Even though I disagree with you that there is no lost sale, I do agree that this is no premise on which to sue someone.
If people could sue on the basis of lost sale, then capitalism would have no chance (whether the US economy is capitalism to begin with is an entirely different argument). Competition of any kind would be illegal, as it would cause loss of sales to the other party. Monopolies would be protected by law. Creativity would be stifled because nobody would have any incentive to make products better or cheaper. In short, all hell would break loose.
So, we have a judge who finally understands that making a product available to the public is not punishable. We have yet to see future improvements in our copyright and patent system by perhaps putting relatively short time limits on copyrighted material and disallowing corporate patents.
Reminds me of when I test-ran Vista within Internet Explorer (within VirtualBox OSE (on Ubuntu 7.10 (on a three-year-old computer without virtualization capabilities in the CPU))) and got the BSOD. No matter what I did, I couldn't get it to reset:-/
If you can chop that expense out of the budget for the 99% of your servers that don't strictly require five-9s uptime, the savings in TCO could potentially far outweigh the increased cost of more frequent hardware replacement.
...assuming nobody goes around your tents in the middle of the night stealing equipment:)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
*deep breath*
This is a vaguely stated right. It says that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. It says nothing about your school doing it, or a judge's bias doing it, or your boss doing it, or anybody else doing it, for that matter. This idea of "Free Speech" is a sham from the beginning, and may as well not be mentioned except that it, for the most part, prevents the United States from becoming a police state.
It shouldn't bother you, either. DRM doesn't affect people who aren't criminals. So don't worry about it unless you're a filthy thief, then you're only getting what you deserve.
You were modded funny, but I am worried that you were being serious. The problem with DRM is not only its inconvenience, but its inherent anti-competitiveness. Since the whole idea of DRM is based on security in obscurity, it is impossible to create cross-platform DRM, thereby tying people to one platform and preventing them from trying others, like Linux, or even switching between other mainstream operating systems.
I say that instead of targeting pirates (unrelated: copyright infringement is comparable to pillaging?) the *AAs need to look into their business model. They truly aren't needed anymore (whether they ever were need not be discussed) and should be allowed to die out.
I certainly hope they aren't connected to the Net! Still, other computers with important information on them shouldn't be connected, either. I didn't RTFA, though, so thanks for informing me of the first aspect (that they run Linux).
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It was so refreshing to search for 9/11 and not have any of the crap from the last seven years show up. A simpler time indeed.
Though, it is unfortunate to note that the RIAA was already infamous at that time.
If you are running Ubuntu 8.04, you probably aren't vulnerable (or at least I am not). See if you get what I got in the terminal:
collin@collin:~$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
0
collin@collin:~$
No,
Coming [censored] [censored].....
[censored]!
There, fixed it for you.
The most scientifically correct approach would be agnosticism, where you're not sure if there is a god or not.
I'm agnostic about god in the same way in which I am agnostic about flying pigs in my back-garden (that become invisible whenever I might see them) that everybody knows about except me, and will not tell me about them because I am so cute when I argue that they don't exist.
That said, neither should be treated as a science, nor should they be construed as having any validity whatsoever.
Even though I disagree with you that there is no lost sale, I do agree that this is no premise on which to sue someone.
If people could sue on the basis of lost sale, then capitalism would have no chance (whether the US economy is capitalism to begin with is an entirely different argument). Competition of any kind would be illegal, as it would cause loss of sales to the other party. Monopolies would be protected by law. Creativity would be stifled because nobody would have any incentive to make products better or cheaper. In short, all hell would break loose.
So, we have a judge who finally understands that making a product available to the public is not punishable. We have yet to see future improvements in our copyright and patent system by perhaps putting relatively short time limits on copyrighted material and disallowing corporate patents.
You call this "information"? It's not even clear what the exploit is about.
I agree entirely. What ever happened to "full disclosure"? Haven't most people concluded that it is a good idea, at this point?
Reminds me of when I test-ran Vista within Internet Explorer (within VirtualBox OSE (on Ubuntu 7.10 (on a three-year-old computer without virtualization capabilities in the CPU))) and got the BSOD. No matter what I did, I couldn't get it to reset :-/
Call me old fashioned, but I still use servants to do all my writing and reading for me. Much purer and reliable to me.
Yeah, those sky hooks are expensive!
If you can chop that expense out of the budget for the 99% of
your servers that don't strictly require five-9s uptime, the savings in TCO could
potentially far outweigh the increased cost of more frequent hardware replacement.
...assuming nobody goes around your tents in the middle of the night stealing equipment :)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
*deep breath*
This is a vaguely stated right. It says that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. It says nothing about your school doing it, or a judge's bias doing it, or your boss doing it, or anybody else doing it, for that matter. This idea of "Free Speech" is a sham from the beginning, and may as well not be mentioned except that it, for the most part, prevents the United States from becoming a police state.
I don't know. I just use bytes.com (formerly "thescripts.com"). That's usually helpful.
No, this thing is so fast that it shows you the BSOD before you've even finished booting!!!
Smoothly, he said smoothly.
Yes, but can it install software in the background while you watch a movie?
No?
I thought not...
It would be if you'd upgraded your machine.
...what?! But that would reset his uptime!
$ uptime
18:51:25 up 13 years, 263 days, 3:39, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Looks like he hasn't really been using his computer that much...
Well, we found out why later on in one of the following books. It was a rebirth of the being Arthur kept killing.
Ah, so then we can expect that magrathea will be re-awoken so that they can rebuild an exact replica of whatever planet the Vogons destroyed!
Damn Vogon bureaucracy!
Chrome has a EULA, not Chromium. Chromium is free/libre. A port of Chromium would hopefully not include privacy problems.
Yes, it is very funny. How the hell were you modded +5 Insightful for that comment, though? Do you know something that I don't?
They probably lost the source code and are too ashamed to tell anyone.
Roads right now cannot survive intentional sabotage.
I would be much more worried about the cost of putting magnets under all existing roads...
Alright, time for some meta-moderation...
You were modded insightful? seriously? Funny, you were, but insightful?
It shouldn't bother you, either. DRM doesn't affect people who aren't criminals. So don't worry about it unless you're a filthy thief, then you're only getting what you deserve.
You were modded funny, but I am worried that you were being serious. The problem with DRM is not only its inconvenience, but its inherent anti-competitiveness. Since the whole idea of DRM is based on security in obscurity, it is impossible to create cross-platform DRM, thereby tying people to one platform and preventing them from trying others, like Linux, or even switching between other mainstream operating systems.
I say that instead of targeting pirates (unrelated: copyright infringement is comparable to pillaging?) the *AAs need to look into their business model. They truly aren't needed anymore (whether they ever were need not be discussed) and should be allowed to die out.
Oh, just another rant about the horrors of DRM...
I certainly hope they aren't connected to the Net! Still, other computers with important information on them shouldn't be connected, either. I didn't RTFA, though, so thanks for informing me of the first aspect (that they run Linux).