Ironic that PKware was founded in the midst of the firestorm of controversy of the.ARC extension. System Enhancement Associates' threats caused.ARC to essentially die, and.ZIP to take its place. Now we've come full circle.
Now that Phil Katz is gone, PKware is obviously just another corporate scumbag trying to milk money from something they wouldn't be able to create.
You would be wrong. People who are truly pro-GPL and GPL software would not find it appropriate to violate the law by infringing on the copyrights of others. Otherwise, why would they bother being pro-GPL, when they could just get an infringing copy of Windows XP and be done with it?
But credit card companies don't employ people with guns and badges that can kick in your door and take you to a holding cell without a reason--and thats the difference!
True. But they'll give that information up to anybody that flashes a badge, without being forced by a judge, rather than risk falling out of favor with a government that is ready to gut the Fair Credit Reporting Act and "reform" bankruptcy in their favor.
The video camera discreetly mounted in the smoke detector captures liaisons. Additional revenue is derived from guests who are shown these videos, or, alternatively, from certain websites which stream them on demand for a fee.
Going broke on the difference between the 35 cent retail and the 65 cents label royalty per track is a fairly predictable first consequence, one would think
But you see, they only have to take a loss long enough to drive Apple out of the business.
Good points--the ideas of doublespeak and the Ministry of Truth permeate our everyday conversations about government, it's easy to forget that they are what the book was about, which I apparently did. Thanks!
Personally, I think we should get rid of license plates. That would protect our privacy the best.
My guess is that in our lifetime, we'll see license places (or perhaps vehicles themselves) outfitted with transponders, and that driving with a dead transponder will probably result in hefty fines or jail time.
While I would agree that the book isn't about surveillance technology, per se, it is about the subjugation of human beings en masse made possible with the nearly perfect (while fictional) surveillance technology used. Thus, 1984 references aren't out of place in these kinds of discussions.
At $4.99 per month. It was cool when it was free and the plan was to charge corporate users. But what they did was build up their corpus of spam and then start charging. Clever, but not a strategy or price point I'm interested in supporting.
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For the safety it offers, you'll be hard pressed to find a police officer who does not love the security the in-car cameras give them.
That's exactly the point! Why shouldn't ordinary citizens be entitled to the same preservation of evidence and safety it offers given to those whose salaries they pay? The cameras should run all the time.
Nope. I think I'll keep buying TaxCut like I did this year, since H&R Block never hobbled the product I bought with this crap in the first place. But Intuit might not lose even more business because of this next year, so it was still good damage control on their part.
Some interpret barratry to only mean judicial legal action, as you suggest. I'm using a more liberal interpretation--groundless instigation of legal action, which can include a C&D. Of course, IANAL. Heck, IANA law student, even.
Do you really think that these guys aren't smart enough to requisition some of the same consumer connections that everyone else uses? Or that they're still connecting to people's Gnutella shares with IP addresses which resolve to infringementbot.riaa.org?
What can you do with HDTV that you can't do with NTSC?
And, in the same vein, with all the digital restrictions management and fair-use prevention technolgies coming down the pike, what won't you be able to do with HDTV that you can do with NTSC?
I think the object of the game, besides FUD, is to keep any alleged infringing code from being expurgated from future versions of the kernel--if that happens, SCO has even more of nothing to sell.
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Now that Phil Katz is gone, PKware is obviously just another corporate scumbag trying to milk money from something they wouldn't be able to create.
You would be wrong. People who are truly pro-GPL and GPL software would not find it appropriate to violate the law by infringing on the copyrights of others. Otherwise, why would they bother being pro-GPL, when they could just get an infringing copy of Windows XP and be done with it?
True. But they'll give that information up to anybody that flashes a badge, without being forced by a judge, rather than risk falling out of favor with a government that is ready to gut the Fair Credit Reporting Act and "reform" bankruptcy in their favor.
Ah--thanks!
WHAT, exactly does the Java security model have to do with JavaScript--an unfortunately named, but totally different, animal?!
Nice! "I learned something today!"
The video camera discreetly mounted in the smoke detector captures liaisons. Additional revenue is derived from guests who are shown these videos, or, alternatively, from certain websites which stream them on demand for a fee.
But you see, they only have to take a loss long enough to drive Apple out of the business.
Good points--the ideas of doublespeak and the Ministry of Truth permeate our everyday conversations about government, it's easy to forget that they are what the book was about, which I apparently did. Thanks!
Me too. I still have that number somewhere :).
My guess is that in our lifetime, we'll see license places (or perhaps vehicles themselves) outfitted with transponders, and that driving with a dead transponder will probably result in hefty fines or jail time.
While I would agree that the book isn't about surveillance technology, per se, it is about the subjugation of human beings en masse made possible with the nearly perfect (while fictional) surveillance technology used. Thus, 1984 references aren't out of place in these kinds of discussions.
So long as it doesn't include any intrusive DRM technology, I'm interested.
I did. I'm using client-side filtering.
(or get a job).
That was neither necessary nor applicable. I didn't propose to take their service without paying; I just said I wasn't interested.
At $4.99 per month. It was cool when it was free and the plan was to charge corporate users. But what they did was build up their corpus of spam and then start charging. Clever, but not a strategy or price point I'm interested in supporting.
That's exactly the point! Why shouldn't ordinary citizens be entitled to the same preservation of evidence and safety it offers given to those whose salaries they pay? The cameras should run all the time.
Nope. I think I'll keep buying TaxCut like I did this year, since H&R Block never hobbled the product I bought with this crap in the first place. But Intuit might not lose even more business because of this next year, so it was still good damage control on their part.
Some interpret barratry to only mean judicial legal action, as you suggest. I'm using a more liberal interpretation--groundless instigation of legal action, which can include a C&D. Of course, IANAL. Heck, IANA law student, even.
Do you really think that these guys aren't smart enough to requisition some of the same consumer connections that everyone else uses? Or that they're still connecting to people's Gnutella shares with IP addresses which resolve to infringementbot.riaa.org?
You're right. In this case, it's barratry.
And, in the same vein, with all the digital restrictions management and fair-use prevention technolgies coming down the pike, what won't you be able to do with HDTV that you can do with NTSC?
Absolutely beautiful. My hat's off to you!
Love the username :).
I think the object of the game, besides FUD, is to keep any alleged infringing code from being expurgated from future versions of the kernel--if that happens, SCO has even more of nothing to sell.
IEFBR14, the program that does nothing.