Oh, I don't care about the karma, I'd rather have the reply. Thanks.
What he is arguing is, at least as I see it: "Just because I left it in a public place does not mean anyone actually copied it. You have not claimed anyone but your agent has copied it, you have not claimed that I invited anyone to copy it, you have not claimed that I was aware anyone has copied it, nor that I as even aware they they could be copied." (Emphasis mine, the original word was "alleged")
The problem as I see it is that this is no reason to quash an investigatory subpoena for fact finding. A person has placed copyrighted materials on an electronic system and made those materials available to the public for duplication. Was there illegal copyright infringement? No one will know until after the necessary fact finding for discovery. It seems to me - as a layperson - that requesting documentation from the University to determine if criminal activity and civil liability is perfectly reasonable.
IMO: you're nitpicking over the meaning of the term "public". I'm not claiming that BU is a publicly owned institution. Nor would it matter were it so.
Isn't that because discovery is not yet complete? It would seem to me that if such logs and records do exist, arguing lack of criminal intent by a Jon Doe is not reason to quash fact finding.
No, because there's no criminal duplication involved in redistributing a licensed copy of that CD. IOW: there's no initial crime in giving away (or selling) a used CD, so there is no liability for having done so to begin with. In this case, a person has already admitted that criminal activity took place within his University account and filesystem. We already know a law was broken. So, is the owner of that account criminally or civily liable for the consequences? I'd like to hear a real lawyer speak up on that issue.
Here's one better: What if *you* move *my* car to a public location without my permission, unlock it, and then claim innocence of the resulting theft as well as no liability for my loss due to your ignorance of the potential outcome. I don't think that would fly in court. Then again, INAL. I don't even play one on TV.
Essentially, as I read it he's arguing for no criminal liability for illegal redistribution due to having no intent to distribute. Yet he admits to having placed copyrighted works in public folders on a public university system, which allowed others to copy his work. Further, he must have had the ability to set filesystem permissions to intentionally prevent redistribution. I think he's liable. If they can't prove criminal misconduct, at the least by his own admission they can prove civil negligence.
Actually, no. It's called a Newton MP2100. Ten years after Jobs killed the device, it still has a community of devout followers. Mostly because underneath that aging ARM processor is a software platform a good decade ahead of everything else. Also, it's about only handheld functional programming environment ever created. Had they only chosen Smalltalk over Newtonscript, it would have been perfection.
It's interesting that you should mention that. Several weeks back I had an incident with Apple tech support that led me to email Steve Jobs and get direct support from his administrative help staff. When I mentioned to the gentleman that I still owned a Newton MP2100 and still used it to take notes for business and education, he immediately suggested I upgrade to the iPhone. When I asked about its utility as an eink note and data management device, he admitted that it doesn't serve that purpose. Just as you say.
So, while you might think it unreasonable for me to expect a touch based handheld computer with a cellphone radio to manage my critical data, I certainly don't Or better put: that it doesn't suit my needs is reason enough not to buy. Regardless of whether my expectations are "reasonable."
Right. I think the real problem is that the iPhone is targeted at a consumer audience, but it has a professionals price tag. If this thing manipulated text and raw source materials the way I need, I'd pay the price. Gladly. But who needs a $500 handheld toy?
The device looks very cool. It has all sorts of cool features for storing and listening to music, taking and showing photos, organizing a schedule, etc. Unfortunately, this is a 'convergence' product almost a decade late. Furthermore, it doesn't do the ONE thing I want and need: allow me to take eink notes or annotate over pdfs. Apple really missed the boat here. And I think here we see Jobs' bias against pen input really damaging the potential of this product. I don't need yet another calendar. I need a tool to manipulate divergent notes from a variety of projects. And being able to snap photos of text in a book or original source materials for batch OCR would be nice too.
Jobs made a very nice toy. Unfortunately, I need a tool - and the iPhone ain't it.
I used to have one of those, an MP300 I bought in 1998 or so. At the time, it was pretty nice. USB wasn't widely available then, so the only input options were traditional Parallel and Serial ports. And because that was (and still is) a very old standard, there were numerous tools to reverse engineer the communications protocol. As a result, it had wide Linux and BSD support.
As for storage, 32MB might seem small today, but back then that was a LOT of memory. And - yup, it barely stored a full CD. But you could add cards to boost it up to 64MB, which could store more than enough for a good jog. Which made it the perfect joggers music player, since at the time portable CD players were the only other option. No matter how much buffer memory a CD player has, it still sucks to jog with the thing.
MSRPs on all 1080i/p projectors available on the market. The Panny AE1000 does 1080p/60 will be MSRP ~$3K. That will be the floor for 1080p projectors this year.
Perhaps you're thinking about PJs that take 1080p *input*. I'm talking about those that *display* 1080p/60.
A modern 1080p/60 projector will run you ~$3000-$4000 right now. When comparing a PS3 to the midrange PJs on the market today, it is cheap. It's also the best sub $1000 BD player on the market, though that will change soon. But I admit, if you just want to play games in HD, the 360 is still the way to go.
