Except in the US of A, we have a thing called CONSPIRACY.
Actually thinking of, or trying to find a way to, commit an act is illegal.
Think Ft. Dix defendants being found guilty. They didn't actually do anything, just where planning it.
Come to think of it, thats the thought police. But then again, how many crimes have been foiled because we can arrest, detain and convict based upon probable cause on conspiring to do something against humanity or a person, place or thing?
What is the legality of this? RIAA tells them that they represent Metallica and I have a rar file called metalica. This would mean that the provider opens my rar file and looks into it. They should not be allowed to do so. Privacy and such, you know.
In Belgium what happens is that a letter is send to the provider that user X with IP Y at time Z was downloading a file that they believe to contain copyrighted material. The provider then could do several things. Basicaly 1) forward the letter or 2) ignore it.
No information could go to the local RIAA. This is called privacy. So the only thing they could do was try to sue. However the courts said that they would not follow up unless people where making money out of it.
So copying songs and selling them: burn in hell. Downloading them and sharing with friends or strangers: nothing happens.
The fact that I have 60 petabyte of songs downloaded does not mean they lost money. I stopped buying long before the internet made it possible to download. I shared music with friends on casette. Hey, that is a good casette, can you make me a copy? How did you get it? Well, I got copies from friends and using my dual-cassette player copied the different numbers so I had my own music, minus the crap.
When I think since when this has been going on, I am getting old.
The problem with that analogy (and I subscribe to it as well) is that in the days of dual decks, we had this thing called distortion and noise entering the audio stream (analog sucks for this). Couple this with the magnetic recording medium that was rolled onto itself, rather than being platter based (when the cassette would roll the layers of tape over itself, it would "bleed" through layer to layer, sometimes enabling you to hear music before it's spot on the tape, etc). Nakamichi went to great lengths to stop this with their Dragon, but not all of us had 20K dollars for two seperate tape decks.
Enter the digital domain (think DAT). DAT was given a operating freq. different than CD to prevent dig to dig copies, because they where and are, indistinguishable from the originals. Back in the tape days, after listening to a tape two or three times "copied" from a friend, I'd go purchase the original if I liked it. Not so with digital copies. Why, you're not going to get anything except a "feel good" from the RIAA by purchasing, since the dig copy is just as good as their master (within limits).
Hence the reason the fervor over the digital copies, and the reasoning they didn't try as hard with magnetic medium(s).
Hell, I have SVHS recordings of some audio that I want to keep forever. SVHS keeps longer than DVD / CD, and the fidelity is damn near the same. Digitize it, copy it digitally to SVHS and you are good to go.
If it's written in the contract that they cannot engage in illegal activities, then they sure are liable for the length of the contract.
Most contracts have a clause in them that if you are found to be violating a ToS or any other limits or ???, then you are still monetarily on the hook, so to speak.
Otherwise, it would be a simple matter to get out of any contract you wanted to.
On another note, a friend of mine in high school would pull a stunt whenever he needed money. He'd go to work for a fast food place, convenience store (basically anywhere he had to interface with the public) for a day. On day 2, He'd enter smoking a cig. That was grounds for dismissal. They had to cut him a check within 24 hours.
Sure beat waiting 2 weeks for first pay period, then waiting another week for the check to be delivered. Do that two or three times, it makes it easier to get through to the actual check from his "real job" (which was, btw, flippin burgers for somewhere else).
Same type of thing, though. Just because he screwed up didn't mean the contract he entered by accepting work (and the company by offering) was null and void. Upon termination, they still had to pay him within 24 hours, no matter how stupid the initial act was to get him fired.
And I warn Scroggins that if he wants to be taken seriously, he needs to actually use words in context.
"Scroggin warns that the film and music industries must try a new tack if they want cooperation from ISPs."
Should actually read "Scroggin warns that the film and music industries must try a new TACTIC if they want cooperation from ISPs."
It utterly amazes me how many idiots there are in the world today. I mean, I remember hearing Grandpa screaming about how the educational system was failing, Mom yelled and hollered about the "dumbing down of America", and everyone stood still.
Then we screamed about the overrunning of our borders, and were all labeled racist. Now, it's the seemingly (un)popular thing to do.
Wow, what's that shit called? Hindsight?
Anyway, back to the original diatribe: Why the FUCK can't people use words in context, in ways they actually mean something, and why do people try to use sayings they don't even know the words to?./end_rant
The HUB guy will have to lay off one of his staff members if he doesn't get something from the phone company?
Please explain to me how it's the telephone companies fault that this supposed expert couldn't configure and watch his own equipment....?
I mean, SERIOUSLY, explain how he has any rights at all to be screaming at this point.
He should go out of business. This only goes to show how inept he is at handling things in house, how the FUCK could he be shouldered with security somewhere else.
Natural selection at it's finest... He just doesn't want to realize he's down the food chain.
The bill was lip service. If you're not going to hire the 25 computer forensic specialists, then give the FBI the manpower it needs to actually bust these idiots, then making laws doesn't mean shit.
