On/. I fall politically on the "right-wing nutjob" side of the isle, but the only problem I have with the "pinko commie" stuff is that it is usually forced on you. The GPL is voluntary, I know when it kicks in, I know what it's costs are and I can easily figure out what it's expenses are, there are no surprises. What the people here are usually confusd about, is thinking the "Corporate Fuedalists" (yeah I made that up pretty cool term) are capitalists or conservative.
I think what is confusing everyone is that registration with the copyright office almost automaticaly make infringement willfull and kicks the maximum statutory daamage from $30,000.00 to $150,000.00; however with a GPL'ed software being modified that has a copyright notice in every file of source, it seems pretty hard to say "Sorry we infinged by mistake" to the court; of course IANAL.
Title 17 Chapter 5
504. Remedies for infringement: Damages and profits (a) In General. Except as otherwise provided by this title, an infringer of copyright is liable for either (1) the copyright owners actual damages and any additional profits of the infringer, as provided by subsection (b); or (2) statutory damages, as provided by subsection (c). (c) Statutory Damages. (1) Except as provided by clause (2) of this subsection, the copyright owner may elect, at any time before final judgment is rendered, to recover, instead of actual damages and profits, an award of statutory damages for all infringements involved in the action, with respect to any one work, for which any one infringer is liable individually, or for which any two or more infringers are liable jointly and severally, in a sum of not less than $750 or more than $30,000 as the court considers just. For the purposes of this subsection, all the parts of a compilation or derivative work constitute one work. (2) In a case where the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that infringement was committed willfully, the court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages to a sum of not more than $150,000. In a case where the infringer sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that such infringer was not aware and had no reason to believe that his or her acts constituted an infringement of copyright, the court in its discretion may reduce the award of statutory damages to a sum of not less than $200.... US code title 17.504 LII / Legal Information Institute
One of those HAVA gizmos are selling for $129.95 and up so with a penalty of $750 to as much as $30,0000.00 the damages could be rather devestating for Monsoon Multimedia, Inc' business plan, each one sold could cost them $621.00; the law is pretty specific about telling the court what the monitary damages are.
He was using Linux on a laptop, I can remember when even getting a command line in Linux on a laptop qualified you for Uber-Umaguma Geek status; and he's bitching about the mouse being set for a gamer rather than a lamer, and having to download patented codec's from a country w/o software patents.
One man's pretty damn ugly and seems kinda primitive in anothers elemental eligance; but yeah didn't seem like that site should have required 2 years of coding in RoR from a top of the line RoR coder.
Rails is to Ruby as Symfony is to PHP. I've tried Symfony myself and real had a hard time getting my head around it, likewise I'd probably have the same problem with RoR only worse because I'm more attuned to PHP or Perl, I do find that by using the Smarty templateing engine and MDB2 Database API that what I'm working on has shrunk dramatically and is much easier to understand. There are several Perl equivalents on CPAN, that are probably more reliable and mature than the PEAR equivalents in PHP, I assume that the only reason they aren't used more is because embperl is more arcane to use than PHP.
Actually I was referring to the broader state of affairs rather than specifically to a particular case, it's easy for people to see that a computer with Windows installed sold for $599.00, Linux installed sold for $625.95, No OS installed sold for $665.00; and conclude that windows is not only free, but valueless the same attitude they have with Linux. Linux has the tougher row to hoe when prices are seem as equal because it requires more user involvement than windows does. The BSA goons by bullying the Russian schools into getting a non-pirated OS are simply positioning Linux as the incumbent system, so now in Russia this and future generations of kids will see Linux as the system of choice and nothing that Redmond can do is likely to change the Russians position on this.
What happens when Teachers in the US say to Microsoft, "Redhat bidded out the software package for $39.95 a seat installed and configured on site for 150 seats in 5 locations and they'll have 5 RHCEs hang around for a week giving on-site support and training"?
The analog speed he's getting suggest that the lines out there are pretty crappy so DSL is probably out of the question even with a wifi linking 10 mile closer to the CO.
I have to agree, there is enough bad music out there that we don't need the RIAA lables to force-feed their bad music to us. It's not like your favorite club-band's can't self-produce and sell direct.
Maybe potential law students would be wise to consider which school's the RIAA consider's easy pickings and which ones are untouchable when sending out applications.
