Pretty outrageous huh? The key to everything is to use the system to your own benefit. Even if you have to fling a lot of shit at it until something sticks.
The advantage to copyright registration is to be able to prove ownership if questions arise. Anything created is immediately copyright by the creator, but that can be challenged by a thief if there's no record. The creative commons is just a license people stick on their material, but it's still not proof that they own the copyright. Someone can just come along, challenge the material in court as their own, and maybe win that challenge without a copyright registration. It's not all that expensive to do, and the owner can always release the work under creative commons. AFAIK, there's no restriction to that.
I don't see any reason that the site owner couldn't contact the feds, and charge the ISP for data theft. If it were me, I'd look into something like trademark dilution also since the ISP is hosting ads on the domain name.
There are already laws on the books that handle slow drivers. In most areas that I've driven in, the minimum speed is 10 mph under the speed limit (in the United States). In other areas, the UAE, for example, traffic laws are 'suggestions'. If someone is driving slower than the minimum, feel justified on calling the authorities and reporting them.
Everyone is responsible for their own actions. If someone hits a slow driver, that driver is at fault for not watching where they are going. But, I get the feeling that anyone that follows the speed limits is a 'slow driver' in your eyes, and you should just stay off the road for the safety of those around you.
In their defense, they are getting it out sooner than a Star Trek based game. I don't know if they have quite the following. When the trek based game comes out, it'll be ok for a short time, untill the trek fanboys die of old age.
It's in the best interest of the government, it's employees, and contractors that this information is as hard to find as possible. The last thing they want is for the people to be able to find information on what is really going on.
The op of this thread probably also thinks that people can't be paid more because of the minimum wage. There are those that think like that... upside down, and out of their asses, I shit you not.
It's not a matter of the lack of funds for police. It's more a matter of passing piss-ant laws, and overburdening police. So, it's finally come that neighbors are expected to spy on neighbors over trash/recycling, wrong paint color, wrong shade style, grass height, etc... violations. It's still the Stasi/Gestapo with a twist... to root out those that don't recycle properly, let their grass grow a half inch too high, etc... It's worse, and it's more insidious.
The transporter effect was one of the few things that made me think "wow!" It was seamless, and fantasticly done. I was expecting some cheap crap, but everything was well done, and the actors were very good.
As for the Ferengi, you could tell they were having fun with the part. Kind of felt sorry for the person(s) who drew the short straw, and had to walk around as Borg. Although it would be ok if you were hung over.
Linux as a desktop isn't going to be a mass item like Windows is because of one thing... lack of games, and commercial game development. Let's face it, that's what drives the decision between Windows and Linux for those that know.
That, and users don't care about root and userland. They don't want to be hassled with using the command line.
All of my phone numbers are on the do not call list, and I still get fucking telemarketing calls. Sue em, you say? Call the state Attorney Generals office, you say? Well, you need identifying information, and it's impossible to get that when they hang up when you ask for the information, and they fake the caller ID number. Robo-calls won't stop because the FTC said so.
"If you were an alien, where would you land your craft? In the middle of nowhere, where there is no one around to mess with you or your stuff, or in the right in the middle of Central Park, where the Bloods or the Crips might gank you and jack your ride?"
Hey, what's the name of the book based on that premise?
Here we go, another patent fiasco, and the same replies of...
I'm gonna patent this. I'm gonna patent that. I'm gonna patent breathing. I'm gonna patent breathing while jacking off, in Soviet Russia, to a diorama of Natalie Portman pouring hot grits down the pants of the goatse.cx guy. All the while wondering if a dead Stephen King could throw a chair at Steve Ballmer through a beowulf cluster of a series of tubes. etc...
The people that it appealed to was Star Wars fans. That is the player base it was originally written for, and that's the player base they lost with the NGE. And, when I say lost, I mean lost reputation, lost subscriptions, and lost their fucking minds. Lucasarts, and SOE tried to appeal to the WoW crowd, and lost the Star Wars crowd.
You'd figure with a game based on a proven fan based demographic that the companies involved wouldn't fuck over that demographic, but they did. Screw the mainstream MMO players, a box of rocks has a higher collective IQ.
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Pretty outrageous huh? The key to everything is to use the system to your own benefit. Even if you have to fling a lot of shit at it until something sticks.
