Once, a few years ago, I pirated music using Napster. I got quite good at it, amassing more than 5 GB of songs. But eventually, I had to face the facts: I was stealing music. A few of my friends asked me to justify what I was doing, and I couldn't justify it. I was stealing music.
Stealing from who, and how? Not stealing from the artists, they don't get paid anything signifigant as it is, and your additonal $0.000128 contribution isn't going to be doing them a lot of good.
Not stealing from the record labels, as they are not "out" any money by you having a copy of "thier" song. They are not even out any *potential* money, becuase, as you mentioned, you would not have bouch the music anyway.
You could call me a thief for freeing a slave, but that doesn't mean I'm morally wrong. While, *legally* I may be wrong, laws do not define morality. It is no more "wrong" to copy and listen to music than it was "wrong" to, say, be a Jew in WWII Germany.
Copying and listening to music is in no way morally wrong.
Sorry, but commuting on japanese trains is not fun, with laptop or otherwise. i would stand to argue that, in fact, laptop makes your life a lot worse, because, frankly, it tend to get shoved around and squashed when the train gets crowded -- and oh boy it gets crowded. cell phone w/ internet might be okay -- even though i did not have a cell phone while in japan so i do not know this. as for being crowded, i mean, they have "pushers" for crying out loud. (pushers are people that help push others onto the train, to ensure its sardine-like packed-ness.)
I think this is unfair. Sure there are exceptions, but in the vast majority of trains in Japan you will never have problem getting a seat.
As for "pushers", I believe there are only a couple of stops in all of Japan that need them and only during certian parts of the day. I know for a fact that there are no "pushers" in all of Osaka, and that is the country's second biggest city.
Prices too, are not bad once you get away from some wierd places in Tokyo. $20 where I lived could take you on a three hour long journey from Kyoto to the top of lake Biwa in Shiga. If you are commuting six hours every day, there and back, I have a feeling that the $40 you pay is the least of your problems...
And in Japan, the alternative would be much worse (cars are expensive, and you basically have to buy a new one every three years becuase of insurance laws, and that doen't even begin to consider the $5.00/gallon gas prices, OR tolls) in terms of price, so they do end up being signifigantly cheaper.
I'm serious. You'll understand really quickly how damned important it is to them. Live there for a few months, and you'll be obsessing too.
Imagine being able travel from San Francisco to LA using nothing but train lines, yet be able to stop in, and get around in, every single town between. The trains in Japan are not just for the long distance hauling that we see here, they are really and truly for transportation. Almost every city in the country has thier streets criss-crossed with subways. You can't walk more than two blocks in Osaka without running into one. All the cities are connected from the biggest metropolis to the tiniest villiage.
They are relativly cheap, they are never late, and riding them with your laptop makes commuting fun! And you don't even have to live in the boondocks to be one of those train commuters, because the trains are ubiquitous.
Cars have thier place, but until you have been to Japan, you simply have no idea how amazing trains can be...
For one thing, Mozilla doesn't always render Web pages the same way IE does. Why does that matter? Many Web designers have built sites primarily for IE, and those pages look odd in Mozilla.
It's tantamount to saying, "For one thing, Mozilla doesn't use a big 'e' for it's icon."
If a site is designed to reder only IE, and other browers don't render, this shouldn't come as a big shock to anyone....
A militaman in Wisconsin bought a night-scope. While he was at work, terrorists broke into his house and stole it. He is working with the terrorists!!!!!
This is a non-story. I can't see what it is ever here except to be sensational.
The problem is that while you could probably get rid f most script kiddies by using some non-standard OS that you wrote yourself, you don't get rid of the real problem, which is that a *determined* hacker (say an ex-employee who wants to steal your secrets to sell to a competitor, or an evil black-hat who wants to steal you credit card database, etc) will be able to get in. Obscurity may stop the "nuiscance" hacks, but those hacks don't really cost you much in reality. The scary hacks that actually do cost your company money will not be stopped.
What kind of precident will it set if he wins? Well, very simply, it will open the doors for DDoS kiddies to get away with thier attacks quite legally (in Austrailia at least) simply by making sure each ping packet that goes out contains an ad for a get rich quick scheme... This is some bad, bad stuff.
