Isn't this already illegal based on intellectual property or copyright laws (or something else? Why does this industry deserve special attention from the government?? (in an ideal world that is... a previous post showed the real reason.)
I agree that this practice should be illegal and punishable. However, it seems as though it already is (but IANAL, of course). This CERTAINLY does not warrant a criminal offense punishable by 3 years in prison, IMHO.
What happens if you release a scanned or text copy of a not-yet-released book? Will this be treated the same? If not, why? Because a movie makes more money (maybe... don't know the facts on this)? What about other some-joe-releases-a-net-yet-released-product situations?
It wasn't really an IT job, but it involves Slashdot'ish topics, so here we go:
I was a sales associate at Software Etc. my senior year in high school. There were a few of us working there that collected the Star Trek : TNG CCG (or ST:TNGCCG) cards (which we sold at the store), including the assistant manager. One day the assistant manager went on break and was going to buy some of those three-ring binder pages to put cards in, but the store was really busy. So he put them back in the back room to pay for before he left, but he forgot to pay for them when he left.
That evening after getting home, he realized his mistake and went back to the store to pay for them. However, someone from corporate "loss prevention" was at the store when he came back and fired him for 'stealing' the $2.00 item.
Everyone at the store quit that night, except for one lone sales associate who really needed the job (and became the store manager shortly after this incident).
Here's the kicker: This happened the night before the release of the original Playstation:)
We all went to the assistant manager's house that night for a little party, and around 10:30pm or so, decided it was time to let the regional manager know that there wouldn't be anyone to open the store in the morning (the lone sales associate hadn't been trained to open the register or anything...).
The next morninig we went and watched as the 30 or so people on the reserve list for the Playstation showed up to a locked storefront. Several of the recognized us and asked what was going on. So we told our story, and Software Etc. lost several customers that day.
Ah, the things you can afford to do when living with your parents...
The university I work for has a campus-wide subscription. There's a limit to the number of concurrent sessions, but other than that, anyone on the campus network can access TONS of books through Safari.
Send them an e-mail and ask, I'm sure they'll be more than happy to sell your company some kind of site license ($$$).
I say, "Yes" this would be perfectly fair and legal. As long as the fact that these 'authenticated' tires are required isn't hidden from the customer. At this point the customer has a choice. If they choose the car with the $3000 tires, then they have to live with that.
I think as long as the customer has a choice, and they know what they're getting, then this is perfectly fair.
2. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to tell you what a link is when you hover over it (e.g. like IE does down the bottom). There must be *some* way of fitting that into the wonderfully clean interface.
Look on the "View" menu, check "Status Bar", done.
Speaking of Wing Commander, did anyone else buy the Wing Commander III special pre-order deal? With the round movie tin, t-shirt, book, etc. (and, of course, the game)? I was shocked to find that I couldn't one on ebay. I still have most of that stuff... I remember begging my parents for that.
"Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records."
So he *didn't* publish the address, just told you where to find it. Good stuff! I don't know what this says about the reporter's integrity, but in this case I think we can let that go.:)
I guessing you also had to pay tuition... How much was that?
Don't get me wrong... I'm sure you probably paid much less for that software than you would've otherwise... But I highly doubt that your total cost was only $25. Universities pay a lot for those Microsoft campus agreements, and the money they pay for it with comes from somewhere, either your tuition/fees, or your tax dollars. (unless a rich Alumni/'Partner'/etc. donated the money, then you may be off the hook, and getting a deal)
"Until they can get power output up Americans just aren't going to buy these things in droves."
I believe the American auto industry had a similar attitude back in the '80s about these new-fangled foreign compact cars... "Americans want big, powerful cars... they'll never buy those little foreign cars." We all know how that went.
I, for one, am glad that *some* auto company has actually made a real commitment to change.
"If you were commissioned to design a new 8-lane, divided highway, would you set the speed limit at 30 mph, to ensure that those who choose to drive around in Model T's can keep up with traffic?"
This isn't a very good analogy. When you go to a non-dhtml web page, are you dissapointed, or othwise negatively affected specifically because they aren't using DHTML? Your analogy states that everyone would be negatively affected by someone's choice not to use the latest and greatest.
