There seems to be a clear unwillingess on the part of Sanford to bother following any sort of normal criminal procedure here. This is despite the fact that we have an armed adult who stalked a child and ended up shooting him.
The usual procedure for sorting out these things should have been allowed to function.
DVD regions are trivial to defeat. Multi-region players are available widely, cheaply, and legally. In some jurisdictions, it's even legally mandated that disk players not enforce those restrictions.
DVD regions are a paper tiger compared to web services.
If you don't then raving nutcases will come flooding out of the woodwork can call you a flaming racist. They will criticize you for which accents you apply to which characters (like Lucas).
...I'm feeling a strange sense of De Ja Vu....it's almost as if someone already tried this before during another iteration of this "mail order delivery" thing.
It's zombies from the past reaching out and trying to grab us back.
Copyright grants entities the standing to interfere with the creation of new works. This fact was one of the facts originally considered when the law was being originally created and was thought to be a potential problem.
Particularly with patents, we see the destructive aspects of "creative property" quite frequently. These ideas also lead to incidental use being suppressed. Restaurants can't even sing you happy birthday any more for fear of being sued. The record of historical events can't be reproduced. Original works can't be distributed in their entirety due to the subtleties of derivative licensing.
That is why the whole construct was intended to be "limited".
Copyright has been distorted by the shortsighted in order to benefit a few rich corporate stockholders.
This work is old enough that this issue shouldn't even be coming up. If not for the recent corruption of the government by corporate interests, it would not be an issue at all.
No it doesn't. The creators be be completely screwed for all "copyright cares". Copyright exists to encourage the creation of creative works. If that means that "creators get screwed", then that's perfectly consistent with the actual legal language you are trying to misrepresent.
Artists have NO RIGHTS.
Copyrights are a power granted to the federal government. The justification for this power is that is serves a useful public purpose. That purpose is not the enrichment of artists.
You are trying to conflate the means with the end.
The actual creator of the work was the one that wanted to direct.
Yeah. That's right. The desires of the actual TALENT are being ignored here. That's OK. I am sure you will come up with some pro-corporate excuse why the desires of CBS should override the guy who wrote it in the first place.
If they haven't been willing to publish the work after all this time, their rights should be null and void anyways.
I've had storage vendors bluntly tell me not to treat tapes that way. That included LTO. They're better than other forms of tape but not still not something to trifle with.
This notion of tape durability you're advocating would be far more significant technological progress than anything else mentioned in this article.
Giving up information like that is just bad news. It's poor security practice even as a mere individual. As a professional that might need to manage company secrets and or just your own access to company systems, being willing to fold like a deck of cards is a very problematic thing.
Being a willing victim of what appears on the surface to be some sort of identity theft scheme is wrong on multiple levels.
You know, there's a nasty little secret about tapes.
You are NOT supposed to reuse them. Certainly you aren't going to be encouraged by and of the relevant vendors to treat them as interchangeable with random access media like a hard drive.
So you probably need a LOT more tapes then you seem to be using. That get's expensive quick.
Even if you are the sort of outfit that has the money to spend on these ungodly expensive tapes, drives, and robots you're still probably putting spinny disks in between. Your most likely recovery scenario is going to be from spinny disk.
You would be doing it for the same reason that individuals are far more likely to put their own backups on disk. It's fast, cheap, and random access.
The tape is there just to check off a box on a compliance form.
He didn't "free the slaves". Southern Slave owners started acting like spoiled children and had a temper tantrum about not getting their way all the time. It was the south that pressed the issue and brought matters to a head.
It's the idiot fire eaters that are ultimately responsible for the demise of slavery.
It was something very much along the lines of "suicide by cop".
The north would have settled for the old status quo if the situation had allowed for it.
No. The nice thing about Linux is that you can pick and choose everything that you run. If there is a big gaping black hole sucking away the resource of your system it won't be hidden in some generic service name that takes more effort to decode.
People like to claim that Unix users prefer things to be more complicated but we really don't.
