Yes damnit. How many times do people have to answer you? The law is against SELLING TO MINORS. Once it's sold, you can do whatever you want with it. If you were really that interested, you would've just read the proposed legislation instead of trying to make noise about nothing. But then this wouldn't be Slashdot.
The government (which is a representative of society, ideally), has every right to meddle in your child-raising. There are some things which are clearly unacceptable to allow or force children to do, and there are some grey areas, such as this. This is hardly a ban on violent video games; merely a ban on their sale to minors. There's nothing wrong with that. Most of the time the parents are the ones buying the games anyway, so it really just keeps some kid from grabbing $50 out of mommy's purse and buying the game behind her back. In theory anyway. In reality, I've never seen anyone get ID'd for an R movie, or even for cigarettes, no matter how young they appear.
I guess then it would just turn into a matter of your word vs. theirs
Right. Because the word of a defendant at trial is worth a lot. (That's sarcasm, for the record).
The word of an officer almost always carries more weight than that of the accused. I've never seen anyone get out of a ticket for rolling through a stop sign just because the only evidence was the testimony of the cop.
But he has dealt with them. Your friend was not innocently playing bridge, he was reading a copy of a book he did not pay for. That, in the ordinary meaning of the word, is theft.
I read lots of books I've never paid for -- books which are, in fact, read by hundreds or perhaps even thousands of people. I haven't heard of any arrests down at the local library just yet, but I imagine that any day now, the utopia will come crashing down.
Except that piracy has long been a factor with software, and the software market still exists.
Your argument uses the logical fallacy that a significant amount of the population, given the choice, will choose to obtain something illegaly -- low monetary cost -- versus purchasing it legally -- low guilt cost. (Un)fortunately, the amount of people who know how to obtain a "free" copy, yet still choose to purchase that copy legally, combined with the people who don't know how and/or don't want to bother to learn how to obtain things for "free," still makes for a viable market, as demonstrated by the still-expanding market for games.
If anything kills CD/DVD, it will be competing forms of entertainment.
Will only be whaterbated? I have to throttle my upload to about 85% of the limit to ensure ACK packets can still be sent out, otherwise my download times suffer.
I also asked about how this is legal for them to do, and they said it took years of getting the movie indutry's backing, but they were finally able to do it. Looks like that might not have been the case after all. Now their clients all can be sued. Probably won't happen, but with the MPAA, you never know.
Yep, looks like it's finally come full circle. Movie studios suing movie stars for um.. having movies. It's only a matter of time before they sue the movie stars for stealing the likeness of the characters on the screen.
If you roll your own using DVD ripping software and something like MyHTPC (and a daemon tools plugin to mount the DVD images), its free in terms of software....
Don't listen to this crap. People keep spouting off about how it's so much cheaper to do it this way, but trust me, there's no way to fit all that hardware into a rolling paper. What are you people smoking?
Of course, they were all smart or affluent enough to get in in the first place, which is arguably the hardest part of a college education in the US. Not to mention, it's far less surprising to see how many successful people DID go to college.
it was how long until DVD and VCR tapes just became DVD tapes at blockbuster?
DVD tapes? When did those come out? Or is that the tape on the top of the DVD box that's impossible to remove without power tools? And more importantly, who'd want to rent indestructible tape?
That's a good point. Just as the web allows almost anyone to publish just about anything, it seems that technology has also allowed every idiot, and those of us who play idiots in print, to escape the watchful eyes of those more skilled at proper correspondence. Sometimes enabling technology, such as email and the internet, does more than just lower the barriers to entry; it also lets in more crap.
As opposed to paying for a credit report, in which case you can get a report on anybody you want. The reason for the security questions is to protect your identity only insomuch as they aren't giving out for free what they otherwise might be able to profit from.
I was always under the impression that TBS provided "If there's nothing better on," shows. By the time you finished scanning the other channels, you could flip to TBS to see what they were showing.
Then smash your cable box on the ground and shout something about putting a man on the moon and 249 channels of crap.
Legally, you were violating their rights, and they're obligated by [arguably stupid] law to act.
Um, they were under no obligation to enforce the law. The only people obligated to enforce the law are, surprise, law enforcement agencies. While I don't see that it could possibly be illegal to freely redistribute what was made freely available (ie, TV), DVD sales of TV series are the highest selling sector (or possibly fastest growing, I can't remember for sure) of the home entertainment market right now, so it's understandable that they are trying to prevent free redistribution. Whether redistribution is legal or not will probably be decided in court.
It's about time someone started surveilling those reckless rednecks in Louisiana. We'll see how many poeple go shootin' off their guns on New Year's Day now that Big Brother is on the job. Don't they know that Falling Bullets Kill!
