They'd go to a judge, claim to have reason to believe that you might be illegally using their software, mention casually that they'd TRIED to find out nicely, but, that mean nasty CTO just yelled abuse at them and told them to go fuck themselves. The judge would nod sagely, grant a court order, and the auditors would show up again, only this time with armed federal agents.
At least, that's how it generally goes down.
There's a difference between 'trying to create a profitable business' and 'we need to cover bandwidth, hardware, and people costs. Profit would be nice, though.'
I know this will probably get modded into the ground, but what about Microsoft? Nimda and Code Red, which exclusively affected IIS on Win2K did "millions of dollars" in damage. If software companies are found to be liable for their hole-laden sotware, I would think Microsoft should be on the top of the list.
Bad example. The patch for this was available for a month before the exploits started rolling in.
What would OSS do if such laws existed? It would either need to be classified as 'non professional' code, meaning it's indemified against liability, but nobody would use it, or it would need to play by EXACTLY the same rules as any other software release. Having the code available should NOT release it from that responsibility, any more than an engineer would be released from responsibility for building a bridge that was unsafe, even if he allowed the random public to look at the blueprints all they wanted.
America to the world community is like Microsoft to the business world; "We're here, and we don't want anybody else to be here, so play by our rules, or we'll smack you down."
She won because she was flavour of the month.
Awards such as this would be far better if they were judged and awarded five years after the fact; then it might actually be based on the works themselves.
Neuromancer won pretty much all of them; Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick award. I vaugely remember hearing that it's the only book to do so, but I could be wrong on that point.
The Japanese are only able to maintain a defensive force, not an army, so even if it was weapons research, it would only be for use in self defense.
Well, American policy has always been that it's nukes are purely defensive weapons (like the Peacekeepers) so the argument could be made.....
Oh, I forgot. What's OK for America isn't OK for any other country.
Actually, it's just that if I decide that I don't like the software, I'm likely not going to have the time to explain 'why' to somebody. If I'm not sigining up for a beta, I expect the useage of eval software to be utterly anonymous; I'm the one evaluating it, if I decide not to use it, I'm the one who should decide if it's worth my time to tell you guys. You don't need to contact me, you don't need to know I tried your stuff.
In South Africa, car-jackings are common. They also often involve the owner of the car being assaulted or murdered. So often, in fact, that car-jackings are automatically considered to be murder attempts. So, one can legally employ lethal countermeasures.
This resulted in a car with built-in flamethrowers, under the car and shooting upwards, fully legal. You can probably still find the articles on CNN....
So? 90 percent of motherboards also come with a PoS ATI chip for video, too. You going to upgrade to a GeForce 4, and not bother getting a sound card?
Of course, I'm still using my Vortex 2 card... "Best soundcard EVER!"
Because with a game like this, your graphics card will probably be choked up before your CPU is.
And nowadays, everybody has hardware-accelerated sound cards, which helps as well.
"Not allowed to videotape without the person's permission." Signing the contract implictly constitutes permission. They don't want to sign, they don't get the job.
Actually, they should do both.
State that no 'non-pornographic' material can go on.prn, and that no 'non-suitable for 5 year olds' material can go on.kids.
Of course, half of the websites these days that are.com shouldn't be....
When you have any system, after time, people stop playing the system and start playing the rules. This tends to ruin the system for new users, as well as perverting the original intention of the system itself.
Games, government, law; makes no difference. Once you put rules in place, somebody's going to make a concerted effort to do something that, while legal according to the rules, isn't what was intended.
In this case, throwing in a (more or less) unrelated bill as a piggy-back is 'playing the rules' to get your desired outcome, instead of playing the system to get the outcome. Similar to the RIAA throwing a 'work for hire' clause into a freakin SATELLITE bill. WTF?
no more "hidden camera investigations" by legitimate journalists.
Good, I feel that they've really abused the right, and ruined it for the rest of themselves.
no "nanny cam" to catch the nanny abusing your child or stealing your stuff.
Just throw in to your standard agreement that they might be videotaped at anytime. What, you don't have a written contract with the person with whom you're leaving your children? Wow.
I agree totally; it's the 'virtual' equivalent of putting the dirty magazines on the top shelf, or having the videos in a separate room so the kids don't see them.
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Perhaps it's analagous to the seatbelt law. If people don't want to wear seatbelts, it's their loss, yet wearing seatbelts is still a law (at least in my hometown of NJ).
