What about innocent until proven guilty? (Or innocent until proven liable, in this case.) Being sued by a corporation does not in and of itself make you guilty. The RIAA has alleged that she violated their copyright. They have brought a lawsuit to attempt to prove that she violated their copyright. Until it has been shown that she did, in fact, violate their copyright, she is neither guilty nor liable.
iTunes, by default, rips CDs to AAC files. Windows Media play rips CDs to WMA. Most users do not change their default settings, and so any CD ripped with their primary listening software will be stored in the corresponding format.
I use iTunes and I changed the settings to rip to variable bit rate MP3. But I'm a power user, and I imagine that most users don't even know what variable bit rate means.
You are accusing this person of neglecting their child, which is a pretty serious allegation. What's really happening is that this person is expecting to, some time in the future, require some "adult time" to recharge their batteries. This is completely normal and healthy. They will be better parents if they don't forget their own needs in the process of rearing their child.
Now, this person is also a geek and wants to install a high-tech monitoring system so that they can check on their child while they are out of the house, entrusting them to a babysitter of some kind. Instead of offering any useful advice, you simple begin lecturing this person about what a bad parent they aren't yet. How incredibly thoughtful of you!
If it was factually obvious that god existed then you having a choice in the matter of wether to beleive or not wouldn't be very useful, now would it ?
So what you're saying is that god is fucking with our heads? Sounds neurotic to me.
I have seen more complicated bass lines in a beginner's guide to electric bass guitar than most rap.
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I doubt even real rock musicians like Tool, Incubus and A Perfect Circle take their music nearly as seriously as Jay Z, Eminem, etc.
You obviously don't listen to rap, so please refrain from making comments about most of it as if you are some kind of expert on it.
The basslines are not intended to be "complex". The primary purpose for the beat and bassline of a Hip-Hop song is create the flow for the MC to rhyme over (and to get the booties of the crowd shaking). If the bassline was too complex it would interfere with the (often) complex stream of words the MC is stringing together to form a narrative.
What the hell do you mean by "take their work seriously"? I think Tool takes their music very seriously indeed, as the subject matter, emotional delivery and musical craftsmanship clearly show.
You don't like Hip-Hop. You don't listen to Hip-Hop. Get off your high horse and stop trying to seem like an expert.
I made the following editorial comment on the article:
It's sad to see a magazine like Forbes actually defending illegal acts. Fax.com was breaking the law, and they are paying for it. What is there to defend? It is somewhat enlightening to do a search and replace on the article and change "junk" to "illegal". For example, the last sentence of the first paragraph reads:
"A self-described 'small-claims warrior,' Livingston has made a side business out of suing these companies and many more for the sin of sending him unsolicited fax ads, better known as illegal faxes."
Users of XPlay (third-party iPod software) may be familiar with a similar problem. If you have XPlay installed and then install the MusicMatch which comes with your iPod (I prefer XPlay to MusicMatch for interfacing with my iPod, but love MusicMatch's tagging utilities) XPlay will no longer see the iPod at all.
Nothing really suprising here. There is only one driver for the iPod on the machine and when you install software that uses accesses the driver it will register itself as the default application.
Mr. Lyons refers to the enforcement of the GPL as the "dark side" of the Open Source movement, but I fail to see how making companies comply with the legally binding licenses they agreed to be bound to (the act of using GPL'd code makes the license binding) is somehow onerous or underhanded. If Cisco is using code protected under the GPL then they must comply with the terms of the GPL, plain and simple. If they aren't comfortable with sharing their code then they should not use code which is covered under a license which requires them to do so.
Also, Mr. Lyon's closing comment, "Such a pity, comrade", strikes me as reactionary and juvenile. I didn't realize I was reading this article in the editorial section.
By non-standard you must mean useful. You don't even know if this is a public site. What if this is an internal app and they have control over browser version? I work in a similar situation and if I had to code for all browsers "just because" we "should" use standards, I would spend most of my time trying to get the smallest change to work on Netscape 4.
Wow, the ability to comment (rant) on a book you haven't even read! That's amazing!
If you had actually read the book you would be able to read the stories of the people who failed. You would read about people wondering if asking this question (what *should* I do with my life?) is too self-indulgent.
