the best part is that the artists get their share...whether you agree its a fair share is a different matter since apple did not write the contracts between the record companies and the artists...
IANA music industry contract L, but I would guess few if any extant artist/label contracts specify that income from on-line digital music sales channels is to be distributed to the artists.
Keep in mind, artists who get 5 cents per album when you buy their CD at Sam Goody get zero cents when you get the same album from Columbia House record club...
Leaving aside the question of how one can claim to "own" information, I personally don't see any problem with subcontracting this kind of stuff out -- provided, as was clearly NOT the case here, that everyone along the chain is held to the same standards of privacy as required by the law.
What difference does it make to me if my records are seen by a clerk in the same medical facility I was a patient at, or a clerk in an office park on the other side of the city/state/country/globe? In both cases, the sensitive information is in the hands of someone I will never meet who has no incentive not to share the data except the threat of legal retribution if caught.
Having said that, x10 was amazingly successful at their campaign - from a collection of fringe items by a company that no-one knew, to millions in sales and a company whose name we all know well.
Mindshare doesn't stave off bankruptcy. Only profits can do that. And apparently, the millions in sales they managed to get were far from enough to qualify X10 as a success.
x10 didn't put ads on the sites you visit--The site put ads there
And surely that happened not because some overpaid x10 ad exec called the site managers up and promised large sums of money in exchange for integrating their ad calls. No, the site managers all independently came to the conclusion that whatever their target market was, what they really wanted was hidden ads for spy cameras, and sought out x10's account execs and BEGGED to make a business deal with them.
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Assuming this is expressed in hexadecimal, you've got a 256-bit IP address here. Problematic.
Auto manufacturers profit when their cars are bought by drug dealers for the purpose of smuggling drugs.
But no more profit than if their cars are bought by little old ladies for the purpose of driving to church once a week. (Less, actually, because drug traffickers will more often pay a lump sum in case and little old ladies will more often arrange long-term financing through the dealer.)
Handgun makers profit when someone buys their gun and uses it in a murder.
But no more profit than if the handgun is used only for target practice at a licensed shooting range. (Less, actually, since frivolous lawsuits against the handgun mfrs are more likely when it is used in a murder.)
Gardening stores profit when a customer buys large quantities of fertilizer, makes a bomb, and blows up large federal buildings in Oklahoma City.
But no more profit than if a customer buys large quantities of fertilizer and uses it to cultivate a large garden with. (Less, actually, since the bomber will not be a repeat customer like the gardener likely will.)
The Australian ISP is not profiting any more from having an illegal file sharing site hosted on their service than from a simple informational family home page hosted on their service. Less, actually, since the file sharers will use more than their share of available bandwidth.)
RMS: What's more, copying in this way was absurdly expensive unless many copies were made--which means, in effect, that only a publisher could copy a book economically.
This still doesn't justify copyright. There was more than one company that owned a printing press, and without copyright rules a popular text would be typeset and printed by many of them at the same time, and the publishers would have no obligation to pay the author or even make sure that the printed words were accurate to the author's Urtext.
In other words, copyright is a device to ensure that authors have some form of compensation and quality control over published works that bear their names. The "public exchanged their freedom" argument is a red herring.
I think the musicians have to perform live as they had to do a hundred years ago
One hundred years ago Claude Debussy was writing many of the world's great works for piano, yet he rarely performed thim in public himself. He just wasn't that good a pianist.
You misunderstand what the basis of creating music is. The core of music is COMPOSITION, not performance. Asking musicians to forego phonographic royalties and make a living off performance alone is like asking novelists to make all their money by selling tickets to watch them sit at a typewriter.
It's not like this is going to favor Republicans just because the guy running Diebold is a Republican
Are you sure about that? Have you audited the code to make sure there isn't a function that changes every 100th vote to the Republican candidate regardless of who the voter selected?
If these machines really are hackable then they'll be hacked, and going by the intelligence of your average script kiddie they'll be hacked to such a ridiculous degree that the results will clearly be fake and the judiciary will declare all of these elections invalid.
You have to be pretty optimistic, one to think that the people hacking the system will be "script kiddies" and not professional black-hat crackers, and two to think that the judiciary would invalidate the results of an election that showed clear evidence of tampering.
I think it would be preferable to claim that Diebold's cease-and-desist order is illegal and unenforceable.
Unenforceable, yes, but illegal?
(ObIANAL: I am not a lawyer)
C&D letters are not instruments of law enforcement. A corporate (or personal, for that matter) attorney can send a C&D request to whomever with whatever justification they wish.
