Actually, entering people's house without their consent is already illegal. The original poster said "What's the point of putting DRM, it's already illegal copying". My reply is "What's the point of putting locks on doors, it's already illegal to enter them".
The idea is that although something is already illegal, you protect your things extra to try and prevent the need to file suits or make it harder for people to break the law. If you left your door without a lock, would you trust the people not to enter it?
If it is illegal to circumvent DRM technologies, then what are the DRM techs there for in the first place? To prevent accidental copyright infringement?
Let's rephrase and see if you understand now...
If it is illegal to pick locks to enter houses, then what are the locks for in the first place? To prevent accidental lock picking?
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I think its time USA stopped trying to be the king of weapons and war and started promoting education to the third world.
I personally think it's high time the USA start promoting education in the USA.
Bush & co are spending 20(!!) times more on military than on education. My guess is that educated people wouldn't vote for people like bush, so I guess it makes sense in the grand scheme of things...
This will be a great "fun" when the army's worst nightmare becomes birds and spiders eating their spies;-). I can already imagine them having to produce a flock of electronic eagles to protect the flies...
If by "ludicrous salary" you mean "Allows me to pay all my bills" then, yes, I am looking for a ludicrous salary.
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Somehow, I have to cover a $43k set of bills with $24k-34k.
This could be an indication you're living above your means, don't you think?
My house is for sale right now for exactly this reason...All the positions I'm looking at are posting up for significantly less than I'm used to getting.
I don't know your situation and qualifications and am saddened you have to sell your house (really am). But maybe either the positions you're looking at aren't WORTH more than they offer and maybe also you used to be getting more than what you deserved. (then again, I don't know the specifics, hence the "maybe"s).
Tech workers who made $40-45k last year and got laid off are competing for jobs with guys who will do it for $22,500 just so they can get into the country.
You're looking at it the wrong way I think. First, at its peak, they allowed 200,000 H1-Bs in the country, before that and after that, it was more around 60K. The US population is like 288,000,000 people so we're talking here less than 1% of the US population. You have also to keep in mind that the US wanted these workers to come. They came, they worked, they paid taxes, now they bother you. Further, when they came, they came for higher salaries than the 22K you're speaking of. Sure, now they have to make less (like everyone else) if they want to get in, but that's the same for everyone.
I'm definitely in favor of a drastic reduction in the number of NEW H1-B visas issued.
I agree with you, it's not a good idea to bring in more. But you (as a whole) wanted them to come working in the US, you have to deal with the consequences... Back in the early 19's, belgium (my country) was in need of miners, we asked for them, a lot of italians came and worked, they've settled, founded families, paid taxes, created businesses. They're now part of the country so we have to deal with them. Your H1-Bs are worse than that though, because they're for disposable work force. After 6 years, bye bye. Never mind that they invested time and energy into making YOUR country better, they're now unwanted parasites...
Now positions are filled before they're announced, if they're even announced. The ones that are getting advertised are for people with 10 years Windows 95 experience, and 20 years of Java. Nowadays, we don't need more tech workers, we honestly (right now) need less.
Actually, you need more qualified workers and less I-Jumped-On-The-Bandwagon-For-Money type of people. Qualified people usually have no trouble finding jobs, just like you mention, the advertised jobs are for qualified people. That's the problem lots of those who improvised themselves IT workers now face, they have little formation, little experience and can't find jobs, maybe is it a sign for them they need to actually start learning things and/or do something else?
Don't think of it as "protectionism" or "racism", because its neither of those things. Its like a bus. There's a fixed number of seats. Once those seats are full, the driver can't let any more passengers on.
It's more like a train actually, there were lots of seats, you couldn't fill them, you asked people to come to fill them. Now a bunch of wagons have disappeared and some people can't find seats. Obviously in such a situation, no more people should enter the train, or to replace the less adequate people, who should get off the train. Who do you think will have a seat: a Unix admin with 10 years of experience or an HTML monkey with 2 years of experience in a failed dotcom?
Sounds like your company is very badly violating the good faith of the H1-B visas.
