Depends on what you value I guess... I did use to track Debian testing once, though we're talking maybe 2003-2007 here. It broke stuff from time to time, and the breaking was random. Any update could break something at any time, though of course since less was upgraded at once it rarely hit "nightmare" levels. And testing slowed down *massively* around releases, so expect some bi-annual freeze periods.
I'm not going to pretend everything is working in Ubuntu releases. But at least I get to pick the time and place when I do the upgrade, then I test and whatever does work will continue to work until the next release. I think it's better this way...
As if Linux users never get fed up and abandon it for other platforms, noooo that never happens. I started using Linux on the desktop around Kunbutu 7.10 (Gutsy), because at the time Vista was sucking major balls and Macs weren't that interesting. Recently I bought a ASUS Eee PC 1001PX, and I had to manually upgrade the kernel to a newer-than-Lucid kernel just to have wireless work. The internal speaker played but if I plugged in headphones then nothing. It's 2010 and Linux is still struggling with the very, very basics. And just surfing the net flash sucks less on Windows than on Linux and there's still no usable free replacement, despite gnash and lightspark. Never mind other plug-ins that plain old don't exist for Linux.
I dual boot to Windows 7 and I'm seriously considering abandoning Linux and just run Windows + as much open source software as I can on top. Another reason is games, WINE keeps getting better but if you want to play something on release day it pretty much never works, or there's a load of tweaks and workarounds and glitches. It's great if you have the patience to begin playing a year from now I guess, but every new games exposes new bugs. And I have filed bugs and bisected in git and even got a patch in WINE, it just never ends. There's also other great services I'm missing out on, like free Spotify, it won't work under Linux unless you have the Premium version.
Take a look at this. Linux has the two last months been at its lowest since October 2008. It hit a high of 1.17% and is down to 0.85%. Even if you're so kind as to exclude all non-desktops and just go witn Win+Mac+Linux, it's down to 0.88%. That's called unhappy users leaving. Sure Linux can't die but it can be marginalized again to a bunch of people shouting "I'm not dead yet". The netbook/nettop push that gave Linux is small boost is pretty much gone, all I see now on low-end laptops is Windows, Windows, Windows. The 1001PX I bought should have been an ideal Linux candidate - but it only came with Windows so I had to wipe and install Linux myself.
In fact, I think the whole open source desktop is struggling badly. Firefox which has been the flagship of open source is losing market share now in the last year, while Chrome keeps breaking new records. And Google both makes Chrome and is Firefox's main source of income, how long before they decide to put all the money and push behind Chrome? Yes I know of Chromium but parts are missing so it's no more Chrome than OS X is BSD. OpenOffice, or rather LibreOffice is playing "divide and conquer" with themselves while Microsoft and Apple laughs. The year of the Linux desktop is never if it keeps going like this...
Don't forget that street signs are a very special case of "reading". Usually you know what street you're looking for, and is just looking to quickly verify/dismiss the street sign. That means you'll see the "shape" of Baker vs Bagel street easier than BAKER vs BAGEL without actually reading as such, because you know where the ups and downs should be.
Yeah, it's kinda hard to get betrayed by someone who'll never get an office and actually get to do something. But even in democracies with much more choice than the US it's likely your party will do something you strongly disagree with. Even here in Norway where 7 parties are in parliament and there was a total of 24 to vote for (you must have passed a signature limit to run for the election) there's 2.6 million votes to map to those 24 parties. On my short list there was three parties - one led by a clown I totally dislike, one with a pro-surveillance leadership and one who has an unhealthy attitude to immigrants.
I still voted but I did it with my eyes open, I know I didn't agree with everything. Still I figure it's better to have at least pulled it in the right direction, I at least feel the responsibility of not voting too or voting for some candidate I know is a hopelessly lost case. To use a car analogy, going left is a choice, going right is a choice, letting go of the wheel and let the car go where ever it wants is also a choice. And rarely the best one...
Something tells me that this planet is only "like" earth in that it's less different than the other ones. And that there'll be another hundred stories just like this in the coming decades. How "like" would like have to be for humans to step off a spaceship and live there? Quite a bit more earth-like than this, I'd imagine...
Corporate death penalty. Revoke the charter. Seize all assets. Render all shares worthless. It would be very effective.
