It's not worth the effort to steal them because the thief thinks your taste blows.
And because they can get all the free music they want from other thieves.
The fact that the stuff is widely bootlegged doesn't make it right for you to justify changing the law to fuck the people who make the music out of their pay.
Suppose you point out where it says that. The Federal Reserve Board is a government agency. The Federal Reserve Banks are not. The board is the overseer for the banks. So are you saying the overseer can't see into the banks? That's not the same thing as if the Congress can't see into the banks. Even if Congress can't see into the banks, if Congress decides the board isn't doing its job, it can replace the board with one that will.
It's not a bad thing, btw, that the government isn't also the bank, and not really a bad thing that there's an opaque yet intelligent buffer between them.
You put (an illegal act) a couple of items late. Otherwise I agree.
The ruling is very narrow. The police had probable cause and observed crime in progress. Not being able to see it doesn't negate the fact that they smelled and heard it. As a precedent, this one is probably moot.
The police are your avatar in the world of crime-fighting. You need to give them the ability to beat the criminals, or there will be no point, and you will have to have your own weapons and take your own personal risk. The criminals will have whatever tools they wish.
Arm the police better than the criminals, then prohibit them from using those weapons on anyone other than criminals. If the police develop a culture of ignoring that prohibition, that's because you failed to do your due diligence in managing your employees, which requires no weapons and no personal risk at all.
in which case the lawyer gets 99% and you get a coupon towards your next purchase
Wow. You're a total dope.
You'd rather be fucked in the ass than not, just because you need help to stop it. And your reason is that you overestimate by 200% the cost to society of stopping it.
I'm old enough. So is Jobs. That crap almost buried Apple. And IBM wasn't nearly the only source of PPCs. Freescale would love to have the Mac account back.
All you're saying is that as soon as someone makes an MP3 of their song, it has zero monetary value, since an MP3 can be infinitely reproduced.
People who produce great things deserve to be paid by everyone who reaps the benefits. People who steal their output and resell it or give it away free deserve jail.
Uh, no, Doctor Disorthogonality, you broke it. When I cat a PNG I want to see the bytes, not a picture. If I want to see the picture I'll firefox or gimp the PNG, then it will just work.
And fixed-width fonts for data are ideal. Using a variable-width font and trying to od anything is a freaking nightmare.
Look at your iPad. Can you even determine without ripping it open what is inside? Most people have no clue nor do they care. It could be an ARM or a Tegra or a Llano or an Atom. (This btw is why Intel started the "Intel Inside" sticker campaign; so you know what it is that's really running your computer and they get credit for it.)
Apple can switch whatever they're using now for an Intel chip, and if 99.9% of the public even finds out it will be because of marketing, not because of the look or feel of the product.
So it means nothing at all that ARM is in the hands of millions. Very few people are brand-loyal in microprocessors; and those who are have an ulterior motive, not a performance or value motive.
I would like to steal money by showing movies over the internet. I own the movie, right? I bought a copy so I can make as many copies in real-time as I want, right? Isn't that what "freedom of the press" is all about? Remember the Maine!
"Yes ma'am, I know you were murdered, but it's not like your attacker raped you."
See how stupid that sounds?
Moral equivalency is not the issue. Felony is felony and there's a large range of things within that classification.
For instance, this may be a class-6 or 7 felony, while murder is a class-1 felony and rape is class-2. The class number is an index into the table of punishments.
And no, it's not going to be rational all the way through. On the first list that Google returns, we see that altering a lottery ticket is a class-3 felony, while setting an occupied jail on fire is a class-4 felony, in Arizona. Likely they're using the UCC, so it's possible it's that way in a lot of places. And no, I don't know what you'd get for setting an occupied jail on fire with a burning lottery ticket.
Apple is completely agnostic about architecture. Their move from PPC to x86 for Macs proved that for all time. Their constant flip-flopping on graphics is just more data. If they see performance and feature and price lining up in their favor with any chip, they will buy that chip. Jobs is everybody's favorite customer and nobody's friend.
Technically it's impossible to stop the government from tapping your wires. All you're saying is you don't want them to be able to do it in an app on their iPhones just because you pwned them on/.
