Dunno, I can't see any place where they went beyond the law this time. Based on the article, it seems as if they took pains to build a legal case, even to the extent of checking for open APs nearby.
...is, as Lars Ulrich pointed out all those years ago it's the artists' music, legally and morally, and if someone chooses to give it away more power to 'em, but if they say no, no amount of rationalization can change the fact that it's no one else's to give away/take.
...so what's to stop King Bloomberg and NYC from dictating that cigarettes shall be no longer than 2", and no more than 5 to a pack, since they're bad for you and thus more is worse?
"Penguin Group is removing Kindle ebooks from libraries using Overdrive citing 'security concerns' as a weak excuse, while most likely taking a shot at Amazon. One more example of DRM being about protecting business models, not content."
(Emphasis mine) I try not to criticise submissions, but what the hell? I don't care what was done by whom, I thought Slashdot was above such flagrant editorialism.
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"Just using proper English would confuse the fuck out of most Americans"
FTFY
And, I'm more serious than you probably think. I can sit in any public place, and listen to a group of young kids (you know, young kids - twenties and thirties) talking, and not understand a word they've said. Buncha little pricks learned NOTHING in school!
50% to salaries for a very large team (dev, artists, qa). About 20-25% for marketing. 10% or so for hardware (for battlenet around the world). 5% for pro voice actors. 10% management.
Under Illinois law, you can only audio record if all parties are made aware of the recording. If this guy was recording surreptitiously, then he might be in for some legal trouble of his own, not to mention that the recording may or may not be admissible (IANAL).
If you RTFA you'd see a) it was NJ, not Illinois and b) On Feb. 4, the two men met him again at a restaurant and offered to pay $5,000 for him to recant his story, authorities said, adding the consultant had gone to federal authorities by then and was outfitted with a hidden recorder that captured every threat.
I'll just skip the car analogy since we're not dealing with physical goods here.
Fine. The money in your bank account isn't physical goods. It doesn't exist by your logic until it's "converted" into cash. How about if I take that and move it into my bank account? After all, that's just bits and bytes moving, right? Nothing physical lost? So no damage to you, right?
I have local power under a false name and SS number. I have cable under a different false name and SS. My local phone service was under yet another false name and SS number. I pay all my bills on time, using cash, and with the exception of the utility company, I had to pay no deposit or give them a credit card number, which would not have been a problem, as all of my names have credit cards. I went through a spell with no insurance and ended up at the emergency room with a serious cut. When they asked me my name, I gave my true one, loss of blood will cause bad thinking at times, yet gave them a bogus SS number and address. Figured the MD did not need to know my address or SS number while he was stitching me up. The nice lady at the payment office was surprised when I paid the bill on the spot in cash. I do not give out my SS number except when I absolutely have to. In fact there is a federal law that prevents places from using your SS number as an identifier(in the medical/health care field) with the new HIPPA thnigee they passed.
...by any means here, but I'd never buy a Kindle unless I can borrow or lend a Kindle book like a dead tree book. Serialize it to the purchaser, and have the mothership ensure it's only on one device at any one time. To me, that's a reasonable compromise. The way it is now SUCKS and should be avoided at all costs (pun intended....)
Well, since Tiger Direct sucks, and CompUSA sucked, can we expect CircuitCity.com to be any different?
Nope.
I do like the consumerist's comparison to NewEgg (for those who RTFA). Who should get our business? (Hint: the word begins with New and ends with Egg.)
Let me guess -- this was filed in the Eastern Texas District, right?
"IPAT, which apparently purchased these patents from their listed inventor of Addison M. Fischer, filed its complaint in the Eastern District of Texas on December 30, 2008"
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Dunno, I can't see any place where they went beyond the law this time. Based on the article, it seems as if they took pains to build a legal case, even to the extent of checking for open APs nearby.
...is, as Lars Ulrich pointed out all those years ago it's the artists' music, legally and morally, and if someone chooses to give it away more power to 'em, but if they say no, no amount of rationalization can change the fact that it's no one else's to give away/take.
...so what's to stop King Bloomberg and NYC from dictating that cigarettes shall be no longer than 2", and no more than 5 to a pack, since they're bad for you and thus more is worse?
The house wins over time.
Yup. Like Pittsburgh Phil is alleged to have said, "If you could beat the ponies they wouldn't be racing them."