While theoretically possible, such attempted changes in Windows don't do well because Windows is not designed with this in mind. You will usually end up with something that's kind of broken when compared to the default desktop environment.
Besides. Explorer is only the file manager.
That's not much of a change compared to what you can do with Unix window managers (or ports of them to Windows).
The "speed" advantage of Linux or Unix in general remains what it always was. The core system is better. If there is a performance issue, it will be transparent. It will be easy to drill down and see why. There will be a smoking gun that you can then KILL it (or not).
Windows isn't quite that transparent and tends to bog down for no apparent reason. It also doesn't handle being put under load nearly as well. In 20 years this hasn't really changed.
I can put Linux/Unix under heavy load and continue about my business. Windows will tend to get sluggish for no apparent reason even without doing anything to pound it into the dirt.
A bad patent allows large corporations to steal from me personally. They allow a corporation to deprive me of the product of my own intellect. Patents allow corporations to sue me for "re-inventing" something trivial. This happens without the benefit of me ever seeing their patent because their patent is total nonsense.
This is a far greater harm then having different companies all re-invent the same thing.
Some things are obvious as soon as you hear a description of the problem. Any student is capable of whipping up psuedocode on the spot that deals with the basic "invention".
Problems in software can be solved with a wide array of ready made tools that make a lot of impressive sounding problems really pretty trivial once you break them down.
Sometimes, the necessary parts just happen to become commonplace and cheap enough at a particular time to make something viable beyond a proof of concept.
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Fine. Let the GRAND JURY sort it out then.
That's what they are there for.
There seems to be a clear unwillingess on the part of Sanford to bother following any sort of normal criminal procedure here. This is despite the fact that we have an armed adult who stalked a child and ended up shooting him.
The usual procedure for sorting out these things should have been allowed to function.
Give the shooter his day in court.
DVD regions are trivial to defeat. Multi-region players are available widely, cheaply, and legally. In some jurisdictions, it's even legally mandated that disk players not enforce those restrictions.
DVD regions are a paper tiger compared to web services.
If you don't then raving nutcases will come flooding out of the woodwork can call you a flaming racist. They will criticize you for which accents you apply to which characters (like Lucas).
...I'm feeling a strange sense of De Ja Vu. ...it's almost as if someone already tried this before during another iteration of this "mail order delivery" thing.
It's zombies from the past reaching out and trying to grab us back.
Next thing you know they will be using some tired old script from the 1500's.
Copyright grants entities the standing to interfere with the creation of new works. This fact was one of the facts originally considered when the law was being originally created and was thought to be a potential problem.
Particularly with patents, we see the destructive aspects of "creative property" quite frequently. These ideas also lead to incidental use being suppressed. Restaurants can't even sing you happy birthday any more for fear of being sued. The record of historical events can't be reproduced. Original works can't be distributed in their entirety due to the subtleties of derivative licensing.
That is why the whole construct was intended to be "limited".
Copyright has been distorted by the shortsighted in order to benefit a few rich corporate stockholders.
This work is old enough that this issue shouldn't even be coming up. If not for the recent corruption of the government by corporate interests, it would not be an issue at all.
> Copyright exists to protect the creators
No it doesn't. The creators be be completely screwed for all "copyright cares". Copyright exists to encourage the creation of creative works. If that means that "creators get screwed", then that's perfectly consistent with the actual legal language you are trying to misrepresent.
Artists have NO RIGHTS.
Copyrights are a power granted to the federal government. The justification for this power is that is serves a useful public purpose. That purpose is not the enrichment of artists.
You are trying to conflate the means with the end.
The actual creator of the work was the one that wanted to direct.
Yeah. That's right. The desires of the actual TALENT are being ignored here. That's OK. I am sure you will come up with some pro-corporate excuse why the desires of CBS should override the guy who wrote it in the first place.
If they haven't been willing to publish the work after all this time, their rights should be null and void anyways.
Spinrad should get it back.
You're the one with ideological blinders.