Well, that is already always an option. The problem is often that the company has fought all the way down or is some form of separate legal entity. Take SCO as an example of the first, even if Novell and IBM win a kazillion dollar in damages the assets will never cover it. A lot of other companies, particularly in areas like construction often just exist to put up the building then go bankrupt so people can't claim liability for shoddy work. Or like every restaurant and night club runs, one property company and one operating company. Only the operating company ever goes bankrupt after having paid a nice rent. Hell even big companies like Enron disappear in a puff of smoke that way.
Corporate officers who make decisions can be charged personally for any criminal violations that may occur.
I think you've already tried it with CFOs and the SOX law, and what it created was a massive paranoid overreaction because the CFO felt he could end up in jail for something that wasn't his fault. Would you for example be head of development on a huge software project yet be personally liable and go to jail if any of your developers or subcontractors decided to illegally copy some code into your product? Absolutely decision takers should be put in jail if the crimes are a direct result of decisions they made. But very few would leave a smoking gun like that, and then it becomes a question of who knew, who accepted, who gave the nudge-nudges and wink-winks and who just acted on their own like loose cannons. Otherwise you'll have a lot of innocent scapegoats in jail and achieve little.
Well, there's always more news than there's time. Usually most people do it by reading some general sources and some specialized sources in the topics that interest them, what these customs news are trying to offer is to be your one-stop shop for all your needs. Reading a specialist source like "news for nerds" instead of reading more general news that might have interested you is also a form of "pushing them aside".
What I find annoying is that the filters tend to be too absolute. Its fine that I have preferences, but even if I'm not huge on sports I might like to catch some headlines. I'm not into celebs but it might be nice to not have the deer-in-headlights look saying "Paris who?". Even though I don't need to hear of every bowel movement on the stock market I like to know where the economy is going. For me to really use it, there's have to be a less/more slider with articles getting ranked by importance. I imagine that is why the "guessing" algorithm is better, I bet it's not so absolute as most crude checkbox selections I've seen.
Yup. Compared to other ~250GB SSDs the $739 price tag does not look so bad. Doing a quick price check, in USD less VAT I have to pay $600+ anyway. For that extra $100 you get a the connector card and a built in RAID, which is roughly what it'd cost you to get a 4 port RAID controller and 4 regular SSDs to RAID. On the other hand, there's not much real reason to get this over a RAID setup either, but I'm guessing they're trying to push this connector out there. If they can get it rolling and start building "native" HSDL SSDs then that would really change things.
Yes, but I doubt most equipment will let you do HDCP handshake over anything but the HDMI(/DVI) port, so you still need to hook up the HDMI-out that you want to decrypt to a HDMI-in port. Can your regular graphisc card be rewritten to use the HDMI out port as an HDMI in port? If not, then the application is limited to the few that have HDMI capture cards. And even then you have to be able to inject the HDMI handshake into the capture card's driver. The easiest would still be to make a HDCP stripper adapter that does the handshake, decrypts the content and sends it on as a plain signal.
Wow, what a clueless post. SATA-150 can't sustain more than 150MB/s and there's many SSDs that go beyond that. The fastest Crucial even goes beyond SATA 3 Gbps on sustained reads. Working for a HDD manufacturer or something?
I don't see confirmation of this on the OpenOffice.org website - how "official" is this? The register article and the project website seem to indicate support from a lot of companies, but this seems to be quite the "bolt from the blue", so to speak - have there been rumblings of this behind the scenes?
Not really. Most of those behind this are the same people behind go-oo, which has been an unofficial patch set for OpenOffice since 2007. They've never really tried to go head to head with the official builds, but they've used it to ship with Linux distros and other rebranded varieties. Officially they never wanted to call it a fork because they weren't really looking to rewrite what Sun had already done, just add more features.
This is not caused so much by them taking a step forward as it is Oracle taking two steps back. Everything indicates that open source is a not a big part of Oracle's strategy, Without Sun/Oracle as the single biggest driver, there's no reason not to reform as a community project - or well company-heavy but still a meeting of equals. They've thrown down the glove and unless Oracle decides to pick it up, which I strongly doubt they will, this can be all over as fast as the xfree86/x.org switchover.
