Dmitry was involved with a for-sale product that defeated e-book copyright restrictions, which clearly falls under the jurisdiction of the DMCA.
But what was he arrested for? He wasn't selling his product, he was giving a talk about his product. A product that was not illegal where he lives.
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I've done a whoooole lot of screen-scraping working for a company that shall remain nameless:) and I've generally always used "lynx - -source" or curl to download the file and parse/grep it manually.
I too have done this for a long time, but not for any company. Let's just say it is useful for increasing the size of my collection of, oh, shall we say widgets.:-)
Really, it may be a little time consuming to do it manually, but it is also fun. If I find a nice site with a large collection of widgets, it is fun to figure out how to get them all in one shot with just a little shell scripting. A few minutes of "lynx -source" or "lynx -dump", cutting, grepping, and wget, and I have a nice little addition to my collection.
I think all people are proving is that they can muck up a file format or two. But there are a number of ways of encoding music after the fact. Just, you may need to convert your precious MPEGs to a more modern (and less policed) format.
You mean like the "Word" format? Did people convert all their files to a different format? No, they just upgraded their version of Office. A few might go through the trouble of switching formats, but that isn't the solution - that is a workaround. I sure as hell don't want to convert all of my 10Gig of MP3s to another format, even though I could easily write a script to do it in the wee hours of the night. Nobody else wants to do this either, it is just too much of a pain. Once something gets settled in as the "industry standard" it is very hard to get away from it.
Microsoft is a lot like Michael Corleone. If you get kissed on the cheek, you had better start looking over your shoulder.
Some people are saying "Don't use WMP", or "Yeah, but you can turn it off", or "RTFM!".
While those things may apply to this case, DRM is a scary thing where it would be very easy to make it so it doesn't matter what app you use, DRM could be embedded in your processor (Palladium). They could make it so that you can't turn off DRM in the apps, or there is no manual to read, it will all just be built in so you don't have to "worry" about it.
And since when did it become a REQUIREMENT to be connected to the internet to listen to music that you own?! Sure, internet access is more widespread than ever, but required? That's BS. That just means that Microsoft is watching and controlling what you are listening to. How long before it goes beyond that to cover every app on your system?
I talk to some of my friends about this stuff, and they think it will never happen. They also don't know about the DMCA and the CDPDTA-E-I-E-I-O. This shit is real, and it is very scary. I have heard people say "Well, I don't care if they know what I do." Well dammit, I DO! It is none of their business, and that is the first step down a long, dark path. You want to tell them what you are doing, what web sites you are visiting, where you are shopping? Fine. Opt-in. But don't force that on everyone. Some people may actually want some of these dumbass services that Microsoft and other companies offer. Maybe they like targeted advertising. I don't, and I should not have to jump through hoops to NOT get it.
The moral of this story is: Don't work for big companies. They will try to enforce this kind of thing. Work for small startups who won't even be around in a year, much less worry about intellectual property. They are more worried about staying afloat to care about nonsnese like this.
If you willingly bought the computer, knowing the cost, and knowing it came with Windows, you have no right to a refund.
YES, I do, if I do not agree to the terms of the EULA.
If they are charging you the SAME price whether or not you get Windows or not, then they are over charging you if you don't get Windows on your new PC. Part of the price you pay is the infamous "Windows Tax". Forget Linux for a moment. What if your Win2k machine at home fries - zip, poof, gone. You have the original Win2k discs that you bought. Should you buy a new PC and have to pay AGAIN for the OS? No. You should be able to get your refund REGARDLESS of what OS you want to install on your PC.
If they charge the same price with or without Windows, they are overcharging you. And it is more about the principle of it all than the money. But you know what? I could use the extra $100 or whatever they charge for Windows.
Well, if they are going to charge the same amount of money as if I had bought Windows installed, I would rather get the system with Windows. Why? For fun.
I would then proceed to install Linux the first day I got the computer, without ever booting up Windows, and ask for a refund for the software. Others have done it. If they are going to charge me the same amount, then why not prove a point? Worst case, you don't get your refund, which you wouldn't have gotten anyway, but maybe you can get the point across. Best case, you get your point across and maybe get a few bucks for your trouble.
Not the easiest solution, but it kind of sounds like fun.
How is it possible, using a heat source at 2000 degrees (that granted, gets cooler over time) that it still takes 45 minutes to cook the game hen? We would have thought that the cooking would have been near instantanous - but repeated experiments at various lengths of time reveal that it takes exactly as long in the lava, as in an oven.
