The British system is far better, where a juror can only be thrown out if s/he personally knows the defendant, victim, witness, etc.
Of course, the UK govt. is trying to limit the right to trial by jury (because juries often find people not guilty, especially for things like marijuana possession whish shoudln't be crimes in the first place), so this system won't last.
Many/. posters believe that intellectual property is a flawed notion, or at least has got out of conntrol over the last few years. However, claming somebody else's IP without permission is still a crime (except in the case of fair use), and Microsoft does not hesitate to use the law against comapannies or ididividuals that infringe on its IP by, for example, making illegal copies of Windows. It's only fair that Microsoft be held to the same standards as everyone else.
If true, this is actually much more serious than most IP infringement, because it also involves plagiarism and industrial espionage. It's as if some other company hacked into Microsoft's servers, downloaded the Windows source code, edited it to remove all the copyright messages and other text that refereced Microsoft as the authors, then started selling its own version of Windows.
Of course, Sendo could be lying. Even Bill Gates is innocent until proven guilty.
Absolutely. It's not about protesting their profits. Its about protesting their assault on our rights and their destruction of our democracy.
Still, what this (grandparent post, not the story) suggests isn't a full boycott, which would requre never so much as watching a Hollywood movie or listening to an MPAA band. Personally, I haven't bought a CD in years (and I don't make illegal copies either), but I would miss some movies. Maybe only seeing matinees is a place to start?
But the govt. doesn't give a **** for the people, and the tax cuts aren't distributed evenly. It's more like $1,000,000 for the very rich, and $0.00 for everyone else.
Consumer devices might boost sales tax revenues, but that would require long-term thinking. No politician, let alone the current administration, thinks beyond the next election. Their corporate paymasters don't think beyond the day that the executives' stock options vest.
Ah, but this is an "electronic" or "Internet" wish-list. Taking a blatantly obvious idea and putting it on the Web seems to be very patentable nowadays, at least in the US.
The publicity surrounding this claim might make the patent office make a closer than usual look for prior "art".
I don't have the link right now (try Google news if you're interested) but there have been accusations that Worldcom helped to bankrupt Metricom.
Essentially, the charge is that Worldcom massively over-charged Metricom for backhaul bandwidth, while failing to re-sell the service as it was supposed to. Worldcom was also a major stock-holder in Metricom, which enabled it to ensure that contracts always favored it.
The "R" is for "Reseller" --- ie. it's a magazine aimed at sales people, not at techies. Regardless of what OS the Web server is using, sales people tend to be more interested in a product they can sell on at a profit than on something that end-users can obtain for free.
And to encourage people to buy more stuff on the Internet. Of course, some online retailers already store your credit card details, something that makes me want to cancel my credit card after each purpose.PI'm almost glad that Amazon has its stupid one-click patent, because otherwise many more Web sites would hold on to your credit card details for future purchases.
Real spies are hunchbacked bureaucrats and dissatisfied knowledge workers.
Rent The Tailor of Panama. The depiction of spy life may not be entirely accurate, but other parts are disturbingly realistic given current events. It even stars Pierce Brosnan!
They've been talking about this for ages. It was supposedly their reasoning for tying the Web browser to the operating system: People would use the Web browser interface to do everything, including edit Word and Excel files.
You can actually do this now, and have been able to since Windows 98, but it isn't really a good idea. I find that editing a.doc in IE often makes Word crash, and of course loading MS office files from random Web sites is always risky (because they can contain executable code).
Detailed instructons on the acquisiton of fissile material and the construction of nuclear weapons are also speech. Maybe the constitution even gives you the right to discuss them. But isn't it just possible that, regardless of the law, you have a moral and ethical obligation not to disclosoe such information to Saddam and Osama?
Of course, the people who run large corporations don't think in terms of ethics. If it isn't illegal, or even if it is and the punishment is small and/or the probabiliy of getting caught low, they'll do it.
Yes, but should a legitimate gun store sell a weapon to a convited mass murderer who states that he wants the gun to kill more innnocent people? Whether or not that is illegal, many people would still say that it is wrong.
Well, it's saying that many people would be equally happy with a narrow-band connection, provided it didn't tie up the phone line or have per-bit/minute charges.
But broadband is still nice for the, er, image-intensive downloads.
Many stores do require a name/address for refunds/exchanges, but not for purchases. I always assumed this was just in case someone tried to return a half-empty box and the guy at the counter didn't notice.
