""The Audio Home Recording Act, a law passed in 1992, says that copyright holders can't sue people who are making personal home copies of music. But lawyers note that the act does not require copyright holders to make this power available to consumers. ""
Essentially they are now nitpicking the fight because they know they would lose. The question is, by their actions to make it harder to exercise our rights are they actually violating the right?
This has got to be one of the most anti-consumer actions I have seen. This is the actions of a true monopolistic entity. This is the type of activity that the Justice department should be jumping up and down about.
I don't know, but if I find out which labels use this process I know who I damn well won't buy a CD from.
Sorry, the most common argument versus a defensive system is the old "terroist with a suitcase" scenario.
How original, how stupid.
First, they won't bring a nuke. They will bring a chemical agent. Nukes of that nature are not easily within the reach of 3rd world powers, let alone terrorist groups.
Next, its these wacko nations that WILL launch a ICBM if they can at us or someone else. Usually if they are willing to go nuclear means they don't give a rats ass who knows they did it. Some would do it just to strike at a "religous" enemy, others because the leaders are suicidal.
Now, what an ABM system does offer is a system which can be sold to other countries that are under threat of a missile based war. What is does offer is a means of getting Russia to finish removing her ICBMs in agreement with us. What is does do is take the threat of ICBMs away, reducing us to the detection methods used to stop infiltration of chemical/biological/nuclear agents.
Put it this way, if that suitcase threat was so great and such an awesome reason to NOT build this shield, why haven't any of these so called "Scary terrorist" done it yet?
The one excuse I always read versus the missile defense systems is this "suitcase", yet why hasn't it happened yet?
(btw - you would be very scared if you knew just what the government has the ability to track entering this country) Don't get fooled, the FBI takes it damn serious, and they do have toys we can only dream of.
The starship I can live with, though I would prefer something like an obvious predecessor to the Enterprise. (less streamlined - bigger engines that are less efficient etc)
I am more concerned these guys will change history as it has been portrayed through the 3 series (don't count voyuer) and the movies.
I am also concerned that this new "alien" in the background isn't the typical "must one-up the last series - (borg to dominion to 8472 etc) syndrome that we have seen before. I would think it great if it were the "Q" as we could have series cross-over "history" - but please no - We go to the future plots.
I was always under the impression that is what the Federation that met the Klingons, not the Earth itself (iow - the Federation existed).
Oh well, hopefully the Klingon ships keep their basic layout, and the Romulans don't pop up soon (they should barely be in space by this timeline)
Only on country in the world ratified the Kyoto treaty, and that is Romania.
Where is France, Germnany, or England when it comes to putting their money where the mouths are?
NO WHERE.
Besides blaming Bush is a cheap shot and the liberals love nothing more than a cheap shot. Clinton could have pushed for it, but he never did. Remember, the Senate voted 98-0 TO NOT RATIFY. How can you blame Bush Jon? You can't with facts, but facts aren't what you or your type are interested in.
Most Americans might survey that they are concerned about Global Warming, but I bet 90% don't know any real facts about what it is or what causes it.
Apparently the left expects to use their only real strategy, repeat a lie until it becomes the truth, or is at least believed.
As for the A.I. reviews, it got just as many harsh ones as it got raves. It died because it doesn't connect with people, and that is the only review that matters.
Face it, the Judge lost the case, not the prosecution. If he wasn't so obviously biased in his choice of Court advisors, allowances to the prosecution, or flapping his big frigging mouth off after the trial but before the ultimate resolution.
The fact is Justice should have pursued this when it really mattered, back when 95 was coming onto the scene. Back when there were alternatives to Windows on the desktop.
If they want to help the computer industry now they need to fight to ensure there remains competition in the server side of the market. (the desktop war is over, the victims have already been buried)
Get some regulations out there to protect the privacy and information of individuals. Protect their freedom on the net by preventing companies from locking up the world.
PS: It didn't hurt MS's case that Netscape/AOL merged with Time Warner, kind of rendered a lot of the future predicitions made by prosecution pointless.
I would like to know why/. editors seem to think its a crime or a similar atrocity for companines to restrict how you connect to their service?
