1) Create "Legal Fiction" that video games cause people to be violent. 2) Fail repeatedly to convince the courts of same. 3) Start "loosing it". 4) Start playing video games. 5) Kill my old high school rival in a GTA re-enactment. 6) Call myself as an expert witness for the defense during my murder trial.
...I think this is an interesting legal strategy. This appears to me to be a tactic to grow this case exponentially in size and thus cost, complexity and duration.
Let 'em litigate this for 3 years.
I'm only surprised that they didn't assert that the plaintffs are partially liable for continuing to publish DRM free CDs long past the point when they knew that tools and techniques existed which permitted these tracks to be ripped and shared.
Hmmm...I'm still wondering if that last paragraph of mine is a joke or not.
With lawyers involved, I suppose you never can tell.
Google's oft cited mantra of "Don't be Evil" has served them pretty well.
Any ad supported cell phone concept is going to be so comparatively annoying to what -IS- the defacto universal end-user experience, perhaps they will need to add a new mantra.
...is still fundamentally a form of "computing socialism" with the vendor adopting the role of the "State", and as such, will fail because people fundamentally distrust others and do not like to be reliant on others when it can be trivally avoided (Linux). Let MS move in this direction.
They will be quite lonely in their brave new world.
I for one, am absolutely sick and tired of having to struggle with cell phone UIs written by corporate cell software fashionistas who must actually get some sick thrill from knowing all the frustration their work product will cause.
But don't I only have to change it 10% to make it my own?
No, this is a misconception about copyrights as it applies to the graphic arts industry. In fact, by changing the original design and then selling the new version of the original in any manner, the person doing this has moved into additional violations of law, not only copyright law, but general tort laws.
Um...seems to me there's an opportunity here to hoist these folks with their own petard.
The designs must be an open standard because it stated that individuals can create their own. So just write a program that converts a design to a graphic, modify the graphic 10% and reconvert back to embroider code.
Many years ago, I worked for a small company that had a contract to service the massive dot matrix signs that are spaced every few miles along the Southern California freeway network.
As part of the job, we were given a portable ascii terminal to enter test pattern data directly into the sign controller. Just for fun, we held an internal contest to think up 'What was the worst possible thing that we could type into the portable terminal for posting over the freeway at rush hour'.
Microsoft's site will not have the kind of controversial material that has popped up at Black Hat. "All researchers at the BlueHat are responsible," Kornbrust said.
Translation: All presenters know what side of their bread is buttered and by whom.
Let's celebrate our new openness by censoring ourselves!
Somebody kick me in the shin please. I must be asleep and dreaming that I'm stuck on that Moron Planet again.
Seeing that picture brought back alot of memories and the realization that the one decent thing my "Absentee Dad" ever did for me was to buy that thing and send it to me.
I had mine for years but finally tossed it out because of missing parts. Now I can buy a new one.
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1) Create "Legal Fiction" that video games cause people to be violent.
2) Fail repeatedly to convince the courts of same.
3) Start "loosing it".
4) Start playing video games.
5) Kill my old high school rival in a GTA re-enactment.
6) Call myself as an expert witness for the defense during my murder trial.
7) Profit??
Let 'em litigate this for 3 years.
I'm only surprised that they didn't assert that the plaintffs are partially liable for continuing to publish DRM free CDs long past the point when they knew that tools and techniques existed which permitted these tracks to be ripped and shared.
Hmmm...I'm still wondering if that last paragraph of mine is a joke or not.
With lawyers involved, I suppose you never can tell.
Google's oft cited mantra of "Don't be Evil" has served them pretty well.
Any ad supported cell phone concept is going to be so comparatively annoying to what -IS- the defacto universal end-user experience, perhaps they will need to add a new mantra.
"Don't be Stupid" comes to mind.
...that really perk up my Monday mornings with a full serving of outrage and indignation.
<sarcasm>
A new Apple iThingy with a sealed in battery! No. You're kidding! Go on.
</sarcasm>
They will be quite lonely in their brave new world.
I for one, am absolutely sick and tired of having to struggle with cell phone UIs written by corporate cell software fashionistas who must actually get some sick thrill from knowing all the frustration their work product will cause.
Free your Phone!
http://www.openmoko.org/
I imagine that it would take another 350 pages of that crap before any of it starts to make sense.
Ohhh...and now my brain hurts.
RIP Jack.
I've actually handled wreckage of the Challenger.
Have you?
I thought not.
Trust me, it changes your perspective.
 :
They will likely argue "Work for Hire" status of the work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire
I truly thought I would never live to see the day,
I mean actually witness,
SOMEBODY pulling FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS OUT OF A DINOSAUR'S ASS!
I can die in peace now.
But don't I only have to change it 10% to make it my own?
No, this is a misconception about copyrights as it applies to the graphic arts industry. In fact, by changing the original design and then selling the new version of the original in any manner, the person doing this has moved into additional violations of law, not only copyright law, but general tort laws.
Um...seems to me there's an opportunity here to hoist these folks with their own petard.
The designs must be an open standard because it stated that individuals can create their own. So just write a program that converts a design to a graphic, modify the graphic 10% and reconvert back to embroider code.
What am I missing?
"So are these the fledgling footsteps of an emerging AI, or just the babbling beginnings of a bloated database?"
Eliza responds: (http://www-ai.ijs.si/cgi-bin/eliza/eliza_script)
"Would you like it if they were not these the fledgling footsteps of an emerging ai or just the babbling beginnings of a bloated database?"
Now, if we could only get these two wacky kids together...
For Lithium Ion Polymer (or LiPo for short) batteries to swell like this one or more of the following has to have happened:
1. The battery was discharged below its safe discharge voltage threshold.
2. The battery was discharged at a current higher than the rated sustained discharge current rating.
3. It was a boy computer placed too close to a girl computer.
Well, get yourself a GPS Jammer.
You can bweak the Man's widdow pwane!!!
Many years ago, I worked for a small company that had a contract to service the massive dot matrix signs that are spaced every few miles along the Southern California freeway network.
As part of the job, we were given a portable ascii terminal to enter test pattern data directly into the sign controller. Just for fun, we held an internal contest to think up 'What was the worst possible thing that we could type into the portable terminal for posting over the freeway at rush hour'.
The winner?
"INCOMING NUKE ATTACK - EST 15 MIN"
Just imagine the bedlam .
The Public Movie Theater is dead. Long live the Home Theater.
Microsoft's site will not have the kind of controversial material that has popped up at Black Hat. "All researchers at the BlueHat are responsible," Kornbrust said.
Translation: All presenters know what side of their bread is buttered and by whom.
Let's celebrate our new openness by censoring ourselves!
Somebody kick me in the shin please. I must be asleep and dreaming that I'm stuck on that Moron Planet again.
Mining
The signal to noise ratio makes it pretty useless.
I am not a lawyer, and you shouldn't be one either!
Woa to us all.
/. editor CORRECTING story post copy!
A niggling language usage post like mine has ACTUALLY resulted in a
I'd go outside to celebrate, but I'm afraid that I'll be knee deep in cats mating with dogs.
Be afraid.
-A-ffecting not -E-ffecting.
Grrrrr..
Violent Video games today.
Violent History Books tommorow.
Sorry, my knee just jerked and made me type this.
Seeing that picture brought back alot of memories and the realization that the one decent thing my "Absentee Dad" ever did for me was to buy that thing and send it to me.
I had mine for years but finally tossed it out because of missing parts. Now I can buy a new one.
Sniff.