If it was my passport that was counterfeited and I happened to be visiting, say China, at the time I'd probably prefer the government not just cancel my passport out from under me.
The government is not suing itself a private individual is suing the government for "stealing" his work (in the language the government likes to use for IP infringement).
"she went over all of the available documents and found that they expressly kept those [IP] rights with Gaylord"
So no the idiots at the Army Corps of Engineers who signed the contract for this didn't in fact get ownership of anything other than the physical sculpture.
The punishment must take into account the chance of being caught, since the threat of the punishment when caught is supposed to act as a deterrent.
If the punishment for shoplifting is that I have to pay 150% of the price of the things I was caught stealing and I have a 50% of being caught, then it is clearly cheaper to steal the stuff and pay the fine when I get caught (obviously there's more to it than this, there's jail time a criminal record to consider in the case of actually stealing something).
When this isn't considered you end up with situations in which companies (who don't have jail time to worry about) paying the fine when caught as a cost of doing business.
Given the way P2P works, I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to meet the "greater than 50 percent chance" standard of a civil case. Though I'm not a lawyer, and have no plans/desires to be...
And a 50% penalty is ridiculously small. You really think they catch more than 2 out of 3 such infringements? So that's really no penalty at all and you'd be an idiot to buy them upfront if they only cost 150% as much if you happen to get caught.
Whereas Jeff Vogel made a lot of games as a one man show, and given he's not living in a cardboard box can either code or pretend very well.
He did also mention the "save games locally" as the most likely way to crack it - with the obvious point that it's more work with more potential bugs.
You only need to slow down the crackers by a few weeks to make buckets more money is the theory behine these things. Requiring them to find and disable the CD-check, find and disable the network-auth-check, and write a save and load routine seems like more work than just requiring one of those things.
And when did not paying close attention or giving great thought to something that you have zero involvement with suddenly mean you suck as other unrelated things?
No not experienced at all, hasn't written any games for macs or pcs ever in his life.
Oh wait, it's Jeff Vogel. Um maybe you are the one with relatively little experience in the domain of game development?
Sure ubisoft may be moron and make it that easy to do, or they might have the save game network protocol only send and receive the needed parts of the save. So unless you play the game all the way though you won't see the format of the save game data for later game areas, etc.
But yes he is mistaken in the idea that the crackers would bother with a remote save game server and not just hack a local copy save only variant into the crack.
Which isn't surprising since he is in fact an experienced game programmer, who has likely never cracked a game in his life.
Since he died before he got to the hospital, how does anyone know that he hit the brakes and nothing happened?
Maybe he was talking on his cell phone/gazing at a pretty girl on the footpath and didn't notice an intersecting highway? Maybe his wife was being a real cow and he decided to end it all? Maybe he didn't really exist and your dad's friend is making things up?
I doubt you'll earn more money robbing ATM users with your kitchen knife than an office job.
ATMs have limits on withdrawals, people going to an ATM tend to be doing so because they don't have much cash on them.
At some point you'll pick the wrong guy and get shot, or get caught and go to jail.
Small time armed robbery sounds to me like the one of the worst ways to earn a living through crime too - the punishments are reasonably high, the risk of being identified and then caught are reasonably high, the risk of being out-gunned by the victim are reasonably high, and you have to do it a lot due to the relatively small amounts of money you get each time.
You'd be better off breaking into unoccupied houses, much better off embezzling money. At least that's my impression anyway.
I really doubt that Chinese rocket was in a polar orbit, so this would be side-impact collision. But no it would make no difference at all to the total destruction of the satellite.
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If it was my passport that was counterfeited and I happened to be visiting, say China, at the time I'd probably prefer the government not just cancel my passport out from under me.
It's hardly the first time copyright law has been called stupid.
No, it becomes a derivative work.
You can't take a photo of a photo to get around the photographer's copyright, for example.
There are exceptions to this, but sculpture isn't one.
The government is not suing itself a private individual is suing the government for "stealing" his work (in the language the government likes to use for IP infringement).
from TFA:
"she went over all of the available documents and found that they expressly kept those [IP] rights with Gaylord"
So no the idiots at the Army Corps of Engineers who signed the contract for this didn't in fact get ownership of anything other than the physical sculpture.
Of course it should.
