Duly noted. But why? Except for the last mile, the infrastructure of data networks and voice networks is conceptually the same, more or less. Packet switching is king.
If you can synthesize music from MIDI and vocal models, you can use that deal. The RIAA can't stop you from doing this.
No, but if you use a MIDI sequence that you didn't create yourself, the mechanical copyright administrators (ASCAP, BMI) might come after you on the grounds that the MIDI sequence is a derivative work of the artist's original piece.
In Slashdot terms, it would be kind of like using GPL'ed code in your software and then distributing it without making source available.
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Don't confuse the art with the medium.
Celluloid animation may be much less prevalent today than 10, 20, or 40 years ago, but the job title of "animator" still exists.
"Innocent" doesn't mean "didn't harm anybody"; it means "didn't break the law". Marijuana users and copyright violators have unquestionably broken the law.
it criminalizes something which is not immoral
You feel that getting Something for Nothing is not immoral?
Kazaa only use is the distribution of illegally copied material.
My shared folder is full of images, MP3s, and documents that I created myself, FROM SCRATCH. I hold the copyright and I grant anyone in the world to grab a copy and check it out.
"Illegally copied material" may be the primary type of content to be found on Kazaa, but if it all vanished tomorrow, would Kazaa still serve a purpose? Of course it would.
Could someone give me a something that Kazaa could be used for which wouldn't work better via http, ftp or Bittorrent?
Irrelevant. Kazaa does not need to be an IDEAL solution to a problem to be a legitimate service.
So even if guns have theoretical uses besides killing or hurting people, it is their primary function.
Uh, WTF?
Guns were designed to kill animals that people could use for food. It's foolish to think that a gun's "primary function" is to facilitate murdering people.
On a scale of power generated per ton of input material [nuclear power] is incredibly efficient
Sure, but what does that mean? You can get more power from a kilo of uranium than from a kilo of coal, but there's millions more kilograms of coal available in the world than of uranium.
Reading through the comments, I see that a lot of different Slashdotters have a lot of different conceptions of what we're referring to when we say "IT" -- what its boundaries are, the purposes it serves.
It's meaningless to ask the question "Does IT matter?" if there isn't a consistent definition for what IT is.
High speed internet shouldn't be something that is critical in a nation that still needs much development in basic infastructure.
Today, internet IS basic infrastructure. Not as essential as electricity or clean water supplies, perhaps, but a nation without a communications infrastructure has no chance of graduating from the Third World to the Second or First.
Assume 200 apartment units, then that is in the neighborhood of 200 Gbps of switch fabric throughput.
Nonsense. All 200 apartments will never be saturating their connections simultaneously -- in all likelihood, it will be rare that even the top 10 users saturate their connections at the same time.
I'm holding out for a couple rounds of price drops, but I think a G5 is definitely in my future.
Thanks for sharing, CowboyNeal.
Your comment was so interesting, so insightful, so informative, that it just HAD to be added to the article submission, rather than posted as a normal comment. I mean, normal comments can only be modded up to +5, but you went one better! EVERYBODY has to read YOUR comment!
Being bullied is getting pushed down a flight of stairs, not getting an anonymous text message about how dopey your shoes look. Sheesh.
No.
Clearly you weren't one of the kids who got called "Fatty fat fat fatass" every day in junior high school... if you had been, you'd know the kind of lasting damage that words can cause.
I think this says no open source implementation is possible, doesn't it?
Open Source != GNU Public License.
Microsoft's licensing terms here seem to be closest to the BSD License out of the major open source models. A good decision if they're looking for rapid and widespread adoption of their design -- how many TCP/IP stacks do you know of that AREN'T derived from BSD?
Of course we are. This case (and the DMCA as a whole, basically) relates to commerce. It's only logical that the public be considered in terms of our ability to buy things.
If we were talking about electoral procedure, or immigration law, then we would be citizens, and not consumers. There is no conspiracy here.