I don't understand your statement. The company is not violating the "good faith" of the visas, it's not using them at all. The company is subcontracting things to us. We're working where we live, it's much easier for the company (and besides, none of us would want to live in the USA). My point was that I'm working for that company now only because americans failed. Had they continued working instead of demanding ludicrous salaries and acting like spoiled kids, there would be 12 less unemployed americans...
I wonder how many other cases like this one there are... "Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit." - Ovid (Add little to little and there will be a big pile)
I'm a belgian currently working for a company based in california. This company employed a dozen or so americans who, during the.com "era" acted like prima donas and massively left for higher salaries. The company now employs 7 people: 5 belgian, 1 french and 1 canadian. We're getting paid salaries from 40 to 75K per month (depending on the person). I don't call that slavery and I must say these salaries range from nice to very good according to our standards
I admit that the situation I'm living is better than what it could be for people in asian countries but face it, the problem originally comes from the americans, not from the foreigners. It's all about value. Sure the asians are cheaper than the americans (or europeans for that matter), but can you easily communicate with them? Do you know if they'll do the work the way you expect them to? That's a compromise. Overall it's best to have the team where you are. In our case, the boss moves regularly to belgium to talk about the project. If the americans originally hadn't acted the way they did and did not (even now) ask ludicrous salaries, the company would still be employing a majority of americans...
eDonkey2000 already has the hashing part, last I checked, there are only a handful of mislabelled pieces (software/movies) around, if you don't count porn labelled as full version being actually ads for porn sites...
Problem with that network is that it's full (really full) of leeches... Once something is downloaded, they don't share it anymore. Maybe is it because the files are usually way larger (600Mbs are extremely common). Overall it's still a great file sharing program though.
However decimal (metric) runs into problems. You only get 2 and 5 as the multiples without getting into "weird" decimals. Exactly how many centimeters is 1/3 of a meter? how many millimeters?
Easy: 33.3333333333333333333333333... and 333.333333333333333... If you can count with powers of 10, you know the answer.
Now, pray tell, how many inches per mile? ... *waiting*... ... *found that calculator yet?*... ... *found the correct values for converting units into subunits yet?*...
As far as your base 12 is concerned, I think base 12 is really great, for the reasons you mention (/2,/3,/4,/6), except for a small problem, we at the moment have only 5 appendices per limb (except for a few people).
how do you think the government will react if MS get physically attacked at a trade show? MS Will say: "See, we told you that those Linux geeks are all hackers, you cant trust them to make secure systems, but you can trust us, were the victim here."
Exactly the same way as they would react if a group of isreali showed up at a "we love palestine" show. They'll laugh at them for being fool enough to show up at a meeting of people they know hate them (for the most part), it's their presence that provoked the others.
I doubt such a thing will happen though. People will go there, they'll ask why they're there and if they have an interesting product for linux (and get scorned at if they don't), maybe listen to them. I'm feeling bad for the PR and techies that will have to be maning the booth though. They'll most certainly get lots of bad comments and/or insults. I don't like Microsoft the corporation, but I have nothing against the people working there (except maybe for the marketroïds and the upper management).
i'm waiting till they hide a subliminal watermark in the digial version (maybe able to be done with 35mm.. that will only be seen when a movie is cammed..
Actually, although it's not present right now, I know from people working on the systems that there ARE watermarks in the works. Each movie will is decrypted (they're 124bit encrypted along the whole chain, from the data server to the projector) and watermarked with the place the movie is played, the date, the time and this, before the data reaches the projector, so no hoping to grab the data there and make DVDs with the movie (anyway, at the speed the data goes through the wires, it'll be hard to tap...)
I don't know how it works, but I've been told that they designed the thing so that the watermarks is still visible after the movie is camcorded (I'll take that claim with a grain of salt though)...
So, to answer your question, they can (and will) pull it off;-)
$200??? I can't seem to find one for less than 600, three times the price... Looks like there's some difference in price between your hardware market and ours...
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With this one, ridiculous comment, the author has lost all credibility with me
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Just because I think many people in here keep making statements such as that one, I'll offer you an analogy:
If you had read Einstein's words at the time he wrote them, you'd see he wrote about a cosmological constant. You'd be the kind of person to yell "Who in their right mind would be stupid enough such a thing as the cosmological constant exists. That Einstein guy lost all credibility to me". And you'd have been very wrong...