Meat is a bad conductor of heat. You even said yourself that it cools down pretty quickly, and within twenty minutes is down to an oven-like temperature. I bet the meat chars on the surface, and the charred flesh just doesn't conduct that heat very well, and the heat is dissipating out into the air. As for the leaves, the water content is probably protecting them, providing a steam wrapper.
Now if you had that hen inside an insulated oven at 2000 degrees, it might be a different story.
Seriously. Ask Linus or Alan this question, and hope-and-pray that they are still interested in tech.
Even though I haven't coded for years, it seems like you always have the option to do so with Open Source. You can create your own project, no matter how small, and say "I did that". And if it takes off, you could change the world. Napster, Linux, etc.
But I have to say that I have about had my fill. Just because tech isn't as fun as it used to be. Big business has kicked tech in the nuts too many times. Now you can actually get arrested for hacking around with tech things. The DMCA and their breed of laws are going to force me to just quit the tech industry all together, after 9 years of working in it.
What'll I do? I have considered going to cooking school, just because I love it so much. My other option is to move to the south of France and become a goat farmer. Just something anti-tech.
But when they've got Austin Powers incisors, then there's clearly a need for serious research.
Speaking of that, did you notice at the end of the first AP, his teeth were fixed? In one of the scenes where he is in the hotel room, he smiles and his teeth "glint" because he got them fixed for her. Then in the next movie, they were crooked again. Man, it must be genetic if cosmetic surgery can't even fix them.:-)
You put it very well, but just consider what you wrote:
But don't play the victim and blame all of society's ills on the lack of interest of the American public - its quite possible that they have more important things to worry about.
I am pretty sure that Microsoft is counting on this. Think about it for a second.
They know that people don't matter. While they get a lot of money from regular sales, the real people who propagate their monopoly is companies. I don't remember the last time I launced Word at home, but I have to use it all the time at work. They know that the average person doesn't care about what they do, and know that they couldn't do anything if they did. Companies have so much more to worry about in this economy, and will sink further and further into the MS-tarpit without realizing it. A company is not going to risk going to court with Microsoft, even if they had the money and the inclination.
So what you are saying is true, and Microsoft knows it and will exploit that to the fullest.
Dell is just asking for customer service nightmares when they market their PCs the way they do. They want to be the largest supplier of complex machines, running a confusing and unstable operating system, to a population of people where computer literacy is low? Everyone gets a Dell! Good luck.
I don't know about these numbers, and what they really reflect. They reflect satisfaction, and hopefully just with the service and not the consumers frustration with computers in general, which could easily creep into the customer's feelings. It almost seems like it should be broken out into the customer's experience with computers, because that can determine how a "problem" is perceived. Both of these descriptions could or could not be describing the same problem:
1. My NIC is not working. The light doesn't light, and I am using DHCP to get an IP. I have another PC on my network configured the same way and it doesn't have any problem. I have even tried a known working cable.
2. The internet is broken.
Of course, one problem is easy to work with, the other one could be a nightmare. I'll bet Dell gets a lot of #2.
Well, not everything is a conspiracy for the same reasons. OK, maybe the entertainment industry isn't the only thing behind the mandate, but you can bet the mandate isn't solely for the benefit of the "consumer". It is likely all about money. But the turd will be shined, and presented as being done "for the good of the consumer".
But don't think that the entertainment industry won't be getting their grubby paws into this and try to get DRM established.
Hmm, the last I checked, Congress did not declare war on anyone.
The "War" on Terrorism is as misnamed as the "War" on drugs.
Technically, you are correct - but that doesn't make what is happening in Afganistan NOT a war. If war was declared, what would change? Nothing. Does that mean that that little "conflict" we had in Korea wasn't a war?
Quite simple really, they are owned by the big entertainment companies. The entertainment companies are the ones who want this, so they can put DRM in the framework and force it on all of their evil, pirating, unethical customers.
But I am guessing that they'll have to find some way to ease this into the customer's butts, cause it won't go over at all if they try to cram it in all at once.
Sorry, you started out Ok, then you went here: I mean, hell, the upper crust just got done pilfering the life savings and retirement of the entire middle class, and yet no signficant reform or change has taken place, and the very people so affected can't be bothered to protest or be caught dead carrying a plackard in a public place demanding change, much less actually get involved in the political process and work for peaceful change.
1) As you said, this JUST HAPPENED, and then you go on to lament that no reform or change has taken place. Unless you hadn't noticed, several other companies are being audited and investigated for similar actions. What do you want to happen? These things didn't just happen overnight, and they can't be fixed overnight. We are talking about things that happened 2, 3 years ago.
