I have everything I need to have a working Qix arcade machine: I have a Qix board, I have a monitor that works with it, harness, arcade joysticks, power supply, wood, nails, hammer, etc.
And every time I think about actually putting it all together, I realize that I get more enjoyment out of having all the pieces than putting them together, playing for a couple days and getting bored with it. Spock was right, there is a difference between wanting and having.
And this part makes it unclear as to how far lending an original to a friend who makes a copy can go:
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the act described in that subsection is done for the purpose of doing any of the following in relation to any of the things referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) to (c):
(b) distributing, whether or not for the purpose of trade;
Amazing really. They lifted just about everything else except for the disk format. I wonder when they finally dropped call 3 for CP/M compatable OS calls?
Long filenames are nothing new. Is their patent for a kludge onto the original 8.3 filenames that they lifted from CP/M? (Which probably got them from somewhere else, and so on...)
The first FAT file system was developed by Microsoft in 1976. That system was based on the BASIC programming language and allowed programs and data to be stored on a floppy disk.
Hmm, I'll have to check my Byte collection to see when they first offered an extended disk BASIC. This sounds more like they had a hoopy idea in 1976 for "files on a floppy and stuff, pass me another beer.."
I have read the sections, and we had this whole argument last week, and a couple months before that, and.. Let's not do it again today, 'kay?
I will point out that in the early eighties, software copy places did exactly that: Took advantage of a fuzzy area of the law ("evaluation copies") to make a buck. They lasted for a year or two until the software companies put pressure on, and then they were raided and royally busted.
A CD Copee Shoppe might last a year, but I'd keep all the profits off-shore somewhere like the Grand Caymans.
It's debatable. (I certainly will!:^) Not so much legal as not enforced for personal copying. Since they couldn't enforce the law against people trading CDs anyway, they taxed it. (They couldn't really come out and make it legal because that would probably violate international treaties on copyright.)
They purposely left the law with enough loopholes to keep it fuzzy in practice. For example, if I borrow a friend's originals to make my own personal copies, they won't bust me. If I open a "Copee Shoppe" that serves latte and rents computers and just happens to have original CDs that people can make personal copies of while drinking expensive coffee, they'd be on me like a tonne of bricks.
Now the record companies want to increase their tax on all the music they presume we're all stealing -- since we all are presumed to have iPods, they're not getting all the "burn money" they feel they should be getting.
I've always questioned the need for games and apps on a phone.
How else will we overhear things like this on the bus: "Beep-beep-boop, *Ring*! Hello, yeah, I'm on the bus. Listen, I'm going for a high score in Dark Evil Castle of Doom, can I call you back? Yeah, I'll put it in my schedule. Okay, bye! Boop-beep-beep..."
DDoSers have to have a control system. (What good are all those zombies if you can't point them at a target?) Tracking them back from a zombie isn't as easy as just following the wire, but it isn't impossible.
It does take more resources than most anti-spammers have. A little help from law enforcement would be nice -- hopefully before someone uses the same technique to take down something else other than "just that anti-spam stuff".
...continued... I thought there was a provision where the person who put up the claimed infringing material could counter-challenge, and if they do, it lets the ISP off the legal hook?
So shouldn't there be a step where you inform the owner of the site that you're bringing it down? (I think the law allows a few days to respond. As I said, not my law.)
In all that, I didn't notice any step where you notify the person that put up the claimed infringing material. $cientology frequently claims to own material that is in fact owned by the person that put it up.
When you have a loonie-tunes state to the north armed with all the equipment their people's food, education and medical money could buy, yeah, security is a relative thing.
But isn't it a start to lock down the security on the firewall gateway to your naval headquarters network?
A year ago or more, I received a "Meet Russian Vommin" spam -- relayed by an open proxy on the firewall box of the South Korea naval headquarters. It took days to find a working Korean abuse mailbox to report this to.
But that only happens if someone files a counter-claim and it goes to court. Which, as you say, doesn't happen as often as it should.
Whether a copyright case will bankrupt you depends on who you're fighting. If you're dealing with an insane cult that doesn't sue to win but to ruin opponents utterly, spending millions to win pennies, it's a vaid fear.
So long as someone really does represent someone else, they can make any sort of fraudulent DMCA claims?