There is absolutly NO WAY that either of these two cities would be willing to let anyone test these bones. It is too big a risk. Back in the days when the bones were first collected, selling bones of famous people was a scam as ubiquitous as emails from Nigeria today. There is a REAL good chance that *neither* of these sets of bones are real and a possibility they are not even human...
...it has the words "little" and "late" and there was something else that sounds like the number 2. Now what was that phrase?
Seriously, does this strike anyone as an excellent way for the RIAA to claim that this kind of system "just doesn't work". Just put out a no-name artists that nobody really likes or cares about, and when that fails to sell 500,000 copies, just throw up you hands in despair and tell congress, "Well, we tried. It just can't be done."
So Ford is only willing to pay $950,000? Well, I'll bet you telling them that you'll be happy to go to Chevy and offer them the spot for $1,000,000 if they don't shell out the cash would up thier ante a bit.
There will always be *some* company willing to pay what you are asking for the good spots, but it may require actually make a phone call or two and actually produce shows that people want to watch. God forbid the networks actually have to do some work now and then.
The primary purpose of TV advertising is to create brand awareness - in other words, to let you know that a product exists, and to cause you to remember it. The mere fact that you mention a brand name in your sentence means that not only did the TV ad have an effect, it had it's intended effect.
In the case of beers, the effect on me is actually the reverse of teh intent. I make a point of *never* buying beer advertised on TV, becuase I know that it sucks. If I see a name I don't recognize at the bar, maybe I'mm willing to try that beer and give it a shot, but if I remember it from TV, I am going to stay wawy from it.
"Treason requires the requisite intent to undermine the security of your country. Treason cannot be charged due to negligence or greed."
Spy: "No, your honor, I did not sell the plans to the new top secret submarine to undermine the security of the country, I sold it becuase I was greedy and wanted to make a quick buck."
Judge: "Oh, it was only greed? Ok then you, you can go."
They love to get you thinking about it being invalid: like you develop some GPL software, put it out there, and a competitor takes it, forks, and keeps it closed. The question is what can you sue for? You havent suffered any damages (you were giving it away to start with!), and it is hard to prove anything actually even happened.
Well, that's easy. They broke the contract (the GPL) so you sue them for punitive damages (always have to stick pain and suffering in there) plus all the money that they made by selling your "product" without following the terms in the license. It's the same as if I took my copy of MS Word and started selling burned copies of it to people. I didn't follow thier license just like the guy in your example didn't follow your license. It's the same exact thing.
Good grief, was it not less than two days ago that Microsoft claimed they could never release the APIs for Windows out of fear for the damage it would do to National Security?
One has to wonder how selling the Pentagon software with SEVERE, KNOWN FLAWS that threaten NATIONAL SECURITY is *not* treason... What ecaxtly could a spy sell to the U.S. that is worse than that?
How would that work? Large companies (like Microsoft) do, and should have a right to protect their work (although we should change the limits of that control).
A a large software package is the result of hundreds, if not thousands of coders. If a company cannot own that copywrite, who gets control?
So, what you are saying is that the keyboards at microsoft are REALLY big and every coder has to press the same buttons at the same time? No wonder thier code is so shitty.
Seriously, the answer is clear. The copyright would be owned by the PERSON who writes a bit of code. There would be no copyright on the whole package. For code that is rewritten by other people inside the same company, they would all sign agreements that they allow royalty free perpetual licenses to everyone else in the company.
Simple as that.
And what happens when you piss off your employees by cutting his salary by 50% so that the upper managment can buy new BMWs? Oh yeah, then you have just screwed your company becuase he can liscense his code to somone else. It would force those big companies to play nice and be honorable.
Don't mean to spoil everyone's fun but I completely fail to see what's funny about breeding an animal so it loses an important part of it's body.
Well that "important" body part actually kills it in hot areas, so by removing it you increase it's ability to survive. The funny part comes in because it's a living rubber chicken!
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Once, a few years ago, I pirated music using Napster. I got quite good at it, amassing more than 5 GB of songs. But eventually, I had to face the facts: I was stealing music. A few of my friends asked me to justify what I was doing, and I couldn't justify it. I was stealing music.
Stealing from who, and how? Not stealing from the artists, they don't get paid anything signifigant as it is, and your additonal $0.000128 contribution isn't going to be doing them a lot of good.
