That's interesting. IANAL, so is it one infringement per album, or one per CD sold? It seems to me that if it's one per album, then he's better off claiming actual damages (like a previous poster said), and suing them for some reasonable licensing fee that he would have been paid if he had decided sell licenses.
On top of that, this means first 4 internet needs to publish the entire source code of their product to remain compliant under the GPL, or they could be sued for the revenues they got from Sony too.
Actually I might be thinking patent infringement there. Seems like in a copyright case they could sue for statutory or actual damages if the material has been registered with the copyright office. The statutory damages might be $750 to $30,000 per infringement, but a judge can go above or below those numbers. Actual damages requires you to prove loss of income, which would be difficult in this case, since the code is distributed freely (in the sense of beer).
Anyway, DVD John can actually sue Sony for all *revenue* that Sony made from the sale of the CDs, if I'm not mistaken (not just profits). That would grab them where it hurts!
Well, not communism per se, as much as it's specifically about the Russian revolution, and how their great experiment ended in a dictatorship. But of course, communism has a lot to do with it.
Yeah, the GP's teacher must have been totally clueless. We were told specifically that animal farm was a satire of the Russian revolution, and discussed it at length.
It's pretty bad when a fellow citizen actually thinks that you could hold a fair election by phoning in your votes. What is it, the new Diebold-phone system? It would be so incredibly easy to screw with the votes, and impossible to do a recount. Great frickin' idea.
I'm all in favour of voting, but let's stick with the paper and pencil method for now, OK?
I'm an engineer. I know the technology. I'm not going to accept the number you just pulled out of your ass without some kind of reference to back it up. If I had to guess, I'd say they're more in the range of 5%, which would be high for this type of sensor. I've been pulled over twice, and both times he was within a couple kph of what my speedometer said. With lasers, the accuracy is even better.
I drive through a lot of states in the US and they are all much stricter. Ohio will pull you over for being 5 mph over the limit, and Michigan seems to have a 10% rule, for instance. Michigan also has higher speed limits (70mph) than Ontario. They're all using the same equipment.
virtually everyone who calls themself a 'capitalist' isn't. to be a capitalist, you must live off the revenue generated by capital you control. i suspect stronlgy that dada21 and others like him actually live by trading their labour to people who are, in fact capitalists.
I disagree. I do not have enough capital in terms of monetary assets and equity to generate enough income to live off, but I am a capitalist. I live off "trading labor" as you call it, but since my person is something I own (hence, I am my own capital), then I am, in a sense, living off capital, as is everyone who has a job and doesn't rely on social assistance.
As I trade my labor for capital, I re-invest some in improving myself, I pay maintenance fees like rent, heat, and food, and then I put some away which I can use as monetary capital to generate more income later in life.
Um, IAAAC (I am also a Canadian), living in Ontario, and where the heck have you been for the last decade? We HAD photo-radar in Ontario years ago, then Harris got rid of it, and now McGuinty was talking about re-instating it, and given his record of shooting himself in the foot, there's still a good chance he might try it one of these years. The fact that he even said it was only to raise money is an admission of why speeding tickets are a scam.
Those road signs that tell you how fast you're going do not issue tickets - they're just a feedback mechanism which seems to work better than your speedometer. It is amazing - even when I know I'm just going the limit, seeing one of those signs makes me check my speed.
Personally, I'm in favour of a 2 step process:
1) Raise speed limits to reasonable amounts (120 kph on the 401, 90 in rural areas, 60 on city streets, etc.).
2) ENFORCE THEM STRICTLY.
That would fix the problem of speeding. The fact that the police won't pull you over on the 401 (speed limit 100 kph) when you're going 119 is stupid when there are about 3% of the drivers trying to obey the real limit at 100 kph and causing accidents, but the road itself was designed for 120 kph.
Hey, judging by the fact that I almost need to disassemble my front suspension to change the oil filter on my car, I'm pretty sure the engineers who designed the thing don't change their own oil anymore...
Well, yes, that's certainly advocating violent crime. It would be a lot worse, of course, if this wasn't coming from a juvenile, but was coming from some religious figure who pretends to have a monopoly on the word of God or something.
In a civil court, I imagine that the person could be held partially liable for damages from the riots, and be sued for portions of the damage.
Whether or not the speech itself is a crime is a place where you'd need to tread lightly simply because of how close it comes to censorship. In fact I don't think I'd support censoring the words... I'd only support charging the author with being an accomplice to the vandalism.
Hey, if a blog says, "meet me out back of xxx at 2100 so we start start a few cars on fire", then I'd say it's clearly criminal and should be taken down. If it simply states outrage about someone's living conditions, and sympathizes with the feelings of the rioters, then it should be left alone.
