*"Working with us" is defined as not competing with any of our products and offering appropriate compensation by not working with our competitors and agreeing to only develop only for our latest products, helping us enforce the upgrade cycle.
Hmm, someone suggested penisfish, but I've never heard of it. Anyway, rotten.com has a bunch of nice pictures, failed-shotgun-suicide-or-motorcycle-accident-you- choose man and weightlifter-intenstines man among them.
But it might be the perfect time for an organized non-violent movement to avoid the (IMO inevitable) bloodshed. John Ashcroft's (invite only) speeches draw a large protest crowd. What would happen if 100 or so people decided to try to get in (peacefully) to listen, and let the guards gas and beat the shit out of them?
it enables people to watch their over-priced DVDs in foreign countries
More likely it enables them to charge more in rich countries. For example, they have to compete with rampant piracy in parts of asia, so DVDs in asia are often less than (DVD in other region - shipping from asia to other region).
This requires at least some purchase. What's the deal?
"At least" is never good enough...they'll always try for the most they can get, and they can get more in some regions by inflating prices.
That just makes it easier to label you a "hacker" when they find you. Doing it openly at least makes it civil disobedience, and makes people more likely to listen to your defense.
I think his point was that, currently, you cannot hit menu (on licensed players) or fast forward during certain parts of the DVD, like the FBI warning scene. This is an example of the issue at stake (sellers of DVDs being able to dictate the way they may be viewed). It's not the most important one, since those scenes at the beginning last a few seconds, but if (once) ads make it into DVDs, it will become more important.
If you cannot break the encryption to do view content in another manner, you will not be able to skip what they don't want you to skip.
From "I'm feeling lucky" google search for 'building codes publish court case', or here.
(article dated last Feb 10.)
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether building codes, once enacted into law, retain copyright protection. The Supreme Court's decision to hear the issue came after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that building codes, when enacted into law, could not be copyrighted.
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The Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc. (SBCCI) is a non-profit organization that develops and promulgates model building codes and then encourages local governments to enact the codes into law by reference. Rather than charge local governments a fee for the right to adopt its model building codes, SBCCI asserts a copyright by which it has the exclusive right to publish the codes or license their reproduction and publication.
If it were against the law to re-publish (which implies a publication in the first place) then the company publishing the laws would also have to stop publishing...
Not if they owned the exclusive right to publish, ie copyright.
but to me it seemed the law was only about re-publishing someone elses database (like via a database scraper)
But it's not "like via a database scraper." It's more like "looking up the law at the library, copying it down, and putting it on a website."
I'm more in agreement that this is a case where someone is taking data compiled by someone else and publishing that
The law is not just data, it's the frickin law. No entity, public or private, should be able to claim exclusive publication or distribution rights to the text of the law.
My god man, do you have any idea how slippery that slope is?! I think I broke something just thinking about it!
IthnkImParanoid's law: As a discussion of Moore's law procedes over time, the probability of someone naming a law after themself approaches one. At that time, rational discussion becomes impossible as people flood the thread with their own laws.
The time to initialisize the ram is a fraction of the boot time, at least when booting win2k/xp. Most time is spent loading processes and data from disk to ram when the OS starts, which the grandparent's joke attributed to Microsoft growing the size of these processes and data at the same rate as CPU speed growth. So, yeah, we have the same B/Hz ratio, but [joke]only because MS keeps increasing the B[/joke].
What he said can be re-worded as "The only victimless crimes I can think of are sex crimes," as opposed to "Sex crimes are victimless." He was most likely talking about sodomy laws, and possibly prostitution and/or indecent exposure (of the streaking variety, not the flashing variety).
He explicitly stated that sex crimes can fall into all 3 categories. It wasn't his presentation that caused your misunderstanding.
After all, if you graduate from college with a degree in chemistry, are you going to teaching science in a rural or inner-city school system for $30,000 a year or go to work for that pharmaceutical company for twice as much?
Funny you brought it up: I had a long term sub (regular teacher had a brain tumor) that was thinking about getting into teaching. She was a chemist at a pharmaceutical company, and decided to go back there when the other teacher came back, saying teaching was the hardest thing she'd ever done. The regular teacher made 60K a year because he'd been there for so long, but he had made twice that at other jobs.
