I never understood why it was called a law. It was an incredibly accurate prediction, but there was nothing holding is there.
All the so-called "Laws" can be exactly described like that. The Law of Gravity is also nothing more than an incredible accurate prediction, waiting for the time that a pencil rolling off a desk falls upwards...
The Napster CEO isn't lying -- he's just whining. By allowing only MP3's to play on their iPods, they do not allow DRM'd formats that other distribution channels are licenced for.
This really highlights the negotiating power of Apple -- who else could get the music industry to agree to a non-DRM legal download song service? Certainly not Napster.
"That is their property. Nobody has a right to take a snapshot of it, store it, or recreate it."
Funny you should put it that way, because that pretty much excludes a browser from visiting it. The screen you see at home is a snapshot of the page you made publicly available, stored in cache, and recreated on your screen. Which is exactly what you wanted people to do with it when you posted it.
This is all pretty funny. If the argument is that Yahoo is a US company, and the French laws shouldn't apply, think about the effects of the rest of the countries' e-commerce firms on the US.
Should Dutch companies be allowed to ship pot to the US because in Holland that's allowed?
Should Canadian e-commerce pharmacies be allowed to ship cheaper medical drugs to the US? The US isn't very happy about that right now...
This is a good thought, but it actually works in the reverse. The longer the rope, the more stretch, and the less of a shock load is felt. A falling object is decelerated over a longer period of time with more stretch, and the maximum force applied to the rope diminishes.
This catches many rock climbers unaware. A short fall of 6 feet with only 6 feet of rope between the climber and the fixed belay is much more dangerous than a 6 foot fall with 100 feet of rope out.
Okay, so I actually read the article before it was slashdot'd. And while I saw all the pictures installing it, I didn't see any output devices. The bike runs BSD but what's it do exactly?
Harm is, even in the most general sense, something you do to living things, so bringing life to a dead planet is harmless by definition.
I think this is too narrow a definition of harm. We "harm" cultural items all the time: art, ancient buildings, etc. And we "harm" systems of things like ecosystems, outside of the impacts on individual living things. Try plowing over a portion of your local (unihabited) desert and see if people agree that no "harm" is occuring... Just because there's no life on a planet, doesn't mean we can't harm it.
Mars has intrinsic value by just being Mars, not be being some warped Mars where we can now install new Walmarts.
But just because a browser is identifying itself as IE doesn't mean it is IE. If you don't identify as IE every so often a site will return a "You can only view this site with IE version 6.0 or above." or some such nonsense. Spoofing your browser to identify as IE is a standard response to getting on with life.
Yeah, but... Much better to be able to actually see the text. It is a _BOOK_ after all. (yes I know it's in latin). The web pictures are all WAY to small.
...As to your final question, while there certainly is a right to fair use, it is not a violation of that right to make products that cannot be copied. Although such features may prove unpopular to some, ultimately it is for the marketplace to decide the viability of those products.
Sound to me like the marketplace is deciding whether or not I can exercise my fair use rights. If I have a fair use right, then I have that right whichever way the market place settles!
With an almost unlimited supply of addresses, every new washing machine, for instance, could have its own IP address, allowing it to alert a service person electronically of a needed repair before it stopped working in the middle of a cycle.
I love these justifications for new technologies/services/protocols. How about having a product that alerts the user AT THE MACHINE before seeing the need for remotely alerting a technician?
"But one of the really disturbing things is that people don't patch their software," he said, urging users to download the latest updates from Microsoft's Windows Update site.
The response of going to another school is so shallow it's hardly worth replying to, but as the comment got modded up...
At the University of British Columbia (where I'm a PhD student) Coke has a monopoly deal -- all vending machines and food sources on campus sell only Coke products. (UBC is isolated -- virtually no off campus sources are available.) So what -- just drink water? UBC has removed/is removing the drinking water fountains from around campus, because of "maintenance costs" -- which is a bit of a joke because none have ever been maintained as far as I can see. No connection to the contract with Coke, I'm sure... My collegues and I currently fill waterbottles from the taps in the bathrooms, and we're just waiting for some nasty disease to ripple through.
Universities fill a WAY larger role in society than job training. Deals like this one erode the functions of independant criticism.
