'Cept I'm at the Karma Cap already, so KWh0ring won't do me a spot of good.
I posted this because I was unsure of the host's bandwidth capabilities and was under the impression that the story was new enough for Google not to have a cache of it.
As a side note, there's also a story on the settlement over at C|Net News.com.
To wit (and to counter any potential/.'ing of their site):
"According to the settlement agreement summarized below, the "Defendants", Music City Records, Fahrenheit Entertainment, and Sunncomm, agreed to the following consumer remedies in the United States so long as they maintain the Sunncomm or similar "Cloqueing" (Digital Rights Management) technology on the music CD entitled "Charley Pride" a Tribute to Jim Reeves" ("Charlie Pride CD"):
Privacy 1. Defendants shall immediately ensure that any and all Internet music file downloads and listening of the music contained or arising out of said Charlie Pride CD are always anonymous and personal identifying information including, but not limited to, e-mail address and IP addresses shall not be required nor obtained as a condition of downloading (including file downloads from sunncomm.com) or playing or listening to the CD or music files, thereby protecting consumer privacy.
2. Defendants shall immediately purge all personal identifying information (including e-mail addresses and IP addresses) obtained via the music file downloading process to date.
3. Defendants shall amend their privacy policy(s) to advise consumers that all Internet file downloads of the music contained on the Charlie Pride CD are anonymous.
Right of First Sale 4. Defendants shall not impair or limit in any manner the ability and right of consumers to lawfully sell or transfer ownership of the Charlie Pride CD to others who shall have the equal ability to download related digital music files;
Return Policy 5. Defendants shall immediately begin accepting from consumers not satisfied with the Charlie Pride CD due to problems with playability on their CD player, computer CD player, or electronic or portable playing device
Platform Notices 6. Defendants shall include a warning that the Charlie Pride CD is not designed to work in DVD players or Computer CD-ROM players;
7. Defendants shall include a warning of the minimum system requirements for playing the downloadable encrypted digital music files on a computer, including Microsoft Windows 98 and above and Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.0 and above and access to the Internet;
Spaceshifting Notices 8. Defendants shall include a warning that the Charlie Pride CD and encrypted digital music file downloads are not compatible with MP3 rippers and players and are not compatible with MP3 electronic playing devices;.
9. Defendants shall include a notice to visit a web page with a simple URL for an updated list of known compatibility problems related to computers. CDplayers, and digital music playing devices;
10. Defendants shall include a warning that the downloadable encrypted digital music files of the songs contained on the Charlie Pride CD may only be downloaded six times."
Typical Bugzilla install goes like this: "What!?! I have to download all of CPAN to run a friggin bug-tracking app? You've got to be kidding me! Oh, hey, Redhat 7.2 comes with Bugzilla rpms. I guess it's time for a clean install..."
Unless you run Solaris servers from behind a firewall and can't make CPAN friggin' work (like me). Then, it's time to go beg mgmt. for capital to buy a new x86 box...
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This is precisely the sort of argument that The RIAA/MPAA hates to see. They scream "Revenue loss! Look at the poor 'artists'! They're losing money! And CD sales were down last year!"
I have yet to see a convincing argument based upon the law that deflects any of the points you've raised.
I really need to change my.sig. It seems that once every 10-15 posts, someone comments on how "it's a real word!" It's a Jack Handey quote!
I'm thinking of adapting a Bender quote, namely "Fine! I'll just start my own weblog! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the weblog. And the blackjack. Ahhhh, screw the whole thing."
Except Jedi Knights are going to be exceptionally rare. Verant has addressed this topic time and again in its Developers' Forum. Give it a look some time.
Becoming a Jedi will entail a LOT of development time as well as many difficult side-quests, not to mention the fact that you'll have to construct your own light saber...
Rockstar has made noises about GTA3:Miami (coming out this fall) being an "expansion pack" and GTA4 (due 2003) coming with the ability to join up to 15 other players in forming a gang, roving the streets, beating up rival gangs, pimps, taking on squads of SWAT troopers, etc.
Wow. I have to say that you seem to have hit the nail on the head (particularly the First Ammendment reference).
Although, as some have suggested in this thread, it might do just as much good to strip corps of their "single person" status and thus remove any First Ammendment issues.
Dunno though. That would probably have all sorts of wacky implications too. *sigh*
Owww. My side. THat was just about the funniest things I've read in a long, loooong time.
Still one of my favorite [adapted] Futurama quotes, although "'Please, don't be alarmed, we're harmless!' 'I have THREE arms!' 'I said harmless, not armless!'" has to beat it out, IMNSHO...
