Copyright laws do NOT lock up knowledge, they grant the creator specific rights to the expression of an idea in a fixed medium for a limited time, not brief, limited. Quit spreading FUD that knowledge is being locked up forever. It's bullshit and you know it (or you do now).
Yet the Democrats rallied behind Clinton despite his being proven to be an adulterous bastard. They called the Republicans all kinds of names and accused them of political games and what not for bring this issue to light. Some people feel about adulterers the way you appear to feel about racists (let me state that I do agree with you about racists, just ask my father-in-law).
"Who the hell can actually have any trust in us when it comes to nuclear weapons?"
Perhaps because only two nuclear weapons have ever been used at a time of war and none have been used since then? Despite the Cold War and Russia threatening to park nuclear weapons off our souther coast, we managed to keep the finger off the trigger and wiping the Soviet Union off the face of the map. Imagine that. Perhaps the U.S.,of all countries, is in the best position to make that choice BECAUSE we have made the decision to use nuclear weapons in the past?
Yes but you said you would need to get permission to put an idea down on paper and that's wrong. You only need permission to put the expression of an idea down on paper and only if it's already been expressed in that manner. I can write books all day long about the adventures of a little boy who becomes a wizard but if I call my character Harry Potter and send him to Hogwart's then I've put someone elses expression of an idea down on paper. I need permission for the latter but not the former.
Exposure is one thing, posting entire seeeasons of episodes from TV shows is something entirely different. If this were simply a quesiton of exposure then why not put up one or two espisodes or the first 5-10 minutes of each episode with some information on when and where to watch the show? Posting copyrighted material online without consent is not about exposure or fighting the man, it's about getting shit for free, period.
"If every sheet of paper needed permission before it could hold an idea in ink,..."
Copyright does not, never had, nor ever will, protect ideas. It protects the expression of ieas in a fixed medium. perdiod, full stop, end of story. Ideas cannot be locked up with copyrights, that would be the world of patents, two doors down on the left.
Funny you should bring this up. Apple does have a glaring typo in one of their dashboard wigets. The Dictionary/Thesaurus displays "dictionary thesauru" before it expands when you search for a word. The problem is 'thesauru" doesn't display an "s" at the end after expanding. Ummm...it's a dictionary widget, why not look the word up if you're having trouble spelling it?
AllofMP3.com did not have a license to sell the music in the first place. The ROMS does not have the authority to grant such a license so no, the music they sell is not legal. And no, the seller is not going to Russia, they are in whatever location they were in when the transaction was made.
Oh, I don't know, how about US Copyright law? The russians can sell all the russian music they'd like however they'd like to but if AllofMP3.com wants to sell music protected by US Copyright law they have to play by those rules. Don't I keep hearing how Microsoft has to play by EU rules if they want to sell software in the EU? Well, guess what? laws are funny that way. You don't get to pick and choose who they appl to and under what circmstances. The RIAA is well within their rights to have AllofMP3.com to remove any music protected by US Copyright law for which the RIAA member companies hold the copyrights.
The IFPI is the international version of the RIAA (Recroding Industry Association of America - music), not the MPAA (Motion Picture Associatin of America - film). If you're going to rant about something, at least be knowledgable about the subject matter first.
This is not insightful, it'd FUD. Scratch that, it's outright bullshit. Microsoft's security apps use the same interfaces that they offered Symantec and McAfee, not special-super-secret-knwown-ony-to-microsoft hooks or other tricks. Trend Micro, a European security software company, was able to get their anti-virus application to work just fine with the new security API's in Vista, no hooks into the kernel necessary. If they can do it, the EU should back fuck off and tell Symantec and McAfee to do the same (well, both fuck off and use the public API's Trend and Microsoft are using).
This is a civil case, reasonable doubt does not apply here. One only needs to prove that it's a likely certainty that these kids performed the ac they were accused of and that the parents were negligent in their duties to prevent their kids from acting in the manner of which they were accused.
ummmm...note the candidate part. That means it's being judged for quality todeterminf if it in fact is good enough for release. This goes beyond the beta stage because the RC is feature complete, unlike a beta which still has bits missing and features that either need to be refined or added/removed.