Seriously, people. Let's make a bunch of laws about spam, then fight implementing them.
CanSpam law. Making idiots of lawmakers since 2003.
"Microsoft has begun flooding media outlets with information advising users to switch to an alternate browser while a serious security flaw is being patched."
Then
According to the BBC report, though, Microsoft itself is only asking that users be "vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch"; it's outside experts who say to dump IE (at least for now).
So, which is it?
It's bullshit editing like this that keeps slashdot and other sites like it from being taken seriously by anyone other than the fervent geeks that perpetuate it. Seriously.
When a title and a summary both contain conflicting statements, the article shouldn't even run.
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Ford does this with Navistar now. It's called the PowerStroke.
GM does this with Isuzu now. It's called the DuraMax.
The big 3 automakers have been installing engines and other parts they haven't made since the early 80s.
--Toll_Free
Except in the US of A, we have a thing called CONSPIRACY.
Actually thinking of, or trying to find a way to, commit an act is illegal.
Think Ft. Dix defendants being found guilty. They didn't actually do anything, just where planning it.
Come to think of it, thats the thought police. But then again, how many crimes have been foiled because we can arrest, detain and convict based upon probable cause on conspiring to do something against humanity or a person, place or thing?
--Toll_Free
What is the legality of this? RIAA tells them that they represent Metallica and I have a rar file called metalica. This would mean that the provider opens my rar file and looks into it. They should not be allowed to do so. Privacy and such, you know.
In Belgium what happens is that a letter is send to the provider that user X with IP Y at time Z was downloading a file that they believe to contain copyrighted material. The provider then could do several things. Basicaly 1) forward the letter or 2) ignore it.
No information could go to the local RIAA. This is called privacy. So the only thing they could do was try to sue. However the courts said that they would not follow up unless people where making money out of it.
So copying songs and selling them: burn in hell.
Downloading them and sharing with friends or strangers: nothing happens.
The fact that I have 60 petabyte of songs downloaded does not mean they lost money. I stopped buying long before the internet made it possible to download. I shared music with friends on casette. Hey, that is a good casette, can you make me a copy? How did you get it?
Well, I got copies from friends and using my dual-cassette player copied the different numbers so I had my own music, minus the crap.
When I think since when this has been going on, I am getting old.
The problem with that analogy (and I subscribe to it as well) is that in the days of dual decks, we had this thing called distortion and noise entering the audio stream (analog sucks for this). Couple this with the magnetic recording medium that was rolled onto itself, rather than being platter based (when the cassette would roll the layers of tape over itself, it would "bleed" through layer to layer, sometimes enabling you to hear music before it's spot on the tape, etc). Nakamichi went to great lengths to stop this with their Dragon, but not all of us had 20K dollars for two seperate tape decks.
Enter the digital domain (think DAT). DAT was given a operating freq. different than CD to prevent dig to dig copies, because they where and are, indistinguishable from the originals. Back in the tape days, after listening to a tape two or three times "copied" from a friend, I'd go purchase the original if I liked it. Not so with digital copies. Why, you're not going to get anything except a "feel good" from the RIAA by purchasing, since the dig copy is just as good as their master (within limits).
Hence the reason the fervor over the digital copies, and the reasoning they didn't try as hard with magnetic medium(s).
Hell, I have SVHS recordings of some audio that I want to keep forever. SVHS keeps longer than DVD / CD, and the fidelity is damn near the same. Digitize it, copy it digitally to SVHS and you are good to go.
--Toll_Free
If it's written in the contract that they cannot engage in illegal activities, then they sure are liable for the length of the contract.
Most contracts have a clause in them that if you are found to be violating a ToS or any other limits or ???, then you are still monetarily on the hook, so to speak.
Otherwise, it would be a simple matter to get out of any contract you wanted to.
On another note, a friend of mine in high school would pull a stunt whenever he needed money. He'd go to work for a fast food place, convenience store (basically anywhere he had to interface with the public) for a day. On day 2, He'd enter smoking a cig. That was grounds for dismissal. They had to cut him a check within 24 hours.
Sure beat waiting 2 weeks for first pay period, then waiting another week for the check to be delivered. Do that two or three times, it makes it easier to get through to the actual check from his "real job" (which was, btw, flippin burgers for somewhere else).
Same type of thing, though. Just because he screwed up didn't mean the contract he entered by accepting work (and the company by offering) was null and void. Upon termination, they still had to pay him within 24 hours, no matter how stupid the initial act was to get him fired.
--Toll_Free
Urg? Is that the sound you utter right before the last breath escapes your lips while someone is strangling you while you are being analy raped?
Or is that Arg? I always forget.
And no problem on the butcher job. At least you realized. No donkey punch for you post Urg.
--Toll_Free
And I warn Scroggins that if he wants to be taken seriously, he needs to actually use words in context.
"Scroggin warns that the film and music industries must try a new tack if they want cooperation from ISPs."
