any [...] thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed
You also have to destroy the original genuine currency that you used, according to this. You used it during the printing process (to copy from) and it contains an image of the illustration (it is the illustration).
The problem, of course, is that a lot of people receive legitimate file attachments from bona fide contacts every day of the week. How is Mrs. Secretarial Pool supposed to know that "bonus.doc" is a real attachment from her boss, but "contract.doc" is a fake attachment when both have her boss's name on them as the sender?
And the best part is that no one would care about paying the 5 cents. How many sites do you visit in a month? A hundred? That's just $5 extra dollars out of your wallet -- less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks. You wouldn't even think twice about paying a nickel to get permission to use a site for a month.
That depends entirely on what you use the web for. If you are researching something or just trying to find that elusive bit of information and google returns 500 matches, how many nickels will you spend following each link?
I think your idea takes a lot of the usefulness and the "just for the hell of it" impulsiveness out of the medium.
It's a matter of life experience and it's impossible to remove assumptions and biases from a test of this nature.
Example: What goes under a teacup?
Most of us would say that the answer is obviously a saucer. But what if you are a person who's never seen a fancy tea service for whatever reason. They're not used in your culture. What goes under a cup? A table, maybe? Or what?
Sometimes the obvious isn't obvious to those with a different background.
Depending on the state and county, the law varies on what powers of arrest a citizen has, but in some places it's fine to do that sort of thing...IF a crime is being committed But you are required to turn the arrested person over to a police officer as soon as possible.
There are specific legal requirements that determines whether a document is a valid check or not
In Canada, I remember reading a newspaper story some years back about a fellow who wrote a cheque for payment of his taxes on a toilet seat and sent that it. It was apparently valid.
I know first-hand (because I've seen it) that a fellow who got pinned under his tractor scratched "I leave all to the wife" on the wheel rim before he died; that wheel rim was removed, stamped and filed at the local courthouse as his legal last will and testament. They keep it in the basement along with other "public records".
The way that the photographers could get around this is to license their works -- pull what the music and software industry does.
That's all well and good for the future, but there is a huge amount of content that's been published over the past however-many years and in a lot of cases the original photographer (writer, illustrator, what-have-you) has moved or died. How do you find him to get his permission to reproduce content that was originally published in a magazine article printed in 1962?
pro photogs are paranoid^H^H^H very protective of misuse of their images, and rightly so (it's their livelihood, after all).
As I see it, once I've purchased something I've bought it and it's mine.
If I hire a carpenter to build me a garage shop, then later on decide to make that shop into a retail store I don't have to pay the carpenter again for the work he did building the structure for me before I can put a new sign on the front of the building.
Like when the sun goes all red giant on us? How about a supernova or getting nailed by a decent sized black hole? What about gravitional collapse of the universe into a primeval atom?
Nothing nearly that dramatic is required. One single sheet of paper (weighing what, 1/4 gram?) is all that is needed to access and destroy any data in that warehouse, regardless of the physical security surrounding it.
OK, then please get a list of companies like this which use GTK . Why that during all these discussion nobody has come up with such a list ?
Probably because a centralized list of GTK "customers" doesn't exist, precisely because it is not necessary for developers to obtain a license and get on such a list.
people simply vote randomly anyways (on the compound Mayoral/Trustee/Councillor ballots, for some candidates I know I had to, otherwise I'd invalidate the ballot).
Why would you invalidate the ballot? Any ballot that I've seen has wording on it like this: "Vote for up to six candidates for City Council." So you can vote for any number of candidates in that column from zero up to six.
Around here the law states that you are entitled to four consecutive hours off of work to vote without incurring any financial loss or penalty from your employer. If the polls are open from 8am to 8pm and your regular work day is 9am to 5pm, then your employer must allow you to end your work day at 4pm on election day but still pay you for the full day's work.
The problem this system is that it disenfranchises disabled people.
No it doesn't. Traditional (reliable) paper-and-pencil ballots can be used by disabled people too.
e-voting systems, for example, read to blind voters.
Around here a blind or visually-impaired person can get a cardboard template that the paper ballot slips into. The template is marked in Braille with the names on the ballot and there are cut-out holes in the template where you are to mark your X.
People with other disabilities can have a "friend" (that's the legal word used) come with them to the polling place. The "friend" fills out an affidavit and swears an oath that he will truly record the disabled person's vote as instructed by the disabled person, and not reveal it to anyone. He then accompanies the disabled person into the voting booth and marks the ballot paper as the disabled person instructs.
