No, because we're talking about the Supreme Court and Dred Scott was a Supreme Court decision. It's a relevant example of where the Supreme Court made a bad decision.
show the courts that the actions of big media are hitting shareholders in the pocket book and we'll get the shorter terms we want!
Are you really that dense? Courts decide on matters of law, not philosophy. There's no law that says corporations have to make their shareholders money. That's why investment is risky.
Actually, if you're going to argue that point, you have to quit using notion of a "partial sociopath". Sociopath is someone whose empathy fails to reach a certain minimum threshold. You can't be "a little bit sociopathic". You either meet the criteria, or you do not. Stick to "empathy" or a situational lack thereof.
If you're talking about entities that don't understand genetics and the ways evolution "encourages" individuals to instinctively protect and aid their close genetic relatives, you could hardly call it "enlightened self interest" either.
No, he means you can reach through the computer and digitize a pair of pants on the shelf at the Gap store, pull the bits through the wire to your house, and reassemble those pants in your home. Now you have a pair of pants and the Gap has to buy a replacement! HAha!
Try taking that beloved Braveheart disc with you on vacation to India, and watch it on a local Blu-Ray player. Oh crap, you're in region C with a region A disc!
No, he means individual bushes, as in "there's that gnarled creosote growing right next to a chunk of sandstone; that's where I turn left". Yes, that is how you remember things in the real world backcountry.
Like the GPL says, they need to supply everything necessary to compile, install, and run the software, except for perhaps the utility you'd use to burn the EPROM. The media they choose to distribute it on is irrelevant. It could be chiseled into stone tablets.
But this is largely irrelevant, as nobody with half a brain uses ROM firmware. Flash allows you to correct firmware errors later.
I do not accept that one side gets to unilaterally declare that their definition is the only valid one.
In matters of law one usually defers to the law. In the case of copyright infringement, it's completely and unambiguously not theft. It's copyright infringement. It has its own section in the US Code.
You can pretend that your weasel word definition of theft has validity, but it doesn't have validity in the only place that matters.
Theft of labor/services doesn't apply. When a duplicate is made of a movie, no one associated with the film was made to do any additional unpaid work. Even theft of services in the case of cable TV is premised upon the cable network having finite capacity and each additional user consumes a fraction of that capacity.
Copyright infringement is copyright infringement. It has no relation to the legal concept of "theft". None. It is handled by its own section of the US Code.
Sounds to me like someone doesn't know what they are talking about. 1) No Mac shipped since the switch to Intel processors has come with a one button mouse.
You're missing the point, actually. The issue is that no version of Mac OS has supported a "secondary click" mouse event. The multi-button Mac mice do indeed have additional buttons, but their function is ill-defined. The "right click for context menu" function in the UI is what's at issue. Mac OS sometimes supports a work-alike function under the Ctrl-Click event, but again, it's not standard.
"Copy" isn't as well defined as it used to be, back in the days when no one but large publishing firms (or organized crime) could afford the equipment necessary to make duplicates. In the digital age, what constitutes a copy? Is a car DVD player that buffers 15 seconds of video making a copy? How about it it buffers a minute? All but the last minute? The whole thing, but only until you remove the disc? How do time shifting and format shifting fit in to this? There's a huge gray chasm that previously didn't exist that's opened between a legitimate copy and a counterfeit sold in Hong Kong. Merely parroting 17 USC back to us doesn't answer the question.
No, it's just paranoid bullshit from a little mamas boy who can't stand the thought that really terrible things can happen at the hands of a small, insignificant group of people. He has to make up stories that reassure him that even though it's a bunch of evil masterminds in control, at least someone is in control.
Silca, later Ilco, used to make a whole line of anodized hard aluminum keys, for all sorts of applications, in various colors. For whatever reason, the bastards quit making them. I suspect some ass at Ilco axed them after buying Silca. They were the best keys ever. Color coded, lightweight, and actually stronger than standard brass keys. I have only a handful of blanks left.
