Yes, that's their fault if they're too impatient or trusting to investigate things like GAIN, but it's for the same reason that we put cute labels about things that should be obvious like "Do Not Eat" or "Very Hot" on products.
Or the fact that i had to label my soldering equipment case "caution: extreemly toxic" to get people to stop getting flux and lead flakes (I still prefer lead-based solder as it preforms better for me) on their hands and then going anywhere near the food storage areas, the deep freezer is near my equipment storage area.
Of course the fact that I have personally warned, posted as a nicely etched and edge lit sign, and gave example to the other employees (on the occasion my o-scope was involved) that defenestration awaits anyone who damages or loses one of my tools also helps keep people from messing with things they don't understand. And yes it felt good to throw him out a window, even though it was open and only a 3 feet above ground.
Because taping from the radio, having listened to ads that funded the broadcast (or in the UK, paying a TV subscriptioN), is EXACTLY THE SAME as making a high quality MP3 and then redistributing it to MILLIONS OF STRANGERS.
Yes, so if we paid for our CDs, and only distributed a few files to a few people it'd be alright?
I've burnt a few CDs for my friends at work because they were wondering what i was singing along to on my Nex IIe so I burnt them the CDs with the music on them, wide range of stuff. Some They Might Be Giants, The Seatbelts (from Cowboy Bebop soundtrack), a little early Beastie Boys and Daft Punk, most of Laziest Men on Mars (mp3.com a while back) and some other stuff from band sites across the internet. All either from purchased CDs orfreely distributed by the artist. Was it wrong to burn them to CD as opposed to recording them to tape?
Every MP3 is just a (large) decimal number that just happens to make noise when you look at it thru the right codec
So if 60 million people jump off a.. oh nevermind..
Why yes, if the 60 million people jumped of the cliff before me i'd jump, but mostly because there'd most likely be a rather large wet mass at the bottom to cushion my impact.
"He hit the ground like a garbage bag full of vegatable soup"
Although I can imagine them doing something similar to catch people who download simply by offering up a song which they have the copyright for, and going after anybody who downloads it. But the question we need to ask then is...is that legal? Is that entrapment?
Wait for it... If the holder of a copyright shares the work, downloading it would be most legal. It's like a jewelrey store sticking a large crate of diamonds (in the riaa's case it'd be mostly coal or just rotting biomass(pre-coal)) out in front of the store with a sign that says "Take one"
probably not the best possible examply, but I haven't had time to sleep in a few days, so (don't) sue me
Sooner or later, it'll be impossible to know who's downloading what.
That, I think, is the problem. I would like to know who is downloading potential evidence from me (although I can say I only share my creations and gutenburged texts). Perhaps if either party had complete anonimity it'd feel safer. I've heard some IRCops have been trolling recently and even that one of the servers kick-banned everyone to save it's users.
One can be liable for blackmail even though the action for which you request money is legal. An analogy will help explain blackmail a bit better:
Let's say I have pictures of my boss and his secretary in flagrante delicto. Now, I have the right to send an email to everyone telling them that I have those pictures. Such an activity would be legal. It would be illegal, however, to ask my boss for money and in return not send the email.
I have a really good resume, i suggest you let me give it to you to read. If you don't I'll take my happy ass over to your competitor and they'll gladly pay me cash-money to use my superior intellect to reduce the number of sales that you would have had if you hired me.
Heh, if this falls under blackmail, then the job market will fall totally into the big corporation's laps, you can only apply for one job... ever
Well, I think his point was if we, the people, demand 'tit-for-tat' information awareness, then they, the government, might start to realize that it SHOULD be illegal. Ie., when push comes to shove, they will want to protect their privacy, and so will give us ours.
Well except they'll probably just make it illegal for us, and write in an exception for their own total information awareness programes
we sorta get UPN, earlier this spring one of the local stations went rogue/independant. That left CBS without a broadcast station in our city. To rectify this problem they purchased the local UPN affiliate and moved 43 channels up the spectrum. The deal they struck has the station broadcasting as cbs most of the day and thru prime time, then they rebroadcast the UPN prime time lline-up from midnight to 4 AM. So unless this hits mid prime time i'm too busy watching [adult swim] on CN
Hmmm... how about a communication divice where translation occurs on both ends. Translate from the sender's preferred language to some intermediate language (esperanto or yiddish perhaps) and then the intermediate language is sent to the receiver where it is translated into the final language.
wait isn't that how the rosetta stone worked, they used it to translate one language thru another language to a third
I live in Washington DC where the summers get pretty summery.