...is my 4G 60GB iPod photo after the 7.0 iTunes update. As soon as the Zune is released I'm going to get see if I can convert my iPod into a portable hard drive. I don't care about DRM, iTunes, WiFi, et al, I just want a decent media player that plays songs and if I can watch a show or two on my train commute to work so much the better. I don't listen to contemporary music, the lat CD I bought was the Allman Brothers box set 'Dreams' and The Band's 'The Last Waltz'. I have over 30GB of 192kbps AAC audio files I'll need to re-rip to 128-164kbps WMA audio files but with Apple's responce to the iPod deaths due to the 7.0 update I'll gladly get a Zune.
Insightful? you apparently misunderstand the concept of spying. Sure, everyone knows we have spy satellites but they're still a "secret" and the information they gather is classified.
The 17" MacBook pro is no lightweight system either. I will agree, however, that this is more of a portable desktop replacement (hence my interest in it actually) but it's also a full blown media center PC as well. I don't think there is a Mac of any flavor that can do what this machine does and remain portable. I commute to work but it's all of 15-20 minutes on a train. I don't need the most lightweight system available, I need a good desktop that I can sometimes take with me on vacations (to process my photos - RAW takes a little horsepower to process) and bring back and forth to work if necessary (would love to have After Effects on my system at work but this would do in a pinch).
We weren't talking abour price, we were talking about style. I demonstrated three PCs (by the way, did you compare the options of each before spouting prices?) that were easily as stylish as Macs, and in my opinion more original and stylish than Macs. I'm thinking about getting the M2010 as a portable dektop replacement when I retire my current system. It's easily powerful enough to use a graphic design system and it's portable so I can bring it back and forth to work and use Dreamheaver on the PC instead of my crapintosh (Dreamheaver sucks on OSX). I wouldn't mind getting a Sony Living System when I get around to finish remodeling my family room and purchase a 40-50" HDTV.
...stupid "get a Mac if you want curves" comments, and many being modded as insightful. Granted, there have been very few Intel based PCs that have been contenders to win design awards but I've seen a few that are easily as good looking as many believe the Mac to be. Dell's M2010 is far better looking than then notebooks being sold by Apple. The Sony RS Series and LS Series are great looking desktops, the LS being the all-in-one like the iMac. The Sony Digital Living System is a great looking media center PC. It's all a matter of taste.
One of my favorite comments was this one, "Hopefully we get some different options from this, but speaking generally, how much can you do different?" Ummm, perhaps you are a) not the target for PCs like this and b) are not creative enough to design an elegant, stylish PC case. I'm always amazed with this attitude from geeks given that they'd be extremely passionate if one we re to say something equally as inane as, "why spend billions of dollars to go to the Moon or Mars? They're just lifeless rocks with no interest to anyone."
One could certainly argue that obtaining something of value in excahneg for goods or servics is considered profit. If I receive a song for trading a song with you I've profitted from the exchange. There is NO excuse for copyright infringement, period. You can try to turn the arguments upside down, flip them inside out, twist them around all you want, but the fact still remains you have taken the rights of someone else for your own personal, selfish motives.
Who's to say you wouldn't have done all that after listening to a sample online or in one of the record stores that lets you listen to albums before buying them? Correlation does not mean causation and even if it were, anecdotal is not the plural of data.
I voted the other day in our state primary's (we use paper ballots) but I was thinking about the diebold hack video hat made the rounds last week. If every voter received a paper ticket at the end of their session, that;s great. However, how would you recount these votes? How do you verify that what my ticket says is being counted properly? Am I supposed to go back to the polling station and have them verify it? if so, how? If not, and paper ticket copies are kept at each polling station, how do you verify that those copies aren't forged? Paper trails sound good in theory but they are very impractical when determining if voter fraud occurred or not.
I'm not so sure I believe that. There was an article in the recent issue of Communication Arts discussing the LA Metro design team. They were built around the concept of being like a regular design firm, not a government bureaucracy. According to the article the number of riders on the LA Metro system has increased dramatically due to the high-quality marketing campaigns this "firm" has developed.
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Copyright laws do NOT lock up knowledge, they grant the creator specific rights to the expression of an idea in a fixed medium for a limited time, not brief, limited. Quit spreading FUD that knowledge is being locked up forever. It's bullshit and you know it (or you do now).
