They are sharing the music in order to be able to access it in another location. Like the labs, or parties, hangin' out, in the library, etc. . .
This is the reason I shared my music while I was in college, and it is still the same reason while I do it on my home network today. So I can listen to whatever I please from my own collection at work, whether I am in Minneapolis, or Denver.
Yes I have spent time in a college dorm in the last 10 years. . . and there were many discussions about the fact that anyone could copy the songs.
Did I do it? No. Because it is wrong, and it is a violation of copyright laws. Did I enjoy a friends music during a party while they were there? Certainly. Did I end up being exposed to new music and eventually purchasing it? Absolutely.
Your inference that a lot of these students are violating the law is offensive in the least, and slanderous in my view.
Just because you 'think' it is happening, doesn't make it so. So please take your unfounded accusations and go away.
Writing about this made me want to call BofA again, to talk to them. I got to speak with an account manager quickly. . . This manage told me that they were doing this with all BofA account holders now. Interesting. Class action anyone? I have a record of the conversation.
I just received my amendment letter yesterday. I have a fantastic credit record, and when I went on my vacation, that is skiing and hiking for the past year 'cause my company decided to comit fraud (Mercury Interactive), I decided to keep a balance on my Sierra Account with MBNA, which is now BofAss.
I called them yesterday, told them that they could 'yada' 'yada' 'yada' me all they want. I told them this was the first revolving account I ever kept a balance on, and I told them I thought they were slime. I then told them, Fine, then I reject this change, and in the next 15 days, I am going to charge the max out of my 7% account, and then simply pay it off easilly, the way I initially inteneded to, at 7%. I am going to call them so often, to make it not worth their while. God, I am so furious, what friggen bastards, I just whish I could sue their asses off for some reason. Anyone want to start a class action with me?
I think that it is obvious that the more distractions you add to a person, the less time they will have to focus solely on maintaining situational awareness. If one can, however, create a "professional" practice of maintaining a full situational awareness - at a frequency required under the driving circumstances, then they will be able to demonstrate a lower error rate.
It is a matter or scanning the insturments, driving well, and maintaing a good situational awareness, while talking during 'clear' times. This is a tecnique used by pilots while flying, some practice it better than others, but ask any pilot what his scan sequence is and he will give you a list of insturments in a certain order, and then he might tell you what other 'things' he scans, (left, fore, right window scan on visual flying days maybe).
For example: On a nice hot, bright, sunny day I am headed to San Martin Airport with a friend. We are travelling on a 4 lane, long, strait, highway in the 2nd from left lane at a speed of 75 mph, with light traffic. My insturment scan is speedometer, tachometer, L/R Window, L/R/Middle Mirror. BANG! that simple. I now have full situational awareness, and because of the conditions, I will have that situation for a good long time. Since I know the situation is clear, I can engage in conversation with my friend, that is, until I have to do another scan. But one scan is easy enough to do, and my friend is unlikely to notice I am not paying attention to him for a moment in the conversation, OR if I were the one talking, I would probably pause my sentence briefly, and he would be none the wiser also.
Now, change the situation, now we are traveling on a two lane, two way mountain road, with a lot of blind corners in light traffic on a cloudy day. It is obvious, that I am now going to have to pay much more attention and do my scanning at a much higher frequency in order to maintain safe control of the vehicle. IN THIS situation, my friend will notice many more stops and starts in the conversation, caused by me, as his timeslice with my brain becomes smaller. I can still maintain a conversation, but at a slower rate.
When I, rarely, use a cell phone while driving, I always make it known that I am driving, and that I may need to take moments to concentrate on driving alone.
What I think it all boils down to is bad driving skills in general. Practicing good defensive driving skills, and recognizing that driving is an *IMMEDIATE* task, will go a long way in making us all better drivers.
I agree, it is true that there are many legitimate uses for an ESSUVEE, including people with mobility problems. I don't dispute this in the slightest.
What I am saying is that ~something~ like 80% of all the SUV's I see are single driver, and generally not carrying anything other than a passenger or two. From the cabin of a high stanced wagon, I can see into the cabins of most SUV's, so I know that they are *generally* devoid of cargo, although I will say that an amazing ammount carry kids ( that accounts for the majority of the remaining 20% ).
I think it would be cheaper to own a high mpg sedan - wagon to carry the family about during the week, and on the weekend outing that you ABSOLUTLY HAVE TO HAVE 4X4 SUV, rent it. If you are a camper/fisherman and hit the trails frequently, it is probably more economical to get a small sport awd SUV.
But for the rest of world, the ESSUVEE is mostly just plain wasteful, face it, I *see* it every day with my own eyes.
