Paystar is claiming it has rights to modify and distribute Apple's software. It clams Apple owes it a free ride to add value to its PC hardware using Apple's work. Paystar's ridiculous claim infers that it has a right to profit from Apple's work, but has no responsibility to follow Apple's license or respect Apple's copyright.
Of course they respect Apple's copyright; they're buying each copy of OSX. If they were making illegal copies you'd have a point.
This is Apple saying that they want to be able to sell things, then control how those things are used after they sell them. It's equivalent to Apple coming to your house and specifying how you can use your computer.
Paystar claimed Apple owed it money for performing work on Mac OS X that Paystar claimed should somehow enrich Paystar, despite Paystar having not done anything to deserve it.
That analogy fell apart and collapsed onto the floor into a million pieces. Psystar is claiming Apple is breaking the law and interfering with a legitimate business practice, not that Apple owes them anything for actual work done on OSX. This isn't anything like SCO.
Okay, well then the real question, is what is REALLY so adventageous about higher motor skills, communication, etc.? And why were they adventageous for primates and not adventageous for dinosaurs or hermit crabs? Once again, I thoroughly believe in evolution, just curious.
Well with higher motor skills and communications we've become the planet's dominant species, so I think it's clear they give an extremely powerful advantage. I think the main advantage is it allows humans to adapt incredibly quickly to environmental changes compared to other species, who would actually have to evolve to meet new challenges. And it possibly would have been a huge advantage for dinosaurs or hermit crabs, but they just didn't have the opportunity to evolve these things because of what those species started out with from a physical standpoint. Given enough time it's entirely possibly they would have.
Video games are art. It is long settled. No one of consequence is disputing this.
Every slashdotter who responds to "can videogames cause violence" stories with a rant about how games are purely for fun and can never induce anyone to do anything disputes it.
Compared to MGS, every other game is infantile and single-dimensional.
Alright, that is ridiculous. There aren't many games that qualify as art, but the idea that MGS is the only one is just wrong. Try Planescape:Torment, to use a game that was mentioned a few replies up, and tell me that's "infantile" and "single-dimensional."
The first part lets us in on a few basic facts about Michael and his day to day activities. He hates rap. Indian students cheat. Walking makes Michael's legs hurt. He is scared of his stoner suite mate. CS students are the smartest students on campus. Michael is the smartest among them.
I never cheated in college. Not that I'm especially noble, but I figured while my self-respect may have a price, it certainly wouldn't be a letter on a report card that in the grand scheme of my life wouldn't be especially important.
Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
They're going to think we were cuckoo!
"2,000 years ago they had such advanced biogenetic technology that they could take cells from this Adam, change the chromosomes, and make a female clone of him. Truly, they were like gods compared to us!"
I get about 756k in Miami for $10 a month. I could go faster I guess, but why bother? When I went from 2400 baud to 44k baud, that was really cool. When I went from 44k baud to cable modem, that was really cool. Any incremental increase after that is eh.
Truly, a downtrodden people, crying out for the better way of life enjoyed by their fellow men in Mississippi.
The right-wing anarcho-capitalist nutjobs HATE it that "liberal" states tend to be far more economically prosperous than the "conservative" anti-environment, anti-union states. It kills them.
Yet why does China get more flames than any other place?
It has the largest population on earth and it is making an effort to be a world power. People are very wary of China, and the level of oppression there is, on a purely logistical scale, overwhelming. And honestly, I think a lot of people sense that China will soon push its problems on the rest of us. Chinese nationalism is at a disturbing level, and the sense I personally get from their relentless drive towards modernization is they want everyone to be intimidated. This is a country where they're still enraged about the opium wars.
Of course, they conveniently forget about past history where they were the aggressors, but that's a different conversation.
The obsession with this idea of projecting Chinese strength abroad is the direct cause of their cheating in the Olympics.
And on slashdot many other countries come under intense criticism. The UK is a very frequent target, especially due to their paranoia over surveillance.
People need to stand up and defend their rights, but unless it derails their daily lives, nothing will change.....I hate being so negative...But you know it's true.:-/
Just so you all know, posting indignant posts on slashdot doesn't count as defending your rights. Preaching to the converted != protest.
