight. It's an amount of mass. A 6 kg rock from Earth is still 6 kg on the moon. However, the gravitational force will be about 10 Newton on the moon, instead of the 60 Newton on Earth. Go read your primary school physics books again.
If you really want to test the DMCA, write a page that uses JavaScript to disable the right click in order to "copy protect", then sue Microsoft for a) that you can still do a "File/Save As...", and b) the fact that you have an OPTION to turn off JavaScript, thus circumventing your copy protection.
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The citizens of Russia probably don't have the same quality of information channels Westerners do
Depends on who you call "Westerners". I lived in North America for five years, going completely bonkers at how US-centric the media was. Of course, I would assume that local news play a role, but there were SO many other things happening in the world that were not covered. To get that kind of news, I resorted to foreign media to get the proper world coverage.
So if you don't know about what's happening in Russia, or other places in the world, it's not because it's not happening. You're just reading the wrong papers, watching the wrong news channels, listening to the wrong radio station, and going to the wrong web sites.
Interestingly, the EULA got very interesting in section 4, where a contributor pretty much gives away his rights to his own work. For example, the ramifications of point 4.14, is that if CyberKnowledge wants to sell your comments to CNN (or CIA), then you can not sell it to them yourself. It is also worded in such a manner, than you can not sell it to CNN, even if CyberKnowledge doesn't, because it would be competitive in nature.
From my understanding, you had to right click and "save as" to store the track instead of streaming it. This, I believe, could be argued as "not intended", but rather a feature of the web browser. The web browser allowed this to happen, and therefore, MP3.com can sue Microsoft and Netscape for infringement of the DMCA. It is this infringement that made the illegal copying possible, and therefore, MP3.COM is not at fault.
> but explaining *exactly* where he'll go takes
> quite a bit more than common knowledge (we call
> it "physics."
Actually, the *exact* location of floor impact would be more of a chaos function, unless you are doing the experiment in a "perfect" world, where *all* forces (pressure, wind, magnetism, etc) are completely 100% predictable in all areas at all times.
If you are talking about simplifications, which are quite normal in the field of applied physics, then the knowledge of physics required to calculate the approximate location of impact is, indeed, common knowledge (at least in Norway).
Most people are also able to predict such an outcome without making calculations. I have never seen a basket ball player stop, pull out a calculator, punch in the numbers, measure the distance and direction to the basket, punch in a few more numbers, and then use some kind of measuring device to throw the perfect shot. Yet, most people are able to throw the ball to the approximate location of the basket.
> Apparently you've never had to write a parser
> for EDI, or any other binary data interchange
> format.
This reminds me of an argument I had with a girl from New York. I had mentioned that the US was somewhat uncivilized because of the death penalty, and she came back with a "have you been to Afghanistan lately?" I could not stop laughing.
My point is - if you're going to compare XML with something, why choose - of all things - EDI??!?
You are talking about CONTROLLED multitasking here. There's a much bigger problem when you are in the middle of some serious coding, and a manager comes by because he wants your input on something completely different. You can't finish your line of though, but have to drop everything you have in your hands. After a 20 minute meeting, you return to your desk, look at your screen and go "what the hell was I doing before the interruption?"
Once you have regained your line of thought and gotten to write about two more lines of code, the phone rings, because first line of tech support (if you have one) was out for lunch, and it's your week to take second line of support. You dial up remotely to the client's machine, with the client on the line, calming him down, telling him that "it's ok, nothing bad has happened, it's just an informative message you see on the screen". The client then goes into a discussion about other things that he is wondering about.
20 minutes later, you try to figure out where you were in the code, spend perhaps two minutes getting back to where you were. You might get another ten minutes of coding in, when your manager runs in to ask about some software that he wants to install on his personal laptop.
I have had LONG days, and even WEEKS that were just constant interruptions. And then the manager DARES to complain about how I didn't meet my deadline? Jeesh! I wonder why!!!
...and then you get called in to your manager's office, because "your productivity has gone down, and you're not meeting deadlines anymore." Deadlines that were close to impossible in the first place, even if you DIDN'T get interrupted every ten minutes.
It hardly takes a scientist to notice that, after you have hung up, you actually spend some time thinking "now, what was it I was doing?" - and that it kills you even more when THAT process is interrupted again. Anyone who has been in the situation knows exactly what that does to you.
In practice, there are a lot of "problem users" who are unable to distinguish between your content and inserted advertisement. They also never noticed that they installed the software by accident. Yes, you can bitch at them because THEY were at fault, installing things that they didn't know what was, just clicking on the "next" button without reading, but the RESULT is that I, as the webmaster of my site, end up spending hours just replying to flames from these dumb users.
Now, if these modified browsers gave me a MIME-header to check, I could insert a disclaimer at the top of the page. (Not that anyone would actually read the disclaimer anyway...)