2) These events affected more than the middle class, they affected pretty much everyone because it shot our economy further to hell. Maybe those people aren't out protesting, or trying to get into politics (?) because they are out working to feed their families. I have heard of people who had to come out of retirement and go back to work because their retirement money was wiped out.
3) Unless you haven't noticed, we have this minor little thing called A WAR going on. And maybe another one waiting in the wings. That is probably taking up more than a few resources.
Maybe it's because we are constantly told that we are evil and our culture is not actual culture. Everytime we want something for ourselves it's labeled as either: a. Stolen or b. Not actual culture.
We, as a country, do evil things. Most countries do. We also do good things. Most countries do.
I think part of the problem is the unwashed masses completely deny that the US could do anything wrong, that we are totally original, and everyone wants to be like us. These are the people that chant "USA USA USA" at everything.
More Americans, not less, need to look at our culture and what we do objectively. I can say "Yes, we don't have the thousand-year-old traditions of some countries, and that's OK. Yes, a lot of our culture is borrowed. That's OK. We are a young nation, and we have done some things wrong, and some things right. "
We have stolen a lot of things and called them our own. The ignorant thing is not that we have stolen an idea or two, everyone does that. It is that we claim it to be our own. That can piss people off, and rightly so. But we also have a lot of original things as well, that a lot of people around the world like. It is good to have a reality check sometimes, both the positive and the negative.
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this has for porn collecting?!?! It may soon become possible for the individual to afford enough storage, to have every single piece of pornography ever created by human beings since the beginning of time.
This just in...
Thousands of geeks, after a quick smile and "woo hoo", all paused in silent awe realizing that this would free up about 3 hours a day, which could be used for..... gathering PORN!"
This isn't actually very useful : what we want is atomic scale logic gates, not data storage.
Jebus, cut them some slack. I'll bet you would have said to Michaelangelo: "Yeah, I guess it is pretty and all, but it is on the ceiling. You have to crane your neck to really see it. What were you thinking?"
Too bad that the stuff that actually gets exported the most is "culture": coke, disney and the worst of hollywood.
And Slashdot. Don't forget about Slashdot.:-)
Sometimes it is really hard to be proud to be an American. We do have so many great things in this country, but we have so many things to be ashamed of. I guess it just comes with the territory. Everything seems to be a paradox.
We have a great country, with so much to offer by way of music, food, wine, entertainment, fashion, culture. But we always seem to just push things a little too far. I mean, we landed on the moon for crying out loud. We send missions into space on a pretty regular basis, and it barely makes the news. But Britney Spears breaks up with her boyfriend, and I have to hear about it for weeks. There are many things that I am proud of about my country, but it is really hard sometimes to remember those things when we act so stupid. About the only thing we don't have here is a deep rooted tradition. Maybe that contributes to our culture and our "culture".
Of all the sites I've visited, thats the first one ever to ask to set an ASP.NET cookie
The site in question is cafepress.com, which is really cool for printing your own designs on tshirts, mugs, etc. They did recently revamp their site and it is much easier to use.
Kind of ironic, considering the shirt I designed, eh?
Americans are consumers. That is what we are treated as, it is what we act like. We consume. We are taught to consume, we propagate consumption. The more we consume, the better off we are, right?
*sigh*. Americans can be so stupid sometimes. And I am a born-and-raised American.
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But what was he arrested for? He wasn't selling his product, he was giving a talk about his product. A product that was not illegal where he lives.
I too have done this for a long time, but not for any company. Let's just say it is useful for increasing the size of my collection of, oh, shall we say widgets. :-)
Really, it may be a little time consuming to do it manually, but it is also fun. If I find a nice site with a large collection of widgets, it is fun to figure out how to get them all in one shot with just a little shell scripting. A few minutes of "lynx -source" or "lynx -dump", cutting, grepping, and wget, and I have a nice little addition to my collection.
You mean like the "Word" format? Did people convert all their files to a different format? No, they just upgraded their version of Office. A few might go through the trouble of switching formats, but that isn't the solution - that is a workaround. I sure as hell don't want to convert all of my 10Gig of MP3s to another format, even though I could easily write a script to do it in the wee hours of the night. Nobody else wants to do this either, it is just too much of a pain. Once something gets settled in as the "industry standard" it is very hard to get away from it.
Microsoft is a lot like Michael Corleone. If you get kissed on the cheek, you had better start looking over your shoulder.
While those things may apply to this case, DRM is a scary thing where it would be very easy to make it so it doesn't matter what app you use, DRM could be embedded in your processor (Palladium). They could make it so that you can't turn off DRM in the apps, or there is no manual to read, it will all just be built in so you don't have to "worry" about it.
