...proceeding further would be "pre-enforcement review", which is not permitted.
This doesn't make any sense to me. No one should EVER be prosecuted under a law that is unconstitutional in nature.
Presumably it's the legislature's responsibility to make sure the laws they pass meet the conditions of constitutionality, but examples like the DMCA demonstrate that they're clearly not doing a very good job of that.
The courts should be reviewing every law that's passed BEFORE it goes into effect. We shouldn't have to tear any Skylarovs away from their families and let them fester in jail while the constitutionality questions surrounding the law they were imprisoned under get hammered out.
NO NO NO. IANAL, but I refer you to the legal case of "Finders vs. Keepers".
The seller should have applied more diligence in checking that the car did not contain any Rolexes before selling it to me. Once the transaction has been made, they're SOL.
"Stealing" would be buying the car and then mugging the seller and ripping the Rolex of his wrist. It would not be finding a Rolex in the glove compartment after I handed over the money.
And also if people say "If you haven't done anything why are you avoiding surveillance
cameras?", then reply with "If I haven't done anything why do the cameras need to see me?".
Well, that's an incredibly warped and selfish view of things.
The cameras are looking at thousands upon thousands of people every day, some of which DID do something. THOSE are the people the camera-watchers are looking for. They don't give a damn about what you're doing.
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> The people who back the DMCA own the media.
Yes, it's all a big shadowy Illuminati conspiracy! Grow the hell up.
> Crime is murder, rape, arson, robbery, identify
> theft, violence and abuse...
> NOT backing up software, fair use, recording a
> tv show, downloading an mp3, having sex,
> smoking, erotica, fiction writing, speaking
> against the government, abortion and sexual
> orientation...
That's your own opinion. You are no more "right" than the percieved "moral majority" that you believe controls the legislature, the courts, and the weather.
> the United States was formed from a healthy
> distrust of our government (and that distrust
> has only proved to help us, thank you Hubert
> Hoover and your bra collection)
It was J. EDGAR Hoover that had the bra collection , not Hubert (Herbert?).
As for the oregonian... They are known to have a very skewed sense of reporting ethics. I
would first determine exactly which axe they
have to grind before coming to any conclusions
about the "facts" of the matter.
Yes, that must be why The Oregonian won two Pulitzer Prizes this year, because they're so skewed.
>> What right do they have to charge for my
>> toaster? Do they have a contract with *me*, or
>> with *my device*?
>
> Depends on who you ask.
>
> If you ask a/.er, they have a contract with
> you.
>
> If you ask a pigfscking marketroid [...], then
> no, they have a contract with your devices.
What if you ask a contract lawyer? They're more qualified to comment on the matter than either of the other groups.
IANACL, but one fundamental aspect of contracts is that all involved parties give their consent. A machine is incapable of giving consent.
I expect this initiative to be exactly as successful as the "Missile Defense" plan that was going to keep America from being hit by explosive airborne projectiles...
> I'm sorry but information on how to design a
> water filtration plant should be public knowlege
> and should be a required class for high school
> kids.
Shouldn't we make sure they know basic algebra and how to write proper English before we try to force knowledge about the mechanics of large utility plants into their heads???
Stop thinking like everyone's a goddam scientist. It's not that people aren't studying these things because they don't want to learn; it's because there's no good reason why Joe Average NEEDS to know the physics behind a nuclear explosion. Sad to say it, but the learning capacity of the typical person is finite.
You want to learn all you can. That's great. But why do you feel entitled to access to all these materials that other people worked hard to develop? I would think it's their choice whether to let you see them.
> Did you realize that even back in 1984,
> the Mac screen had rounded corners - and any
> drawing that took place on the screen was
> automatically clipped to those rounded corners? > That's not exactly trivial to implement
> without a significant performance penalty.
I created an implementation that uses 0% processor time -- I applied some black model paint to the corners of my CRT:)
So what you're saying is that instrumental music didn't become widespread until the advent of the digital sampler...?
Re:Hardware reviews from Salon!??
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The Xbox isn't "hardware", it's a consumer product.
The average person doesn't care what the graphics chipset in a game console is, or what the clock speed of the CPU is. They just want to know whether it's FUN.
> Clear something up for me, does this mean that
> the Professor pays for all the equipment,
> helps the student work on their research or
> lets the student work on their projects, then
> when the student takes one of the ideas to the
> patent office he gets all of the credit for it?
More likely the UNIVERSITY pays for all the equipment, etc., and the professor takes all the credit.
If you're working for the professor, it's the professor's work and he/she should get the credit.
If you and the prof are both working for the University, the credit ought to be shared.
-Poot
Re:Enough for several radio stations...
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Even the smallest radio station has far more than 8,000 songs' worth of music in their library.
Why the same 30-50 songs are always in rotation each week has always been a mystery to me. Probably involving the RIAA and sums of money changing hands.
Slashdot Mirror
...proceeding further would be "pre-enforcement review", which is not permitted.
This doesn't make any sense to me. No one should EVER be prosecuted under a law that is unconstitutional in nature.
Presumably it's the legislature's responsibility to make sure the laws they pass meet the conditions of constitutionality, but examples like the DMCA demonstrate that they're clearly not doing a very good job of that.
The courts should be reviewing every law that's passed BEFORE it goes into effect. We shouldn't have to tear any Skylarovs away from their families and let them fester in jail while the constitutionality questions surrounding the law they were imprisoned under get hammered out.
-Poot
You seem to imply that Groening himself is not accessible or net-savvy. He's lurked on Usenet for a while now, and has even posted on occasion.
