"You didn't create the content, you dont own it so what divine rights do you have to it?"
What gives them the right to use the airwaves to radiate us with signals that we're not entitled to use as we see fit? If they want control, then they should only show the content in private theaters. It's time for people to wake up and take this country* back from the freedom pirates.
*I know it's a story about Japan, but consider it a sneak preview.
"going by textbook rule rather than rule and exercising discretion"
I disagree. They are using discretion. But instead of clearly explaining their position they are using ambiguous terms to disguise seemingly ad hoc decisions as standard operating policy. Their so-called policies are just another form of "anonymous proxy".
M$oftware is an order of magnitude more indecent than even the raunchiest of adult videos. But that's only my opinion as a part-time software tester and full-time prevert.
The guy willingly accepted something he thought was good only to discover that it was a bad thing in disguise. That's the definition of "trojan horse." Or were you thinking of some other kind of trojan?
Nascar broadcasts races on several channels, each one showing coverage from a different car. I can see the value in recording them all. It wouldn't make sense for an F1 race though, because everyone already knows who's going to win.
I doubt FOSS has anything to do with this move. It's designed to please the folks at the NSA who realize that millions of Winzombies could be used to launch a major attack on critical infrastructure.
I had also thought that it was settled earlier than 1991, but I decided to trust this over my own memory. Perhaps Kodak was forced to withdraw from the market and recall the cameras in 1985, but the monetary settlement wasn't done until 1991. In either case, it was long, drawn out, and counterproductive.
Kodak probably could have produced the sensors if they had been thinking ahead. They, like many other "photo" companies are intimately involved in the semiconductor manufacturing arena. It's ironic that they should be left at the dock while the ship they helped build sets sail.
"I am glad that I am not the Secretary of Defense right now..."
Rummy's the dude who brokered the deals with Sadam back in the Reagan era. He's just an expendable puppet. If they sack him, he can start selling his book sooner and Bush, Pearl and Wolfowitz can have someone to blame.
I can't help think about the long legal battle between Kodak and Polaroid over patents concerning instant photography. In 1991 Polaroid won a 15 year long infringement case against Kodak. But it wasn't a real win for Polaroid; the fight had cost them immeasurably in other ways. They filed for chapter 11 a few years ago when digital killed chemical-based instant photography. Now Kodak is in big financial trouble and still thinks it can succeed by litigating.
I wonder what Eastman and Land would have to say if they were still around.
"Yeah. A GUI front-end for the comand-line order program."
Sun used to ship one on SunOS 4.1. It was there as a demo for their gui toolkit. You could click on ingredients and they would appear on a virtual pie.
It seems to me that the broadband providers should be doing *something* to deal with this problem. I don't have any files called default.ida and I never will, but day after day, year after year my neighbors keep asking me for it. I've been very tempted to return fire, but really I should just set up a cronjob to email parts of my logfiles to abuse@comcast.net.
There have been thousands of thoughtful posts about copyright issues in this forum. You've just attempted to reduce them all to three absurd statements.
Let the people who have something useful to say speak for themselves and stop whoring for karma with your little slash-bites.
Every time the government grants a copy right or patent to someone, it denies everyone else their right to do the same thing. Within reason, I believe that this is an appropriate compromise of our freedoms as AMERICANS. I don't mean to sound arrogant about what I consider my rights as an American to be; I'm simply restating the values that were drilled into my head as a part of a Federally regulated public school curriculum. Freedom to do *anything* is the default. It's where one persons's freedom conflicts with another person's that the law is supposed to set limits.
If you sincerely believe yourself to be engaged in a struggle for "rights" then how will "not caring" about their rights ever advance your cause?
While I generally believe in the tenet that two wrongs don't make a right, I feel that a contract has been breeched. They haven't played by the rules, they've bought new ones and I don't accept them. Most people I've talked to about this agree that copy right terms, silly patents, and the ability of big business to use the government against the consumer have gotten way out of hand. Democracy? Free enterprise? Oligopoly is more like it.
If they do let up on the downward pressure they are apparently exerting on your life will you respond in kind?
My attitude would be much different. FWIW my opinions used to be very capitalistic. I used to have tremendous respect for big companies and the people who created and ran them. It's only recently that I've found myself on the other side of the fence, and I'm quite sure that the fence has moved more than I have.
The big record companies and our own legislature have pirated our rights to free speech. I'll concede that it's worth compromising free speech by granting exclusive copy rights to writers/performers so that there will be an incentive for people to create. But those rights should only be short term. The founding fathers stated something like 14 years with a one-time 14 year extension. Things happen *much* faster now, so those terms should be shorter, not longer.
When they stop infringing my rights, I'll start caring about theirs.
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"You didn't create the content, you dont own it so what divine rights do you have to it?"
What gives them the right to use the airwaves to radiate us with signals that we're not entitled to use as we see fit? If they want control, then they should only show the content in private theaters. It's time for people to wake up and take this country* back from the freedom pirates.
*I know it's a story about Japan, but consider it a sneak preview.
That comment should be modded "informative" ;-)
"going by textbook rule rather than rule and exercising discretion"
I disagree. They are using discretion. But instead of clearly explaining their position they are using ambiguous terms to disguise seemingly ad hoc decisions as standard operating policy. Their so-called policies are just another form of "anonymous proxy".
