Do you want to read erotic messages your parents send to each other?
Are you mature enough to understand that every person has a sexual side and recognize the beauty of such relationships? If so, then stumbling upon such correspondences can pose no permanent harm to you. You may even discover something that gives you insight into the inner workings of a dearly departed. Something that they had not the strength to disclose to you in life, or perhaps that they did not think worth mentioning.
Those whom we truly love we will understand and accept for who they are/were. Learning about their private side can only help us to celebrate their life.
I do understand the concern over the effect that such matters may have over the living (affairs, partners in crime, etc...), however criminal matters should likely be resolved anyway - regardless of one's relationship status of the criminal - and personal matters such as an affair can be treated delicately at the discretion of the loved ones who are discovering them.
...why not just use already legal p2p services to swap torrents, and introduce a new ability to bit torrent to only allow transfers between trusted users? A file sharing community set up similar to the facebook, or friendster, or something, where you only get an invite by an already trusted member. Is there some way of excluding undesirables from a network, while still allowing enough leeway to implement filesharing at a decent scale?
What I'm curious about is if they can sue you for sharing half a movie.
Just consider that it is within fair use to distribute brief quotes and excerpts. Not that I would expect that half of the movie would count as such, but if there were a system whereby 100 users were each responsible for 1 minute of a movie and some index told them where to get each minute then I'm not sure that there is anything illegal being done by the uploaders, nor is it clear that the downloader is doing anything illegal. If bit-torrent can faciliate this sort of defense then I'm sure that bigbiz will have a much harder time attacking it.
Having everything from power management, wireless, long battery life, and application compatibility just working is such a nice way to live:)
And don't forget that Apple's machines are almost dead silent. The fans on my inspiron could have matched wits with a 747. I was sitting in class the other day with my iBook and the room was so silent I was afraid that the clicking of a hard drive or the hum of a fan might disturb someone, but there was not a sound from my beloved (geek metaphor). The hardware is just better.
Of course, the repayment CDs would be chosen by the defendants, just like the RIAA got to do.
Exactly, and they would be blank CD-R's from my mom and pop CD-R shop that I charge $1000/piece for. No I never said I actually had one customer who ever bought a CD-R for such, but I value them at $1000 and I'll give a spindle of 100 of said item for settlement, and I'll even throw the spindle in for free (a $5000 value).
The problem is not the software patents, per se, but rather the length of time for which they endure. In an industry that changes dramatically from year to year with new technologies relying on the acceptance of older technologies, it would seem that keeping techniques and algorithms locked down for 17 years does more to hinder new advancements than to help.
A more reasonable term should be adopted for software patents say more on the order of 2 or 3 years. A lot of money can be made in that time frame giving enough insentive to develop without taking too much from the people whom these patents affect.
Good timing being an election year. I'm sure they could bribe^h^h^h^h^h lobby for an amendment to make any cheating (or any enabling of cheating such as talking about cheating, linking to sites about cheating, even whispering the word cheating in a low breath) punishable brutal whipping.
I hope the patent re-examination fee gets refunded if the claim is found to be legitimate. I mean, why should we have to pay for the USPTO's mistakes? That would be some racket!
Ok, wait just a second, could this guy/girl be any more contradictory? Piracy isn't as bad as they make it out to be, but he can find a crack in half a second ? Whew, sure sounds like piracy is pretty damn rampant and easy to come by to me.
Not all persons using cracks are pirating games. There are legitimate uses for backups and cracks (not wanting to search for a CD everytime I want to play a game being a MAJOR factor). It is an unavoidable fact that people will copy games.
Instead of trying to curb piracy by introducing new and irritating (and often crippling) DRM, the focus should be put into making a game worth the investment. The price should be just right so that it is actually easier to go to the store and buy a copy than to wait for a friend to burn it for you, or spend the time to download it, etc... And let us not forget that many people who pirate would never have purchased the game anyway - they just copied it because it was available and worth a try, not because they were rich and selfish.
