1. one of the main reasons for recorcable media is the ability to back up what you already have... a smart person would have backed up their original and used the copy until it is "stolen, broken, wears out."
Except that if the RIAA has its way, you won't be able to make a backup copy of the music you have purchased. They want you to have to pay full price to replace lost or damaged media, because it is more money in thier pockets.
about this type of story is hearing that upper management got their bonus and such. In some cases upper management bonuses are worth more than the pay cut they ask their staff to take. I work for a company where the CEO actually got a bonus for firing a significant percentage of the staff to cut costs. This seems like an oxymoron to me, cut staff to reduce expenses, but then accept a 3 million dollar bonus. Not only does this defeat the purpose of the cuts, it destroys morale for the remaining employees.
And don't forget those of us making that kind of money, but only for a short time. I have only been working full time for just over a year. I got out of school just in time to find a job before the bottom dropped out, but not in time to take full advantage of the boom.
I too am working on a rainy day fund, but more important to me is paying of the little credit card debt I have, and paying off my much larger student loan debt.
That suprises me. For the longest time I have been unable to use my Astra 1220P because Umax refused to release the spec and wouldn't produce a Win2k driver. It looks like it is supported in the latest version of sane though... That makes me happy.
At the sheer number of morons that read/. Just because you own a TiVo doesn't mean that sites like/. need to bow to your whims. Get a clue. There is no reason that/. should hold a story until you get a chance to watch an episode of a freaking TV show that you have recorded. Admittedly, they should have waited until after it aired on the west cost, but you TiVo morons need to take a chill pill. Owning a piece of cool technolgy does not make you Gods gift to/.!
Well, obviously they think wrong. I certainly wouldn't pay $18 a CD.
Another thing that bothers me about their story is that they believe that the only possible use for a cd burner is to pirate music. That is dead wrong. I don't use music trading software at all. What I will be using my burner for (when I get it) is to make backup copies of some of my cd's. Some of them are already getting scratched a bit, and it causes them to skip when I play them in my car cd player. So you see RIAA, there are legitimate uses for Cd burners!
This has been my beef all along with the DMCA. It punishes not for actual crimes, but for what might be. There is no innocent until proven guilty with the DMCA. As far as this law is concerned, we are all criminals just waiting for the chance to break loose and circumvent someones copy protection scheme. It is one major step closer to removing all fair-use under the law.
What we as the technocrats need to do is inform our less technically inclined friends and neighbors about the damage the DMCA could do them. Most people haven't a clue what it does, or even that it exists. These kinds of things will become more prevalent, and will eventually begin to affect the average joe on the street. Then there will be a public outcry, but by then it might be too late. We cannot allow large corporations to litigate for us. They will always go with their own interests, which are generally directly at odds with the interests of consumers.
I was getting very bored in school. The environments we worked in were very sterile. I have now been out of school for about a year, and I must say that programming in the real world is very different from a school environment. There is no "right" answer here. When you are given an assignment, there are no absolutes. There is a lot more flexibility in the solution, and your customers are real people, not your teachers. The "get anything that works" mentality is a losing mentality out here. An elegant, usable solution is much preferred. By all this, I mean that there is more to stimulate your mind and challenge you here in the real world. Don't judge the industry by what you see in school. They aren't the same.
Also, don't be fooled by the "reports." This is still a field that pays well. One of my former co-workers got laid off with 4 months severance pay, and found another job less than 2 months later.
This is rediculous. For actually attacking computers on the internet, or for
writing a virus that maliciously attacked other computers, these jokers got
a wrist slap.
For writing software that MIGHT be used to violate copyright law and therefore
violates the DMCA, Dimitry Sklyarov gets the book thrown at him. Where the
hell is the justice in that? Nothing that Mr. Sklyarov did was malicious, and
yet his "crime" is treated far worse than those whose actions were deliberately
intended to do damage. There is something seriously wrong with this picture.
This is the reason that splitting the company made so much sense. If the OS portion of M$ were a separate company, then MSN would have to pay to have thier logo on the system.
Just when I think that M$ is getting a healty respect for the government, and are actually going to pretend to play by the rules, they pull a stunt like this.
IANAL, but technically, since these computers were being used in a school environment, they were public resources. Unless he was explicitly going against some acceptable use policy, or breaking a law, he shouldn't be accountable.
In a city I used to live in, the bus system was free and fully subsidized by the city. This guy being prosecuted is equivalent to him getting on the bus, and then getting slapped with a fine for sitting sideways on the seat.