Anyway, the only thing computers should be used for in schools is a lab for students to type their essays (when they don't have access at home) and for specific classes like programming.
Sounds *exactly* like the hypnotic/subconscious suggestion effect that has been measured from activities as varied as watching TV, Church, listening to a politician speak, reading a book, watching a movie, etc.
Don't forget reading slashdot. It takes a couple hours after a slow work day to stop thinking the FBI has RFIDs all over my house. Not to mention the urge to send Jack Valenti tubgirl pictures (a better metaphor for his speeches does not exist).
But, if I rip and encode a cd, keep the mp3s and give or sell you the CD, that's legal
Pretty sure that's not true. You don't have the right to distribute. You do have the right to resell, but that means giving up what you originally bought.
EVERY SINGLE THING a record studio does can be done more efficiently with commodity hardware, software, and communications
Except the manufacture of boybands and trendy pop stars. That is what the recording industry is surviving on now, possibly because those of us that want better (real) music can find it from independent artists that give away their music for free. That's what keeps the music industry awake at night.
I worked as a cashier, and occasionally sold bus 10 ride passes for the University buses. The passes are exact duplicates, except for the serial number. One day an old asian lady wouldn't take the bus pass I handed to her, and wouldn't take the next one....
I was confused as hell until I realized she was looking at the serial numbers. Apparently in Chinese(?) culture, four is EVIL. Unfortunately for her, the four was far to the left, so everyone buying passes for the next five years was gonna get a four. She finally found a nice bus pass that didn't scare her so much while I was resisting the urge to tell her things like "This bus pass is yours. It has been dealt to you by fate, and giving it back makes it no less yours." and other things you shouldn't say to old ladies.
Problem isn't the browser. I'm using Opera 7.11 as well, with a resolution of 1600x1200. The problem is the website content occupies a space wider that it is high. It also uses a fraction of the available area, filling all other screen space with an ugly grey. These things suggest to me that the web designers are probably a valuable addition to a party, but should stay away from HTML editors at all costs.
First off, let me say I don't pirate music. I did a few years back, but I actually bought what I liked, as long as it wasn't standard "a couple good tracks, half an hour of filler" crap. Believe me or not, I used to buy msuic. I've stopped pirating because I'm boycotting the RIAA completely, not just by withholding money. That being said:
No, people, this is NOT a good thing! Can't people figure out when there's a good thing happening, that they should sit the hell down and let it be?
No. I will never accept the idea that I don't own the bits on my harddrive. I'm perfectly ok with the idea that I cannot legally distribute those bits, and I can't create derivative works for commercial use, but those bits are mine in every other sense. You can't stop me from re-encoding, copying (to myself), or XORing them all with dirty words.
I know iTunes has(had?) a good thing going, and that the internet is a great way to get music legally. I recognize that the RIAA may have a collective knee-jerk and pull all internet distribution licences, but I've got to go with the lesser evil. No matter how I got them, those bits are mine.
We aren't talking about terminator-style robots yet, bud. Robots are still slow and non-bullet proof, and "see" about as well as I do without glasses swimming in a dirty lake. I'll take that bet and give you odds.
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More like: If you work with us*, we'll trust you.
*"Working with us" is defined as not competing with any of our products and offering appropriate compensation by not working with our competitors and agreeing to only develop only for our latest products, helping us enforce the upgrade cycle.
He did get modded troll, although only a point. That person has a nasty sense of humor, or should never get mod points again.
Hmm, someone suggested penisfish, but I've never heard of it. Anyway, rotten.com has a bunch of nice pictures, failed-shotgun-suicide-or-motorcycle-accident-you- choose man and weightlifter-intenstines man among them.
Don't look.
Just browse at -1 until you see the ascii goatse. That'll give you an idea of the horror without having to see the actual pink bits.
FWIW, goatse is only the fourth or fifth worst image I've ever seen.
But it might be the perfect time for an organized non-violent movement to avoid the (IMO inevitable) bloodshed. John Ashcroft's (invite only) speeches draw a large protest crowd. What would happen if 100 or so people decided to try to get in (peacefully) to listen, and let the guards gas and beat the shit out of them?
