Since the NYT requires registration to view articles people used to always say something like "free registration required" when they submitted stories from the site. People are so tired of reading that with every submission that we see people writing blurbs like blah-di-blah in place of saying free registration is required.
So why doesn't Slashdot just stop linking to nytimes.com then? They have stated that their general policy is to not link to registration-required sites, so why should NY Times be any different? The link has them saying that NY Times has "a lot of high-quality" stories...so do lots of registration-required sites. They also say that NY Times was grandfathered in...wtf is that supposed to mean? People may be getting tired of reading "Free Registration Required" on every other Slashdot link despite a Slashdot policy that is meant to curb this, but personally I am much more annoyed by having to register there in the first place.
Then you'd spend the rest of your days fighting their Legion O' Lawyers® while they (Bill and friends) roll around naked in the all the money they made off your idea
This was discussed recently in one of my senior level EE classes. If a little guy has a patent on something, large corporations such as TI will often just not care about it because they know that enforcing a patent against their legal team is pretty much impossible for an individual to do. Sure, they may offer $50000 or so to buy the patent, but if they decide not to offer this money, the patent holder is SOL.
Now when was the last time you saw someone eating a Big Mac in real life and thought "That guy is going places" ?
To the hospital with food poisoning, maybe. (I seem to get FP every time I have a McDonalds hamburger, which is one of the reasons I now refuse to eat them. And in case you haven't had FP before, it isn't fun.)
Or at least to the overweight clinic. Big Macs have what, 1200 calories?
Take a look at P.Diddy (or whatever the hell he calls himself), he's sold millions upon millions of CDs, and yet he was dropped by his label for spending more money than he was making. Lavish demands... I agree the RIAA is evil, but these artists aren't that much less evil themselves... Especially the POP/RAP superstars... they are insane when it comes to their spending habits...
Wanna see what artists are putting as riders in their contracts? This site has lots of scanned riders.
Wasn't one of the conditions of the AOLTW megamerge that AIM must be essentially opened up, allowing competing IM programs to interoperate with it? What happened to that, or am I missing something?
I have a better idea: just don't buy a computer with Intel Inside. Let 'em incorporate as many DRM gadgets as they want. Then we buy as many non-DRM compliant gadgets as we want.
This will work fine until the next version of the SSSCA/CBDTPA comes out. Given how interested the industry seems in this type of law, don't be surprised if they keep pushing for it.
. I haven't run any benchmarks on them, but it would not surprise me if the chipmakers didn't deliberately put firmware into their chips to slowly make them self-destruct to purposefully make them obsolete sooner so as to sell new chips
CPUs don't have or need firmware. They are purely hardware devices.
because they certainly haven't given a **** about fighting for it.
Maybe they haven't really given a shit about fighting for it, but do you really think they can match the financial backing that corporations provide to their lobbyists? Corporations have professional lobbyists whose only job is to prod congresspeople to vote their way. Add to that all the bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H campaign contributions, and you have something that is unfortunately much more powerful than a handful of Joe Sixpacks going in after work to talk to their representatives.
As another poster in this thread said, welcome to the Corporate States of America.
Pyramid-schemes with peoples' real addresses are a good example of things to forward.
Print these out and send a copy to Postmaster, their city/zip. Make sure they know why you're sending it to them, i.e. make sure they can see the address of the person in their town. Depending on the postmaster, they can get in quite a bit of trouble for doing this.
Just like the first Greek to leave ship at Troy was bound to fall, the first big MP3-sharing service was bound to be taken down by the RIAA.
Still however, the Greek took Troy nontheless, it just took 'em a couple of years
Just like the first big MP3 sharing service was bound to be taken down by the RIAA, the (overly) big RIAA is bound to be taken down by, among other things, the other big MP3 sharing services. Still however, it will take a few years.
Even Microsoft are better than that - if I toast my Office CDs, they'll replace them for the cost of mailing a new CD out to me - because I've licensed the software.
What shipping method do they use? They wanted me to pay $30 for a replacement VC++ 6.0 CD.
Why do you think so many artists willingly accept these terms?