Yep. You can use PowerDVD, or WinDVD, or Creative PC-DVD, or ATI Multimedia Center... any 3rd-party software that has paid its licensing fees to the DVD Cartel.
The First Amendment does not let you make an art work that, in a judge's opinion, looks EXACTLY like a 20 dollar bill.
Incorrect. You need to have "intent to defraud" to be guilty of counterfeiting (US Code Title 18, Part I, Ch. 25, Sec. 472). So a single, painstakingly hand-painted replica of a $20 framed under glass and displayed in your living room would likely not get you fined or jailed, but assembling a fake $20 in The Gimp and printing out reams of them almost certainly would.
Let's not cloud the issue by bringing duplication of others' works into it, though. What's at stake is the right to create works of unique individual expression.
Because I am the first, as soon as I see it and intend to pick it up, it becomes my property
IANAL, but it's my understanding that of the two axioms, "possession is 9/10ths of the law" has a lot more legal validity than "finders keepers losers weepers". If I see the dropped $20 bill at the same time he does, we can both race to pick it up and whomever gets it gets to keep it.
If he's saying he intends to pick up the asteroid, I'd like to see him try.
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Note that data and voice are separate
Duly noted. But why? Except for the last mile, the infrastructure of data networks and voice networks is conceptually the same, more or less. Packet switching is king.
If you can synthesize music from MIDI and vocal models, you can use that deal. The RIAA can't stop you from doing this.
No, but if you use a MIDI sequence that you didn't create yourself, the mechanical copyright administrators (ASCAP, BMI) might come after you on the grounds that the MIDI sequence is a derivative work of the artist's original piece.
In Slashdot terms, it would be kind of like using GPL'ed code in your software and then distributing it without making source available.
Don't confuse the art with the medium.
Celluloid animation may be much less prevalent today than 10, 20, or 40 years ago, but the job title of "animator" still exists.
Money is only lost if that person would have paid money but instead watched it for free.
But once they've watched it for free, there's no way of knowing whether they would have paid to watch it, or if they'd have just not watched it.
The issue of real revenues vs. potential revenues is a complex one.
lots of innocent casualties
"Innocent" doesn't mean "didn't harm anybody"; it means "didn't break the law". Marijuana users and copyright violators have unquestionably broken the law.
it criminalizes something which is not immoral
You feel that getting Something for Nothing is not immoral?
Kazaa only use is the distribution of illegally copied material.
My shared folder is full of images, MP3s, and documents that I created myself, FROM SCRATCH. I hold the copyright and I grant anyone in the world to grab a copy and check it out.
"Illegally copied material" may be the primary type of content to be found on Kazaa, but if it all vanished tomorrow, would Kazaa still serve a purpose? Of course it would.
Could someone give me a something that Kazaa could be used for which wouldn't work better via http, ftp or Bittorrent?
Irrelevant. Kazaa does not need to be an IDEAL solution to a problem to be a legitimate service.
So even if guns have theoretical uses besides killing or hurting people, it is their primary function.
Uh, WTF?
Guns were designed to kill animals that people could use for food. It's foolish to think that a gun's "primary function" is to facilitate murdering people.
With Gulf War II over and those oil fields finally in the hands of Western democracies
I can think of at least two things wrong with this statement.
On a scale of power generated per ton of input material [nuclear power] is incredibly efficient
Sure, but what does that mean? You can get more power from a kilo of uranium than from a kilo of coal, but there's millions more kilograms of coal available in the world than of uranium.
Reading through the comments, I see that a lot of different Slashdotters have a lot of different conceptions of what we're referring to when we say "IT" -- what its boundaries are, the purposes it serves.
It's meaningless to ask the question "Does IT matter?" if there isn't a consistent definition for what IT is.
Every time the boxes get scanned (at each event listed above), it is by some sucker in the Teamster's union. Think Jimmy Hoffa.
You mean "missing and presumed dead"?
That would certainly explain why it seems to take forever for UPS shipments to get to me...
