Why? Actors feel free to express their ideas on politics, some corporations do not hesitate to sponsor or take position for a given cause. Why should FREEsoftware refrain from doing so? It's even distributed under GPL v2 which means they are not even forbidding those with whom they disagree to use it.
Steal? How can it be stealing, given that the author allowed them to download the album for 0. Stating this, also is a broad generalisation : this proportion could be split up in many categories (thieves, curious about the music which did not like it afterall, curious about the process itself, etc...)
It would indeed, be interesting to see the account per country.
From what I read, there are 2 things: - The judge ruled that, despite its aspect, Wikipedia, is more like service provider than a newspaper or editor work (i.e. internet users publish their stuff on it, not the Wikimedia foundation) - The French law requires that illegal material must be formally notified to the provider by register letter.
Apparently the plaintiffs did notify Wikimedia but not in the correct form.
So, for what I understand both are true Wikimedia cannot be held responsible for what others publish. The can be if they have been informed published work is illegal and have not taken actions to remove it. It would then be the plaintiff's work to: - prove to material is illegal in some way (this where the making a better case of comes in) - prove that Wikimedia knew the work was illegal.
Agreed, but that was not my point. Politicians justify placing the cameras as a prevention method, as such this totally failed. Besides, I was under the impression that current terror groups were more organised in cells, so there is a limit on how high up the net you can go. So good, we've discovered an prosecuted a network which was mainly planned to self destruct. The cameras tell us nothing about the others, so I hope intelligence services are relying on other mean to prevent blood sheds.
>> Technology has made it much too difficult--the real deterrence is the combination of camera >> and the willingness to prosecute.... >> Once the technology is deemed good enough, it will be deployed to troubled areas like Baghdad.
Interesting. Would you care to explain how to prosecute a suicide bomber?
>> Now the terrorists have won! As a matter of fact, they have. It is not about destroying a country, or individuals, it is a about destroying a lifestyle and beliefs (.i.e democracy) AFAIK they have won.
Another interesting point would be : how many were solved? how many were solved because of the monitoring? how were solved partly thanks to monitoring?
The PM of France might just have a few things on his plate that he considers more important. This may be true, given that our PM is up shit creek with no paddle as he is implied in a major scandal involving weapon trading, false document and intra government back stabbing. But OTOH all this DRM issue is being discussed in both parliaments at this moment, and to be fair, this was indeed the correct timing. Furthermore, at the moment the french government is making itself very unpopular by pushing laws without leaving much space for a proper democratic discussion.
It's probably misrepresented in Iraq too, on the other hand we '''only''' have (so far) 2 accidental deaths which set it off...
Well accidental... The 2 youth who died actually died of electrocution in a after hiding from the police in a electrical sub-station... either that or the French police had trouble to RTFM of their new taser guns!
ROTFWL, this is the funniest thing I ever read on/.! Here I am, in France, sitting next to the window enjoying a cool november sun, next to one of the *worst* places in my french town. No cars burning, no burnt cars, no mobs looting the local stores...
I was in Paris several days this week and mainly nothing unusual is happening there.
Remember the riots in L.A. in the US some time ago? Did it really qualify as a revolution? I did not say so then, and given that nothing has changed I will not say so now. Just because there are a few riots in a few suburbs, does not mean a revolution is even starting.
You have to remember to downsize the information news companies give you, they're only out to sell content.
Besides, I would add that an armed anarchist revolution has never been an immediate solution.
Teeth or not, to take this comparison further, had humans been contemporary to those chickens, chances are high we would would have looked like giant worms.
As a matter of fact, I have often wondered about this:
Are Sci-Fi writer visionaries or are they those that inspire scientists?
Take Jules Verne for example, his stories sent people to the moon, featured televisions, subs etc... did he foresee what was to come, or did he set a goal for all those future scientist who read his books when they were young?
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Why?
Actors feel free to express their ideas on politics, some corporations do not hesitate to sponsor or take position for a given cause.
Why should FREEsoftware refrain from doing so?
It's even distributed under GPL v2 which means they are not even forbidding those with whom they disagree to use it.
Yes, This explains it all. Thanks a lot.
I just love this when someone provides a graph without even a detailed scale!
... is getting the precogs to figure this out *before* you actually get to the airport!
