It's always been illegal for me to borrow tapes/cds from friends and libraries and record them, but it is easy to do, so everyone does...
What a lot of the DMCA does is provide for a technical implementation for existing laws.
Forgetting for a moment the fair use issues, which can probably be resolved, this would seem to be quite fair.
Except that it isn't. This is really more about power than anything, about the freedom to live relatively freely, to misquote Sabrina (Teenage Witch), 'Every Law Shall Have a Loophole'.
The DMCA is giving dictatorial control over certain aspects of life to corporations (cough, spit, wash yer mouth out with soap) who really don't have the maturity/morality/whatever not to abuse it.
In a way it is quite amusing, anyone can have shares, companies exist to profit the shareholders and are willing to go to pretty much any lengths to do so. We are becoming our own goalers.
For instance, a DVD sold in Japan will not play on a DVD player sold in the United States
because of technical protection measures employed by the motion picture industry.
How does this work the other way, I thought that regional encoding was illegal in NZ, but since then a scary source sez it ain't.
This goes way beyond fair use I'd have thought.
(been interupted so many times writing this I'm not sure what I was thinking though, it was way better than what I said though!!:)
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Wot it protected you from evil spirits?, improved your health? love life?
The bans aren't very effective though, The first time I saw austin powers was in Malaysia, even if t doesn't show at the cinema (watched something about mary there another time, v. amusing, never realised there was a word "Ff!":) you can pick up pretty much anything (including films banned in the US) at the VCD shops & stalls.
Have to agree about the arcades though, scary scary places...
*The credit really should go to the countless programmers who have donated source code to the public since the invention of digital computers*
In fact it would be pretty improbable for any one company to start an open source revolution, because it IS open, OS started with individuals, they got in touch, more people joined...
There probably was no 'start' as such, an idea reaches its time (as all TP readers should know).
I'd really hope that this is just media flaimbait, cos well that is how they make a living after all...
Otherwise it is way beyond the ridiculous...
And to take things a bit further I can't believe that all these schisms are doing anyone any good, the more time we spend fighting about who did what at uncle Jeremiah's wedding the less that get's done.
If we want to get involoved in the sort of dumb infighting that goes on in politics shouldn't we be running for parliment/congress/etc
If Redhat fuck up in such a major way as is suggested then they are just cutting thier own throats, because we are the people supporting them, and we know all the alternative sites.
They aren't big enough to play the MS game.
Maybe they've just hired some new PR bunnies and they escaped before the training finished.
Same reason the Unices have file permissions, you just can't trust the buggers, umm I mean users.
What would do serious damage to MS is more support and ports/rewites from _commercial_ software vendors but until they have a quick and easy interface to the GUI it isn't going to happen, they got lazy.
Bonobo & GTK (??) might be an answer, just guessing here, JAPH meself, not a real coder.
Hey, same age I was when I first saw one of them all those 11 years ago (on the way home from a friends funeral, talk about signs...), oh well, by the time you're my age you should probably have enough cash to buy Alaska if you go into IT.
umm no no no, corona is a soft drinks company, or well it used to be anyway, 5p a bottle to return them.
What he is talking about is an OhMyGodI'mGoingToHaveToSellTheFerrariToPayToHaveTh atFixed, an entirely different beastie altogether.
Interestingly enough Timothy missed out my PS on the article, to whit (PS: Part of it runs on Linux:P) although he did change the title from the original 'Aurora Monitor Project' and save me from looking like an utter dweeb, so I'm grateful)
If you aren't far enough north to see them then I'd recommend a few weeks off sick and a holiday in Alaska, they don't get this good that often, and well, once you've watched one you are never going to forget it. Don't mean to be blasphemous, but well, it's almost better than beer...
(ok for one moment I will try not to be flippant) It will touch your soul, you will always remember it.
Yup, and they gave IE away free for gods sake!
why is everyone bashing MS???
(PS: for the hard of thinking, j/k)
(PPS: altogether in fact, apart from the fact that it really needs more than my puny 128M of RAM W2K isn't that bad...)
(PPS: ok ok I admit it I'm just going for the Greatest Amount of Karma Points Lost in 24 Hours world record)
Not necacasarrililly http://www.microsoft.ad/ (also one of the best pages I've seen for a long time) at least doesn't seem to be theirs (I was going to go through them all with the aid of my rather funky map from Nominet, but when you take into account all the.co.ccTLD.com.ccTLD etc probably not a good idea).
anyone with even less of a life than me (is such a thing possible???) should easily be able to find a list of international registrars and spend a few happy hours finding out.
Well, as the guy above posted there is consume.net in London, Edinburgh and Stirling could be good as well as they are on hills so line of sight can be good.
As for the dishes, haven't been recently, but I'd guess the old non digital ones are probably being given away at most of the auctions in the country.
*mirroring stuff like DVD decryption software maybe* and of course now with all this censorware and government pressure pr0n is under threat at well, should get mirroring all you can find right now, umm for political purposes of course...
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Also angered was the gay community who protested that no catchy disco tune had yet been written with a chorus where everyone can dance the letters.
