Why don't they follow Brazil's lead and take the corn, plant it, and then give the corporations the middle finger?
The problem with this approach is that when the time comes to attempt to grow the country's economy, investors will be difficult to find due to a percieved absence of the "rule of law". For a current example of this, look at modern Russia where many outside investors in such things as factories and oil wells have been forcibly pushed out by the mafia.
If you don't have sufficient funds internally to develop your resources and other things, then you have to find the funds externally. This means providing investors with some sort of a return.
And for anyone who thinks this doesn't happen in real life, take a look at this. Mr. Schmeiser had just exactly this situation happen on his farm and he's been sued by Monsanto and has to pay heavy penalties.
The question is whether or not you can copyright a legal document such as the EULA.
There is no question about that at all. You CAN copyright a legal document.
There was substantial discussion on Slashdot a while back about the building code in many US states. The building code is copyrighted by some engineer's society and anyone who wants a copy of it must purchase from that society. It's illegal to contravene that building code in the states/counties/whatever that have adopted it, of course, but you can't just get a copy of the code which you must follow from the local authority.
Stupid, ain't it.
Laws should not be copyrighted, in my opinion. Else you can get into a situation where "we're putting you into jail for breaking the law. No, we can't show you which law you have broken."
My thinking is, it will make essentially no difference at all to the profitability for Microsoft.
They are worried about Peru for the same reason the US got involved in the Vietnam war.
Think about that for a second. The US was worried about the "domino effect" of "godless communism". And MS is worried about the domino effect of "free software". At least MS doesn't have guns. Yet....
I notice that this excerpt doesn't include any provisions for actual APPROVAL of the methods or hack that will be used by the copyright owner. Simply notification. "We're going to douse their server with gasoline and set it on fire." No approval required, and there is your notification. Off to purchase the petrol now...
Every voter would be issued a smart card containing a private key and a serial number, signed by the election authority.
We used to use a somewhat simpler version of this for online elections for FidoNet people in our net, way back when.
The system basically worked like this. A trustworthy person was selected to be the vote counter/returning officer. Everyone sent an email to that person containing the following information: Vote, password. After the "election" the votes and passwords were published.
--
Results of Election:
The following people voted:
Fred
Ted
Ned
Ed
Sam
Pam
Fran
The votes were as follows:
PersonA Cat
PersonB Dog
PersonA Budgie
PersonA Goldfish
PersonB Monkey
PersonC Lizard
PersonA Snake
There. PersonA won that election, 7 people voted. I can verify my vote by noting that my name is one of the voters and that my password and selection are posted correctly.
A "less unfair (tm)" way would be to tax gas, that way the amount you pay relates to how much you use the roads.
That depends on where you sit.
Shall we put a road-use tax on the gas that goes into your lawn mower? How about the generators, cranes and earthmovers at the local construction site? What about the fuel in Joe Farmer's tractor?
My cousins used submit their own scripts for Star Trek to the producers. (which I think was encouraged)
Actually, Star Trek writers were (and probably still are) forbidden to read any scripts from "outside". The producers fear a situation where someone may say, "Hey, I sent you guys a script that used concept X and you included it in Episode Y so now you have to pay me or I'll sue." By insuring that the writers don't read outside scripts this situation is avoided.
How about $95,000?
That's the "initial fee", by the way, according to the announcement, so we don't yet know how much the final amount they will be demanding is.
Seems a bit for "free software" to me, but then what do I know...
I think it would be difficult to demonstrate where the problem lies. Did the store employees do the re-wrapping? Or did the wholesale jobber that the store purchased the software from do it? Or someone else?
A while ago I read about a fellow who purchased a new retail-box hard drive from Best Buy and got it home and unwrapped it to find that it contained a can of tuna instead of the hard drive he was expecting! That particular can of tuna had been sent to the country where the hard drives were being manufactured (according to the tuna distributor) so someone at the factory had heisted the hard drive.
This could be a similar situation.
But of course, you said that one customer found the previous customer's receipt in the box, so that rules some of this out.
The software stores around here have signs up that say "No Return on Opened Software, Exchange for Exact Same Title Only".
There is no way in hell a republican dominated supreme court will rule in favor 2600.
It is truly a shame that the highest court in the land is known to decide cases based on political tenets rather than on the actual intent of law and the promotion of the interest and welfare of the public.