"railing on SUV owners is very passe nowadays, man."
Man, that is so not true. I wish there could be a real study, but for worth, the empirical evidence prooves that SUV owners are in general wasteful.
80% of the SUV's I see on the road aren't carying anything more than their 120 - 350 lb driver. That simple, easilly observable FACT proves that most SUV owners are wasteful.
I'll rail all over the ESSUVEE owners all that I please, man. And you know what? It dosen't prove that I am one of the new lables you want to give me in order to confuse the argument.
I'm sure many share this comment, but cell phones have gotten way too complicated.
I'm not sure a breakthrough UI would solve it for me as of this point, mostly because I see no innovation or inspiration in any of the current designs.
I'm currently using a RAZOR, and my excuse for putting up with the *nasty* UI, has been that it is small. But it recently went through the washer, so I am now thinking of replacing it with my old beloved standby, the Nokia 8260. THAT was the best cell phone I EVER used. Simple, small, good battery life, durable. All 4 PRIMARY things I need in a cell phone.
On that topic, does anyone know of a cell phone of this type that would work on the Cingular Networks?
I know I am just a nerd, but I rather enjoyed East of Eden, when I was a sophmore in High-School. I was actually abused by my Honors English Teacher (verbally) later in my HS carear for maintaing that East Of Eden was Steinbecks Opus and not The Grapes Of Wrath.
I went on a summer trip by myself one High-School summer, and I ended up in Monterey California. It inspired me to read Steinbeck, and I never looked back, God, I love Steinbeck.
But I agree, these advanced works are most efficiently precluded by easier ones.
I started on Comic Books, and moved onto Jim Kjelgaard (Big Red) one fatefull summer when I was in Jr HS, (5th - 6th grade).
What i think is really important is to taylor the reading to the childs likes and dislikes. Big Red is probably going to bore the heck out of some little girl going to school in Manhatten, but I bet something like Little Women would not.
I was lucky, and it was purely by chance that I enjoyed reading, as I was never encouraged to do it from my family.
When I do have children, I will read to them all the time, and make sure they have a great appreciation of the magical act of reading.
I, too have never been able to get very far into Lord Jim. A very very boring work if there ever was one.
Heart Of Darkness, however, was much loved by me. I did an ungergraduate term paper comparing and contrasting Heart of Darkness and Appocalypse Now. They are indeed the same work, in a different setting. I really can't watch Appocalypse Now anymore, as I spent several days in the Library, watching it over and over again on the librarys Laserdisk machine, and I could easilly imagine every scene sequence perfectly.
Alas, I still Love the smell of Napalm in the morning, and If the movie is on television, I will take pause to watch the Kilgore scene, what a beauitiful piece of work that shooting was.
I also have the ability to view many peoples private files, but what I found out early on. . . is that you *really* dont want to know most peoples private information. Most of the time is is boring, and when it's interesting, you probably didn't want to know that little tidbit, as it may shock you.
In reality... Dosen't everyone feel dirty rifling through others private info? If you do not, then I think there is something wrong with your conscience.
I truely don't mean this as a flame, but I am dismayed at your statements.
First of all, did YOU call your senator?
If so, do you think that this was a waste of time? For this to be a waste of time, you would have to have thought, to yourself, that this issue is not important, in which case, you wouldn't have called your senator.
It is clear that the broadcast flag is a legislative issue, today and tomorrow. The slashdotting of congress definitly woke a lot of senators up to this issue, please explain how this was a waste of time.
Now, as for the eternal vigilance. YES our democracy requires eternal vigilance, YES it requires your participation, YES that takes time.
You said yourself, this is the price of freedom. Your tab is the time it takes you to participate.
Now stop being a cynic and pay your tab, I bet your's has a very large sum due.
The Vatican actually hid 5000 of the Jewish faith within its walls during WWII. That's not to say that they shouldn't have done more. But it sure does make the issue less black and white.
The distinction you are failing to make is that Gilmore is speaking of public infrastructure. Now whether or not airports are private property (many are not) may be up for argument, but not many will deny the fact that they are still part of a public infrastructure system. Note, also, that the internet is a public infrastructure.
You also make the point of ones passage being inconsistant; and use that as an example against Gillmores arguments, I fail to see how millions of passengers flying in the United States, each one who had to show ID, are demonstrating 'inconsistant pasage'.
As for your statement about people wandering around nuclear plants; this is not what Gillmore is speaking of at all, he is talking about our transportation system, so stick to the point.
I could go on, deconstructing the rest of your arguments, but I just realized I was suckered into replying to a troll. Ill leave it as an exercise for the reader to eliminate the rest of this commentators arguments. I got the ball rolling you may as well do your part. . . . . .
