obviously means that if Apple detects you using the iTunes service from outside the US, they'll stop you. Is that so harsh?
To me the license is ambiguous: does the "service" consist of the act of purchasing, or does it include the act of re-authorization in the event that it's needed? Given that the audience using iTunes includes everybody and not just lawyers or techobuffs, it's somewhat of a stretch to expect them to even understand the implications of not being able to purchase outside the US - not because it's hard to read or parrot back, but because of mom and pop's failure to mentally associate location-based restrictions with net transactions. And an even further stretch for them to expect them to comprehend the need for re-authorization and it's potential implications.
Netflix caught on because it was already common to rent video tapes, and when the form factor of dvds allowed them to be mailed then it was a small mental step for people to adapt to this model of usage. Now that it has caught on, it is one small step further for people to begin renting CDs through the mail. I hope netflix or someone else branches out into the CD rental business.
Thanks for the clarification. But it still doesn't matter jack squat.
It does matter, as it impacts how related cases are adjudicated. Suppose you broke into a house and slept on the sofa; the proper way to prosecute would be under laws against breaking and entering. Suppose instead that the prosecutor began a campaign inside and outside the court to label you a "racketeer"? Well, there are racketeering laws that have very different criteria and penalties than those applicable to breaking and enterings. What if the prosecutor calls you rapist? Would it be splitting hairs for you to declare that you're not a rapist? This illustrates precisely the way in which the RIAA's terminology campaign matters.
The Supreme Court did little of consequence: they let the actual vote count in Florida, as it did in the 49 other states.
The Supreme Court's choice did in fact have enormous consequences, namely deciding who was president. Agreed that they decided to let the vote stand, but this shouldn't mask the fact that the choice was put before them and theirs to make, and IIRC there were some rather tough questions they had to wrestle with.
Bush won by barely squeaking by in the actual vote counts in Florida.
For the purposes of this discussion, fair enough. My point was/is that the race was indeed close.
When I moved to San Francisco back in 1995, I was a little overweight.. next step was finding an activity that I really liked. I love to ski, but I don't get to do it often. But rollerblading is very similar in feel and fun aspect.
And believe me, you can really catch some air skating down Lombard and various other downhill streets in the Marina district.
Trounced: I assume you mean financially?
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Bush trounced Gore pretty badly in the 2000 election, too.
You must mean financially trounced? With Gore winning the popular vote and Bush squeaking by in the Supreme Court, there's really no debating that this was the closest presidential election ever.
The musical horizons of most of you would not extend beyond playing the banjo if it wasn't for the RIAA.
You may not think you have any musical ability or inclination, but you're probably selling yourself short. And if you must, then don't sell the rest of the world short with you. We would all appreciate food without McDonalds, we would have commerce without Walmart, and we will have amazing music without the RIAA.
The article starts off saying "With 300 gig drives hitting pavement...." DVD drives hold about 4G of data. It doesn't sound realistic to back up a large amount of data in chunks that are approx 1/100th the size of the media. It's in the same ballpark as saying you'll use floppy drives to back up a CD's worth of data. Sure, technically you can do it... but it's not realistic.
the bill will be whittled down over the coming months, even then it has a very slim chance of even making it out of committee in both chambers, [then will be challenged in court, etc, leaving it without teeth in the end]. This is the system and the process that MAKES America a pretty darn good country. So, go soak your knee (it probably hurts from the big jerking motion you just made) and let our process do its work.
Given that we have laws like the DCMA resulting in people being imprisoned, I think it might take a bit more than labeling concerned people as "knee jerkers" to sell your message.
I don't like to admit it, but your statement rings so true for me. Damn it, just when I was comfortable in my petty rationalizations, you come along with your plain-talking sense and moral fortitude and reveal what an unsustainable lie my life is. I must atone, starting today, and hope that someday perhaps the RIAA and our politicians will give me half the respect that they have earned by always looking out for me.
Via is not as anal as Intel about their specs. Linux already has working support for the random number generator (their crypto extension), CPU frequency scaling (their SpeedStep/PowerNow equivalent), you aren't stuck with some proprietary and unsupported Intel wireless chipset, their USB, Firewire, Ethernet and IDE chips are proven technology and well supported by Linux,...
Not sure if the following contradicts this or not, but this page at mini-itx.com states (emphasis mine)
The original EPIAs and EPIA Vs are very well supported under most recent kernels (EPIA 5000, EPIA 800, EPIA V5000, EPIA V8000).
