He said "non-copyrighted", not public domain. The only works that so qualify are works of the US government, works explicitly placed in the public domain, and works on which the copyright has expired. I doubt that he was talking about anything in any of those classes.
>...very clearly means that there is no copyright as the work belongs to the people.
No it doesn't. Works in the public domain "belong" to no one.
> I'm sure he is referring to the content on the cd.
You think? Gee, and here I thought he was referring to the piece of plastic.
> Differentiating between someone burning their pictures on a cd, and someone duping > pirates of the Caribbean disks.
Your pictures of your kid, no matter how amateurish, are protected by the same copyright law as the equally uninteresting product of some Hollywood producer.
> I think what he means was that it was a non-commerical CD, such as a Data CD.
"Non-commercial" does not mean "not protected by copyright".
> It's a common practice among techs that i've met, as well as myself, to burn compliation > CD's of drivers, tools and other useful stuff. CAB files for every major OS, even the old > ones, can get you far in some situations.
All protected by copyright unless works of the US government or explicitly placed in the public domain by the copyright owner.
> Wouldn't speeding up the earth be less of a hassle ?
Now you're talking. They call themselves the Earth Rotation Society, after all. Why don't they just get on the stick and do their job? Adjust our clocks indeed. Let them adjust their planet!
Except for all the millions of cron jobs that run at a minute granularity.
If the same minute occurs twice, should the job run twice? If a minute is skipped, should the job not run at all, or run a minute early, or a minute late?
From the cron man page:
Special considerations exist when the clock is changed by less than 3 hours, for example at the beginning
and end of daylight savings time. If the time has moved forwards, those jobs which would have run in the
time that was skipped will be run soon after the change. Conversely, if the time has moved backwards by
less than 3 hours, those jobs that fall into the repeated time will not be re-run.
This is the same problem as the witching hour every year when switching to and from daylight savings time.
> Not quite passive if they're using Flash, though. I'm selective with my AdBlocking > because I know some webmasters rely on the revenue.
If I did that the "harm" would just be transferred to the advertisers as I will never buy what they are selling. I see no reason to worry about it, though.
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> Just because we don't know how the program arrived at the steps it did doesn't mean that > we shouldn't use it; we can usually check the steps.
Even when there are 700,000,000 of them?
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>...if we don't have ALL the source and ALL other information about the software...
Including any libraries, compilers, and interpreters.
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No. Read old Keith Laumer stories.
> We all talked to a lawyer but the amount owed he said just wasn't worth it to sue.
You should have talked to your state department of labor.
> As a technician, you haven't any business using a customer's hardware to burn yourself
> copies of CDs...
Nowhere in the article does it state or imply that a customer's hardware was used.
The copyright on such works cannot be enforced under US copyright law. A subtle but important distinction.
> I think this guy is confused and means freeware, FOSS, etc.
He may be even more confused and mean anything not from a commercial publisher, like your former webhoster.
> Public domain...
...very clearly means that there is no copyright as the work belongs to the people.
He said "non-copyrighted", not public domain. The only works that so qualify are works of the US government, works explicitly placed in the public domain, and works on which the copyright has expired. I doubt that he was talking about anything in any of those classes.
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No it doesn't. Works in the public domain "belong" to no one.
> I'm sure he is referring to the content on the cd.
You think? Gee, and here I thought he was referring to the piece of plastic.
> Differentiating between someone burning their pictures on a cd, and someone duping
> pirates of the Caribbean disks.
Your pictures of your kid, no matter how amateurish, are protected by the same copyright law as the equally uninteresting product of some Hollywood producer.
> I think what he means was that it was a non-commerical CD, such as a Data CD.
"Non-commercial" does not mean "not protected by copyright".
> It's a common practice among techs that i've met, as well as myself, to burn compliation
> CD's of drivers, tools and other useful stuff. CAB files for every major OS, even the old
> ones, can get you far in some situations.
All protected by copyright unless works of the US government or explicitly placed in the public domain by the copyright owner.
> "The first two were fired for burning a non-copyrighted CD..."
What do you mean by "non-copyrighted"?
Just stick the free Ubuntu CD in the drive, reboot, and follow instructions.
> Wouldn't speeding up the earth be less of a hassle ?
Now you're talking. They call themselves the Earth Rotation Society, after all. Why don't they just get on the stick and do their job? Adjust our clocks indeed. Let them adjust their planet!
> I see it more of a problem with US legislators trying to govern what's outside human
> control.
No legislators, US or otherwise, are involved in this.
> Congress passing a law that a year is a constant length doesn't make it so.
Where did you get that from?
> I think we need two references.
We have two references.
> One time reference which never, ever changes...
TAI.
> and another which tracks the diurnal cycle.
UTC. The question is how closely UTC should track the planet's motion.
See above.
Google tithe.
I meant why Google Analytics, specifically?
> Granted, townie judges may not be the brightest bunch.
Without having seen the actual statute and relevant precedents we can't be sure that the judge was not merely following the law.
Make that a few millenia. Or perhaps a few tens of millenia.
> ...it's illegal to decompile an swf.
Please cite the relevant law (and no, it isn't the DMCA).
> Then you can selectively add secondary sites, like Google Analytics.
Why?
I use Privoxy. It does an excellent job of blocking all ads while working with any browser.
> Not quite passive if they're using Flash, though. I'm selective with my AdBlocking
> because I know some webmasters rely on the revenue.
If I did that the "harm" would just be transferred to the advertisers as I will never buy what they are selling. I see no reason to worry about it, though.
> Just because we don't know how the program arrived at the steps it did doesn't mean that
> we shouldn't use it; we can usually check the steps.
Even when there are 700,000,000 of them?
> ...if we don't have ALL the source and ALL other information about the software...
Including any libraries, compilers, and interpreters.
I doubt it. I also doubt that they have a clause saying "If our servers are struck by a meteorite there will be an interruption of service".