Not stealing from the record labels, as they are not "out" any money by you having a copy of "thier" song. They are not even out any *potential* money, becuase, as you mentioned, you would not have bouch the music anyway.
You could call me a thief for freeing a slave, but that doesn't mean I'm morally wrong. While, *legally* I may be wrong, laws do not define morality. It is no more "wrong" to copy and listen to music than it was "wrong" to, say, be a Jew in WWII Germany.
Copying and listening to music is in no way morally wrong.
Sorry, but commuting on japanese trains is not fun, with laptop or otherwise. i would stand to argue that, in fact, laptop makes your life a lot worse, because, frankly, it tend to get shoved around and squashed when the train gets crowded -- and oh boy it gets crowded. cell phone w/ internet might be okay -- even though i did not have a cell phone while in japan so i do not know this. as for being crowded, i mean, they have "pushers" for crying out loud. (pushers are people that help push others onto the train, to ensure its sardine-like packed-ness.)
I think this is unfair. Sure there are exceptions, but in the vast majority of trains in Japan you will never have problem getting a seat.
As for "pushers", I believe there are only a couple of stops in all of Japan that need them and only during certian parts of the day. I know for a fact that there are no "pushers" in all of Osaka, and that is the country's second biggest city.
Prices too, are not bad once you get away from some wierd places in Tokyo. $20 where I lived could take you on a three hour long journey from Kyoto to the top of lake Biwa in Shiga. If you are commuting six hours every day, there and back, I have a feeling that the $40 you pay is the least of your problems...
And in Japan, the alternative would be much worse (cars are expensive, and you basically have to buy a new one every three years becuase of insurance laws, and that doen't even begin to consider the $5.00/gallon gas prices, OR tolls) in terms of price, so they do end up being signifigantly cheaper.
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I'm serious. You'll understand really quickly how damned important it is to them. Live there for a few months, and you'll be obsessing too.
Imagine being able travel from San Francisco to LA using nothing but train lines, yet be able to stop in, and get around in, every single town between. The trains in Japan are not just for the long distance hauling that we see here, they are really and truly for transportation. Almost every city in the country has thier streets criss-crossed with subways. You can't walk more than two blocks in Osaka without running into one. All the cities are connected from the biggest metropolis to the tiniest villiage.
They are relativly cheap, they are never late, and riding them with your laptop makes commuting fun! And you don't even have to live in the boondocks to be one of those train commuters, because the trains are ubiquitous.
Cars have thier place, but until you have been to Japan, you simply have no idea how amazing trains can be...
For one thing, Mozilla doesn't always render Web pages the same way IE does. Why does that matter? Many Web designers have built sites primarily for IE, and those pages look odd in Mozilla.
It's tantamount to saying, "For one thing, Mozilla doesn't use a big 'e' for it's icon."
If a site is designed to reder only IE, and other browers don't render, this shouldn't come as a big shock to anyone....
Even better, make it blink.
A militaman in Wisconsin bought a night-scope. While he was at work, terrorists broke into his house and stole it. He is working with the terrorists!!!!!
This is a non-story. I can't see what it is ever here except to be sensational.
The problem is that while you could probably get rid f most script kiddies by using some non-standard OS that you wrote yourself, you don't get rid of the real problem, which is that a *determined* hacker (say an ex-employee who wants to steal your secrets to sell to a competitor, or an evil black-hat who wants to steal you credit card database, etc) will be able to get in. Obscurity may stop the "nuiscance" hacks, but those hacks don't really cost you much in reality. The scary hacks that actually do cost your company money will not be stopped.
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The system only works at Sun. Here at slashdot getting in early doesn't get you a better spot.
What kind of precident will it set if he wins? Well, very simply, it will open the doors for DDoS kiddies to get away with thier attacks quite legally (in Austrailia at least) simply by making sure each ping packet that goes out contains an ad for a get rich quick scheme... This is some bad, bad stuff.
www.macslash/com will never resolve. Try www.macslash.com
I wonder how many mac users even know what you look like. I think I'll be going to that con as the "real" Malda and demanding my speech money...
There is absolutly NO WAY that either of these two cities would be willing to let anyone test these bones. It is too big a risk. Back in the days when the bones were first collected, selling bones of famous people was a scam as ubiquitous as emails from Nigeria today. There is a REAL good chance that *neither* of these sets of bones are real and a possibility they are not even human...