Yet the Democrats rallied behind Clinton despite his being proven to be an adulterous bastard. They called the Republicans all kinds of names and accused them of political games and what not for bring this issue to light. Some people feel about adulterers the way you appear to feel about racists (let me state that I do agree with you about racists, just ask my father-in-law).
"Who the hell can actually have any trust in us when it comes to nuclear weapons?"
Perhaps because only two nuclear weapons have ever been used at a time of war and none have been used since then? Despite the Cold War and Russia threatening to park nuclear weapons off our souther coast, we managed to keep the finger off the trigger and wiping the Soviet Union off the face of the map. Imagine that. Perhaps the U.S.,of all countries, is in the best position to make that choice BECAUSE we have made the decision to use nuclear weapons in the past?
Put that same person in front of Linux and ask them to install an application.
Yes but you said you would need to get permission to put an idea down on paper and that's wrong. You only need permission to put the expression of an idea down on paper and only if it's already been expressed in that manner. I can write books all day long about the adventures of a little boy who becomes a wizard but if I call my character Harry Potter and send him to Hogwart's then I've put someone elses expression of an idea down on paper. I need permission for the latter but not the former.
Exposure is one thing, posting entire seeeasons of episodes from TV shows is something entirely different. If this were simply a quesiton of exposure then why not put up one or two espisodes or the first 5-10 minutes of each episode with some information on when and where to watch the show? Posting copyrighted material online without consent is not about exposure or fighting the man, it's about getting shit for free, period.
"If every sheet of paper needed permission before it could hold an idea in ink,..."
Copyright does not, never had, nor ever will, protect ideas. It protects the expression of ieas in a fixed medium. perdiod, full stop, end of story. Ideas cannot be locked up with copyrights, that would be the world of patents, two doors down on the left.
Funny you should bring this up. Apple does have a glaring typo in one of their dashboard wigets. The Dictionary/Thesaurus displays "dictionary thesauru" before it expands when you search for a word. The problem is 'thesauru" doesn't display an "s" at the end after expanding. Ummm...it's a dictionary widget, why not look the word up if you're having trouble spelling it?
AllofMP3.com did not have a license to sell the music in the first place. The ROMS does not have the authority to grant such a license so no, the music they sell is not legal. And no, the seller is not going to Russia, they are in whatever location they were in when the transaction was made.
Oh, I don't know, how about US Copyright law? The russians can sell all the russian music they'd like however they'd like to but if AllofMP3.com wants to sell music protected by US Copyright law they have to play by those rules. Don't I keep hearing how Microsoft has to play by EU rules if they want to sell software in the EU? Well, guess what? laws are funny that way. You don't get to pick and choose who they appl to and under what circmstances. The RIAA is well within their rights to have AllofMP3.com to remove any music protected by US Copyright law for which the RIAA member companies hold the copyrights.
The IFPI is the international version of the RIAA (Recroding Industry Association of America - music), not the MPAA (Motion Picture Associatin of America - film). If you're going to rant about something, at least be knowledgable about the subject matter first.
This is not insightful, it'd FUD. Scratch that, it's outright bullshit. Microsoft's security apps use the same interfaces that they offered Symantec and McAfee, not special-super-secret-knwown-ony-to-microsoft hooks or other tricks. Trend Micro, a European security software company, was able to get their anti-virus application to work just fine with the new security API's in Vista, no hooks into the kernel necessary. If they can do it, the EU should back fuck off and tell Symantec and McAfee to do the same (well, both fuck off and use the public API's Trend and Microsoft are using).
This is a civil case, reasonable doubt does not apply here. One only needs to prove that it's a likely certainty that these kids performed the ac they were accused of and that the parents were negligent in their duties to prevent their kids from acting in the manner of which they were accused.
ummmm...note the candidate part. That means it's being judged for quality todeterminf if it in fact is good enough for release. This goes beyond the beta stage because the RC is feature complete, unlike a beta which still has bits missing and features that either need to be refined or added/removed.
hmmm...the blog comment was attributed to "cts". This slashdot comment is attributed to "circletimessquare". You do the math. Informative indeed.
