Making a copy of a TV broadcast for yourself is fine.
My real question is that since we get TV so far behind other countries, is it legal to "time-shift" in the other direction?
ie. Can I consider it "time-shifting" if I shift from a future broadcast of (say) Stargate Atlantis that's yet to be announced here? I can get the torrent, download & watch it, then just not watch it on TV in four years when it's out here.
Depending on how you read the copyright act, torrents of TV shows that have been broadcasted may "less illegal" than torrents of music or movies.
Umm... those screenshots look perfectly normal to me.
In your examples, a post at -1 shows up while your threshold is set to 0 (ie. higher). If it weren't for the fact that you were logged in as that user, I would be surprised. The logged-in-user's posts are always displayed, whatever their rating.
If you're logged out and want to see your post, just lower your threshold to -1. There's no conspiracy or propoganda going on.
.au is the same... but the record companies here have publicly stated that they're not interested in "private use" copying. (And nobody has ever been charged for it here).
Doesn't stop me from being miffed at a bad law though:)
Amusingly enough, from what I understand of the claims the latter would be fine. (As long as they accept case differences as "different";). Otherwise, the first is still fine.
Though of course there is what, 30 years of pointer arithmetic and "!=" in C... This just says "!=, in BASIC, called IsNot".
As far as I'm concerned, if I as a phone customer have to pay an E911 tax on my phone bill, then E911 service should only be available to people who pay that tax.
No.
If somebody hasn't ever paid tax (someone who has never been employed, an infant, whatever) then by that reasoning they shouldn't get anything that taxes pay for - medication, hospital use, etc.
Somebody without a car or a drivers license shouldn't be able to walk or ride their pushbike on the road.
Governments are there to help everybody, not just those who pay a given tax.
(I do agree, however, that taxes on specific items, like petrol, should be given back to something related - pollution control and roads, in that case).
You can still add music to an iPod from however many iTunes installations you want.
Just set them not to sync manually, you'll be fine.
As for getting them off, you can just mount the drive under Linux or Windows and copy the directory that holds the files. It's not nicely organised (for a user) but it's not that bad.
Sometimes they search mostly for "similar" IPs, IPs in the same subnet or whatever. (That way PCs physically closer to each other, like all attached to a single ISP, will infect each other quickly).
Oh yeah triangulation is certainly very possible, but most places haven't automated it (for good reason!). I haven't talked to any mobile techs (I know a few in the largest telco here) in the past year or so about it, but back then it was pencil-and-paper to work out locations. (And they could get it down to a couple of metres, including elevation, depending on the # of bases and stuff).
Without triangulation of the signal (which is alot more manual in real life than TV makes it out to be), you can only get a result from knowing what base you're connected to, which is so inaccurate it's hardly a privacy issue.
(In most residential areas around where I live, you'd get like 5km accuracy... but I've seen it be about 40km away*!).
* It was a clear sunny day, the phone managed to get line-of-sight 50km across water to another base which just barely managed to be stronger than one on the other side of the hill we were on).
Hm, except they probably want the last prime, not the highest prime.
So basically you have to iterate through numbers in 'e', checking off ten-digit primes... you'll get a bunch of dupes though.
Once you've either (a) crossed them all off, or (b) gotten really bored waiting for The Next Prime, go to the last one that you checked off, and check out {value}.com.
In this case, reverse engineering is generally legal. However, to install Blizzard software, you have to agree that you will not R/E their software, or you are not allowed to install it.
I don't generally play games; I leave that to my best friend (who currently has more money and more free time).
Is there a part of the EULA that stops me from using his computer (which I often do) and his install of $PROGRAM (which I often do) and reverse engineering it? (Which I haven't done yet, but hey).
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Actually we do get some fair use laws.
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http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act
Making a copy of a TV broadcast for yourself is fine.
My real question is that since we get TV so far behind other countries, is it legal to "time-shift" in the other direction?
ie. Can I consider it "time-shifting" if I shift from a future broadcast of (say) Stargate Atlantis that's yet to be announced here? I can get the torrent, download & watch it, then just not watch it on TV in four years when it's out here.
Depending on how you read the copyright act, torrents of TV shows that have been broadcasted may "less illegal" than torrents of music or movies.
Umm... those screenshots look perfectly normal to me.
In your examples, a post at -1 shows up while your threshold is set to 0 (ie. higher). If it weren't for the fact that you were logged in as that user, I would be surprised. The logged-in-user's posts are always displayed, whatever their rating.
If you're logged out and want to see your post, just lower your threshold to -1. There's no conspiracy or propoganda going on.
