Russia didn't launch a single rocket that the US didn't know about. A rocket launch is kind of a hard thing to hide.
Before the Gagarin launch, they did actually check that they could get someone up there by launching wooden mannequins. And in 1959, they didn't have a rocket that could carry the weight of a person.
There have been so many ?-files since the X-Files started that a claim of trademark dilution for anything other than X-Files might be accepted. There have been any number of Sci-Files, [A-W]-files and probably a few Y-files kicking about. You have to defend your trademark.
Sealand's "independence" is backed up by a lot of very rich people who have a lot invested in their tax haven. They could probably keep the issue tied up in the courts for years.
Quite correct. You could probably use copyright laws to prevent them from redistributing it - even the wording says "You do not have to accept this licence since you have not signed it", and goes on to point out that it is protected by copyright laws.
If people were to stop buying CD's at such a high price, the record companies would learn that they can't rape the public. But, the average person continues to bend over, and take it.
Although this gives us a choice of paying the maximum we are willing to pay, or going without entirely. Most industries have enough competition to prevent them from setting the price too high. If I don't like the price, I find a cheaper alternative.
This isn't the case with music. If I want a CD, I will not settle for a CD by a different artist that might be cheaper.
We already give permission. Netscape allows a warning before cookies are accepted. This isn't perfect, but it does the job. Lynx (and a few others) ask before accepting cookies and give a yes/no/always/never option. IE allows a trusted sites, untrusted sites distinction. Added to this are a huge number of third party cookie blocking solutions.
We just need to be warned that people are using cookies and how they're using the things.
These "Casual pirates" DON'T cause a problem.
If people subscribe to a TV channel, its a lot
of effort to tape things for any purpose other
than time shifting. Very few poeple are
interested in recording PPV movies since people
really only want to see it once anyway.
However, this will most likely add to the price.
Surely the people who are having their content
protected should subsidise this.
I take it you mean never built by Charles Babbage. London's Science museum built one some time ago.
A working component was completed though. This was in a sense programmable (It could add numbers togoether and be instructed to add a different number on the 100th iteration for example).
Always when the software/music/movie industry want to protect stuff that they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on
producing they are always bitched on here on slashdot
Thats because the reason they spend that much money
producing it is that they all know that they will
receive a good return on their investment based on current
levels of piracy. Since copyright and copy
protection in its current form is allowing them
to do this, further levels of protection seem
paranoid, and are just blatent profiteering.
Why should anyone in...say...the software industry want to stop fair use of their products?
Because fair use includes the right to disassemble. This would allow
people to make compatible competing products.
Fair use allows us to use the product wherever we want. I
don't know why the motion picture industry objects
to this, but they seem to put a lot of effort into
stopping us.
Fair use allows us to sell something that we no
longer want. This represents a loss of a sale in their opinion.
Fair use means that a console company doesn't have total control of games for their console.
The problem is that the majority of people are not only into fair use but also piracy.
The majority of people are into fair use.
I have a DVD player to watch films. Not to pirate them.
If I buy a book I want to read it. Not mass
produce copies. As it happens, the current level
of protection allows me to do most of the things
I might reasonably wish to do. Unfortunately
it prevents me from making my own DVD player.
Other "Copy protection" schemes would prevent
me from copying something even after copyright
expires, or prevent me from lending something to
a friend, or making nth gen copies of music that
I write and perform. Or recording a film for
later viewing.
. Taking an anti-spam stance and then turning a blind eye to the peddlers of these tools would be absurd
It depends on what the purpose of MAPS is. Is it to prevent spam from getting to us? Or is it to punish spammer? If it is there as a punishment then fine. But MAPS should make this more clear.
If you use an ISP that has MAPS Only ISP in the area? Then stay off the net if it offends you
I don't think this is a very productive attitude to preventing censorship. Of course in a real free market situation, there should be more than one ISP. There's nothing to prevent you from competing after all.
Want to get off of MAPS' list? Drop the site and tell the customer that he needs to start selling products for which there is a legitimate use
But dropping sites based on arbitrary criteria would be censorship.
And the problem seems to be that people see MAPS as a mail blocking tool. Not as a punishment tool.
Yes, the government can have all my communications. They can store it and reread it if they find it amusing. They can keep it forever. This goes along with my belief that information wants to be free.
Although in return I expect anyone in the NCIS, MI5, MI6, the Home Office, and anyone in the government stupid enough to agree to this, to publish all private and personal messages and information in publically accessible databases.
Ah well. As long as this remains as a report, I think we should be safe.
Its called lynx. Damn fast and rock solid. Admittedly if you want support for new fangled rubbish like tables and images then I'll grudgingly conced that IE and Netscape have the edge.
I quite agree. Although its even worse compared with Star Wars which used cameras that turned the film sideways to avoid having to squeeze it.
As far as I understand it though, most cinemas don't have the equipment for 70mm prints. Hopefully resolution will get better, and digital will allow 70mm quality. We shall see.
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Before the Gagarin launch, they did actually check that they could get someone up there by launching wooden mannequins. And in 1959, they didn't have a rocket that could carry the weight of a person.
Congratulations on learning to speak. Perhaps one day you will learn a few other words as well.
Next thing you know, they'll be using silver for electrical wiring just because its a good conductor.
Should have seen last year's "jokes". At least these are written in human readable languages.
There have been so many ?-files since the X-Files started that a claim of trademark dilution for anything other than X-Files might be accepted. There have been any number of Sci-Files, [A-W]-files and probably a few Y-files kicking about. You have to defend your trademark.
