Sounds to me like you should be fired. Your job is not to organize politically motivated boycotts against specific companies, it is to get people the tools they need to work efficiently.
Now, instead of being doing what he's being paid to do, some poor guy is surfing the web trying to find out what other products out there can do the same things he needed Pagemaker to do. That can't possibly be the best use of his time.
I hope for your sake that the executive officers at your company doesn't read Slashdot.
You know why these guys can get movies out so cheaply?
Because they don't have the expenses of actually subsidizing the creation of content. They just take someone else's hard work and reap the rewards for it.
In short, VCD pirates are scum, and you're scum for supporting them.
1. Many US citizens who are cognizant of the Skylarov case and those like it aren't at all happy about setting a precedent where US laws can be enforced against entitities outside of US jurisdiction.
2. It could be argued that Dmitri broke US law while doing business in the US, in which case arresting him under DMCA provisions would be justifiable (provided that the DMCA laws were just, and that's debatable as well).
No, the prosecutor is asking what a GUI is because he needs to ensure that everyone present in the courtroom is using the same terminology. It has to go into the transcript, or the first thing that will come up in appeal is "They were using a different definition of GUI than we were."
If out-of-work sysadmins want to become prosecutors, they can go ahead and enroll at law school. It takes more to become a lawyer than reading a few books and taking an exam, though.
To paraphrase someone, "the nerds, geeks, etc. don't have a fucking clue about the legal system and yet they are trying offer commentary about it.
Yeah right. Do you seriously think they're going to generate and embed a distinct watermark for each and every PC that goes out the door with this stuff already on disk?
Somewhere at the OEM a bulk HD copier will be churning out a dozen of these drives at a time. It's impractical NOT to put identical data on every single drive.
Unless it's the DRM software that embeds the watermarks dynamically during 'playback', based on a unique ID on the processor die... shut up Poot, don't want to give them any ideas.
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if I can stack together a few cheap chips to rival a single high performance chip, what would I do?
You'd probably fly to work on a unicorn, and eat sunshine and moonbeams for lunch, because you'd be in Fantasy Land.
(Given today's existing products and sufficiently meaningful values for 'a few', 'cheap', 'rival', and 'high performance', that is)
It's not the legacy systems' fault that you're too lazy to learn The Way Things Have Always Been Done instead of wishing you could use some Other Tool that you're already familiar with.
those nice low-fare-searches you see on Orbitz and Expedia run on PCs, not mainframes.
Orbitz and Expedia are not the travel reservation systems, though -- just pretty interfaces to the systems that actually DO track flights and reservations. They're middleware.
I guarantee you the TRUE backend systems, like SABRE, are still running on Big Iron and will be for the foreseeable future.
(And Priceline.com runs on a supercomputer! Bill Shatner said so!)
ASCAP is not the recording industry, so take that FUCK YOU, turn it around, and right back at ya.
And I don't see any difference between making sure that a song you play in a cover band has no copyright/performance restrictions, and making sure a piece of code you use in a commercial product is not covered by the GNU Copyleft.
Sounds to me like you're just grouchy because your renegade pub didn't play by the rules, and got caught. No sympathy.
Shouldn't the real focus of the discussion be the question why anybody has to pay royalties for something that has already been paid for by the radio stations?
Radio stations don't BUY content, they LICENSE it. Presumably with the understanding that people who tune into the station are doing so for personal use. If a commercial entity wants to use the same signal for non-personal use, then it seems logical that the RIAA would demand additional licensing fees for that (note that I said it's logical, not that I agree with it).
Compare to premium cable services like HBO, and the way it's okay to watch 'The Sopranos' in your living room, but it's not okay to set up TVs in your Italian restaurant and have a Sopranos Night every Sunday.
I say this as if Payola wasn't alive and well in the guise of 'promotional consideration'. The economics of radio are much more complicated than my simple model suggests
1. I hate the logo. The 'A' in taken consists of a human figure with arms and legs out ascending through the sky, illuminated by a burst of backlighting. The lighting is more prominent than the figure, so it looks like the title reads 'TOKEN'.
2. I liked this series better the first time... when it was called "Amazing Stories".
You can't slow down the speed of electricity itself, so slowing down email transfer means quick hops between servers and long waits at each server. So in the end, every mail server's spool clogs up with messages.
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You're way behind! I've already got OS/9 running on my TRS-80!
Sounds to me like you should be fired. Your job is not to organize politically motivated boycotts against specific companies, it is to get people the tools they need to work efficiently.
Now, instead of being doing what he's being paid to do, some poor guy is surfing the web trying to find out what other products out there can do the same things he needed Pagemaker to do. That can't possibly be the best use of his time.
I hope for your sake that the executive officers at your company doesn't read Slashdot.
I have plenty of copyrighted works still in
my head, unpublished
No. If they're not published, they're not copyrighted.
How can anyone take your opinions on copyright issues seriously when you don't know the first thing about copyright?
Another reason is that it puts the burden of proof on the accused.
Wrong again. Skylarov and Elcomsoft are considered innocent until proven guilty. That's the whole point of having a trial.
How can anyone take your opinions on the legal system seriously when you don't know the first thing about it?
the basics of the DMCA are easily compressed into a few sentences
Yes, but it's lossy compression. There's a reason WHY the actual act is "pages upon pages of legalese" -- because it HAS to be.
Trivia? Taste more like shit...
Why I am I not surprised that you know what shit taste [sic] like.
Can a human read a grocery store bar-code as easily as a computer? No.