The point is, because we have legal protections against their use of the ability, it doesn't matter if they have the ability.
It's the same deal with standing in front of a phalanx of police with their riot sticks out, wearing a "fuck you pig" T-shirt. They certainly have the ability to crack your skull like the dumbass you are, but they don't, because then they'd be in trouble. The answer is to make sure the law that says they'd be in trouble stays intact, not to make sure they are never issued riot sticks.
It isn't about the tools. It's about whether you can keep your freedom despite the government having the tools. If they were capable of eroding your freedom they could do that with or without the tools.
They've been putting a little attention on mobile, and playing a little poker with the market. Now, clearly, they see that desktop is about to become a lower tier, and mobile will be the major sector, and server will be the hidden half of the mobile sector.
Their ability to work at low power and small form-factor is improving to competitive levels, and they can work past any deficiency they have in those areas.
So now they're actually putting their major focus on mobile. The 800-lb gorilla just entered the room.
No. This is scientific, and called a "hypothesis." And, based on all available data about the creation of ball lightning and the activity of earthquakes, is a predictable result. I.e., if nobody had ever seen it before, we should have been able to predict that someone eventually would see it. Then their seeing it would be considered data. Oh wait, we can just pretend nobody'd seen it before this quake, then reason that because they saw it, it's data. So the prediction is accurate, and it's no longer merely a hypothesis, it's now a theory. You can cite me.
Slashdot Mirror
When Jesus Christ returns this Saturday, the world's only confirmed zombie will be un-undead, solving the only known source of the problem.
So the CDC is a little late with its contribution, here.
It's not worth the effort to steal them because the thief thinks your taste blows.
And because they can get all the free music they want from other thieves.
The fact that the stuff is widely bootlegged doesn't make it right for you to justify changing the law to fuck the people who make the music out of their pay.
Suppose you point out where it says that. The Federal Reserve Board is a government agency. The Federal Reserve Banks are not. The board is the overseer for the banks. So are you saying the overseer can't see into the banks? That's not the same thing as if the Congress can't see into the banks. Even if Congress can't see into the banks, if Congress decides the board isn't doing its job, it can replace the board with one that will.
It's not a bad thing, btw, that the government isn't also the bank, and not really a bad thing that there's an opaque yet intelligent buffer between them.
Can we get random inspections of licensed securities firms? Please?
You put (an illegal act) a couple of items late. Otherwise I agree.
The ruling is very narrow. The police had probable cause and observed crime in progress. Not being able to see it doesn't negate the fact that they smelled and heard it. As a precedent, this one is probably moot.
The police are your avatar in the world of crime-fighting. You need to give them the ability to beat the criminals, or there will be no point, and you will have to have your own weapons and take your own personal risk. The criminals will have whatever tools they wish.
Arm the police better than the criminals, then prohibit them from using those weapons on anyone other than criminals. If the police develop a culture of ignoring that prohibition, that's because you failed to do your due diligence in managing your employees, which requires no weapons and no personal risk at all.
$ cat -v lena.png
(follow your bliss)
in which case the lawyer gets 99% and you get a coupon towards your next purchase
Wow. You're a total dope.
You'd rather be fucked in the ass than not, just because you need help to stop it. And your reason is that you overestimate by 200% the cost to society of stopping it.
I'm old enough. So is Jobs. That crap almost buried Apple. And IBM wasn't nearly the only source of PPCs. Freescale would love to have the Mac account back.
Why exactly do you think that I objected to rationality?
I was pointing out that OP was ignorant of what "Felony" means, and why this can be a felony and still not be as great a crime as the example he gave.
Read his post. "Just because I downloaded and watched."
Followed by "I unplugged that computer and sold it for scrap."
Could he be tried for serving files he never served? No. Does this law we're discussing talk about clienting? No.
Until he admits to himself that he's serving the files as well as watching them, he--and apparently you--will not understand the nature of his crime.
All you're saying is that as soon as someone makes an MP3 of their song, it has zero monetary value, since an MP3 can be infinitely reproduced.
People who produce great things deserve to be paid by everyone who reaps the benefits. People who steal their output and resell it or give it away free deserve jail.
"You can cat a PNG and have it just work."