2) People live longer now so copyrights should last longer (for kids and such)
Or maybe they should still be short, to encourage people who create things to create more things in their longer life?
I mean, we keep pushing back the retirement age, surely the number of works of art / literature / etc. that can be created has also increased?
The guy is saying that instead of signing (eg).
:-)
"Wilber Smith"
he can sign
"Won't Agree"
People see the big "W" at the start of "Won't", and assume it's his full signature, whereas it's really him refusing to sign.
Neat trick
It's Friday afternoon for me too...
:-)
Guess the grass is greener on his side of the world?
.au is the same... but the record companies here have publicly stated that they're not interested in "private use" copying. (And nobody has ever been charged for it here).
:)
Doesn't stop me from being miffed at a bad law though
> > And you think that your IM service cant?
:)
> no. it can't. we run our own jabber server here. =)
So it can, but it'd be you doing the snooping
Ah, but that compares their value, not their memory address...
The claims explicitly say that it's where the operator is between the operands...
Amusingly enough, from what I understand of the claims the latter would be fine. (As long as they accept case differences as "different" ;). Otherwise, the first is still fine.
Though of course there is what, 30 years of pointer arithmetic and "!=" in C... This just says "!=, in BASIC, called IsNot".
As far as I'm concerned, if I as a phone customer have to pay an E911 tax on my phone bill, then E911 service should only be available to people who pay that tax.
No.
If somebody hasn't ever paid tax (someone who has never been employed, an infant, whatever) then by that reasoning they shouldn't get anything that taxes pay for - medication, hospital use, etc.
Somebody without a car or a drivers license shouldn't be able to walk or ride their pushbike on the road.
Governments are there to help everybody, not just those who pay a given tax.
(I do agree, however, that taxes on specific items, like petrol, should be given back to something related - pollution control and roads, in that case).
If you ever buy a gun for $50, you'd better have a good emergency room nearby, because that gun is going to explode in your hand.
:)
Which will probably do more to stop people from having (and using) guns than any other form of gun control
Imagine how many freedom fighter cells would be created if we turned the world into a police state.
And how the authorities would call them "terrorist cells"...
You can still add music to an iPod from however many iTunes installations you want.
Just set them not to sync manually, you'll be fine.
As for getting them off, you can just mount the drive under Linux or Windows and copy the directory that holds the files. It's not nicely organised (for a user) but it's not that bad.
OK, let me rephrase that.
Pristine, machine connected *directly* to the internet, with no NAT or Router protecting them.
Random guessing, yes.
Sometimes they search mostly for "similar" IPs, IPs in the same subnet or whatever. (That way PCs physically closer to each other, like all attached to a single ISP, will infect each other quickly).
You must've gotten the wrong IP.
;)
I'm married.
It's just a matter of scale.
;)
A pristine WinXP box will be compromised in 20 minutes (on average).
I'm still waiting for my unfirewalled 'nix box to be rooted
CherryOS.
:)
For when you don't want a lemon!
Man, you just gave me a really bad picture in my head.
:)
I hope you're happy!
I just wish the mac had a start menu so I could find the shutdown option.
:)
Call it funny if you want, but there is rarely any reason to shut down a mac - unlike Windows, macs can reliably suspend and resume
Oh yeah triangulation is certainly very possible, but most places haven't automated it (for good reason!). I haven't talked to any mobile techs (I know a few in the largest telco here) in the past year or so about it, but back then it was pencil-and-paper to work out locations. (And they could get it down to a couple of metres, including elevation, depending on the # of bases and stuff).
Without triangulation of the signal (which is alot more manual in real life than TV makes it out to be), you can only get a result from knowing what base you're connected to, which is so inaccurate it's hardly a privacy issue.
(In most residential areas around where I live, you'd get like 5km accuracy... but I've seen it be about 40km away*!).
* It was a clear sunny day, the phone managed to get line-of-sight 50km across water to another base which just barely managed to be stronger than one on the other side of the hill we were on).
Hm, except they probably want the last prime, not the highest prime.
:)
So basically you have to iterate through numbers in 'e', checking off ten-digit primes... you'll get a bunch of dupes though.
Once you've either (a) crossed them all off, or (b) gotten really bored waiting for The Next Prime, go to the last one that you checked off, and check out {value}.com.
Simple
In this case, reverse engineering is generally legal. However, to install Blizzard software, you have to agree that you will not R/E their software, or you are not allowed to install it.
I don't generally play games; I leave that to my best friend (who currently has more money and more free time).
Is there a part of the EULA that stops me from using his computer (which I often do) and his install of $PROGRAM (which I often do) and reverse engineering it? (Which I haven't done yet, but hey).