On potential problem with this plane is its size -- the footprint diagram shows it to be considerably wider than a 747. The 747 is already at the width limit most airports can accomodate; that's one reason the wingtips on the newer generation 747's flip up rather than just extending further. The terminals reach out to service two 747's side by side. This plane would require major construction at any airport it landed at.
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All the so-called "Laws" can be exactly described like that. The Law of Gravity is also nothing more than an incredible accurate prediction, waiting for the time that a pencil rolling off a desk falls upwards...
The Napster CEO isn't lying -- he's just whining. By allowing only MP3's to play on their iPods, they do not allow DRM'd formats that other distribution channels are licenced for.
This really highlights the negotiating power of Apple -- who else could get the music industry to agree to a non-DRM legal download song service? Certainly not Napster.
...and if you actually want to see the article, rather than timing out, you can get the NYUD cache:
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Mozilla.org is blocked but Slashdot ISN'T? What kind of warped place do you work at?
Funny you should put it that way, because that pretty much excludes a browser from visiting it. The screen you see at home is a snapshot of the page you made publicly available, stored in cache, and recreated on your screen. Which is exactly what you wanted people to do with it when you posted it.
...and the link to the Top500 list sorted by operating system -- which tells the story of the rise in Linux.
This is all pretty funny. If the argument is that Yahoo is a US company, and the French laws shouldn't apply, think about the effects of the rest of the countries' e-commerce firms on the US.
Should Dutch companies be allowed to ship pot to the US because in Holland that's allowed?
Should Canadian e-commerce pharmacies be allowed to ship cheaper medical drugs to the US? The US isn't very happy about that right now...
This is a good thought, but it actually works in the reverse. The longer the rope, the more stretch, and the less of a shock load is felt. A falling object is decelerated over a longer period of time with more stretch, and the maximum force applied to the rope diminishes.
This catches many rock climbers unaware. A short fall of 6 feet with only 6 feet of rope between the climber and the fixed belay is much more dangerous than a 6 foot fall with 100 feet of rope out.
Okay, so I actually read the article before it was slashdot'd. And while I saw all the pictures installing it, I didn't see any output devices. The bike runs BSD but what's it do exactly?
I think this is too narrow a definition of harm. We "harm" cultural items all the time: art, ancient buildings, etc. And we "harm" systems of things like ecosystems, outside of the impacts on individual living things. Try plowing over a portion of your local (unihabited) desert and see if people agree that no "harm" is occuring... Just because there's no life on a planet, doesn't mean we can't harm it.
Mars has intrinsic value by just being Mars, not be being some warped Mars where we can now install new Walmarts.
The omniscient google cache:
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But just because a browser is identifying itself as IE doesn't mean it is IE. If you don't identify as IE every so often a site will return a "You can only view this site with IE version 6.0 or above." or some such nonsense. Spoofing your browser to identify as IE is a standard response to getting on with life.
Yeah, but... Much better to be able to actually see the text. It is a _BOOK_ after all. (yes I know it's in latin). The web pictures are all WAY to small.
Sound to me like the marketplace is deciding whether or not I can exercise my fair use rights. If I have a fair use right, then I have that right whichever way the market place settles!
I love these justifications for new technologies/services/protocols. How about having a product that alerts the user AT THE MACHINE before seeing the need for remotely alerting a technician?
And so did I. The pictures didn't display properly (at all) in Opera... Great test...
from the bottom of the BBC article:
The response of going to another school is so shallow it's hardly worth replying to, but as the comment got modded up...
At the University of British Columbia (where I'm a PhD student) Coke has a monopoly deal -- all vending machines and food sources on campus sell only Coke products. (UBC is isolated -- virtually no off campus sources are available.) So what -- just drink water? UBC has removed/is removing the drinking water fountains from around campus, because of "maintenance costs" -- which is a bit of a joke because none have ever been maintained as far as I can see. No connection to the contract with Coke, I'm sure... My collegues and I currently fill waterbottles from the taps in the bathrooms, and we're just waiting for some nasty disease to ripple through.
Universities fill a WAY larger role in society than job training. Deals like this one erode the functions of independant criticism.
On potential problem with this plane is its size -- the footprint diagram shows it to be considerably wider than a 747. The 747 is already at the width limit most airports can accomodate; that's one reason the wingtips on the newer generation 747's flip up rather than just extending further. The terminals reach out to service two 747's side by side. This plane would require major construction at any airport it landed at.