I forgot that if other people are suffering or poor it is not OK for others to try and be happy. Thanks for reminding me that what I have is "good enough", the attitude which has carried the human race so far!
Other replies may have covered this. You make a good point, but you are increasing the scope of Lessig's intent and I don't think it's relevant.
There are a hell of a lot of problems in the world. Each person cannot tackle all of them. So, what do we do? We pick the problems that resonate most with us and we try to help, right? OK, so far so good.
Lessig cares very deeply about issues of copy right. When Lessig gave the speech which spawned this whole discussion he was speaking to a crowd of self-labeled geeks who also care about the issue of copy right (why else would they go and see him speak?). I think he was very correct in his call to action. He was not giving a speech about clean air or deforestation or animal rights.
I don't think this is a "fund raising guilt trip", which strikes me as a very cynical view. What this seems to be is a call to action to get more able-bodied (and able-monied) people who care about the issues surrounding copy right to stand up and do something. Plenty of the people in that crowd, as well has the thousands that have heard/read the speech since, probably complain loudly about these issue in their blogs and conversations. But what are they actually doing to fix it?
Lessig just wants us to put our money where our mouth is, and I say amen.
I think the first time I realized that the floppy was truly falling into obscurity was when a friend of mine gave me his phone number written on a yellow 3.5" disk. Floppy as PostIt... hmm..
And what happens when technology reaches a point when service jobs can be fully automated? It is possible that AI will reach a point when the "person" on the other end of the phone is actually a program linked to a massive database.
I don't know exactly where this leads but I believe the point of technology is to free us from work, not create more boring, redundant, self-serving, useless jobs. I also think we should plan for this outcome and move towards it, thinking up ways to keep our economy rolling without relying on the sweat of the masses.
Can anyone here think of a recent content protection scheme that has done anything to stop "actual" pirating (making thousands of bootlet copies)? So far every single one I've seen has only served to limit the abilities of the consumer to use the content they pay for in the ways they choose. The bootleggers are free to keep on bootlegging! If that doesn't show that the DMCA is just a way for the big content providers to squeeze a little more money out of the consumers I don't know what does.
At the company I work for we get $30 flat rate for each day (night) we are on call. If we have to come in, then we clock in and regular (or overtime) pay is in effect.
Roblimo, think, if you had a daughter, and we stopped the war on drugs, as you would like to see happen. Now they are everywhere. Easy to get.
If you think drugs are hard to get now you are fooling yourself. Scare tactics and huge media campaigns aimed at "spreading the good word" about "bad drugs" only serve to drive more people to those drugs. Do you know how methamphetamines became a huge problem? When we made them illegal.
When you make a substance illegal, you affectively place all control of that substance into the hands of the black market. You introduce aldulterants, you raise the prices to levels which require stealing to afford. You also make drug users feel alienated and so less likely to care if they violate societal mores. The United States has the worst heroin problem in the world, and heroin has been illegal since 1914. If you can't solve a problem in 87 years with one method, you should rethink your hypothesis and run your experiments again. Addicts who have access to cheap, pharmeceutical-grade opiates are able to be productive, healthy members of society. Our current stereotype of a "dope fiend" is a product of our drug laws, not the drug itself.
Before you spout more uneducated garbage about how effective the War on (some) Drugs has been, you should do some research.
What about your constitutional rights, most countries have constitutions these day, so I will assume that yours does to? I could take them away, and that would not be stealing, would it? I didn't take anything physical away from you?
Yes, but you would be taking them away, meaning we would no longer have them. When you copy something, you leave the original where it is and make a copy, which you take. So the owner still has their "property". That is the difference between stealing and copying. If you want to copy my rights, more power to you!
You want a president who supports socialized medicine. Lets me say that again, SOCIALIZED medicine. As in socialism. You think socialism is a neat idea?