Now it is, this will forever be apart of geek lore like the 419 scams, in Korea jokes, in Soviet Russia jokes, goatse.cx and most of all the Cowboy Neal option.
I guess now every nerd will be sending the MafIAA a 404 reply letter saying sorry resource not found, go blow smoke up somebody Else's ass because it wasn't me.
At the risk of sounding trollish, but people have been getting Windows at no additional cost for a long time, and when you get something for "free" it's hard to get them to start paying for it. Now there isn't much purpose in buying a new computer, for all practical purposes a 5 y. o. computer is just as good as a new one, not like the old days when a 5 yo. computer was slow, so microsoft is in trouble now, they just aren't selling product to the OEM computer vendors and so aren't sell windows.
You actually have to work to not install Ruby, emacs-lisp, Scheme and 3 different shell interperators in most linux distro's. Fortran and java slip in pretty quietly as well.
The Russian Kids that want to hack, know how to hack and how to do it well. If they want to hack, they already have Linux installed because the only thing that embarrass a hacker more than failing to penetrate a target system it's getting his/her own machine p0wned in the attempt.
The parent poster though it was a church summer camp counselor (I didn't recall one way or the other), even for a church-group volunteer counselor it's presumptuous to publicly publish photos of minors that are recognizable W/O a legally competent model release. There is a big difference between thumb-tacking some photos on the church bulletin board and posting them on flicr under a CC license.
Virgin Mobile has lawyers that know how this stuff works. Maybe they think that by using American photos in an Australian campaign, they can avoid problems because, (a) the subjects are less likely to discover that their likeness has been used in another country, and (b) if they do discover it, they will have to sue Virgin Mobile in Australia, since VM's Australian corporate entity probably has no presence in the US.
If you believe that your work has been used on our websites or network in any manner that constitutes copyright infringement, please notify one of Virgin Mobile's copyright agents (these are the lawyers in cheap suits) by written notice.... By mail: Copyright Agent Virgin Mobile USA, LLC 10 Independence Blvd. Warren, New Jersey 07059 By email: copyright@virginmobileusa.com By telephone: 908/607-4808 By facsimile: 908/607-4078 Policy Regarding Copyright Infringement and Designation of a Copyright Agent
More likely A than B MUHAHAHAHA, I guess next time they should hire lawyer in expensive suits instead.
while the Virgin to Virgin specifically refers the the users of Virgin Mobile, there is a subtile implication that the Sweet young Virginal Church-going girl in the picture is being used as bait for the dirt-bags with a preditory inclination to switch to Virgin Mobile. If the picture had instead was of two female celebrities who were recently photographed swapping spit and showing their beavers, the effect wouldn't have been the same, nor could the photgraph been used so inexpensively
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On /. I fall politically on the "right-wing nutjob" side of the isle, but the only problem I have with the "pinko commie" stuff is that it is usually forced on you. The GPL is voluntary, I know when it kicks in, I know what it's costs are and I can easily figure out what it's expenses are, there are no surprises. What the people here are usually confusd about, is thinking the "Corporate Fuedalists" (yeah I made that up pretty cool term) are capitalists or conservative.
Distributing any copyrighted software without complying with the license is a liability for anyone.
I think what is confusing everyone is that registration with the copyright office almost automaticaly make infringement willfull and kicks the maximum statutory daamage from $30,000.00 to $150,000.00; however with a GPL'ed software being modified that has a copyright notice in every file of source, it seems pretty hard to say "Sorry we infinged by mistake" to the court; of course IANAL.
One of those HAVA gizmos are selling for $129.95 and up so with a penalty of $750 to as much as $30,0000.00 the damages could be rather devestating for Monsoon Multimedia, Inc' business plan, each one sold could cost them $621.00; the law is pretty specific about telling the court what the monitary damages are.
wish I had a dollar for everyone who said "but I pressed escape" or "but I pressed ctrl C"
I remember having to pull out the bootdisk on floppy and "quickly" inserting the ramdisk on floppy at that time.
He was using Linux on a laptop, I can remember when even getting a command line in Linux on a laptop qualified you for Uber-Umaguma Geek status; and he's bitching about the mouse being set for a gamer rather than a lamer, and having to download patented codec's from a country w/o software patents.