I am on it, Yeah. Writing the above is what inspired, wait . . . no, resigned me to downloading the whole suite and imstalling it all over again, since like version 1 of all of this software.
That being said, I find it infuriating that I have to wait for each new driver/upgrade in hopes that this rev will create a working product.
I also rely on the closed captioning, as I am nearly deaf.
I have found that the ATI 7500 has met my needs for simple live TV playing, for about 2 years now. the MMC 7.X / 8.X suite by ATI is stll very buggy, and it frequently bungles the captioning (Never Clears the text, those of u who use CC know what I mean), and the recording isnt up to par. The DVD option is obtuse and never works right consistantly, I usually end up using my PS2 to play dvds instead of the ATI DVD player.
I think that ATI's software suite is consistantly rated well, but I am not happy with it. I really wish we could get some good software reccomendations that work well on Windows 2k/XP pro.
Well yes, there is a right to privacy in the constitution. It is within the first ten amendments as a matter of fact: the Bill of Rights.
It is amendment IX. It reads: The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Please, everybody who lives in the U.S., go out and get a copy of the Constitution of the United States, and read it.
Although I don't believe there is a "Conspiracy", I do know that there is an initiative in the military to fund this research.
The primary motivation is more efficient communications in battle, as anyone can imagine, having a translator of the enemy's* language instantly available to a foot soldier is invaluable. Think universal translator.
IMHO the HST should be retired, but only if we THINK that the new telescope program is well funded. But I dont know exactly how the new program is funded.
Anyway, with Hubble out of the way it will motivate private and public reasearch $ into the telescope arena. Something we could use.
Slashdot Mirror
They are sharing the music in order to be able to access it in another location. Like the labs, or parties, hangin' out, in the library, etc. . .
This is the reason I shared my music while I was in college, and it is still the same reason while I do it on my home network today. So I can listen to whatever I please from my own collection at work, whether I am in Minneapolis, or Denver.
What I found offensive is the following statement:
"reality that a lot (at the very least) of these students in similar cases are doing exactly what the RIAA is accusing them of."
i.e. consciously distributing copyrighted material.
Your argument takes the form of 1. students share files on a network 2. they are doing it to let others copy music.
That is the implication that I find offensive, and you were the one who made it.
Continuing, as to whether or not either of us has a 'problem' that's another topic entirely.
Yes I have spent time in a college dorm in the last 10 years. . . and there were many discussions about the fact that anyone could copy the songs.
Did I do it? No. Because it is wrong, and it is a violation of copyright laws. Did I enjoy a friends music during a party while they were there? Certainly. Did I end up being exposed to new music and eventually purchasing it? Absolutely.
Your inference that a lot of these students are violating the law is offensive in the least, and slanderous in my view.
Just because you 'think' it is happening, doesn't make it so. So please take your unfounded accusations and go away.
This will be my killer app. . .
Writing about this made me want to call BofA again, to talk to them. I got to speak with an account manager quickly. . . This manage told me that they were doing this with all BofA account holders now. Interesting. Class action anyone? I have a record of the conversation.
Ditto.
I just received my amendment letter yesterday. I have a fantastic credit record, and when I went on my vacation, that is skiing and hiking for the past year 'cause my company decided to comit fraud (Mercury Interactive), I decided to keep a balance on my Sierra Account with MBNA, which is now BofAss.
I called them yesterday, told them that they could 'yada' 'yada' 'yada' me all they want. I told them this was the first revolving account I ever kept a balance on, and I told them I thought they were slime. I then told them, Fine, then I reject this change, and in the next 15 days, I am going to charge the max out of my 7% account, and then simply pay it off easilly, the way I initially inteneded to, at 7%. I am going to call them so often, to make it not worth their while. God, I am so furious, what friggen bastards, I just whish I could sue their asses off for some reason. Anyone want to start a class action with me?
I wouldn't necissarily call this total BS.
I think that it is obvious that the more distractions you add to a person, the less time they will have to focus solely on maintaining situational awareness. If one can, however, create a "professional" practice of maintaining a full situational awareness - at a frequency required under the driving circumstances, then they will be able to demonstrate a lower error rate.
It is a matter or scanning the insturments, driving well, and maintaing a good situational awareness, while talking during 'clear' times. This is a tecnique used by pilots while flying, some practice it better than others, but ask any pilot what his scan sequence is and he will give you a list of insturments in a certain order, and then he might tell you what other 'things' he scans, (left, fore, right window scan on visual flying days maybe).