I have a "backup" set like that, only instead of a ring, I have them stacked and in a piece of U-shaped aluminum channel with a bolt through the holes. It's basically like a "key pocketknife". Very convenient.
Seriously? That crap is for white trash idiots. I don't know where people got the idea that it's actually good for anything. Real nerds with any engineering chops have 3-5 different types of tape and can select the appropriate tape for the job. The garbage they sell as "duck/duct tape" is good for nothing. NOTHING!
I am a locksmith, and I have one key that fits my house.... and my mother's house... and my brother's house... and my father's house... and two of my friends' houses. Security is simply a matter of key control. There seems to be a common delusion that having more locks is more secure. Really, if someone is going to break into your house, they're going to break in to your house. People who steal using keys are nearly always people who have been given the key by the occupant. Having a bunch of different keys won't solve that.
For work I have my work key ring in the truck, and that gets me into the lock shop. For home all I have is a ring with my house key, my HID prox fob,and my truck key (which also fits my other car--- a benefit of being a locksmith).
...and if you think you have a lot of keys to deal with, you should see what *I* have to deal with. I have them by the thousands, and it's a constant struggle to keep them organized.
The way I read it the problem was getting the DVDs picked up.
You read it wrong. I quote the OP:
"my mail man used to break an awful lot of DVDs trying to shove them in my mailbox and then try to close it"
See, the real problem is that many mailboxes were designed to accept standard US Mail envelopes. The alternative to putting things in the mailbox it to (in some cases) leave them in the open tray below the mailbox bank or other exposed area where oversized packages are left, or to leave them at the recipient's door; and the latter is frequently beyond the capacity of the postal worker, as there is limited time to complete the route. Either way, the CD/DVD is exposed to anyone wandering by and subject to theft. I know that GameFly had a very big problem with this early on, and that as a result the USPS urged its carriers to try not to leave Netflix/GameFly type deliveries in the open. In the case of the OP, the carrier is in an impossible situation: cram it in the undersized mailbox to possibly warp or break, or leave it out to be stolen.
Contain and exhaust your heated air, vent it up outside
As others have noted, you are then cooling a much larger space. I don't know that one is significantly better than the other. The cynic in me says that companies that like their employees will have the isolated space be the one that most resembles the predominant environmental extreme (i.e. warm isolated in hot climates), and companies that like their employees to suffer do the opposite (i.e. pipe cold air to the backs of the racks, making the room 85degF in July.
Who calls a laptop a "notebook"? It's not even book shaped. Manufacturers (particularly Apple) seem to like the term, but I never hear actual people call them that.
They can't ban you from driving, they can only revoke your license. You can drive all you like on private property. My boss' brother, a truck driver, lost his license for a DUI and now drives a truck for a shipping company: moving trailers around on private property at their distribution hub.
Exclusion from politics
That's simply part of being convicted of a felony, not part of a judge's sentence.
or being a company director (and that's just for certain civil offences)?
As part of a civil judgement? Never heard of that happening. Citation?
Publicans can lose their licences.
Licensed businesses are the only case that even approaches this, and nothing actually bars one from being a bartender or managing a pub under someone else's license.
It doesn't even have to be the government that does it.
If it's not the government, then it's not a judge sentencing, so the point is moot.
Doctors, dentists, lawyers, veterinarians, there are umpteen professions you can get banned from.
A judge still can't have a lawyer disbarred as a random punishment unrelated to the terms of licensure. Ditto the others.
Why should IT be any different?
Maybe it should, but until there's a professional organization that sets standards and the various states require membership in that organization in order to work in that field, under penalty of law, then it is different.
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No, because we're talking about the Supreme Court and Dred Scott was a Supreme Court decision. It's a relevant example of where the Supreme Court made a bad decision.
show the courts that the actions of big media are hitting shareholders in the pocket book and we'll get the shorter terms we want!
Are you really that dense? Courts decide on matters of law, not philosophy. There's no law that says corporations have to make their shareholders money. That's why investment is risky.