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I'll point out that one of the reasons to wear a seatbelt is so as not to injure the others in the car by flopping about, or, for the driver, to be firmly anchored so as to retain as much control over the vehicle as possible.
The kid broke the rules, and deserves to be slapped. Maybe the rules should be challenged, but that's a completely different ball of wax.
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They'd go to a judge, claim to have reason to believe that you might be illegally using their software, mention casually that they'd TRIED to find out nicely, but, that mean nasty CTO just yelled abuse at them and told them to go fuck themselves. The judge would nod sagely, grant a court order, and the auditors would show up again, only this time with armed federal agents. At least, that's how it generally goes down.
There's a difference between 'trying to create a profitable business' and 'we need to cover bandwidth, hardware, and people costs. Profit would be nice, though.'
What are the "classic signs" of a cult?
As opposed to... what? Putting up with explaining over and over why random feature 'x' of gee-whiz gollywag phone doesn't work on their network?
America to the world community is like Microsoft to the business world; "We're here, and we don't want anybody else to be here, so play by our rules, or we'll smack you down."
She won because she was flavour of the month. Awards such as this would be far better if they were judged and awarded five years after the fact; then it might actually be based on the works themselves.
Neuromancer won pretty much all of them; Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick award. I vaugely remember hearing that it's the only book to do so, but I could be wrong on that point.
Actually, it's just that if I decide that I don't like the software, I'm likely not going to have the time to explain 'why' to somebody. If I'm not sigining up for a beta, I expect the useage of eval software to be utterly anonymous; I'm the one evaluating it, if I decide not to use it, I'm the one who should decide if it's worth my time to tell you guys. You don't need to contact me, you don't need to know I tried your stuff.
In South Africa, car-jackings are common. They also often involve the owner of the car being assaulted or murdered. So often, in fact, that car-jackings are automatically considered to be murder attempts. So, one can legally employ lethal countermeasures. This resulted in a car with built-in flamethrowers, under the car and shooting upwards, fully legal. You can probably still find the articles on CNN....
Entrapment would be having a police officer siddle up to people and say "Hey, that car's unlocked. Why not steal it?"
"Professional" level is, as I recall, 48 bits. It's not the colours, it's the math. John Carmack explains it much better than I; perhaps he will. :-)
Actually, I always hoped that Tivo would partner with Rogers, and put out a RogersTivo that saved the direct MPEG2 streams off of digital cable.
So? 90 percent of motherboards also come with a PoS ATI chip for video, too. You going to upgrade to a GeForce 4, and not bother getting a sound card? Of course, I'm still using my Vortex 2 card... "Best soundcard EVER!"
Because with a game like this, your graphics card will probably be choked up before your CPU is. And nowadays, everybody has hardware-accelerated sound cards, which helps as well.
"Not allowed to videotape without the person's permission." Signing the contract implictly constitutes permission. They don't want to sign, they don't get the job.
Actually, they should do both. State that no 'non-pornographic' material can go on .prn, and that no 'non-suitable for 5 year olds' material can go on .kids.
Of course, half of the websites these days that are .com shouldn't be....
When you have any system, after time, people stop playing the system and start playing the rules. This tends to ruin the system for new users, as well as perverting the original intention of the system itself. Games, government, law; makes no difference. Once you put rules in place, somebody's going to make a concerted effort to do something that, while legal according to the rules, isn't what was intended. In this case, throwing in a (more or less) unrelated bill as a piggy-back is 'playing the rules' to get your desired outcome, instead of playing the system to get the outcome. Similar to the RIAA throwing a 'work for hire' clause into a freakin SATELLITE bill. WTF?
I agree totally; it's the 'virtual' equivalent of putting the dirty magazines on the top shelf, or having the videos in a separate room so the kids don't see them.
In other OTHER terms, on a machine like this, the lastest build of Mozilla is actually smooth and responsive.
NUMA. Go look it up. :-)
[quote] Perhaps it's analagous to the seatbelt law. If people don't want to wear seatbelts, it's their loss, yet wearing seatbelts is still a law (at least in my hometown of NJ). [/quote] I'll point out that one of the reasons to wear a seatbelt is so as not to injure the others in the car by flopping about, or, for the driver, to be firmly anchored so as to retain as much control over the vehicle as possible. The kid broke the rules, and deserves to be slapped. Maybe the rules should be challenged, but that's a completely different ball of wax.