"This is their duty and the artists are the legal copyright holders."
I would like to point out to you that usually this is not the case. The music company usually retains the copyright to songs created by the artists they employ.
"As a private enterprise, they have the right to restrict what they want."
Just for argument, imagine them making a rule restricting photographs of black people. I wonder how far that would get, legally speaking. I know this has nothing to do with pregnant womens' boobies, but rather with your general blanket statement. I'm quite sure that at least in some jurisdictions that would be disallowed, but I could be wrong. Are there any lawyers here willing to comment on the legal limits of censorship?
The links from the wikipedia article aren't quite safe for work. Anyone watching the short film Der Schlangemann at work should at least turn down the volume, or not watch at all. Lucky for me my boss would probably just laugh.
Nowhere does the poster say he's in the US Army. He could be British, Canadian, French, German, or even perhaps he's a new member of the Afghan National Army. I know Dell doesn't sell just to people in the USA, so you can't make those kinds of assumptions.
Mod me down as a troll, flamebait, or offtopic, but this is the first time I've been tempted to post this sort of reply...
I must inform you that STILE SUCKS!
Now seriously, for the rest of this discussion, porn is very harmful. Especially the wrong kind of porn. Which is why Stile Project got dragged into this. What has been seen cannot be unseen, and goatse.cx is hardly the beginning.
But how harmful is a glance or two of some naked chicks over teacher's shoulder? Seriously. I think not very. By not taking into account the actual harm done, I can honestly call the law an ass in this case.
We switched all our services from Telus to another ISP, using Telus's lines. Our switch date came along, and then our Internet connection went dead. Neither new modem or old modem worked for anything. All it could do was Ping Telus servers. It took a month and a half of us badgering both tech support lines in order to make it right. As far as I'm concerned Telus has a policy to make it as difficult as possible to switch to another provider. Now that I've switched I'm never going back.
What you describe exists, and it's not even expensive. It's called the I-RAM. And some people use it for that purpose. If you're really paranoid run your whole OS off of it... Or at least keep all your temp folders there.
The grandparent poster must not be used to store bought music media. I sure haven't used any of that obsolete stuff since I discovered mp3's in the 90's. His unfamiliarity with that old format is perfectly understandable.
Not if he lends out the original disks long after he's uninstalled the games on his system. Then it's fair use, which for old games is likely the case. I've borrowed lots of old games in their original packaging after the first person to use them has long tired of them and deleted them to save space. That's usually the default way of things among gamer friends.
I don't know about anyone else, but if I install an SSD on my computer, one of the first things I'd be tempted do is run defrag on it to see how fast it goes.:-)
I was always taught in school that the eastern boundary of Europe was defined as the Ural mountains. Was there a change and I was not notified? What did your Geography class teach you?
If this was the USA, it would be like making a map of the pacific states and some midwest states, and calling it a map of the USA. Where's the rest?
The country at the geographical centre of Europe (Ukraine) isn't even on there. Neither is Russia. Not to mention the dozens of smaller states. No wonder Finland is way out there... they're very similar to Russians who aren't on the map, like they weren't even part of Europe. This article is either very bad journalism or serious EU snobbery.
I think it boils down to a whole bunch of conflicting and opposing reasons, and there really isn't one real reason much of the time. On one hand, I've bought a game I was intending to pirate because I walked by it in Walmart and the price was low and the box looked shiny... It made me want the original, manual, map, etc...
On the other hand there was a game like Dawn of War that I was intending to support because some friends of my friends were involved in the development. I ended up becoming very cynical and disillusioned with the pricing scheme of the game, where they issued like 5 different versions with slightly different playability, and all with high prices. It was a complete and utter cash grab, so I made up my mind to pirate all of them, instead of fork over the several hundred dollars that they would have cost together.
In my youth, I pirated games because often I could barely even afford the media I copied them on. I've pirated some games, liked them so much, and then bought the original when they came out with an improved "game of the year" version because it was cheap enough and I didn't feel like re-downloading it. Some games I've pirated, utterly loved, and not bought the original after out of sheer laziness, lack of memory, apathy, etc. Sometimes because I never saw the game in the store. The reason for piracy is a multidimensional formula that accounts for greed, cash on hand, laziness, opportunity to buy, chance, quality and enjoyment of the game, sense of loyalty and fairness, convenience of having no CD in the drive, DRM... Sometimes it's just a love/hate feeling of a publisher. Seriously, I'm less likely to care if I pirate a game with a Microsoft logo on it.