No, we are not all sociopaths to a degree
Yes we are.
Actually, if you're going to argue that point, you have to quit using notion of a "partial sociopath". Sociopath is someone whose empathy fails to reach a certain minimum threshold. You can't be "a little bit sociopathic". You either meet the criteria, or you do not. Stick to "empathy" or a situational lack thereof.
If you're talking about entities that don't understand genetics and the ways evolution "encourages" individuals to instinctively protect and aid their close genetic relatives, you could hardly call it "enlightened self interest" either.
No, he means you can reach through the computer and digitize a pair of pants on the shelf at the Gap store, pull the bits through the wire to your house, and reassemble those pants in your home. Now you have a pair of pants and the Gap has to buy a replacement! HAha!
Try taking that beloved Braveheart disc with you on vacation to India, and watch it on a local Blu-Ray player. Oh crap, you're in region C with a region A disc!
That's part of what's wrong with DRM.
No, he means individual bushes, as in "there's that gnarled creosote growing right next to a chunk of sandstone; that's where I turn left". Yes, that is how you remember things in the real world backcountry.
Like the GPL says, they need to supply everything necessary to compile, install, and run the software, except for perhaps the utility you'd use to burn the EPROM. The media they choose to distribute it on is irrelevant. It could be chiseled into stone tablets.
But this is largely irrelevant, as nobody with half a brain uses ROM firmware. Flash allows you to correct firmware errors later.
No, you're supposed to throw a bunch of airplane parts in a hangar and have a hurricane assemble them into a 747.
That's how creationists think evolution works, anyway.
Yes, we know the technical difference they use to determine illegal vs legal. His point was about how the end result was essentially the same thing.
Where are so many people on Slashdot so insistent on being obtuse?
This fails only for movies that haven't been made available on DVD, such as Song of the South.
...or movies that Netflix doesn't have. There are a few. Most of them older back-catalog type items.
I do not accept that one side gets to unilaterally declare that their definition is the only valid one.
In matters of law one usually defers to the law. In the case of copyright infringement, it's completely and unambiguously not theft. It's copyright infringement. It has its own section in the US Code.
You can pretend that your weasel word definition of theft has validity, but it doesn't have validity in the only place that matters.
Theft of labor/services doesn't apply. When a duplicate is made of a movie, no one associated with the film was made to do any additional unpaid work. Even theft of services in the case of cable TV is premised upon the cable network having finite capacity and each additional user consumes a fraction of that capacity.
Copyright infringement is copyright infringement. It has no relation to the legal concept of "theft". None. It is handled by its own section of the US Code.
Sounds to me like someone doesn't know what they are talking about. 1) No Mac shipped since the switch to Intel processors has come with a one button mouse.
You're missing the point, actually. The issue is that no version of Mac OS has supported a "secondary click" mouse event. The multi-button Mac mice do indeed have additional buttons, but their function is ill-defined. The "right click for context menu" function in the UI is what's at issue. Mac OS sometimes supports a work-alike function under the Ctrl-Click event, but again, it's not standard.
couldn't be bothered to scroll down to the picture of a tech installing several in a rack, eh?
but not the right to make more copies.
"Copy" isn't as well defined as it used to be, back in the days when no one but large publishing firms (or organized crime) could afford the equipment necessary to make duplicates. In the digital age, what constitutes a copy? Is a car DVD player that buffers 15 seconds of video making a copy? How about it it buffers a minute? All but the last minute? The whole thing, but only until you remove the disc? How do time shifting and format shifting fit in to this? There's a huge gray chasm that previously didn't exist that's opened between a legitimate copy and a counterfeit sold in Hong Kong. Merely parroting 17 USC back to us doesn't answer the question.
No, it's just paranoid bullshit from a little mamas boy who can't stand the thought that really terrible things can happen at the hands of a small, insignificant group of people. He has to make up stories that reassure him that even though it's a bunch of evil masterminds in control, at least someone is in control.