I'm frightfully glad I wasn't drinking a beverage when I read your post, or all of it would have summarily exited through my nasal passage. Bravo! That's the first open guffaw I've had on/. all week.
Interesting commentary, and I must say that I happen to believe that a "He spoke and it came into existence" does sound a heckuva lot like a "Big Bang".
However, the fact remains that many adherents to the Atheistic Faith (to say that, conclusively, there is no God takes just as much faith as the converse) seek to throw up Big Bang and Evolutionary arguments as proof of the non-existence of God.
I'm also of the opinion that adhering to the tenet that we are descended from Great Apes goes a long way towards reducing people's willingness to believe in the superiority of homo sapiens. I believe that God created us in His image (and the Bible says nothing of intermediary steps in the process) and so, to claim that there was an "open beta test" for hominids is fairly sacreligious, as it calls into question both God's intent and His competency as a Creator.
I'm a big fan of Don Behe's "irreducible complexity" theory (see Darwin's Black Book, ISBN: 0684834936), as it goes a long way towards highlighting the biochemical obstacles to macro-evolution).
Then again, you can always take the Douglass Adams tack: Creation itself is proof of a Divine Creator and since conclusive proof would obviate the need for Faith, Poof! He vanished in a puff of logic.
Man, I'm sorry he's (errrm, Adams, not God) dead. Would have been nice to see the 6th book in his 5-part trilogy completed before his death (instead of the old Tolkien-Unfinished-Works-style book that we'll be getting...)
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Bah! I'm on a roll for screwing up quotes. That should have ended "...I've wasted my life"
Stupid, stupid, stupid!
"But Aquaman, you cannot marry a women without gills! You are from two different worlds! ... My life has been wasted".
...worst...study...ever.
Sorry, it had to be said.
'Cept I'm at the Karma Cap already, so KWh0ring won't do me a spot of good.
I posted this because I was unsure of the host's bandwidth capabilities and was under the impression that the story was new enough for Google not to have a cache of it.
As a side note, there's also a story on the settlement over at C|Net News.com.
Every settlement needs to look like this.
/.'ing of their site):
.
To wit (and to counter any potential
"According to the settlement agreement summarized below, the "Defendants", Music City Records, Fahrenheit Entertainment, and Sunncomm, agreed to the following consumer remedies in the United States so long as they maintain the Sunncomm or similar "Cloqueing" (Digital Rights Management) technology on the music CD entitled "Charley Pride" a Tribute to Jim Reeves" ("Charlie Pride CD"):
Privacy
1. Defendants shall immediately ensure that any and all Internet music file downloads and listening of the music contained or arising out of said Charlie Pride CD are always anonymous and personal identifying information including, but not limited to, e-mail address and IP addresses shall not be required nor obtained as a condition of downloading (including file downloads from sunncomm.com) or playing or listening to the CD or music files, thereby protecting consumer privacy.
2. Defendants shall immediately purge all personal identifying information (including e-mail addresses and IP addresses) obtained via the music file downloading process to date.
3. Defendants shall amend their privacy policy(s) to advise consumers that all Internet file downloads of the music contained on the Charlie Pride CD are anonymous.
Right of First Sale
4. Defendants shall not impair or limit in any manner the ability and right of consumers to lawfully sell or transfer ownership of the Charlie Pride CD to others who shall have the equal ability to download related digital music files;
Return Policy
5. Defendants shall immediately begin accepting from consumers not satisfied with the Charlie Pride CD due to problems with playability on their CD player, computer CD player, or electronic or portable playing device
Platform Notices
6. Defendants shall include a warning that the Charlie Pride CD is not designed to work in DVD players or Computer CD-ROM players;
7. Defendants shall include a warning of the minimum system requirements for playing the downloadable encrypted digital music files on a computer, including Microsoft Windows 98 and above and Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.0 and above and access to the Internet;
Spaceshifting Notices
8. Defendants shall include a warning that the Charlie Pride CD and encrypted digital music file downloads are not compatible with MP3 rippers and players and are not compatible with MP3 electronic playing devices;
9. Defendants shall include a notice to visit a web page with a simple URL for an updated list of known compatibility problems related to computers. CDplayers, and digital music playing devices;
10. Defendants shall include a warning that the downloadable encrypted digital music files of the songs contained on the Charlie Pride CD may only be downloaded six times."
Typical Bugzilla install goes like this: "What!?! I have to download all of CPAN to run a friggin bug-tracking app? You've got to be kidding me! Oh, hey, Redhat 7.2 comes with Bugzilla rpms. I guess it's time for a clean install..."
Unless you run Solaris servers from behind a firewall and can't make CPAN friggin' work (like me). Then, it's time to go beg mgmt. for capital to buy a new x86 box...