Sealand's "independence" is backed up by a lot of very rich people who have a lot invested in their tax haven. They could probably keep the issue tied up in the courts for years.
However, I believe that there is as yet no BSD DVD player...
Kaplan dismissed the argument too quickly anyway, based on the fact that it was also available for Windows.
Quite correct. You could probably use copyright laws to prevent them from redistributing it - even the wording says "You do not have to accept this licence since you have not signed it", and goes on to point out that it is protected by copyright laws.
make world is how you execute anything under world and all its dependensies in a makefile.
If people were to stop buying CD's at such a high price, the record companies would learn that they can't rape the public. But, the average person continues to bend over, and take it.
Although this gives us a choice of paying the maximum we are willing to pay, or going without entirely. Most industries have enough competition to prevent them from setting the price too high. If I don't like the price, I find a cheaper alternative.
This isn't the case with music. If I want a CD, I will not settle for a CD by a different artist that might be cheaper.
Not really. If you were looking for information about buying a PS2 in Norway, the first site you try would be playstation2.no or ps2.no.
If you were looking for Harry Potter information, you're not going to try www.HarryPotterFaq.org before HarryPotter.com
We already give permission. Netscape allows a warning before cookies are accepted. This isn't perfect, but it does the job. Lynx (and a few others) ask before accepting cookies and give a yes/no/always/never option. IE allows a trusted sites, untrusted sites distinction. Added to this are a huge number of third party cookie blocking solutions.
We just need to be warned that people are using cookies and how they're using the things.
This mobile phone was sponsored by the darwin awards committee
I think he meant "interesting" in the same manner as that of a psychiatrist discovering a new and unique delusion.
And all versions. Have a 7th disc containing nothing but kernels! Just for that retro feel.
It takes 8 minutes - Rather than the 12 or so that a conventional railway will take. What to do with all this saved time?
They only get food. There's only so much they can eat. Its not as though they can sell the food on for real cash.
These "Casual pirates" DON'T cause a problem. If people subscribe to a TV channel, its a lot of effort to tape things for any purpose other than time shifting. Very few poeple are interested in recording PPV movies since people really only want to see it once anyway.
However, this will most likely add to the price. Surely the people who are having their content protected should subsidise this.
I take it you mean never built by Charles Babbage. London's Science museum built one some time ago.
A working component was completed though. This was in a sense programmable (It could add numbers togoether and be instructed to add a different number on the 100th iteration for example).
Always when the software/music/movie industry want to protect stuff that they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on producing they are always bitched on here on slashdot
Thats because the reason they spend that much money producing it is that they all know that they will receive a good return on their investment based on current levels of piracy. Since copyright and copy protection in its current form is allowing them to do this, further levels of protection seem paranoid, and are just blatent profiteering.
Why should anyone in...say...the software industry want to stop fair use of their products?
Because fair use includes the right to disassemble. This would allow people to make compatible competing products.
Fair use allows us to use the product wherever we want. I don't know why the motion picture industry objects to this, but they seem to put a lot of effort into stopping us.
Fair use allows us to sell something that we no longer want. This represents a loss of a sale in their opinion.
Fair use means that a console company doesn't have total control of games for their console.
The problem is that the majority of people are not only into fair use but also piracy.
The majority of people are into fair use. I have a DVD player to watch films. Not to pirate them. If I buy a book I want to read it. Not mass produce copies. As it happens, the current level of protection allows me to do most of the things I might reasonably wish to do. Unfortunately it prevents me from making my own DVD player. Other "Copy protection" schemes would prevent me from copying something even after copyright expires, or prevent me from lending something to a friend, or making nth gen copies of music that I write and perform. Or recording a film for later viewing.
. Taking an anti-spam stance and then turning a blind eye to the peddlers of these tools would be absurd
It depends on what the purpose of MAPS is. Is it to prevent spam from getting to us? Or is it to punish spammer? If it is there as a punishment then fine. But MAPS should make this more clear.
If you use an ISP that has MAPS Only ISP in the area? Then stay off the net if it offends you
I don't think this is a very productive attitude to preventing censorship. Of course in a real free market situation, there should be more than one ISP. There's nothing to prevent you from competing after all.
Want to get off of MAPS' list? Drop the site and tell the customer that he needs to start selling products for which there is a legitimate use
But dropping sites based on arbitrary criteria would be censorship.
And the problem seems to be that people see MAPS as a mail blocking tool. Not as a punishment tool.
Summarised here
Seems a slightly odd ruling. More like the judge didn't really want to get involved in the domain hijacking dispute.
Yes, the government can have all my communications. They can store it and reread it if they find it amusing. They can keep it forever. This goes along with my belief that information wants to be free.
Although in return I expect anyone in the NCIS, MI5, MI6, the Home Office, and anyone in the government stupid enough to agree to this, to publish all private and personal messages and information in publically accessible databases.
Ah well. As long as this remains as a report, I think we should be safe.
Its called lynx. Damn fast and rock solid. Admittedly if you want support for new fangled rubbish like tables and images then I'll grudgingly conced that IE and Netscape have the edge.
And Episode 3 is going to be made in PAL VHS:)
I quite agree. Although its even worse compared with Star Wars which used cameras that turned the film sideways to avoid having to squeeze it.
As far as I understand it though, most cinemas don't have the equipment for 70mm prints. Hopefully resolution will get better, and digital will allow 70mm quality. We shall see.