Then again, he DOES have an AOL account...
Hooray for wasting bandwidth with pointless HTTP headers!
NO NO NO. IANAL, but I refer you to the legal case of "Finders vs. Keepers".
The seller should have applied more diligence in checking that the car did not contain any Rolexes before selling it to me. Once the transaction has been made, they're SOL.
"Stealing" would be buying the car and then mugging the seller and ripping the Rolex of his wrist. It would not be finding a Rolex in the glove compartment after I handed over the money.
Well, that's an incredibly warped and selfish view of things.
The cameras are looking at thousands upon thousands of people every day, some of which DID do something. THOSE are the people the camera-watchers are looking for. They don't give a damn about what you're doing.
> The people who back the DMCA own the media.
Yes, it's all a big shadowy Illuminati conspiracy! Grow the hell up.
You are the Microsoft of interviewers.
Shovel whatever shit you have out the door, it doesn't matter as long as it's on schedule.
I would have rather waited a month for it to be done right. This was half-assed.
> Crime is murder, rape, arson, robbery, identify
> theft, violence and abuse...
> NOT backing up software, fair use, recording a
> tv show, downloading an mp3, having sex,
> smoking, erotica, fiction writing, speaking
> against the government, abortion and sexual
> orientation...
That's your own opinion. You are no more "right" than the percieved "moral majority" that you believe controls the legislature, the courts, and the weather.
Wake up and smell the hypocrisy, Slash-hole.
> They will find a way to make it work in every
> consumer OS.
Never.
> They will find some other way to acheive the
> same thing with other OSs.
Never.
> They will outlaw the use of an OS that can be used to evade law enforcement.
Never.
> Didn't think of that, DID you? - ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
I did, but dismissed it immediately because such a plan would be utterly unworkable.
-Poot
> the United States was formed from a healthy
> distrust of our government (and that distrust
> has only proved to help us, thank you Hubert
> Hoover and your bra collection)
It was J. EDGAR Hoover that had the bra collection , not Hubert (Herbert?).
Yes, that must be why The Oregonian won two Pulitzer Prizes this year, because they're so skewed.
(Links are here and here)
>> What right do they have to charge for my /.er, they have a contract with
>> toaster? Do they have a contract with *me*, or
>> with *my device*?
>
> Depends on who you ask.
>
> If you ask a
> you.
>
> If you ask a pigfscking marketroid [...], then
> no, they have a contract with your devices.
What if you ask a contract lawyer? They're more qualified to comment on the matter than either of the other groups.
IANACL, but one fundamental aspect of contracts is that all involved parties give their consent. A machine is incapable of giving consent.
> Huh?
Can you elaborate on that?
> Does the program use your monitor to produce a
> radio program about psychotherapy?
Why do you say that?
> How do you describe your problems to it?
Is it because do me describe my problems to it that you came to me?
-Dr. Eliza Sbaitso
> Same goes if you live in an apartment and you
> can't turn the knob on your 400W RMS amp...
Shouldn't it be called a GNU/amp then?
(ducks thrown objects)
So, in other words, "WINDOZE SUX, MACS R00L!!!"
This post should get modded "-1 Troll", but so should its parent.
What happens to the passengers in your skycar when the onboard computer goes offline?
The problem with the Semantic Web is that humans, in general, write web pages to be readable by humans, not by machines.
This is not likely to change anytime soon.
I expect this initiative to be exactly as successful as the "Missile Defense" plan that was going to keep America from being hit by explosive airborne projectiles...
* X server :-)
;-)
* DVD 2 DivX grabber
* Beowulf cluster of these for SETI
Wait... that last one doesn't have the letter X anywhere in it...
> I'm sorry but information on how to design a
> water filtration plant should be public knowlege
> and should be a required class for high school
> kids.
Shouldn't we make sure they know basic algebra and how to write proper English before we try to force knowledge about the mechanics of large utility plants into their heads???
Stop thinking like everyone's a goddam scientist. It's not that people aren't studying these things because they don't want to learn; it's because there's no good reason why Joe Average NEEDS to know the physics behind a nuclear explosion. Sad to say it, but the learning capacity of the typical person is finite.
You want to learn all you can. That's great. But why do you feel entitled to access to all these materials that other people worked hard to develop? I would think it's their choice whether to let you see them.
> Did you realize that even back in 1984,
:)
> the Mac screen had rounded corners - and any
> drawing that took place on the screen was
> automatically clipped to those rounded corners? > That's not exactly trivial to implement
> without a significant performance penalty.
I created an implementation that uses 0% processor time -- I applied some black model paint to the corners of my CRT
So what you're saying is that instrumental music didn't become widespread until the advent of the digital sampler...?
The Xbox isn't "hardware", it's a consumer product.
The average person doesn't care what the graphics chipset in a game console is, or what the clock speed of the CPU is. They just want to know whether it's FUN.
> Clear something up for me, does this mean that
> the Professor pays for all the equipment,
> helps the student work on their research or
> lets the student work on their projects, then
> when the student takes one of the ideas to the
> patent office he gets all of the credit for it?
More likely the UNIVERSITY pays for all the equipment, etc., and the professor takes all the credit.
If you're working for the professor, it's the professor's work and he/she should get the credit.
If you and the prof are both working for the University, the credit ought to be shared.
-Poot
Even the smallest radio station has far more than 8,000 songs' worth of music in their library.
Why the same 30-50 songs are always in rotation each week has always been a mystery to me. Probably involving the RIAA and sums of money changing hands.