You can't take your WinXP CD, make copies, and sell them. Neither can you take my personal info, make copies and sell it, either.
What country did you say you were from? Certainly not the US. In the US the info becomes the property of the business, to do whatever it bloody well pleases with.
In front of God and everyone, Bill Gates categorically denied any involvement in the entire SCO fiasco and stated in no uncertain terms that he hopes that Linux "breaks the back of SCO".
I checked at the Vatican Press Office, but apparently God has not issued a statement on this. Readers are cautioned to wait for an official statement before placing faith in Bill's denial.
or a store owner shoots two kids that are shoplifting
Yeah, god forbid people actually be able to protect their own property...
Well, of course. And the next slimeball store owner who tries to cheat me by ringing up a price on the register that's higher than the price posted on the shelf, or sell me a product that's had the price illegally fixed (Universal, Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI, Musicland, Trans World Entertainment, Tower Records), I should be able to protect my property (money) against him, too. Not to mention the next computer store that sells me a CDROM drive or modem that won't sustainably do the speeds listed on the box.
Note to self: pick up another box of 9mm before going shopping. Better make that two boxes.
Here in sunny Minneapolis ther are several places that will take them - my fav charges 10 cents a pound
In sunny Minneapolis (Hennepin County), residential recycling pickups take computer gear for free. Monitors, computers, printers, cartons of dead keyboards and power supplies, everything. And if the weather's dry and you set the stuff out a week before recycle day, it will often vanish before the appointed time.
Let's face it - it's easy to break a window to get into a house. Should we therefore blame window manufacturers for the burglaries in our neighborhoods?
Please. In the case of the credit bureaus, we're talking about companies whose business is selling personal data. The problem (from identity theft) arises when they sell data that is false (it wasn't you but someone else who incurred those bills). And often fail to correct the matter when it is brought to their attention.
So, to use your analogy, we're blaming window manufacturers who sell broken windows, who knows that a certain percentage of their windows have broken locks when they leave the factory, and who fail to correct the situation.
Anybody who sells personal data should be liable for damages arising from the data being incorrect.
except adobe dropped its charges against [Skylarov] after outcry. though the government decided to pursue them.
Adobe created the problem, if it hadn't been for them the government wouldn't have gotten involved. Just because they got cold feet when they saw what a PR disaster they were having doesn't exempt them from responsibility. Now, if they'd bankrolled Skylarov's defense, that might have at least indicated that they felt remorse.
There will always be somebody that doesn't like something that someone has done. If this person hates its strong enough that is bests is resistance to violence they will seek a violent solution.
Yes, Bush hated Saddam and sought a violent solution. I don't think you meant to say that, but you did, and you were right.
Let's let ol' Gross Bob know how we feel about his decision! Maybe submitting swarthmore's mail server to the Slashdot effect will help him get the message!
Calmly please. Presumably the guy sees himself as defending the college against reckless endangerment. If you're an alum, you might want to mention that, an email from Horatio Schmedly ('85) will probably carry more weight than from Slashmaster (/. lunatic).
you can sing copyrighted tunes. You can even play them as a cover band
Only in private. In public you need a license. If your band is lucky, the venue has paid for a license that covers you. Try putting those copyrighted tunes onto your CD without a license, and see what happens.
What the heck was your point, and who were the crackheads who modded you up?
Welcome to the wonderful wacky world of intellectual "property".
When you download copyrighted music, you're doing so illegally and subject to the laws of your jurisdiction.
Have you ever sung "Happy Birthday" in a public place like a restaurant or school? Then you've conducted a public performance of a copyrighted work, probably without permission of the copyright holder, Time Warner. If you turn yourself in now, and give them the names and addresses of everyone else who was singing, they'll probably let you off lightly, if it's your first offense.
This article is completely pointless. All it says is that the people investing in SCO have dealings with other companies, "including Microsoft." And then the guy from BayStar disputes the claim anyway.
But you'll note he was "unable to say" whether Paul Allen's (yes, the Paul Allen associated with Microsoft) Vulcan Capital, was part of the deal. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that (Microsoft-related) Vulcan is behind it, it could mean the guy from BayStar has a speech impediment that prevents him from saying words that begin with "V", or that the guy doesn't actually know who's behind it, but somebody at the office told him it wasn't Microsoft, or that Paul Allen told him that his friend Vinnie The Goon was very concerned that somebody would blab, but they wouldn't blab for long.
That's nothing. The original Green Card Lawyers spammers talked about suing people for "liable".
I've worked with some lawyers who couldn't spell at all. They have a staff to fix the spelling. One told me he became a lawyer because his grades weren't good enough to get into veterinary school.
In fact, I might actually consider buying one. An IBM *typewriter*...