There's a source rpm here:
http://enigma.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=615
Or, just search RPMFind.
This is precisely the sort of argument that The RIAA/MPAA hates to see. They scream "Revenue loss! Look at the poor 'artists'! They're losing money! And CD sales were down last year!"
I have yet to see a convincing argument based upon the law that deflects any of the points you've raised.
MD2 is the Quake2 model format.
I really need to change my .sig. It seems that once every 10-15 posts, someone comments on how "it's a real word!" It's a Jack Handey quote!
I'm thinking of adapting a Bender quote, namely "Fine! I'll just start my own weblog! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the weblog. And the blackjack. Ahhhh, screw the whole thing."
No mention of an engagement ring... Hmmm, maybe he got her a token ring prior to this.
Heh.
Go back while you still can! You have no idea what you're in for when you ge....
What? No, honey, I'm just typing a message on Slashdot. Yes dear, I'll take the garbage out.
Arrrgh. Stupid cut n' paste buffer. Correct link is here.
Except Jedi Knights are going to be exceptionally rare. Verant has addressed this topic time and again in its Developers' Forum. Give it a look some time.
Becoming a Jedi will entail a LOT of development time as well as many difficult side-quests, not to mention the fact that you'll have to construct your own light saber...
Rockstar has made noises about GTA3:Miami (coming out this fall) being an "expansion pack" and GTA4 (due 2003) coming with the ability to join up to 15 other players in forming a gang, roving the streets, beating up rival gangs, pimps, taking on squads of SWAT troopers, etc.
I absolutely cannot wait.
Wow. I have to say that you seem to have hit the nail on the head (particularly the First Ammendment reference).
Although, as some have suggested in this thread, it might do just as much good to strip corps of their "single person" status and thus remove any First Ammendment issues.
Dunno though. That would probably have all sorts of wacky implications too. *sigh*
Alright, if everyone's done being stupid...
I had more, but... you go ahead.
Owww. My side. THat was just about the funniest things I've read in a long, loooong time.
Still one of my favorite [adapted] Futurama quotes, although "'Please, don't be alarmed, we're harmless!' 'I have THREE arms!' 'I said harmless, not armless!'" has to beat it out, IMNSHO...
Ben Kenobi to Immersion patent lawyer: "These aren't the control pads you're looking for...".
Wait, does that mean that the DualShock2 technology is midichlorian-based?
Errm, strike that: I meant Force Commander not Galactic Battlegrounds. GB is sort of fun, FC most definitely is not.
Unless you've played the recent Star Wars-based RTS, Galactic Battlegrounds. Then, 5 minutes seems like 4 hours.
I'm frightfully glad I wasn't drinking a beverage when I read your post, or all of it would have summarily exited through my nasal passage. Bravo! That's the first open guffaw I've had on /. all week.
Now if only I had mod points to give...
Darnit. Wish I had mod points, as the parent would be on the way to a nice +1:Funny.
What is this Occam's Razor you speak of? Will it work better than my Mach 3, as it tends to chafe my skin if applied too rigorously to my skin...?
*grin*
Interesting commentary, and I must say that I happen to believe that a "He spoke and it came into existence" does sound a heckuva lot like a "Big Bang".
However, the fact remains that many adherents to the Atheistic Faith (to say that, conclusively, there is no God takes just as much faith as the converse) seek to throw up Big Bang and Evolutionary arguments as proof of the non-existence of God.
I'm also of the opinion that adhering to the tenet that we are descended from Great Apes goes a long way towards reducing people's willingness to believe in the superiority of homo sapiens. I believe that God created us in His image (and the Bible says nothing of intermediary steps in the process) and so, to claim that there was an "open beta test" for hominids is fairly sacreligious, as it calls into question both God's intent and His competency as a Creator.
I'm a big fan of Don Behe's "irreducible complexity" theory (see Darwin's Black Book, ISBN: 0684834936), as it goes a long way towards highlighting the biochemical obstacles to macro-evolution).
Then again, you can always take the Douglass Adams tack: Creation itself is proof of a Divine Creator and since conclusive proof would obviate the need for Faith, Poof! He vanished in a puff of logic.
Man, I'm sorry he's (errrm, Adams, not God) dead. Would have been nice to see the 6th book in his 5-part trilogy completed before his death (instead of the old Tolkien-Unfinished-Works-style book that we'll be getting...)
Brian: I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand?! Honestly!
Girl: Only the true Messiah denies His divinity.
Brian: What?! Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am the Messiah!
Followers: He is! He is the Messiah!
Brian: Now, @#$% off!
[silence]
Arthur: How shall we @#$% off, O Lord?
Heh.