I would hope you're wrong on this one, given that the digits of any UPC bar code are also printed in human-readable numerals...
Apparently, there would have to be alt tags that read "Type the word FOO to signify you are a
human, not a register bot."
Great, that will make it really easy for the register bots to figure out what to enter in that textbox!
You know why these guys can get movies out so cheaply?
Because they don't have the expenses of actually subsidizing the creation of content. They just take someone else's hard work and reap the rewards for it.
In short, VCD pirates are scum, and you're scum for supporting them.
1. Many US citizens who are cognizant of the Skylarov case and those like it aren't at all happy about setting a precedent where US laws can be enforced against entitities outside of US jurisdiction.
2. It could be argued that Dmitri broke US law while doing business in the US, in which case arresting him under DMCA provisions would be justifiable (provided that the DMCA laws were just, and that's debatable as well).
No, the prosecutor is asking what a GUI is because he needs to ensure that everyone present in the courtroom is using the same terminology. It has to go into the transcript, or the first thing that will come up in appeal is "They were using a different definition of GUI than we were."
If out-of-work sysadmins want to become prosecutors, they can go ahead and enroll at law school. It takes more to become a lawyer than reading a few books and taking an exam, though.
To paraphrase someone, "the nerds, geeks, etc. don't have a fucking clue about the legal system and yet they are trying offer commentary about it.
In Soviet Russia, FUNNY FIFTEEN YEARS AGO stopped being THIS JOKE!
This isn't at all what I expected the principal from Lean On Me to be like!
For spammers to guess at usernames within a company email system, they would first have to know the names of people who work at the company.
That's too much work. If an email address can't be found using `grep '.+@.+\.[a-z]+'` then it's not worth looking for.
My computer already has tons of data I can't access without illegally reverse-engineering files.
Sure you can access it. read the raw contents off the disk platter and there you go.
Being able to interpret that data in a meaninful way, well, that's different.
Yeah right. Do you seriously think they're going to generate and embed a distinct watermark for each and every PC that goes out the door with this stuff already on disk?
Somewhere at the OEM a bulk HD copier will be churning out a dozen of these drives at a time. It's impractical NOT to put identical data on every single drive.
Unless it's the DRM software that embeds the watermarks dynamically during 'playback', based on a unique ID on the processor die... shut up Poot, don't want to give them any ideas.
if I can stack together a few cheap chips to
rival a single high performance chip, what would I do?
You'd probably fly to work on a unicorn, and eat sunshine and moonbeams for lunch, because you'd be in Fantasy Land.
(Given today's existing products and sufficiently meaningful values for 'a few', 'cheap', 'rival', and 'high performance', that is)
But the submitter is too lazy to do any of that.
That's why they just submitted their question to 'Ask Slashdot' -- that way, you people do all the work for them!
Well, okay, but is the goal of Open Source Software to attract "a better class of user", or to attract "all users"?
If I were a troll I would call you an elitist pig at this point.
Congratulations!
You spelled "Canadian" correctly only 3 out of 9 times! You're now qualified to work as a Slashdot editor!
"Why do we have to use this thing?"
It's not the legacy systems' fault that you're too lazy to learn The Way Things Have Always Been Done instead of wishing you could use some Other Tool that you're already familiar with.
those nice low-fare-searches you see on Orbitz and Expedia run on PCs, not mainframes.
Orbitz and Expedia are not the travel reservation systems, though -- just pretty interfaces to the systems that actually DO track flights and reservations. They're middleware.
I guarantee you the TRUE backend systems, like SABRE, are still running on Big Iron and will be for the foreseeable future.
(And Priceline.com runs on a supercomputer! Bill Shatner said so!)
Licensing != taxation.
ASCAP is not the recording industry, so take that FUCK YOU, turn it around, and right back at ya.
And I don't see any difference between making sure that a song you play in a cover band has no copyright/performance restrictions, and making sure a piece of code you use in a commercial product is not covered by the GNU Copyleft.
Sounds to me like you're just grouchy because your renegade pub didn't play by the rules, and got caught. No sympathy.
Shouldn't the real focus of the discussion be the question why anybody has to pay royalties for something that has already been paid for by the radio stations?
Radio stations don't BUY content, they LICENSE it.
Presumably with the understanding that people who tune into the station are doing so for personal use. If a commercial entity wants to use the same signal for non-personal use, then it seems logical that the RIAA would demand additional licensing fees for that (note that I said it's logical, not that I agree with it).
Compare to premium cable services like HBO, and the way it's okay to watch 'The Sopranos' in your living room, but it's not okay to set up TVs in your Italian restaurant and have a Sopranos Night every Sunday.
I say this as if Payola wasn't alive and well in the guise of 'promotional consideration'. The economics of radio are much more complicated than my simple model suggests
1. I hate the logo. The 'A' in taken consists of a human figure with arms and legs out ascending through the sky, illuminated by a burst of backlighting. The lighting is more prominent than the figure, so it looks like the title reads 'TOKEN'.
2. I liked this series better the first time... when it was called "Amazing Stories".
(oh yeah, and 3. ???, 4. Profit.)
You can't slow down the speed of electricity itself, so slowing down email transfer means quick hops between servers and long waits at each server. So in the end, every mail server's spool clogs up with messages.
Do we REALLY want to go back to the UUCP days?
Actually, you can go below $800 pretty easily right now, if you keep your current monitor.
Wow, that's only 4 times as much as an Xbox!!!