I will counter your analogy with another bad/wrong analogy:
If you were commissioned to design a new 8-lane, divided highway, would you make all the road signs fly from one side of the road to the other? Would you have "Hit the Monkey and Win $20" interactive highway advertisements? Would you make drivers have to drive over a certain spot to see certain signs?
It all depends. Most of the things in my bad analogy wouldn't be good ideas. It just depends on the audience, and what you are trying to convey. Not using the latest and greatest isn't a 100% sure sign that a site will be a bad experience. That depends on the skill and intent of the designers/programmers, not on the technology they use.
If you're going to go this far (taking a DC into {company} with the intention of getting access to their network). Why not go to the next step:
Strip the guts out of the DC, hollow out a large reference book (one appropriate for the business), make discreet entries into the 'book' for the cables (a book with cables running into it would be suspicious, figure out a nice way to do this), then put the DC guts in the book.
"X-Force has verified that this issue is exploitable on Apache for Windows (Win32) version 1.3.24. Apache 1.x for Unix contains the same source code, but X-Force believes that successful exploitation on most Unix platforms is unlikely."
This is not meant to be a "You're wrong" statement. Of course, as you said, all admins should do their job and apply patches, etc. No matter what platform they use.
"Combined with an Xserve dishing out >500 simultaneous DVD-quality quicktime streams..."
Assuming you're referring to the demo they did at the Xserve release, you probably mean DSL-quality. A pretty big difference. DVD-quality would be cool though...
They sell fewer tapes than CDs... probably by a HUGE margin (this is a guess, I have no data to back this up, if anyone has data that says otherwise, let me know). But they do sell some tapes, otherwise they wouldn't make them. Probably the ONLY reason tapes sell is that they are cheaper. If tapes cost more than CDs, there wouldn't be much point in making tapes (because nobody would buy them).
All the mumbo jumbo you mentioned is in the prep costs.
Right. and those costs are distributed between tapes and CDs in such a manner that they will get the most return. That means having more of the production costs integrated into the price of the CD (because people will pay it), and less of the production costs into the price of the tape (becuase people won't pay it).
What would someone with a prosthetic arm do in this system? This person can have a password, credit card number, etc... But they wouldn't have a fingerprint, would they? I imagine any biometric system would be alienating people with some type of disability, medical condition, or some other condition brought on by other circumstances.
Can anyone think of a biometric system that ANYONE could use?
Imagine each brand of detergent having their own IM SN, where you could ask them the best way to get a stain out, or could compare ingredients between each competing product.
Wait! Wait! I've got it, what if (to continue your example) a brand of detergent could set up some kind of resource that could be accessed over the Internet, where they could even show graphics! And provide file downloads and nicely formatted things for printing... Maybe use some way to link together different files and other resources in a way that would make the resource fairly easy to use (if done right). Hmmm... but what to call this...
That's probably because you did the logical thing and searched for it on the Microsoft site. I did this earlier and couldn't find anything either... So I went to Google, searched for "MS word viewer", and the first link that popped up went right to a microsoft site where I could find a MS Word viewer.
Maybe Blizzard should create a CD key server that third party game servers could connect to for authentication. It seeems like that would be more desireable for Blizzard. That would take some of the heat off of their servers (by allowing the third party servers), and provide cd key checking. Then they could just crack down on servers that don't do the checking.
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Isn't this already illegal based on intellectual property or copyright laws (or something else? Why does this industry deserve special attention from the government?? (in an ideal world that is... a previous post showed the real reason.)
I agree that this practice should be illegal and punishable. However, it seems as though it already is (but IANAL, of course). This CERTAINLY does not warrant a criminal offense punishable by 3 years in prison, IMHO.
What happens if you release a scanned or text copy of a not-yet-released book? Will this be treated the same? If not, why? Because a movie makes more money (maybe... don't know the facts on this)? What about other some-joe-releases-a-net-yet-released-product situations?
I wonder how much trouble he's goiong to have to go through in order to play it :)
:)
Not much considering OS X is a unix-based OS....
