You dropped the statement before and after the one you quoted:
And there is freely downloadable music out there. If I were to download a song at work or a friend's house, put it in my MP3 player I then wouldn't be able to transfer it back to my PC at home to add to my collection. Where is 'fair use' when the artist is giving away their music for free?
Which indicates that he wants to download FREE music at work or at a friends house. At least that's the way I read it.
IANAL, but it's entirely probable that your description of how to circumvent this "protection" is in direct violation of the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause...
Just an FYI...
Notice that the original poster said that they returned them for $100 store credit.
Almost any retailer will take back a product they sell in unopened condition without a receipt for store credit, and for us geeks, $100 store credit at Best Buy or Circuit City is as good as cash...:-)
So you're assumed guilty and fined accordingly....
The Audio-only CD-Rs are designed to 'eliminate' or 'substantially reduce' piracy (if you have an audio CD recorder you can only use those specials CD-Rs, you can't make copies from the copies, etc.) yet they assume that if you're going to burn audio CDs, you are a pirate and you have to pay a fee to the artists (and how many artists have ever actually received that money?) through the RIAA for that privelege(sp?)....
That's correct, a small, shaped charge of C4 can take out a bridge support, if the charge is applied directly to the bridge support.
The message I replied to made iti sound like a terrorist could walk into a shopping mall, pull out his Palm Pilot filled with C4, press the detonate button and blow up a shopping mall (I believe he said level a shopping mall).
In reality, a charge that small would break a lot of windows, give people a headache and possibly injure/kill one or two people who really close by, assuming that the glass from the display screen were driven into their body by the force of the explosion.
The good news is that the terrorist would probably not survive.
Roughly 16 years ago, I had finished my Advanced Indvidual Training in the U.S. Army and was returning to Indianapolis to work 3 months TDY as a recruiter's assistant. I was dressed in Class B uniform and had a pocket knife in my back pocket that I had honestly forgotten about. I was stopped by security at the metal detector, escorted to the security office and forced to 'throw away' my knife by dropping it into a waste basket before I was allowed to return to the terminal and to board the plane.
In all the excitement, I left my carry-on bag at the x-ray machine where it was 'signed for' by someone and was never seen again. I lost my first and only genuine Sony Walkman and a bunch of good sci-fi novels.
I find it very difficult to believe that in this day and age of 'increased airport security' this was allowed to happen...:-(
A PDA full of C4 can level a shopping mall? Hello? Have you ever even used C4?
A PDA (and let's assume it's a big one like one of the Casios) full of C4 would have a hard time levelling a decent sized mini-van.
Even if you packed it 2/3 full with C4 and the remainder with BBs or other shrapnel, you would be lucky to take down more than the few geeks clustered around you.
C4 is neat stuff, but it's just not that powerful.
Trust me on this - you don't want DirecTVDSL. I have it, and after having had 784/784 Kbps SDSL service for over a year, they switched me to 640/80 Kbps ADSL service at the same high price.
To make matters worse, they just put a cap on their news-servers of 128 Kbps, although I've yet to talk to another user who can get above a 5 or 6 Kbps download from the news-server.
If DirecTVDSL is your only option, then I guess you might have to, but if you have a choice, don't pick 'em!
Just the $0.02 of a slightly disatisfied DirecTVDSL customer...
And as Einstein is rumored to have said:
"There are two things that are infinite - The Universe and Human Stupidity, and I'm not completely sure about the universe..."
Read the second to the last parapgraph of my submission and you'll see that I sent snail-mail letters, and instead of a quick meaningless e-mail response, I got a much longer meaningless snail-mail response.
My question was how do I get them to listen, since it appears that neither e-mail or snail-mail work?
What to do if you happen upon a peace rally by stupid naive hemp-shirt-wearing college idiots, to teach them why force is sometimes needed:
1) Approach dumb rich ignorant student talking about "peace" and saying there should be, "no retaliation."
2) Engage in brief conversation, ask if military force is appropriate.
3) When he says "No," ask, "Why not?"