The recipient is under no legal obligation to obey the request to cease & desist, but if the behavior continues they can and should expect a civil suit to be filed against them.
So you want me to voice my support of a bill demaning paper-trail accountability by signing an electronic petition on a website that has no paper-trail accountability?
The original client/server scheme--where the application's visual presentation and business logic reside on the desktop, and data resides on a server--is an idea whose time has passed. It's being replaced by Web browser clients, n-tier systems and Web services.
Um... duh?
Isn't a Web service still based on a client/server architecture? Aren't n-tier systems just an extrapolation of the client/server model?
The same stuff's still out there and going strong, they're just using different buzzwords to describe it.
anyone got the stats on how other file sharing services stack up to iTunes? I bet iTunes is no where close.
Irrelevant comparison -- the services provided by iTunes and (let's say) Kazaa are not equivalent.
If the Apple iTunes Store is making more money for itself and its corporate customers than it's spending, I'd have to consider it a success, even if they're only doing 1% of the volume of Random P2P Network.
One thing that you get with PHP is a platform that is more tolerant of shitty code, when Java will blow, the PHP server will keep chugging along.
This is a Bad Thing.
Shitty code doesn't belong in your application. If something fails because it's designed poorly, you NEED TO KNOW about it even if it results in an ugly fault message to your users.
It's one of the fundamental tenets of programming: if you allow error conditions to go untrapped, things start getting secretly corrupted and you won't even notice it until it's too late to fix.
Why should "easier to install" be a factor in choosing PHP over Java? If you do it right, you'll only have to do the installation once during the life of the server.
You should be more concerned with which platform is more powerful and scaleable once the installation is complete.
SCO is just a foot soldier in a war that is being fought by Microsoft and associated proprietary software firms against the adoption of Linux as the dominant Operating System for the next century.
One wonders why law enforcement isn't looking into piracy more
Um, because law enforcement usually has more important things to do than expend the considerable effort to identify and bring charges against the virtually-anonymous hordes of people who violate copyright law on P2P networks?
Because if everyone who did violate copyright law was cited and prosecuted, the police and court systems would be overwhelmed to the point of impracticality?
Because copyright infringement by an average individual causes no physical harm to anyone, and only a negligible amount of economic harm?
Because most people (including many law enforcement agents, who are people themselves) don't believe that sharing copies of music with other people is "wrong", or at least not wrong enough to warrant criminal prosecution?
Back when the RIAA was a relevant trade association and not just an advocacy group for the biggest of the the big music labels, they codified the manufacturing and mastering standards for phonograph records that allowed discs released by any label to be played on any turntable, with a maximum of dynamic range given the physical constraints of the medium.
That was 40 years ago, though, and vinyl records are all but extinct. What innovations have they created lately?
I'm sorry, I have trouble feeling any sympathy for someone who was unjustly prosecuted and chose to roll over and die rather than fight for what's right. Injustice took place, and it could happen again, because YOU let it happen.
Not that I would take your account of the events at face value, either. If the facts were as one-sided as you present them, it would have taken a conspiracy between the federal agents, prosecutors, judges, jurors, and your own defense attorney to result in prison time.
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You are entirely incorrect.
Matt Groening has had only four writing credits on "The Simpsons", the most recent one being in season seven (1995-1996).
As far as breaking of components, as well as the system is cooled properly, I wouldn't think it would be a problem.
I agree.
Unlike hard drives, CPUs do not have any moving parts, so there is a negligible acceleration in the physical deterioration of a chip when it is powered and active compared to when it is powered but idle.
However, CPUs do use more power when active, and therefore generate more by-product heat. If the cooling system is not capable of dealing with the heat, the chip becomes more likely to overheat and become physically damaged when the processor is active (generating more heat) than idle (generating less heat).
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Also, time is linear.
I dunno about that, feels asymptotic to me. When I was ten, a month seemed to last forever. Now, they fly by so quickly I barely notice.
"The eons are closing!"
-Quentin Robert de Nameland, noted philostopher
the best part is that the artists get their share...whether you agree its a fair share is a different matter since apple did not write the contracts between the record companies and the artists...
IANA music industry contract L, but I would guess few if any extant artist/label contracts specify that income from on-line digital music sales channels is to be distributed to the artists.
Keep in mind, artists who get 5 cents per album when you buy their CD at Sam Goody get zero cents when you get the same album from Columbia House record club...
