Well, according to the Federal Register: June 5, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 108) here
Section 109 of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 109, permits the owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under title 17 to sell or otherwise dispose of possession of that copy or phonorecord without the authority of the copyright owner, notwithstanding the copyright owner's exclusive right of distribution under 17 U.S.C. 106(3). Commonly referred to as the ``first sale doctrine,'' this provision permits such activities as the sale of used books. The first sale doctrine is subject to limitations that permit a copyright owner to prevent the unauthorized commercialrental of computer programs and sound recordings.
But of course that's not a judicial opinion, which you seem to cite, but which I can't find.
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Snail mail does get noticed more, though, that's all.
While I agree that this dounds logical, it simply wasn't true in the congressional office I worked in. Emails and letters were tallied and responded to (by letter) in exactly the same manner. Of course only constituent emails and letters with valid addresses in the constituency were counted.
is there any viable way for the DOJ to interfere with the states' case?
Yep, they can stop paying for it. State attorney generals are going to have a hard time justifying the huge costs of continuing this legislation in a recession. Up until now, the Feds have been footing most of the bill.
Yep, thanks for the correction. After reflection, this was between two different beta installations. (not the standard definition of "uptime"):-) So, collective time testing, no crashes or forced reboots. Granted, I wasn't running a web server or anything on it, just average daily use.
Sure, yes, I'd like to try 10.1. Right now that isn't an option at work.
But, I guess I don't understand what graphics your NT box can't display. Sure, I understand some Photoshop processes will be better on a Mac, and you don't want to be playing 3d shooter games on NT4, but other than that I don't really understand the difference in capabilities. It seems I can use gimp or photoshop on my NT machine just as easily and speedily as my Mac.
I was using XP (beta 2 mind you) on a Pentium 166 with 64 MB of RAM, well below the recommended specs, and was getting acceptable performance. I could use the maching as a web browsing, email, word processing machine without a problem. Of course I wouldn't be playing games on it or anything. Oh, and 6 months up-time BTW, no crashes.
Well, people keep saying that, but my office desk has an iMac and an NT4 box on it, and you'd have to put a gun to my head to use the "rock-solid" Mac. I reboot that thing 3-4 times a day. You get a web browser and email application and a database front end running and you are ground to a halt. That spinning ball is even more annoying than the old hour-glass I used to see.
The long-held theory that it's better to have a computer that is hard to use because you learn more about how it works is ridiculous. You state a small-but-vocal-minority want this. That's fine, me and the majority don't. What I want when I set up an OS is to boot to a cd, type in the cd code, pick a few options, then click OK. 30 minutes later, I have a fully functioning, connected to the internet XP box. Two weeks later, after I've figured out how to mount a drive, configure my video card, set up KDE, install a package, get my sound card working, get my network card working, get my DSL working, read 4 books and spent countless hours puzzled as to why something doesn't work (oh, I'm supposed to know to add some cryptic line to a file I didn't know existed), I'd be maybe to the point where I could use my box on Linux. This is not to say that this is true for most people here. Of course, you can configure a Linux box with your eyes closed. The problem is, you are a small but a little too vocal minority.
Ease of use is not restricted to how easy it is to teach grandma to use konqueror in Linux compared to Explorer in windows. It also has a lot to do with how easy it is to fix things when they go wrong, how easy it is to set up a box. In Linux, it simply is not easy. It's hard, takes a lot of learning and practice. People don't have time for that.
I love screwing around, tinkering, breaking and fixing things too, but until Linux can solve the ease of use/setup problem there's no way average people are going to put up with it.
No flame here. This Economist study on globalization is one of the most well-reasoned explanations of how extremist activists are literally causing the poorest workers to make lower wages, the number of available jobs to decrease, and the chances for poor countries to thrive to simply vanish.
Who they pay are people like me, concerned, educated citizens who are experts in their field. And they don't pay that well either. I've done legislative assistance for the US Congress. One thing is for sure, you don't get into government work for the money.
Though I agree with most of your comment, I don't think XP has been out for less than a week is really a valid excuse. XP has been available in near-release beta form for months. Any major ISP should be able to anticipate its customers needs for XP support.
(offtopic)I was personally able to get my XP box connected to Mindspring 7-8 months ago and the ease with which it worked (ahem, just type mindspring.com into the right box), no installations, etc. It was a dream compared to the drivers and software installations, etc I had to deal with in ME.
I love google as most of you do, but I do have a question. It's right to say that not updating your index in a long time makes your results useless, but what do we have to compare Altavista to? How often is Google updated, and how does it keep up to an ever increasing number of pages? Just curious.
Though I'm sure your specific experience was different, my experience with Dell support was nothing less than amazing. My CD-ROM broke one night at 2am. I called, spoke with a person that was able to appreciate that I wasn't a complete idiot, and received a replacement and a free return shipping label an box in just over 24 hours. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a major computer manufacturer that has as highly rated support as Dell.
the Liberty Alliance is made up of many companies and so the data will hopefully be more secure
I'm sorry, that just doesn't make any sense. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The more companies have my data, the more chance that it *can* be stolen.