The DRA letter comes with an envelope with a "place postage stamp here". I was annoyed, but not annoyed enough to waste 37 cents to complain to them.
So? That's even better.
Place your comments in the envelope and mail it back without your return address on the envelope, of course. They will receive your envelope with POSTAGE DUE, which costs them more than prepaid postage, I think double in fact.
Do the analysis and reporting automatically, here. No effort required further than forwarding the spam message to their (free) service and acknowledging the analysis on completion.
people will just go around buying thousands of domains rather than dozens or hundreds they currently are
So?
According to the linked article, part of the "fix" for the Internet is to allow dozens/hundreds/as-many-as-you-want top level domains. In that way, you can have ford.com and I'll take ford.car and my neighbour can have ford.truck and ford.parts if he wants them. And on and on. That way, domain-squatting becomes a bit of a waste of time; why will someone give me thousands of dollars for ford.car when he can just register ford.cars and put up whatever he wants.
It makes a great deal of sense to me.
Compare this to street addresses. If my street address is 123 Smith Avenue, that doesn't prevent someone else from also living at 123 Smith Avenue. I'm in Mycity and he's in Hiscity; 123 Smith Avenue is not unique to me, but if you come to 123 Smith Avenue, Mycity, you can find me. The fact that I'm using 123 Smith Avenue doesn't prevent anyone else from using 123 Smith Avenue too; we can still find where we are going.
It's my understanding that they enforce this through their co-op advertising programs. "If you sell your product at $x, then we will pay y% of your cost of advertising. If you discount your product, then we won't pay anything."
This can be a pretty big stick when you're working on a small margin and have a large advertising requirement.
forget windows media player, its features suck, it it has next to no plugins, for music use winamp 2.x it has cooler visualisations anyway and for video nullsoft just released a new version of winamp3, winamp is the superior media player and its FREE, suck on that bill
All of which may be true. Unfortunately, all of that is irrelevant because Grandma won't bother to read the EULA when she's told to update her computer "to avoid viruses".
So while the small percentage of computer users who both understand and care to understand issues like this (basically, the Slashdot crowd) will take action (or not), the vast majority of people will just roll over and that will be that. "I Accept", dammit, now just install that patch so I can get back to my Everquest!
you can at least find the mame burners [tombstones.org.uk] website which is completely valid.
Make that WAS completely valid.
Tombstones has suspended the cd burning program within the past couple of days due to certain problems. It was brought to a head by someone attemption to sell the URL for the tombstones site, believe it or not. "I don't sell you the actual CD's but I do sell you the information on where you can get the CD's from absolutely free. So send $30 by PayPal for the information."
Therefore, the burning program has been suspended, either teomporarily or permanently; that decision is still under discussion.
However, MAME roms are still posted regularly in alt.binaries.emulators.misc and alt.binaries.emulators.mame so there's really no insurmountable barrier to obtaining the roms either way.
I wonder how long it will be before an unscrupulous arcade operator puts a JAMMA connector on a chipped X-BOX and runs it in his arcade
How would this differ from an unscrupulous arcade operator putting a computer into a cabinet and running regular MAME on it?
I've never seen one personally but I have seen many reports of the word "MAME" showing up on supposedly-genuine arcade machines in various bars and so on.
Many people use MAME in a stand-up arcade box for their own personal amusement (check here and here for information on how to build them and many examples of completed and in-progress projects. It's when folks put them into their businesses to collect quarters that things become a bit dodgy, in my opinion, but that has been going on long before the xbox was even thought of.
Er, you posted content on the WWW for world+dog to read. After all, that's the purpose of posting said content. And now you're unhappy because folks are reading it?
If you don't want folks reading your stuff, for heavens sake don't post it on the web!
Slashdot Mirror
Why don't they follow Brazil's lead and take the corn, plant it, and then give the corporations the middle finger?
The problem with this approach is that when the time comes to attempt to grow the country's economy, investors will be difficult to find due to a percieved absence of the "rule of law". For a current example of this, look at modern Russia where many outside investors in such things as factories and oil wells have been forcibly pushed out by the mafia.
If you don't have sufficient funds internally to develop your resources and other things, then you have to find the funds externally. This means providing investors with some sort of a return.
And for anyone who thinks this doesn't happen in real life, take a look at this. Mr. Schmeiser had just exactly this situation happen on his farm and he's been sued by Monsanto and has to pay heavy penalties.
