1. Buy a Sony CD recorder.
2. Copy a Sony music CD using the Sony recorder.
3. Play the copied CD on your Sony stereo using stock Sony speakers.
4. Sue Sony when their CD blows their system.
...OR...
Protest by not buying their music CDs anymore and avoid purchasing their music equipment.
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...because it has a built in network connection and a small LCD display? Seems to me I could save money by buying a portable harddrive and taping an existing PDA with network attachment to it.
Sorry, looks like a sleek package and has all the right buzzwords but without full PDA functionality, it seems like it misses the mark -- at least at $599.
People already pay to watch feature length movies without real actors --- Anime, ToyStory, etc. And these are literally cartoonish. The market will grow as the realism increases.
At some point I can imagine there being a small niche market for film "snobs" that insist that real actors make better films. Everyone else will watch computer generated flicks without a second thought.
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To be blunt: Shutting off the internet and then opening the infected attachment is like putting on a condom and then injecting yourself with HIV. It is not about where else the virus goes... the point is now you have it.
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It sucks, but if confidentiality is breached the sucker that got taken by the virus is liable in the USA if they were negligent. For example, if it was reasonable for the employee to follow company policy and not open attachments and ignored that policy... they are burned.
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If you have received this document in error, please call $NAME at $PHONE and promptly destroy all copies.
That is just a request. It is not the law and is not enforceable through the courts. Be careful what you fax and where you fax it. Same with email, virus facilitated or not.
There is a reason employers, real estate agents, car salesmen, etc, ask you to sign, sign, initial and sign again. If it was as simple as writing a blurb, then all anyone would have to do is "show you" the contract.
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The lawyers out there will know the Latin word (and there is one) but there has to be something received by both parties entering into a contract for that contract to be enforceable in the USA.
You cannot forward a document to a stranger and then legally bind that stranger to behave according to the content of that document. Not in the USA.
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And I deleted it. However, if it had contained some neat company secrets I would not have felt any remorse in sharing it nor do I believe there is any legal obligation for anyone to refrain from doing so.
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One neat application would be to dub foreign language films in the target language using the voice of the original actor even though they do not know the target language. They could start doing that today.
They could start by fixing all those old Chinese and Japanese action/monster flicks dubbed by the same guy talking in false baritone and falsetto.
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expect the same audience as if Tom Hanks were doing the character
And who says Tom Hanks ever has to fade away? It could be a brave new world where your future kids and mine grow up watching the same stars we have today and some from yesterday. I can imagine my grandchildren raving about that new Humphrey Bogart action film. Not so far fetched really.
And for those that wonder about the legal aspects... I think Tom Hanks would not mind getting paid nice royalty fees for the use of his young persona when he is retired in his 80's.
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...are just a few decades away. Who will need an overpaid difficult celebrity when you can resurrect dead ones or invent new ones for movies, sitcoms, etc? Not so far fetched really. Just watch and see.
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If we agree to open all borders and let jobs be filled by the best person for the job (best cost/performance ratio) regardless of country then so be it.
My only point is that there really is no programmer shortage. There is only a cheap programmer shortage.
Allowing jobs to be filled from a global pool does lower the "price" of a programmer because many of these people will work for less just to come to the USA.
With H1B we have essentially opened the border for people filling technical jobs. How would our economy fair if we opened it for all jobs?
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As a manager at a large firm several years ago I had trouble hiring the right talent because the company was not willing to pay the premium that it cost.
Recently I was replaced by a cheaper contractor imported from India.
Does this hurt workers already in the USA? Of course it does.
This is real life. Let's stop towing the "company" line that there is a programmer shortage. There never has been. There has only been a shortage of cheap programmers.
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Russia can and has done it. They arrested a US businessman (this time last year or the year before?) and held him for several weeks. Accused of trying to steal state secrets.
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You should post a video of this on the net when it happens.
Could you imagine the sh*t storm that would result if an american businessman was held in russia for something like that? It would be an inernational incident. On the cover of every newspaper.
And that would be bad how? Bad for who? Bad for anybody? Cover of every newspaper sounds like a good idea.
Ask an older relative if they have ever heard of Dmitry Sklyarov or DMCA. Let me guess, they have not.)
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I do not think the USA is a good place for technology conventions and gatherings anymore. Sure, we have good facilities, transportation, etc. So do some other places around the world.
