Let me ask this: how the hell do you create a mach 6 wind tunnel? From my very basic understanding of physics I believe the speed of sound was a decent percentage of the average velocity of a particle in the air. Now multiply it by 6 and it seems that the speed would be up to the point where only a fraction of a fraction of a percent of air particles would actually be moving that fast. Do they have the tunnel loop back around so the air basically circulates back into the fan? Otherwise I guess if the blades of the turbine went fast enough that would be ok.. but it seems like it would be rediculously fast.
You can't blame him. While it may well be less than 1% of what rails is about, it is simultaneously 100% of what those widespread cheesy screencasts are about.
Did you read the comment? Wish lists are public. Amazon has access to all of your activity. So your in both scenarios in your comment, "If I wanted "Making WMD for Dummies" I would just buy it, not ask for it as a gift," the FBI can find out what you did without a warrant.
He never has to pay a cent? He has to pay every cent he has. Unless of course he was already bankrupt before this trial (but after commiting the acts).
Not only that... consider this: This man was fined $10 billion dollars with no basis in any real damages. The whole thing is almost completely punitive. Now, should the Government be able to completely financially wipe people out without a full, criminal (and accompanying "reasonable doubt" burden of proof) trial? I think all statutory damages should require a full burden of proof, and anything else should be viewed as unconstitutional. Now, having said all that, if it was really shown at trial that there is even a 51% chance that this guy did $10 billion in damages then go ahead, nail him--I don't care. But does anyone really think that was the case?
Google owned a platform that benefited from network effects in the same sense that MS, IBM, AT&T, and eBay have either currently or at some point in their past? No.
If copyright ever expired on the Battle.net protocol, then bnetd would be legal.
Wrong. The DMCA doesn't protect the copyright of the Battle.net protocol (there is none), it (and the way it does so is flawed) protects the copyright of the works served by the Battle.net protocol. If, for example, all the code which makes up the Battle.net system's copyright were to expire and Blizzard released a new game which used Battle.net without any changes, bnetd would still be "illegal" (your word, not mine).
Now, on a tangent from what we are really talking about, I must say that whether or not the bnetd case should have gone the way it did is certainly up for debate.
Wtf is this tripe? The public domain doesn't require anyone to release the source to their servers after the expired time. They could eschew their copyright right now by announcing that all their server code is now a part of the public domain and unless they were to release the code for people to see it wouldn't mean a damn thing. Trade secrets last as long as you can keep them.
That's pretty hard to do since GC isn't deterministic--standard implementations of new/delete aren't deterministic either but C++ allows you to override them and there are deterministic algorithms available.
Say the | is water and the # is a fish. Now let's assume (this simplifies the situation, but it is still quite accurate) that one | weighs the same as a #. Now consider that somehow that system moved on to this state:
| # | | |
There is no energy difference between the two systems. The only thing the fish had to work against was friction (and building up his own inertia). He doesn't fight the gravity of the water--well he does but for each bit he fights he is pushed up by an equivalent bit! From a physics standpoint the vertical movement of a fish is the same as its lateral movement. Now look at that diagram again and pretend |'s are air but #'s are birds. The change between the two states now takes some energy.
You proved nothing. Perhaps if you cloned yourself and wore regular headphones with a dead left muff during the same time period you would have something (though it would still be anecdotal). At best you just gave a bit of evidence that headphones hurt hearing.
Take out the paranthetical and you statement is true for every console, ever. There is always little piracy for game consoles. The main reason for protections is to prevent unlicensed 3rd parties from creating games for the system.
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Let me ask this: how the hell do you create a mach 6 wind tunnel? From my very basic understanding of physics I believe the speed of sound was a decent percentage of the average velocity of a particle in the air. Now multiply it by 6 and it seems that the speed would be up to the point where only a fraction of a fraction of a percent of air particles would actually be moving that fast. Do they have the tunnel loop back around so the air basically circulates back into the fan? Otherwise I guess if the blades of the turbine went fast enough that would be ok.. but it seems like it would be rediculously fast.