Honestly, why is it wrong to do so? Why not complain about how you receive satellite (oops, thats done here to eh?), cable, electricity, or water?
The/. editors need to realize that just as much as you don't like it doesn't mean its wrong. It is THEIR right to offer a product as they see fit, and in doing so that means they can control who can use it and how.
Espsecially France which repeatedly goes out of its way to slam America and any institution based here. Witness the fiasco with Colleges and their language of choice, to practical sanctioning of destruction to property of American companies on French soil, to their beef on the net.
French politicians are back in again in their deceived little world where they figure they will run the whole shop. Just like the expect the EU to give them power over America that France can never have.
Hell, if there were a way I would suggest we just block France out of the net, that way they can enjoy their French only filtered to hell and back inTRAnet.
Yes the US has some BS things about its net policy, but France takes the cake. If the politicians acted in good faith with their populace they would not be so actively American bashing but instead helping with immigration, high costs of living, and employment issues. However its just the standard method, find someone else to blame or distract the people from their woes.
Whats next, complain that America has problems with Sudan, China, and certain other countries being on the UN HR committee?
because flying in civ airshows and other public demonstrations requires them to be detectable. Besides, knowing where he is kind of helps a missile system, if you don't see it you ain't going to target it.
This is as much fallacy as the claimed Austrailian "we can detect B2s by their atmospheric disturbances"...
too bad the ones that bombed Serbia (they used B2s) were not detected by any European country they flew over or even the NATO stations not informed about their flight. (they flew non-stop, dropped bombs, and flew out without the local commanders being told to expect them - guess who never saw them?)
Never underestimate the military, the use air shows to both show off and to make somethings appear as they are not. (which is where these stories of "stealth" planes being tracked come from)
and countries like Iraq showed the same lack of respect for civilian casualties, in fact they used them as propoganda in their own country and abroad.
Countries willing to turn common civilian structures into military facilities while acknowledging the risk are very dangerous, and always will be.
Uh, question here. (not even related to tests)
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Why should I really care. Neither can run on the others platform, and honestly I will never ever own a MAC. Now CNET picked it over W2000, but W2000 is not the consumer version, and OSX is still marketed as such. Regardless, even if W2000 had won, would that be basis for someone to run out and buy it and ditch their mac?
Even if it did better, why would I want to ditch my hardware and then attempt to find products similar to the operating system I do have?
While these types of comparisons may have value to geeks, for the most part they only serve to flood message boards with "My OS is better than your OS" crap.
Okay, maybe one benefit, maybe the loser of a category may see it as reason to change, then again maybe they don't care either.
I am really curious./. should not be used for ranting by a pompous idiot. For the most part Jon is so far off in left field that he can be easily dismissed.
Now, he is running a three part series on/. that essentially is nothing more than a slam versus corporate America by a nearly if not confessed Socialist.
He makes declarations as if they are fact, but never bothers to prove a single point. Half the/. community refutes him yet he never replies in the story he started.
I suggest that if you want him on the site then post him elsewhere and his stories or rants are meritable then let someone submit them as news.
As it stands, he isn't news for nerds or anyone, and he defintely doesn't matter.
(please note, I am not attempting to Troll here, Jon really has gone overboard here). So far both parts could have been one entry, and I am betting combined with the third they don't merit more than one headline on/. IF ANY)
The issue here is that Jon seems to imply that the corporate world is more evil, and that Microsoft will actually win out.
I read about all the wonderful tax breaks corporations get (I think corporate income tax should be abolished - did you know GMs tax return was 56ft tall if stacked? - people would then get an idea of just how high their tax burden really is)
Corporations modify governments, they don't control them. Because as anyone knows, the politicians in office hold the purse strings and have their fingers on the trigger.
But Jon is far far off base here, he is simply playing to/. majority audience. Nothing like ranting against eveeel Microsoft to score some karma.
The difference between microsoft and the USSR planned central economy is that thousands of linux programmers won't be taken into the woods and shot in the head for speaking out about a different and better world.
They can try and shove it down my throat, but I can damn well choose another option.