What we really need to see is the exact text of the blog in question before we all go running our mouths off about freedom of speech. After all, we accept that you can't shout fire in a crowded theatre and get off the hook on a freedom of speech defense. Also a mob boss can't order his cronies to go shoot someone and hide behind freedom of speech either. Freedom of speech is supposed to protect your right to express opinions, not your right to use your mouth (or keyboard) to organize a criminal act.
I really think the default safe state for the mars lander while safely on the ground on Mars is "do nothing and wait for program download". The safe state while re-entering is either "do nothing and crash" or "take a stab at when to fire the retro-rockets and probably crash". Either way, it doesn't matter from a safety perspective - there's nobody to kill on Mars (as far as we know).
This applies more to medical equipment and big machinery back here on Earth.
Forcing country codes just seems like the next logical step.
That's fine, as long as I can have another code for space (.nil?) where specific countries' laws don't apply, and I can put a satellite there and host my datahaven in the.nil TLD.:) Maybe I don't want to be forced to choose a country.
The problem is, if you look at something like a mars lander, then you can't just shut it down if it gets some bad inputs.
True, it's just that in my line of work, off is usually the safe state, but what should be done is to go to some kind of safe state, whatever that may be. Sometimes you revert to a manual operation, for instance.
Also, even good inputs can result in the the machine not doing what it needs to do.
Which is why you need to also hire a mechanical and an electrical engineer to design those aspects so that the mechanical and electrical systems fail in a safe and detectable way.
For instance, it used to be that stoplights were designed with a physical disk inside that rotated creating the "program" of the different lights. You also had interlocked electrical circuits so that both greens could never come on at the same time. These are mechanical and electrical ways to make the system fail to a safe condition. I have recently been at an intersection where I saw the traffic lights had green both ways (during a storm). This is because some vendor is selling a traffic light system on the market that is completely software based, and they hired a bargain basement programmer and/or engineer to design it, and we should find them and shoot them for their incompetence, but I doubt that will happen.
each country already has their own TLD and maintains control over it
Well, technically, ICANN controls it all because they have the root servers, which tell your computer (or the DNS system) where the.us,.ca,.cn, etc. servers are. The country code TLDs are not root servers.
To get around it, you'd have to get rid of root servers, make the country code TLDs into root servers, and make each one maintain a manual list of the IP addresses of the other country code TLDs. Each would then have a list of 300 or more entries, but that's maintainable by a human. Then the ISPs in each country will point their DNS's to their country's TLD server.
Look, I write software for control systems (and I design them electrically too). Just because programmers at Microsoft or EA Games have tight schedules where they are just too stressed to write code well doesn't mean all code needs to be written like that.
Back to what you were saying, if you have a system that could cause damage or whatever, then you start by writing your output routines, and you create rules to govern the machine (i.e. outputs A and B can't come on at the same time, or output C can't exceed this value). Then you write another module that monitors the inputs AND outputs looking for fault conditions that shuts down the machine if you do anything dangerous. Only this part of the code needs to be signed off by an engineer. Typically it's simple code, and easy to prove correct, with peer review. Then you write other modules that essentially make requests through the safety checks to do anything. You don't have to review the complex other code so much, because your output stage should catch any mistakes.
That's how you make a machine safe. Unfortunately, most engineers I know just go out and write the software figuring there's no difference, and that's how bad things happen. It comes from believing you won't make a mistake, or believing that testing will catch all problems. If you plan from the start that you're going to be making mistakes, you can catch them before damage is done. It's too bad this isn't taught, even in the software engineering classes I took at a Canadian university.
I think this is a great idea for a datahaven. It would cost way more than $10 million to shoot it down, and it would be accessible from anywhere on almost 50% of the surface of the Earth, which would make it hard for a gov't to cut off access to it. If you stick it in geosynch just over the eastern Indian Ocean, you could call it SatelliteFreeChina(.int:).
Do you think that when someone asked Edison what he did, that he told them he was a painter or a singer? Does a pro baseball player tell people he's a piano player?
I'm sorry you don't like your job. So you're a sailor. I ask you this... why don't you sail professionally? After all, you'd get to do it all the time, or does it just boost your ego to talk about being in a yacht club?
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I read somewhere that a judge can increase that to $150,000 per infringement based on the specifics of the case. That's 3 million for 20 titles.
That's interesting. IANAL, so is it one infringement per album, or one per CD sold? It seems to me that if it's one per album, then he's better off claiming actual damages (like a previous poster said), and suing them for some reasonable licensing fee that he would have been paid if he had decided sell licenses.
