Given that it doesn't appear you've actually read my replies, I think we'll leave your foolishness to the judgment of others.
All I was debating was the issue of physical raids, which you brought up. Nothing else. I was not in any way defending overall BSA tactics.
You argued the raid point and whiffed mightily, so changing the debate to a topic about which I made no reference to in my prior comments is a waste of time.
Right, but the difference between you and me is apparently that I actually read the articles.
The fox news story you cite is about a guy who received a *letter* from the BSA informing him that he was not properly licensing his software. He later admits he had shoddy book and record keeping.
No one showed up at his door, no one demanded to be let inside, and no one got anywhere near his property or computers.
I'm not saying the BSA's tactics with respect to settlement payments are to be applauded, but sending a legal notice to a company that has not licensed software correctly (or properly accounted for it), is far, far outside the definition of a "raid."
So I stopped after the first page, but none of those had anything to do with the OP or the subject at hand. The BSA "raids" were for counterfeiting operations, not companies that were under-licensed or inappropriately licensed.
Raiding a seedy shop in Thailand that's pressing tens of thousands of bootlegged install discs for Windows and Office 2007 is not the same as sending a letter to a business asking that they account for their 20-seat installation license.
I work for a mid-size business and we were audited by Adobe last year. We basically had to send them a list of all the apps we had installed, reconciled as best we could with license keys. That was it.
Now, if someone's dumbass IT department is using the same single-license retail key to install hundreds of copies of Office on the company's computers, then yeah, you're going to get some serious legal action. But nobody kicks down doors.
Software audits don't entail some government henchman knocking on your door at random and demanding to see what's inside. Audits in the U.S. are usually for companies licensing large volumes of software for multiple users. The agreements they enter into allow the software maker (Micosoft, Adobe, etc.) to ask for and recieve an accounting of installed copies of software to make sure you're paying for what you are using or are otherwise properly licensed.
They don't just show up and kick down your door.
Kudos to you for going the free software route, but most software audits are not the jackbooted RIAA/MPAA criminal issues of pirating -- the companies licensing legit software know what they're getting into when they sign the deals, and some can expect to at some point to have the auditing clause invoked.
It's not a matter of getting custom quotes -- they just want to know what you're intended use is going to be. The price tiers (I believe) remain the same.
It's a basic check to try to limit malicious users who would spawn thousands of instances for spam or other nefarious purposes.
Um, no. If you're on a public street, it's fair game. What you're thinking of only applies to using someone's likeness or celebrity without consent to imply that a specific person is endorsing a product.
You don't think that every local news station in the US has to compensate people milling about in the background of their news video, do you?
If you're on public property you can take whatever pictures you want and commercialize them in nearly any fashion.
While the PS3 will support high resolution for games being displayed on your television, it will NOT support streaming HD content over home-broadband connections to other PS3s.
A high-quality MPEG-2 stream uses more bandwidth than your average cable modem connection provides in the U.S., and that's only standard definition.
(Yes, there are probably some Asian cities that can cram the library of congress down their last mile connections)
So, while they have announced video conferencing for the PS3, I can promise that it will be the same herky-jerky claymation looking video for quite a while. But, who really needs to see the fat nerd at the other end of the frag fest anyway?
The Bank of America Tower is not the only location for law enforcement radio gear in Seattle, just the main one. Several substations are set up in multiple areas around the city and county, so if one goes down communication is not disrupted.
That error was simply a java script bug in executying their little flyout tree for plan information which can be seen by removing the trailing apostrophe from the URL. See here:
http://support.t-mobile.com/plan.html?treeName=pla ns&path
Certainly poor error handling, but not much of an exploit.
Actually, the duck and cover method usually gets you squished.
Best bet is to hide near an object rather then under it, so you can be in the void created when objects fall on it, without you underneath.
I think the web feed was about a minute behind live. Not bad for feeding 29 fps of video from 40,000 feet, encoding to multiple formats, and streaming to thousands of boxes around the world.
I certainly don't support the RIAA's tactics. But I do not support downloading copyrighted music that you have note paid for.
I am a firm believer in fair use and hate all the DRM crap floating around.
The case with the books is not fair use. So I answer your questions only to satisfy whatever curiosity you may have. In these books people are not only stealing words from my mouth and passing them off as their own (the theories in question are undoubtedly mine), but selling them to boot!
My comments were in no way meant to take a stand one way or another with regards to copyright law. But if you were a software developer and found someone selling books with your proprietary algorithms as their own you'd probably take action too.
Bash Amazon all you want, but this is a very useful technology.
In five minutes I was able to find three books that talked about findings first listed in two of my own published scientific papers, yet these books did not cite me, or anyone else, as the source of that information. My lawyer is currently preparing three letters.
I also found two other books in which the author used verbatim quotes and original theories from various interviews I have given, yet both authors passed off the statements as their own. My lawyer is now preparing five letters.