4) Wait until he says something to the effect of, "Because that would just cause more innocent deaths, which would be awful and we should not cause more violence."
5) When he's in mid-sentence, punch him in the face as hard as you can.
6) When he gets back up to up to punch you, point out that it would be a mistake and contrary to his values to strike you, because that would, "be awful and he should not cause more violence."
7) Wait until he agrees that he has pledged not to commit additional violence.
8) Punch him in the face again, harder this time.
Repeat steps 5 through 8 until they understand that sometimes it is necessary to punch back.
And if you absolutely have to send it out formatted, put it in Adobe Acrobat or some other common Postscript format...
And don't ever send your resume in Word format to a headhunter, by the time you get to the interview, you'll find out that you are responsible for inventing the internet, developing most of the code in Windows and Linux, and that you came up with the idea for ebay...
And I for one would love to see that used as prior art in a patent infringment trial.
You see, your honor, in this I Dream of Jeanie episode, where this very idea was first used....
I remember seeing a Frank and Ernest comic strip a few years back (not sure if it pre-dates the patent or not) where they said they always turn the TV off when they leave the house, that way they don't miss any of their shows..
Only as long as you didn't buy an upgrade licensed version of Office 97, or Office 2K. If you bought an upgrade, then you still only have the one license, and you can't (legally) sell or give away your previous version.
There was an episode where the crew were all having bad dreams, and his bad dream was being trapped in a turbolift with 7of9 and she started coming on to him, just as she leaned in to kiss him, he woke up screaming.
If that doesn't make him gay, I don't know what does...
I work in the medical diagnostics industry, and we use SLA all the time for mocking up examples of products.
I have heard of (but not yet seen) a vendor sample that is a fully functional wind-up clock that comes out of the SLA machine all put together. Turning the wind-up crank breaks the parts free from the sprue and starts the clock working.
I can tell you from personal experience that all the SLA plastic models I have eventually soften and deform after a few months, so I wouldn't want to rely on an SLA part for anything that is mission critical.
No kidding, I just bought AO on Sunday, and except for a glitch during the install, I haven't found a single bug yet. I played for four hours straight on Sunday, then another 3.5 hours last night, still no bugs.
I'm simultaneously sorry that I waited so long (so my friends could get ahead of me) and glad that I waited as long as I did, so I didn't have to put with the bugs that they did.
Can't be loaned to a friend, unless you give them the device too
Can't be resold to a used book store
Won't necessarily be readable 5 years from now if the technology has changed.
Or Pay $20 for the hardcopy version of the book that:
Has none of those drawbacks and
Depending on the hardware, is probably lighter in weight
I would gladly pay $5-7 for the electronic version of a $20 hardcopy book, but I sure won't pay the same price for a 'limited license' version of the same material. It costs money to print, bind, pack, ship, unpack, sort and shelve a hardcopy book. It doesn't cost that much to run an ecommerce website (based on the roughly 2.836 x 10^9 SPAM mail messages I receive each month).
If the publishers would make ebooks affordable, then people wouldn't be so anxious to pirate them. I'm a voracious reader, I can go through 5 pocket novels in a week, easy. Since most new novels are at least $6 (and I've them seen as high as $8) I have to limit myself to shopping at used book stores, and whatever fiction e-books I can scrounge from the newsgroups, otherwise I'd have to turn to a life of crime to be able to afford my reading habit (ok, that's a slight exageration).
People want to pirate books for the same reason they pirate music or satellite TV, it's so damn expensive in the first place.
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Check this story at The Register about doing just that...
Click here.
You dropped the statement before and after the one you quoted:
And there is freely downloadable music out there. If I were to download a song at work or a friend's house, put it in my MP3 player I then wouldn't be able to transfer it back to my PC at home to add to my collection. Where is 'fair use' when the artist is giving away their music for free?
Which indicates that he wants to download FREE music at work or at a friends house. At least that's the way I read it.
IANAL, but it's entirely probable that your description of how to circumvent this "protection" is in direct violation of the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause...