Steal? How can it be stealing, given that the author allowed them to download the album for 0.
Stating this, also is a broad generalisation : this proportion could be split up in many categories (thieves, curious about the music which did not like it afterall, curious about the process itself, etc...)
It would indeed, be interesting to see the account per country.
From what I read, there are 2 things:
- The judge ruled that, despite its aspect, Wikipedia, is more like service provider than a newspaper or editor work (i.e. internet users publish their stuff on it, not the Wikimedia foundation)
- The French law requires that illegal material must be formally notified to the provider by register letter.
Apparently the plaintiffs did notify Wikimedia but not in the correct form.
So, for what I understand both are true Wikimedia cannot be held responsible for what others publish. The can be if they have been informed published work is illegal and have not taken actions to remove it. It would then be the plaintiff's work to:
- prove to material is illegal in some way (this where the making a better case of comes in)
- prove that Wikimedia knew the work was illegal.
Agreed, but that was not my point. Politicians justify placing the cameras as a prevention method, as such this totally failed.
Besides, I was under the impression that current terror groups were more organised in cells, so there is a limit on how high up the net you can go. So good, we've discovered an prosecuted a network which was mainly planned to self destruct.
The cameras tell us nothing about the others, so I hope intelligence services are relying on other mean to prevent blood sheds.
>> Technology has made it much too difficult--the real deterrence is the combination of camera ...
>> and the willingness to prosecute.
>> Once the technology is deemed good enough, it will be deployed to troubled areas like Baghdad.
Interesting. Would you care to explain how to prosecute a suicide bomber?
Insteresting... I thought it was to demonstrate their almightiness ?
I should be more careful to these details, it's bad for my Karma.
>> Now the terrorists have won!
As a matter of fact, they have. It is not about destroying a country, or individuals, it is a about destroying a lifestyle and beliefs (.i.e democracy) AFAIK they have won.
Another interesting point would be : how many were solved? how many were solved because of the monitoring? how were solved partly thanks to monitoring?
WHO are "they"???? And why would "they" want to see the laptop?
Simpler: Don't install Google Software...
The PM of France might just have a few things on his plate that he considers more important.
This may be true, given that our PM is up shit creek with no paddle as he is implied in a major scandal involving weapon trading, false document and intra government back stabbing.
But OTOH all this DRM issue is being discussed in both parliaments at this moment, and to be fair, this was indeed the correct timing. Furthermore, at the moment the french government is making itself very unpopular by pushing laws without leaving much space for a proper democratic discussion.
Would that not be "whose"?
The article was posted @8.08, parent comment @8.18 and noone made this joke before! How can it have been modded "redundant"?
Mmmm... So I understand there is NO CONSPIRACY going on on /.!
>> 1. "the chimps were able to figure out and eliminate the redundant steps"
>> 2. "Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
See : chimps will never write Shakespeare, too many redundancies.
I'm saying it's less worse (suttle diffrence ;-) )
It's probably misrepresented in Iraq too, on the other hand we '''only''' have (so far) 2 accidental deaths which set it off...
Well accidental... The 2 youth who died actually died of electrocution in a after hiding from the police in a electrical sub-station... either that or the French police had trouble to RTFM of their new taser guns!
ROTFWL, this is the funniest thing I ever read on /.!
Here I am, in France, sitting next to the window enjoying a cool november sun, next to one of the *worst* places in my french town. No cars burning, no burnt cars, no mobs looting the local stores...
I was in Paris several days this week and mainly nothing unusual is happening there.
Remember the riots in L.A. in the US some time ago? Did it really qualify as a revolution? I did not say so then, and given that nothing has changed I will not say so now.
Just because there are a few riots in a few suburbs, does not mean a revolution is even starting.
You have to remember to downsize the information news companies give you, they're only out to sell content.
Besides, I would add that an armed anarchist revolution has never been an immediate solution.
This is Shared Source NOT free software.
Unleash the trolls!
Teeth or not, to take this comparison further, had humans been contemporary to those chickens, chances are high we would would have looked like giant worms.
As a matter of fact, I have often wondered about this:
Are Sci-Fi writer visionaries or are they those that inspire scientists?
Take Jules Verne for example, his stories sent people to the moon, featured televisions, subs etc... did he foresee what was to come, or did he set a goal for all those future scientist who read his books when they were young?