Well, if you're running a startup you never have to prove your qualifications to anyone, the proof is in the pudding. But otherwise, I'd get a degree. I did go to university and got a Master's degree, and after ~12 years now (5 for degree, 7 years work experience) I feel my potential is hugely increased by my degree. I think I passed the national average (across all fields, all ages) somewhere around 4 years into my work experience. Now I'm at 150% of average and more like 300% of those the same age as me. And I still don't lead a single person, but the combination of a top degree and attractive work experience means companies go into a bidding war for me.
Of course I'm pretty sure I'd be just as smart and everything if I didn't take a degree. But only my employer would really know that, and to get paid what you're worth you have to be able to show it in the market. A top degree tells you so much that people's work references won't tell you, or that you can't trust. I never would have had the salary I have today if I didn't have a new job lined up. My old employer asked if there was anything at all they could do to keep me. To shorten the story a little, I asked for a $25k raise. I expected them to go "Oooooooookay, good luck with that new employer". Instead it was "Ummm, I really have to crunch the numbers on that but please don't sign anything yet". I still went with the new job though, seems they wanted me pretty badly too.
One of the smartest things you can do is remember economics 101, it's not the complexity of what you do that decides your salary but the supply and demand. If you can be attractive supply in short demand, your salary will be high. Across the whole world there's quite a damn lot of bright people out there, some of them willing to work for cheap. Find something to do where you're not in direct competition with them, there are many IT jobs that are somewhat location-bound.
That's politics for you, on this point they make used car salesmen look like saints. Nothing like passing the reins to the other side with the closet stacked with skeletons that'll come tumbling out and pretty much all be blamed on the acting president/congress. There's an expression "don't shoot the messenger", sometimes even the president is just the messenger telling you what mess he took over. And in politics, we do shoot the messenger.
That would only be the part about being the copyright holder (or on their authority) of the work you claim is infringed. To be sued for any of the rest you have to match:
(f) Misrepresentations. Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section (1) that material or activity is infringing, or (2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owners authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it.
In other words, the court must find proven that you did this intentionally. I never heard of anyone ever proving that, but I suspect a barrage of false DMCA notices just might be the first.
Probably because religion is pretty much all bonuses, like religion beats non-religion every time. If there was a different kind of bonus to not having a religion, they'd probably be happier.
Who in their worst nightmares would could have thought that anyone could stoop to do what he did?
This clearly illustrates that until lay persons learn to think otherwise in terms of privacy and security on systems and networks; nothing is going to get better.
Hello??? If you people go out sometimes (you know, the big blue room with the bright light) do you always wear your bullet-proof west, keep your back against the wall at all times and look for cover points in case somebody around you is a raving psychopath looking to stab someone or lurking with a sniper rifle? No, I don't trust strangers but if you think this should be "expected" then you must have serious problems functioning in a society with other people. If I realized someone saw my password and thought "hey, maybe they'll plant child porn on my computer, report it to the police and alert the media to ruin my life and send me to prison for god-knows-how long" then I'd be an hermit living in a cave far, far away from everyone else.
Correction, that's exactly what's happening to the person anyway. Just as the judge said, there will forever after be people who are likely going to believe the man is a pedo even after the judge cleared his name. I doubt the press will publish the results of the trial as front page news since it will show that they were fooled by the man. At best perhaps a small article at the bottom of page 18.
Well add that to the long, long list of crimes that can't be completely undone. If I get beaten up and end up in the hospital I can't ever "undo" that time. If I get permanently injured I won't grow a new leg just because my assailant is convicted to prison and has to pay damages. If you steal or destroy something of personal value to me then money won't get it back. Nothing that leaves scars on your soul will heal from it. In fact, money and valuables are pretty much the only thing you can replace. So your point is right, but don't pretend it's that unique to child porn.
Maybe for you. I bought most of my movies, if you do the occasional rental there's no connection between "I saw a movie last night" and "I must return the movie". I didn't remember it until the store called and asked how long I was going to keep it, would have cost me less to buy it. So of the options buy, rent or pirate then at least rent dropped to rock bottom. I'm sure you can be anal about it and never get a late fee, but I'd rather have not go through that effort just to watch a damn movie.