I've got one. But keep in mind, while Selectrics were the best typewriter that was ever made, inside they're a horrid rat's nest of rods and levers, and nobody alive knows how to adjust or fix them, and not using them won't prevent them from going bad.
I have a K6-2 300 that I pulled out of retirement You're not even in the race. (While my desk machine is a K6-2/450, and I've got a P2/300 on the LAN acting as a file server, neither of those is in the running either.) Maybe the original MS dove-bar mouse I use, that I collected from a client who went out of business. (Say what you will about MS, they made a fine mouse.) My main printer is an Epson EPL-8000 that seems to date from 1991 and is still going strong, though toner cartridges are horribly expensive.
I've got an IBM XT with the full-high floppy that I use once every few years because it's got a program that can read CP/M-era floppies. The oldest piece of equipment I have that I don't actually use is probably a TI Silent 700, if you don't count my slide rules.
Any ISP however will not filter spam from coming into their networks because for one, no one should dictate what someone should or should not receive.
My ISP has most mail routed through a third-party filter service before it is delivered to mailboxes. Users can review/retrieve blocked mail and adjust the aggressiveness of the filter, black- or white-list addresses or domains, or turn it off. On my account with default settings, it stops about 200 spam/day plus another 50-100 worms, while letting 5 or 6 through, with essentially zero false positives. Look into it, your users will love it, my ISP says it's cheaper to contract the work out than to do it themselves.
a really computer savvy band that didn't want their music shared so much would callthemselves * or ???? or something like that
There's apparently a band named "A". Try searching for that, especially with software that won't accept search strings shorter than 3 characters, or returns hits on substrings.
But how do you get illegal MD5 check sums with out possesing the files?
Not a problem. When you do a search on the file sharing network, the responses tell you what the hash is. This is used for 1) error checking, and 2) so that you can download from multiple sources (that have the same hash) simultaneously, secure in the knowledge that all the pieces will fit back together into a single file that replicates the original Or just go somewhere that has a library of hashes, like Bitzi or Sharereactor and collect hashes there.
Then I won't try to defend the massive federal and state subsidies to urban areas to provide public transportation, roads, etc. that you need to make highly populated areas livable.
Funny, I just rechecked my phone bill, and don't see charges for any of those things there.
Actually, as others have pointed out, the per-capita cost of roads (like phones) is far higher in rural areas. The economics are pretty simple, it costs the same to build a mile of road, but there's far fewer people. Everything's cheaper in bulk.
I'm not saying we shouldn't give subsidies to the special interests that choose to live in thinly populated areas, I'm just saying we have to pay for it somehow.
If the government starts getting their fingers in this business that is doing just fine competitively, you can bet that I'll start to see loads of fees and taxes being added onto my bill, turning my $27.00 monthly bill into something more like $40.00. And for what benefits? None.
Actually, there are benefits, at least for some of it. We need to pay somehow for 911 service, service for schools, libraries, hospitals, the deaf. (I won't attempt to defend the massive subsidies for service to people who choose to live in the boondocks, including the entire population of the State of Alaska, or the replacement profits to compensate local telcos for the loss of the LD gravy.) The problem is, those things should just be paid for out of general revenues (income taxes, etc.). But politicians who pander to the "get rid of taxes" yahoos look for ways to hide the taxes somewhere else, and this is what we get. (No disrespect for Yahoo!, Inc. intended, but they knew the word meant "boorish, crass, or stupid person" when they adopted it as their corporate name.)
I do that also. Where it falls down is remembering to do it. I want a mail/news program that's smart enough to learn that when I post mail to blivits@yahoogroups.com, use the blivits@number11.com return address, and use the barbeque-lover@number11.com addy for posts to rec.cuisine.recipes.dogmeat.
Long ago when I had a dialup BBS, I had a program (GIGO) that interfaced with email/mailing lists/USENET, that could examine the message, and rewrite headers in accord with a rules set, to accomplish just that.
Forget the perjory. They have made a false accusation in writing that you have committed a criminal act, and sent it to a third party. That's libel. Let a jury decide whether a reasonable man acting with reasonable prudence would make a good-faith mistake that "INFMapPacks123FULL-MAN.zip" was "PacMan".
The law probably doesn't govern acts of robots. (That's ok, the robot doesn't have any money anyhow.) But if you own a machine that you know may injure innocent people, it's up to you to control it adequately.
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You can't take your WinXP CD, make copies, and sell them. Neither can you take my personal info, make copies and sell it, either.
What country did you say you were from? Certainly not the US. In the US the info becomes the property of the business, to do whatever it bloody well pleases with.