This CAN be done, and is being done; you can accommodate most disabilities without any need for a high-tech black hole. Really!
Electronic voting would need the same - having a unique number for each vote - and no duplicate numbers - to rule out the same person voting twice.
Why would you need to have ballot serial numbers to prevent that? Strike a person's name off of the voter's list when he shows up to vote, hand him an unmarked ballot and let him go and vote. Done. He can't vote twice because his name has now been stroked off of the list.
No serial numbers or ballot identification required.
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Even better, if you do something wrong (such as vote for 2 candidates, or miss the fill in area) the voting card validation box spits it back at you so you can try again.
This is "even better"?
What if I, as a voter, choose to deliberately spoil my ballot or choose to not mark it at all. No choice is just as much a political statement as any other declaration on a ballot.
You sure could. As long as you don't sell any products that are close to what PepsiCo sells.
I don't think so. There is apparently a difference between a regular trademark or business name, and a "famous mark".
I'm not entirely clear on what criteria a "mark" must meet to become a "famous mark", but I'm pretty sure you couldn't have a Pepsi Publishing Company, for example.
But right now, today, I have more freedom that I would have ad in Poland twenty years ago. I can start an independent newspaper, just like any of the thousands now available, without asking the government's permission or subjecting it to any government censorship.
Business license.
I can go to a church that isn't licensed by the government.
IRS charitable organization registration.
I can criticize the goverment without fear of reprisal. I can own handgun for personal defense. I get a trial by a jury of my peers.
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any [...] thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed
You also have to destroy the original genuine currency that you used, according to this. You used it during the printing process (to copy from) and it contains an image of the illustration (it is the illustration).
The problem, of course, is that a lot of people receive legitimate file attachments from bona fide contacts every day of the week. How is Mrs. Secretarial Pool supposed to know that "bonus.doc" is a real attachment from her boss, but "contract.doc" is a fake attachment when both have her boss's name on them as the sender?
And the best part is that no one would care about paying the 5 cents. How many sites do you visit in a month? A hundred? That's just $5 extra dollars out of your wallet -- less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks. You wouldn't even think twice about paying a nickel to get permission to use a site for a month.
That depends entirely on what you use the web for. If you are researching something or just trying to find that elusive bit of information and google returns 500 matches, how many nickels will you spend following each link?
I think your idea takes a lot of the usefulness and the "just for the hell of it" impulsiveness out of the medium.
We plugged the dongle into the parallel port, and away we went.
What happens when your dongle wears out, shorts out, or just plain quits working?
Powerbasic DOS compiler apparently works just fine under DOSEMU.
What reasonable person believes that police officers would have RIAA written on their shirts?
Most "reasonable people" who are not as hyper-aware of issues surrounding music and downloading would. Folks who don't read Slashdot.
There's no "PD" in that acronym, for starters, even if you don't keep up with internet news.
There's no "PD" in DEA either. Or FBI. Or... you get the idea.
It's a matter of life experience and it's impossible to remove assumptions and biases from a test of this nature.
Example: What goes under a teacup?
Most of us would say that the answer is obviously a saucer. But what if you are a person who's never seen a fancy tea service for whatever reason. They're not used in your culture. What goes under a cup? A table, maybe? Or what?
Sometimes the obvious isn't obvious to those with a different background.
Depending on the state and county, the law varies on what powers of arrest a citizen has, but in some places it's fine to do that sort of thing...IF a crime is being committed
But you are required to turn the arrested person over to a police officer as soon as possible.
Their attire is completly irrelevant to this point.
Not if it would lead a reasonable person to believe that they are a police officer.
If they represented themselves as police officers then they are guilty of a criminal offense,
Indeed.
But this is confiscating illegal tangible goods, not coercing money.
And what, exactly, gives the RIAA the authority or right to confiscate illegal goods of any kind?
Your cocaine is illegal, so I'm here to confiscate it too? Then I just get to carry it off with me and do whatever I choose with it? Legally?
I don't think so.
There are specific legal requirements that determines whether a document is a valid check or not
In Canada, I remember reading a newspaper story some years back about a fellow who wrote a cheque for payment of his taxes on a toilet seat and sent that it. It was apparently valid.
I know first-hand (because I've seen it) that a fellow who got pinned under his tractor scratched "I leave all to the wife" on the wheel rim before he died; that wheel rim was removed, stamped and filed at the local courthouse as his legal last will and testament. They keep it in the basement along with other "public records".
If this is so computationally expensive, what would happen to the mailserver if I sent...oh half a million emails with bad keys in them.