I don't care why the person wrote that, I'll just mentally note that that part of his argument is wrong, but you seemingly see the world in black and white with no shades...
Because someone says one thing bad/wrong doesn't mean that all things that person say are bad/wrong. Everyone does make mistakes you know, I do, you do too... Don't be so fast at labeling people...
[If there's a better way to view word files without word, I'd appreciate some pointers, incidentally. Antiword and openoffice seem to do OK on simple docs, but...]
If viewing word files is the only thing you need, then you might want to check WordViewer. It runs only on windows but you don't have to purchase MSOffice...
That's exactly what I'm doing. The problem is that your laws have a real bad tendency to spread and pollute (when they're bad) the rest of the world, whatever good laws you may have (first amendment for instance), on the other hand, stay home. Just like your food actually, the only things we get from USA is McDonalds and bad cookies. I wish I could get good spare ribs and real cookies here...
Note to the person who modded my parent post as troll: My karma can handle your not agreeing with me perfectly fine...
until the campaign financing laws are changed in our supposedly superior western democracies
Sorry, but speak for yourself, I consider my country (Belgium, European Union) to be a western democracy and our campaign financing laws are perfectly fine.
Well, there's always a corrupt politician or two, but nothing compared to the scale of what happens in the USA (AFAIK)...
Public domain means that the copyright holders relinquish any claim that they might have.
Public domain is for those who think that the BDS licence is not free enough.
There is another case where something is public domain, it is when the copyright has expired...
There is something with the GPL that disturbs me a bit. The problem is that GPL software, as opposite to a proprietary piece of software, is constantly evolving. So, at the moment the work should become public domain because the copyright on the pieces of code expires, I wonder how I will be able to make a distinction between the parts of the code that are still copyrighted and the parts that have become public domain...
Proprietary software works by releasing new and (hopefully) different versions every 6, 12, 18, 24 months. These are stand alone packages. Free Software is constantly evolving so there is little chance that it will ever be possible for it to enter the public domain, pieces of it for sure, but the whole things? I have copies of DOS 3 at home I can easily find when the copyright expires, how can I know the "age" of parts of gcc 3.0.4 to know if they have become public domain?
A FAQ is a series of questions and answers, a sort of dialogue someone created that other read in which they find answers to their questions. It may be that the questions were submitted by someone, then again it may not. And even then, maybe the person who wrote the FAQ reformulated the questions.
In any case, a FAQ is something someone has written, and all forms of creation are (well, should be) subject to copyright.
But the case dealt with is this:
Plaintiff Mist-On Systems alleged that defendant Gilley's European Tan Spa infringed on its exclusive rights under the Copyright Act by preparing and displaying on its Web page a page that mirrored the FAQ page on Mist-On's Web site. Mist-On sought monetary and injunctive relief from Gilley's based on the "irreparable harm" it had suffered.
(read more to find out)
This decision does not say that FAQs are not subject to copyright though, but that there was no copyright infringement:
According to the court, "when the two works are compared side-by-side, similarities are evident." That is because "both web pages utilize the Frequently Asked Questions format," "both web pages use common words to begin each question, such as 'how,' 'can,' 'is,' 'what,' and 'will,'" and because "both web pages focus on a spray-on form of sunless tanning" and "provide similar information."
So the title of the article is misleading, the court just ruled that there was no copyright infringement because the 2 FAQs were different...
Let's move on... But I think the editors should have taken the time to read the article
And how about those Big Annoying Slashdot Ads? Are they not a terrible bargain for the user? It pays us about 4 cents per instance of our extra viewing attention, and something has to change!
You can do something about it easily. Subscribe to slashdot and get rid of the ads. The problem with TV is that I'm ALREADY PAYING for it.
Well, now of course I found the alternative. Don't watch TV at all (no kidding). At least they don't put advertisement in the middle of your video-game playing... yet...
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The idea is that although something is already illegal, you protect your things extra to try and prevent the need to file suits or make it harder for people to break the law. If you left your door without a lock, would you trust the people not to enter it?