For example: On a nice hot, bright, sunny day I am headed to San Martin Airport with a friend. We are travelling on a 4 lane, long, strait, highway in the 2nd from left lane at a speed of 75 mph, with light traffic. My insturment scan is speedometer, tachometer, L/R Window, L/R/Middle Mirror. BANG! that simple. I now have full situational awareness, and because of the conditions, I will have that situation for a good long time. Since I know the situation is clear, I can engage in conversation with my friend, that is, until I have to do another scan. But one scan is easy enough to do, and my friend is unlikely to notice I am not paying attention to him for a moment in the conversation, OR if I were the one talking, I would probably pause my sentence briefly, and he would be none the wiser also.
Now, change the situation, now we are traveling on a two lane, two way mountain road, with a lot of blind corners in light traffic on a cloudy day. It is obvious, that I am now going to have to pay much more attention and do my scanning at a much higher frequency in order to maintain safe control of the vehicle. IN THIS situation, my friend will notice many more stops and starts in the conversation, caused by me, as his timeslice with my brain becomes smaller. I can still maintain a conversation, but at a slower rate.
When I, rarely, use a cell phone while driving, I always make it known that I am driving, and that I may need to take moments to concentrate on driving alone.
What I think it all boils down to is bad driving skills in general. Practicing good defensive driving skills, and recognizing that driving is an *IMMEDIATE* task, will go a long way in making us all better drivers.
I agree, it is true that there are many legitimate uses for an ESSUVEE, including people with mobility problems. I don't dispute this in the slightest.
What I am saying is that ~something~ like 80% of all the SUV's I see are single driver, and generally not carrying anything other than a passenger or two. From the cabin of a high stanced wagon, I can see into the cabins of most SUV's, so I know that they are *generally* devoid of cargo, although I will say that an amazing ammount carry kids ( that accounts for the majority of the remaining 20% ).
I think it would be cheaper to own a high mpg sedan - wagon to carry the family about during the week, and on the weekend outing that you ABSOLUTLY HAVE TO HAVE 4X4 SUV, rent it. If you are a camper/fisherman and hit the trails frequently, it is probably more economical to get a small sport awd SUV.
But for the rest of world, the ESSUVEE is mostly just plain wasteful, face it, I *see* it every day with my own eyes.
"railing on SUV owners is very passe nowadays, man."
Man, that is so not true. I wish there could be a real study, but for worth, the empirical evidence prooves that SUV owners are in general wasteful.
80% of the SUV's I see on the road aren't carying anything more than their 120 - 350 lb driver. That simple, easilly observable FACT proves that most SUV owners are wasteful.
I'll rail all over the ESSUVEE owners all that I please, man. And you know what? It dosen't prove that I am one of the new lables you want to give me in order to confuse the argument.
There, man.
I'm sure many share this comment, but cell phones have gotten way too complicated.
I'm not sure a breakthrough UI would solve it for me as of this point, mostly because I see no innovation or inspiration in any of the current designs.
I'm currently using a RAZOR, and my excuse for putting up with the *nasty* UI, has been that it is small. But it recently went through the washer, so I am now thinking of replacing it with my old beloved standby, the Nokia 8260. THAT was the best cell phone I EVER used. Simple, small, good battery life, durable. All 4 PRIMARY things I need in a cell phone.
On that topic, does anyone know of a cell phone of this type that would work on the Cingular Networks?
I know I am just a nerd, but I rather enjoyed East of Eden, when I was a sophmore in High-School. I was actually abused by my Honors English Teacher (verbally) later in my HS carear for maintaing that East Of Eden was Steinbecks Opus and not The Grapes Of Wrath.
I went on a summer trip by myself one High-School summer, and I ended up in Monterey California. It inspired me to read Steinbeck, and I never looked back, God, I love Steinbeck.
But I agree, these advanced works are most efficiently precluded by easier ones.
I started on Comic Books, and moved onto Jim Kjelgaard (Big Red) one fatefull summer when I was in Jr HS, (5th - 6th grade).
What i think is really important is to taylor the reading to the childs likes and dislikes. Big Red is probably going to bore the heck out of some little girl going to school in Manhatten, but I bet something like Little Women would not.
I was lucky, and it was purely by chance that I enjoyed reading, as I was never encouraged to do it from my family.
When I do have children, I will read to them all the time, and make sure they have a great appreciation of the magical act of reading.
I, too have never been able to get very far into Lord Jim. A very very boring work if there ever was one.
Heart Of Darkness, however, was much loved by me. I did an ungergraduate term paper comparing and contrasting Heart of Darkness and Appocalypse Now. They are indeed the same work, in a different setting. I really can't watch Appocalypse Now anymore, as I spent several days in the Library, watching it over and over again on the librarys Laserdisk machine, and I could easilly imagine every scene sequence perfectly.
