BTW, why is this being laid at the feet of the Tories in the article summary? Isn't Labour the ruling party right now? If they don't want it, then this doesn't pass.
It's not. The summary is only mentioning that this bill had huge support from the Tories and that the Tories helped to get the bill passed. What is wrong about pointing out that fact?
So then how do you explain Spain implementing the EU Copyright Directive? It's not much bigger than Canada. Or how the Czech Republic and Finland have also implemented portions of it.
Actually a few countries in the EU have passed DMCA-like legislation. But from the article:
Anti-circumvention provisions. The EU is demanding that Canada implement anti-circumvention provisions that include a ban on the distribution of circumvention devices. There is no such requirement in the WIPO Internet treaties.
This sounds pretty much like wanting DMCA-style legislation.
Europe isn't a utopia when it comes to copyrights. Everyone made a big deal about that copyright term extension act that was proposed by Sonny Bono, and while it was a heinous bill at least it didn't revive expired copyrights like the copyright extension legislation in the EU did.
Aren't we constantly told that the EU is so much better in regards to patents and copyrights and it's only the big bad US that is constantly trying to push all this stuff on people?
And it's a shame that for a lot of users there is no compelling argument to switch from windows. From their perspective, "it ain't broke, why fix it?".
Why is that a shame? Why can't they just use the OS they want rather than being told that they must use something else?
Laura Malone, associated general counsel for intellectual property at The Associated Press, said names of people, companies and products cannot be protected under copyright law. Names can be protected under trademark law, but only in association with goods or services used in commerce, she said.
''Even if there was a valid trademark, the mere use of the name in a news story is not an infringement of trademark,'' Malone said Tuesday.
''There is no legal substance to these claims,'' she added.
No user should ever be more skilled than any other users, and all distributions should cater to the newbie crowd.
Except the GP made no such point at all. He was saying he didn't want to have some condescending ass try to come and fix his system.
When all computing grinds to a halt because no one knows how to fix or maintain them anymore, at least you'll have the comfort of knowing that no advanced users are going to make a tongue-in-cheek post on Slashdot that stimulates your inferiority complex.
There are plenty of people who have skills that people could go to to fix their computers that don't act like condescending and pompous assholes like you and the rest of the "1337 h4x0r" LSF crowd.
Except you need admin access to install software in Program Files in Windows or to modify something like system32. It's just that not a lot of people properly use a less priviledged account in Windows like they should (even though there has been support for this since Win2k).
I always thought that Linus could at any time release Linux 3.0 under a different license... but doesn't do this because he is a good guy and would have trouble finding other coders to further support the project after that.
You thought wrong. Unless Linus had all contributors to the kernel assign their copyrights to him he can't relicense it at his own whim and would have to have agreement with all other copyright holders.
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This is the decade of ignoring the majority and jamming what a few people want down the throats of the rest.
Since when did Slashdotters become the majority of internet users?
BTW, why is this being laid at the feet of the Tories in the article summary? Isn't Labour the ruling party right now? If they don't want it, then this doesn't pass.
It's not. The summary is only mentioning that this bill had huge support from the Tories and that the Tories helped to get the bill passed. What is wrong about pointing out that fact?
So basically the same way government has worked since the beginning of governments?
Boohoo. They provide those services on their terms. If you don't accept those terms of service, you don't get to use the service.
So then how do you explain Spain implementing the EU Copyright Directive? It's not much bigger than Canada. Or how the Czech Republic and Finland have also implemented portions of it.
I might be paranoid, but I don't believe the US had nothing to do with this.
Because otherwise the EU wouldn't be pushing for this? Are you joking? The EU hardly is a utopia when it comes to copyrights.
Actually a few countries in the EU have passed DMCA-like legislation. But from the article:
Anti-circumvention provisions. The EU is demanding that Canada implement anti-circumvention provisions that include a ban on the distribution of circumvention devices. There is no such requirement in the WIPO Internet treaties.
This sounds pretty much like wanting DMCA-style legislation.
Europe isn't a utopia when it comes to copyrights. Everyone made a big deal about that copyright term extension act that was proposed by Sonny Bono, and while it was a heinous bill at least it didn't revive expired copyrights like the copyright extension legislation in the EU did.
Aren't we constantly told that the EU is so much better in regards to patents and copyrights and it's only the big bad US that is constantly trying to push all this stuff on people?
Yeah cause Android has been such a smashing success. Oh wait...
Except he already said they were perfectly fine with the system as it was.
So they should switch their OS to make your life easier? That's rather asinine.
And it's a shame that for a lot of users there is no compelling argument to switch from windows. From their perspective, "it ain't broke, why fix it?".
Why is that a shame? Why can't they just use the OS they want rather than being told that they must use something else?
He said it was the "best thing around" if
1) know what you're doing, and 2) have time to read docs and fiddle with things.
Nice quote mining attempt though.
So there are 8 weeks in a month now?
Laura Malone, associated general counsel for intellectual property at The Associated Press, said names of people, companies and products cannot be protected under copyright law. Names can be protected under trademark law, but only in association with goods or services used in commerce, she said.
''Even if there was a valid trademark, the mere use of the name in a news story is not an infringement of trademark,'' Malone said Tuesday.
''There is no legal substance to these claims,'' she added.
Who is Sam Rami? Is it some cheap knock-off of Sam Raimi?
But Intel does have a legal obligation to not cripple the product when detecting competing processors.
Please cite relevant statutory or case law to show this.
And? What obligation does Intel have under the law to make their compiler work optimally with a competitor's product?
You mean except for the fact that humans had a hand in the Little Ice Age as well?
Go back to wanking over your LSF system thinking your 1337 because you copy and pasted a bunch of commands from the manual. Sooo hardcore.
No user should ever be more skilled than any other users, and all distributions should cater to the newbie crowd.
Except the GP made no such point at all. He was saying he didn't want to have some condescending ass try to come and fix his system.
When all computing grinds to a halt because no one knows how to fix or maintain them anymore, at least you'll have the comfort of knowing that no advanced users are going to make a tongue-in-cheek post on Slashdot that stimulates your inferiority complex.
There are plenty of people who have skills that people could go to to fix their computers that don't act like condescending and pompous assholes like you and the rest of the "1337 h4x0r" LSF crowd.
Especially since their expertise is most likely just being able to copy and paste commands from the LFS manual.
Except you need admin access to install software in Program Files in Windows or to modify something like system32. It's just that not a lot of people properly use a less priviledged account in Windows like they should (even though there has been support for this since Win2k).
I always thought that Linus could at any time release Linux 3.0 under a different license... but doesn't do this because he is a good guy and would have trouble finding other coders to further support the project after that.
You thought wrong. Unless Linus had all contributors to the kernel assign their copyrights to him he can't relicense it at his own whim and would have to have agreement with all other copyright holders.