In front of God and everyone, Bill Gates categorically denied any involvement in the entire SCO fiasco and stated in no uncertain terms that he hopes that Linux "breaks the back of SCO".
I checked at the Vatican Press Office, but apparently God has not issued a statement on this. Readers are cautioned to wait for an official statement before placing faith in Bill's denial.
that doesn't answer my question of how did this raid earn the RIAA a profit
I dunno about the RIAA as an organization, but you don't think the guys who do these raids get paid? They are earning money from it.
or a store owner shoots two kids that are shoplifting
Yeah, god forbid people actually be able to protect their own property...
Well, of course. And the next slimeball store owner who tries to cheat me by ringing up a price on the register that's higher than the price posted on the shelf, or sell me a product that's had the price illegally fixed (Universal, Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI, Musicland, Trans World Entertainment, Tower Records), I should be able to protect my property (money) against him, too. Not to mention the next computer store that sells me a CDROM drive or modem that won't sustainably do the speeds listed on the box.
Note to self: pick up another box of 9mm before going shopping. Better make that two boxes.
See where that crap leads?
Here in sunny Minneapolis ther are several places that will take them - my fav charges 10 cents a pound
In sunny Minneapolis (Hennepin County), residential recycling pickups take computer gear for free. Monitors, computers, printers, cartons of dead keyboards and power supplies, everything. And if the weather's dry and you set the stuff out a week before recycle day, it will often vanish before the appointed time.
Let's face it - it's easy to break a window to get into a house. Should we therefore blame window manufacturers for the burglaries in our neighborhoods?
Please. In the case of the credit bureaus, we're talking about companies whose business is selling personal data. The problem (from identity theft) arises when they sell data that is false (it wasn't you but someone else who incurred those bills). And often fail to correct the matter when it is brought to their attention.
So, to use your analogy, we're blaming window manufacturers who sell broken windows, who knows that a certain percentage of their windows have broken locks when they leave the factory, and who fail to correct the situation.
Anybody who sells personal data should be liable for damages arising from the data being incorrect.
except adobe dropped its charges against [Skylarov] after outcry. though the government decided to pursue them.
Adobe created the problem, if it hadn't been for them the government wouldn't have gotten involved. Just because they got cold feet when they saw what a PR disaster they were having doesn't exempt them from responsibility. Now, if they'd bankrolled Skylarov's defense, that might have at least indicated that they felt remorse.
There will always be somebody that doesn't like something that someone has done. If this person hates its strong enough that is bests is resistance to violence they will seek a violent solution.
Yes, Bush hated Saddam and sought a violent solution. I don't think you meant to say that, but you did, and you were right.
just ask Arthur Neville Chamberlain
And the rest of the world played Chamberlain.
Let's let ol' Gross Bob know how we feel about his decision! Maybe submitting swarthmore's mail server to the Slashdot effect will help him get the message!
Calmly please. Presumably the guy sees himself as defending the college against reckless endangerment.
If you're an alum, you might want to mention that, an email from Horatio Schmedly ('85) will probably carry more weight than from Slashmaster (/. lunatic).
you can sing copyrighted tunes. You can even play them as a cover band
Only in private. In public you need a license. If your band is lucky, the venue has paid for a license that covers you. Try putting those copyrighted tunes onto your CD without a license, and see what happens.
What the heck was your point, and who were the crackheads who modded you up?
Welcome to the wonderful wacky world of intellectual "property".
When you download copyrighted music, you're doing so illegally and subject to the laws of your jurisdiction.
Have you ever sung "Happy Birthday" in a public place like a restaurant or school? Then you've conducted a public performance of a copyrighted work, probably without permission of the copyright holder, Time Warner. If you turn yourself in now, and give them the names and addresses of everyone else who was singing, they'll probably let you off lightly, if it's your first offense.
MCSE: YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE CONDESCENDING UNIX USERS! ME: Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer
Yeah, I liked that Dilbert too.
This article is completely pointless. All it says is that the people investing in SCO have dealings with other companies, "including Microsoft." And then the guy from BayStar disputes the claim anyway.
But you'll note he was "unable to say" whether Paul Allen's (yes, the Paul Allen associated with Microsoft) Vulcan Capital, was part of the deal. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that (Microsoft-related) Vulcan is behind it, it could mean the guy from BayStar has a speech impediment that prevents him from saying words that begin with "V", or that the guy doesn't actually know who's behind it, but somebody at the office told him it wasn't Microsoft, or that Paul Allen told him that his friend Vinnie The Goon was very concerned that somebody would blab, but they wouldn't blab for long.
That's nothing. The original Green Card Lawyers spammers talked about suing people for "liable".
I've worked with some lawyers who couldn't spell at all. They have a staff to fix the spelling. One told me he became a lawyer because his grades weren't good enough to get into veterinary school.