Nope, all they have to do is what microsoft et al are doing now - (at least for PC games) - and generate a hardware specific ID tag and an authorization system. Almost everyone who has a pc has an internet connection so it would seem be feasible.
Plagirism is also copyright violation, so he's likely to get laughed out of court just on that basis.
Not necessarily, there are places that do in fact sell papers that come with the rights to redistribute. There are works in the public domain (Shakespeare etc..) that you can republish without copyright infringement. And paraphrasing without citing the source, while not illegal, is still plagirism.
...make sure it makes use of an apt repository. For a newbie or anyone for that matter, there is nothing easier than typing "apt-get install INSERT_PACKAGE_NAME_HERE" when you need a certain piece of software. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Fedora has an rpm based apt solution, but I still think that debian is the best distro, once you figure out how to install it with the options you want.
My advice, start out with Mandrake, and after you screw it up or it screws you up, switch over to debian - with a little patience you will never want to use anything else.
I don't understand how people claim to get 100's of spam messages per day. The most I've ever gotten, I think was perhaps 10, which is a rarity. In fact, most of the email I get is from companies that I actually agreed to them sending me email. Now I've had an email address since the early 90's. I've even subscribed to a few porn sites in the past and posted my address on numerous usenet posts. Nowadays I'm nostly careful, but the fact still remains that spam has never been a problem for me. Are there other people like me out there? And if you do get plagued by spam, do you know what triggered it?
There is a big difference between forcing beliefs on someone and engaging in an intellectual conversation between a willing party. If you are making your friends uncomfortable by discussing something, then their minds are not really open to the topic to begin with. And preaching is another matter entirely. I have never met a priest or preacher that was willing to face the possibility that he was wrong about his beliefs - blind faith is the archnemesis of reason and the bane of intellectual discourse.
You hear me now only because you looked in the right place at the right time. I'm afraid I don't know how to fix that.
It's hard to speak to those who are unwilling to listen and it is even harder to change the minds of those who have not opened them. People with closed minds usually are not rational, and their belief structure is generally formed either early in life vis-a-vis dogmatic inheritance or by popular opinion because they are too weak to think for themselves. If you want more people to hear what you have to say (and are willing to face the possibility that you are wrong in your views, in return) then start with those to whom you are closest: friends, family, etc... Change their minds, and the cycle will continue and spread like a virus of rationality. One doesn't need to be a political activist with a cause to may a change in the world.
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Your Rights On Line vs. Online - haha I get it!
Are you mature enough to understand that every person has a sexual side and recognize the beauty of such relationships? If so, then stumbling upon such correspondences can pose no permanent harm to you. You may even discover something that gives you insight into the inner workings of a dearly departed. Something that they had not the strength to disclose to you in life, or perhaps that they did not think worth mentioning.
Those whom we truly love we will understand and accept for who they are/were. Learning about their private side can only help us to celebrate their life.
I do understand the concern over the effect that such matters may have over the living (affairs, partners in crime, etc...), however criminal matters should likely be resolved anyway - regardless of one's relationship status of the criminal - and personal matters such as an affair can be treated delicately at the discretion of the loved ones who are discovering them.
They do. It's called Never Winter Nights.... (It sounds similar anyway....)
...why not just use already legal p2p services to swap torrents, and introduce a new ability to bit torrent to only allow transfers between trusted users? A file sharing community set up similar to the facebook, or friendster, or something, where you only get an invite by an already trusted member. Is there some way of excluding undesirables from a network, while still allowing enough leeway to implement filesharing at a decent scale?
Wow, that must have been the best reply ever. Is it copyrighted, or may I use it in the future?
It does after about 3.23 iterations...
Just consider that it is within fair use to distribute brief quotes and excerpts. Not that I would expect that half of the movie would count as such, but if there were a system whereby 100 users were each responsible for 1 minute of a movie and some index told them where to get each minute then I'm not sure that there is anything illegal being done by the uploaders, nor is it clear that the downloader is doing anything illegal. If bit-torrent can faciliate this sort of defense then I'm sure that bigbiz will have a much harder time attacking it.