Two main reasons:
1. At the time they sign, some of them don't know any better. They think "hey, I got a contract, so that must be good!" without realizing that what is actually in the contract may not be so good for them.
2. Even if they do realize that the contract pretty much screws them over, what other real choices do they have? Most startup groups and singers can't afford the cost to promote themselves, make their own CDs, etc. So, in order to have even a glimmer of hope of making it, they have to go RIAA. And as a side note, if I'm not mistaken many record stores aren't friendly towards selling non-RIAA CDs.
Basically, it's a case of fucked if you do, fucked if you don't. Unfortunately, due in large part to the monopolistic tendencies of the RIAA, going with them tends to be less of a fucking.
Which leads from my response to zapfie's question to my own question for Janis: How do you think the market could be changed to combat the monopolistic tendencies of the RIAA and provide a fairer scenario for startup artists, both in terms of the compensation they receive and the barriers they must overcome?
The military must have systems which do the same job and don't suffer from the crippling effects of laptop and cellphone interference.
Military aviation uses a frequency range that is approximately double the frequency of civil aviation (i.e. about an octave higher). This would probably have some sort of effect on the EMI received from laptops, although changing the entire civil aviation system over to another frequency range would be far too much of a pain in the ass to be feasible.
Sorry, but fuck DMCA! Here in Europe is it completely legal (at least now).
I hate to tell you this, but the EU is considering a DMCA type law of its own. The DMCA was brought about because of a WTO treaty that more or less required it. EU signed this treaty, too.
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any info on parachut clusters big enough for a greyhound
:P
You mean like a Beowulf Cluster of parachutes?
Since the NYT requires registration to view articles people used to always say something like "free registration required" when they submitted stories from the site. People are so tired of reading that with every submission that we see people writing blurbs like blah-di-blah in place of saying free registration is required.
So why doesn't Slashdot just stop linking to nytimes.com then? They have stated that their general policy is to not link to registration-required sites, so why should NY Times be any different? The link has them saying that NY Times has "a lot of high-quality" stories...so do lots of registration-required sites. They also say that NY Times was grandfathered in...wtf is that supposed to mean? People may be getting tired of reading "Free Registration Required" on every other Slashdot link despite a Slashdot policy that is meant to curb this, but personally I am much more annoyed by having to register there in the first place.
Shouldn't any draft conserning the Internet have been influenced by the people that created it and maintain it?
As long as the MPAA isn't involved...
Then you'd spend the rest of your days fighting their Legion O' Lawyers® while they (Bill and friends) roll around naked in the all the money they made off your idea
This was discussed recently in one of my senior level EE classes. If a little guy has a patent on something, large corporations such as TI will often just not care about it because they know that enforcing a patent against their legal team is pretty much impossible for an individual to do. Sure, they may offer $50000 or so to buy the patent, but if they decide not to offer this money, the patent holder is SOL.
Now when was the last time you saw someone eating a Big Mac in real life and thought "That guy is going places" ?
To the hospital with food poisoning, maybe. (I seem to get FP every time I have a McDonalds hamburger, which is one of the reasons I now refuse to eat them. And in case you haven't had FP before, it isn't fun.)
Or at least to the overweight clinic. Big Macs have what, 1200 calories?
Take a look at P.Diddy (or whatever the hell he calls himself), he's sold millions upon millions of CDs, and yet he was dropped by his label for spending more money than he was making. Lavish demands... I agree the RIAA is evil, but these artists aren't that much less evil themselves... Especially the POP/RAP superstars... they are insane when it comes to their spending habits...
Wanna see what artists are putting as riders in their contracts? This site has lots of scanned riders.
Wasn't one of the conditions of the AOLTW megamerge that AIM must be essentially opened up, allowing competing IM programs to interoperate with it? What happened to that, or am I missing something?
You can learn how to bypass the Great Firewall at Zombocom, a web site where you can do just about anything.
If your at college, you should study grammar
Indeed.
Link for those that don't feel like using cut-n-paste
I have a better idea: just don't buy a computer with Intel Inside. Let 'em incorporate as many DRM gadgets as they want. Then we buy as many non-DRM compliant gadgets as we want.
