A reader at Groklaw has already picked up that she is seeking to have the RIAA forfeit the copyrights in question as part of the settlement (search the page for '18.6-7')."
She ought to offer to sell the rights back for whatever they were suing for.
hell no. if she wins the copyrights to a few thousand songs, give 'em back to the artists. they were the FIRST victims of the MAFIAA.
one of the few things i have on my "i love me wall" is one of her nanoseconds, framed with a letter from the admiral to my mother (whom she was trying to encourage into a career in computer science). now that i have a daughter of my own, who is already quite geeky herself, i counterbalance the pop culture effect with stories about women like grace hopper.
more girls - and hell, more boys for that matter - need to learn about people like her.
> admins are nothing but plumbers of the internet.
Does that mean butt-crack is now part of business casual?
Seriously... so what? SAs might be the "plumbers of the internet", but guess what? When your pipe's leaking crap all over your bathroom, you call a plumber and give him lots of money to make it stop.
Kinda like those 3am pages to stop the spammer who's relay-raping your system or spank the skr1pt k1dd13 r00ting your webserver.
>> Is Japan so far behind. ..?
> Nice troll. I'll bite. ..
Wasn't a troll, actually.
Cue:Cat - distributed for less than the cost to manufacture, profits to be made from owners following a specific path of usage.
DDC* - distributed for less than the cost to manufacture, profits to be made from owners following a specific path of usage.
(* - DDC == Disposal Digital Camera)
Where's the difference between the two?
> Perhaps they figure that no Japanese person would waste their time hacking a cheap disposable camera so that they can get low quality digital pictures for free.
That's poor planning on their part, then. The hackish spirit / desire to kitbash and otherwise play with things to see how they work and make them work differently is just as alive in Japan as it is in the US or the UK or wherever. Man, being a tool-using animal, is seemingly programmed to tinker with his tools to improve them.
> How much time do you waste reloading film into standard disposable cameras, just to save a few bucks.
None, actually - I have a digital camera.:) But I do recycle/refill inkjet cartridges for my Stylus Color and toner cartridges for my Mopier. Not from any particular environmentalist bent - I'm just frugal (yeah, go ahead and say it - cheap!) and will attempt to save money where it's both feasible and practical to do so.
FWIW, my own personal "oh neat!" with this came from the idea of taking the guts out of the shell and mucking around with them a bit, trying different form factors and testing its suitability in non-traditional applications.
Use it in my own personal Shooting Back efforts by putting it in a baseball cap or other head-mount format.
Set it up as a doorbell-ringer imager so I can see who's at the front door.
Whack a USB interface onto it and feed it into the Shuttle ugly-cube so I can watch my front porch on Halloween night...
...or hook it into a computer system in my car and periodically take pictures of the driver's seat occupant to use as evidence should my car get stolen again (like it did last week).
"Profit-making relies on how many cameras we can collect and how many times we can recycle them, which can be recycled for several times," says Katsuhiko Miyata, an Asahi Optical spokesperson, noting that the manufacturing cost of the camera, even at this quality level, is still more than the service fee.
Um... is it just me, or is this yet ANOTHER variation on the Cue:Cat? Is Japan so far behind that they're just NOW getting to the dot.com bubble stage of their economic collapse?
"We're selling them at a loss... but we'll make it up in volume!"
Of course, that doesn't stop me from wanting one. This is just screaming "Hack Me!".
Given the amount of fuss that's been raised by geeks everywhere, shouldn't this be from From the peer-to-peer-pressure-works dept.?
That said, I'm glad that the corps are coming to their senses. Enough people have grumbled stuff along the lines of "it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize the Web was built on open standards" and not enough of "let's get a rocket scientist to explain to the suits why this is bad".
It's only taken ten years, but I'm slightly enthused to see that the PHBs of the world are starting to notice that the grunts in the trenches are clued up on things flying below their radar, and hear those grunts out (even if the words are still too big and not quite buzzword-compliant enough for their tastes).
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that's one hell of a vibrate setting you've got there...
one of the few things i have on my "i love me wall" is one of her nanoseconds, framed with a letter from the admiral to my mother (whom she was trying to encourage into a career in computer science). now that i have a daughter of my own, who is already quite geeky herself, i counterbalance the pop culture effect with stories about women like grace hopper.
more girls - and hell, more boys for that matter - need to learn about people like her.
> admins are nothing but plumbers of the internet.
Does that mean butt-crack is now part of business casual?
Seriously... so what? SAs might be the "plumbers of the internet", but guess what? When your pipe's leaking crap all over your bathroom, you call a plumber and give him lots of money to make it stop.
Kinda like those 3am pages to stop the spammer who's relay-raping your system or spank the skr1pt k1dd13 r00ting your webserver.
...SETI@home reports that they've finally gotten an intelligible signal from that area of the sky. The message came in just before the nova.
After decoding, it said, "Hey, Zborno, what's this button do?"
> Nice troll. I'll bite. .
Wasn't a troll, actually.
Cue:Cat - distributed for less than the cost to manufacture, profits to be made from owners following a specific path of usage.
DDC* - distributed for less than the cost to manufacture, profits to be made from owners following a specific path of usage.
(* - DDC == Disposal Digital Camera)
Where's the difference between the two?
> Perhaps they figure that no Japanese person would waste their time hacking a cheap disposable camera so that they can get low quality digital pictures for free.
That's poor planning on their part, then. The hackish spirit / desire to kitbash and otherwise play with things to see how they work and make them work differently is just as alive in Japan as it is in the US or the UK or wherever. Man, being a tool-using animal, is seemingly programmed to tinker with his tools to improve them.
> How much time do you waste reloading film into standard disposable cameras, just to save a few bucks.
None, actually - I have a digital camera. :) But I do recycle/refill inkjet cartridges for my Stylus Color and toner cartridges for my Mopier. Not from any particular environmentalist bent - I'm just frugal (yeah, go ahead and say it - cheap!) and will attempt to save money where it's both feasible and practical to do so.
FWIW, my own personal "oh neat!" with this came from the idea of taking the guts out of the shell and mucking around with them a bit, trying different form factors and testing its suitability in non-traditional applications.
Use it in my own personal Shooting Back efforts by putting it in a baseball cap or other head-mount format.
Set it up as a doorbell-ringer imager so I can see who's at the front door.
Whack a USB interface onto it and feed it into the Shuttle ugly-cube so I can watch my front porch on Halloween night...
...or hook it into a computer system in my car and periodically take pictures of the driver's seat occupant to use as evidence should my car get stolen again (like it did last week).
That sort of thing. Clearer now?
cheers,
--bmc
Um... is it just me, or is this yet ANOTHER variation on the Cue:Cat? Is Japan so far behind that they're just NOW getting to the dot.com bubble stage of their economic collapse?
"We're selling them at a loss... but we'll make it up in volume!"
Of course, that doesn't stop me from wanting one. This is just screaming "Hack Me!".
Cheers,
--bmc
Given the amount of fuss that's been raised by geeks everywhere, shouldn't this be from From the peer-to-peer-pressure-works dept.?
That said, I'm glad that the corps are coming to their senses. Enough people have grumbled stuff along the lines of "it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize the Web was built on open standards" and not enough of "let's get a rocket scientist to explain to the suits why this is bad".
It's only taken ten years, but I'm slightly enthused to see that the PHBs of the world are starting to notice that the grunts in the trenches are clued up on things flying below their radar, and hear those grunts out (even if the words are still too big and not quite buzzword-compliant enough for their tastes).
Cheers,
--bmc