The question is whether or not you can copyright a legal document such as the EULA.
There is no question about that at all. You CAN copyright a legal document.
There was substantial discussion on Slashdot a while back about the building code in many US states. The building code is copyrighted by some engineer's society and anyone who wants a copy of it must purchase from that society. It's illegal to contravene that building code in the states/counties/whatever that have adopted it, of course, but you can't just get a copy of the code which you must follow from the local authority.
Stupid, ain't it.
Laws should not be copyrighted, in my opinion. Else you can get into a situation where "we're putting you into jail for breaking the law. No, we can't show you which law you have broken."
My thinking is, it will make essentially no difference at all to the profitability for Microsoft.
They are worried about Peru for the same reason the US got involved in the Vietnam war.
Think about that for a second. The US was worried about the "domino effect" of "godless communism". And MS is worried about the domino effect of "free software". At least MS doesn't have guns. Yet....
I never thought computers could say stupid things until today
Eh? Computers have been saying "Keyboard Not Present - Press F1 to Continue" for years.
I notice that this excerpt doesn't include any provisions for actual APPROVAL of the methods or hack that will be used by the copyright owner. Simply notification. "We're going to douse their server with gasoline and set it on fire." No approval required, and there is your notification. Off to purchase the petrol now...
Every voter would be issued a smart card containing a private key and a serial number, signed by the election authority.
We used to use a somewhat simpler version of this for online elections for FidoNet people in our net, way back when.
The system basically worked like this. A trustworthy person was selected to be the vote counter/returning officer. Everyone sent an email to that person containing the following information: Vote, password. After the "election" the votes and passwords were published.
--
Results of Election:
The following people voted:
Fred
Ted
Ned
Ed
Sam
Pam
Fran
The votes were as follows:
PersonA Cat
PersonB Dog
PersonA Budgie
PersonA Goldfish
PersonB Monkey
PersonC Lizard
PersonA Snake
There. PersonA won that election, 7 people voted. I can verify my vote by noting that my name is one of the voters and that my password and selection are posted correctly.
http://www.rom-o-matic.net/
Just pick your ethernet card and away you go.
A "less unfair (tm)" way would be to tax gas, that way the amount you pay relates to how much you use the roads.
That depends on where you sit.
Shall we put a road-use tax on the gas that goes into your lawn mower? How about the generators, cranes and earthmovers at the local construction site? What about the fuel in Joe Farmer's tractor?
And so on.
My cousins used submit their own scripts for Star Trek to the producers. (which I think was encouraged)
Actually, Star Trek writers were (and probably still are) forbidden to read any scripts from "outside". The producers fear a situation where someone may say, "Hey, I sent you guys a script that used concept X and you included it in Episode Y so now you have to pay me or I'll sue." By insuring that the writers don't read outside scripts this situation is avoided.
I would happily give up 20-50$
How about $95,000?
That's the "initial fee", by the way, according to the announcement, so we don't yet know how much the final amount they will be demanding is.
Seems a bit for "free software" to me, but then what do I know...
the Foundation will pay an initial fee of 100k euro for this (95k USD)
Two things jump out of this sentence at me.
$95 Thousand US Dollars!? Who's going to cough up that money?
That's the initial fee, so what's the amount of the remaining fee and who's going to cough that up, and when?
I think it would be difficult to demonstrate where the problem lies. Did the store employees do the re-wrapping? Or did the wholesale jobber that the store purchased the software from do it? Or someone else?
A while ago I read about a fellow who purchased a new retail-box hard drive from Best Buy and got it home and unwrapped it to find that it contained a can of tuna instead of the hard drive he was expecting! That particular can of tuna had been sent to the country where the hard drives were being manufactured (according to the tuna distributor) so someone at the factory had heisted the hard drive.
This could be a similar situation.
But of course, you said that one customer found the previous customer's receipt in the box, so that rules some of this out.
The software stores around here have signs up that say "No Return on Opened Software, Exchange for Exact Same Title Only".
There is no way in hell a republican dominated supreme court will rule in favor 2600.
It is truly a shame that the highest court in the land is known to decide cases based on political tenets rather than on the actual intent of law and the promotion of the interest and welfare of the public.
The DRA letter comes with an envelope with a "place postage stamp here". I was annoyed, but not annoyed enough to waste 37 cents to complain to them.