In Illinois it's 20 years, it has to be well known that you're doing so, and the land owner can't have given you permission to be there (because they could then revoke that permission and all of the time beforehand wouldn't be considered adverse).
Easiest way to safeguard yourself against adverse possession is to send your neighbor an email saying "Oh, that place where you set up your grill is actually my property, but I have absolutely no problem letting you use the area." Most states that negates the hostile requirement of adverse possession. Just save the email.
Lookup squatter's law in the UK for example: if one "legally" occupies an unoccupied building or home (ie, they don't break in) then even the owner of that building or home can't kick them out without lengthy paperwork. If the squatter lives undisturbed in such a property for 12 years then they are legally entitled to take official ownership of it.
There's a similar rule in most if not all U.S. states, it's called adverse possession and some places it's less than 12 years. In California you just need to occupy the land for 5 years.
Nope. The danger is tossing India and China under the bus. They want to increase their standard of living, and if the climate alarmists get their way, they can't do so.
That's a false dichotomy. Unsafe levels of pollution aren't a requirement to increase your standard of living, it just means you take a small percentage of that money you're spending on concrete and steel and oil and use it to buy pollution control devices.
the danger in believing him and being wrong is greater than the alternative.
Really? The danger as I see it is a moderate amount of self-regulation to reduce emissions. If you think that if the economy taking a slight hit is just so unbearably bad that it's worth any risk to avoid it, then you are a miserable human being.
Seriously though, I want rage and Doom 4. I might be a company loyalist by buying and liking id games, but since the third grade I've been playing their games.
Have you noticed that you've been playing the same games, just with incrementally improved graphics, since third grade?
I know for a fact that an outsider to Slashdot is going to mostly view us as a bunch of bickering, squabling wankers who divide into camps defined by who makes out favorite operating system, music player, or role playing game.
Outsiders? I've been reading and posting on slashdot for a decade, and that's how I feel.
I won't do a full rebuttal, because like you I think there's not too much more to say:
I never said there wasn't a counter-argument to what I said, but the fact still remains that most courts follow what I said. The dissent is the dissent, and pointing to a binding majority decision isn't the fallacy "appealing to authority." That would be like if I said, I'm a lawyer so I know better than you, what I say is true. Which I haven't done.
Also, like I said in my post, the courts do make allowances for transparently invalid injunctions. But I'm still not sure what you're arguing for; should the courts' contempt power just be taken away? Should obeying injunctions just be optional? I made an important distinction between contempt as coercion vs. punishment, though you don't seem to think so. Where a judge finds you in contempt for disobeying his invalid order, once the order is vacated the imprisonment ends. There's no coercive justification anymore. In certain circumstances it's theoretically possible that someone would be enjoined, ignore it, have the order reversed, and then have criminal contempt charges filed against them for ignoring the order. In which case the court will likely look at the order itself and see whether it was transparently invalid or not. If it was obviously wrong under both law and common sense, then no, you probably won't be punished. If it was reversed but just barely; if the appellate panel divided on the issue, or wrote a fifty page opinion analyzing a grey area between legal and illegal, then no, I don't think you should be off the hook just because you guessed right about the legality. The statute may be invalid but if the order was reasonable and done in good faith you shouldn't be able to just disregard it.
full scale invasian by Russian forces with a deceitful claim about war crimes that's actually a pretense to annexing more territory
I think Russia is a despotic bully that NATO will have to eventually take a stand against. Their leadership is irredeemably corrupt, they're imperialist, and they're heading towards fascism. I hope the next president doesn't knuckle under to them like our current president has. However, all that being said, for once the fault lies in the other country; Georgia intentionally goaded Russia out of a misplaced nationalism (god save from eastern european and caucasus nationalism). Russia overreacted, but for once they didn't start the fight.
Sounds like laches/estoppel. I think the courts are split about if and when it applies to copyright law, but I know in my jurisdiction while it can bar recovery for past damages, it can't for prospective relief.
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Paystar is claiming it has rights to modify and distribute Apple's software. It clams Apple owes it a free ride to add value to its PC hardware using Apple's work. Paystar's ridiculous claim infers that it has a right to profit from Apple's work, but has no responsibility to follow Apple's license or respect Apple's copyright.