On top of that, this means first 4 internet needs to publish the entire source code of their product to remain compliant under the GPL, or they could be sued for the revenues they got from Sony too.
Actually I might be thinking patent infringement there. Seems like in a copyright case they could sue for statutory or actual damages if the material has been registered with the copyright office. The statutory damages might be $750 to $30,000 per infringement, but a judge can go above or below those numbers. Actual damages requires you to prove loss of income, which would be difficult in this case, since the code is distributed freely (in the sense of beer).
This is GPL'd code, not LGPL'd, right?
Anyway, DVD John can actually sue Sony for all *revenue* that Sony made from the sale of the CDs, if I'm not mistaken (not just profits). That would grab them where it hurts!
Well, not communism per se, as much as it's specifically about the Russian revolution, and how their great experiment ended in a dictatorship. But of course, communism has a lot to do with it.
Yeah, the GP's teacher must have been totally clueless. We were told specifically that animal farm was a satire of the Russian revolution, and discussed it at length.
It's pretty bad when a fellow citizen actually thinks that you could hold a fair election by phoning in your votes. What is it, the new Diebold-phone system? It would be so incredibly easy to screw with the votes, and impossible to do a recount. Great frickin' idea.
I'm all in favour of voting, but let's stick with the paper and pencil method for now, OK?
Combined, its about 20%
I'm an engineer. I know the technology. I'm not going to accept the number you just pulled out of your ass without some kind of reference to back it up. If I had to guess, I'd say they're more in the range of 5%, which would be high for this type of sensor. I've been pulled over twice, and both times he was within a couple kph of what my speedometer said. With lasers, the accuracy is even better.
I drive through a lot of states in the US and they are all much stricter. Ohio will pull you over for being 5 mph over the limit, and Michigan seems to have a 10% rule, for instance. Michigan also has higher speed limits (70mph) than Ontario. They're all using the same equipment.
virtually everyone who calls themself a 'capitalist' isn't. to be a capitalist, you must live off the revenue generated by capital you control. i suspect stronlgy that dada21 and others like him actually live by trading their labour to people who are, in fact capitalists.
I disagree. I do not have enough capital in terms of monetary assets and equity to generate enough income to live off, but I am a capitalist. I live off "trading labor" as you call it, but since my person is something I own (hence, I am my own capital), then I am, in a sense, living off capital, as is everyone who has a job and doesn't rely on social assistance.
As I trade my labor for capital, I re-invest some in improving myself, I pay maintenance fees like rent, heat, and food, and then I put some away which I can use as monetary capital to generate more income later in life.
Um, IAAAC (I am also a Canadian), living in Ontario, and where the heck have you been for the last decade? We HAD photo-radar in Ontario years ago, then Harris got rid of it, and now McGuinty was talking about re-instating it, and given his record of shooting himself in the foot, there's still a good chance he might try it one of these years. The fact that he even said it was only to raise money is an admission of why speeding tickets are a scam.
Those road signs that tell you how fast you're going do not issue tickets - they're just a feedback mechanism which seems to work better than your speedometer. It is amazing - even when I know I'm just going the limit, seeing one of those signs makes me check my speed.
Personally, I'm in favour of a 2 step process:
1) Raise speed limits to reasonable amounts (120 kph on the 401, 90 in rural areas, 60 on city streets, etc.).
2) ENFORCE THEM STRICTLY.
That would fix the problem of speeding. The fact that the police won't pull you over on the 401 (speed limit 100 kph) when you're going 119 is stupid when there are about 3% of the drivers trying to obey the real limit at 100 kph and causing accidents, but the road itself was designed for 120 kph.
Oh, you mean if they settle for 10 cents on the dollar, and then the Lawyers get 90%, right? Yes, then it would be $750 - sorry.
Suppose the case settles for 10% and the lawyers take 90%. That leaves $750 per CD-ROM for the mpg123 developers.
Assuming your $75,000 number is correct, then 10% of that is $7500 per CD.
They probably don't even change their own oil!
Hey, judging by the fact that I almost need to disassemble my front suspension to change the oil filter on my car, I'm pretty sure the engineers who designed the thing don't change their own oil anymore...
Well, yes, that's certainly advocating violent crime. It would be a lot worse, of course, if this wasn't coming from a juvenile, but was coming from some religious figure who pretends to have a monopoly on the word of God or something.
In a civil court, I imagine that the person could be held partially liable for damages from the riots, and be sued for portions of the damage.
Whether or not the speech itself is a crime is a place where you'd need to tread lightly simply because of how close it comes to censorship. In fact I don't think I'd support censoring the words... I'd only support charging the author with being an accomplice to the vandalism.