"While I hardly think that Powell and others are 'in the pocket' of the presidential administration,"
He started out in this life very close to the pocket of the secretary of state.
"why..."
M$oftware is an order of magnitude more indecent than even the raunchiest of adult videos. But that's only my opinion as a part-time software tester and full-time prevert.
The guy willingly accepted something he thought was good only to discover that it was a bad thing in disguise. That's the definition of "trojan horse." Or were you thinking of some other kind of trojan?
Nascar broadcasts races on several channels, each one showing coverage from a different car. I can see the value in recording them all. It wouldn't make sense for an F1 race though, because everyone already knows who's going to win.
"...less confusion for the elderly..."
Have you considered a Victrola?
I doubt FOSS has anything to do with this move. It's designed to please the folks at the NSA who realize that millions of Winzombies could be used to launch a major attack on critical infrastructure.
I had also thought that it was settled earlier than 1991, but I decided to trust this over my own memory. Perhaps Kodak was forced to withdraw from the market and recall the cameras in 1985, but the monetary settlement wasn't done until 1991. In either case, it was long, drawn out, and counterproductive.
Kodak probably could have produced the sensors if they had been thinking ahead. They, like many other "photo" companies are intimately involved in the semiconductor manufacturing arena. It's ironic that they should be left at the dock while the ship they helped build sets sail.
"I am glad that I am not the Secretary of Defense right now..."
Rummy's the dude who brokered the deals with Sadam back in the Reagan era. He's just an expendable puppet. If they sack him, he can start selling his book sooner and Bush, Pearl and Wolfowitz can have someone to blame.
I can't help think about the long legal battle between Kodak and Polaroid over patents concerning instant photography. In 1991 Polaroid won a 15 year long infringement case against Kodak. But it wasn't a real win for Polaroid; the fight had cost them immeasurably in other ways. They filed for chapter 11 a few years ago when digital killed chemical-based instant photography. Now Kodak is in big financial trouble and still thinks it can succeed by litigating.
I wonder what Eastman and Land would have to say if they were still around.
"Yeah. A GUI front-end for the comand-line order program."
Sun used to ship one on SunOS 4.1. It was there as a demo for their gui toolkit. You could click on ingredients and they would appear on a virtual pie.
Logic... oh yeah, I remember how this works. What the rep is implying is that "all microsofts are dogs."
"I'm using both my 5120i and my 5165 right now."
What can I say? You da man!
An SOS message could be sent by igniting three short farts, followed by three long ones, followed by three short ones.
There was a company that sold plasma speakers back in the seventies. Google for "Hill Plasmatronics".
It was German.
It seems to me that the broadband providers should be doing *something* to deal with this problem. I don't have any files called default.ida and I never will, but day after day, year after year my neighbors keep asking me for it. I've been very tempted to return fire, but really I should just set up a cronjob to email parts of my logfiles to abuse@comcast.net.
I don't care who you are or what Lessig thinks of something you once wrote. Your post was bogus and didn't deserve the +5 rating it had.
There have been thousands of thoughtful posts about copyright issues in this forum. You've just attempted to reduce them all to three absurd statements.
Let the people who have something useful to say speak for themselves and stop whoring for karma with your little slash-bites.
But this technology works by altering an attribute of something that's always there, just like traditional magnetic storage.
Bubble memory works not by altering the bubbles, but by creating a pattern of bubbles. In a way it was like punched paper tape.
I'd say that Spin memory is more like acoustic delay lines than bubble mem.
What rights of yours are "they" infringing?
Every time the government grants a copy right or patent to someone, it denies everyone else their right to do the same thing. Within reason, I believe that this is an appropriate compromise of our freedoms as AMERICANS. I don't mean to sound arrogant about what I consider my rights as an American to be; I'm simply restating the values that were drilled into my head as a part of a Federally regulated public school curriculum. Freedom to do *anything* is the default. It's where one persons's freedom conflicts with another person's that the law is supposed to set limits.
If you sincerely believe yourself to be engaged in a struggle for "rights" then how will "not caring" about their rights ever advance your cause?
While I generally believe in the tenet that two wrongs don't make a right, I feel that a contract has been breeched. They haven't played by the rules, they've bought new ones and I don't accept them. Most people I've talked to about this agree that copy right terms, silly patents, and the ability of big business to use the government against the consumer have gotten way out of hand. Democracy? Free enterprise? Oligopoly is more like it.
If they do let up on the downward pressure they are apparently exerting on your life will you respond in kind?
My attitude would be much different. FWIW my opinions used to be very capitalistic. I used to have tremendous respect for big companies and the people who created and ran them. It's only recently that I've found myself on the other side of the fence, and I'm quite sure that the fence has moved more than I have.
The big record companies and our own legislature have pirated our rights to free speech. I'll concede that it's worth compromising free speech by granting exclusive copy rights to writers/performers so that there will be an incentive for people to create. But those rights should only be short term. The founding fathers stated something like 14 years with a one-time 14 year extension. Things happen *much* faster now, so those terms should be shorter, not longer.
When they stop infringing my rights, I'll start caring about theirs.
No, thank you /. user 10213.