The comparison is like I said wildly invalid. And obviously something like "miljöpartiet" = the greens is driven up by high-profile environmental events, so I don't see why the pirate party can't be.
Just a few things: 1) The EU and national elections are really not comparable, people care about so vastly different things. Neither before, during or after did PP have anything like a 7% support in polls for the national parliament. But in retrospect, they didn't have a good enough national election platform to push while they still had media's attention because all the effort had gone into the EU election. They got silent and when it was ready media had lost attention.
2) There has been extremely little room for any other than the traditional parties and SD who got almost 3% in the last election, the number of "other" votes dropped from 2.75% to 1.41% and all others backed while PP increased from 0.63% to 0.65%. All major issues related to PPs politics have been pushed back to past the election, like the TPB trial who "coincidentally" begins next week.
3) It might look more like an activist group, but as long as no party is willing to seriously fight for the same issues then PP will have to fight for representation on their own. It took three days after the election for the Greens - including the Swedish representative - to vote for another anti-filesharing bill in the EU, they are only playing the populist opinion but will trade it away in any negotiation.
4) There have been no rounds ot mass lawsuits in Sweden, TPB is still up and running, they get some of the world's best free services like Spotify, in short people don't see the immidiate need for political change. But polls asking people for their opinions rather which party they'd vote for show that PP is having an effect on the attitude to copyrights. More and more people dispute that copyright infringement equals theft. If it again becomes a political topic, PP will do better than last "wave".
And for all of you who seriously believe that, I have a wonderful investment opportunity in a bridge to sell you... In fact it's the same bridge, and it doesn't even exist and I'm actually just going to scam you for money but I assume your mind blanked after the first sentence and you're off to your bank to see how much you can mortgage your home (causing a second financial crisis) right now, but you'll probably start reading again at the end so: Limited time only, 300% guaranteed return! Sign up at i.r@gullible.biz.
The ruling reads in part: 'YouTube is not a supplier of content and therefore has no obligation to control ex-ante the illegality of those. Its only obligation is to cooperate with the holders of the rights in order to immediately withdraw the content once the infraction is identified.'
I would guess from this that it was not enough that Google followed their takedowns, they wanted Google to do all the work for them too.
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Depends on what you value I guess... I did use to track Debian testing once, though we're talking maybe 2003-2007 here. It broke stuff from time to time, and the breaking was random. Any update could break something at any time, though of course since less was upgraded at once it rarely hit "nightmare" levels. And testing slowed down *massively* around releases, so expect some bi-annual freeze periods.
I'm not going to pretend everything is working in Ubuntu releases. But at least I get to pick the time and place when I do the upgrade, then I test and whatever does work will continue to work until the next release. I think it's better this way...
As if Linux users never get fed up and abandon it for other platforms, noooo that never happens. I started using Linux on the desktop around Kunbutu 7.10 (Gutsy), because at the time Vista was sucking major balls and Macs weren't that interesting. Recently I bought a ASUS Eee PC 1001PX, and I had to manually upgrade the kernel to a newer-than-Lucid kernel just to have wireless work. The internal speaker played but if I plugged in headphones then nothing. It's 2010 and Linux is still struggling with the very, very basics. And just surfing the net flash sucks less on Windows than on Linux and there's still no usable free replacement, despite gnash and lightspark. Never mind other plug-ins that plain old don't exist for Linux.
I dual boot to Windows 7 and I'm seriously considering abandoning Linux and just run Windows + as much open source software as I can on top. Another reason is games, WINE keeps getting better but if you want to play something on release day it pretty much never works, or there's a load of tweaks and workarounds and glitches. It's great if you have the patience to begin playing a year from now I guess, but every new games exposes new bugs. And I have filed bugs and bisected in git and even got a patch in WINE, it just never ends. There's also other great services I'm missing out on, like free Spotify, it won't work under Linux unless you have the Premium version.
Take a look at this. Linux has the two last months been at its lowest since October 2008. It hit a high of 1.17% and is down to 0.85%. Even if you're so kind as to exclude all non-desktops and just go witn Win+Mac+Linux, it's down to 0.88%. That's called unhappy users leaving. Sure Linux can't die but it can be marginalized again to a bunch of people shouting "I'm not dead yet". The netbook/nettop push that gave Linux is small boost is pretty much gone, all I see now on low-end laptops is Windows, Windows, Windows. The 1001PX I bought should have been an ideal Linux candidate - but it only came with Windows so I had to wipe and install Linux myself.