So? That's even better.
Place your comments in the envelope and mail it back without your return address on the envelope, of course. They will receive your envelope with POSTAGE DUE, which costs them more than prepaid postage, I think double in fact.
Do the analysis and reporting automatically, here. No effort required further than forwarding the spam message to their (free) service and acknowledging the analysis on completion.
people will just go around buying thousands of domains rather than dozens or hundreds they currently are
So?
According to the linked article, part of the "fix" for the Internet is to allow dozens/hundreds/as-many-as-you-want top level domains. In that way, you can have ford.com and I'll take ford.car and my neighbour can have ford.truck and ford.parts if he wants them. And on and on. That way, domain-squatting becomes a bit of a waste of time; why will someone give me thousands of dollars for ford.car when he can just register ford.cars and put up whatever he wants.
It makes a great deal of sense to me.
Compare this to street addresses. If my street address is 123 Smith Avenue, that doesn't prevent someone else from also living at 123 Smith Avenue. I'm in Mycity and he's in Hiscity; 123 Smith Avenue is not unique to me, but if you come to 123 Smith Avenue, Mycity, you can find me. The fact that I'm using 123 Smith Avenue doesn't prevent anyone else from using 123 Smith Avenue too; we can still find where we are going.
not sure how they enforced with the retailers;
It's my understanding that they enforce this through their co-op advertising programs. "If you sell your product at $x, then we will pay y% of your cost of advertising. If you discount your product, then we won't pay anything."
This can be a pretty big stick when you're working on a small margin and have a large advertising requirement.
At least, this is what I've read in the past...
forget windows media player, its features suck, it it has next to no plugins, for music use winamp 2.x it has cooler visualisations anyway and for video nullsoft just released a new version of winamp3, winamp is the superior media player and its FREE, suck on that bill
All of which may be true. Unfortunately, all of that is irrelevant because Grandma won't bother to read the EULA when she's told to update her computer "to avoid viruses".
So while the small percentage of computer users who both understand and care to understand issues like this (basically, the Slashdot crowd) will take action (or not), the vast majority of people will just roll over and that will be that. "I Accept", dammit, now just install that patch so I can get back to my Everquest!
you can at least find the mame burners [tombstones.org.uk] website which is completely valid.
Make that WAS completely valid.
Tombstones has suspended the cd burning program within the past couple of days due to certain problems. It was brought to a head by someone attemption to sell the URL for the tombstones site, believe it or not. "I don't sell you the actual CD's but I do sell you the information on where you can get the CD's from absolutely free. So send $30 by PayPal for the information."
Therefore, the burning program has been suspended, either teomporarily or permanently; that decision is still under discussion.
However, MAME roms are still posted regularly in alt.binaries.emulators.misc and alt.binaries.emulators.mame so there's really no insurmountable barrier to obtaining the roms either way.
sue the creaters of X MAME,
The first of many confused people I think.
XMAME is the Unix/Linux version of MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. MAME-X is the xbox version of MAME.
No sources makes mamedev very sad.
Source code is now available for download here.
I wonder how long it will be before an unscrupulous arcade operator puts a JAMMA connector on a chipped X-BOX and runs it in his arcade
How would this differ from an unscrupulous arcade operator putting a computer into a cabinet and running regular MAME on it?
I've never seen one personally but I have seen many reports of the word "MAME" showing up on supposedly-genuine arcade machines in various bars and so on.
Many people use MAME in a stand-up arcade box for their own personal amusement (check here and here for information on how to build them and many examples of completed and in-progress projects. It's when folks put them into their businesses to collect quarters that things become a bit dodgy, in my opinion, but that has been going on long before the xbox was even thought of.
Er, you posted content on the WWW for world+dog to read. After all, that's the purpose of posting said content. And now you're unhappy because folks are reading it?
If you don't want folks reading your stuff, for heavens sake don't post it on the web!
Seems obvious to me, somehow...
1) mount the camera on the roof. This should get you better clearance.
And expose the sensitive electronics to the wind and dirt and so on, even more than they are now.
2) Cut a silhouette and place in front of the camera.
And defeat the whole purpose of having the camera in place.
3) Mount the cameras at your local school.
And have to deal with the local school board's bureaucracy and policies and petty whatevers, not to mention lose control of your own project.
None of the options seem particularly appealing, somehow...