Just an FYI...
Notice that the original poster said that they returned them for $100 store credit.
:-)
Almost any retailer will take back a product they sell in unopened condition without a receipt for store credit, and for us geeks, $100 store credit at Best Buy or Circuit City is as good as cash...
No I wouldn't. The Banana Jr 6000 doesn't have TINT control...
and lost my nye-invulnerable status.
I think you mean you lost your "nigh-invulnerable" status.
Unless, of course, you were granted your invulnerability by Bill Nye The Science Guy.
I remember this!!! At the time, I thought it was one of the coolest things I'd ever seen.
Anyone know where I can get a copy (preferably virus and anthrax free)?
So you're assumed guilty and fined accordingly....
The Audio-only CD-Rs are designed to 'eliminate' or 'substantially reduce' piracy (if you have an audio CD recorder you can only use those specials CD-Rs, you can't make copies from the copies, etc.) yet they assume that if you're going to burn audio CDs, you are a pirate and you have to pay a fee to the artists (and how many artists have ever actually received that money?) through the RIAA for that privelege(sp?)....
Ok, it all makes sense now... NOT!
That's correct, a small, shaped charge of C4 can take out a bridge support, if the charge is applied directly to the bridge support.
The message I replied to made iti sound like a terrorist could walk into a shopping mall, pull out his Palm Pilot filled with C4, press the detonate button and blow up a shopping mall (I believe he said level a shopping mall).
In reality, a charge that small would break a lot of windows, give people a headache and possibly injure/kill one or two people who really close by, assuming that the glass from the display screen were driven into their body by the force of the explosion.
The good news is that the terrorist would probably not survive.
Roughly 16 years ago, I had finished my Advanced Indvidual Training in the U.S. Army and was returning to Indianapolis to work 3 months TDY as a recruiter's assistant. I was dressed in Class B uniform and had a pocket knife in my back pocket that I had honestly forgotten about. I was stopped by security at the metal detector, escorted to the security office and forced to 'throw away' my knife by dropping it into a waste basket before I was allowed to return to the terminal and to board the plane.
:-(
In all the excitement, I left my carry-on bag at the x-ray machine where it was 'signed for' by someone and was never seen again. I lost my first and only genuine Sony Walkman and a bunch of good sci-fi novels.
I find it very difficult to believe that in this day and age of 'increased airport security' this was allowed to happen...
A PDA full of C4 can level a shopping mall? Hello? Have you ever even used C4?
A PDA (and let's assume it's a big one like one of the Casios) full of C4 would have a hard time levelling a decent sized mini-van.
Even if you packed it 2/3 full with C4 and the remainder with BBs or other shrapnel, you would be lucky to take down more than the few geeks clustered around you.
C4 is neat stuff, but it's just not that powerful.
Trust me on this - you don't want DirecTVDSL. I have it, and after having had 784/784 Kbps SDSL service for over a year, they switched me to 640/80 Kbps ADSL service at the same high price.
To make matters worse, they just put a cap on their news-servers of 128 Kbps, although I've yet to talk to another user who can get above a 5 or 6 Kbps download from the news-server.
If DirecTVDSL is your only option, then I guess you might have to, but if you have a choice, don't pick 'em! Just the $0.02 of a slightly disatisfied DirecTVDSL customer...
And as Einstein is rumored to have said: "There are two things that are infinite - The Universe and Human Stupidity, and I'm not completely sure about the universe..."
Then how come we have senate sub-committees that get to decide the fate of the nation (or at least how a bill is worded)?
Does that mean that only the people from their states get to decide how the rest of us will live?
Read the second to the last parapgraph of my submission and you'll see that I sent snail-mail letters, and instead of a quick meaningless e-mail response, I got a much longer meaningless snail-mail response.
My question was how do I get them to listen, since it appears that neither e-mail or snail-mail work?
What to do if you happen upon a peace rally by stupid naive hemp-shirt-wearing college idiots, to teach them why force is sometimes needed:
1) Approach dumb rich ignorant student talking about "peace" and saying there should be, "no retaliation."