Sorry, but there is a big difference in providing services and enslaving people on entitlements. It also is ludicrous to expect people for fork over nearly 1/2 of what they earn to the government.
There is no such thing as home ownership or even any ownership. Its a freaking myth. do you not see the problem with this. When you lose freedom in the physical world you will soon lose it in the intellectual world.
I do know what communism is, I also know how it was twisted by a "Government" to fit its need. Governments no longer serve people, they serve politicians and intrest groups first.
As for France, gee, I have yet to read that startling claim. Guess the economies of a few other countries got in the way.
France is no threat to anyone but themselves, the people are great, their government stinks. Then again that works for here to.
Tell me Jon, which one of these takes my money by gunpoint?
Lets see, Bill Gates is a man, most if not all of MS employees are human beings. Versus the USA I don't think they have a chance in hell, do you?
If you want something legitimate to moan about, then moan about oppressive governments that take a third or more of peoples income and gives them little or no choice in how its used.
Its anti-capitialist like you that forever put us under the heels of oppressive governments by painting corporations as evil so as to distract the common populace.
Let me guess, your in league with the idiot newscasters who go around spouting 53% profit increases at oil companies without explaining that that really means they went from 4.8 cents on the dollar to 6.9 cents (which is still lower than most other companies in other fields).
Spread fear, doom and gloom, the corporate state will kill and enslave you all, only the nice gentle, caring, and lovable government can save you, your children, and your neutered dog Fluffy
Why is that you twits never bitch about the fact that government tax the piss out of you yet bitch and moan about some evil corporation.
Don't buy their product and the corp ain't really going to care. Don't buy into the government line, or send them your tax money and your in jail
HELLO. Slight screw up in priorities mr. commie
BTW - free market is millions and millions times better than the crap that tanked the former Soviet. (let alone the crap tanking Europeans now - socialist governments are expensive and stifling)
Its easy to be a Socialist with other people's stuff.
I have no problem with someone making a profit off an new computer program or even a codec. If it is that good then they deserve to get paid for it. If that means requiring a patent then so be it.
Life isn't free, and just because you want something doesn't mean you deserve access to it for free.
Get off this socialistic attitude people, if things lose their value whats the point of striving to make it better.
Word gets out, Slashdot spigots spouts torrents of nasty verbage at grocery stores for selling space on end-caps.
Heavens to hell, now how is Joe Six Pack ever going to get his instant-maple-flavored-mash potatoes with new SuperCheezyKrapomatic potatoes staring him the face!
Its obvious, he is being forced to buy into these new potatoes, the refuse to let him pass down the isle to try the "other brands"
Slashdot versus the RIAA.
It happens in nearly every industry.
Democrats & Entertainment, backstabbing?
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Perhaps the Democrats are bickering about these games (and movies in Liberman's case) because they allow non-democrats to edge into their "action"
y'know, backstabbing, grabbing the money, making the military out to mutated goons, showing all guns have hypervelocity shooting and unlimited clips, and finally all women constantly in distress and undress!
Its politicians we should still be wary of. Corporations can try and take our rights away, but we have the courts to fight them. When the government takes our rights away we can't even beat them in the courts as they have guns to back them up.
Corporations are as manipulated by politicians as politicians are by corporations. By and far, its politicians who are the worst of the two. Corporations don't take your money at gunpoint and spend it where you could care less. They can take your money and give it to some schmoe who doesn't want to work because he doesn't have to. A corporation can't do that.
Gee, I think my mini which uses powerpc chips has been doing 66bit computing for nearly 5 years! (and it is essentially one code change away from 128 bit processing - and guess what - no code changes required - code will be recompiled on the fly)
Gee, AMD/Intel grow up, the industry lauds up and coming 64bit while ignoring the fact the IT industry has been there done that.
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""The Audio Home Recording Act, a law passed in 1992, says that copyright holders can't sue people who are making personal home copies of music. But lawyers note that the act does not require copyright holders to make this power available to consumers. ""
Essentially they are now nitpicking the fight because they know they would lose. The question is, by their actions to make it harder to exercise our rights are they actually violating the right?