...is my 4G 60GB iPod photo after the 7.0 iTunes update. As soon as the Zune is released I'm going to get see if I can convert my iPod into a portable hard drive. I don't care about DRM, iTunes, WiFi, et al, I just want a decent media player that plays songs and if I can watch a show or two on my train commute to work so much the better. I don't listen to contemporary music, the lat CD I bought was the Allman Brothers box set 'Dreams' and The Band's 'The Last Waltz'. I have over 30GB of 192kbps AAC audio files I'll need to re-rip to 128-164kbps WMA audio files but with Apple's responce to the iPod deaths due to the 7.0 update I'll gladly get a Zune.
Insightful? you apparently misunderstand the concept of spying . Sure, everyone knows we have spy satellites but they're still a "secret" and the information they gather is classified.
The 17" MacBook pro is no lightweight system either. I will agree, however, that this is more of a portable desktop replacement (hence my interest in it actually) but it's also a full blown media center PC as well. I don't think there is a Mac of any flavor that can do what this machine does and remain portable. I commute to work but it's all of 15-20 minutes on a train. I don't need the most lightweight system available, I need a good desktop that I can sometimes take with me on vacations (to process my photos - RAW takes a little horsepower to process) and bring back and forth to work if necessary (would love to have After Effects on my system at work but this would do in a pinch).
We weren't talking abour price, we were talking about style. I demonstrated three PCs (by the way, did you compare the options of each before spouting prices?) that were easily as stylish as Macs, and in my opinion more original and stylish than Macs. I'm thinking about getting the M2010 as a portable dektop replacement when I retire my current system. It's easily powerful enough to use a graphic design system and it's portable so I can bring it back and forth to work and use Dreamheaver on the PC instead of my crapintosh (Dreamheaver sucks on OSX). I wouldn't mind getting a Sony Living System when I get around to finish remodeling my family room and purchase a 40-50" HDTV.
...stupid "get a Mac if you want curves" comments, and many being modded as insightful. Granted, there have been very few Intel based PCs that have been contenders to win design awards but I've seen a few that are easily as good looking as many believe the Mac to be. Dell's M2010 is far better looking than then notebooks being sold by Apple. The Sony RS Series and LS Series are great looking desktops, the LS being the all-in-one like the iMac. The Sony Digital Living System is a great looking media center PC. It's all a matter of taste.
One of my favorite comments was this one, "Hopefully we get some different options from this, but speaking generally, how much can you do different?" Ummm, perhaps you are a) not the target for PCs like this and b) are not creative enough to design an elegant, stylish PC case. I'm always amazed with this attitude from geeks given that they'd be extremely passionate if one we re to say something equally as inane as, "why spend billions of dollars to go to the Moon or Mars? They're just lifeless rocks with no interest to anyone."
One could certainly argue that obtaining something of value in excahneg for goods or servics is considered profit. If I receive a song for trading a song with you I've profitted from the exchange. There is NO excuse for copyright infringement, period. You can try to turn the arguments upside down, flip them inside out, twist them around all you want, but the fact still remains you have taken the rights of someone else for your own personal, selfish motives.
Who's to say you wouldn't have done all that after listening to a sample online or in one of the record stores that lets you listen to albums before buying them? Correlation does not mean causation and even if it were, anecdotal is not the plural of data.
I voted the other day in our state primary's (we use paper ballots) but I was thinking about the diebold hack video hat made the rounds last week. If every voter received a paper ticket at the end of their session, that;s great. However, how would you recount these votes? How do you verify that what my ticket says is being counted properly? Am I supposed to go back to the polling station and have them verify it? if so, how? If not, and paper ticket copies are kept at each polling station, how do you verify that those copies aren't forged? Paper trails sound good in theory but they are very impractical when determining if voter fraud occurred or not.
Didn't you get the memo on the new tagline for Slashdot, "old news for nerds, stuff that only mattered 3 days ago (unless it's about the Wii)"?
I'm not so sure I believe that. There was an article in the recent issue of Communication Arts discussing the LA Metro design team. They were built around the concept of being like a regular design firm, not a government bureaucracy. According to the article the number of riders on the LA Metro system has increased dramatically due to the high-quality marketing campaigns this "firm" has developed.