Sometimes it's a feeling that all information on the Net SHOULD be free, and that all the capitalists making money right now are just a dying breed of dinosaurs, and that pirates are just the small mammals who are nibbling at the still twitching and not quite dead corpse. What would a world without copyright look like? Seriously? Some people want to try and find out, and on days where my apathy isn't overwhelming I would love to see that too, just to see what happens. I don't thing anyone really knows for sure.
I'm sure I missed something, I'll add it later if I remember.
If NASA had that attitude, we never would have had a decade of stagnation after the first Shuttle accident. We'd have a moon colony by now. The problem is that the people at top too often see these kind of events as a signal to stop, where it really should be a sign that they're almost there. Remember when the Delta rocket flew and then fell over and burst into flames because of failed landing gear? LANDING GEAR! Something trivial to engineer (compared to the rest), and the project is shelved because of that failure. They should have kept going.
Argh. Enough of my ranting, you people get the idea. I just wish the pointy haired bosses did.
On that last part... I'd like to point out that porn is also much cheaper than dating. It's good to balance these positive aspects with the negative, especially when there's not much of a chance of getting a date worth spending money on. I'm sure my observation would resonate with most Slashdotters.
The trick is to forget the porn when you date, or better yet, share...
The company I work for is using old bloated PC's with out dated knoppix running on them for computability reasons. Our mission critical industrial hardware runs partially on serial. USB to serial doesn't work, because of conflicts with other apps that use USB. They're always slow, unreliable, and power hogs. Since they are vehicle mounted, it's not uncommon to kill a deep cycle battery after a long days work, thus requiring a boost to start the vehicle. I'll be forwarding these specs to my boss.
Anything with useful commercial life would need power like a forklift, and that is about as small as you can make a useful 'suit' for lifting that is self powered. Perhaps the first 'mechs will be the size of forklifts?
We find soil bacteria on earth in extremely deep places. Deep in the moon, where temperature and pressure exist in enough quantity to support life, would we not find similar native bacteria?
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"This is their duty and the artists are the legal copyright holders."
I would like to point out to you that usually this is not the case. The music company usually retains the copyright to songs created by the artists they employ.
"As a private enterprise, they have the right to restrict what they want."
Just for argument, imagine them making a rule restricting photographs of black people. I wonder how far that would get, legally speaking. I know this has nothing to do with pregnant womens' boobies, but rather with your general blanket statement. I'm quite sure that at least in some jurisdictions that would be disallowed, but I could be wrong. Are there any lawyers here willing to comment on the legal limits of censorship?
The links from the wikipedia article aren't quite safe for work. Anyone watching the short film Der Schlangemann at work should at least turn down the volume, or not watch at all. Lucky for me my boss would probably just laugh.
Nowhere does the poster say he's in the US Army. He could be British, Canadian, French, German, or even perhaps he's a new member of the Afghan National Army. I know Dell doesn't sell just to people in the USA, so you can't make those kinds of assumptions.
Mod me down as a troll, flamebait, or offtopic, but this is the first time I've been tempted to post this sort of reply...
I must inform you that STILE SUCKS!
Now seriously, for the rest of this discussion, porn is very harmful. Especially the wrong kind of porn. Which is why Stile Project got dragged into this. What has been seen cannot be unseen, and goatse.cx is hardly the beginning.
But how harmful is a glance or two of some naked chicks over teacher's shoulder? Seriously. I think not very. By not taking into account the actual harm done, I can honestly call the law an ass in this case.
Bork!
We switched all our services from Telus to another ISP, using Telus's lines. Our switch date came along, and then our Internet connection went dead. Neither new modem or old modem worked for anything. All it could do was Ping Telus servers. It took a month and a half of us badgering both tech support lines in order to make it right. As far as I'm concerned Telus has a policy to make it as difficult as possible to switch to another provider. Now that I've switched I'm never going back.
This may differ depending on what platform you are running, but usually it's in the form of an "x" on the top-right corner of your browser window.
Functionally it's very similar to the TV-B-Gone.
What you describe exists, and it's not even expensive. It's called the I-RAM. And some people use it for that purpose. If you're really paranoid run your whole OS off of it... Or at least keep all your temp folders there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM
Enjoy!
Unless you grind them up and snort them you're probably safe.
The grandparent poster must not be used to store bought music media. I sure haven't used any of that obsolete stuff since I discovered mp3's in the 90's. His unfamiliarity with that old format is perfectly understandable.
Just below the Andromeda Galaxy, and a bit to the left of the Magellanic Clouds.
Well it did it for me.