I don't think there was any kind of cross-referencing, simply because I used to do it all the time at one store and they never prevented me from buying or returning stuff. Now, I was in college then, so maybe they actually knew that and thought that by indulging me while I had no money they would keep me as a customer once I graduated and could afford to not get refunds all the time.
I could have paid in cash and made up a fake name whenever I "borrowed" something, but that might have been fraud, as this particular store made people sign a receipt for cash. Also, by paying with a credit card and getting the refund on a debit/ATM card, I could get the money back before I actually paid it, and get to keep the CC's free frequent flyer miles!
They might be able to. A lot of dodgy "religions" (cults, etc.) get classified as charities, and so do many political groups.
The U.K.'s charity rules really aren't all that different from the U.S. The extra money from the government is really just a refund of income tax already paid on the donated amount, because (just like in the U.S.) charitable donations are tax-deductable. The main difference is that the U.K. tries to automate the tax colection/refund process, so that most people don't have to submit a tax return. It means the tax refund goes to the charity, not the donor, but the donor can just take that into account when deciding how much to give.
Only not quite as evil: They don't have a system for tracking just who is watching what, in the way that DivX did.
OTOH, this could kill the aftermarket for used DVDs completely --- something that the the media companies have long wanted to do. If a working DVD is indistinguishable from one that's degraded, no-one will trust a second-hand store.
No, sites ending in.de must obey German law, those ending in.uk must obey British law, those ending in.fr must obey French law.
This makes life harder for Web companies, but it's not unreasonable. You may not like the laws that says they can't publish anti-semitic propaganda in Germany or anti-Scientology information in the U.S., but you can't blame Google, Yahoo, etc. for obeying them.
One can argue that this may hurt their livelihood if future sources elect not to talk to them for fear of being turned over, but this isn't a responsibility of a society.
If future sources opt not to talk to journalists, it won't affect their livelihood adversely. (Most publishers will be only too glad to pay the reporter for a fluff piece that advances advertisers' interests rather than a serious invetsigative report.) It will affect the functioning of a democratic society, because it will deny readers access to information.
The DMA is an organizaion of corporations. The NRA is an organization of people. There's a difference.
Now, I don't agree with either the DMA or NRA, but respect the NRA a lot more because it is made of individual people protecting their individual rights --- even though guns obviously do more damage than junk mail. In fact, as far as Big Evil Trade Associations go, the DMA is fairly harmless (compared to the BSA, RIAA, MPAA, etc.) It mostly represents regular junk mailers that use the postal service, not spammers.
Goodwill does the same thing. A lot of the stuff they get is junk, of course, but they throw out lots of good books too, just because there isn't shelf space in the store.
My local library has a "book exchange", where people are free to give and take old books that would otherwise be thrown out. (No tax write-off, of course.) It's a good idea, even if it does sometimes fill up with non-book items like political leaflets and AOL CDs.
The main difference is that they're less frequent. A half-hour show will just have one commercial break within the program, and another between it and the next program. An hour-long show might only have two breaks, and a movie may have them even less frequently.
This only applies to commercial UHF TV. The BBC doesn't have advertising at all (except for itself, between shows), and satellite/cable can be just as bad (or good) as American stations.
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It takes me all of 30 seconds to program my VCR, but most non-techies can't do it.
Anyway, 128-bit WEP (actually just 104 bits) isn't safe. The crack just takes twice as long.
The $100 MS tax on a new PC has to go somewhere. So do the huge payments that the BSA collects. Sure, Microsoft lies, but it's still profitable. Its profits just aren't as large as it claims. OTOH, Cisco...
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Of course, the UK govt. is trying to limit the right to trial by jury (because juries often find people not guilty, especially for things like marijuana possession whish shoudln't be crimes in the first place), so this system won't last.
If true, this is actually much more serious than most IP infringement, because it also involves plagiarism and industrial espionage. It's as if some other company hacked into Microsoft's servers, downloaded the Windows source code, edited it to remove all the copyright messages and other text that refereced Microsoft as the authors, then started selling its own version of Windows.
Of course, Sendo could be lying. Even Bill Gates is innocent until proven guilty.
The actual KazaaLite program itself is illegal, because it's a hacked version of someone else's copyright software (Kazaa).
Still, what this (grandparent post, not the story) suggests isn't a full boycott, which would requre never so much as watching a Hollywood movie or listening to an MPAA band. Personally, I haven't bought a CD in years (and I don't make illegal copies either), but I would miss some movies. Maybe only seeing matinees is a place to start?
Consumer devices might boost sales tax revenues, but that would require long-term thinking. No politician, let alone the current administration, thinks beyond the next election. Their corporate paymasters don't think beyond the day that the executives' stock options vest.