> In view of the above, I suspect that this case
> will go forward, and to be honest, I expect the
> defendant to lose. It's a pretty clear case.
Exactly. He will be tried for breaking the law. The law itself will not be tried in the first round. If I understand the US court system correctly, the appeal will test the legitimacy of the first round, and the appeal to the second round will test the legitimacy of the actual law. In short, it's not a short route.
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Sometimes, the law is does not fit the situation. For example, you could prevent people from shooting eachother by making guns illegal in the US (as if that would ever happen). The result, however, would be that only the criminals would have guns.
You could prevent people from speeding, by inserting electronics in their cars that would sense the speed limit. But this could be disasterous in an emergency situation.
According to Georgia Law, the missionary position is the only allowed sexual position. In order to prevent people from doing it doggie style, they would need to put cameras everywhere. The world's largest porn collection would be in the hands of your government. Even if you followed the law, they would have your entire sexual history. Just how confortable are you with that thought?
In order to prevent you from pumping your veins with something nasty, there will be a camera in your shower. The government will keep all your activities in the shower in their archives for at least seven years. Do you trust them with those video tapes?
Then some day, your wife dies on the way to the hospital, because your car couldn't go above speed limit. If you were able to break the law by speeding, she would have gotten there in time, she would have been saved. And you want to speak up about this problem, blame the government. Do you still trust the government at that time?
While your suit against the government goes on, some journalist manages to get hold a video tape from the government archive, with your wife sucking you. This is evidence that you broke the law, and the government will claim that you actually killed her to get rid of evidence. You get the chair.
The conclusion: The more freedom you give up, the more privacy you give up, the more power you give the government, the more they will screw you over. And they will use that power to do more of the things overseas that generate terrorist attacks, because YOU won't be able to tell them that they can't.
The government's job is not to protect the people, but to find out what people want and then enforce that. The people is the authority that decides over the government, and the government then enforces that will and administers the collective finances.
I have done this, but unfortunately, I don't have the source code in ASCII at the moment. It's in this old token-format of Turbo Assembler for Atari ST...
But wouldn't it be nice if double-free()ing didn't fsck things up? Or are we going to play the "the application should know not to double-free()" game, the same way Microsoft enjoyed playing the "the client should know not to ask for resources it doesn't have access to, because it is not the responsibility of the server to know" game?
Actually, the transactional document is the receipt you got from the store. This document says that you bought a physical copy. It doesn't say that you licensed the software contained therein.
Here's an interesting thought...
When I buy the package in the store, I buy the physical media, and I have not yet entered an agreement with the publisher. I then open the box and start installing. Up comes the license. I agree to the license. However, the license would then only cover the installed copy, not the physical media, since I already own the physical media myself.
After the install, I should then be able to sell the physical media again; the buyer begins the new installation. When the license comes up, this would be a brand new license, which is completely independent from the license *I* agreed to.
Feel free to shoot holes in this loophole...
Yes, I'm guilty of having thoughts and opinions that are in conflict with the thoughts and opinions of the government. For example, I'm antizionist (NOT to be confused with antisemitist, which is a completely different thing). And I'm even against the DMCA!
The US DoD is already monitoring my web page (which I actually find quite amusing, but raises the question of whether they might also be tapping my phone, e-mail, etc). What is there to stop them from declaring me to be a terrorist, and send their Star Wars troops on me, just for having a differing opinion? After all, they are at WAR with terrorism, and are therefore allowed to liquidate you without questioning or trial.
Scary thought, eh? You anti-DMCA terrorist, you!
...ever seen Brazil? It shows where we're headed with all of this. "Oh, the system can't be wrong, the system is perfect!"
Your friend should visit his local RCMP office and ask those questions to the directly. If he can't get any answers, he should seek asylum with another country.
Actually, mass has EVERYTHING to do with gravity. Gravity is a function of the size of the two masses that are attracting eachother, the square of the distance between the two centres of gravity, and the gravitational constant, which I do not remember off the top of my head.
Meaning, that the farther away from the centre of Earth you are, the lower the gravity.
By calculating the gravity at a specific height, you can also calculate the velocity required to stay in orbit at that height. Notice that low orbits require a higher velocity than higher orbits.
Escape velocity is when the kinetic energy exceeds the gravitational pull, allowing you to escape the system.
Any questions? Start digging in your high school physics books.
Kilograms have nothing to do with weight. It's an amount of mass. A 6 kg rock from Earth is still 6 kg on the moon. However, the gravitational force will be about 10 Newton on the moon, instead of the 60 Newton on Earth. Go read your primary school physics books again.
Yes, but at least I will have made a bunch of money from suing Microsoft over the damages they have done to my web site. And that ain't bad. :^)
If you really want to test the DMCA, write a page that uses JavaScript to disable the right click in order to "copy protect", then sue Microsoft for a) that you can still do a "File/Save As...", and b) the fact that you have an OPTION to turn off JavaScript, thus circumventing your copy protection.