Of course they respect Apple's copyright; they're buying each copy of OSX. If they were making illegal copies you'd have a point.
This is Apple saying that they want to be able to sell things, then control how those things are used after they sell them. It's equivalent to Apple coming to your house and specifying how you can use your computer.
The weapon of choice determines the scale. Crime - little weapons - terrorists - big weapons, get it?
So...guys who say, are only using boxcutters when they try to take over a plane, we treat them as criminals?
Paystar claimed Apple owed it money for performing work on Mac OS X that Paystar claimed should somehow enrich Paystar, despite Paystar having not done anything to deserve it.
That analogy fell apart and collapsed onto the floor into a million pieces. Psystar is claiming Apple is breaking the law and interfering with a legitimate business practice, not that Apple owes them anything for actual work done on OSX. This isn't anything like SCO.
Okay, well then the real question, is what is REALLY so adventageous about higher motor skills, communication, etc.? And why were they adventageous for primates and not adventageous for dinosaurs or hermit crabs? Once again, I thoroughly believe in evolution, just curious.
Well with higher motor skills and communications we've become the planet's dominant species, so I think it's clear they give an extremely powerful advantage. I think the main advantage is it allows humans to adapt incredibly quickly to environmental changes compared to other species, who would actually have to evolve to meet new challenges. And it possibly would have been a huge advantage for dinosaurs or hermit crabs, but they just didn't have the opportunity to evolve these things because of what those species started out with from a physical standpoint. Given enough time it's entirely possibly they would have.
Video games are art. It is long settled. No one of consequence is disputing this.
Every slashdotter who responds to "can videogames cause violence" stories with a rant about how games are purely for fun and can never induce anyone to do anything disputes it.
Compared to MGS, every other game is infantile and single-dimensional.
Alright, that is ridiculous. There aren't many games that qualify as art, but the idea that MGS is the only one is just wrong. Try Planescape:Torment, to use a game that was mentioned a few replies up, and tell me that's "infantile" and "single-dimensional."
The first part lets us in on a few basic facts about Michael and his day to day activities. He hates rap. Indian students cheat. Walking makes Michael's legs hurt. He is scared of his stoner suite mate. CS students are the smartest students on campus. Michael is the smartest among them.
Get this man a slashdot id!
ALL students cheat!
I never cheated in college. Not that I'm especially noble, but I figured while my self-respect may have a price, it certainly wouldn't be a letter on a report card that in the grand scheme of my life wouldn't be especially important.
Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
They're going to think we were cuckoo!
"2,000 years ago they had such advanced biogenetic technology that they could take cells from this Adam, change the chromosomes, and make a female clone of him. Truly, they were like gods compared to us!"
I get about 756k in Miami for $10 a month. I could go faster I guess, but why bother? When I went from 2400 baud to 44k baud, that was really cool. When I went from 44k baud to cable modem, that was really cool. Any incremental increase after that is eh.
Truly, a downtrodden people, crying out for the better way of life enjoyed by their fellow men in Mississippi.
The right-wing anarcho-capitalist nutjobs HATE it that "liberal" states tend to be far more economically prosperous than the "conservative" anti-environment, anti-union states. It kills them.
Yet why does China get more flames than any other place?
It has the largest population on earth and it is making an effort to be a world power. People are very wary of China, and the level of oppression there is, on a purely logistical scale, overwhelming. And honestly, I think a lot of people sense that China will soon push its problems on the rest of us. Chinese nationalism is at a disturbing level, and the sense I personally get from their relentless drive towards modernization is they want everyone to be intimidated. This is a country where they're still enraged about the opium wars.
Of course, they conveniently forget about past history where they were the aggressors, but that's a different conversation.
The obsession with this idea of projecting Chinese strength abroad is the direct cause of their cheating in the Olympics.
And on slashdot many other countries come under intense criticism. The UK is a very frequent target, especially due to their paranoia over surveillance.
So, check your history before declaring China to be the fount of all that is wrong in the world.
Complete strawman. The people who criticize China tend to be people who also criticize the US. They're not hypocrites for including China as a target.
People need to stand up and defend their rights, but unless it derails their daily lives, nothing will change. ....I hate being so negative...But you know it's true. :-/
Just so you all know, posting indignant posts on slashdot doesn't count as defending your rights. Preaching to the converted != protest.