(While my post is tongue in cheek, firearm responsibility or in this case, the lack thereof, is a serious issue).
North Korea is commonly referred to as such. "Korea," has inherited the connotation of referring to South Korea. This is true here in Asia, at least.. nobody calls it South Korea, even the Koreans I know. If you don't explicitly say North Korea, it's just assumed you're referring to South Korea.
Absolutely. There also seems to be a direct correlation between people's ability to write well and whether or not they're interesting. It's stereotyping to be sure, and I try to give people a chance, but frequent substitution of words with homonym letters and numbers, the inability to turn off caps lock or use the shift key as appropriate, and the clever placing of "LOL" after every other sentence seems to coincide with a disturbingly shallow personality.
As to the "im so bored," group, I'm reminded of a quote I heard somewhere.. If you're bored, you're probably boring as well.
Them: "Stone?" Me: (Not there or ignoring IMs or sound down or what have you.) Them: (No message, but often bring it up the next time.)
That's the worst. I tend to forget to set myself as "away," and auto-away is just annoying, since I'm not always "away," just because I haven't touched my computer for X minutes. If my status is set to away, people tend not to send me a message. Therefore, I just keep my status set to Online. The problem with that is, people assume I'm ignoring them if I don't respond. It's a no-win situation.
IMing has its place, just as e-mail does. E-mail will always have the advantage that it's unobtrusive. It will never get mad because I'm busy, or don't have time to chat long, and I can reply at my leisure. Furthermore, it's sometimes necessary or desirable to have time to properly form thoughts and ideas, review what's been written, etc. If the e-mail is of a personal nature or an emotional subject, I'll sometimes save a draft to make sure I feel the same way about it after a break, before sending it off. And sometimes it's nice to be able to communicate a series of ideas without a line by line reaction from the other person. Going off on tangents is what makes conversations interesting, but for communicating anything more complex than "What r u doing??//" I still prefer e-mail. I enjoy IMing, I just consider it another tool rather than a replacement.
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Yes damnit. How many times do people have to answer you? The law is against SELLING TO MINORS. Once it's sold, you can do whatever you want with it. If you were really that interested, you would've just read the proposed legislation instead of trying to make noise about nothing. But then this wouldn't be Slashdot.
The government (which is a representative of society, ideally), has every right to meddle in your child-raising. There are some things which are clearly unacceptable to allow or force children to do, and there are some grey areas, such as this. This is hardly a ban on violent video games; merely a ban on their sale to minors. There's nothing wrong with that. Most of the time the parents are the ones buying the games anyway, so it really just keeps some kid from grabbing $50 out of mommy's purse and buying the game behind her back. In theory anyway. In reality, I've never seen anyone get ID'd for an R movie, or even for cigarettes, no matter how young they appear.
Does anything like this exist?
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Yes. Sort of.
http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/
http://www.security-forums.com/forum/viewtopic.ph
I guess then it would just turn into a matter of your word vs. theirs
Right. Because the word of a defendant at trial is worth a lot. (That's sarcasm, for the record).
The word of an officer almost always carries more weight than that of the accused. I've never seen anyone get out of a ticket for rolling through a stop sign just because the only evidence was the testimony of the cop.
But he has dealt with them. Your friend was not innocently playing bridge, he was reading a copy of a book he did not pay for. That, in the ordinary meaning of the word, is theft.
I read lots of books I've never paid for -- books which are, in fact, read by hundreds or perhaps even thousands of people. I haven't heard of any arrests down at the local library just yet, but I imagine that any day now, the utopia will come crashing down.
You almost made sense...
Except that piracy has long been a factor with software, and the software market still exists.
Your argument uses the logical fallacy that a significant amount of the population, given the choice, will choose to obtain something illegaly -- low monetary cost -- versus purchasing it legally -- low guilt cost. (Un)fortunately, the amount of people who know how to obtain a "free" copy, yet still choose to purchase that copy legally, combined with the people who don't know how and/or don't want to bother to learn how to obtain things for "free," still makes for a viable market, as demonstrated by the still-expanding market for games.
If anything kills CD/DVD, it will be competing forms of entertainment.
Will only be whaterbated? I have to throttle my upload to about 85% of the limit to ensure ACK packets can still be sent out, otherwise my download times suffer.
Tanarus -- 1997.
What happens if you put slashdot's IP in your hosts file instead of relying on DNS?
I also asked about how this is legal for them to do, and they said it took years of getting the movie indutry's backing, but they were finally able to do it. Looks like that might not have been the case after all. Now their clients all can be sued. Probably won't happen, but with the MPAA, you never know.
Yep, looks like it's finally come full circle. Movie studios suing movie stars for um.. having movies. It's only a matter of time before they sue the movie stars for stealing the likeness of the characters on the screen.