Silca, later Ilco, used to make a whole line of anodized hard aluminum keys, for all sorts of applications, in various colors. For whatever reason, the bastards quit making them. I suspect some ass at Ilco axed them after buying Silca. They were the best keys ever. Color coded, lightweight, and actually stronger than standard brass keys. I have only a handful of blanks left.
I have a "backup" set like that, only instead of a ring, I have them stacked and in a piece of U-shaped aluminum channel with a bolt through the holes. It's basically like a "key pocketknife". Very convenient.
Seriously? That crap is for white trash idiots. I don't know where people got the idea that it's actually good for anything. Real nerds with any engineering chops have 3-5 different types of tape and can select the appropriate tape for the job. The garbage they sell as "duck/duct tape" is good for nothing. NOTHING!
It's been suggested that it's "less secure"
I am a locksmith, and I have one key that fits my house.... and my mother's house... and my brother's house... and my father's house... and two of my friends' houses. Security is simply a matter of key control. There seems to be a common delusion that having more locks is more secure. Really, if someone is going to break into your house, they're going to break in to your house. People who steal using keys are nearly always people who have been given the key by the occupant. Having a bunch of different keys won't solve that.
...and if you think you have a lot of keys to deal with, you should see what *I* have to deal with. I have them by the thousands, and it's a constant struggle to keep them organized.
For work I have my work key ring in the truck, and that gets me into the lock shop. For home all I have is a ring with my house key, my HID prox fob,and my truck key (which also fits my other car--- a benefit of being a locksmith).
The way I read it the problem was getting the DVDs picked up.
You read it wrong. I quote the OP:
"my mail man used to break an awful lot of DVDs trying to shove them in my mailbox and then try to close it"
See, the real problem is that many mailboxes were designed to accept standard US Mail envelopes. The alternative to putting things in the mailbox it to (in some cases) leave them in the open tray below the mailbox bank or other exposed area where oversized packages are left, or to leave them at the recipient's door; and the latter is frequently beyond the capacity of the postal worker, as there is limited time to complete the route. Either way, the CD/DVD is exposed to anyone wandering by and subject to theft. I know that GameFly had a very big problem with this early on, and that as a result the USPS urged its carriers to try not to leave Netflix/GameFly type deliveries in the open. In the case of the OP, the carrier is in an impossible situation: cram it in the undersized mailbox to possibly warp or break, or leave it out to be stolen.
Contain and exhaust your heated air, vent it up outside
As others have noted, you are then cooling a much larger space. I don't know that one is significantly better than the other. The cynic in me says that companies that like their employees will have the isolated space be the one that most resembles the predominant environmental extreme (i.e. warm isolated in hot climates), and companies that like their employees to suffer do the opposite (i.e. pipe cold air to the backs of the racks, making the room 85degF in July.
My notebook IS a notebook!
Who calls a laptop a "notebook"? It's not even book shaped. Manufacturers (particularly Apple) seem to like the term, but I never hear actual people call them that.
Driving bans for professional drivers anyone?
They can't ban you from driving, they can only revoke your license. You can drive all you like on private property. My boss' brother, a truck driver, lost his license for a DUI and now drives a truck for a shipping company: moving trailers around on private property at their distribution hub.
Exclusion from politics
That's simply part of being convicted of a felony, not part of a judge's sentence.
or being a company director (and that's just for certain civil offences)?
As part of a civil judgement? Never heard of that happening. Citation?
Publicans can lose their licences.
Licensed businesses are the only case that even approaches this, and nothing actually bars one from being a bartender or managing a pub under someone else's license.
It doesn't even have to be the government that does it.
If it's not the government, then it's not a judge sentencing, so the point is moot.
Doctors, dentists, lawyers, veterinarians, there are umpteen professions you can get banned from.
A judge still can't have a lawyer disbarred as a random punishment unrelated to the terms of licensure. Ditto the others.
Why should IT be any different?
Maybe it should, but until there's a professional organization that sets standards and the various states require membership in that organization in order to work in that field, under penalty of law, then it is different.