Of course, the person's username isn't "Unicks-Baste". So maybe there will be a problem
It wasn't really an IT job, but it involves Slashdot'ish topics, so here we go:
:)
I was a sales associate at Software Etc. my senior year in high school. There were a few of us working there that collected the Star Trek : TNG CCG (or ST:TNGCCG) cards (which we sold at the store), including the assistant manager. One day the assistant manager went on break and was going to buy some of those three-ring binder pages to put cards in, but the store was really busy. So he put them back in the back room to pay for before he left, but he forgot to pay for them when he left.
That evening after getting home, he realized his mistake and went back to the store to pay for them. However, someone from corporate "loss prevention" was at the store when he came back and fired him for 'stealing' the $2.00 item.
Everyone at the store quit that night, except for one lone sales associate who really needed the job (and became the store manager shortly after this incident).
Here's the kicker: This happened the night before the release of the original Playstation
We all went to the assistant manager's house that night for a little party, and around 10:30pm or so, decided it was time to let the regional manager know that there wouldn't be anyone to open the store in the morning (the lone sales associate hadn't been trained to open the register or anything...).
The next morninig we went and watched as the 30 or so people on the reserve list for the Playstation showed up to a locked storefront. Several of the recognized us and asked what was going on. So we told our story, and Software Etc. lost several customers that day.
Ah, the things you can afford to do when living with your parents...
Christopher Lee is almost a legend, maybe it not appear a lot on modern movies (?)
To expand on Christopher Lee a bit... Here's one role most of us have seen him in (SW:EPII):
http://us.imdb.com/Credits?0121765
Here's his bio page on IMDB:
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Lee,%20Christopher
That page lists 258 films he's been in dating back to 1948. So I agree, Christopher Lee qualifies as a movie legend in my book.
The university I work for has a campus-wide subscription. There's a limit to the number of concurrent sessions, but other than that, anyone on the campus network can access TONS of books through Safari.
Send them an e-mail and ask, I'm sure they'll be more than happy to sell your company some kind of site license ($$$).
I say, "Yes" this would be perfectly fair and legal. As long as the fact that these 'authenticated' tires are required isn't hidden from the customer. At this point the customer has a choice. If they choose the car with the $3000 tires, then they have to live with that.
I think as long as the customer has a choice, and they know what they're getting, then this is perfectly fair.
2. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to tell you what a link is when you hover over it (e.g. like IE does down the bottom). There must be *some* way of fitting that into the wonderfully clean interface.
Look on the "View" menu, check "Status Bar", done.
Speaking of Wing Commander, did anyone else buy the Wing Commander III special pre-order deal? With the round movie tin, t-shirt, book, etc. (and, of course, the game)? I was shocked to find that I couldn't one on ebay. I still have most of that stuff... I remember begging my parents for that.
How does Slashdot stack up? What about blog-type sites in general? What can be done on these types of sites to make them more accessible?
I don't know how much traffic it gets (probably quite a bit), but the Gentoo site is all done in xml.
http://www.gentoo.org
You gotta love this reporter... From the article:
:)
"Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records."
So he *didn't* publish the address, just told you where to find it. Good stuff! I don't know what this says about the reporter's integrity, but in this case I think we can let that go.
I guessing you also had to pay tuition... How much was that?
Don't get me wrong... I'm sure you probably paid much less for that software than you would've otherwise... But I highly doubt that your total cost was only $25. Universities pay a lot for those Microsoft campus agreements, and the money they pay for it with comes from somewhere, either your tuition/fees, or your tax dollars. (unless a rich Alumni/'Partner'/etc. donated the money, then you may be off the hook, and getting a deal)
"Until they can get power output up Americans just aren't going to buy these things in droves."
I believe the American auto industry had a similar attitude back in the '80s about these new-fangled foreign compact cars... "Americans want big, powerful cars... they'll never buy those little foreign cars." We all know how that went.
I, for one, am glad that *some* auto company has actually made a real commitment to change.
"If you were commissioned to design a new 8-lane, divided highway, would you set the speed limit at 30 mph, to ensure that those who choose to drive around in Model T's can keep up with traffic?"