The citizens of Russia probably don't have the same quality of information channels Westerners do
Depends on who you call "Westerners". I lived in North America for five years, going completely bonkers at how US-centric the media was. Of course, I would assume that local news play a role, but there were SO many other things happening in the world that were not covered. To get that kind of news, I resorted to foreign media to get the proper world coverage.
So if you don't know about what's happening in Russia, or other places in the world, it's not because it's not happening. You're just reading the wrong papers, watching the wrong news channels, listening to the wrong radio station, and going to the wrong web sites.
Interestingly, the EULA got very interesting in section 4, where a contributor pretty much gives away his rights to his own work. For example, the ramifications of point 4.14, is that if CyberKnowledge wants to sell your comments to CNN (or CIA), then you can not sell it to them yourself. It is also worded in such a manner, than you can not sell it to CNN, even if CyberKnowledge doesn't, because it would be competitive in nature.
*shiver*
From my understanding, you had to right click and "save as" to store the track instead of streaming it. This, I believe, could be argued as "not intended", but rather a feature of the web browser. The web browser allowed this to happen, and therefore, MP3.com can sue Microsoft and Netscape for infringement of the DMCA. It is this infringement that made the illegal copying possible, and therefore, MP3.COM is not at fault.
"So how was the concert?"
"I don't remember"
"Are you going again?"
"Hell, yeah!"
> but explaining *exactly* where he'll go takes
> quite a bit more than common knowledge (we call
> it "physics."
Actually, the *exact* location of floor impact would be more of a chaos function, unless you are doing the experiment in a "perfect" world, where *all* forces (pressure, wind, magnetism, etc) are completely 100% predictable in all areas at all times.
If you are talking about simplifications, which are quite normal in the field of applied physics, then the knowledge of physics required to calculate the approximate location of impact is, indeed, common knowledge (at least in Norway).
Most people are also able to predict such an outcome without making calculations. I have never seen a basket ball player stop, pull out a calculator, punch in the numbers, measure the distance and direction to the basket, punch in a few more numbers, and then use some kind of measuring device to throw the perfect shot. Yet, most people are able to throw the ball to the approximate location of the basket.
> Apparently you've never had to write a parser
> for EDI, or any other binary data interchange
> format.
This reminds me of an argument I had with a girl from New York. I had mentioned that the US was somewhat uncivilized because of the death penalty, and she came back with a "have you been to Afghanistan lately?" I could not stop laughing.
My point is - if you're going to compare XML with something, why choose - of all things - EDI??!?
Once you have regained your line of thought and gotten to write about two more lines of code, the phone rings, because first line of tech support (if you have one) was out for lunch, and it's your week to take second line of support. You dial up remotely to the client's machine, with the client on the line, calming him down, telling him that "it's ok, nothing bad has happened, it's just an informative message you see on the screen". The client then goes into a discussion about other things that he is wondering about.
20 minutes later, you try to figure out where you were in the code, spend perhaps two minutes getting back to where you were. You might get another ten minutes of coding in, when your manager runs in to ask about some software that he wants to install on his personal laptop.
I have had LONG days, and even WEEKS that were just constant interruptions. And then the manager DARES to complain about how I didn't meet my deadline? Jeesh! I wonder why!!!
Eventually, I quit that job.
...and then you get called in to your manager's office, because "your productivity has gone down, and you're not meeting deadlines anymore." Deadlines that were close to impossible in the first place, even if you DIDN'T get interrupted every ten minutes.
It hardly takes a scientist to notice that, after you have hung up, you actually spend some time thinking "now, what was it I was doing?" - and that it kills you even more when THAT process is interrupted again. Anyone who has been in the situation knows exactly what that does to you.
In practice, there are a lot of "problem users" who are unable to distinguish between your content and inserted advertisement. They also never noticed that they installed the software by accident. Yes, you can bitch at them because THEY were at fault, installing things that they didn't know what was, just clicking on the "next" button without reading, but the RESULT is that I, as the webmaster of my site, end up spending hours just replying to flames from these dumb users.
Now, if these modified browsers gave me a MIME-header to check, I could insert a disclaimer at the top of the page. (Not that anyone would actually read the disclaimer anyway...)
> In view of the above, I suspect that this case
> will go forward, and to be honest, I expect the
> defendant to lose. It's a pretty clear case.
Exactly. He will be tried for breaking the law. The law itself will not be tried in the first round. If I understand the US court system correctly, the appeal will test the legitimacy of the first round, and the appeal to the second round will test the legitimacy of the actual law. In short, it's not a short route.
> Is the USA so gung ho to create an
> international incident as to persue this case?
Given the record of the current president... yes.
Depending on how this case goes, I am contemplating returning my Green Card to the US Embassy in Oslo, complete with reasons.
Actually, Israel won WWII. They were the only ones who came out with more than what they started with.