Is a smart and ambitious national from a location that already has the necessary infrastructure watching these events? Idea sharing needs a place to happen face-to-face.
If you want free speech here, you better copyright and patent it before someone else does. Can I say this?
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If an Adobe official finds himself on Russian soil, he should be arrested for breaking their laws. We may be entering a period where arresting nationals so that you have someone to "trade" is the only way a country can protect its citizens. Sad.
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The power of the Palm approach has been its paucity of features and their simplicity. The folks that "just want to do stuff and not tinker" love this. The power-hungry are left craving more.
The PowerPC deliveres what the geeks want. (Sound, better programmability, faster CPUs, etc.)
A stunt like running PalmOS on the powerPC is mostly an excersize in proving that the more powerful machine can be configured to meet the wants of both user types.
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The biological experiment was not bad, it is just that there were not enough different tests performed. It is interesting to see that nutrients were converted to gas prior to heating and then the conversion stopped after heating.
Of course, there are non-life based ways to create gas through reaction: spill some water onto common Arm&Hammer baking soda and you get CO2 gas.
The result of the nutrient -> gas test just begs for more testing. It does not rule life in or out.
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I think Microsoft has just given themselves a black eye for no good reason here.
According to the settlement with SUN a little while back, M$ is not allowed to update any of their existing Java JVM technology, only to use what they wrote a few years ago. Under these conditions it seems reasonable that they do not want to include these old (incompatible?) DLL files with the new OS.
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Has anyone looked at digital satellite receivers on eBay lately? Notice that the old receivers are more expensive than the new ones. Why? Because the old ones can be easily hacked to get any channel.
The point? When all you can buy is controlled recording devices, the old analog recording devices will be more valuable than they are today. Quality not as good as a straight digital copy? So what. You can bear to watch that analog stuff today; you can watch it tomorrow. And yes, there is always a way to make an analog recording.
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1. Buy a Sony CD recorder.
...OR...
2. Copy a Sony music CD using the Sony recorder.
3. Play the copied CD on your Sony stereo using stock Sony speakers.
4. Sue Sony when their CD blows their system.
Protest by not buying their music CDs anymore and avoid purchasing their music equipment.
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...because it has a built in network connection and a small LCD display? Seems to me I could save money by buying a portable harddrive and taping an existing PDA with network attachment to it.
Sorry, looks like a sleek package and has all the right buzzwords but without full PDA functionality, it seems like it misses the mark -- at least at $599.
People already pay to watch feature length movies without real actors --- Anime, ToyStory, etc. And these are literally cartoonish. The market will grow as the realism increases.
At some point I can imagine there being a small niche market for film "snobs" that insist that real actors make better films. Everyone else will watch computer generated flicks without a second thought.
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Here is my simple rule: Once I find out it is no longer a secret. Sue me.
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To be blunt: Shutting off the internet and then opening the infected attachment is like putting on a condom and then injecting yourself with HIV. It is not about where else the virus goes ... the point is now you have it.
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It sucks, but if confidentiality is breached the sucker that got taken by the virus is liable in the USA if they were negligent. For example, if it was reasonable for the employee to follow company policy and not open attachments and ignored that policy ... they are burned.
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In the case of a EULA, you have purchased the product --- which presumably is of value to you. There is quid-pro-quo in that case.
An uninvited email has no quid-pro-quo.
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Unplug the modem/NIC...
... your machine will still get infected.
No. That is not enough
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If you have received this document in error, please call $NAME at $PHONE and promptly destroy all copies.
That is just a request. It is not the law and is not enforceable through the courts. Be careful what you fax and where you fax it. Same with email, virus facilitated or not.
There is a reason employers, real estate agents, car salesmen, etc, ask you to sign, sign, initial and sign again. If it was as simple as writing a blurb, then all anyone would have to do is "show you" the contract.
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The lawyers out there will know the Latin word (and there is one) but there has to be something received by both parties entering into a contract for that contract to be enforceable in the USA.
You cannot forward a document to a stranger and then legally bind that stranger to behave according to the content of that document. Not in the USA.
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And I deleted it. However, if it had contained some neat company secrets I would not have felt any remorse in sharing it nor do I believe there is any legal obligation for anyone to refrain from doing so.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
One neat application would be to dub foreign language films in the target language using the voice of the original actor even though they do not know the target language. They could start doing that today.