The advantage to copyright registration is to be able to prove ownership if questions arise. Anything created is immediately copyright by the creator, but that can be challenged by a thief if there's no record. The creative commons is just a license people stick on their material, but it's still not proof that they own the copyright. Someone can just come along, challenge the material in court as their own, and maybe win that challenge without a copyright registration. It's not all that expensive to do, and the owner can always release the work under creative commons. AFAIK, there's no restriction to that.
Yet another person is left unsatisfied.
I don't see any reason that the site owner couldn't contact the feds, and charge the ISP for data theft. If it were me, I'd look into something like trademark dilution also since the ISP is hosting ads on the domain name.
Who the fuck wrote this report? Rick Romero?
There are already laws on the books that handle slow drivers. In most areas that I've driven in, the minimum speed is 10 mph under the speed limit (in the United States). In other areas, the UAE, for example, traffic laws are 'suggestions'. If someone is driving slower than the minimum, feel justified on calling the authorities and reporting them.
Everyone is responsible for their own actions. If someone hits a slow driver, that driver is at fault for not watching where they are going. But, I get the feeling that anyone that follows the speed limits is a 'slow driver' in your eyes, and you should just stay off the road for the safety of those around you.
In most states, you can still vote Republican even if your address is a cemetary.
In their defense, they are getting it out sooner than a Star Trek based game. I don't know if they have quite the following. When the trek based game comes out, it'll be ok for a short time, untill the trek fanboys die of old age.
It's in the best interest of the government, it's employees, and contractors that this information is as hard to find as possible. The last thing they want is for the people to be able to find information on what is really going on.
The op of this thread probably also thinks that people can't be paid more because of the minimum wage. There are those that think like that... upside down, and out of their asses, I shit you not.
You know their tech support is going to suck if something goes wrong.
It's not a matter of the lack of funds for police. It's more a matter of passing piss-ant laws, and overburdening police. So, it's finally come that neighbors are expected to spy on neighbors over trash/recycling, wrong paint color, wrong shade style, grass height, etc... violations. It's still the Stasi/Gestapo with a twist... to root out those that don't recycle properly, let their grass grow a half inch too high, etc... It's worse, and it's more insidious.
The transporter effect was one of the few things that made me think "wow!" It was seamless, and fantasticly done. I was expecting some cheap crap, but everything was well done, and the actors were very good.
As for the Ferengi, you could tell they were having fun with the part. Kind of felt sorry for the person(s) who drew the short straw, and had to walk around as Borg. Although it would be ok if you were hung over.
Linux as a desktop isn't going to be a mass item like Windows is because of one thing... lack of games, and commercial game development. Let's face it, that's what drives the decision between Windows and Linux for those that know.
That, and users don't care about root and userland. They don't want to be hassled with using the command line.
Now, that's just crazy talk.
The complaint that is filed online just goes into a database that nobody looks at.
All of my phone numbers are on the do not call list, and I still get fucking telemarketing calls. Sue em, you say? Call the state Attorney Generals office, you say? Well, you need identifying information, and it's impossible to get that when they hang up when you ask for the information, and they fake the caller ID number. Robo-calls won't stop because the FTC said so.
I'd use the canvas bags, but in a place like Wal-Mart the stupid assed checkers try to ring them up.
Oh, c'mon. You know they are going to crap it up.
Nevermind. It's "Illegal Aliens", noticed it on the shelf behind me. Not to be confused with the movie. Now, that's a horror.
"If you were an alien, where would you land your craft? In the middle of nowhere, where there is no one around to mess with you or your stuff, or in the right in the middle of Central Park, where the Bloods or the Crips might gank you and jack your ride?"
Hey, what's the name of the book based on that premise?
No it isn't! Everything on the internet is different, and needs a special set of laws!
Here we go, another patent fiasco, and the same replies of...
I'm gonna patent this.
I'm gonna patent that.
I'm gonna patent breathing.
I'm gonna patent breathing while jacking off, in Soviet Russia, to a diorama of Natalie Portman pouring hot grits down the pants of the goatse.cx guy. All the while wondering if a dead Stephen King could throw a chair at Steve Ballmer through a beowulf cluster of a series of tubes.
etc...
The people that it appealed to was Star Wars fans. That is the player base it was originally written for, and that's the player base they lost with the NGE. And, when I say lost, I mean lost reputation, lost subscriptions, and lost their fucking minds. Lucasarts, and SOE tried to appeal to the WoW crowd, and lost the Star Wars crowd.
You'd figure with a game based on a proven fan based demographic that the companies involved wouldn't fuck over that demographic, but they did. Screw the mainstream MMO players, a box of rocks has a higher collective IQ.