In fact, I might actually consider buying one.
An IBM *typewriter*...
I've got one. But keep in mind, while Selectrics were the best typewriter that was ever made, inside they're a horrid rat's nest of rods and levers, and nobody alive knows how to adjust or fix them, and not using them won't prevent them from going bad.
BTW, the oldest working computer I have is an Osborne O-2, but I don't actually use it for anything.
I have a K6-2 300 that I pulled out of retirement
You're not even in the race. (While my desk machine is a K6-2/450, and I've got a P2/300 on the LAN acting as a file server, neither of those is in the running either.) Maybe the original MS dove-bar mouse I use, that I collected from a client who went out of business. (Say what you will about MS, they made a fine mouse.) My main printer is an Epson EPL-8000 that seems to date from 1991 and is still going strong, though toner cartridges are horribly expensive.
I've got an IBM XT with the full-high floppy that I use once every few years because it's got a program that can read CP/M-era floppies. The oldest piece of equipment I have that I don't actually use is probably a TI Silent 700, if you don't count my slide rules.
Or are you just lying?
It's merely a modest proposal.
Any ISP however will not filter spam from coming into their networks because for one, no one should dictate what someone should or should not receive.
My ISP has most mail routed through a third-party filter service before it is delivered to mailboxes. Users can review/retrieve blocked mail and adjust the aggressiveness of the filter, black- or white-list addresses or domains, or turn it off. On my account with default settings, it stops about 200 spam/day plus another 50-100 worms, while letting 5 or 6 through, with essentially zero false positives. Look into it, your users will love it, my ISP says it's cheaper to contract the work out than to do it themselves.
a really computer savvy band that didn't want their music shared so much would callthemselves * or ???? or something like that
There's apparently a band named "A". Try searching for that, especially with software that won't accept search strings shorter than 3 characters, or returns hits on substrings.
But how do you get illegal MD5 check sums with out possesing the files?
Not a problem. When you do a search on the file sharing network, the responses tell you what the hash is. This is used for 1) error checking, and 2) so that you can download from multiple sources (that have the same hash) simultaneously, secure in the knowledge that all the pieces will fit back together into a single file that replicates the original Or just go somewhere that has a library of hashes, like Bitzi or Sharereactor and collect hashes there.
Then I won't try to defend the massive federal and state subsidies to urban areas to provide public transportation, roads, etc. that you need to make highly populated areas livable.
Funny, I just rechecked my phone bill, and don't see charges for any of those things there.
Actually, as others have pointed out, the per-capita cost of roads (like phones) is far higher in rural areas. The economics are pretty simple, it costs the same to build a mile of road, but there's far fewer people. Everything's cheaper in bulk.
I'm not saying we shouldn't give subsidies to the special interests that choose to live in thinly populated areas, I'm just saying we have to pay for it somehow.
If the government starts getting their fingers in this business that is doing just fine competitively, you can bet that I'll start to see loads of fees and taxes being added onto my bill, turning my $27.00 monthly bill into something more like $40.00. And for what benefits? None.
Actually, there are benefits, at least for some of it. We need to pay somehow for 911 service, service for schools, libraries, hospitals, the deaf. (I won't attempt to defend the massive subsidies for service to people who choose to live in the boondocks, including the entire population of the State of Alaska, or the replacement profits to compensate local telcos for the loss of the LD gravy.) The problem is, those things should just be paid for out of general revenues (income taxes, etc.). But politicians who pander to the "get rid of taxes" yahoos look for ways to hide the taxes somewhere else, and this is what we get. (No disrespect for Yahoo!, Inc. intended, but they knew the word meant "boorish, crass, or stupid person" when they adopted it as their corporate name.)
I use MyInitials_UniqueIdentity@mydomain.com.
I do that also. Where it falls down is remembering to do it. I want a mail/news program that's smart enough to learn that when I post mail to blivits@yahoogroups.com, use the blivits@number11.com return address, and use the barbeque-lover@number11.com addy for posts to rec.cuisine.recipes.dogmeat.
Long ago when I had a dialup BBS, I had a program (GIGO) that interfaced with email/mailing lists/USENET, that could examine the message, and rewrite headers in accord with a rules set, to accomplish just that.
Forget the perjory. They have made a false accusation in writing that you have committed a criminal act, and sent it to a third party. That's libel. Let a jury decide whether a reasonable man acting with reasonable prudence would make a good-faith mistake that "INFMapPacks123FULL-MAN.zip" was "PacMan".
The law probably doesn't govern acts of robots. (That's ok, the robot doesn't have any money anyhow.) But if you own a machine that you know may injure innocent people, it's up to you to control it adequately.