What do you think this Prescription Drug Benefit for seniors is? We don't want to make the big, wealthy drug companies charge Americans the same price they charge Canadians and Mexicans, so we give money to seniors to cover the difference. How is that not a socialist practice? Pure capitalism will fail in the long run, as will pure socialism. Take the best from all ideologies and make uberthoughts. There is enough to go around. The idea that you have to "earn a living" means otherwise you don't deserve to live. Choosy moms choose COMPASSION.
botono9
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I offer that if coffee did not contain caffeine, we would not be drinking it today. The only reason it is a mainstay in our current culture is because many, many years ago people discovered that coffee beans were stimulating. Caffeine is not a "pleasant side effect", it is a psychoactive substance. But the only reason we feel anything from it is because of pre-existing stimulation pathways (dopamine, noreprinephrin, etc.). Drugs work bye causing an increased release of certain neurochemicals or they trick the brain into thinking they themselves are the neurochemicals.
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What about innocent until proven guilty? (Or innocent until proven liable, in this case.) Being sued by a corporation does not in and of itself make you guilty. The RIAA has alleged that she violated their copyright. They have brought a lawsuit to attempt to prove that she violated their copyright. Until it has been shown that she did, in fact, violate their copyright, she is neither guilty nor liable.
iTunes, by default, rips CDs to AAC files. Windows Media play rips CDs to WMA. Most users do not change their default settings, and so any CD ripped with their primary listening software will be stored in the corresponding format.
I use iTunes and I changed the settings to rip to variable bit rate MP3. But I'm a power user, and I imagine that most users don't even know what variable bit rate means.
Said like a true childless twenty-something.
You are accusing this person of neglecting their child, which is a pretty serious allegation. What's really happening is that this person is expecting to, some time in the future, require some "adult time" to recharge their batteries. This is completely normal and healthy. They will be better parents if they don't forget their own needs in the process of rearing their child.
Now, this person is also a geek and wants to install a high-tech monitoring system so that they can check on their child while they are out of the house, entrusting them to a babysitter of some kind. Instead of offering any useful advice, you simple begin lecturing this person about what a bad parent they aren't yet. How incredibly thoughtful of you!
If it was factually obvious that god existed then you having a choice in the matter of wether to beleive or not wouldn't be very useful, now would it ?
So what you're saying is that god is fucking with our heads? Sounds neurotic to me.
Maybe I'm missing something, but you seem to be saying that octopus rape isn't cool.
I have seen more complicated bass lines in a beginner's guide to electric bass guitar than most rap.
[...]
I doubt even real rock musicians like Tool, Incubus and A Perfect Circle take their music nearly as seriously as Jay Z, Eminem, etc.
You don't like Hip-Hop. You don't listen to Hip-Hop. Get off your high horse and stop trying to seem like an expert.
Um, I think federal law would disagree that lax security makes infiltration legal.
I made the following editorial comment on the article:
Users of XPlay (third-party iPod software) may be familiar with a similar problem. If you have XPlay installed and then install the MusicMatch which comes with your iPod (I prefer XPlay to MusicMatch for interfacing with my iPod, but love MusicMatch's tagging utilities) XPlay will no longer see the iPod at all.
Nothing really suprising here. There is only one driver for the iPod on the machine and when you install software that uses accesses the driver it will register itself as the default application.
But what about beer? Beer! BEER!
Well, I'm still waiting for the day that I can drag an album or an artist to a playlist in Windows Media Player.
Mr. Lyons refers to the enforcement of the GPL as the "dark side" of the Open Source movement, but I fail to see how making companies comply with the legally binding licenses they agreed to be bound to (the act of using GPL'd code makes the license binding) is somehow onerous or underhanded. If Cisco is using code protected under the GPL then they must comply with the terms of the GPL, plain and simple. If they aren't comfortable with sharing their code then they should not use code which is covered under a license which requires them to do so.
Also, Mr. Lyon's closing comment, "Such a pity, comrade", strikes me as reactionary and juvenile. I didn't realize I was reading this article in the editorial section.
You forgot collard greens, fried chicken and malt liquor.
I hate bigots.
By non-standard you must mean useful. You don't even know if this is a public site. What if this is an internal app and they have control over browser version? I work in a similar situation and if I had to code for all browsers "just because" we "should" use standards, I would spend most of my time trying to get the smallest change to work on Netscape 4.
Wow, the ability to comment (rant) on a book you haven't even read! That's amazing!
If you had actually read the book you would be able to read the stories of the people who failed. You would read about people wondering if asking this question (what *should* I do with my life?) is too self-indulgent.
I forgot that if other people are suffering or poor it is not OK for others to try and be happy. Thanks for reminding me that what I have is "good enough", the attitude which has carried the human race so far!