This has got to be one of the most anti-consumer actions I have seen. This is the actions of a true monopolistic entity. This is the type of activity that the Justice department should be jumping up and down about.
I don't know, but if I find out which labels use this process I know who I damn well won't buy a CD from.
and they wonder why people pirate music, sheesh
Sorry, the most common argument versus a defensive system is the old "terroist with a suitcase" scenario.
How original, how stupid.
First, they won't bring a nuke. They will bring a chemical agent. Nukes of that nature are not easily within the reach of 3rd world powers, let alone terrorist groups.
Next, its these wacko nations that WILL launch a ICBM if they can at us or someone else. Usually if they are willing to go nuclear means they don't give a rats ass who knows they did it. Some would do it just to strike at a "religous" enemy, others because the leaders are suicidal.
Now, what an ABM system does offer is a system which can be sold to other countries that are under threat of a missile based war. What is does offer is a means of getting Russia to finish removing her ICBMs in agreement with us. What is does do is take the threat of ICBMs away, reducing us to the detection methods used to stop infiltration of chemical/biological/nuclear agents.
Put it this way, if that suitcase threat was so great and such an awesome reason to NOT build this shield, why haven't any of these so called "Scary terrorist" done it yet?
The one excuse I always read versus the missile defense systems is this "suitcase", yet why hasn't it happened yet?
(btw - you would be very scared if you knew just what the government has the ability to track entering this country) Don't get fooled, the FBI takes it damn serious, and they do have toys we can only dream of.
The starship I can live with, though I would prefer something like an obvious predecessor to the Enterprise. (less streamlined - bigger engines that are less efficient etc)
I am more concerned these guys will change history as it has been portrayed through the 3 series (don't count voyuer) and the movies.
I am also concerned that this new "alien" in the background isn't the typical "must one-up the last series - (borg to dominion to 8472 etc) syndrome that we have seen before. I would think it great if it were the "Q" as we could have series cross-over "history" - but please no - We go to the future plots.
I was always under the impression that is what the Federation that met the Klingons, not the Earth itself (iow - the Federation existed).
Oh well, hopefully the Klingon ships keep their basic layout, and the Romulans don't pop up soon (they should barely be in space by this timeline)
Only on country in the world ratified the Kyoto treaty, and that is Romania.
Where is France, Germnany, or England when it comes to putting their money where the mouths are?
NO WHERE.
Besides blaming Bush is a cheap shot and the liberals love nothing more than a cheap shot. Clinton could have pushed for it, but he never did. Remember, the Senate voted 98-0 TO NOT RATIFY. How can you blame Bush Jon? You can't with facts, but facts aren't what you or your type are interested in.
Most Americans might survey that they are concerned about Global Warming, but I bet 90% don't know any real facts about what it is or what causes it.
Apparently the left expects to use their only real strategy, repeat a lie until it becomes the truth, or is at least believed.
As for the A.I. reviews, it got just as many harsh ones as it got raves. It died because it doesn't connect with people, and that is the only review that matters.
Simple, that was when their special licenses to PC makers starting taking off bigtime.
It was, you want 95? Well a fee for all of them or you don't get it.
Thats when they started their unfair competitive business practices that led to their domination
Face it, the Judge lost the case, not the prosecution. If he wasn't so obviously biased in his choice of Court advisors, allowances to the prosecution, or flapping his big frigging mouth off after the trial but before the ultimate resolution.
The fact is Justice should have pursued this when it really mattered, back when 95 was coming onto the scene. Back when there were alternatives to Windows on the desktop.
If they want to help the computer industry now they need to fight to ensure there remains competition in the server side of the market. (the desktop war is over, the victims have already been buried)
Get some regulations out there to protect the privacy and information of individuals. Protect their freedom on the net by preventing companies from locking up the world.
PS: It didn't hurt MS's case that Netscape/AOL merged with Time Warner, kind of rendered a lot of the future predicitions made by prosecution pointless.
I would like to know why /. editors seem to think its a crime or a similar atrocity for companines to restrict how you connect to their service?