Let's rephrase and see if you understand now...
If it is illegal to pick locks to enter houses, then what are the locks for in the first place? To prevent accidental lock picking?
I personally think it's high time the USA start promoting education in the USA.
Bush & co are spending 20(!!) times more on military than on education. My guess is that educated people wouldn't vote for people like bush, so I guess it makes sense in the grand scheme of things...
This will be a great "fun" when the army's worst nightmare becomes birds and spiders eating their spies ;-). I can already imagine them having to produce a flock of electronic eagles to protect the flies...
This could be an indication you're living above your means, don't you think?
I don't know your situation and qualifications and am saddened you have to sell your house (really am). But maybe either the positions you're looking at aren't WORTH more than they offer and maybe also you used to be getting more than what you deserved. (then again, I don't know the specifics, hence the "maybe"s). You're looking at it the wrong way I think. First, at its peak, they allowed 200,000 H1-Bs in the country, before that and after that, it was more around 60K. The US population is like 288,000,000 people so we're talking here less than 1% of the US population. You have also to keep in mind that the US wanted these workers to come. They came, they worked, they paid taxes, now they bother you. Further, when they came, they came for higher salaries than the 22K you're speaking of. Sure, now they have to make less (like everyone else) if they want to get in, but that's the same for everyone.I agree with you, it's not a good idea to bring in more. But you (as a whole) wanted them to come working in the US, you have to deal with the consequences...
Actually, you need more qualified workers and less I-Jumped-On-The-Bandwagon-For-Money type of people. Qualified people usually have no trouble finding jobs, just like you mention, the advertised jobs are for qualified people. That's the problem lots of those who improvised themselves IT workers now face, they have little formation, little experience and can't find jobs, maybe is it a sign for them they need to actually start learning things and/or do something else? It's more like a train actually, there were lots of seats, you couldn't fill them, you asked people to come to fill them. Now a bunch of wagons have disappeared and some people can't find seats. Obviously in such a situation, no more people should enter the train, or to replace the less adequate people, who should get off the train. Who do you think will have a seat: a Unix admin with 10 years of experience or an HTML monkey with 2 years of experience in a failed dotcom?Back in the early 19's, belgium (my country) was in need of miners, we asked for them, a lot of italians came and worked, they've settled, founded families, paid taxes, created businesses. They're now part of the country so we have to deal with them. Your H1-Bs are worse than that though, because they're for disposable work force. After 6 years, bye bye. Never mind that they invested time and energy into making YOUR country better, they're now unwanted parasites...
I don't understand your statement. The company is not violating the "good faith" of the visas, it's not using them at all. The company is subcontracting things to us. We're working where we live, it's much easier for the company (and besides, none of us would want to live in the USA).
My point was that I'm working for that company now only because americans failed. Had they continued working instead of demanding ludicrous salaries and acting like spoiled kids, there would be 12 less unemployed americans...
I wonder how many other cases like this one there are...
"Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit." - Ovid (Add little to little and there will be a big pile)
yeah, it's per year, obviously
I'm a belgian currently working for a company based in california. .com "era" acted like prima donas and massively left for higher salaries.
This company employed a dozen or so americans who, during the
The company now employs 7 people: 5 belgian, 1 french and 1 canadian. We're getting paid salaries from 40 to 75K per month (depending on the person). I don't call that slavery and I must say these salaries range from nice to very good according to our standards
I admit that the situation I'm living is better than what it could be for people in asian countries but face it, the problem originally comes from the americans, not from the foreigners. It's all about value. Sure the asians are cheaper than the americans (or europeans for that matter), but can you easily communicate with them? Do you know if they'll do the work the way you expect them to? That's a compromise. Overall it's best to have the team where you are. In our case, the boss moves regularly to belgium to talk about the project. If the americans originally hadn't acted the way they did and did not (even now) ask ludicrous salaries, the company would still be employing a majority of americans...
Problem with that network is that it's full (really full) of leeches... Once something is downloaded, they don't share it anymore. Maybe is it because the files are usually way larger (600Mbs are extremely common). Overall it's still a great file sharing program though.