Format C: press any key to continue;
One man's pretty damn ugly and seems kinda primitive in anothers elemental eligance; but yeah didn't seem like that site should have required 2 years of coding in RoR from a top of the line RoR coder.
Rails is to Ruby as Symfony is to PHP. I've tried Symfony myself and real had a hard time getting my head around it, likewise I'd probably have the same problem with RoR only worse because I'm more attuned to PHP or Perl, I do find that by using the Smarty templateing engine and MDB2 Database API that what I'm working on has shrunk dramatically and is much easier to understand. There are several Perl equivalents on CPAN, that are probably more reliable and mature than the PEAR equivalents in PHP, I assume that the only reason they aren't used more is because embperl is more arcane to use than PHP.
LISP application ported to Java Muhahahah, it would probably be easier to write a Lisp interepter in java, than do that!
Actually I was referring to the broader state of affairs rather than specifically to a particular case, it's easy for people to see that a computer with
Windows installed sold for $599.00,
Linux installed sold for $625.95,
No OS installed sold for $665.00;
and conclude that windows is not only free, but valueless the same attitude they have with Linux. Linux has the tougher row to hoe when prices are seem as equal because it requires more user involvement than windows does. The BSA goons by bullying the Russian schools into getting a non-pirated OS are simply positioning Linux as the incumbent system, so now in Russia this and future generations of kids will see Linux as the system of choice and nothing that Redmond can do is likely to change the Russians position on this.
What happens when Teachers in the US say to Microsoft, "Redhat bidded out the software package for $39.95 a seat installed and configured on site for 150 seats in 5 locations and they'll have 5 RHCEs hang around for a week giving on-site support and training"?
The analog speed he's getting suggest that the lines out there are pretty crappy so DSL is probably out of the question even with a wifi linking 10 mile closer to the CO.
Spoof the Dean's IP address LOL.
I have to agree, there is enough bad music out there that we don't need the RIAA lables to force-feed their bad music to us. It's not like your favorite club-band's can't self-produce and sell direct.
Maybe potential law students would be wise to consider which school's the RIAA consider's easy pickings and which ones are untouchable when sending out applications.
Now it is, this will forever be apart of geek lore like the 419 scams, in Korea jokes, in Soviet Russia jokes, goatse.cx and most of all the Cowboy Neal option.
I guess now every nerd will be sending the MafIAA a 404 reply letter saying sorry resource not found, go blow smoke up somebody Else's ass because it wasn't me.
At the risk of sounding trollish, but people have been getting Windows at no additional cost for a long time, and when you get something for "free" it's hard to get them to start paying for it. Now there isn't much purpose in buying a new computer, for all practical purposes a 5 y. o. computer is just as good as a new one, not like the old days when a 5 yo. computer was slow, so microsoft is in trouble now, they just aren't selling product to the OEM computer vendors and so aren't sell windows.
was that the old Linux or the Gnu Linux?
"Hell thath no fury like a woman scorned", does that give you a clue? PMS and the army of a major-power, scarry stuff, just ask Argentina.
You actually have to work to not install Ruby, emacs-lisp, Scheme and 3 different shell interperators in most linux distro's. Fortran and java slip in pretty quietly as well.
The Russian Kids that want to hack, know how to hack and how to do it well. If they want to hack, they already have Linux installed because the only thing that embarrass a hacker more than failing to penetrate a target system it's getting his/her own machine p0wned in the attempt.
The parent poster though it was a church summer camp counselor (I didn't recall one way or the other), even for a church-group volunteer counselor it's presumptuous to publicly publish photos of minors that are recognizable W/O a legally competent model release. There is a big difference between thumb-tacking some photos on the church bulletin board and posting them on flicr under a CC license.
More likely A than B MUHAHAHAHA, I guess next time they should hire lawyer in expensive suits instead.
while the Virgin to Virgin specifically refers the the users of Virgin Mobile, there is a subtile implication that the Sweet young Virginal Church-going girl in the picture is being used as bait for the dirt-bags with a preditory inclination to switch to Virgin Mobile. If the picture had instead was of two female celebrities who were recently photographed swapping spit and showing their beavers, the effect wouldn't have been the same, nor could the photgraph been used so inexpensively