Palladium (or whatever they're calling it today) is available? Or until they can buy some more laws to ensure that they can enforce their licensed-not-owned view of hardware? Giving up on the PC altogether and just aiming at Son/Grandson of X Box as the replacement for home PCs? Working out exactly how they can lease rather than sell software and content to Suzy Homemaker and Carrie Cubicle?
Tune in next year when these and other exciting questions will be ducked by Microsoft marketdroids.
English law applies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Scots law applies in Scotland. If google.co.uk was hosted in Scotland, you'd have a point, but I highly doubt it.
You can always move off and become a hermit if you don't agree.
Sure you can, until the government in the shape of BATF, Federal marshalls and the FBI decide that you need to be entrapped, provoked into defending yourself from an unidentified threat, and then taken down hard and fast.
You pay your taxes, or you get jailed or killed. It's that simple.
Thanks for your touching circa 1997 views on the subject. What you're almost certainly unaware of is that the DMCA cease-and-desist is an opportunity to choose whether you make yourself liable or not.
If Google wishes to leave the links in place without contacting the linked to site owners, it can do so. The only penalty to doing so is that it can (note: can) then be sued for contributory infringement. If it chooses to take the links down, it cannot be sued. If it chooses to leave the links up after the linked to site owners assert that there is no copyright violation, then it can't be sued. In this case, it seems clear that none of the kazaa lite sites were prepared to declare that there was no copyright violation.
Just for once, the DMCA got this right. The cease-and-desist is an opportunity for Google, not a punishment. In legal terms, it's a remarkably polite "did you know...?" notice.
Depends on what it is. If it contains portions of the Kazaa exe, it's a derivative work. If, however, it's a bit of code that runs on the Kazaa exe and programatically modifies it (nooping or jumping over the branches that spawn the spyware) then it's free and clear, because the violation then becomes in using it, not in writing or distributing it.
Let's see. Fully half of the files that I used to download from the Kazaa network were mislabeled or mis-described. These are files sitting on the same hard drives of the the types of user that you think are savvy enough to turn a ban into a boon.
If they're unable to comprehend the simple issue of renaming a god damn file on their hard drive, what chance that they can find something that they don't know about based on on evidence that they can't see?
Seems to me like Sharman know exactly what standard of luser they want to attract.
"Passenger carrying"? Did you read the article?
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Studies In Ornithopters
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· Score: 4, Interesting
These are small military machines. Their purpose is to enhance our ability to kill people that piss us off.
The martian exploration stuff is flim flam, because, as they themselves say, this is about the most inefficient way we could possible devise of flying about. Efficient flying animals hardly flap their wings at all. In contrast Hummingbirds drink eighty seven times their own weight in a cocktail of cocaine and Red Bull each day just to stay alive. And if you're not sure of my grasp of mathematics or biology there, consider that the alternative is believing someone who says "centuries of evolution have produced structures and systems that work very well".
Ornithopters are essentially cool-but-useless at the human scale. Yes, everyone said the Wright brothers were crazy too, but the thing is, the Wright brothers looked at ways of improving on the results of (literally hundreds of years of!) random evolution. Merely mimicking it just seems to produce a lot of problems, and fixing them appears to give a solution that's worse than what we already have.
Good luck to the people that get to play with these, but really, we should just stick to the much more credible miniature black helicopters.
Any and all of the sites on the list can get themselves relisted simply by asking Google to do so. It's not as though Kazaa is actually going to bring suit against them, is it?
if(>X packets received from ip
&& !reverse dns for ip)
block ip
Do I win $10?
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I actually believed you until you spoiled it with the laughable assertion that North Korea have access to the new protocol with QoS rather than the basic RFC1149 transport layer.
Sorry, I'm really ranting at that tubby bitch Cowboy Neal for allowing such a vile piece of libel. Slashdot don't control our submissions, but they do select stories, and they're currently libelling merry hell out of the accused person here.
Heck, maybe they are guilty as original sin, but if I'd been collared in a cyber cafe while playing around with a worm, I'd like to at least be given the chance to put my case before I was judged and sentenced by the masses on Slashdot.
It's not so much whether you'll sue, as whether the cop reckons that a judge will allow evidence from a probable cause search of you, and whether a jury will believe it. If you're Joe All American, you might get away with claiming that the cop had no business finding those fifty kilos of Bolivian Marching Powder in your trunk. If you're Skanky McEthnic, you're going down for that dime bag of hash in your pocket.
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Palladium (or whatever they're calling it today) is available? Or until they can buy some more laws to ensure that they can enforce their licensed-not-owned view of hardware? Giving up on the PC altogether and just aiming at Son/Grandson of X Box as the replacement for home PCs? Working out exactly how they can lease rather than sell software and content to Suzy Homemaker and Carrie Cubicle?
Tune in next year when these and other exciting questions will be ducked by Microsoft marketdroids.
English law applies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Scots law applies in Scotland. If google.co.uk was hosted in Scotland, you'd have a point, but I highly doubt it.
Why would Johnny have to learn how to push buttons at the voting booth? Or do you mean that it'd be smart for him to affirm his vote for Republican?
You can always move off and become a hermit if you don't agree.