"Penguin Group is removing Kindle ebooks from libraries using Overdrive citing 'security concerns' as a weak excuse, while most likely taking a shot at Amazon. One more example of DRM being about protecting business models, not content."
(Emphasis mine)
I try not to criticise submissions, but what the hell? I don't care what was done by whom, I thought Slashdot was above such flagrant editorialism.
Are you new here??
I realize this is winter..but must we go on with the repeats?"
I mean shit, the Ubuntu installer had it as an option, last I looked.
I wonder what the overlap is between wife murderers and Ubuntu users?
Ask Hans Reiser?
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"Just using proper English would confuse the fuck out of most Americans"
FTFY
And, I'm more serious than you probably think. I can sit in any public place, and listen to a group of young kids (you know, young kids - twenties and thirties) talking, and not understand a word they've said. Buncha little pricks learned NOTHING in school!
And get off my lawn!
50% to salaries for a very large team (dev, artists, qa). About 20-25% for marketing. 10% or so for hardware (for battlenet around the world). 5% for pro voice actors. 10% management.
+ overhead (offices, phones, internet, 'infrastructure, etc)....
...maybe SCO can scrape up the cash and buy them. /joke
..."To Serve Man" is a cookbook!!!
Under Illinois law, you can only audio record if all parties are made aware of the recording. If this guy was recording surreptitiously, then he might be in for some legal trouble of his own, not to mention that the recording may or may not be admissible (IANAL).
If you RTFA you'd see a) it was NJ, not Illinois and b) On Feb. 4, the two men met him again at a restaurant and offered to pay $5,000 for him to recant his story, authorities said, adding the consultant had gone to federal authorities by then and was outfitted with a hidden recorder that captured every threat.
So obvious it's been (mostly) done before:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Twin
I would think that after 19 or 20 years, respectively, that the statute of limitations for mere fraud would have kicked in.
I think it'd be hard enough for computers to decipher English LOL-speak, much less Chinese.
Sooo, who is going to offer the first hardware encryption in handsets...and how soon would THAT be forbidden?
LOL, your comment reminded me of this old Apple commercial (needs Quicktime): http://pulsar.esm.psu.edu/Faculty/Gray/graphics/movies/fullsupport.mov
I'll just skip the car analogy since we're not dealing with physical goods here.
Fine. The money in your bank account isn't physical goods. It doesn't exist by your logic until it's "converted" into cash. How about if I take that and move it into my bank account? After all, that's just bits and bytes moving, right? Nothing physical lost? So no damage to you, right?
I have local power under a false name and SS number. I have cable under a different false name and SS. My local phone service was under yet another false name and SS number. I pay all my bills on time, using cash, and with the exception of the utility company, I had to pay no deposit or give them a credit card number, which would not have been a problem, as all of my names have credit cards. I went through a spell with no insurance and ended up at the emergency room with a serious cut. When they asked me my name, I gave my true one, loss of blood will cause bad thinking at times, yet gave them a bogus SS number and address. Figured the MD did not need to know my address or SS number while he was stitching me up. The nice lady at the payment office was surprised when I paid the bill on the spot in cash. I do not give out my SS number except when I absolutely have to. In fact there is a federal law that prevents places from using your SS number as an identifier(in the medical/health care field) with the new HIPPA thnigee they passed.
Osama, is that you?
...by any means here, but I'd never buy a Kindle unless I can borrow or lend a Kindle book like a dead tree book. Serialize it to the purchaser, and have the mothership ensure it's only on one device at any one time. To me, that's a reasonable compromise. The way it is now SUCKS and should be avoided at all costs (pun intended....)
And 1/10th of them can't simplify fractions.
Welcome to that club.....2/10 is one fifth, not the other way around.
Well, since Tiger Direct sucks, and CompUSA sucked, can we expect CircuitCity.com to be any different?
Nope.
I do like the consumerist's comparison to NewEgg (for those who RTFA). Who should get our business? (Hint: the word begins with New and ends with Egg.)
Hmm, this manages to put my bloated Safari 4 install into a much better perspective. :-)
TANSTAAFS. :-)
Let me guess -- this was filed in the Eastern Texas District, right?
"IPAT, which apparently purchased these patents from their listed inventor of Addison M. Fischer, filed its complaint in the Eastern District of Texas on December 30, 2008"