Leaving aside the question of how one can claim to "own" information, I personally don't see any problem with subcontracting this kind of stuff out -- provided, as was clearly NOT the case here, that everyone along the chain is held to the same standards of privacy as required by the law.
What difference does it make to me if my records are seen by a clerk in the same medical facility I was a patient at, or a clerk in an office park on the other side of the city/state/country/globe? In both cases, the sensitive information is in the hands of someone I will never meet who has no incentive not to share the data except the threat of legal retribution if caught.
Having said that, x10 was amazingly successful at their campaign - from a collection of fringe items by a company that no-one knew, to millions in sales and a company whose name we all know well.
Mindshare doesn't stave off bankruptcy. Only profits can do that. And apparently, the millions in sales they managed to get were far from enough to qualify X10 as a success.
x10 didn't put ads on the sites you visit--The site put ads there
And surely that happened not because some overpaid x10 ad exec called the site managers up and promised large sums of money in exchange for integrating their ad calls. No, the site managers all independently came to the conclusion that whatever their target market was, what they really wanted was hidden ads for spy cameras, and sought out x10's account execs and BEGGED to make a business deal with them.
I have to believe that anyone who's willing to pay for downloadable music are the type of people who have a credit card.
Just because I have, or am qualified to have, a cerdit card doesn't mean that I want to use it to buy things all over the Internet.
eight five six charlie zero fox alpha three niner zero six file nine charlie fox fox nine charlie zero six three two zero one one zero zero one alpha one two four eight five six charlie zero fox alpha three niner zero six file[sic] nine charlie fox fox nine charlie zero six three two zero one one zero zero one alpha one two four
Assuming this is expressed in hexadecimal, you've got a 256-bit IP address here. Problematic.
Auto manufacturers profit when their cars are bought by drug dealers for the purpose of smuggling drugs.
But no more profit than if their cars are bought by little old ladies for the purpose of driving to church once a week. (Less, actually, because drug traffickers will more often pay a lump sum in case and little old ladies will more often arrange long-term financing through the dealer.)
Handgun makers profit when someone buys their gun and uses it in a murder.
But no more profit than if the handgun is used only for target practice at a licensed shooting range. (Less, actually, since frivolous lawsuits against the handgun mfrs are more likely when it is used in a murder.)
Gardening stores profit when a customer buys large quantities of fertilizer, makes a bomb, and blows up large federal buildings in Oklahoma City.
But no more profit than if a customer buys large quantities of fertilizer and uses it to cultivate a large garden with. (Less, actually, since the bomber will not be a repeat customer like the gardener likely will.)
The Australian ISP is not profiting any more from having an illegal file sharing site hosted on their service than from a simple informational family home page hosted on their service. Less, actually, since the file sharers will use more than their share of available bandwidth.)
RMS: What's more, copying in this way was absurdly expensive unless many copies were made--which means, in effect, that only a publisher could copy a book economically.
This still doesn't justify copyright. There was more than one company that owned a printing press, and without copyright rules a popular text would be typeset and printed by many of them at the same time, and the publishers would have no obligation to pay the author or even make sure that the printed words were accurate to the author's Urtext.
In other words, copyright is a device to ensure that authors have some form of compensation and quality control over published works that bear their names. The "public exchanged their freedom" argument is a red herring.
I think the musicians have to perform live as they had to do a hundred years ago
One hundred years ago Claude Debussy was writing many of the world's great works for piano, yet he rarely performed thim in public himself. He just wasn't that good a pianist.
You misunderstand what the basis of creating music is. The core of music is COMPOSITION, not performance. Asking musicians to forego phonographic royalties and make a living off performance alone is like asking novelists to make all their money by selling tickets to watch them sit at a typewriter.
Yeah, that's why the parent post said "We don't see that". He was explaining a key difference between American and Australian law.
It's not like this is going to favor Republicans just because the guy running Diebold is a Republican
Are you sure about that? Have you audited the code to make sure there isn't a function that changes every 100th vote to the Republican candidate regardless of who the voter selected?
If these machines really are hackable then they'll be hacked, and going by the intelligence of your average script kiddie they'll be hacked to such a ridiculous degree that the results will clearly be fake and the judiciary will declare all of these elections invalid.
You have to be pretty optimistic, one to think that the people hacking the system will be "script kiddies" and not professional black-hat crackers, and two to think that the judiciary would invalidate the results of an election that showed clear evidence of tampering.
I think it would be preferable to claim that Diebold's cease-and-desist order is illegal and unenforceable.
Unenforceable, yes, but illegal?