/. editors need to realize that just as much as you don't like it doesn't mean its wrong. It is THEIR right to offer a product as they see fit, and in doing so that means they can control who can use it and how.
Honestly, why is it wrong to do so? Why not complain about how you receive satellite (oops, thats done here to eh?), cable, electricity, or water?
The
Tell me it isn't so.
Notice how many "Atlantis" shows popped up recently...
I just never thought Art was in on the take. He seems so honest are truthful.
Espsecially France which repeatedly goes out of its way to slam America and any institution based here. Witness the fiasco with Colleges and their language of choice, to practical sanctioning of destruction to property of American companies on French soil, to their beef on the net.
French politicians are back in again in their deceived little world where they figure they will run the whole shop. Just like the expect the EU to give them power over America that France can never have.
Hell, if there were a way I would suggest we just block France out of the net, that way they can enjoy their French only filtered to hell and back inTRAnet.
Yes the US has some BS things about its net policy, but France takes the cake. If the politicians acted in good faith with their populace they would not be so actively American bashing but instead helping with immigration, high costs of living, and employment issues. However its just the standard method, find someone else to blame or distract the people from their woes.
Whats next, complain that America has problems with Sudan, China, and certain other countries being on the UN HR committee?
oops - done that I guess
because flying in civ airshows and other public demonstrations requires them to be detectable. Besides, knowing where he is kind of helps a missile system, if you don't see it you ain't going to target it.
This is as much fallacy as the claimed Austrailian "we can detect B2s by their atmospheric disturbances"...
too bad the ones that bombed Serbia (they used B2s) were not detected by any European country they flew over or even the NATO stations not informed about their flight. (they flew non-stop, dropped bombs, and flew out without the local commanders being told to expect them - guess who never saw them?)
Never underestimate the military, the use air shows to both show off and to make somethings appear as they are not. (which is where these stories of "stealth" planes being tracked come from)
and countries like Iraq showed the same lack of respect for civilian casualties, in fact they used them as propoganda in their own country and abroad.
Countries willing to turn common civilian structures into military facilities while acknowledging the risk are very dangerous, and always will be.
Why should I really care. Neither can run on the others platform, and honestly I will never ever own a MAC. Now CNET picked it over W2000, but W2000 is not the consumer version, and OSX is still marketed as such. Regardless, even if W2000 had won, would that be basis for someone to run out and buy it and ditch their mac?
Even if it did better, why would I want to ditch my hardware and then attempt to find products similar to the operating system I do have?
While these types of comparisons may have value to geeks, for the most part they only serve to flood message boards with "My OS is better than your OS" crap.
Okay, maybe one benefit, maybe the loser of a category may see it as reason to change, then again maybe they don't care either.
I fully agree, they don't own the machine after you buy it. However they are fully within their rights to change the software that drives it.
You don't have to upgrade if you don't use their service (I don't even know if you must if you do)
I am really curious. /. should not be used for ranting by a pompous idiot. For the most part Jon is so far off in left field that he can be easily dismissed.
/. that essentially is nothing more than a slam versus corporate America by a nearly if not confessed Socialist.
/. community refutes him yet he never replies in the story he started.
/. IF ANY)
Now, he is running a three part series on
He makes declarations as if they are fact, but never bothers to prove a single point. Half the
I suggest that if you want him on the site then post him elsewhere and his stories or rants are meritable then let someone submit them as news.
As it stands, he isn't news for nerds or anyone, and he defintely doesn't matter.
(please note, I am not attempting to Troll here, Jon really has gone overboard here). So far both parts could have been one entry, and I am betting combined with the third they don't merit more than one headline on
The issue here is that Jon seems to imply that the corporate world is more evil, and that Microsoft will actually win out.
/. majority audience. Nothing like ranting against eveeel Microsoft to score some karma.
I read about all the wonderful tax breaks corporations get (I think corporate income tax should be abolished - did you know GMs tax return was 56ft tall if stacked? - people would then get an idea of just how high their tax burden really is)
Corporations modify governments, they don't control them. Because as anyone knows, the politicians in office hold the purse strings and have their fingers on the trigger.
