In case of some adventure games (loads of them) the game *is* a novel - add a feature to record a demo of your game and your infringing.
I think I will add a feature to my personal port of tetris to record demo and an option to save it as video - after that I will patent the idea of creating video of your game play. Too bad that Finland does not support these fantastic software patent things though...
Interesting, here in Finland we have both, 1st and the most importantly net neutrality mandated by law and 2nd many telecom providers do rent their infrastructure to other ISP's (which is why you can get a connection form Sonera in area where the infrastructure is owned by Saunalahti).
All this is working great and there is none of the problems speculated here or in the linked article. Once again I feel glad that I'm a finnish and not US citizen.
And majority supported this - yet they still call this a free world (USA that is, not my country where no such insane laws exist).
Sane laws only protect you until someone decides that they don't. Much like witch hunt in dark ages, other laws were just (considering what it meant back then) but if you were suspected of being witch then buy buy sanity and right for defense, welcome torture
How many, like back then, have confessed just to have the suffering end?
The time immediately following the passage of the Act was a scary time to be an American. The detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay was opened in 2002, housing a then-undisclosed number of people from multiple nations who were imprisoned without traditional legal protections for often unknown reasons.
"without traditional legal protections"
That means, for example, no lawyer, imprisonment for as long as they want, etc.
And you call it free country? Starting to remind China's justice system, though at some points even it is not that bad.
America a free country? There are numerous with more freedom, you could also read:
Many people arrested because suspected of terrorism or something to do with it have been released. Even from Guantamo Bay (I might have mispelled the name, interesting is that it's a prison not on north america soil - as I understand what happens there and on what basis people are kept there would make it illegas in NA.
One of the most controversial aspects of the USA PATRIOT Act is in title V, and relates to National Security Letters (NSLs). An NSL is a form of administrative subpoena used by the FBI, and reportedly by other U.S. government agencies including the CIA and the Department of Defense (DoD). It is a demand letter issued to a particular entity or organization to turn over various records and data pertaining to individuals. They require no probable cause or judicial oversight and also contain a gag order, preventing the recipient of the letter from disclosing that the letter was ever issued....*snip*... This provision of the Act was challenged by the ACLU on behalf of an unknown party against the U.S. government on the grounds that NSLs violate the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution because there is no way to legally oppose an NSL subpoena in court, and that it was unconstitutional to not allow a client to inform their Attorney as to the order because of the gag provision of the letters. The court's judgement found in favour of the ACLU's case, and they declared the law unconstitutional.[133] Later, the USA PATRIOT Act was reauthorized and amendments were made to specify a process of judicial review of NSLs and to allow the recipient of an NSL to disclose receipt of the letter to an attorney or others necessary to comply with or challenge the order.[134] However, in 2007 the U.S. District Court struck down even the reauthorized NSLs because the gag power was unconstitutional as courts could still not engage in meaningful judicial review of these gags.
Tell me that USA is a free and justice country when you or your fellow man is framed, suspected of terrorism connections and taken to Guantamo Bay. The policy practiced there and thus also in USA soil can fairly compared to worst parts of chinese policy (ie. their actions in Tibet, which does not even belong to them rightfully).
I could ramble and quote more but I'm tired and if you still believe that what USA does is just then writing about it more would propably not even help.ave not heard of patriot ac
Having your own home server is handy indeed... I use my own for remote access but also run a public web server on it to host my blog ( http://salamanteri.homelinux.net/wordpress/ ).
What caught my attention is that you have to pay for "business service" to have a home server. Here in Finland you can host any server you want on any basic broadband from any ISP - and it is actually backed up by law that ISP cannot block you from running whatever server/service you want on your connection (as long as you have public IP, generally you get to plug in up to 5 machines that get their own private IP's each, to get more than 5 machines online you have to use NAT).
I would like to know if it is common in other countries that you have to pay extra if you want to host a home server on your broadband?