You are like most fundies who try to pretend their own faults are actually the faults of others.
I despise the idea of "bail outs" probably more than Romney.
However, I am a pragmatist.
I've had storage vendors bluntly tell me not to treat tapes that way. That included LTO. They're better than other forms of tape but not still not something to trifle with.
This notion of tape durability you're advocating would be far more significant technological progress than anything else mentioned in this article.
Giving up information like that is just bad news. It's poor security practice even as a mere individual. As a professional that might need to manage company secrets and or just your own access to company systems, being willing to fold like a deck of cards is a very problematic thing.
Being a willing victim of what appears on the surface to be some sort of identity theft scheme is wrong on multiple levels.
Iron Mountain horror stories?
You may need that other backup just to recover from what Iron Mountain does to your tapes.
How many times can you use the tape before your software vendor recommends you retire it?
Tape is much more of a "consumable" than hard drives are.
You know, there's a nasty little secret about tapes.
You are NOT supposed to reuse them. Certainly you aren't going to be encouraged by and of the relevant vendors to treat them as interchangeable with random access media like a hard drive.
So you probably need a LOT more tapes then you seem to be using. That get's expensive quick.
The tech has it's caveats.
...or perhaps this idea of taking incremental backups, at least some of the time.
Even if you are the sort of outfit that has the money to spend on these ungodly expensive tapes, drives, and robots you're still probably putting spinny disks in between. Your most likely recovery scenario is going to be from spinny disk.
You would be doing it for the same reason that individuals are far more likely to put their own backups on disk. It's fast, cheap, and random access.
The tape is there just to check off a box on a compliance form.
It's hard not to spend money when you inherit two wars and the biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression.
He didn't "free the slaves". Southern Slave owners started acting like spoiled children and had a temper tantrum about not getting their way all the time. It was the south that pressed the issue and brought matters to a head.
It's the idiot fire eaters that are ultimately responsible for the demise of slavery.
It was something very much along the lines of "suicide by cop".
The north would have settled for the old status quo if the situation had allowed for it.
No. The nice thing about Linux is that you can pick and choose everything that you run. If there is a big gaping black hole sucking away the resource of your system it won't be hidden in some generic service name that takes more effort to decode.
People like to claim that Unix users prefer things to be more complicated but we really don't.
Or you could simply use the supplied "shiny happy interface" to install a better video driver.
This is one thing that the "trend desktop distribution" in question excels at.
If you have to be "smart" in order to avoid getting viruses then you did it wrong.
No amount of trying to blame the user will alter that.
While theoretically possible, such attempted changes in Windows don't do well because Windows is not designed with this in mind. You will usually end up with something that's kind of broken when compared to the default desktop environment.
Besides. Explorer is only the file manager.
That's not much of a change compared to what you can do with Unix window managers (or ports of them to Windows).
The "speed" advantage of Linux or Unix in general remains what it always was. The core system is better. If there is a performance issue, it will be transparent. It will be easy to drill down and see why. There will be a smoking gun that you can then KILL it (or not).
Windows isn't quite that transparent and tends to bog down for no apparent reason. It also doesn't handle being put under load nearly as well. In 20 years this hasn't really changed.
I can put Linux/Unix under heavy load and continue about my business. Windows will tend to get sluggish for no apparent reason even without doing anything to pound it into the dirt.
A bad patent allows large corporations to steal from me personally. They allow a corporation to deprive me of the product of my own intellect. Patents allow corporations to sue me for "re-inventing" something trivial. This happens without the benefit of me ever seeing their patent because their patent is total nonsense.
This is a far greater harm then having different companies all re-invent the same thing.
Some things are obvious as soon as you hear a description of the problem. Any student is capable of whipping up psuedocode on the spot that deals with the basic "invention".
Problems in software can be solved with a wide array of ready made tools that make a lot of impressive sounding problems really pretty trivial once you break them down.
Sometimes, the necessary parts just happen to become commonplace and cheap enough at a particular time to make something viable beyond a proof of concept.