In fact, I think the whole open source desktop is struggling badly. Firefox which has been the flagship of open source is losing market share now in the last year, while Chrome keeps breaking new records. And Google both makes Chrome and is Firefox's main source of income, how long before they decide to put all the money and push behind Chrome? Yes I know of Chromium but parts are missing so it's no more Chrome than OS X is BSD. OpenOffice, or rather LibreOffice is playing "divide and conquer" with themselves while Microsoft and Apple laughs. The year of the Linux desktop is never if it keeps going like this...
Don't forget that street signs are a very special case of "reading". Usually you know what street you're looking for, and is just looking to quickly verify/dismiss the street sign. That means you'll see the "shape" of Baker vs Bagel street easier than BAKER vs BAGEL without actually reading as such, because you know where the ups and downs should be.
Yeah, it's kinda hard to get betrayed by someone who'll never get an office and actually get to do something. But even in democracies with much more choice than the US it's likely your party will do something you strongly disagree with. Even here in Norway where 7 parties are in parliament and there was a total of 24 to vote for (you must have passed a signature limit to run for the election) there's 2.6 million votes to map to those 24 parties. On my short list there was three parties - one led by a clown I totally dislike, one with a pro-surveillance leadership and one who has an unhealthy attitude to immigrants.
I still voted but I did it with my eyes open, I know I didn't agree with everything. Still I figure it's better to have at least pulled it in the right direction, I at least feel the responsibility of not voting too or voting for some candidate I know is a hopelessly lost case. To use a car analogy, going left is a choice, going right is a choice, letting go of the wheel and let the car go where ever it wants is also a choice. And rarely the best one...
Something tells me that this planet is only "like" earth in that it's less different than the other ones. And that there'll be another hundred stories just like this in the coming decades. How "like" would like have to be for humans to step off a spaceship and live there? Quite a bit more earth-like than this, I'd imagine...
Corporate death penalty. Revoke the charter. Seize all assets. Render all shares worthless. It would be very effective.
Well, that is already always an option. The problem is often that the company has fought all the way down or is some form of separate legal entity. Take SCO as an example of the first, even if Novell and IBM win a kazillion dollar in damages the assets will never cover it. A lot of other companies, particularly in areas like construction often just exist to put up the building then go bankrupt so people can't claim liability for shoddy work. Or like every restaurant and night club runs, one property company and one operating company. Only the operating company ever goes bankrupt after having paid a nice rent. Hell even big companies like Enron disappear in a puff of smoke that way.
Corporate officers who make decisions can be charged personally for any criminal violations that may occur.
I think you've already tried it with CFOs and the SOX law, and what it created was a massive paranoid overreaction because the CFO felt he could end up in jail for something that wasn't his fault. Would you for example be head of development on a huge software project yet be personally liable and go to jail if any of your developers or subcontractors decided to illegally copy some code into your product? Absolutely decision takers should be put in jail if the crimes are a direct result of decisions they made. But very few would leave a smoking gun like that, and then it becomes a question of who knew, who accepted, who gave the nudge-nudges and wink-winks and who just acted on their own like loose cannons. Otherwise you'll have a lot of innocent scapegoats in jail and achieve little.
Well, there's always more news than there's time. Usually most people do it by reading some general sources and some specialized sources in the topics that interest them, what these customs news are trying to offer is to be your one-stop shop for all your needs. Reading a specialist source like "news for nerds" instead of reading more general news that might have interested you is also a form of "pushing them aside".
What I find annoying is that the filters tend to be too absolute. Its fine that I have preferences, but even if I'm not huge on sports I might like to catch some headlines. I'm not into celebs but it might be nice to not have the deer-in-headlights look saying "Paris who?". Even though I don't need to hear of every bowel movement on the stock market I like to know where the economy is going. For me to really use it, there's have to be a less/more slider with articles getting ranked by importance. I imagine that is why the "guessing" algorithm is better, I bet it's not so absolute as most crude checkbox selections I've seen.