The EPIA Ms are less well supported (EPIA ME6000, M9000, M10000). Drivers exist in binary format only for MPEG2 acceleration, Sound and USB 2.0. Some distributions will have problems.
Additionally, this thread at viaarena documents what sounds like substantial-sounding hurdles getting linux going on mini-itx.
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Has anyone come up with a way to actually test if [copyright actually results in more public access to creative works].
It occurs to me that this is question might be partly answerable via simulation. A few of the knobs to twiddle would include distribution of disposable income, length of copyright, penetration of the copyrighted media, penetration of the internet, cultural barriers to acceptance of a given work, and incentive of creative people to create without the lure of enormous profit.
And Guido can tell you beforehand that if you list more than one vote, he breaks your legs.
But you can only retrieve a tagged snapshot of votes by knowing the keyphrase. So Guido has no way to know whether the votes he sees on the webpage are the only votes you put in or not. Unless he gets lucky and happens to guess the keyphrase you chose for your real votes. Caveat emptor: if you are involved with the mafia and are bad at choosing secret phrases, you might want to consider a different line of work.
Re:Here's an interesting quote
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"The Primary Purpose of Copyright Law is not to Provide a Benefit to Authors, But to Provide the Public With Access to Authors' Works."
anyone who follows yro.slashdot or any copywright laws could pull some very helpful court decisions from this one statement alone. Heck, it sort of [implies] that P2P is legal, especially with copywrighted works.
I didn't see this quote in the decision or the analysis, but if I'm to assume it's there then I also would assume that the argument runs in the vein of deciding that no public interest is served by copyrighting laws or restricting their distribution. However, in the case of a copyrighted work, the argument for restricting distribution - at least temporarily - is that the resulting market advantage gives authors incentive to produce works. So I'd be surprised to see this applied to p2p networks (though as someone opposed to intellectual property in general, I'd be delighted.:)
Then again, it would only take one fraudster to falsly claim their vote had been miscounted.
Scrutiny of the system would scale with the amount of interest in it. If ten isolated people in Florida report their votes miscounted, no biggee. If those ten people get their friends to verify their votes as well and there emerges a pattern of claims, an investigation can begin. A single case of claimed miscounting - whether it be genuine miscounting, voter fraud, or senility - need not trigger an investigation.
Also, any system that lets the voter check their vote also lets someone forcing them to vote one way or another to verify that they've done as commanded.
A possible solution: while in the voting booth, voter can snapshot any speculative set of votes in the dbase with any associated phrase, such as the phrase "This is my real vote", and "This is truly my real vote". Only one of them is marked as the true vote for tally purposes. A user can retrieve any thusly snapshotted set of votes via the web at any time, but can only do so by knowing the key phrase a priori. Most people will only bother putting in their actual votes, but those with an interest in subterfuge can put in more than one.
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I'm just a little too lazy to go and uncheck that box. Oh well.
Dallas: Bobby Ewing doesn't die, it was all a dream. He reappears in the shower. To be then stabbed by Norman Bates dressed as a woman.
Although at least Bart had the good sense not to spoil it by telling us the name of the pirate in the book. ;)
To me the license is ambiguous: does the "service" consist of the act of purchasing, or does it include the act of re-authorization in the event that it's needed? Given that the audience using iTunes includes everybody and not just lawyers or techobuffs, it's somewhat of a stretch to expect them to even understand the implications of not being able to purchase outside the US - not because it's hard to read or parrot back, but because of mom and pop's failure to mentally associate location-based restrictions with net transactions. And an even further stretch for them to expect them to comprehend the need for re-authorization and it's potential implications.
Netflix caught on because it was already common to rent video tapes, and when the form factor of dvds allowed them to be mailed then it was a small mental step for people to adapt to this model of usage. Now that it has caught on, it is one small step further for people to begin renting CDs through the mail. I hope netflix or someone else branches out into the CD rental business.
It does matter, as it impacts how related cases are adjudicated. Suppose you broke into a house and slept on the sofa; the proper way to prosecute would be under laws against breaking and entering. Suppose instead that the prosecutor began a campaign inside and outside the court to label you a "racketeer"? Well, there are racketeering laws that have very different criteria and penalties than those applicable to breaking and enterings. What if the prosecutor calls you rapist? Would it be splitting hairs for you to declare that you're not a rapist? This illustrates precisely the way in which the RIAA's terminology campaign matters.
