Is it circumvention of copy control to copy mp3s off cd and put them on p2p? No. Is it illegal? Yes. I don't know who got the idea that the issue with p2p was circumvention. The issue with p2p was straight-up copyright violation, illegal for well over a century prior to the DMCA. The issue with/DeCSS/ was circumvention.
I don't know a single goth who likes Buffy. In fact most of them can't stand it. Now I know many geeks who posess a few goth tendencies (vampire larping, avoiding sunlight, wearing black) who absolutely love the show, but they don't make a lifestyle out of the goth culture and hence aren's really goths. Just geeks.
Firefly has (had, whatever) strong characters, conflict, a little sexual tension, and humor; it lacked muppets...Arguing that Firefly sucked while Farscape rocked just doesn't hold water.
Au contraire! You said it yourself, it lacked muppets. Therefore, sucked. QED.
It seems funny to me that despite your rant, you haven't organized a group that we can donate money to to put anti-DMCA/anti-SSSCA/anti-what-have-you ads on the air.
The essential difference between those real issues and Farscape is, one geek actually decided to start such an initiative, and got others involved. I fervently believe that all it will take is one geek dedicated enough to start and run such an effort to get roughly the entire slashdot population to collectively sponsor anti-totalitarian ads.
I thought you had a parliament? Why is a Senator handing out new police powers, anyway?
Because the Emperor has just ordered the Imperial Senate disbanded, and the senator in question made grand moff. Fear will keep the local systems in line, fear of this battle station!
The explanation of the problem linked in the posting said you can compress an apple down to a point by moving a rubber band around it? I know for a fact there is no way to compress an apple that small without breaking it. Trust me, I've tried.
What will the RIAA be like in 2052? "We make sure you are paying for our music, whether you listen to it or not." Or am I being just a bit too optimistic?
You probably are, seeing as microsoft already does this with their software.
I find it quite amusing that you put the question "Are you sure that you need a patent?" last, after telling us to put all that work and money into it.
Apparently, a geek would buy 500 black-market clones of himself,
No geek I know would waste money on 500 clones, when one or two would do the job (or maybe five or so for multiply redundant backup purposes) and the savings fromt he other 495 could be put toward mainframes, building a sattelite network, an underground lair, mirrorring the internet, possibly getting a low-end fighter jet, or lots and lots of Jolt. Just to name a small subset.
I find it interesting how often I hear scientists question how anyone could believe in God (or astrology for that matter) in the absence of any consistent measurable evidence for his existence. Yet, I am both a Taoist and scientifically minded, and nobody has ever questioned how as a rational human being I can believe in a force that can never be measured and controls the entire universe.
Although I did have a high school art teacher who repeatedly questioned how I could be a Taoist and still play computer games.
god dammit! I just had a really good reply to the article. Then ie did something funny and it deleted, so I had to type it again. Then ie did a different funny thing and now I have to type it AGAIN!!! ARGH!
This wouldn't be so bad if I were just being a dumbass and chosing to use ie over another browser, but I have to use what my school has, since my new apartment won't have internet access hooked up for another week.
Can you imagine that? All of the universe, the earth, and all its creatures, written in perl. Whoa.
Lord, I would hate to have to debug *that* program.
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I know my karma will take a hit for this post, but...
I just had to reveal the new secret to getting modded up. Many ppl have revealed strategies for getting massive amounts of karma based on the content of your post, and I am here to tell you that NONE of them work. The only way to consistently gain karma is to have the proper/format/ to your post. And it's incredibly simple. Whatever the contents of your post are, always preface it with "I know this will get modded down to -1" or "This is going to be a big karma hit for me, but". And then, like magic, your post hits 4 or 5, insightful!
Why do such disclaimers attract such karma? Why does the underground society of monkies dominate the political landscape of the moon? These are great mysteries.
I seriously doubt that many companies will put enough care into this to come up with a version that's any different than the stock, and don't see how the crack could not be put into a simple, easily distributable program roughly equivalent to a stock cd ripper from the end-user's point of view.
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Is it circumvention of copy control to copy mp3s off cd and put them on p2p? No. Is it illegal? Yes. /DeCSS/ was circumvention.
I don't know who got the idea that the issue with p2p was circumvention. The issue with p2p was straight-up copyright violation, illegal for well over a century prior to the DMCA. The issue with
you left out the part about Natalie Portman Hot Grits.
I would just like to point out that that only says (Score: 5, Funny) because it can't say (Score: 5, Painful)
Now we get to start another debate over the proper way to say "LEGOs".