Yup. Compared to other ~250GB SSDs the $739 price tag does not look so bad. Doing a quick price check, in USD less VAT I have to pay $600+ anyway. For that extra $100 you get a the connector card and a built in RAID, which is roughly what it'd cost you to get a 4 port RAID controller and 4 regular SSDs to RAID. On the other hand, there's not much real reason to get this over a RAID setup either, but I'm guessing they're trying to push this connector out there. If they can get it rolling and start building "native" HSDL SSDs then that would really change things.
Yes, but I doubt most equipment will let you do HDCP handshake over anything but the HDMI(/DVI) port, so you still need to hook up the HDMI-out that you want to decrypt to a HDMI-in port. Can your regular graphisc card be rewritten to use the HDMI out port as an HDMI in port? If not, then the application is limited to the few that have HDMI capture cards. And even then you have to be able to inject the HDMI handshake into the capture card's driver. The easiest would still be to make a HDCP stripper adapter that does the handshake, decrypts the content and sends it on as a plain signal.
Wow, what a clueless post. SATA-150 can't sustain more than 150MB/s and there's many SSDs that go beyond that. The fastest Crucial even goes beyond SATA 3 Gbps on sustained reads. Working for a HDD manufacturer or something?
Maybe this is the bringer of the apocalypse, it might just suck so hard it turns earth into a black hole.
Which would be a good reason to nuke it from orbit. Only way of making sure this copyright disease doesn't spread.
I don't see confirmation of this on the OpenOffice.org website - how "official" is this? The register article and the project website seem to indicate support from a lot of companies, but this seems to be quite the "bolt from the blue", so to speak - have there been rumblings of this behind the scenes?
Not really. Most of those behind this are the same people behind go-oo, which has been an unofficial patch set for OpenOffice since 2007. They've never really tried to go head to head with the official builds, but they've used it to ship with Linux distros and other rebranded varieties. Officially they never wanted to call it a fork because they weren't really looking to rewrite what Sun had already done, just add more features.
This is not caused so much by them taking a step forward as it is Oracle taking two steps back. Everything indicates that open source is a not a big part of Oracle's strategy, Without Sun/Oracle as the single biggest driver, there's no reason not to reform as a community project - or well company-heavy but still a meeting of equals. They've thrown down the glove and unless Oracle decides to pick it up, which I strongly doubt they will, this can be all over as fast as the xfree86/x.org switchover.
Every HGTTG/Futurama fan knows it will have been renamed to Urektum in 2620, so the jokes are no longer funny.
Well, if you're running a startup you never have to prove your qualifications to anyone, the proof is in the pudding. But otherwise, I'd get a degree. I did go to university and got a Master's degree, and after ~12 years now (5 for degree, 7 years work experience) I feel my potential is hugely increased by my degree. I think I passed the national average (across all fields, all ages) somewhere around 4 years into my work experience. Now I'm at 150% of average and more like 300% of those the same age as me. And I still don't lead a single person, but the combination of a top degree and attractive work experience means companies go into a bidding war for me.
Of course I'm pretty sure I'd be just as smart and everything if I didn't take a degree. But only my employer would really know that, and to get paid what you're worth you have to be able to show it in the market. A top degree tells you so much that people's work references won't tell you, or that you can't trust. I never would have had the salary I have today if I didn't have a new job lined up. My old employer asked if there was anything at all they could do to keep me. To shorten the story a little, I asked for a $25k raise. I expected them to go "Oooooooookay, good luck with that new employer". Instead it was "Ummm, I really have to crunch the numbers on that but please don't sign anything yet". I still went with the new job though, seems they wanted me pretty badly too.
One of the smartest things you can do is remember economics 101, it's not the complexity of what you do that decides your salary but the supply and demand. If you can be attractive supply in short demand, your salary will be high. Across the whole world there's quite a damn lot of bright people out there, some of them willing to work for cheap. Find something to do where you're not in direct competition with them, there are many IT jobs that are somewhat location-bound.
That's politics for you, on this point they make used car salesmen look like saints. Nothing like passing the reins to the other side with the closet stacked with skeletons that'll come tumbling out and pretty much all be blamed on the acting president/congress. There's an expression "don't shoot the messenger", sometimes even the president is just the messenger telling you what mess he took over. And in politics, we do shoot the messenger.