Hey, if a blog says, "meet me out back of xxx at 2100 so we start start a few cars on fire", then I'd say it's clearly criminal and should be taken down. If it simply states outrage about someone's living conditions, and sympathizes with the feelings of the rioters, then it should be left alone.
What we really need to see is the exact text of the blog in question before we all go running our mouths off about freedom of speech. After all, we accept that you can't shout fire in a crowded theatre and get off the hook on a freedom of speech defense. Also a mob boss can't order his cronies to go shoot someone and hide behind freedom of speech either. Freedom of speech is supposed to protect your right to express opinions, not your right to use your mouth (or keyboard) to organize a criminal act.
See my other replies in this thread. Switching to a "manual mode" may be an alternative.
I know, a PIRATE SHIP!!! :)
I really think the default safe state for the mars lander while safely on the ground on Mars is "do nothing and wait for program download". The safe state while re-entering is either "do nothing and crash" or "take a stab at when to fire the retro-rockets and probably crash". Either way, it doesn't matter from a safety perspective - there's nobody to kill on Mars (as far as we know).
This applies more to medical equipment and big machinery back here on Earth.
Forcing country codes just seems like the next logical step.
.nil TLD. :) Maybe I don't want to be forced to choose a country.
That's fine, as long as I can have another code for space (.nil?) where specific countries' laws don't apply, and I can put a satellite there and host my datahaven in the
The problem is, if you look at something like a mars lander, then you can't just shut it down if it gets some bad inputs.
True, it's just that in my line of work, off is usually the safe state, but what should be done is to go to some kind of safe state, whatever that may be. Sometimes you revert to a manual operation, for instance.
Also, even good inputs can result in the the machine not doing what it needs to do.
Which is why you need to also hire a mechanical and an electrical engineer to design those aspects so that the mechanical and electrical systems fail in a safe and detectable way.
For instance, it used to be that stoplights were designed with a physical disk inside that rotated creating the "program" of the different lights. You also had interlocked electrical circuits so that both greens could never come on at the same time. These are mechanical and electrical ways to make the system fail to a safe condition. I have recently been at an intersection where I saw the traffic lights had green both ways (during a storm). This is because some vendor is selling a traffic light system on the market that is completely software based, and they hired a bargain basement programmer and/or engineer to design it, and we should find them and shoot them for their incompetence, but I doubt that will happen.
each country already has their own TLD and maintains control over it
.us, .ca, .cn, etc. servers are. The country code TLDs are not root servers.
Well, technically, ICANN controls it all because they have the root servers, which tell your computer (or the DNS system) where the
To get around it, you'd have to get rid of root servers, make the country code TLDs into root servers, and make each one maintain a manual list of the IP addresses of the other country code TLDs. Each would then have a list of 300 or more entries, but that's maintainable by a human. Then the ISPs in each country will point their DNS's to their country's TLD server.
Hey man, you're stealing my thunder... :-)
Look, I write software for control systems (and I design them electrically too). Just because programmers at Microsoft or EA Games have tight schedules where they are just too stressed to write code well doesn't mean all code needs to be written like that.
Back to what you were saying, if you have a system that could cause damage or whatever, then you start by writing your output routines, and you create rules to govern the machine (i.e. outputs A and B can't come on at the same time, or output C can't exceed this value). Then you write another module that monitors the inputs AND outputs looking for fault conditions that shuts down the machine if you do anything dangerous. Only this part of the code needs to be signed off by an engineer. Typically it's simple code, and easy to prove correct, with peer review. Then you write other modules that essentially make requests through the safety checks to do anything. You don't have to review the complex other code so much, because your output stage should catch any mistakes.
That's how you make a machine safe. Unfortunately, most engineers I know just go out and write the software figuring there's no difference, and that's how bad things happen. It comes from believing you won't make a mistake, or believing that testing will catch all problems. If you plan from the start that you're going to be making mistakes, you can catch them before damage is done. It's too bad this isn't taught, even in the software engineering classes I took at a Canadian university.
I think this is a great idea for a datahaven. It would cost way more than $10 million to shoot it down, and it would be accessible from anywhere on almost 50% of the surface of the Earth, which would make it hard for a gov't to cut off access to it. If you stick it in geosynch just over the eastern Indian Ocean, you could call it SatelliteFreeChina(.int:).
Do you think that when someone asked Edison what he did, that he told them he was a painter or a singer? Does a pro baseball player tell people he's a piano player?
I'm sorry you don't like your job. So you're a sailor. I ask you this... why don't you sail professionally? After all, you'd get to do it all the time, or does it just boost your ego to talk about being in a yacht club?