2) Engage in brief conversation, ask if military force is appropriate.
3) When he says "No," ask, "Why not?"
4) Wait until he says something to the effect of, "Because that would just cause more innocent deaths, which would be awful and we should not cause more violence."
5) When he's in mid-sentence, punch him in the face as hard as you can.
6) When he gets back up to up to punch you, point out that it would be a mistake and contrary to his values to strike you, because that would, "be awful and he should not cause more violence."
7) Wait until he agrees that he has pledged not to commit additional violence.
8) Punch him in the face again, harder this time.
Repeat steps 5 through 8 until they understand that sometimes it is necessary to punch back.
And if you absolutely have to send it out formatted, put it in Adobe Acrobat or some other common Postscript format...
And don't ever send your resume in Word format to a headhunter, by the time you get to the interview, you'll find out that you are responsible for inventing the internet, developing most of the code in Windows and Linux, and that you came up with the idea for ebay...
And I for one would love to see that used as prior art in a patent infringment trial.
You see, your honor, in this I Dream of Jeanie episode, where this very idea was first used....
I remember seeing a Frank and Ernest comic strip a few years back (not sure if it pre-dates the patent or not) where they said they always turn the TV off when they leave the house, that way they don't miss any of their shows..
Everything you can buy legally, you can
also sell legally
Including prescription drugs and controlled substances?
The difference between a lease and a license is that at the end of the lease, you have to give it back.
As far as I know, there is no expiration date on the shrink wrap licenses that would require you turn ownership of the license back to the provider.
Only as long as you didn't buy an upgrade licensed version of Office 97, or Office 2K. If you bought an upgrade, then you still only have the one license, and you can't (legally) sell or give away your previous version.
What about Ensign Kim on Voyager?
There was an episode where the crew were all having bad dreams, and his bad dream was being trapped in a turbolift with 7of9 and she started coming on to him, just as she leaned in to kiss him, he woke up screaming.
If that doesn't make him gay, I don't know what does...
I work in the medical diagnostics industry, and we use SLA all the time for mocking up examples of products.
I have heard of (but not yet seen) a vendor sample that is a fully functional wind-up clock that comes out of the SLA machine all put together. Turning the wind-up crank breaks the parts free from the sprue and starts the clock working.
I can tell you from personal experience that all the SLA plastic models I have eventually soften and deform after a few months, so I wouldn't want to rely on an SLA part for anything that is mission critical.
No kidding, I just bought AO on Sunday, and except for a glitch during the install, I haven't found a single bug yet. I played for four hours straight on Sunday, then another 3.5 hours last night, still no bugs.
I'm simultaneously sorry that I waited so long (so my friends could get ahead of me) and glad that I waited as long as I did, so I didn't have to put with the bugs that they did.
Pay $20 for an electronic book that:
Can only be read on the one device
Can't be loaned to a friend, unless you give them the device too
Can't be resold to a used book store
Won't necessarily be readable 5 years from now if the technology has changed.
Or Pay $20 for the hardcopy version of the book that:
Has none of those drawbacks and
Depending on the hardware, is probably lighter in weight
I would gladly pay $5-7 for the electronic version of a $20 hardcopy book, but I sure won't pay the same price for a 'limited license' version of the same material. It costs money to print, bind, pack, ship, unpack, sort and shelve a hardcopy book. It doesn't cost that much to run an ecommerce website (based on the roughly 2.836 x 10^9 SPAM mail messages I receive each month).
If the publishers would make ebooks affordable, then people wouldn't be so anxious to pirate them. I'm a voracious reader, I can go through 5 pocket novels in a week, easy. Since most new novels are at least $6 (and I've them seen as high as $8) I have to limit myself to shopping at used book stores, and whatever fiction e-books I can scrounge from the newsgroups, otherwise I'd have to turn to a life of crime to be able to afford my reading habit (ok, that's a slight exageration).
People want to pirate books for the same reason they pirate music or satellite TV, it's so damn expensive in the first place.