My country and laws vary, so I didn't study it closely -- but I make darned sure that I don't use an American company for any web hosting. (Maybe if it was a page no one and no kook could possibly ever take offence at.)
Large organizations can fire a DMCA attack by just sending a letter claiming a DMCA violation. This frequently results in ISPs taking down sites or releasing names without any struggle at all. The target of one of these can try a counter-claim, but if the target is an individual, fighting back can be difficult even if the claim is completely bogus like a $cientology avagram.
Since those claims are sent on penalty of perjury it would be nice to see someone lose a metaphorical hand for frivolous use of them.
What do you mean soon? Every computer package in the newspaper seems to include a WiFi router these days. Odds are the things are configured for Magic Box users so they "just work".
You could build an interesting mesh out of all those WiFi boxes. Hopefully for better uses than this idiot.
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And I don't have a god or a dog, but at least there is symmetry.
And every time I think about actually putting it all together, I realize that I get more enjoyment out of having all the pieces than putting them together, playing for a couple days and getting bored with it. Spock was right, there is a difference between wanting and having.
I'm sure that Shakespeare never played go!
Yeah, but he probably believes the mothership will rescue him when this all falls apart. He certainly believes in the nose-candy fairy.
I don't think a Copee Shoppe would work -- I'm betting that they would be busted even before they went bust.
Amazing really. They lifted just about everything else except for the disk format. I wonder when they finally dropped call 3 for CP/M compatable OS calls?
Long filenames are nothing new. Is their patent for a kludge onto the original 8.3 filenames that they lifted from CP/M? (Which probably got them from somewhere else, and so on...)
Like lightning reminds you of the firefly. SCO are record company wannabees.
I will point out that in the early eighties, software copy places did exactly that: Took advantage of a fuzzy area of the law ("evaluation copies") to make a buck. They lasted for a year or two until the software companies put pressure on, and then they were raided and royally busted.
A CD Copee Shoppe might last a year, but I'd keep all the profits off-shore somewhere like the Grand Caymans.
Sadly I have seen listings for Toronto pr0n0 spammers (yes, them).
They purposely left the law with enough loopholes to keep it fuzzy in practice. For example, if I borrow a friend's originals to make my own personal copies, they won't bust me. If I open a "Copee Shoppe" that serves latte and rents computers and just happens to have original CDs that people can make personal copies of while drinking expensive coffee, they'd be on me like a tonne of bricks.
Now the record companies want to increase their tax on all the music they presume we're all stealing -- since we all are presumed to have iPods, they're not getting all the "burn money" they feel they should be getting.
How else will we overhear things like this on the bus: "Beep-beep-boop, *Ring*! Hello, yeah, I'm on the bus. Listen, I'm going for a high score in Dark Evil Castle of Doom, can I call you back? Yeah, I'll put it in my schedule. Okay, bye! Boop-beep-beep..."
Happy happy, joy joy.
It does take more resources than most anti-spammers have. A little help from law enforcement would be nice -- hopefully before someone uses the same technique to take down something else other than "just that anti-spam stuff".
If I install a package that includes a dose of Claria that the EULA didn't mention, their uninstall had better remove it.
So shouldn't there be a step where you inform the owner of the site that you're bringing it down? (I think the law allows a few days to respond. As I said, not my law.)
In all that, I didn't notice any step where you notify the person that put up the claimed infringing material. $cientology frequently claims to own material that is in fact owned by the person that put it up.
Have to run.
But isn't it a start to lock down the security on the firewall gateway to your naval headquarters network?
Hopefully they've improved things since then.
But that only happens if someone files a counter-claim and it goes to court. Which, as you say, doesn't happen as often as it should.
Whether a copyright case will bankrupt you depends on who you're fighting. If you're dealing with an insane cult that doesn't sue to win but to ruin opponents utterly, spending millions to win pennies, it's a vaid fear.
My country and laws vary, so I didn't study it closely -- but I make darned sure that I don't use an American company for any web hosting. (Maybe if it was a page no one and no kook could possibly ever take offence at.)
Since those claims are sent on penalty of perjury it would be nice to see someone lose a metaphorical hand for frivolous use of them.
You could build an interesting mesh out of all those WiFi boxes. Hopefully for better uses than this idiot.
See my comment on the comment on the one above the parent. Nine minutes or so, maybe he types slow?