...it has the words "little" and "late" and there was something else that sounds like the number 2. Now what was that phrase?
Seriously, does this strike anyone as an excellent way for the RIAA to claim that this kind of system "just doesn't work". Just put out a no-name artists that nobody really likes or cares about, and when that fails to sell 500,000 copies, just throw up you hands in despair and tell congress, "Well, we tried. It just can't be done."
it's going on right now... and don't be a troll.
knew what he was selling
That's my point exactly... MS *knows* what they are selling, and have admitted that it is a security risk.
Competition.
So Ford is only willing to pay $950,000? Well, I'll bet you telling them that you'll be happy to go to Chevy and offer them the spot for $1,000,000 if they don't shell out the cash would up thier ante a bit.
There will always be *some* company willing to pay what you are asking for the good spots, but it may require actually make a phone call or two and actually produce shows that people want to watch. God forbid the networks actually have to do some work now and then.
The primary purpose of TV advertising is to create brand awareness - in other words, to let you know that a product exists, and to cause you to remember it. The mere fact that you mention a brand name in your sentence means that not only did the TV ad have an effect, it had it's intended effect.
In the case of beers, the effect on me is actually the reverse of teh intent. I make a point of *never* buying beer advertised on TV, becuase I know that it sucks. If I see a name I don't recognize at the bar, maybe I'mm willing to try that beer and give it a shot, but if I remember it from TV, I am going to stay wawy from it.
IANAL, but the amateur lawyer in me says:
"Treason requires the requisite intent to undermine the security of your country. Treason cannot be charged due to negligence or greed."
Spy: "No, your honor, I did not sell the plans to the new top secret submarine to undermine the security of the country, I sold it becuase I was greedy and wanted to make a quick buck."
Judge: "Oh, it was only greed? Ok then you, you can go."
They love to get you thinking about it being invalid: like you develop some GPL software, put it out there, and a competitor takes it, forks, and keeps it closed. The question is what can you sue for? You havent suffered any damages (you were giving it away to start with!), and it is hard to prove anything actually even happened.
Well, that's easy. They broke the contract (the GPL) so you sue them for punitive damages (always have to stick pain and suffering in there) plus all the money that they made by selling your "product" without following the terms in the license. It's the same as if I took my copy of MS Word and started selling burned copies of it to people. I didn't follow thier license just like the guy in your example didn't follow your license. It's the same exact thing.
Good grief, was it not less than two days ago that Microsoft claimed they could never release the APIs for Windows out of fear for the damage it would do to National Security?
One has to wonder how selling the Pentagon software with SEVERE, KNOWN FLAWS that threaten NATIONAL SECURITY is *not* treason... What ecaxtly could a spy sell to the U.S. that is worse than that?
How would that work? Large companies (like Microsoft) do, and should have a right to protect their work (although we should change the limits of that control).
A a large software package is the result of hundreds, if not thousands of coders. If a company cannot own that copywrite, who gets control?
So, what you are saying is that the keyboards at microsoft are REALLY big and every coder has to press the same buttons at the same time? No wonder thier code is so shitty.
Seriously, the answer is clear. The copyright would be owned by the PERSON who writes a bit of code. There would be no copyright on the whole package. For code that is rewritten by other people inside the same company, they would all sign agreements that they allow royalty free perpetual licenses to everyone else in the company.
Simple as that.
And what happens when you piss off your employees by cutting his salary by 50% so that the upper managment can buy new BMWs? Oh yeah, then you have just screwed your company becuase he can liscense his code to somone else. It would force those big companies to play nice and be honorable.
1st, we'd decimate the government. As we all know. most of em have at least some kind of legal training.
2nd, we'd lose the entire justice system. Everyone would be gone except for the cops. And who'd keep them in line?
3rd, we'd certainly end up living in a rampant, copyright infringing society where p2p ruled all.
So... you are saying the lawyers are already dead?
Naw, that's a stupid idea.
Don't mean to spoil everyone's fun but I completely fail to see what's funny about breeding an animal so it loses an important part of it's body.
Well that "important" body part actually kills it in hot areas, so by removing it you increase it's ability to survive. The funny part comes in because it's a living rubber chicken!