And since when did it become a REQUIREMENT to be connected to the internet to listen to music that you own?! Sure, internet access is more widespread than ever, but required? That's BS. That just means that Microsoft is watching and controlling what you are listening to. How long before it goes beyond that to cover every app on your system?
I talk to some of my friends about this stuff, and they think it will never happen. They also don't know about the DMCA and the CDPDTA-E-I-E-I-O. This shit is real, and it is very scary. I have heard people say "Well, I don't care if they know what I do." Well dammit, I DO! It is none of their business, and that is the first step down a long, dark path. You want to tell them what you are doing, what web sites you are visiting, where you are shopping? Fine. Opt-in. But don't force that on everyone. Some people may actually want some of these dumbass services that Microsoft and other companies offer. Maybe they like targeted advertising. I don't, and I should not have to jump through hoops to NOT get it.
Think it won't happen? Who is going to stop them?
The moral of this story is: Don't work for big companies. They will try to enforce this kind of thing. Work for small startups who won't even be around in a year, much less worry about intellectual property. They are more worried about staying afloat to care about nonsnese like this.
Yes, you are, but I forgive you.
Now, on to the real point.
If you willingly bought the computer, knowing the cost, and knowing it came with Windows, you have no right to a refund.
YES, I do, if I do not agree to the terms of the EULA.
If they are charging you the SAME price whether or not you get Windows or not, then they are over charging you if you don't get Windows on your new PC. Part of the price you pay is the infamous "Windows Tax". Forget Linux for a moment. What if your Win2k machine at home fries - zip, poof, gone. You have the original Win2k discs that you bought. Should you buy a new PC and have to pay AGAIN for the OS? No. You should be able to get your refund REGARDLESS of what OS you want to install on your PC.
If they charge the same price with or without Windows, they are overcharging you. And it is more about the principle of it all than the money. But you know what? I could use the extra $100 or whatever they charge for Windows.
I would then proceed to install Linux the first day I got the computer, without ever booting up Windows, and ask for a refund for the software. Others have done it. If they are going to charge me the same amount, then why not prove a point? Worst case, you don't get your refund, which you wouldn't have gotten anyway, but maybe you can get the point across. Best case, you get your point across and maybe get a few bucks for your trouble.
Not the easiest solution, but it kind of sounds like fun.
Meat is a bad conductor of heat. You even said yourself that it cools down pretty quickly, and within twenty minutes is down to an oven-like temperature. I bet the meat chars on the surface, and the charred flesh just doesn't conduct that heat very well, and the heat is dissipating out into the air. As for the leaves, the water content is probably protecting them, providing a steam wrapper.
Now if you had that hen inside an insulated oven at 2000 degrees, it might be a different story.
Even though I haven't coded for years, it seems like you always have the option to do so with Open Source. You can create your own project, no matter how small, and say "I did that". And if it takes off, you could change the world. Napster, Linux, etc.
But I have to say that I have about had my fill. Just because tech isn't as fun as it used to be. Big business has kicked tech in the nuts too many times. Now you can actually get arrested for hacking around with tech things. The DMCA and their breed of laws are going to force me to just quit the tech industry all together, after 9 years of working in it.
What'll I do? I have considered going to cooking school, just because I love it so much. My other option is to move to the south of France and become a goat farmer. Just something anti-tech.
Speaking of that, did you notice at the end of the first AP, his teeth were fixed? In one of the scenes where he is in the hotel room, he smiles and his teeth "glint" because he got them fixed for her. Then in the next movie, they were crooked again. Man, it must be genetic if cosmetic surgery can't even fix them. :-)
But don't play the victim and blame all of society's ills on the lack of interest of the American public - its quite possible that they have more important things to worry about.
I am pretty sure that Microsoft is counting on this. Think about it for a second.
They know that people don't matter. While they get a lot of money from regular sales, the real people who propagate their monopoly is companies. I don't remember the last time I launced Word at home, but I have to use it all the time at work. They know that the average person doesn't care about what they do, and know that they couldn't do anything if they did. Companies have so much more to worry about in this economy, and will sink further and further into the MS-tarpit without realizing it. A company is not going to risk going to court with Microsoft, even if they had the money and the inclination.
So what you are saying is true, and Microsoft knows it and will exploit that to the fullest.
The Brits, on the other hand, have gone for a no-hole approach...
Sorry, but taking dental advice from the Brits is like taking security advice from Microsoft.