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Ok, hello dude. Way to take the joke WAY too seriously. Can't a comedy poke fun at the movie industry as well? I personally thought that was one of the funniest parts of the whole movie! I am sick and tired of seeing Apple laptops used to crack into secret government installations, or control equipment in an observatory. I mean, come on. The movie industry has been doing really dumb product placements for years. This is one instance where a movie made fun of that practice.
A number of sites have been throwing hissy fits about other sites linking to them. Will M$ be held accountable, should it link to a site that wants to charge per link, or would the site hold the content creator of the "modified" page accountable?
Ok, first of all, the story didn't tell exactly what on the site was considered "offensive." There might have been slanderous comments, or any number of things that might have contributed.
"Six weeks ago, the administration censored the entire site due to the threat of legal action due to inapropriate content." Judging from this line, it seems the school was under the gun about what was being posted to the site.
"There's much more involved here in politics, plus scr1pt k1dd13 threats spoofed from my email and everything,..." Threats spoofed from his email? I don't think we are getting all the story here.
Finally, being from Utah, and having lived in Utah most of my life, I would appreciate it if you would reserve judgement about people who live there until after you actually get to know them. That does not include observing them from a distance, as you have said that you do. Try to actually get to know them. You might be supprised, we aren't all "Fascists." I personally wouldn't dream of attacking someone because they expressed their opinion, and it differed from mine. Just as I would hope that I wouldn't get attacked for my own opinion. Don't judge the many by the deeds of a few....
"Sure, I'm not one of the boys, and I'm denied certain privileges,..." I am curious what you meant here. What can't you do just because you aren't "one of the boys..."?
I disagree. I just recently bought an HP DeskJet 932c. It has been a great product. Plus with Mandrake 8.0, and CUPS, my printer was set up in no time using the printer driver HP just recently released.
I also work for HP. Of course, as an HP employee, my advice is to spend the extra money for the good stuff. That pays for the raise I hope to get soon...
This is the same, lame, propaganda M$ has been spouting for years. There were a couple of statements that just piss me off though.
"He cited the history of Unix, which has been replete with incompatible versions. "
What no one bothers to point out is that the incompatable versions were brought about by large corporations creating proprietary versions of UNIX.
The other thing that really stuck in my craw is this: "But he added that the company's proprietary business model was a more effective way to support industry standards than the open-source approach..."
We all know that M$ has been such a champion of standards. Kerebos, oh wait, they put out an incompatible version of that one. How about Java, nope, they tried to add Active X controls there. Well at least they haven't messed with the web standards, except for JavaScript, DHTML... Well crap, I guess they haven't been so hot on sticking to the standards after all!
I don't believe this is copyright infringement.
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INAL, but I believe if the segment of music in question is less than 7 bars (or is it 15, I can never remember) that it does not infringe on a copyright in any way.
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1. one of the main reasons for recorcable media is the ability to back up what you already have... a smart person would have backed up their original and used the copy until it is "stolen, broken, wears out."
Except that if the RIAA has its way, you won't be able to make a backup copy of the music you have purchased. They want you to have to pay full price to replace lost or damaged media, because it is more money in thier pockets.
I'm moving to Europe, the real land of the Free! At least there they somewhat listen to the people.
about this type of story is hearing that upper management got their bonus and such. In some cases upper management bonuses are worth more than the pay cut they ask their staff to take. I work for a company where the CEO actually got a bonus for firing a significant percentage of the staff to cut costs. This seems like an oxymoron to me, cut staff to reduce expenses, but then accept a 3 million dollar bonus. Not only does this defeat the purpose of the cuts, it destroys morale for the remaining employees.
And don't forget those of us making that kind of money, but only for a short time. I have only been working full time for just over a year. I got out of school just in time to find a job before the bottom dropped out, but not in time to take full advantage of the boom.
I too am working on a rainy day fund, but more important to me is paying of the little credit card debt I have, and paying off my much larger student loan debt.
That suprises me. For the longest time I have been unable to use my Astra 1220P because Umax refused to release the spec and wouldn't produce a Win2k driver. It looks like it is supported in the latest version of sane though... That makes me happy.
When is Linus going to sue Red Hat, and Mandrake for violation of the DMCA?
At the sheer number of morons that read /. Just because you own a TiVo doesn't mean that sites like /. need to bow to your whims. Get a clue. There is no reason that /. should hold a story until you get a chance to watch an episode of a freaking TV show that you have recorded. Admittedly, they should have waited until after it aired on the west cost, but you TiVo morons need to take a chill pill. Owning a piece of cool technolgy does not make you Gods gift to /.!
they spend more money on costume and set design than they did on Dune. Those stilsuits were aweful!