33.3333333333333333333333333...
and
333.333333333333333...
If you can count with powers of 10, you know the answer.
Now, pray tell, how many inches per mile?
... *waiting* ...
... *found that calculator yet?* ...
... *found the correct values for converting units into subunits yet?* ...
As far as your base 12 is concerned, I think base 12 is really great, for the reasons you mention (/2, /3, /4, /6), except for a small problem, we at the moment have only 5 appendices per limb (except for a few people).
Exactly the same way as they would react if a group of isreali showed up at a "we love palestine" show. They'll laugh at them for being fool enough to show up at a meeting of people they know hate them (for the most part), it's their presence that provoked the others.
I doubt such a thing will happen though. People will go there, they'll ask why they're there and if they have an interesting product for linux (and get scorned at if they don't), maybe listen to them.
I'm feeling bad for the PR and techies that will have to be maning the booth though. They'll most certainly get lots of bad comments and/or insults. I don't like Microsoft the corporation, but I have nothing against the people working there (except maybe for the marketroïds and the upper management).
My signature makes sense!
I don't know how it works, but I've been told that they designed the thing so that the watermarks is still visible after the movie is camcorded (I'll take that claim with a grain of salt though)...
So, to answer your question, they can (and will) pull it off ;-)
So much for broadband territory...
[Karma burning session]
Just because I think many people in here keep making statements such as that one, I'll offer you an analogy:
If you had read Einstein's words at the time he wrote them, you'd see he wrote about a cosmological constant. You'd be the kind of person to yell "Who in their right mind would be stupid enough such a thing as the cosmological constant exists. That Einstein guy lost all credibility to me". And you'd have been very wrong...
I don't care why the person wrote that, I'll just mentally note that that part of his argument is wrong, but you seemingly see the world in black and white with no shades...
Because someone says one thing bad/wrong doesn't mean that all things that person say are bad/wrong. Everyone does make mistakes you know, I do, you do too... Don't be so fast at labeling people...
[/Karma burning session]
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That's exactly what I'm doing. The problem is that your laws have a real bad tendency to spread and pollute (when they're bad) the rest of the world, whatever good laws you may have (first amendment for instance), on the other hand, stay home. Just like your food actually, the only things we get from USA is McDonalds and bad cookies. I wish I could get good spare ribs and real cookies here...
Note to the person who modded my parent post as troll: My karma can handle your not agreeing with me perfectly fine...
Sorry, but speak for yourself, I consider my country (Belgium, European Union) to be a western democracy and our campaign financing laws are perfectly fine. Well, there's always a corrupt politician or two, but nothing compared to the scale of what happens in the USA (AFAIK)...
There is something with the GPL that disturbs me a bit. The problem is that GPL software, as opposite to a proprietary piece of software, is constantly evolving. So, at the moment the work should become public domain because the copyright on the pieces of code expires, I wonder how I will be able to make a distinction between the parts of the code that are still copyrighted and the parts that have become public domain...
Proprietary software works by releasing new and (hopefully) different versions every 6, 12, 18, 24 months. These are stand alone packages. Free Software is constantly evolving so there is little chance that it will ever be possible for it to enter the public domain, pieces of it for sure, but the whole things? I have copies of DOS 3 at home I can easily find when the copyright expires, how can I know the "age" of parts of gcc 3.0.4 to know if they have become public domain?
From your past comments, I'd recommend you and your oversized ego to simply move on and shut up...
Wait for Al Gore to claim to be its inventor??
In any case, a FAQ is something someone has written, and all forms of creation are (well, should be) subject to copyright.
But the case dealt with is this:
(read more to find out)This decision does not say that FAQs are not subject to copyright though, but that there was no copyright infringement:
So the title of the article is misleading, the court just ruled that there was no copyright infringement because the 2 FAQs were different...
Let's move on... But I think the editors should have taken the time to read the article
You can do something about it easily. Subscribe to slashdot and get rid of the ads. The problem with TV is that I'm ALREADY PAYING for it.
Well, now of course I found the alternative. Don't watch TV at all (no kidding). At least they don't put advertisement in the middle of your video-game playing... yet...