And don't forget that Apple's machines are almost dead silent. The fans on my inspiron could have matched wits with a 747. I was sitting in class the other day with my iBook and the room was so silent I was afraid that the clicking of a hard drive or the hum of a fan might disturb someone, but there was not a sound from my beloved (geek metaphor). The hardware is just better.
That's funny, I was thinking of suggesting 'animal', 'vegetable', 'mineral', etc...
Or perhaps using the 'Kingdom', 'Phylum', 'Class', etc... schema.
... I am thinking of setting up a webcam of my roommates and was seeking the legal opinion of non-lawyers.
Yeah, but WGF could be "Who Gives a Fuck?"
Of course, the repayment CDs would be chosen by the defendants, just like the RIAA got to do.
Exactly, and they would be blank CD-R's from my mom and pop CD-R shop that I charge $1000/piece for. No I never said I actually had one customer who ever bought a CD-R for such, but I value them at $1000 and I'll give a spindle of 100 of said item for settlement, and I'll even throw the spindle in for free (a $5000 value).
Didn't they already do that with the helix project?
A more reasonable term should be adopted for software patents say more on the order of 2 or 3 years. A lot of money can be made in that time frame giving enough insentive to develop without taking too much from the people whom these patents affect.
They tried that already, remember Clinton?
I hope the patent re-examination fee gets refunded if the claim is found to be legitimate. I mean, why should we have to pay for the USPTO's mistakes? That would be some racket!
Not all persons using cracks are pirating games. There are legitimate uses for backups and cracks (not wanting to search for a CD everytime I want to play a game being a MAJOR factor). It is an unavoidable fact that people will copy games.
Instead of trying to curb piracy by introducing new and irritating (and often crippling) DRM, the focus should be put into making a game worth the investment. The price should be just right so that it is actually easier to go to the store and buy a copy than to wait for a friend to burn it for you, or spend the time to download it, etc... And let us not forget that many people who pirate would never have purchased the game anyway - they just copied it because it was available and worth a try, not because they were rich and selfish.
Nope, all they have to do is what microsoft et al are doing now - (at least for PC games) - and generate a hardware specific ID tag and an authorization system. Almost everyone who has a pc has an internet connection so it would seem be feasible.
Not necessarily, there are places that do in fact sell papers that come with the rights to redistribute. There are works in the public domain (Shakespeare etc..) that you can republish without copyright infringement. And paraphrasing without citing the source, while not illegal, is still plagirism.
Sell it for $450,000.
Wait a minute, that sounds like the recommended system requirements for Longhorn!
My advice, start out with Mandrake, and after you screw it up or it screws you up, switch over to debian - with a little patience you will never want to use anything else.
I don't understand how people claim to get 100's of spam messages per day. The most I've ever gotten, I think was perhaps 10, which is a rarity. In fact, most of the email I get is from companies that I actually agreed to them sending me email. Now I've had an email address since the early 90's. I've even subscribed to a few porn sites in the past and posted my address on numerous usenet posts. Nowadays I'm nostly careful, but the fact still remains that spam has never been a problem for me. Are there other people like me out there? And if you do get plagued by spam, do you know what triggered it?
There is a big difference between forcing beliefs on someone and engaging in an intellectual conversation between a willing party. If you are making your friends uncomfortable by discussing something, then their minds are not really open to the topic to begin with. And preaching is another matter entirely. I have never met a priest or preacher that was willing to face the possibility that he was wrong about his beliefs - blind faith is the archnemesis of reason and the bane of intellectual discourse.
It's hard to speak to those who are unwilling to listen and it is even harder to change the minds of those who have not opened them. People with closed minds usually are not rational, and their belief structure is generally formed either early in life vis-a-vis dogmatic inheritance or by popular opinion because they are too weak to think for themselves. If you want more people to hear what you have to say (and are willing to face the possibility that you are wrong in your views, in return) then start with those to whom you are closest: friends, family, etc... Change their minds, and the cycle will continue and spread like a virus of rationality. One doesn't need to be a political activist with a cause to may a change in the world.