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In case of some adventure games (loads of them) the game *is* a novel - add a feature to record a demo of your game and your infringing. I think I will add a feature to my personal port of tetris to record demo and an option to save it as video - after that I will patent the idea of creating video of your game play. Too bad that Finland does not support these fantastic software patent things though...
...because your post was very fun and entertaining in the middle of all this seriousness (and/or BS) :)
Interesting, here in Finland we have both, 1st and the most importantly net neutrality mandated by law and 2nd many telecom providers do rent their infrastructure to other ISP's (which is why you can get a connection form Sonera in area where the infrastructure is owned by Saunalahti). All this is working great and there is none of the problems speculated here or in the linked article. Once again I feel glad that I'm a finnish and not US citizen.
And majority supported this - yet they still call this a free world (USA that is, not my country where no such insane laws exist).
Sane laws only protect you until someone decides that they don't. Much like witch hunt in dark ages, other laws were just (considering what it meant back then) but if you were suspected of being witch then buy buy sanity and right for defense, welcome torture
How many, like back then, have confessed just to have the suffering end?
USA Patriot Act: Pros And Cons
http://www.lifescript.com/Soul/Self/Growth/USA_Patriot_Act_Pros_And_Cons.aspx
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"without traditional legal protections"
That means, for example, no lawyer, imprisonment for as long as they want, etc. And you call it free country? Starting to remind China's justice system, though at some points even it is not that bad.
America a free country? There are numerous with more freedom, you could also read:
USA PATRIOT Act @ Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act
Many people arrested because suspected of terrorism or something to do with it have been released. Even from Guantamo Bay (I might have mispelled the name, interesting is that it's a prison not on north america soil - as I understand what happens there and on what basis people are kept there would make it illegas in NA.
One of the most controversial aspects of the USA PATRIOT Act is in title V, and relates to National Security Letters (NSLs). An NSL is a form of administrative subpoena used by the FBI, and reportedly by other U.S. government agencies including the CIA and the Department of Defense (DoD). It is a demand letter issued to a particular entity or organization to turn over various records and data pertaining to individuals. They require no probable cause or judicial oversight and also contain a gag order, preventing the recipient of the letter from disclosing that the letter was ever issued. ...*snip*... This provision of the Act was challenged by the ACLU on behalf of an unknown party against the U.S. government on the grounds that NSLs violate the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution because there is no way to legally oppose an NSL subpoena in court, and that it was unconstitutional to not allow a client to inform their Attorney as to the order because of the gag provision of the letters. The court's judgement found in favour of the ACLU's case, and they declared the law unconstitutional.[133] Later, the USA PATRIOT Act was reauthorized and amendments were made to specify a process of judicial review of NSLs and to allow the recipient of an NSL to disclose receipt of the letter to an attorney or others necessary to comply with or challenge the order.[134] However, in 2007 the U.S. District Court struck down even the reauthorized NSLs because the gag power was unconstitutional as courts could still not engage in meaningful judicial review of these gags.
Tell me that USA is a free and justice country when you or your fellow man is framed, suspected of terrorism connections and taken to Guantamo Bay. The policy practiced there and thus also in USA soil can fairly compared to worst parts of chinese policy (ie. their actions in Tibet, which does not even belong to them rightfully).
I could ramble and quote more but I'm tired and if you still believe that what USA does is just then writing about it more would propably not even help.ave not heard of patriot ac
Having your own home server is handy indeed... I use my own for remote access but also run a public web server on it to host my blog ( http://salamanteri.homelinux.net/wordpress/ ). What caught my attention is that you have to pay for "business service" to have a home server. Here in Finland you can host any server you want on any basic broadband from any ISP - and it is actually backed up by law that ISP cannot block you from running whatever server/service you want on your connection (as long as you have public IP, generally you get to plug in up to 5 machines that get their own private IP's each, to get more than 5 machines online you have to use NAT). I would like to know if it is common in other countries that you have to pay extra if you want to host a home server on your broadband?