Other replies may have covered this. You make a good point, but you are increasing the scope of Lessig's intent and I don't think it's relevant.
There are a hell of a lot of problems in the world. Each person cannot tackle all of them. So, what do we do? We pick the problems that resonate most with us and we try to help, right? OK, so far so good.
Lessig cares very deeply about issues of copy right. When Lessig gave the speech which spawned this whole discussion he was speaking to a crowd of self-labeled geeks who also care about the issue of copy right (why else would they go and see him speak?). I think he was very correct in his call to action. He was not giving a speech about clean air or deforestation or animal rights.
I don't think this is a "fund raising guilt trip", which strikes me as a very cynical view. What this seems to be is a call to action to get more able-bodied (and able-monied) people who care about the issues surrounding copy right to stand up and do something. Plenty of the people in that crowd, as well has the thousands that have heard/read the speech since, probably complain loudly about these issue in their blogs and conversations. But what are they actually doing to fix it?
Lessig just wants us to put our money where our mouth is, and I say amen.
I think the first time I realized that the floppy was truly falling into obscurity was when a friend of mine gave me his phone number written on a yellow 3.5" disk. Floppy as PostIt... hmm..
Could this be a first post? Probably not! Good luck you two!
And what happens when technology reaches a point when service jobs can be fully automated? It is possible that AI will reach a point when the "person" on the other end of the phone is actually a program linked to a massive database.
I don't know exactly where this leads but I believe the point of technology is to free us from work, not create more boring, redundant, self-serving, useless jobs. I also think we should plan for this outcome and move towards it, thinking up ways to keep our economy rolling without relying on the sweat of the masses.
Can anyone here think of a recent content protection scheme that has done anything to stop "actual" pirating (making thousands of bootlet copies)? So far every single one I've seen has only served to limit the abilities of the consumer to use the content they pay for in the ways they choose. The bootleggers are free to keep on bootlegging! If that doesn't show that the DMCA is just a way for the big content providers to squeeze a little more money out of the consumers I don't know what does.
At the company I work for we get $30 flat rate for each day (night) we are on call. If we have to come in, then we clock in and regular (or overtime) pay is in effect.
When you make a substance illegal, you affectively place all control of that substance into the hands of the black market. You introduce aldulterants, you raise the prices to levels which require stealing to afford. You also make drug users feel alienated and so less likely to care if they violate societal mores. The United States has the worst heroin problem in the world, and heroin has been illegal since 1914. If you can't solve a problem in 87 years with one method, you should rethink your hypothesis and run your experiments again. Addicts who have access to cheap, pharmeceutical-grade opiates are able to be productive, healthy members of society. Our current stereotype of a "dope fiend" is a product of our drug laws, not the drug itself.
Before you spout more uneducated garbage about how effective the War on (some) Drugs has been, you should do some research.
The Consumers Union Report - Licit and Illicit Drugs (1972)
Major Studies of Drugs and Drug Policy
The Lindesmith Center's Online Library
The truth shall set you free.
Yes, but you would be taking them away, meaning we would no longer have them. When you copy something, you leave the original where it is and make a copy, which you take. So the owner still has their "property". That is the difference between stealing and copying. If you want to copy my rights, more power to you!
What do you think this Prescription Drug Benefit for seniors is? We don't want to make the big, wealthy drug companies charge Americans the same price they charge Canadians and Mexicans, so we give money to seniors to cover the difference. How is that not a socialist practice? Pure capitalism will fail in the long run, as will pure socialism. Take the best from all ideologies and make uberthoughts. There is enough to go around. The idea that you have to "earn a living" means otherwise you don't deserve to live. Choosy moms choose COMPASSION.
botono9
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All limits are self-imposed.
I offer that if coffee did not contain caffeine, we would not be drinking it today. The only reason it is a mainstay in our current culture is because many, many years ago people discovered that coffee beans were stimulating. Caffeine is not a "pleasant side effect", it is a psychoactive substance. But the only reason we feel anything from it is because of pre-existing stimulation pathways (dopamine, noreprinephrin, etc.). Drugs work bye causing an increased release of certain neurochemicals or they trick the brain into thinking they themselves are the neurochemicals.