Fakebooks (books of sheetmusic from ear trascriptions) have been around for many decades. If they win, this will be precedent setting, and well could kill the fakebook publishing industry as well. This is nuts.
He's just a shitty troll. A good troll wouldn't have used hot words like "xbot" or written such a long and convoluted post. Sad, really. The anti-trolling efforts at/. have driven away the funny trolls, leaving us with nothing to laugh at but the lamest of the lame.
Here's to a Naked and Petrified Natalie Portman, along with a bowl of hot grits!
I have a PS3 and a 360. On the PS3 side, there's not a single game I like. I didn't even enjoy Resistance. However, it's a great BD player. Still glad I bought it. But the 360 has the games. I just bought Command and Conquer 3 and _it rocks_. And, of course, there's Dead Rising and Gears to keep me entertained too.
Sony better get their game on or they're gonna get trounced.
While I've already bought a PS3, let me say that Pirates of the Caribbean is no reason I would choose to buy in to blu-ray. Nor would The Matrix convince me to buy into HD-DVD. What is it with the studios releasing such crappy movies?
That's really the question here. Are court officers and informants at risk of death or major injury due to this data being made public at this time. I do not argue that the information should be censored permanently. But a temporary court order to cease distribution of those names during court proceedings seems perfectly reasonable.
Which means that as long as those undercover officers have pending investigations and court dates, their names and faces should be protected from public disclosure until they're reassigned or they retire.
OK, I'm not affiliated with this company I just like their products:
Go to Sweet Marias and order up some green beans and a buy a roaster. For cheap stuff, I prefer Ethiopian Yrgacheffe, but the selection is large and there's plenty of other beans and blends available. For the roaster, I have one of these. It's a nice cheap way to try roasting. If you're really cheap, many hot air popcorn makers will roast just fine too. And finally, for the perfect cup you'll want to try one of these Vacuum Coffee Brewers that are pain to clean but brew the best damn cup this side of a French Press.
Hmmmmm coffee... yum!
Also, the Rancilio Silvia and Gaggia Classic are still IMO the best single boiler home espresso machines on the market. I've had a Silvia for almost seven years and it's taken one hell of a beating every day, with no downtime. Thing is built like a tank.
What would life on the Internet be without scriptable office documents/spreadsheets, email, web sites, and be like? A whole lot safer, regardless of the Operating System.
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/tmp to mode 777. It needs the sticky bit to prevent writes by non-owners. Try mode 1777.
No SA in right mind would set
The problem as I see it is that this is no reason to quash an investigatory subpoena for fact finding. A person has placed copyrighted materials on an electronic system and made those materials available to the public for duplication. Was there illegal copyright infringement? No one will know until after the necessary fact finding for discovery. It seems to me - as a layperson - that requesting documentation from the University to determine if criminal activity and civil liability is perfectly reasonable.
This is why copyright infringement is not theft.
You'll have a hard time convincing our legislators and courts of that assertion these days. Good luck.
IMO: you're nitpicking over the meaning of the term "public". I'm not claiming that BU is a publicly owned institution. Nor would it matter were it so.
Isn't that because discovery is not yet complete? It would seem to me that if such logs and records do exist, arguing lack of criminal intent by a Jon Doe is not reason to quash fact finding.
No, because there's no criminal duplication involved in redistributing a licensed copy of that CD. IOW: there's no initial crime in giving away (or selling) a used CD, so there is no liability for having done so to begin with. In this case, a person has already admitted that criminal activity took place within his University account and filesystem. We already know a law was broken. So, is the owner of that account criminally or civily liable for the consequences? I'd like to hear a real lawyer speak up on that issue.
Here's one better: What if *you* move *my* car to a public location without my permission, unlock it, and then claim innocence of the resulting theft as well as no liability for my loss due to your ignorance of the potential outcome. I don't think that would fly in court. Then again, INAL. I don't even play one on TV.
Essentially, as I read it he's arguing for no criminal liability for illegal redistribution due to having no intent to distribute. Yet he admits to having placed copyrighted works in public folders on a public university system, which allowed others to copy his work. Further, he must have had the ability to set filesystem permissions to intentionally prevent redistribution. I think he's liable. If they can't prove criminal misconduct, at the least by his own admission they can prove civil negligence.
Actually, no. It's called a Newton MP2100. Ten years after Jobs killed the device, it still has a community of devout followers. Mostly because underneath that aging ARM processor is a software platform a good decade ahead of everything else. Also, it's about only handheld functional programming environment ever created. Had they only chosen Smalltalk over Newtonscript, it would have been perfection.
And then, upon Jobs fixing his broken product, I saved the world economy with a simple purchase. Aren't I awesome?!?!?!