If you roll your own using DVD ripping software and something like MyHTPC (and a daemon tools plugin to mount the DVD images), its free in terms of software....
Don't listen to this crap. People keep spouting off about how it's so much cheaper to do it this way, but trust me, there's no way to fit all that hardware into a rolling paper. What are you people smoking?
Of course, they were all smart or affluent enough to get in in the first place, which is arguably the hardest part of a college education in the US. Not to mention, it's far less surprising to see how many successful people DID go to college.
it was how long until DVD and VCR tapes just became DVD tapes at blockbuster?
DVD tapes? When did those come out? Or is that the tape on the top of the DVD box that's impossible to remove without power tools? And more importantly, who'd want to rent indestructible tape?
That's a good point. Just as the web allows almost anyone to publish just about anything, it seems that technology has also allowed every idiot, and those of us who play idiots in print, to escape the watchful eyes of those more skilled at proper correspondence. Sometimes enabling technology, such as email and the internet, does more than just lower the barriers to entry; it also lets in more crap.
Point taken.
As opposed to paying for a credit report, in which case you can get a report on anybody you want. The reason for the security questions is to protect your identity only insomuch as they aren't giving out for free what they otherwise might be able to profit from.
Good point. Here are the valid links.
TransUnion
Experian
Equifax
For the last two, you have to tell them I sent you, and sign up for a few services which you will no doubt enjoy.
Believe half of what you hear, and all of what you read.
You might have been more drunk than you think... that wasn't a blonde chick, it was a golden retriever.
I was always under the impression that TBS provided "If there's nothing better on," shows. By the time you finished scanning the other channels, you could flip to TBS to see what they were showing.
Then smash your cable box on the ground and shout something about putting a man on the moon and 249 channels of crap.
In Korea, only old people resist the urge to make "In Korea" jokes.
Legally, you were violating their rights, and they're obligated by [arguably stupid] law to act.
Um, they were under no obligation to enforce the law. The only people obligated to enforce the law are, surprise, law enforcement agencies. While I don't see that it could possibly be illegal to freely redistribute what was made freely available (ie, TV), DVD sales of TV series are the highest selling sector (or possibly fastest growing, I can't remember for sure) of the home entertainment market right now, so it's understandable that they are trying to prevent free redistribution. Whether redistribution is legal or not will probably be decided in court.
Gunshot Tracking Cameras to be Deployed in LA
It's about time someone started surveilling those reckless rednecks in Louisiana. We'll see how many poeple go shootin' off their guns on New Year's Day now that Big Brother is on the job. Don't they know that Falling Bullets Kill!
(While my post is tongue in cheek, firearm responsibility or in this case, the lack thereof, is a serious issue).
It's not a binary XOR here. Contrary to popular belief, some people can do research to meet short-term needs while others pursue long-term efforts.
North Korea is commonly referred to as such. "Korea," has inherited the connotation of referring to South Korea. This is true here in Asia, at least.. nobody calls it South Korea, even the Koreans I know. If you don't explicitly say North Korea, it's just assumed you're referring to South Korea.
You've obviously never owned a Hyundai.
Absolutely. There also seems to be a direct correlation between people's ability to write well and whether or not they're interesting. It's stereotyping to be sure, and I try to give people a chance, but frequent substitution of words with homonym letters and numbers, the inability to turn off caps lock or use the shift key as appropriate, and the clever placing of "LOL" after every other sentence seems to coincide with a disturbingly shallow personality.
As to the "im so bored," group, I'm reminded of a quote I heard somewhere.. If you're bored, you're probably boring as well.
Them: "Stone?"
Me: (Not there or ignoring IMs or sound down or what have you.)
Them: (No message, but often bring it up the next time.)
That's the worst. I tend to forget to set myself as "away," and auto-away is just annoying, since I'm not always "away," just because I haven't touched my computer for X minutes. If my status is set to away, people tend not to send me a message. Therefore, I just keep my status set to Online. The problem with that is, people assume I'm ignoring them if I don't respond. It's a no-win situation.
IMing has its place, just as e-mail does. E-mail will always have the advantage that it's unobtrusive. It will never get mad because I'm busy, or don't have time to chat long, and I can reply at my leisure. Furthermore, it's sometimes necessary or desirable to have time to properly form thoughts and ideas, review what's been written, etc. If the e-mail is of a personal nature or an emotional subject, I'll sometimes save a draft to make sure I feel the same way about it after a break, before sending it off. And sometimes it's nice to be able to communicate a series of ideas without a line by line reaction from the other person. Going off on tangents is what makes conversations interesting, but for communicating anything more complex than "What r u doing??//" I still prefer e-mail. I enjoy IMing, I just consider it another tool rather than a replacement.