This isn't a very good analogy. When you go to a non-dhtml web page, are you dissapointed, or othwise negatively affected specifically because they aren't using DHTML? Your analogy states that everyone would be negatively affected by someone's choice not to use the latest and greatest.
I will counter your analogy with another bad/wrong analogy:
If you were commissioned to design a new 8-lane, divided highway, would you make all the road signs fly from one side of the road to the other? Would you have "Hit the Monkey and Win $20" interactive highway advertisements? Would you make drivers have to drive over a certain spot to see certain signs?
It all depends. Most of the things in my bad analogy wouldn't be good ideas. It just depends on the audience, and what you are trying to convey. Not using the latest and greatest isn't a 100% sure sign that a site will be a bad experience. That depends on the skill and intent of the designers/programmers, not on the technology they use.
If you're going to go this far (taking a DC into {company} with the intention of getting access to their network). Why not go to the next step:
Strip the guts out of the DC, hollow out a large reference book (one appropriate for the business), make discreet entries into the 'book' for the cables (a book with cables running into it would be suspicious, figure out a nice way to do this), then put the DC guts in the book.
Developer Shed (all about using open source technologies):
http://www.devshed.com
Webmonkey:
http://www.webmonkey.com
Both are VERY good.
From the "security announcement":
"X-Force has verified that this issue is exploitable on Apache for Windows (Win32) version 1.3.24. Apache 1.x for Unix contains the same source code, but X-Force believes that successful exploitation on most Unix platforms is unlikely."
This is not meant to be a "You're wrong" statement. Of course, as you said, all admins should do their job and apply patches, etc. No matter what platform they use.
"...but it really doesn't help their credibility to pass off "simulated" pictures as real..."
They don't. The description next to each of these images in their gallery notes that these are "Artist Renderings".
"Combined with an Xserve dishing out >500 simultaneous DVD-quality quicktime streams..."
Assuming you're referring to the demo they did at the Xserve release, you probably mean DSL-quality. A pretty big difference. DVD-quality would be cool though...
Probably a reference to the Tower of Babel.
They sell fewer tapes than CDs... probably by a HUGE margin (this is a guess, I have no data to back this up, if anyone has data that says otherwise, let me know). But they do sell some tapes, otherwise they wouldn't make them. Probably the ONLY reason tapes sell is that they are cheaper. If tapes cost more than CDs, there wouldn't be much point in making tapes (because nobody would buy them).
All the mumbo jumbo you mentioned is in the prep costs.
Right. and those costs are distributed between tapes and CDs in such a manner that they will get the most return. That means having more of the production costs integrated into the price of the CD (because people will pay it), and less of the production costs into the price of the tape (becuase people won't pay it).
What would someone with a prosthetic arm do in this system? This person can have a password, credit card number, etc... But they wouldn't have a fingerprint, would they? I imagine any biometric system would be alienating people with some type of disability, medical condition, or some other condition brought on by other circumstances.
Can anyone think of a biometric system that ANYONE could use?
Imagine each brand of detergent having their own IM SN, where you could ask them the best way to get a stain out, or could compare ingredients between each competing product.
Wait! Wait! I've got it, what if (to continue your example) a brand of detergent could set up some kind of resource that could be accessed over the Internet, where they could even show graphics! And provide file downloads and nicely formatted things for printing... Maybe use some way to link together different files and other resources in a way that would make the resource fairly easy to use (if done right). Hmmm... but what to call this...
That's probably because you did the logical thing and searched for it on the Microsoft site. I did this earlier and couldn't find anything either... So I went to Google, searched for "MS word viewer", and the first link that popped up went right to a microsoft site where I could find a MS Word viewer.
Maybe Blizzard should create a CD key server that third party game servers could connect to for authentication. It seeems like that would be more desireable for Blizzard. That would take some of the heat off of their servers (by allowing the third party servers), and provide cd key checking. Then they could just crack down on servers that don't do the checking.
>Thank you for your email,
>Kenny Z.
I wonder if he's related to Kenny G?