Should actually read "Scroggin warns that the film and music industries must try a new TACTIC if they want cooperation from ISPs."
It utterly amazes me how many idiots there are in the world today. I mean, I remember hearing Grandpa screaming about how the educational system was failing, Mom yelled and hollered about the "dumbing down of America", and everyone stood still.
Then we screamed about the overrunning of our borders, and were all labeled racist. Now, it's the seemingly (un)popular thing to do.
Wow, what's that shit called? Hindsight?
Anyway, back to the original diatribe: Why the FUCK can't people use words in context, in ways they actually mean something, and why do people try to use sayings they don't even know the words to? ./end_rant
--Toll_Free
Or maybe that's a dog EAT dog world.
Amazing, how those sayings take on totally new meaning when used as they where originally STATED.
--Toll_Free
Your analogy sucks because
A. The internet unfiltered isn't necessary
B. Nobody gets killed simply because of an internet filter.
Nice try, though.
--Toll_Free
But, Mozilla is F/OSS.
That means they don't need revenue. They will make money supporting it. Lord knows an internet browser is a COMPLICATED thing!!!!!
Wait, that just isn't working, is it?
--Toll_Free
How is it this common sense shit gets on the front page?
Corp A and Corp B are in bed over Browser G
Corp A created, Corp B bought it (through Rev Gen on advertising)
Corp B said Fuck Corp A, we can have our OWN browser, and have our OWN flunkies creating it.
PROFIT!!!!
Corp A now dries up and does nothing, going back to F/OSS roots since Corp B figured out light at end of tunnel.
Opera starting to look better and better (I run Opera).
--Toll_Free
Except in this case, the idiot that configured the phone switch is the idiot that he should be screaming at.
--Toll_Free
The HUB guy will have to lay off one of his staff members if he doesn't get something from the phone company?
Please explain to me how it's the telephone companies fault that this supposed expert couldn't configure and watch his own equipment....?
I mean, SERIOUSLY, explain how he has any rights at all to be screaming at this point.
He should go out of business. This only goes to show how inept he is at handling things in house, how the FUCK could he be shouldered with security somewhere else.
Natural selection at it's finest... He just doesn't want to realize he's down the food chain.
--Toll_Free
Yeah, since most SPAM originates from idiots and their home computers.
More baseless BS from a fanboi.
--Toll_Free
I wish there was a way in /. to move a post up or down, according to worth.
You raised a very good point. And I wasted my mod points yesterday :)
--Toll_Free
Do you honestly bash MS on EVERY opportunity you get?
The OS didn't crash, the software on it did. The OS kept running, and didn't BSOD.
Exactly what else would you like the OS to do? Read the mind of the idiot that couldn't figure out what was supposed to go in the spreadsheet?
Microsoft bashers take idiocy to a religion.
--Toll_Free
And the legacy of Au is better how?
We know the Brittons NEVER had slaves, did they?
--Toll_Free
Ever remove the tinfoil hat? Even for prom night?
--Toll_Free
Obviously you don't work in the manufacturing industry, do you?
COBOL is alive and well, and if you would do a web search for cobol programmers / dev's, you would figure that out for yourself.
I know my old company has as many COBOL programmers and operators as we had for the rest of the IT department.
--Toll_Free
Maybe you haven't seen the religious zealots that permeate this web board. Wait, we call ourselves geeks.
--Toll_Free
The bill was lip service. If you're not going to hire the 25 computer forensic specialists, then give the FBI the manpower it needs to actually bust these idiots, then making laws doesn't mean shit.
Seriously, people. Let's make a bunch of laws about spam, then fight implementing them.
CanSpam law. Making idiots of lawmakers since 2003.
--Toll_Free
I use Vista Ultimate X64.
Problem with 64 bit as the OS of choice is that it doesn't run everything. No 16 bit, most 32 bits work, but C&C won't install, etc.
64 bit is GREAT. I LOVE it, but it isn't ready for everybody.... YET.
--Toll_Free
"Microsoft has begun flooding media outlets with information advising users to switch to an alternate browser while a serious security flaw is being patched."
Then
According to the BBC report, though, Microsoft itself is only asking that users be "vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch"; it's outside experts who say to dump IE (at least for now).
So, which is it?
It's bullshit editing like this that keeps slashdot and other sites like it from being taken seriously by anyone other than the fervent geeks that perpetuate it. Seriously.
When a title and a summary both contain conflicting statements, the article shouldn't even run.
--Toll_Free
How does that story show anything other than bullshit.
With 2 US born children, He's got US citizenship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby
--Toll_Free
With 2 us born children, if you establish paternity, you would have been granted citizenship regardless.
Nice try, but I'm not buying the story.
US born children, you have "anchor babies".
Please tell me why you couldn't get citizenship with 2 so called, "anchor babies", but yet every Mexican with a US born child can't be deported?
--Toll_Free
Oh bullshit.
Q & A doesn't exist anywhere else?
You're argument is elementary and full of crap.
Sorry, but THAT'S the truth.
--Toll_Free