On another point, I've never had a problem giving a email address to Microsoft in order to use their sites. YES! That's all I had to give them, and it's a spam friendly hotmail address at that. I can't imagine to incredible damage to our society that might occur if someone (gasp) knew that junk..@..hotmail...com accessed his MSN Home page today. I'm scared!
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Interestingly, the just shipped a new eZ80 webserver three days ago.
Has Katz ever been sure he was wrong?
"If IRC is installed, this worm can also insert mIRC scripts that will enable the computer to be used in Denial of Service (DOS) attacks."
General relativity didn't start until, like 1916 or something.
Thanks, I admit I didn't look too hard. :)
Section 109 of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 109, permits the owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under title 17 to sell or otherwise dispose of possession of that copy or phonorecord without the authority of the copyright owner, notwithstanding the copyright owner's exclusive right of distribution under 17 U.S.C. 106(3). Commonly referred to as the ``first sale doctrine,'' this provision permits such activities as the sale of used books. The first sale doctrine is subject to limitations that permit a copyright owner to prevent the unauthorized commercial rental of computer programs and sound recordings.
But of course that's not a judicial opinion, which you seem to cite, but which I can't find.
ah, who's counting? :)
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While I agree that this dounds logical, it simply wasn't true in the congressional office I worked in. Emails and letters were tallied and responded to (by letter) in exactly the same manner. Of course only constituent emails and letters with valid addresses in the constituency were counted.
Yep, they can stop paying for it. State attorney generals are going to have a hard time justifying the huge costs of continuing this legislation in a recession. Up until now, the Feds have been footing most of the bill.
Yep, thanks for the correction. After reflection, this was between two different beta installations. (not the standard definition of "uptime") :-) So, collective time testing, no crashes or forced reboots. Granted, I wasn't running a web server or anything on it, just average daily use.
But, I guess I don't understand what graphics your NT box can't display. Sure, I understand some Photoshop processes will be better on a Mac, and you don't want to be playing 3d shooter games on NT4, but other than that I don't really understand the difference in capabilities. It seems I can use gimp or photoshop on my NT machine just as easily and speedily as my Mac.
I was using XP (beta 2 mind you) on a Pentium 166 with 64 MB of RAM, well below the recommended specs, and was getting acceptable performance. I could use the maching as a web browsing, email, word processing machine without a problem. Of course I wouldn't be playing games on it or anything. Oh, and 6 months up-time BTW, no crashes.
Well, people keep saying that, but my office desk has an iMac and an NT4 box on it, and you'd have to put a gun to my head to use the "rock-solid" Mac. I reboot that thing 3-4 times a day. You get a web browser and email application and a database front end running and you are ground to a halt. That spinning ball is even more annoying than the old hour-glass I used to see.
Now if we can just get a smart bra. . .
Ease of use is not restricted to how easy it is to teach grandma to use konqueror in Linux compared to Explorer in windows. It also has a lot to do with how easy it is to fix things when they go wrong, how easy it is to set up a box. In Linux, it simply is not easy. It's hard, takes a lot of learning and practice. People don't have time for that.
I love screwing around, tinkering, breaking and fixing things too, but until Linux can solve the ease of use/setup problem there's no way average people are going to put up with it.
Ok, but don't blame it on insecurity. ;-)
No flame here. This Economist study on globalization is one of the most well-reasoned explanations of how extremist activists are literally causing the poorest workers to make lower wages, the number of available jobs to decrease, and the chances for poor countries to thrive to simply vanish.
Who they pay are people like me, concerned, educated citizens who are experts in their field. And they don't pay that well either. I've done legislative assistance for the US Congress. One thing is for sure, you don't get into government work for the money.
(offtopic)I was personally able to get my XP box connected to Mindspring 7-8 months ago and the ease with which it worked (ahem, just type mindspring.com into the right box), no installations, etc. It was a dream compared to the drivers and software installations, etc I had to deal with in ME.
Make sure you check the metric to English unit conversions before you use the sofware for anything important.
Um.. .XP Home is not meant to be the upgrade path for Win2k users. I thought that was pretty clear.
I love google as most of you do, but I do have a question. It's right to say that not updating your index in a long time makes your results useless, but what do we have to compare Altavista to? How often is Google updated, and how does it keep up to an ever increasing number of pages? Just curious.
Though I'm sure your specific experience was different, my experience with Dell support was nothing less than amazing. My CD-ROM broke one night at 2am. I called, spoke with a person that was able to appreciate that I wasn't a complete idiot, and received a replacement and a free return shipping label an box in just over 24 hours. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a major computer manufacturer that has as highly rated support as Dell.
I'm sorry, that just doesn't make any sense. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The more companies have my data, the more chance that it *can* be stolen.
On another point, I've never had a problem giving a email address to Microsoft in order to use their sites. YES! That's all I had to give them, and it's a spam friendly hotmail address at that. I can't imagine to incredible damage to our society that might occur if someone (gasp) knew that junk..@..hotmail...com accessed his MSN Home page today. I'm scared!