It's interesting that you should mention that. Several weeks back I had an incident with Apple tech support that led me to email Steve Jobs and get direct support from his administrative help staff. When I mentioned to the gentleman that I still owned a Newton MP2100 and still used it to take notes for business and education, he immediately suggested I upgrade to the iPhone. When I asked about its utility as an eink note and data management device, he admitted that it doesn't serve that purpose. Just as you say.
So, while you might think it unreasonable for me to expect a touch based handheld computer with a cellphone radio to manage my critical data, I certainly don't Or better put: that it doesn't suit my needs is reason enough not to buy. Regardless of whether my expectations are "reasonable."
Right. I think the real problem is that the iPhone is targeted at a consumer audience, but it has a professionals price tag. If this thing manipulated text and raw source materials the way I need, I'd pay the price. Gladly. But who needs a $500 handheld toy?
The device looks very cool. It has all sorts of cool features for storing and listening to music, taking and showing photos, organizing a schedule, etc. Unfortunately, this is a 'convergence' product almost a decade late. Furthermore, it doesn't do the ONE thing I want and need: allow me to take eink notes or annotate over pdfs. Apple really missed the boat here. And I think here we see Jobs' bias against pen input really damaging the potential of this product. I don't need yet another calendar. I need a tool to manipulate divergent notes from a variety of projects. And being able to snap photos of text in a book or original source materials for batch OCR would be nice too.
Jobs made a very nice toy. Unfortunately, I need a tool - and the iPhone ain't it.
I used to have one of those, an MP300 I bought in 1998 or so. At the time, it was pretty nice. USB wasn't widely available then, so the only input options were traditional Parallel and Serial ports. And because that was (and still is) a very old standard, there were numerous tools to reverse engineer the communications protocol. As a result, it had wide Linux and BSD support.
As for storage, 32MB might seem small today, but back then that was a LOT of memory. And - yup, it barely stored a full CD. But you could add cards to boost it up to 64MB, which could store more than enough for a good jog. Which made it the perfect joggers music player, since at the time portable CD players were the only other option. No matter how much buffer memory a CD player has, it still sucks to jog with the thing.
MSRPs on all 1080i/p projectors available on the market. The Panny AE1000 does 1080p/60 will be MSRP ~$3K. That will be the floor for 1080p projectors this year.
Perhaps you're thinking about PJs that take 1080p *input*. I'm talking about those that *display* 1080p/60.
A modern 1080p/60 projector will run you ~$3000-$4000 right now. When comparing a PS3 to the midrange PJs on the market today, it is cheap. It's also the best sub $1000 BD player on the market, though that will change soon. But I admit, if you just want to play games in HD, the 360 is still the way to go.
Fakebooks (books of sheetmusic from ear trascriptions) have been around for many decades. If they win, this will be precedent setting, and well could kill the fakebook publishing industry as well. This is nuts.
He's just a shitty troll. A good troll wouldn't have used hot words like "xbot" or written such a long and convoluted post. Sad, really. The anti-trolling efforts at /. have driven away the funny trolls, leaving us with nothing to laugh at but the lamest of the lame.
Here's to a Naked and Petrified Natalie Portman, along with a bowl of hot grits!
I have a PS3 and a 360. On the PS3 side, there's not a single game I like. I didn't even enjoy Resistance. However, it's a great BD player. Still glad I bought it. But the 360 has the games. I just bought Command and Conquer 3 and _it rocks_. And, of course, there's Dead Rising and Gears to keep me entertained too.
Sony better get their game on or they're gonna get trounced.
While I've already bought a PS3, let me say that Pirates of the Caribbean is no reason I would choose to buy in to blu-ray. Nor would The Matrix convince me to buy into HD-DVD. What is it with the studios releasing such crappy movies?
That's really the question here. Are court officers and informants at risk of death or major injury due to this data being made public at this time. I do not argue that the information should be censored permanently. But a temporary court order to cease distribution of those names during court proceedings seems perfectly reasonable.
Which means that as long as those undercover officers have pending investigations and court dates, their names and faces should be protected from public disclosure until they're reassigned or they retire.
OK, I'm not affiliated with this company I just like their products:
Go to Sweet Marias and order up some green beans and a buy a roaster. For cheap stuff, I prefer Ethiopian Yrgacheffe, but the selection is large and there's plenty of other beans and blends available. For the roaster, I have one of these. It's a nice cheap way to try roasting. If you're really cheap, many hot air popcorn makers will roast just fine too. And finally, for the perfect cup you'll want to try one of these Vacuum Coffee Brewers that are pain to clean but brew the best damn cup this side of a French Press.
Hmmmmm coffee... yum!
Also, the Rancilio Silvia and Gaggia Classic are still IMO the best single boiler home espresso machines on the market. I've had a Silvia for almost seven years and it's taken one hell of a beating every day, with no downtime. Thing is built like a tank.
Zombie Jesus, by miracle, turned bread into brains. Duh!
Are they the new Yggdrasil?
What would life on the Internet be without scriptable office documents/spreadsheets, email, web sites, and be like? A whole lot safer, regardless of the Operating System.