(ObIANAL: I am not a lawyer)
C&D letters are not instruments of law enforcement. A corporate (or personal, for that matter) attorney can send a C&D request to whomever with whatever justification they wish.
The recipient is under no legal obligation to obey the request to cease & desist, but if the behavior continues they can and should expect a civil suit to be filed against them.
Any chance I could mod this entire thread down?
Slashdot discussions of a Dilbert-related survey are a poor choice of venue for expressing political opinions.
So you want me to voice my support of a bill demaning paper-trail accountability by signing an electronic petition on a website that has no paper-trail accountability?
The original client/server scheme--where the application's visual presentation and business logic reside on the desktop, and data resides on a server--is an idea whose time has passed. It's being replaced by Web browser clients, n-tier systems and Web services.
Um... duh?
Isn't a Web service still based on a client/server architecture? Aren't n-tier systems just an extrapolation of the client/server model?
The same stuff's still out there and going strong, they're just using different buzzwords to describe it.
anyone got the stats on how other file sharing services stack up to iTunes? I bet iTunes is no where close.
Irrelevant comparison -- the services provided by iTunes and (let's say) Kazaa are not equivalent.
If the Apple iTunes Store is making more money for itself and its corporate customers than it's spending, I'd have to consider it a success, even if they're only doing 1% of the volume of Random P2P Network.
Most of the x86 motherboards I've worked with over the past 6-8 years or so have had integrated sound.
Just because there's no speakers on the desk doesn't mean most corporate PC's don't or couldn't have sound capability at no extra cost.
One thing that you get with PHP is a platform that is more tolerant of shitty code, when Java will blow, the PHP server will keep chugging along.
This is a Bad Thing.
Shitty code doesn't belong in your application. If something fails because it's designed poorly, you NEED TO KNOW about it even if it results in
an ugly fault message to your users.
It's one of the fundamental tenets of programming: if you allow error conditions to go untrapped, things start getting secretly corrupted and you won't even notice it until it's too late to fix.
Why should "easier to install" be a factor in choosing PHP over Java? If you do it right, you'll only have to do the installation once during the life of the server.
You should be more concerned with which platform is more powerful and scaleable once the installation is complete.
In the vacuum of space, there are no explosions: no huge fireballs of combustible fuels, no thundering boom.
Watching a space war on CNN would be DULL DULL DULL.
SCO is just a foot soldier in a war that is being fought by Microsoft and associated proprietary software firms against the adoption of Linux as the dominant Operating System for the next century.
LOL.
Just LOL.
Only on Slashdot...
One wonders why law enforcement isn't looking into piracy more
Um, because law enforcement usually has more important things to do than expend the considerable effort to identify and bring charges against the virtually-anonymous hordes of people who violate copyright law on P2P networks?
Because if everyone who did violate copyright law was cited and prosecuted, the police and court systems would be overwhelmed to the point of impracticality?
Because copyright infringement by an average individual causes no physical harm to anyone, and only a negligible amount of economic harm?
Because most people (including many law enforcement agents, who are people themselves) don't believe that sharing copies of music with other people is "wrong", or at least not wrong enough to warrant criminal prosecution?
What has the RIAA had a hand in?
Back when the RIAA was a relevant trade association and not just an advocacy group for the biggest of the the big music labels, they codified the manufacturing and mastering standards for phonograph records that allowed discs released by any label to be played on any turntable, with a maximum of dynamic range given the physical constraints of the medium.
That was 40 years ago, though, and vinyl records are all but extinct. What innovations have they created lately?
I'm sorry, I have trouble feeling any sympathy for someone who was unjustly prosecuted and chose to roll over and die rather than fight for what's right. Injustice took place, and it could happen again, because YOU let it happen.
Not that I would take your account of the events at face value, either. If the facts were as one-sided as you present them, it would have taken a conspiracy between the federal agents, prosecutors, judges, jurors, and your own defense attorney to result in prison time.
You are entirely incorrect.
Matt Groening has had only four writing credits on "The Simpsons", the most recent one being in season seven (1995-1996).
(Source: SNPP Writers/Directors Guide)
As far as breaking of components, as well as the system is cooled properly, I wouldn't think it would be a problem.
I agree.
Unlike hard drives, CPUs do not have any moving parts, so there is a negligible acceleration in the physical deterioration of a chip when it is powered and active compared to when it is powered but idle.
However, CPUs do use more power when active, and therefore generate more by-product heat. If the cooling system is not capable of dealing with the heat, the chip becomes more likely to overheat and become physically damaged when the processor is active (generating more heat) than idle (generating less heat).