High speed internet shouldn't be something that is critical in a nation that still needs much development in basic infastructure.
Today, internet IS basic infrastructure. Not as essential as electricity or clean water supplies, perhaps, but a nation without a communications infrastructure has no chance of graduating from the Third World to the Second or First.
Assume 200 apartment units, then that is in the neighborhood of 200 Gbps of switch fabric throughput.
Nonsense. All 200 apartments will never be saturating their connections simultaneously -- in all likelihood, it will be rare that even the top 10 users saturate their connections at the same time.
What [MySQL] gives up is intergrety constraints.
PostgreSQL can also function without integrity constrainsts -- just don't put any in when you create your tables.
If you don't spend the cycles to insure data integrity you can be smaller and faster.
You can optimize C++ code by never trapping any error conditions too, but I wouldn't recommend it.
So, could Postgres be used to develop a Lotus Notes type application with replicated databased for e-mail, calendars, team rooms, etc?
Sure. Developing the front-end user interfaces will be the most arduous task, though.
You could do like Lotus did and outsource the UI to a team of blind monkeys, I suppose....
I'm holding out for a couple rounds of price drops, but I think a G5 is definitely in my future.
Thanks for sharing, CowboyNeal.
Your comment was so interesting, so insightful, so informative, that it just HAD to be added to the article submission, rather than posted as a normal comment. I mean, normal comments can only be modded up to +5, but you went one better! EVERYBODY has to read YOUR comment!
Being bullied is getting pushed down a flight of stairs, not getting an anonymous text message about how dopey your shoes look. Sheesh.
No.
Clearly you weren't one of the kids who got called "Fatty fat fat fatass" every day in junior high school... if you had been, you'd know the kind of lasting damage that words can cause.
PS Your shoes look dopey.
I think this says no open source implementation is possible, doesn't it?
Open Source != GNU Public License.
Microsoft's licensing terms here seem to be closest to the BSD License out of the major open source models. A good decision if they're looking for rapid and widespread adoption of their design -- how many TCP/IP stacks do you know of that AREN'T derived from BSD?
Remember, we are not citizens, we are consumers.
Of course we are. This case (and the DMCA as a whole, basically) relates to commerce. It's only logical that the public be considered in terms of our ability to buy things.
If we were talking about electoral procedure, or immigration law, then we would be citizens, and not consumers. There is no conspiracy here.
Yep. You can use PowerDVD, or WinDVD, or Creative PC-DVD, or ATI Multimedia Center... any 3rd-party software that has paid its licensing fees to the DVD Cartel.
Given that much of the media is similarly controlled?
I thought the entire media industry was slanted to the left? That's what the fair and balanced news anchors always tell me.
Only a quarter million? I'm surprised Feinstein would sell herself so cheaply.
That's not even enough to finance a month of re-election campaigning, I'm sure.
The First Amendment does not let you make an art work that, in a judge's opinion, looks EXACTLY like a 20 dollar bill.
Incorrect. You need to have "intent to defraud" to be guilty of counterfeiting (US Code Title 18, Part I, Ch. 25, Sec. 472). So a single, painstakingly hand-painted replica of a $20 framed under glass and displayed in your living room would likely not get you fined or jailed, but assembling a fake $20 in The Gimp and printing out reams of them almost certainly would.
Let's not cloud the issue by bringing duplication of others' works into it, though. What's at stake is the right to create works of unique individual expression.
Unfortunately for the world, that leaves only one option - it must be Virtual Boy II!
Ahem... Virtual Boy Advance.
Because I am the first, as soon as I see it and intend to pick it up, it becomes my property
IANAL, but it's my understanding that of the two axioms, "possession is 9/10ths of the law" has a lot more legal validity than "finders keepers losers weepers". If I see the dropped $20 bill at the same time he does, we can both race to pick it up and whomever gets it gets to keep it.
If he's saying he intends to pick up the asteroid, I'd like to see him try.