Umm please don't, a riot composed of geeks waving bar scanning dildos would be way more humour than my heart could take....
Unless you're in texas of course :)
It's always been illegal for me to borrow tapes/cds from friends and libraries and record them, but it is easy to do, so everyone does...
What a lot of the DMCA does is provide for a technical implementation for existing laws.
Forgetting for a moment the fair use issues, which can probably be resolved, this would seem to be quite fair.
Except that it isn't. This is really more about power than anything, about the freedom to live relatively freely, to misquote Sabrina (Teenage Witch), 'Every Law Shall Have a Loophole'.
The DMCA is giving dictatorial control over certain aspects of life to corporations (cough, spit, wash yer mouth out with soap) who really don't have the maturity/morality/whatever not to abuse it.
In a way it is quite amusing, anyone can have shares, companies exist to profit the shareholders and are willing to go to pretty much any lengths to do so. We are becoming our own goalers.
For instance, a DVD sold in Japan will not play on a DVD player sold in the United States because of technical protection measures employed by the motion picture industry.
How does this work the other way, I thought that regional encoding was illegal in NZ, but since then a scary source sez it ain't.
This goes way beyond fair use I'd have thought.
(been interupted so many times writing this I'm not sure what I was thinking though, it was way better than what I said though!! :)
Now that's an upgrade :)
hushmail
Have to agree about the arcades though, scary scary places...
gonna go and throw myself out the window onto a sharp pointy thing right now indeed.
Hi Ho
Ho Hum
So it goes....
Now if only I can get my BBC microcomputer fixed I could be a millionaire, it even has colour!!
a full stop is nice after the incessant stream of information from other sites.
admittedly the code sucks
They truncated my quotein an unhelpful way
Dontchya just hate it when they do that, makes it taste awfull...
I like to drink
In fact it would be pretty improbable for any one company to start an open source revolution, because it IS open, OS started with individuals, they got in touch, more people joined...
There probably was no 'start' as such, an idea reaches its time (as all TP readers should know).
I'd really hope that this is just media flaimbait, cos well that is how they make a living after all...
Otherwise it is way beyond the ridiculous...
And to take things a bit further I can't believe that all these schisms are doing anyone any good, the more time we spend fighting about who did what at uncle Jeremiah's wedding the less that get's done.
If we want to get involoved in the sort of dumb infighting that goes on in politics shouldn't we be running for parliment/congress/etc
If Redhat fuck up in such a major way as is suggested then they are just cutting thier own throats, because we are the people supporting them, and we know all the alternative sites.
They aren't big enough to play the MS game.
Maybe they've just hired some new PR bunnies and they escaped before the training finished.
What would do serious damage to MS is more support and ports/rewites from _commercial_ software vendors but until they have a quick and easy interface to the GUI it isn't going to happen, they got lazy.
Bonobo & GTK (??) might be an answer, just guessing here, JAPH meself, not a real coder.
n/p 's what I'm here for.
But hey it's explicable, long nights and all that...
Why do you think the Finns thought up IRC.
I'd check out the forecast linked to so many times already in this thread.
Even so in texas you are probably out of luck.
How about a boycott the MPAA RIAA etc tech worker strike for October so we can all head Due North.
What he is talking about is an OhMyGodI'mGoingToHaveToSellTheFerrariToPayToHaveTh atFixed, an entirely different beastie altogether.
Interestingly enough Timothy missed out my PS on the article, to whit (PS: Part of it runs on Linux :P) although he did change the title from the original 'Aurora Monitor Project' and save me from looking like an utter dweeb, so I'm grateful)
If you aren't far enough north to see them then I'd recommend a few weeks off sick and a holiday in Alaska, they don't get this good that often, and well, once you've watched one you are never going to forget it. Don't mean to be blasphemous, but well, it's almost better than beer...
(ok for one moment I will try not to be flippant) It will touch your soul, you will always remember it.
How many 11 years do you live anyway?
why do you think I spend all night outside watching stars and auroras...
And the days coding and at the pub.
Anything to get away from that unceasing interminable soul destroying energy sucking sex...
It's you wimmin that are obsessed with it so it is...
Yup, and they gave IE away free for gods sake! why is everyone bashing MS??? (PS: for the hard of thinking, j/k) (PPS: altogether in fact, apart from the fact that it really needs more than my puny 128M of RAM W2K isn't that bad...) (PPS: ok ok I admit it I'm just going for the Greatest Amount of Karma Points Lost in 24 Hours world record)
anyone with even less of a life than me (is such a thing possible???) should easily be able to find a list of international registrars and spend a few happy hours finding out.
What was the topic again?
Now if you can go for first and get 0th I'll be impressed....
As for the dishes, haven't been recently, but I'd guess the old non digital ones are probably being given away at most of the auctions in the country.
*mirroring stuff like DVD decryption software maybe* and of course now with all this censorware and government pressure pr0n is under threat at well, should get mirroring all you can find right now, umm for political purposes of course...
Those bloody snakes get everywhere don't they :)