This will work fine until the next version of the SSSCA/CBDTPA comes out. Given how interested the industry seems in this type of law, don't be surprised if they keep pushing for it.
. I haven't run any benchmarks on them, but it would not surprise me if the chipmakers didn't deliberately put firmware into their chips to slowly make them self-destruct to purposefully make them obsolete sooner so as to sell new chips
CPUs don't have or need firmware. They are purely hardware devices.
Slashdot decides that it likes the MPAA after all.
because they certainly haven't given a **** about fighting for it.
Maybe they haven't really given a shit about fighting for it, but do you really think they can match the financial backing that corporations provide to their lobbyists? Corporations have professional lobbyists whose only job is to prod congresspeople to vote their way. Add to that all the bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H campaign contributions, and you have something that is unfortunately much more powerful than a handful of Joe Sixpacks going in after work to talk to their representatives.
As another poster in this thread said, welcome to the Corporate States of America.
that the kerneltrap topic id is 404...
The screenshot itself is more ironic, I think..
I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself. :)
I would think so, since the article (and the writeup here on Slashdot even!) says 'over 100 MPH'...
Pyramid-schemes with peoples' real addresses are a good example of things to forward.
Print these out and send a copy to Postmaster, their city/zip. Make sure they know why you're sending it to them, i.e. make sure they can see the address of the person in their town. Depending on the postmaster, they can get in quite a bit of trouble for doing this.
26 were forced to read spam in prison
I don't think spammers would last long enough in prison to read spam...they'd be too busy servicing their fellow inmates.
Do you think they sit a big room and just piece code together like a puzzle?
Put 1 million monkeys at code terminals and they will eventually crank out the source code to Windows.
(Okay, it's Windows...maybe it's more like 20 or 30 monkeys...)
Just like the first Greek to leave ship at Troy was bound to fall, the first big MP3-sharing service was bound to be taken down by the RIAA. Still however, the Greek took Troy nontheless, it just took 'em a couple of years
Just like the first big MP3 sharing service was bound to be taken down by the RIAA, the (overly) big RIAA is bound to be taken down by, among other things, the other big MP3 sharing services. Still however, it will take a few years.
Even Microsoft are better than that - if I toast my Office CDs, they'll replace them for the cost of mailing a new CD out to me - because I've licensed the software.
What shipping method do they use? They wanted me to pay $30 for a replacement VC++ 6.0 CD.
How do you feel about the general policy of "CD's cannot be returned unopened."?
So you have to open the CD and try it first before you return it? Wow. What music store is this?
Why do you think so many artists willingly accept these terms?
Two main reasons:
1. At the time they sign, some of them don't know any better. They think "hey, I got a contract, so that must be good!" without realizing that what is actually in the contract may not be so good for them.
2. Even if they do realize that the contract pretty much screws them over, what other real choices do they have? Most startup groups and singers can't afford the cost to promote themselves, make their own CDs, etc. So, in order to have even a glimmer of hope of making it, they have to go RIAA. And as a side note, if I'm not mistaken many record stores aren't friendly towards selling non-RIAA CDs.
Basically, it's a case of fucked if you do, fucked if you don't. Unfortunately, due in large part to the monopolistic tendencies of the RIAA, going with them tends to be less of a fucking.
Which leads from my response to zapfie's question to my own question for Janis: How do you think the market could be changed to combat the monopolistic tendencies of the RIAA and provide a fairer scenario for startup artists, both in terms of the compensation they receive and the barriers they must overcome?
The military must have systems which do the same job and don't suffer from the crippling effects of laptop and cellphone interference.
Military aviation uses a frequency range that is approximately double the frequency of civil aviation (i.e. about an octave higher). This would probably have some sort of effect on the EMI received from laptops, although changing the entire civil aviation system over to another frequency range would be far too much of a pain in the ass to be feasible.
Sorry, but fuck DMCA! Here in Europe is it completely legal (at least now).
I hate to tell you this, but the EU is considering a DMCA type law of its own. The DMCA was brought about because of a WTO treaty that more or less required it. EU signed this treaty, too.