I don't know about these numbers, and what they really reflect. They reflect satisfaction, and hopefully just with the service and not the consumers frustration with computers in general, which could easily creep into the customer's feelings. It almost seems like it should be broken out into the customer's experience with computers, because that can determine how a "problem" is perceived. Both of these descriptions could or could not be describing the same problem:
1. My NIC is not working. The light doesn't light, and I am using DHCP to get an IP. I have another PC on my network configured the same way and it doesn't have any problem. I have even tried a known working cable.
2. The internet is broken.
Of course, one problem is easy to work with, the other one could be a nightmare. I'll bet Dell gets a lot of #2.
Micrososmos would be pretty amazing too.
Well, not everything is a conspiracy for the same reasons. OK, maybe the entertainment industry isn't the only thing behind the mandate, but you can bet the mandate isn't solely for the benefit of the "consumer". It is likely all about money. But the turd will be shined, and presented as being done "for the good of the consumer".
But don't think that the entertainment industry won't be getting their grubby paws into this and try to get DRM established.
Technically, you are correct - but that doesn't make what is happening in Afganistan NOT a war. If war was declared, what would change? Nothing. Does that mean that that little "conflict" we had in Korea wasn't a war?
Quite simple really, they are owned by the big entertainment companies. The entertainment companies are the ones who want this, so they can put DRM in the framework and force it on all of their evil, pirating, unethical customers.
But I am guessing that they'll have to find some way to ease this into the customer's butts, cause it won't go over at all if they try to cram it in all at once.
I mean, hell, the upper crust just got done pilfering the life savings and retirement of the entire middle class, and yet no signficant reform or change has taken place, and the very people so affected can't be bothered to protest or be caught dead carrying a plackard in a public place demanding change, much less actually get involved in the political process and work for peaceful change.
1) As you said, this JUST HAPPENED, and then you go on to lament that no reform or change has taken place. Unless you hadn't noticed, several other companies are being audited and investigated for similar actions. What do you want to happen? These things didn't just happen overnight, and they can't be fixed overnight. We are talking about things that happened 2, 3 years ago.
2) These events affected more than the middle class, they affected pretty much everyone because it shot our economy further to hell. Maybe those people aren't out protesting, or trying to get into politics (?) because they are out working to feed their families. I have heard of people who had to come out of retirement and go back to work because their retirement money was wiped out.
3) Unless you haven't noticed, we have this minor little thing called A WAR going on. And maybe another one waiting in the wings. That is probably taking up more than a few resources.
We, as a country, do evil things. Most countries do. We also do good things. Most countries do.
I think part of the problem is the unwashed masses completely deny that the US could do anything wrong, that we are totally original, and everyone wants to be like us. These are the people that chant "USA USA USA" at everything.
More Americans, not less, need to look at our culture and what we do objectively. I can say "Yes, we don't have the thousand-year-old traditions of some countries, and that's OK. Yes, a lot of our culture is borrowed. That's OK. We are a young nation, and we have done some things wrong, and some things right. "
We have stolen a lot of things and called them our own. The ignorant thing is not that we have stolen an idea or two, everyone does that. It is that we claim it to be our own. That can piss people off, and rightly so. But we also have a lot of original things as well, that a lot of people around the world like. It is good to have a reality check sometimes, both the positive and the negative.
This just in... ..... gathering PORN!"
Thousands of geeks, after a quick smile and "woo hoo", all paused in silent awe realizing that this would free up about 3 hours a day, which could be used for
Oh, wait.
What do we do now?
Jebus, cut them some slack. I'll bet you would have said to Michaelangelo:
"Yeah, I guess it is pretty and all, but it is on the ceiling. You have to crane your neck to really see it. What were you thinking?"
And Slashdot. Don't forget about Slashdot. :-)
Sometimes it is really hard to be proud to be an American. We do have so many great things in this country, but we have so many things to be ashamed of. I guess it just comes with the territory. Everything seems to be a paradox. We have a great country, with so much to offer by way of music, food, wine, entertainment, fashion, culture. But we always seem to just push things a little too far. I mean, we landed on the moon for crying out loud. We send missions into space on a pretty regular basis, and it barely makes the news. But Britney Spears breaks up with her boyfriend, and I have to hear about it for weeks. There are many things that I am proud of about my country, but it is really hard sometimes to remember those things when we act so stupid. About the only thing we don't have here is a deep rooted tradition. Maybe that contributes to our culture and our "culture".
The site in question is cafepress.com, which is really cool for printing your own designs on tshirts, mugs, etc. They did recently revamp their site and it is much easier to use.
Kind of ironic, considering the shirt I designed, eh?
*sigh*. Americans can be so stupid sometimes. And I am a born-and-raised American.