That would only be the part about being the copyright holder (or on their authority) of the work you claim is infringed. To be sued for any of the rest you have to match:
(f) Misrepresentations. Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section
(1) that material or activity is infringing, or
(2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification,
shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owners authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it.
In other words, the court must find proven that you did this intentionally. I never heard of anyone ever proving that, but I suspect a barrage of false DMCA notices just might be the first.
Probably because religion is pretty much all bonuses, like religion beats non-religion every time. If there was a different kind of bonus to not having a religion, they'd probably be happier.
Who in their worst nightmares would could have thought that anyone could stoop to do what he did?
This clearly illustrates that until lay persons learn to think otherwise in terms of privacy and security on systems and networks; nothing is going to get better.
Hello??? If you people go out sometimes (you know, the big blue room with the bright light) do you always wear your bullet-proof west, keep your back against the wall at all times and look for cover points in case somebody around you is a raving psychopath looking to stab someone or lurking with a sniper rifle? No, I don't trust strangers but if you think this should be "expected" then you must have serious problems functioning in a society with other people. If I realized someone saw my password and thought "hey, maybe they'll plant child porn on my computer, report it to the police and alert the media to ruin my life and send me to prison for god-knows-how long" then I'd be an hermit living in a cave far, far away from everyone else.
Correction, that's exactly what's happening to the person anyway. Just as the judge said, there will forever after be people who are likely going to believe the man is a pedo even after the judge cleared his name. I doubt the press will publish the results of the trial as front page news since it will show that they were fooled by the man. At best perhaps a small article at the bottom of page 18.
Well add that to the long, long list of crimes that can't be completely undone. If I get beaten up and end up in the hospital I can't ever "undo" that time. If I get permanently injured I won't grow a new leg just because my assailant is convicted to prison and has to pay damages. If you steal or destroy something of personal value to me then money won't get it back. Nothing that leaves scars on your soul will heal from it. In fact, money and valuables are pretty much the only thing you can replace. So your point is right, but don't pretend it's that unique to child porn.
Maybe for you. I bought most of my movies, if you do the occasional rental there's no connection between "I saw a movie last night" and "I must return the movie". I didn't remember it until the store called and asked how long I was going to keep it, would have cost me less to buy it. So of the options buy, rent or pirate then at least rent dropped to rock bottom. I'm sure you can be anal about it and never get a late fee, but I'd rather have not go through that effort just to watch a damn movie.
The comparison is like I said wildly invalid. And obviously something like "miljöpartiet" = the greens is driven up by high-profile environmental events, so I don't see why the pirate party can't be.
Just a few things:
1) The EU and national elections are really not comparable, people care about so vastly different things. Neither before, during or after did PP have anything like a 7% support in polls for the national parliament. But in retrospect, they didn't have a good enough national election platform to push while they still had media's attention because all the effort had gone into the EU election. They got silent and when it was ready media had lost attention.
2) There has been extremely little room for any other than the traditional parties and SD who got almost 3% in the last election, the number of "other" votes dropped from 2.75% to 1.41% and all others backed while PP increased from 0.63% to 0.65%. All major issues related to PPs politics have been pushed back to past the election, like the TPB trial who "coincidentally" begins next week.
3) It might look more like an activist group, but as long as no party is willing to seriously fight for the same issues then PP will have to fight for representation on their own. It took three days after the election for the Greens - including the Swedish representative - to vote for another anti-filesharing bill in the EU, they are only playing the populist opinion but will trade it away in any negotiation.
4) There have been no rounds ot mass lawsuits in Sweden, TPB is still up and running, they get some of the world's best free services like Spotify, in short people don't see the immidiate need for political change. But polls asking people for their opinions rather which party they'd vote for show that PP is having an effect on the attitude to copyrights. More and more people dispute that copyright infringement equals theft. If it again becomes a political topic, PP will do better than last "wave".
Personally I'm at least hopeful for 2014...
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The ruling reads in part: 'YouTube is not a supplier of content and therefore has no obligation to control ex-ante the illegality of those. Its only obligation is to cooperate with the holders of the rights in order to immediately withdraw the content once the infraction is identified.'
I would guess from this that it was not enough that Google followed their takedowns, they wanted Google to do all the work for them too.