Not if he lends out the original disks long after he's uninstalled the games on his system. Then it's fair use, which for old games is likely the case. I've borrowed lots of old games in their original packaging after the first person to use them has long tired of them and deleted them to save space. That's usually the default way of things among gamer friends.
So which one do you think this Microsoft supercomputer really is?
It's definitely not a supercomputer. I think it classifies either as a micro or more likely a minicomputer.
From my memory of computing science class...
Microcomputer: Fits on a desk.
Minicomputer: Fits in a room or closet.
Supercomputer: Fits in a building.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong? I remember my old Wang mini like it was yesterday...
I don't know about anyone else, but if I install an SSD on my computer, one of the first things I'd be tempted do is run defrag on it to see how fast it goes. :-)
I was always taught in school that the eastern boundary of Europe was defined as the Ural mountains. Was there a change and I was not notified? What did your Geography class teach you?
If this was the USA, it would be like making a map of the pacific states and some midwest states, and calling it a map of the USA. Where's the rest?
The country at the geographical centre of Europe (Ukraine) isn't even on there. Neither is Russia. Not to mention the dozens of smaller states. No wonder Finland is way out there... they're very similar to Russians who aren't on the map, like they weren't even part of Europe. This article is either very bad journalism or serious EU snobbery.
I think it boils down to a whole bunch of conflicting and opposing reasons, and there really isn't one real reason much of the time. On one hand, I've bought a game I was intending to pirate because I walked by it in Walmart and the price was low and the box looked shiny... It made me want the original, manual, map, etc...
On the other hand there was a game like Dawn of War that I was intending to support because some friends of my friends were involved in the development. I ended up becoming very cynical and disillusioned with the pricing scheme of the game, where they issued like 5 different versions with slightly different playability, and all with high prices. It was a complete and utter cash grab, so I made up my mind to pirate all of them, instead of fork over the several hundred dollars that they would have cost together.
In my youth, I pirated games because often I could barely even afford the media I copied them on. I've pirated some games, liked them so much, and then bought the original when they came out with an improved "game of the year" version because it was cheap enough and I didn't feel like re-downloading it. Some games I've pirated, utterly loved, and not bought the original after out of sheer laziness, lack of memory, apathy, etc. Sometimes because I never saw the game in the store. The reason for piracy is a multidimensional formula that accounts for greed, cash on hand, laziness, opportunity to buy, chance, quality and enjoyment of the game, sense of loyalty and fairness, convenience of having no CD in the drive, DRM... Sometimes it's just a love/hate feeling of a publisher. Seriously, I'm less likely to care if I pirate a game with a Microsoft logo on it.
Sometimes it's a feeling that all information on the Net SHOULD be free, and that all the capitalists making money right now are just a dying breed of dinosaurs, and that pirates are just the small mammals who are nibbling at the still twitching and not quite dead corpse. What would a world without copyright look like? Seriously? Some people want to try and find out, and on days where my apathy isn't overwhelming I would love to see that too, just to see what happens. I don't thing anyone really knows for sure.
I'm sure I missed something, I'll add it later if I remember.
If NASA had that attitude, we never would have had a decade of stagnation after the first Shuttle accident. We'd have a moon colony by now. The problem is that the people at top too often see these kind of events as a signal to stop, where it really should be a sign that they're almost there. Remember when the Delta rocket flew and then fell over and burst into flames because of failed landing gear? LANDING GEAR! Something trivial to engineer (compared to the rest), and the project is shelved because of that failure. They should have kept going.
Argh. Enough of my ranting, you people get the idea. I just wish the pointy haired bosses did.
This link says what I want to say far better than I can say it myself. I'm sure the author has a Slashdot user ID.
http://xkcd.com/137/
The image is actually my current desktop background.
Have fun wiring your house entirely with glass fiber. I hear it's great for data transmission but you need quite the voltage to get it to carry power.
On that last part... I'd like to point out that porn is also much cheaper than dating. It's good to balance these positive aspects with the negative, especially when there's not much of a chance of getting a date worth spending money on. I'm sure my observation would resonate with most Slashdotters.
The trick is to forget the porn when you date, or better yet, share...
The company I work for is using old bloated PC's with out dated knoppix running on them for computability reasons. Our mission critical industrial hardware runs partially on serial. USB to serial doesn't work, because of conflicts with other apps that use USB. They're always slow, unreliable, and power hogs. Since they are vehicle mounted, it's not uncommon to kill a deep cycle battery after a long days work, thus requiring a boost to start the vehicle. I'll be forwarding these specs to my boss.
We find soil bacteria on earth in extremely deep places. Deep in the moon, where temperature and pressure exist in enough quantity to support life, would we not find similar native bacteria?