If lawyers can't even define it, technology can't possibly contain the intelligence necessary to determine the difference between fair-use and illegal copying in every case; so how can the RIAA hope to enforce copyright without violating the fair-use rights reserved to the public? Is there a market for a piece of software that files a lawsuit against the RIAA every time a person tries to make a rightful copy of a recording and is prevented from doing so?
The NYT is engaging in argumentum ad verecundiam, "argument from authority".
A paper trail won't stop fraud. In fact, it offers any number of ballot-destruction exploits. Open software and certified, well-tested systems will stop fraud.
Forcing a paper trail will encourage laxity in the software and system design, and more importantly will add a crushing expense that could be used instead to further test and harden the system.
Couldn't they think of a game more exciting than Soccer? Or is this just the final indictment of this stultifying "sport" for people who can't afford a stick?
It's clear this Cohen character is clinically insane. The SCOTUS won't even review nonsense like this. They'll tell him to get lost. Then they'll probably send a note to the US Marshalls to go help Kremen collect his $65 Million.
Junkyard Wars is the most un-Mall-Culture thing on the television. Going to the mall to drum up business for corporate fixers selling plasticky crap is the antithesis of their do-anything-with-refuse ethos.
I always find it interesting when organizations dedicated to promoting the American government organize themselves using classic socialist power and investment structures (the military, SAIC, etc.)
Rewriting old code does exactly nothing to improve the productivity that factors into GDP.
If that's all the SW industry is doing, then it is pretending not to be dead, and when it dies, it will hurt the companies it duped into performing the make-work tasks.
Free software is helping to kill the Software Business. Dickie Stallman's utopian view of a technology industry entirely peopled by unpaid labor is coming true.
So now there are laws making certain kinds of spamming a felony, and cracking is already a felony.
Two felonies.
If the public were informed that anyone sending them UCE is engaging in felonious conduct, the public would be less likely to do business with spammers, and businesses would get the idea that spammin is not only unprofitable, but risks their business, massive legal expenses, and jail time.
In a mature market, you never lower price because of lower costs. You only lower price because of lower demand. If demand is lower because your competitor is underselling you, then you have to lower your price. But if your competitor understands that he has no reason to lower prices if demand hasn't dropped, then you don't have to lower prices.
Adam Smith presumed people were greedy...and stupid.
Music has no intrinsic value. Its valuation is based on hype, idolatry, and mood alteration.
So it doesn't matter what the production cost is. That's hugely variable based on the artist's pay anyway. It only matters what the sucker will pay at the cash register.
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Here's the question I submitted:
If lawyers can't even define it, technology can't possibly contain the intelligence necessary to determine the difference between fair-use and illegal copying in every case; so how can the RIAA hope to enforce copyright without violating the fair-use rights reserved to the public? Is there a market for a piece of software that files a lawsuit against the RIAA every time a person tries to make a rightful copy of a recording and is prevented from doing so?
The NYT is engaging in argumentum ad verecundiam, "argument from authority".
A paper trail won't stop fraud. In fact, it offers any number of ballot-destruction exploits. Open software and certified, well-tested systems will stop fraud.
Forcing a paper trail will encourage laxity in the software and system design, and more importantly will add a crushing expense that could be used instead to further test and harden the system.
Robotic grass growing.
Couldn't they think of a game more exciting than Soccer? Or is this just the final indictment of this stultifying "sport" for people who can't afford a stick?
What sort of childhood trauma leads people to need ghosts and story-heroes to guide their lives?
Except for the fabulous CGI, the whole thing was made with wooden puppets, as far as I could tell.
"Oh, we mistook you for a 9-foot black man," and you say "it could happen to anyone."
Bullshit. Intimidation is a crime. Prosecute.
Any article that starts out "there are six reasons" and lists five reasons is not worth the download entropy it expends.
Duplicate articles, server crashes, misspellings...
Educated monkeys.
It still isn't Shakespeare.
Okay, so, it's a Bazooka, which is what, 70-80 years old, now?
Looks like the TOW from what? 15 years ago?
Those crafty Swedes.
It's clear this Cohen character is clinically insane. The SCOTUS won't even review nonsense like this. They'll tell him to get lost. Then they'll probably send a note to the US Marshalls to go help Kremen collect his $65 Million.
Junkyard Wars is the most un-Mall-Culture thing on the television. Going to the mall to drum up business for corporate fixers selling plasticky crap is the antithesis of their do-anything-with-refuse ethos.
I thought theft of computing services was illegal.
>I forget, is it Libya or Syria that's on the UN Committee on Human Rights.
It's the U.S. who got kicked off for not following the rules.
I always find it interesting when organizations dedicated to promoting the American government organize themselves using classic socialist power and investment structures (the military, SAIC, etc.)
...because the traffic exceeds the low BW limit put in place by his school to stop campus filesharing.
Who wants to be known as the guy who sells the rights to SARS?
Rewriting old code does exactly nothing to improve the productivity that factors into GDP.
If that's all the SW industry is doing, then it is pretending not to be dead, and when it dies, it will hurt the companies it duped into performing the make-work tasks.
It will take the economy with it.
Automobiles have style, which you have to get a new one of every few years or it affects your self-esteem. And they wear out.
Software has no style, except for skins, which are given away free by the hundred. And software never wears out.
>They haven't even kept pace with free software,
Free software is helping to kill the Software Business. Dickie Stallman's utopian view of a technology industry entirely peopled by unpaid labor is coming true.
But then they stopped keeping score.
So now there are laws making certain kinds of spamming a felony, and cracking is already a felony.
Two felonies.
If the public were informed that anyone sending them UCE is engaging in felonious conduct, the public would be less likely to do business with spammers, and businesses would get the idea that spammin is not only unprofitable, but risks their business, massive legal expenses, and jail time.
Someone should send out an email.
In a mature market, you never lower price because of lower costs. You only lower price because of lower demand. If demand is lower because your competitor is underselling you, then you have to lower your price. But if your competitor understands that he has no reason to lower prices if demand hasn't dropped, then you don't have to lower prices.
Adam Smith presumed people were greedy...and stupid.
Music has no intrinsic value. Its valuation is based on hype, idolatry, and mood alteration.
So it doesn't matter what the production cost is. That's hugely variable based on the artist's pay anyway. It only matters what the sucker will pay at the cash register.
Want to post anything else encouraging kids to commit crimes?
It'll be funny when those four show up here to get their money back, won't it.