You can't blame him. While it may well be less than 1% of what rails is about, it is simultaneously 100% of what those widespread cheesy screencasts are about.
From the mouth of a guy with 7 posts and no karma bonus yet obtained =P.
Did you read the comment? Wish lists are public. Amazon has access to all of your activity. So your in both scenarios in your comment, "If I wanted "Making WMD for Dummies" I would just buy it, not ask for it as a gift," the FBI can find out what you did without a warrant.
He never has to pay a cent? He has to pay every cent he has. Unless of course he was already bankrupt before this trial (but after commiting the acts).
Did you even watch Terminator 2? The kid ordered him not to kill anyone and he didn't.
Not only that... consider this: This man was fined $10 billion dollars with no basis in any real damages. The whole thing is almost completely punitive. Now, should the Government be able to completely financially wipe people out without a full, criminal (and accompanying "reasonable doubt" burden of proof) trial? I think all statutory damages should require a full burden of proof, and anything else should be viewed as unconstitutional. Now, having said all that, if it was really shown at trial that there is even a 51% chance that this guy did $10 billion in damages then go ahead, nail him--I don't care. But does anyone really think that was the case?
Will "nearly everyone" get it if it costs $150 instead of $50?
Google owned a platform that benefited from network effects in the same sense that MS, IBM, AT&T, and eBay have either currently or at some point in their past? No.
If copyright ever expired on the Battle.net protocol, then bnetd would be legal.
Wrong. The DMCA doesn't protect the copyright of the Battle.net protocol (there is none), it (and the way it does so is flawed) protects the copyright of the works served by the Battle.net protocol. If, for example, all the code which makes up the Battle.net system's copyright were to expire and Blizzard released a new game which used Battle.net without any changes, bnetd would still be "illegal" (your word, not mine).
Now, on a tangent from what we are really talking about, I must say that whether or not the bnetd case should have gone the way it did is certainly up for debate.
Why don't you just get an automated script to queue your posts, that's what the rest of us do.
It takes more BTUs to distill corn into ethanol than you get out of the resulting ethanol.
Dr. Strangelove is what, a million years old? Why are you still echoing its gags.
And what exactly is it that you are doing here on slashdot?
Wtf is this tripe? The public domain doesn't require anyone to release the source to their servers after the expired time. They could eschew their copyright right now by announcing that all their server code is now a part of the public domain and unless they were to release the code for people to see it wouldn't mean a damn thing. Trade secrets last as long as you can keep them.
That's pretty hard to do since GC isn't deterministic--standard implementations of new/delete aren't deterministic either but C++ allows you to override them and there are deterministic algorithms available.
Too bad punctuation can effect the meaning of a sentence and so your analogy is flawed, observe:
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Look at it this way:
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Say the | is water and the # is a fish. Now let's assume (this simplifies the situation, but it is still quite accurate) that one | weighs the same as a #. Now consider that somehow that system moved on to this state:
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There is no energy difference between the two systems. The only thing the fish had to work against was friction (and building up his own inertia). He doesn't fight the gravity of the water--well he does but for each bit he fights he is pushed up by an equivalent bit! From a physics standpoint the vertical movement of a fish is the same as its lateral movement. Now look at that diagram again and pretend |'s are air but #'s are birds. The change between the two states now takes some energy.
How would he be "probably aware"? It isn't even released yet.
It was his New Years Resolution, and don't worry, like all New Year's Resolutions this won't last long.
He wasn't cracking on RSS plugins for Firefox. He was saying the default implementation is practically useless ("live bookmarks").
You proved nothing. Perhaps if you cloned yourself and wore regular headphones with a dead left muff during the same time period you would have something (though it would still be anecdotal). At best you just gave a bit of evidence that headphones hurt hearing.
Take out the paranthetical and you statement is true for every console, ever. There is always little piracy for game consoles. The main reason for protections is to prevent unlicensed 3rd parties from creating games for the system.
Quick note: on slashdot you have to use the paragraph html tag to make paragraphs.
By the time state tax is added in it tends to get above 40%. That's where I got that.