The Supreme Court's choice did in fact have enormous consequences, namely deciding who was president. Agreed that they decided to let the vote stand, but this shouldn't mask the fact that the choice was put before them and theirs to make, and IIRC there were some rather tough questions they had to wrestle with.
Bush won by barely squeaking by in the actual vote counts in Florida.
For the purposes of this discussion, fair enough. My point was/is that the race was indeed close.
And believe me, you can really catch some air skating down Lombard and various other downhill streets in the Marina district.
You must mean financially trounced? With Gore winning the popular vote and Bush squeaking by in the Supreme Court, there's really no debating that this was the closest presidential election ever.
Great! Glad you're happy. Please stay out of the settlement and let others who do care get a piece of the pie.
You may not think you have any musical ability or inclination, but you're probably selling yourself short. And if you must, then don't sell the rest of the world short with you. We would all appreciate food without McDonalds, we would have commerce without Walmart, and we will have amazing music without the RIAA.
I've always liked the word "crystalline" to describe the effects of the GPL.
The article starts off saying "With 300 gig drives hitting pavement...." DVD drives hold about 4G of data. It doesn't sound realistic to back up a large amount of data in chunks that are approx 1/100th the size of the media. It's in the same ballpark as saying you'll use floppy drives to back up a CD's worth of data. Sure, technically you can do it... but it's not realistic.
Given that we have laws like the DCMA resulting in people being imprisoned, I think it might take a bit more than labeling concerned people as "knee jerkers" to sell your message.
I don't like to admit it, but your statement rings so true for me. Damn it, just when I was comfortable in my petty rationalizations, you come along with your plain-talking sense and moral fortitude and reveal what an unsustainable lie my life is. I must atone, starting today, and hope that someday perhaps the RIAA and our politicians will give me half the respect that they have earned by always looking out for me.
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the kiddie porn!
perhaps "schedulatory anticipator"
Not sure if the following contradicts this or not, but this page at mini-itx.com states (emphasis mine)
Additionally, this thread at viaarena documents what sounds like substantial-sounding hurdles getting linux going on mini-itx.It occurs to me that this is question might be partly answerable via simulation. A few of the knobs to twiddle would include distribution of disposable income, length of copyright, penetration of the copyrighted media, penetration of the internet, cultural barriers to acceptance of a given work, and incentive of creative people to create without the lure of enormous profit.
But you can only retrieve a tagged snapshot of votes by knowing the keyphrase. So Guido has no way to know whether the votes he sees on the webpage are the only votes you put in or not. Unless he gets lucky and happens to guess the keyphrase you chose for your real votes. Caveat emptor: if you are involved with the mafia and are bad at choosing secret phrases, you might want to consider a different line of work.
I didn't see this quote in the decision or the analysis, but if I'm to assume it's there then I also would assume that the argument runs in the vein of deciding that no public interest is served by copyrighting laws or restricting their distribution. However, in the case of a copyrighted work, the argument for restricting distribution - at least temporarily - is that the resulting market advantage gives authors incentive to produce works. So I'd be surprised to see this applied to p2p networks (though as someone opposed to intellectual property in general, I'd be delighted. :)
Scrutiny of the system would scale with the amount of interest in it. If ten isolated people in Florida report their votes miscounted, no biggee. If those ten people get their friends to verify their votes as well and there emerges a pattern of claims, an investigation can begin. A single case of claimed miscounting - whether it be genuine miscounting, voter fraud, or senility - need not trigger an investigation.
Also, any system that lets the voter check their vote also lets someone forcing them to vote one way or another to verify that they've done as commanded.
A possible solution: while in the voting booth, voter can snapshot any speculative set of votes in the dbase with any associated phrase, such as the phrase "This is my real vote", and "This is truly my real vote". Only one of them is marked as the true vote for tally purposes. A user can retrieve any thusly snapshotted set of votes via the web at any time, but can only do so by knowing the key phrase a priori. Most people will only bother putting in their actual votes, but those with an interest in subterfuge can put in more than one.
Believe me, they'll make more.
Agreed. Not only is selling below cost not our problem, it should be illegal as it is in the EU.
Nice diction, MS. All your xboxen are belong to us.