Alas, I still Love the smell of Napalm in the morning, and If the movie is on television, I will take pause to watch the Kilgore scene, what a beauitiful piece of work that shooting was.
I also have the ability to view many peoples private files, but what I found out early on. . . is that you *really* dont want to know most peoples private information. Most of the time is is boring, and when it's interesting, you probably didn't want to know that little tidbit, as it may shock you.
In reality... Dosen't everyone feel dirty rifling through others private info? If you do not, then I think there is something wrong with your conscience.
I truely don't mean this as a flame, but I am dismayed at your statements.
First of all, did YOU call your senator?
If so, do you think that this was a waste of time? For this to be a waste of time, you would have to have thought, to yourself, that this issue is not important, in which case, you wouldn't have called your senator.
It is clear that the broadcast flag is a legislative issue, today and tomorrow. The slashdotting of congress definitly woke a lot of senators up to this issue, please explain how this was a waste of time.
Now, as for the eternal vigilance. YES our democracy requires eternal vigilance, YES it requires your participation, YES that takes time.
You said yourself, this is the price of freedom. Your tab is the time it takes you to participate.
Now stop being a cynic and pay your tab, I bet your's has a very large sum due.
This occured in Spain. . .
.
Which leads me to ask. .
What does the Spanish Constitution say about freedom of speach?
The Vatican actually hid 5000 of the Jewish faith within its walls during WWII. That's not to say that they shouldn't have done more. But it sure does make the issue less black and white.
The distinction you are failing to make is that Gilmore is speaking of public infrastructure. Now whether or not airports are private property (many are not) may be up for argument, but not many will deny the fact that they are still part of a public infrastructure system. Note, also, that the internet is a public infrastructure.
You also make the point of ones passage being inconsistant; and use that as an example against Gillmores arguments, I fail to see how millions of passengers flying in the United States, each one who had to show ID, are demonstrating 'inconsistant pasage'.
As for your statement about people wandering around nuclear plants; this is not what Gillmore is speaking of at all, he is talking about our transportation system, so stick to the point.
I could go on, deconstructing the rest of your arguments, but I just realized I was suckered into replying to a troll. Ill leave it as an exercise for the reader to eliminate the rest of this commentators arguments. I got the ball rolling you may as well do your part. . . . . .
I am on it, Yeah. Writing the above is what inspired, wait . . . no, resigned me to downloading the whole suite and imstalling it all over again, since like version 1 of all of this software.
That being said, I find it infuriating that I have to wait for each new driver/upgrade in hopes that this rev will create a working product.
I also rely on the closed captioning, as I am nearly deaf.
I have found that the ATI 7500 has met my needs for simple live TV playing, for about 2 years now. the MMC 7.X / 8.X suite by ATI is stll very buggy, and it frequently bungles the captioning (Never Clears the text, those of u who use CC know what I mean), and the recording isnt up to par. The DVD option is obtuse and never works right consistantly, I usually end up using my PS2 to play dvds instead of the ATI DVD player.
I think that ATI's software suite is consistantly rated well, but I am not happy with it. I really wish we could get some good software reccomendations that work well on Windows 2k/XP pro.
Does anyone else here see that this comment may be meant as a sarcastic commentary against the current Bush administration in the United States?
(Off Topic, But here goes anyway...)
I think Dory (The blue fish) was a stoner. Think about it, short term memory loss, red eyes, and she enjoyed being inside the whale WAAAAY too much.
She been smokin too much sea weed.
On a similar note, How does the RIAA prove that you were not just making the files available to YOURSELF whilst at work/vacation etc.....?
Hmmm Hmmmm? It is NOT my fault that others choose to steal MY legally owned mysic.
Just my $0.02
Well yes, there is a right to privacy in the constitution. It is within the first ten amendments as a matter of fact: the Bill of Rights.
It is amendment IX. It reads:
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Please, everybody who lives in the U.S., go out and get a copy of the Constitution of the United States, and read it.
Although I don't believe there is a "Conspiracy", I do know that there is an initiative in the military to fund this research.
The primary motivation is more efficient communications in battle, as anyone can imagine, having a translator of the enemy's* language instantly available to a foot soldier is invaluable. Think universal translator.
This also helps in spying, obviouslly.
IMHO the HST should be retired, but only if we THINK that the new telescope program is well funded. But I dont know exactly how the new program is funded.
Anyway, with Hubble out of the way it will motivate private and public reasearch $ into the telescope arena. Something we could use.