The publicity surrounding this claim might make the patent office make a closer than usual look for prior "art".
Essentially, the charge is that Worldcom massively over-charged Metricom for backhaul bandwidth, while failing to re-sell the service as it was supposed to. Worldcom was also a major stock-holder in Metricom, which enabled it to ensure that contracts always favored it.
The "R" is for "Reseller" --- ie. it's a magazine aimed at sales people, not at techies. Regardless of what OS the Web server is using, sales people tend to be more interested in a product they can sell on at a profit than on something that end-users can obtain for free.
And to encourage people to buy more stuff on the Internet. Of course, some online retailers already store your credit card details, something that makes me want to cancel my credit card after each purpose.PI'm almost glad that Amazon has its stupid one-click patent, because otherwise many more Web sites would hold on to your credit card details for future purchases.
Real spies are hunchbacked bureaucrats and dissatisfied knowledge workers.
Rent The Tailor of Panama. The depiction of spy life may not be entirely accurate, but other parts are disturbingly realistic given current events. It even stars Pierce Brosnan!
You can actually do this now, and have been able to since Windows 98, but it isn't really a good idea. I find that editing a .doc in IE often makes Word crash, and of course loading MS office files from random Web sites is always risky (because they can contain executable code).
Of course, the people who run large corporations don't think in terms of ethics. If it isn't illegal, or even if it is and the punishment is small and/or the probabiliy of getting caught low, they'll do it.
Yes, but should a legitimate gun store sell a weapon to a convited mass murderer who states that he wants the gun to kill more innnocent people? Whether or not that is illegal, many people would still say that it is wrong.
But broadband is still nice for the, er, image-intensive downloads.
I don't think there was any kind of cross-referencing, simply because I used to do it all the time at one store and they never prevented me from buying or returning stuff. Now, I was in college then, so maybe they actually knew that and thought that by indulging me while I had no money they would keep me as a customer once I graduated and could afford to not get refunds all the time.
I could have paid in cash and made up a fake name whenever I "borrowed" something, but that might have been fraud, as this particular store made people sign a receipt for cash. Also, by paying with a credit card and getting the refund on a debit/ATM card, I could get the money back before I actually paid it, and get to keep the CC's free frequent flyer miles!
The U.K.'s charity rules really aren't all that different from the U.S. The extra money from the government is really just a refund of income tax already paid on the donated amount, because (just like in the U.S.) charitable donations are tax-deductable. The main difference is that the U.K. tries to automate the tax colection/refund process, so that most people don't have to submit a tax return. It means the tax refund goes to the charity, not the donor, but the donor can just take that into account when deciding how much to give.
OTOH, this could kill the aftermarket for used DVDs completely --- something that the the media companies have long wanted to do. If a working DVD is indistinguishable from one that's degraded, no-one will trust a second-hand store.
He means it in the same context as "spammers sell penile enlargement to most email users." They're selling, but we're not all buying.
This makes life harder for Web companies, but it's not unreasonable. You may not like the laws that says they can't publish anti-semitic propaganda in Germany or anti-Scientology information in the U.S., but you can't blame Google, Yahoo, etc. for obeying them.
If future sources opt not to talk to journalists, it won't affect their livelihood adversely. (Most publishers will be only too glad to pay the reporter for a fluff piece that advances advertisers' interests rather than a serious invetsigative report.) It will affect the functioning of a democratic society, because it will deny readers access to information.
Now, I don't agree with either the DMA or NRA, but respect the NRA a lot more because it is made of individual people protecting their individual rights --- even though guns obviously do more damage than junk mail. In fact, as far as Big Evil Trade Associations go, the DMA is fairly harmless (compared to the BSA, RIAA, MPAA, etc.) It mostly represents regular junk mailers that use the postal service, not spammers.
My local library has a "book exchange", where people are free to give and take old books that would otherwise be thrown out. (No tax write-off, of course.) It's a good idea, even if it does sometimes fill up with non-book items like political leaflets and AOL CDs.
This only applies to commercial UHF TV. The BBC doesn't have advertising at all (except for itself, between shows), and satellite/cable can be just as bad (or good) as American stations.
Anyway, 128-bit WEP (actually just 104 bits) isn't safe. The crack just takes twice as long.
The $100 MS tax on a new PC has to go somewhere. So do the huge payments that the BSA collects. Sure, Microsoft lies, but it's still profitable. Its profits just aren't as large as it claims. OTOH, Cisco...