Uh, no, Doctor Disorthogonality, you broke it. When I cat a PNG I want to see the bytes, not a picture. If I want to see the picture I'll firefox or gimp the PNG, then it will just work.
And fixed-width fonts for data are ideal. Using a variable-width font and trying to od anything is a freaking nightmare.
Look at your iPad. Can you even determine without ripping it open what is inside? Most people have no clue nor do they care. It could be an ARM or a Tegra or a Llano or an Atom. (This btw is why Intel started the "Intel Inside" sticker campaign; so you know what it is that's really running your computer and they get credit for it.)
Apple can switch whatever they're using now for an Intel chip, and if 99.9% of the public even finds out it will be because of marketing, not because of the look or feel of the product.
So it means nothing at all that ARM is in the hands of millions. Very few people are brand-loyal in microprocessors; and those who are have an ulterior motive, not a performance or value motive.
No, it's a felony if you serve the files, not if you client them.
RTFA.
Yes, Canada is a better run country than us.
You might want to bone up on your recent Canadian political history. Because, uh, not so much with the progressiveness the past year or two.
Dear Mr. Congressman,
I would like to steal money by showing movies over the internet. I own the movie, right? I bought a copy so I can make as many copies in real-time as I want, right? Isn't that what "freedom of the press" is all about? Remember the Maine!
Signed,
L. I. McWire
"Yes ma'am, I know you were murdered, but it's not like your attacker raped you."
See how stupid that sounds?
Moral equivalency is not the issue. Felony is felony and there's a large range of things within that classification.
For instance, this may be a class-6 or 7 felony, while murder is a class-1 felony and rape is class-2. The class number is an index into the table of punishments.
And no, it's not going to be rational all the way through. On the first list that Google returns, we see that altering a lottery ticket is a class-3 felony, while setting an occupied jail on fire is a class-4 felony, in Arizona. Likely they're using the UCC, so it's possible it's that way in a lot of places. And no, I don't know what you'd get for setting an occupied jail on fire with a burning lottery ticket.
There's nothing about "2-party system" that has anything to do with "They have the money to buy politicians. We don't."
If there was 1, 3, 5, 7, or 10e100 parties, you'd still be a broke-ass slacker refusing to show up to shout down their candidate.
Sue them. Stop your fucking whining, get off your lazy ass, and protect your rights.
Joe Mama.
Apple is completely agnostic about architecture. Their move from PPC to x86 for Macs proved that for all time. Their constant flip-flopping on graphics is just more data. If they see performance and feature and price lining up in their favor with any chip, they will buy that chip. Jobs is everybody's favorite customer and nobody's friend.
They already have "this ability".
Technically it's impossible to stop the government from tapping your wires. All you're saying is you don't want them to be able to do it in an app on their iPhones just because you pwned them on /.
The point is, because we have legal protections against their use of the ability, it doesn't matter if they have the ability.
It's the same deal with standing in front of a phalanx of police with their riot sticks out, wearing a "fuck you pig" T-shirt. They certainly have the ability to crack your skull like the dumbass you are, but they don't, because then they'd be in trouble. The answer is to make sure the law that says they'd be in trouble stays intact, not to make sure they are never issued riot sticks.
It isn't about the tools. It's about whether you can keep your freedom despite the government having the tools. If they were capable of eroding your freedom they could do that with or without the tools.
They've been putting a little attention on mobile, and playing a little poker with the market. Now, clearly, they see that desktop is about to become a lower tier, and mobile will be the major sector, and server will be the hidden half of the mobile sector.
Their ability to work at low power and small form-factor is improving to competitive levels, and they can work past any deficiency they have in those areas.
So now they're actually putting their major focus on mobile. The 800-lb gorilla just entered the room.
No. This is scientific, and called a "hypothesis." And, based on all available data about the creation of ball lightning and the activity of earthquakes, is a predictable result. I.e., if nobody had ever seen it before, we should have been able to predict that someone eventually would see it. Then their seeing it would be considered data. Oh wait, we can just pretend nobody'd seen it before this quake, then reason that because they saw it, it's data. So the prediction is accurate, and it's no longer merely a hypothesis, it's now a theory. You can cite me.
Hope that helps.