In Illinois it's 20 years, it has to be well known that you're doing so, and the land owner can't have given you permission to be there (because they could then revoke that permission and all of the time beforehand wouldn't be considered adverse).
Easiest way to safeguard yourself against adverse possession is to send your neighbor an email saying "Oh, that place where you set up your grill is actually my property, but I have absolutely no problem letting you use the area." Most states that negates the hostile requirement of adverse possession. Just save the email.
Lookup squatter's law in the UK for example: if one "legally" occupies an unoccupied building or home (ie, they don't break in) then even the owner of that building or home can't kick them out without lengthy paperwork. If the squatter lives undisturbed in such a property for 12 years then they are legally entitled to take official ownership of it.
There's a similar rule in most if not all U.S. states, it's called adverse possession and some places it's less than 12 years. In California you just need to occupy the land for 5 years.
Nope. The danger is tossing India and China under the bus. They want to increase their standard of living, and if the climate alarmists get their way, they can't do so.
That's a false dichotomy. Unsafe levels of pollution aren't a requirement to increase your standard of living, it just means you take a small percentage of that money you're spending on concrete and steel and oil and use it to buy pollution control devices.
the danger in believing him and being wrong is greater than the alternative.
Really? The danger as I see it is a moderate amount of self-regulation to reduce emissions. If you think that if the economy taking a slight hit is just so unbearably bad that it's worth any risk to avoid it, then you are a miserable human being.
Seriously though, I want rage and Doom 4. I might be a company loyalist by buying and liking id games, but since the third grade I've been playing their games.
Have you noticed that you've been playing the same games, just with incrementally improved graphics, since third grade?
I know for a fact that an outsider to Slashdot is going to mostly view us as a bunch of bickering, squabling wankers who divide into camps defined by who makes out favorite operating system, music player, or role playing game.
Outsiders? I've been reading and posting on slashdot for a decade, and that's how I feel.
I won't do a full rebuttal, because like you I think there's not too much more to say:
I never said there wasn't a counter-argument to what I said, but the fact still remains that most courts follow what I said. The dissent is the dissent, and pointing to a binding majority decision isn't the fallacy "appealing to authority." That would be like if I said, I'm a lawyer so I know better than you, what I say is true. Which I haven't done.
Also, like I said in my post, the courts do make allowances for transparently invalid injunctions. But I'm still not sure what you're arguing for; should the courts' contempt power just be taken away? Should obeying injunctions just be optional? I made an important distinction between contempt as coercion vs. punishment, though you don't seem to think so. Where a judge finds you in contempt for disobeying his invalid order, once the order is vacated the imprisonment ends. There's no coercive justification anymore. In certain circumstances it's theoretically possible that someone would be enjoined, ignore it, have the order reversed, and then have criminal contempt charges filed against them for ignoring the order. In which case the court will likely look at the order itself and see whether it was transparently invalid or not. If it was obviously wrong under both law and common sense, then no, you probably won't be punished. If it was reversed but just barely; if the appellate panel divided on the issue, or wrote a fifty page opinion analyzing a grey area between legal and illegal, then no, I don't think you should be off the hook just because you guessed right about the legality. The statute may be invalid but if the order was reasonable and done in good faith you shouldn't be able to just disregard it.
full scale invasian by Russian forces with a deceitful claim about war crimes that's actually a pretense to annexing more territory
I think Russia is a despotic bully that NATO will have to eventually take a stand against. Their leadership is irredeemably corrupt, they're imperialist, and they're heading towards fascism. I hope the next president doesn't knuckle under to them like our current president has. However, all that being said, for once the fault lies in the other country; Georgia intentionally goaded Russia out of a misplaced nationalism (god save from eastern european and caucasus nationalism). Russia overreacted, but for once they didn't start the fight.
What I do know, however, is that there needs to be more coverage of women's beach volleyball signals.
Hear, hear.
Sounds like laches/estoppel. I think the courts are split about if and when it applies to copyright law, but I know in my jurisdiction while it can bar recovery for past damages, it can't for prospective relief.
The IOC are making themselves look pretty scummy by association at the moment.
If it makes you feel better, the IOC has always been scummy.