That just makes it easier to label you a "hacker" when they find you. Doing it openly at least makes it civil disobedience, and makes people more likely to listen to your defense.
I think his point was that, currently, you cannot hit menu (on licensed players) or fast forward during certain parts of the DVD, like the FBI warning scene. This is an example of the issue at stake (sellers of DVDs being able to dictate the way they may be viewed). It's not the most important one, since those scenes at the beginning last a few seconds, but if (once) ads make it into DVDs, it will become more important.
If you cannot break the encryption to do view content in another manner, you will not be able to skip what they don't want you to skip.
Wait! You're not leaving without me!
*scamper*
But it's not "like via a database scraper." It's more like "looking up the law at the library, copying it down, and putting it on a website." The law is not just data, it's the frickin law. No entity, public or private, should be able to claim exclusive publication or distribution rights to the text of the law.
My god man, do you have any idea how slippery that slope is?! I think I broke something just thinking about it!
IthnkImParanoid's law: As a discussion of Moore's law procedes over time, the probability of someone naming a law after themself approaches one. At that time, rational discussion becomes impossible as people flood the thread with their own laws.
That's true, until people realize how much better gameplay was when 90% of developer attention wasn't on graphics.
The time to initialisize the ram is a fraction of the boot time, at least when booting win2k/xp. Most time is spent loading processes and data from disk to ram when the OS starts, which the grandparent's joke attributed to Microsoft growing the size of these processes and data at the same rate as CPU speed growth. So, yeah, we have the same B/Hz ratio, but [joke]only because MS keeps increasing the B[/joke].
Anyway, your point was made in the joke.
What he said can be re-worded as "The only victimless crimes I can think of are sex crimes," as opposed to "Sex crimes are victimless." He was most likely talking about sodomy laws, and possibly prostitution and/or indecent exposure (of the streaking variety, not the flashing variety).
He explicitly stated that sex crimes can fall into all 3 categories. It wasn't his presentation that caused your misunderstanding.
Funny you brought it up: I had a long term sub (regular teacher had a brain tumor) that was thinking about getting into teaching. She was a chemist at a pharmaceutical company, and decided to go back there when the other teacher came back, saying teaching was the hardest thing she'd ever done. The regular teacher made 60K a year because he'd been there for so long, but he had made twice that at other jobs.
Anyway, the only thing computers should be used for in schools is a lab for students to type their essays (when they don't have access at home) and for specific classes like programming.
I worked as a cashier, and occasionally sold bus 10 ride passes for the University buses. The passes are exact duplicates, except for the serial number. One day an old asian lady wouldn't take the bus pass I handed to her, and wouldn't take the next one....
I was confused as hell until I realized she was looking at the serial numbers. Apparently in Chinese(?) culture, four is EVIL. Unfortunately for her, the four was far to the left, so everyone buying passes for the next five years was gonna get a four. She finally found a nice bus pass that didn't scare her so much while I was resisting the urge to tell her things like "This bus pass is yours. It has been dealt to you by fate, and giving it back makes it no less yours." and other things you shouldn't say to old ladies.
'Least not while them thar angels 'r watchin'.
I'm a quantum physicist, you insensitive clod!
Problem isn't the browser. I'm using Opera 7.11 as well, with a resolution of 1600x1200. The problem is the website content occupies a space wider that it is high. It also uses a fraction of the available area, filling all other screen space with an ugly grey. These things suggest to me that the web designers are probably a valuable addition to a party, but should stay away from HTML editors at all costs.
I know iTunes has(had?) a good thing going, and that the internet is a great way to get music legally. I recognize that the RIAA may have a collective knee-jerk and pull all internet distribution licences, but I've got to go with the lesser evil. No matter how I got them, those bits are mine.
No, he wrote DeCss. He's (currently) innocent because writing DeCSS didn't break any (Norwegian) law.
We aren't talking about terminator-style robots yet, bud. Robots are still slow and non-bullet proof, and "see" about as well as I do without glasses swimming in a dirty lake. I'll take that bet and give you odds.
Then a tie of an odd number of matches could still result in a draw. An even number was probably used because of anticipation of (at least) one draw.