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (target market: Goths)
I don't know a single goth who likes Buffy. In fact most of them can't stand it. Now I know many geeks who posess a few goth tendencies (vampire larping, avoiding sunlight, wearing black) who absolutely love the show, but they don't make a lifestyle out of the goth culture and hence aren's really goths. Just geeks.
Firefly has (had, whatever) strong characters, conflict, a little sexual tension, and humor; it lacked muppets...Arguing that Firefly sucked while Farscape rocked just doesn't hold water.
Au contraire! You said it yourself, it lacked muppets. Therefore, sucked. QED.
For as I was scrolling up the front page, I could have swore I saw "CowboyNeal" in this article's headline, where copyright should have been.
Thank you for your time, I'm going to bed.
It seems funny to me that despite your rant, you haven't organized a group that we can donate money to to put anti-DMCA/anti-SSSCA/anti-what-have-you ads on the air.
The essential difference between those real issues and Farscape is, one geek actually decided to start such an initiative, and got others involved. I fervently believe that all it will take is one geek dedicated enough to start and run such an effort to get roughly the entire slashdot population to collectively sponsor anti-totalitarian ads.
You may send me to my room if you like.
I thought you had a parliament? Why is a Senator handing out new police powers, anyway?
Because the Emperor has just ordered the Imperial Senate disbanded, and the senator in question made grand moff. Fear will keep the local systems in line, fear of this battle station!
> Europe, Australia, and now China. Where's the freedom of speach?
Pardon my ignorance, but when did China have freedom of speech to begin with?
Microsoft is software based, they haven't designed any hardware (joysticks and future DRM technology not-withstanding)
They've made mice, too.
The explanation of the problem linked in the posting said you can compress an apple down to a point by moving a rubber band around it? I know for a fact there is no way to compress an apple that small without breaking it. Trust me, I've tried.
Donuts, on the other hand...
And I'm stuck in this 95% male tech college.
Dammit, dammit, dammit!!!!!
What will the RIAA be like in 2052? "We make sure you are paying for our music, whether you listen to it or not." Or am I being just a bit too optimistic?
You probably are, seeing as microsoft already does this with their software.
1) It's not worth doing a patent search. Most of the larger companies do not.
Is this because it's not worth doing, or because it's not worth doing if you're a large company, who can just overrun whoever has prior art, anyway?
I find it quite amusing that you put the question "Are you sure that you need a patent?" last, after telling us to put all that work and money into it.
Apparently, a geek would buy 500 black-market clones of himself,
No geek I know would waste money on 500 clones, when one or two would do the job (or maybe five or so for multiply redundant backup purposes) and the savings fromt he other 495 could be put toward mainframes, building a sattelite network, an underground lair, mirrorring the internet, possibly getting a low-end fighter jet, or lots and lots of Jolt. Just to name a small subset.
No, playing monk is like playing bison in street fighter.
I find it interesting how often I hear scientists question how anyone could believe in God (or astrology for that matter) in the absence of any consistent measurable evidence for his existence. Yet, I am both a Taoist and scientifically minded, and nobody has ever questioned how as a rational human being I can believe in a force that can never be measured and controls the entire universe.
Although I did have a high school art teacher who repeatedly questioned how I could be a Taoist and still play computer games.
god dammit!
I just had a really good reply to the article. Then ie did something funny and it deleted, so I had to type it again. Then ie did a different funny thing and now I have to type it AGAIN!!! ARGH!
This wouldn't be so bad if I were just being a dumbass and chosing to use ie over another browser, but I have to use what my school has, since my new apartment won't have internet access hooked up for another week.
Curse Bill Gates!!!!!!!!
Can you imagine that? All of the universe, the earth, and all its creatures, written in perl. Whoa.
Lord, I would hate to have to debug *that* program.
I know my karma will take a hit for this post, but...
/format/ to your post. And it's incredibly simple. Whatever the contents of your post are, always preface it with "I know this will get modded down to -1" or "This is going to be a big karma hit for me, but". And then, like magic, your post hits 4 or 5, insightful!
I just had to reveal the new secret to getting modded up. Many ppl have revealed strategies for getting massive amounts of karma based on the content of your post, and I am here to tell you that NONE of them work. The only way to consistently gain karma is to have the proper
Why do such disclaimers attract such karma? Why does the underground society of monkies dominate the political landscape of the moon? These are great mysteries.
Yeah, JBOSS is a brilliant name... (nt)
I seriously doubt that many companies will put enough care into this to come up with a version that's any different than the stock, and don't see how the crack could not be put into a simple, easily distributable program roughly equivalent to a stock cd ripper from the end-user's point of view.