Another thing that bothers me about their story is that they believe that the only possible use for a cd burner is to pirate music. That is dead wrong. I don't use music trading software at all. What I will be using my burner for (when I get it) is to make backup copies of some of my cd's. Some of them are already getting scratched a bit, and it causes them to skip when I play them in my car cd player. So you see RIAA, there are legitimate uses for Cd burners!
What we as the technocrats need to do is inform our less technically inclined friends and neighbors about the damage the DMCA could do them. Most people haven't a clue what it does, or even that it exists. These kinds of things will become more prevalent, and will eventually begin to affect the average joe on the street. Then there will be a public outcry, but by then it might be too late. We cannot allow large corporations to litigate for us. They will always go with their own interests, which are generally directly at odds with the interests of consumers.
Also, don't be fooled by the "reports." This is still a field that pays well. One of my former co-workers got laid off with 4 months severance pay, and found another job less than 2 months later.
They have a nice devlopers edition that would be a blast to hack. Of course, I am an app devloper, and that kind of stuff gives me a kick.
I for one would like for spammers to pay me for all the mail they send me, instead of whomever they are paying now...
I sure would love it of some of the spammers that get my address from who knows where would pay me to recieve their email...
For writing software that MIGHT be used to violate copyright law and therefore violates the DMCA, Dimitry Sklyarov gets the book thrown at him. Where the hell is the justice in that? Nothing that Mr. Sklyarov did was malicious, and yet his "crime" is treated far worse than those whose actions were deliberately intended to do damage. There is something seriously wrong with this picture.
http://help.broadband.att.com/faq.jsp?content_id=4 16&category_id=34
From their service agreement.
AT&T Broadband does not allow servers to be connected to the cable modem. This means that no computer in a personal network can be used as a server.
Hmmm, sounds like a pretty good clause to hide behind, eh?
Just when I think that M$ is getting a healty respect for the government, and are actually going to pretend to play by the rules, they pull a stunt like this.
In a city I used to live in, the bus system was free and fully subsidized by the city. This guy being prosecuted is equivalent to him getting on the bus, and then getting slapped with a fine for sitting sideways on the seat.
Ok, hello dude. Way to take the joke WAY too seriously. Can't a comedy poke fun at the movie industry as well? I personally thought that was one of the funniest parts of the whole movie! I am sick and tired of seeing Apple laptops used to crack into secret government installations, or control equipment in an observatory. I mean, come on. The movie industry has been doing really dumb product placements for years. This is one instance where a movie made fun of that practice.
A number of sites have been throwing hissy fits about other sites linking to them. Will M$ be held accountable, should it link to a site that wants to charge per link, or would the site hold the content creator of the "modified" page accountable?
"Six weeks ago, the administration censored the entire site due to the threat of legal action due to inapropriate content." Judging from this line, it seems the school was under the gun about what was being posted to the site.
"There's much more involved here in politics, plus scr1pt k1dd13 threats spoofed from my email and everything,..." Threats spoofed from his email? I don't think we are getting all the story here.
Finally, being from Utah, and having lived in Utah most of my life, I would appreciate it if you would reserve judgement about people who live there until after you actually get to know them. That does not include observing them from a distance, as you have said that you do. Try to actually get to know them. You might be supprised, we aren't all "Fascists." I personally wouldn't dream of attacking someone because they expressed their opinion, and it differed from mine. Just as I would hope that I wouldn't get attacked for my own opinion. Don't judge the many by the deeds of a few....
"Sure, I'm not one of the boys, and I'm denied certain privileges,..." I am curious what you meant here. What can't you do just because you aren't "one of the boys..."?
I also work for HP. Of course, as an HP employee, my advice is to spend the extra money for the good stuff. That pays for the raise I hope to get soon...
"He cited the history of Unix, which has been replete with incompatible versions. "
What no one bothers to point out is that the incompatable versions were brought about by large corporations creating proprietary versions of UNIX.
The other thing that really stuck in my craw is this: "But he added that the company's proprietary business model was a more effective way to support industry standards than the open-source approach..."
We all know that M$ has been such a champion of standards. Kerebos, oh wait, they put out an incompatible version of that one. How about Java, nope, they tried to add Active X controls there. Well at least they haven't messed with the web standards, except for JavaScript, DHTML... Well crap, I guess they haven't been so hot on sticking to the standards after all!
INAL, but I believe if the segment of music in question is less than 7 bars (or is it 15, I can never remember) that it does not infringe on a copyright in any way.