They could start by fixing all those old Chinese and Japanese action/monster flicks dubbed by the same guy talking in false baritone and falsetto.
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expect the same audience as if Tom Hanks were doing the character
... I think Tom Hanks would not mind getting paid nice royalty fees for the use of his young persona when he is retired in his 80's.
And who says Tom Hanks ever has to fade away? It could be a brave new world where your future kids and mine grow up watching the same stars we have today and some from yesterday. I can imagine my grandchildren raving about that new Humphrey Bogart action film. Not so far fetched really.
And for those that wonder about the legal aspects
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...are just a few decades away. Who will need an overpaid difficult celebrity when you can resurrect dead ones or invent new ones for movies, sitcoms, etc? Not so far fetched really. Just watch and see.
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If we agree to open all borders and let jobs be filled by the best person for the job (best cost/performance ratio) regardless of country then so be it.
My only point is that there really is no programmer shortage. There is only a cheap programmer shortage.
Allowing jobs to be filled from a global pool does lower the "price" of a programmer because many of these people will work for less just to come to the USA.
With H1B we have essentially opened the border for people filling technical jobs. How would our economy fair if we opened it for all jobs?
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
As a manager at a large firm several years ago I had trouble hiring the right talent because the company was not willing to pay the premium that it cost.
Recently I was replaced by a cheaper contractor imported from India.
Does this hurt workers already in the USA? Of course it does.
This is real life. Let's stop towing the "company" line that there is a programmer shortage. There never has been. There has only been a shortage of cheap programmers.
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Russia can and has done it. They arrested a US businessman (this time last year or the year before?) and held him for several weeks. Accused of trying to steal state secrets.
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You should post a video of this on the net when it happens.
Could you imagine the sh*t storm that would result if an american businessman was held in russia for something like that? It would be an inernational incident. On the cover of every newspaper.
And that would be bad how? Bad for who? Bad for anybody? Cover of every newspaper sounds like a good idea.
Ask an older relative if they have ever heard of Dmitry Sklyarov or DMCA. Let me guess, they have not.)
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
I do not think the USA is a good place for technology conventions and gatherings anymore. Sure, we have good facilities, transportation, etc. So do some other places around the world.
Is a smart and ambitious national from a location that already has the necessary infrastructure watching these events? Idea sharing needs a place to happen face-to-face.
If you want free speech here, you better copyright and patent it before someone else does. Can I say this?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
If an Adobe official finds himself on Russian soil, he should be arrested for breaking their laws. We may be entering a period where arresting nationals so that you have someone to "trade" is the only way a country can protect its citizens. Sad.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
The power of the Palm approach has been its paucity of features and their simplicity. The folks that "just want to do stuff and not tinker" love this. The power-hungry are left craving more.
The PowerPC deliveres what the geeks want. (Sound, better programmability, faster CPUs, etc.)
A stunt like running PalmOS on the powerPC is mostly an excersize in proving that the more powerful machine can be configured to meet the wants of both user types.
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The biological experiment was not bad, it is just that there were not enough different tests performed. It is interesting to see that nutrients were converted to gas prior to heating and then the conversion stopped after heating.
Of course, there are non-life based ways to create gas through reaction: spill some water onto common Arm&Hammer baking soda and you get CO2 gas.
The result of the nutrient -> gas test just begs for more testing. It does not rule life in or out.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
I think Microsoft has just given themselves a black eye for no good reason here.
According to the settlement with SUN a little while back, M$ is not allowed to update any of their existing Java JVM technology, only to use what they wrote a few years ago. Under these conditions it seems reasonable that they do not want to include these old (incompatible?) DLL files with the new OS.
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Has anyone looked at digital satellite receivers on eBay lately? Notice that the old receivers are more expensive than the new ones. Why? Because the old ones can be easily hacked to get any channel.
The point? When all you can buy is controlled recording devices, the old analog recording devices will be more valuable than they are today. Quality not as good as a straight digital copy? So what. You can bear to watch that analog stuff today; you can watch it tomorrow. And yes, there is always a way to make an analog recording.
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media capable of having fixed thereon information in the form of printed matter (words, symbols and or pictures
Seems to me, everyone downloading an HTML page that then prints it owes this dude a nickle.
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