Heh, move to Florida. Not only are the summers pretty summery, the winters can be rather summery as well. Not to mention the mosquittos and occasional glowing swamp beasts <ramble type = "mindless OT">(eh, the military was in the habit of storing radioactive material in the area (ironically named Yellowwater before they arrived) Not to mention the daftness of the folks who desided that it would be a good idea to store toxic waste in a part of the swamp that floods when there's been more than an inch of rain... but it's nice not having neighbors and the land was cheap)</ramble>
Yeah, IANAL, but I always thought conspiracy involved more than one person. So unless this guy had a bunch of other people with him, conspiracy wouldn't work.
Yeah, I always thought the saying was "It takes five to make a conspiracy"
If you really want Senator Hatch (or whoever) to change the way they think about an issue, your best bet is to present a well-reasoned argument that gradually sways their opinion
If you read the proceedings when they were discussing the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) you can see that he does not listen to well-reasoned arguments.
All you're left with is calling him a moron.
I think the correct translation of "well-reasoned arguement" into congess-critter-speak is "I have a lot of money. Would you like some money? You do? Let's discuss it over you passing some laws for me"
oddly enough I had a cow-orker with a very similar pick-up line "Hello. I'm arabic and I have money." hated the guy but for some reason the bloody line worked 9 times of 10.
Hmmm is there a law some where against politicians having brains, they all seam to be either total loonies, or total moron's or both, this guy is clearly both,
in order to stop people, committing one crime he want's to make it legal to commit a far more serious crime.
Egad (a base tone denotes a bad age), That's soo close to an idea that might work (or at least doesn't sound like congress needs to share whatever it is they are smoking). Now just sit down and think this thru with me. To get soo many people to stop committing a crime, instead of making the much larger crime legal, wouldn't it be the lesser of the two weevils to make the relatively smaller crime legal? Just think instead of having to go around and blow up everyone's computer (oops, sorry we accidentally mistaked FreeBSD for the new Cowboy Neil album) to get everyone (and by everyone I mean the ones who aren't a friend/aquantence of someone who would perform the preventative fix just to tick off the *AA) to stop people from having any form of music on a computer visible to the internet,regardless of whether or not the music is legal. Instead we have the RIAA wrapped strategically in duct tape and thrown in the closet with some redneck trees.
Erm. Without my motherboard, I'm going to the store to buy another one and hook up my old hard drive to it.
Tada! Problem solved!
I'm honestly confused by anyones suggestion that they can physically destroy a computer remotely. Doesn't anyone remember this?!
It's gonna be part of Palladium, yeah they'll require that all chips have the heatsinks permanently attached and that the heat sinks contain a large number of small solinoids. Send the chip the right sequence of commands (to be locked away in *AA vaults) and the solinoids are tied into the signal from the system clock and repeatedly fire their pins against the chip. Your computer dies in a high speed stacatto of muffiny evil. Thank You for playing MSD&D.
No Computer activity reported Things you can do: Be old Get stuck in a 5 mile long no passing zone behind a BHOL doing 25 Sink in a swamp Get rained on... a lot
Florida With a median age somewhere in the mesozoic, why would we care about these dagblasted calculator laws?
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What if it is Microsoft, with their own notion of not-free-freeware?
If Microsoft buys SCO though, they could throw all teh money into legal funds and "prove" that unix is theres and shut down all the free(speech)ware on suspicion that they contain illegal code.
luckly i have a patent pending on this method of pissing off slashdot and am incorporating it into an off-off-off-broadway musical, so any attempt to replicate these actions will result in me crying to the RIAA about how i'm not being treated fairly as an artist (and won't be able to sell any copies of the soundtrack). Perhaps the RIAA and Microshoft have large enough legal funds to kill eachother in an Arthur/Mordred type way
Contracts are a legal question, which the courts are deciding. There are *terms* displayed when you watch a DVD. And they are more restrictive than copyright law itself.
hang on a tic, Is that realy a fair place to put terms. "If you are watching this DVD on non-MPAA approved hardware/software remain where you are, the authorities have already been called. The rest of you may now continue to enjoy our preprocessed "entertainment" material."
The answer is another question : How would you define a standard energy?
<humor>we could define it as the energy liberated by combining x pounds of matter and anti-matter. </humor>
or we could define the kilogram as some multiple of moles of carbon-12 (isn't that what atomic weight was based on at one time. been a while since phys/chem at the uni)
Our newer voting system, in Duval county Florida, utilizes something very similar to the "scantron" sheets used for multiple choice tests in schools and universities, has a uniquie numeric ID on each sheet (and they recorded that in the books when we entered the voting precinct) and a marker is used to mark the ballot, if there are multiple markings for a single post the machine spits the ballot back to the voter (the voter puts the ballot into the machine his/herself) and when it comes out of the back where the election-apointed-person takes it and puts it in a box to be taken to the county supervisor of elections to do whatever tey do with ballots.