But Jon is far far off base here, he is simply playing to
The difference between microsoft and the USSR planned central economy is that thousands of linux programmers won't be taken into the woods and shot in the head for speaking out about a different and better world.
They can try and shove it down my throat, but I can damn well choose another option.
Sorry, but there is a big difference in providing services and enslaving people on entitlements. It also is ludicrous to expect people for fork over nearly 1/2 of what they earn to the government.
There is no such thing as home ownership or even any ownership. Its a freaking myth. do you not see the problem with this. When you lose freedom in the physical world you will soon lose it in the intellectual world.
I do know what communism is, I also know how it was twisted by a "Government" to fit its need. Governments no longer serve people, they serve politicians and intrest groups first.
As for France, gee, I have yet to read that startling claim. Guess the economies of a few other countries got in the way.
France is no threat to anyone but themselves, the people are great, their government stinks. Then again that works for here to.
Tell me Jon, which one of these takes my money by gunpoint?
Lets see, Bill Gates is a man, most if not all of MS employees are human beings. Versus the USA I don't think they have a chance in hell, do you?
If you want something legitimate to moan about, then moan about oppressive governments that take a third or more of peoples income and gives them little or no choice in how its used.
Its anti-capitialist like you that forever put us under the heels of oppressive governments by painting corporations as evil so as to distract the common populace.
Let me guess, your in league with the idiot newscasters who go around spouting 53% profit increases at oil companies without explaining that that really means they went from 4.8 cents on the dollar to 6.9 cents (which is still lower than most other companies in other fields).
Spread fear, doom and gloom, the corporate state will kill and enslave you all, only the nice gentle, caring, and lovable government can save you, your children, and your neutered dog Fluffy
GACK
Why is that you twits never bitch about the fact that government tax the piss out of you yet bitch and moan about some evil corporation.
Don't buy their product and the corp ain't really going to care. Don't buy into the government line, or send them your tax money and your in jail
HELLO. Slight screw up in priorities mr. commie
BTW - free market is millions and millions times better than the crap that tanked the former Soviet. (let alone the crap tanking Europeans now - socialist governments are expensive and stifling)
Its easy to be a Socialist with other people's stuff.
I have no problem with someone making a profit off an new computer program or even a codec. If it is that good then they deserve to get paid for it. If that means requiring a patent then so be it.
Life isn't free, and just because you want something doesn't mean you deserve access to it for free.
Get off this socialistic attitude people, if things lose their value whats the point of striving to make it better.
Word gets out, Slashdot spigots spouts torrents of nasty verbage at grocery stores for selling space on end-caps.
Heavens to hell, now how is Joe Six Pack ever going to get his instant-maple-flavored-mash potatoes with new SuperCheezyKrapomatic potatoes staring him the face!
Its obvious, he is being forced to buy into these new potatoes, the refuse to let him pass down the isle to try the "other brands"
Slashdot versus the RIAA.
It happens in nearly every industry.
Perhaps the Democrats are bickering about these games (and movies in Liberman's case) because they allow non-democrats to edge into their "action"
y'know, backstabbing, grabbing the money, making the military out to mutated goons, showing all guns have hypervelocity shooting and unlimited clips, and finally all women constantly in distress and undress!
Its politicians we should still be wary of. Corporations can try and take our rights away, but we have the courts to fight them. When the government takes our rights away we can't even beat them in the courts as they have guns to back them up.
Corporations are as manipulated by politicians as politicians are by corporations. By and far, its politicians who are the worst of the two. Corporations don't take your money at gunpoint and spend it where you could care less. They can take your money and give it to some schmoe who doesn't want to work because he doesn't have to. A corporation can't do that.
Gee, I think my mini which uses powerpc chips has been doing 66bit computing for nearly 5 years! (and it is essentially one code change away from 128 bit processing - and guess what - no code changes required - code will be recompiled on the fly)
Gee, AMD/Intel grow up, the industry lauds up and coming 64bit while ignoring the fact the IT industry has been there done that.
at least the author has supported and improved the game since its release. How many other companies can you say that about (or authors)