Sure you can, until the government in the shape of BATF, Federal marshalls and the FBI decide that you need to be entrapped, provoked into defending yourself from an unidentified threat, and then taken down hard and fast.
You pay your taxes, or you get jailed or killed. It's that simple.
Thanks for your touching circa 1997 views on the subject. What you're almost certainly unaware of is that the DMCA cease-and-desist is an opportunity to choose whether you make yourself liable or not.
If Google wishes to leave the links in place without contacting the linked to site owners, it can do so. The only penalty to doing so is that it can (note: can) then be sued for contributory infringement. If it chooses to take the links down, it cannot be sued. If it chooses to leave the links up after the linked to site owners assert that there is no copyright violation, then it can't be sued. In this case, it seems clear that none of the kazaa lite sites were prepared to declare that there was no copyright violation.
Just for once, the DMCA got this right. The cease-and-desist is an opportunity for Google, not a punishment. In legal terms, it's a remarkably polite "did you know...?" notice.
How exactly could the RI|MPAA do that to Kazaa? Describe the process, citing the DMCA as you go.
Depends on what it is. If it contains portions of the Kazaa exe, it's a derivative work. If, however, it's a bit of code that runs on the Kazaa exe and programatically modifies it (nooping or jumping over the branches that spawn the spyware) then it's free and clear, because the violation then becomes in using it, not in writing or distributing it.
Good argument, but by the same logic, why do you support Saddam Hussein?
Banned because the followers of Xenu can't tolerate anyone stealing their shtick.
Let's see. Fully half of the files that I used to download from the Kazaa network were mislabeled or mis-described. These are files sitting on the same hard drives of the the types of user that you think are savvy enough to turn a ban into a boon.
If they're unable to comprehend the simple issue of renaming a god damn file on their hard drive, what chance that they can find something that they don't know about based on on evidence that they can't see?
Seems to me like Sharman know exactly what standard of luser they want to attract.
These are small military machines. Their purpose is to enhance our ability to kill people that piss us off.
The martian exploration stuff is flim flam, because, as they themselves say, this is about the most inefficient way we could possible devise of flying about. Efficient flying animals hardly flap their wings at all. In contrast Hummingbirds drink eighty seven times their own weight in a cocktail of cocaine and Red Bull each day just to stay alive. And if you're not sure of my grasp of mathematics or biology there, consider that the alternative is believing someone who says "centuries of evolution have produced structures and systems that work very well".
Ornithopters are essentially cool-but-useless at the human scale. Yes, everyone said the Wright brothers were crazy too, but the thing is, the Wright brothers looked at ways of improving on the results of (literally hundreds of years of!) random evolution. Merely mimicking it just seems to produce a lot of problems, and fixing them appears to give a solution that's worse than what we already have.
Good luck to the people that get to play with these, but really, we should just stick to the much more credible miniature black helicopters.
How about "ipchains"? That sounds kind of kinky, and I don't think it's been used before.
Gee whiz, perhaps if we had more laws written by non-lawyers, we wouldn't need so many lawyers to interpret them for us poor humble Joes. You savvy?
Start law classes at night school, or pick out the trailer park that you'll end your life in. Your choice.
You don't trust Japan? The USA has one meeeellion lawyers. Japan has under 17,000. You work it out.
Any and all of the sites on the list can get themselves relisted simply by asking Google to do so. It's not as though Kazaa is actually going to bring suit against them, is it?
if(>X packets received from ip
&& !reverse dns for ip)
block ip
Do I win $10?
I actually believed you until you spoiled it with the laughable assertion that North Korea have access to the new protocol with QoS rather than the basic RFC1149 transport layer.
Sorry, I'm really ranting at that tubby bitch Cowboy Neal for allowing such a vile piece of libel. Slashdot don't control our submissions, but they do select stories, and they're currently libelling merry hell out of the accused person here.
Heck, maybe they are guilty as original sin, but if I'd been collared in a cyber cafe while playing around with a worm, I'd like to at least be given the chance to put my case before I was judged and sentenced by the masses on Slashdot.
It's not so much whether you'll sue, as whether the cop reckons that a judge will allow evidence from a probable cause search of you, and whether a jury will believe it. If you're Joe All American, you might get away with claiming that the cop had no business finding those fifty kilos of Bolivian Marching Powder in your trunk. If you're Skanky McEthnic, you're going down for that dime bag of hash in your pocket.
Yeah! Lose that advertising revenue!
You're thinking of 1996 or so. In 2003, Slashdot is an advert server with some blog code attached.
>I hate that phrase. First, lawyers don't create laws; Legislators/Congress(wo)men do (and judges interpret them)
Funnily enough, 39% of Congress are lawyers. I believe that this is lower than usual. Perhaps some of them have been disbarred because of all the fraud, assault, drug use, shoplifting and drunk driving that they like to indulge in.
Lawyers and Congress are two sides of the same tarnished coin.
Patent for the wheel. There are others. The USPTO has gone beyond farce and reached a point where it's become simply too sick to live.
It's still a bit lucid. Try removing the periods and running it all together into one sentence. If that fails, THE CAPS LOCK KEY IS YOUR FRIEND.
Typo, he meant "Lunis"