The mailserver could use a lookup table of pre-calculated keys; the sender would be the only one to have to generate the key on the fly.
The way that the photographers could get around this is to license their works -- pull what the music and software industry does.
That's all well and good for the future, but there is a huge amount of content that's been published over the past however-many years and in a lot of cases the original photographer (writer, illustrator, what-have-you) has moved or died. How do you find him to get his permission to reproduce content that was originally published in a magazine article printed in 1962?
pro photogs are paranoid^H^H^H very protective of misuse of their images, and rightly so (it's their livelihood, after all).
As I see it, once I've purchased something I've bought it and it's mine.
If I hire a carpenter to build me a garage shop, then later on decide to make that shop into a retail store I don't have to pay the carpenter again for the work he did building the structure for me before I can put a new sign on the front of the building.
Like when the sun goes all red giant on us? How about a supernova or getting nailed by a decent sized black hole? What about gravitional collapse of the universe into a primeval atom?
Nothing nearly that dramatic is required. One single sheet of paper (weighing what, 1/4 gram?) is all that is needed to access and destroy any data in that warehouse, regardless of the physical security surrounding it.
Really!
Linus apparently doesn't care that his comments could run him into legal trouble down the road
How so? He is making a factual statement, then expressing his own personal opinion. Neither of which are illegal the last time I checked.
OK, then please get a list of companies like this which use GTK . Why that during all these discussion nobody has come up with such a list ?
Probably because a centralized list of GTK "customers" doesn't exist, precisely because it is not necessary for developers to obtain a license and get on such a list.
people simply vote randomly anyways (on the compound Mayoral/Trustee/Councillor ballots, for some candidates I know I had to, otherwise I'd invalidate the ballot).
Why would you invalidate the ballot? Any ballot that I've seen has wording on it like this: "Vote for up to six candidates for City Council." So you can vote for any number of candidates in that column from zero up to six.
or making Election Day a national holiday
Around here the law states that you are entitled to four consecutive hours off of work to vote without incurring any financial loss or penalty from your employer. If the polls are open from 8am to 8pm and your regular work day is 9am to 5pm, then your employer must allow you to end your work day at 4pm on election day but still pay you for the full day's work.
The problem this system is that it disenfranchises disabled people.
No it doesn't. Traditional (reliable) paper-and-pencil ballots can be used by disabled people too.
e-voting systems, for example, read to blind voters.
Around here a blind or visually-impaired person can get a cardboard template that the paper ballot slips into. The template is marked in Braille with the names on the ballot and there are cut-out holes in the template where you are to mark your X.
People with other disabilities can have a "friend" (that's the legal word used) come with them to the polling place. The "friend" fills out an affidavit and swears an oath that he will truly record the disabled person's vote as instructed by the disabled person, and not reveal it to anyone. He then accompanies the disabled person into the voting booth and marks the ballot paper as the disabled person instructs.
This CAN be done, and is being done; you can accommodate most disabilities without any need for a high-tech black hole. Really!
Electronic voting would need the same - having a unique number for each vote - and no duplicate numbers - to rule out the same person voting twice.
Why would you need to have ballot serial numbers to prevent that? Strike a person's name off of the voter's list when he shows up to vote, hand him an unmarked ballot and let him go and vote. Done. He can't vote twice because his name has now been stroked off of the list.
No serial numbers or ballot identification required.
Even better, if you do something wrong (such as vote for 2 candidates, or miss the fill in area) the voting card validation box spits it back at you so you can try again.
This is "even better"?
What if I, as a voter, choose to deliberately spoil my ballot or choose to not mark it at all. No choice is just as much a political statement as any other declaration on a ballot.
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It's not like I can trademark "Pepsi News".
You sure could. As long as you don't sell any products that are close to what PepsiCo sells.
I don't think so. There is apparently a difference between a regular trademark or business name, and a "famous mark".
I'm not entirely clear on what criteria a "mark" must meet to become a "famous mark", but I'm pretty sure you couldn't have a Pepsi Publishing Company, for example.
But right now, today, I have more freedom that I would have ad in Poland twenty years ago. I can start an independent newspaper, just like any of the thousands now available, without asking the government's permission or subjecting it to any government censorship.
Business license.
I can go to a church that isn't licensed by the government.
IRS charitable organization registration.
I can criticize the goverment without fear of reprisal. I can own handgun for personal defense. I get a trial by a jury of my peers.
Patriot Act. Military Tribunals. Etc.
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