An analogy would be, if you lost your driver's licence, instead of just charging some nominal fee for the replacement of the card, charging the full cost of a new driver's licence (or even making you do the test again).
Very good analogy. Here, in the state of mickey and oranges (hooray florida), your drivers liscence remains the property of the state of florida, and says so at the bottom. Last year I kinda accidentally melted mine and had to pay $20 to replace it, same $20 i had to pay to get it in the first place, but at least i didn't have to test again. (my car was in the habit of making weird noises that month.)
To me this patent is just plain stupid. If we are talking about a publicly available service, can any patent deprive any user of the right to use it in any way he/she pleases?
Well, i'm still waiting for my patent on driving on the wrong side of the road in reverse and my patent on dail random 10 digit numbers on the telephone to get OKed.
some serious personality clashes with some of the long-timers (this is a barely-surviving dotcom firm in an ultra-niche market). most of the people here are battle-weary Normally that isn't a bad thing when your product is used by many people to enhance their lives, but this place is in an ultra-niche market with, as I might say, a very small potential audience. There's no sense here of using technology to better people's lives--just to find ways to squeeze pennies out of advertisers, clients, and the very few customers that buy the sort of things we sell.
No need to pussyfoot around it, you work for the marketer of hello kitty vibrators don't you! I had a friend who had one proudly displayed on her desk in her dorm room.
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Good, cuz the last thing I need is them chasing me down for my 100+ gigs of mp3s from those CDs i bought
can't recall ever having neighbors, owning the only 20 acres of firm ground in what is a essentially a seasonal swamp can do that.
Don't like people hanging around though, they scare/kill the wildlife. can't have people killing foxes, can we
Or the fact that i had to label my soldering equipment case "caution: extreemly toxic" to get people to stop getting flux and lead flakes (I still prefer lead-based solder as it preforms better for me) on their hands and then going anywhere near the food storage areas, the deep freezer is near my equipment storage area.
Of course the fact that I have personally warned, posted as a nicely etched and edge lit sign, and gave example to the other employees (on the occasion my o-scope was involved) that defenestration awaits anyone who damages or loses one of my tools also helps keep people from messing with things they don't understand.
And yes it felt good to throw him out a window, even though it was open and only a 3 feet above ground.
Yes, so if we paid for our CDs, and only distributed a few files to a few people it'd be alright?
I've burnt a few CDs for my friends at work because they were wondering what i was singing along to on my Nex IIe so I burnt them the CDs with the music on them, wide range of stuff. Some They Might Be Giants, The Seatbelts (from Cowboy Bebop soundtrack), a little early Beastie Boys and Daft Punk, most of Laziest Men on Mars (mp3.com a while back) and some other stuff from band sites across the internet.
All either from purchased CDs orfreely distributed by the artist. Was it wrong to burn them to CD as opposed to recording them to tape?
Every MP3 is just a (large) decimal number that just happens to make noise when you look at it thru the right codec
Why yes, if the 60 million people jumped of the cliff before me i'd jump, but mostly because there'd most likely be a rather large wet mass at the bottom to cushion my impact.
"He hit the ground like a garbage bag full of vegatable soup"
Wait for it... If the holder of a copyright shares the work, downloading it would be most legal.
It's like a jewelrey store sticking a large crate of diamonds (in the riaa's case it'd be mostly coal or just rotting biomass(pre-coal)) out in front of the store with a sign that says "Take one"
probably not the best possible examply, but I haven't had time to sleep in a few days, so (don't) sue me
That, I think, is the problem. I would like to know who is downloading potential evidence from me (although I can say I only share my creations and gutenburged texts). Perhaps if either party had complete anonimity it'd feel safer.
I've heard some IRCops have been trolling recently and even that one of the servers kick-banned everyone to save it's users.
I have a really good resume, i suggest you let me give it to you to read. If you don't I'll take my happy ass over to your competitor and they'll gladly pay me cash-money to use my superior intellect to reduce the number of sales that you would have had if you hired me.
Heh, if this falls under blackmail, then the job market will fall totally into the big corporation's laps, you can only apply for one job... ever
Well except they'll probably just make it illegal for us, and write in an exception for their own total information awareness programes
we sorta get UPN, earlier this spring one of the local stations went rogue/independant. That left CBS without a broadcast station in our city. To rectify this problem they purchased the local UPN affiliate and moved 43 channels up the spectrum. The deal they struck has the station broadcasting as cbs most of the day and thru prime time, then they rebroadcast the UPN prime time lline-up from midnight to 4 AM. So unless this hits mid prime time i'm too busy watching [adult swim] on CN
Hmmm... how about a communication divice where translation occurs on both ends. Translate from the sender's preferred language to some intermediate language (esperanto or yiddish perhaps) and then the intermediate language is sent to the receiver where it is translated into the final language.