The punishment must take into account the chance of being caught, since the threat of the punishment when caught is supposed to act as a deterrent.
If the punishment for shoplifting is that I have to pay 150% of the price of the things I was caught stealing and I have a 50% of being caught, then it is clearly cheaper to steal the stuff and pay the fine when I get caught (obviously there's more to it than this, there's jail time a criminal record to consider in the case of actually stealing something).
When this isn't considered you end up with situations in which companies (who don't have jail time to worry about) paying the fine when caught as a cost of doing business.
Given the way P2P works, I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to meet the "greater than 50 percent chance" standard of a civil case. Though I'm not a lawyer, and have no plans/desires to be...
It's P2P right? The downloaders are distributors.
And a 50% penalty is ridiculously small. You really think they catch more than 2 out of 3 such infringements? So that's really no penalty at all and you'd be an idiot to buy them upfront if they only cost 150% as much if you happen to get caught.
Whereas Jeff Vogel made a lot of games as a one man show, and given he's not living in a cardboard box can either code or pretend very well.
He did also mention the "save games locally" as the most likely way to crack it - with the obvious point that it's more work with more potential bugs.
You only need to slow down the crackers by a few weeks to make buckets more money is the theory behine these things. Requiring them to find and disable the CD-check, find and disable the network-auth-check, and write a save and load routine seems like more work than just requiring one of those things.
And when did not paying close attention or giving great thought to something that you have zero involvement with suddenly mean you suck as other unrelated things?
No not experienced at all, hasn't written any games for macs or pcs ever in his life.
Oh wait, it's Jeff Vogel. Um maybe you are the one with relatively little experience in the domain of game development?
Sure ubisoft may be moron and make it that easy to do, or they might have the save game network protocol only send and receive the needed parts of the save. So unless you play the game all the way though you won't see the format of the save game data for later game areas, etc.
But yes he is mistaken in the idea that the crackers would bother with a remote save game server and not just hack a local copy save only variant into the crack.
Which isn't surprising since he is in fact an experienced game programmer, who has likely never cracked a game in his life.
I just misinterpreted it as being resuscitated N times but dieing N+1 times, given the past tense reference in the first sentence.
Since he died before he got to the hospital, how does anyone know that he hit the brakes and nothing happened?
Maybe he was talking on his cell phone/gazing at a pretty girl on the footpath and didn't notice an intersecting highway? Maybe his wife was being a real cow and he decided to end it all? Maybe he didn't really exist and your dad's friend is making things up?
Because you are pretending to be a race car driver.
Was your point that you are an idiot?
Most of humanity is happy with getting from ppor to well of. They don't care that they aren't "rich" by your definition of "rich".
The State Government says it is legal. The Federal Government says it isn't.
Guess which has the bigger guns.
It isn't "the law".
Once it's all worked out it will be published, has to pass the senate after all, so you'll have no excuse to not obey it.
silent image for the win, assuming you have a good DM.
I doubt you'll earn more money robbing ATM users with your kitchen knife than an office job.
ATMs have limits on withdrawals, people going to an ATM tend to be doing so because they don't have much cash on them.
At some point you'll pick the wrong guy and get shot, or get caught and go to jail.
Small time armed robbery sounds to me like the one of the worst ways to earn a living through crime too - the punishments are reasonably high, the risk of being identified and then caught are reasonably high, the risk of being out-gunned by the victim are reasonably high, and you have to do it a lot due to the relatively small amounts of money you get each time.
You'd be better off breaking into unoccupied houses, much better off embezzling money. At least that's my impression anyway.
If you never leave you house it doesn't count...
"timeclock" is what was said.
You would just pay all your guards for 24 hours a day work before you would shut the plant down, it would be cheaper.
More likely you would have them use a pen and sign their name in and out on a damn piece of paper.
I really doubt that Chinese rocket was in a polar orbit, so this would be side-impact collision. But no it would make no difference at all to the total destruction of the satellite.
It could be that this is some important idea in physics I simply don't understand... But how does a laser push an object into the atmosphere?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_pressure
Plus if you can ablate material you'll get thrust from that.
That wouldn't take much fuel or anything...
He gave his reasons in the damn post.
Why not try reading?
Or are there so few places you can find to add an analogy that you have to ignore most of what you are replying to?
We just nuke all the likely suspects. All at once.
Problem solved.