wait isn't that how the rosetta stone worked, they used it to translate one language thru another language to a third
Heh, move to Florida. Not only are the summers pretty summery, the winters can be rather summery as well. Not to mention the mosquittos and occasional glowing swamp beasts <ramble type = "mindless OT">(eh, the military was in the habit of storing radioactive material in the area (ironically named Yellowwater before they arrived) Not to mention the daftness of the folks who desided that it would be a good idea to store toxic waste in a part of the swamp that floods when there's been more than an inch of rain... but it's nice not having neighbors and the land was cheap)</ramble>
Yeah, I always thought the saying was "It takes five to make a conspiracy"
I think the correct translation of "well-reasoned arguement" into congess-critter-speak is "I have a lot of money. Would you like some money? You do? Let's discuss it over you passing some laws for me"
oddly enough I had a cow-orker with a very similar pick-up line "Hello. I'm arabic and I have money." hated the guy but for some reason the bloody line worked 9 times of 10.
Egad (a base tone denotes a bad age),
That's soo close to an idea that might work (or at least doesn't sound like congress needs to share whatever it is they are smoking). Now just sit down and think this thru with me.
To get soo many people to stop committing a crime, instead of making the much larger crime legal, wouldn't it be the lesser of the two weevils to make the relatively smaller crime legal? Just think instead of having to go around and blow up everyone's computer (oops, sorry we accidentally mistaked FreeBSD for the new Cowboy Neil album) to get everyone (and by everyone I mean the ones who aren't a friend/aquantence of someone who would perform the preventative fix just to tick off the *AA) to stop people from having any form of music on a computer visible to the internet,regardless of whether or not the music is legal. Instead we have the RIAA wrapped strategically in duct tape and thrown in the closet with some redneck trees.
It's gonna be part of Palladium, yeah they'll require that all chips have the heatsinks permanently attached and that the heat sinks contain a large number of small solinoids. Send the chip the right sequence of commands (to be locked away in *AA vaults) and the solinoids are tied into the signal from the system clock and repeatedly fire their pins against the chip. Your computer dies in a high speed stacatto of muffiny evil. Thank You for playing MSD&D.
Things you can do:
Be old
Get stuck in a 5 mile long no passing zone behind a BHOL doing 25
Sink in a swamp
Get rained on... a lot
Florida
With a median age somewhere in the mesozoic, why would we care about these dagblasted calculator laws?
If Microsoft buys SCO though, they could throw all teh money into legal funds and "prove" that unix is theres and shut down all the free(speech)ware on suspicion that they contain illegal code.
luckly i have a patent pending on this method of pissing off slashdot and am incorporating it into an off-off-off-broadway musical, so any attempt to replicate these actions will result in me crying to the RIAA about how i'm not being treated fairly as an artist (and won't be able to sell any copies of the soundtrack). Perhaps the RIAA and Microshoft have large enough legal funds to kill eachother in an Arthur/Mordred type way
Unfortunately the experts had to sign an NDA to read the NDA they were being asked to sign.
hang on a tic,
Is that realy a fair place to put terms.
"If you are watching this DVD on non-MPAA approved hardware/software remain where you are, the authorities have already been called. The rest of you may now continue to enjoy our preprocessed "entertainment" material."
<humor>we could define it as the energy liberated by combining x pounds of matter and anti-matter. </humor>
or we could define the kilogram as some multiple of moles of carbon-12 (isn't that what atomic weight was based on at one time. been a while since phys/chem at the uni)
Our newer voting system, in Duval county Florida, utilizes something very similar to the "scantron" sheets used for multiple choice tests in schools and universities, has a uniquie numeric ID on each sheet (and they recorded that in the books when we entered the voting precinct) and a marker is used to mark the ballot, if there are multiple markings for a single post the machine spits the ballot back to the voter (the voter puts the ballot into the machine his/herself) and when it comes out of the back where the election-apointed-person takes it and puts it in a box to be taken to the county supervisor of elections to do whatever tey do with ballots.
Very good analogy. Here, in the state of mickey and oranges (hooray florida), your drivers liscence remains the property of the state of florida, and says so at the bottom. Last year I kinda accidentally melted mine and had to pay $20 to replace it, same $20 i had to pay to get it in the first place, but at least i didn't have to test again. (my car was in the habit of making weird noises that month.)
Well, i'm still waiting for my patent on driving on the wrong side of the road in reverse and my patent on dail random 10 digit numbers on the telephone to get OKed.
No need to pussyfoot around it, you work for the marketer of hello kitty vibrators don't you!
I had a friend who had one proudly displayed on her desk in her dorm room.