Aside from being used to protect my own research rights, I have found the search system useful for finding topics of interest discussed in certain books which are not referenced in any of the descriptions about the books. I just ordered three books I would not otherwise have ever purchased.
While I don't think highly of all of Amazon's practices, I must hand it to them for whatever technical undertaking created this search feature.
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Given that it doesn't appear you've actually read my replies, I think we'll leave your foolishness to the judgment of others.
All I was debating was the issue of physical raids, which you brought up. Nothing else. I was not in any way defending overall BSA tactics.
You argued the raid point and whiffed mightily, so changing the debate to a topic about which I made no reference to in my prior comments is a waste of time.
Right, but the difference between you and me is apparently that I actually read the articles.
The fox news story you cite is about a guy who received a *letter* from the BSA informing him that he was not properly licensing his software. He later admits he had shoddy book and record keeping.
No one showed up at his door, no one demanded to be let inside, and no one got anywhere near his property or computers.
I'm not saying the BSA's tactics with respect to settlement payments are to be applauded, but sending a legal notice to a company that has not licensed software correctly (or properly accounted for it), is far, far outside the definition of a "raid."
So I stopped after the first page, but none of those had anything to do with the OP or the subject at hand. The BSA "raids" were for counterfeiting operations, not companies that were under-licensed or inappropriately licensed.
Raiding a seedy shop in Thailand that's pressing tens of thousands of bootlegged install discs for Windows and Office 2007 is not the same as sending a letter to a business asking that they account for their 20-seat installation license.
I work for a mid-size business and we were audited by Adobe last year. We basically had to send them a list of all the apps we had installed, reconciled as best we could with license keys. That was it.
Now, if someone's dumbass IT department is using the same single-license retail key to install hundreds of copies of Office on the company's computers, then yeah, you're going to get some serious legal action. But nobody kicks down doors.
Eh? How do things work there down under?
Software audits don't entail some government henchman knocking on your door at random and demanding to see what's inside. Audits in the U.S. are usually for companies licensing large volumes of software for multiple users. The agreements they enter into allow the software maker (Micosoft, Adobe, etc.) to ask for and recieve an accounting of installed copies of software to make sure you're paying for what you are using or are otherwise properly licensed.
They don't just show up and kick down your door.
Kudos to you for going the free software route, but most software audits are not the jackbooted RIAA/MPAA criminal issues of pirating -- the companies licensing legit software know what they're getting into when they sign the deals, and some can expect to at some point to have the auditing clause invoked.
It's not a matter of getting custom quotes -- they just want to know what you're intended use is going to be. The price tiers (I believe) remain the same. It's a basic check to try to limit malicious users who would spawn thousands of instances for spam or other nefarious purposes.
Parent is spam link.
Um, no. If you're on a public street, it's fair game. What you're thinking of only applies to using someone's likeness or celebrity without consent to imply that a specific person is endorsing a product. You don't think that every local news station in the US has to compensate people milling about in the background of their news video, do you? If you're on public property you can take whatever pictures you want and commercialize them in nearly any fashion.
While the PS3 will support high resolution for games being displayed on your television, it will NOT support streaming HD content over home-broadband connections to other PS3s.
A high-quality MPEG-2 stream uses more bandwidth than your average cable modem connection provides in the U.S., and that's only standard definition.
(Yes, there are probably some Asian cities that can cram the library of congress down their last mile connections)
So, while they have announced video conferencing for the PS3, I can promise that it will be the same herky-jerky claymation looking video for quite a while. But, who really needs to see the fat nerd at the other end of the frag fest anyway?
The Bank of America Tower is not the only location for law enforcement radio gear in Seattle, just the main one. Several substations are set up in multiple areas around the city and county, so if one goes down communication is not disrupted.
Agreed. Deep scan with MS antispyware and firefox 1.0 on two machines yeilds no such result.
That error was simply a java script bug in executying their little flyout tree for plan information which can be seen by removing the trailing apostrophe from the URL. See here: http://support.t-mobile.com/plan.html?treeName=pla ns&path
Certainly poor error handling, but not much of an exploit.
Nothing wrong. Finished the download in about 10 minutes and the total peer transfer is pushing 10mbits/sec at the moment and sure to increase.
Let the flood of amazon.com referrer links begin! :-) -- Gotta love it when people try to make $0.83 off slashdot
And people thought Phillip Torrone was ahead of the times :-)
Thanks! Good number of seeds going now. Speeds 200-300k. Hurrah!
Actually, the duck and cover method usually gets you squished. Best bet is to hide near an object rather then under it, so you can be in the void created when objects fall on it, without you underneath.
Actually, in Washington State it is now illegal for companies to skim ANYTHING off of a gift card for any reason, and the balance can NEVER expire.
We'll take care of their site with a thorough slashdotting :-)
Ummm.... this went out live on several american cable news channels
I think the web feed was about a minute behind live. Not bad for feeding 29 fps of video from 40,000 feet, encoding to multiple formats, and streaming to thousands of boxes around the world.
Here's the google cache, which is a text format of the pdf:
: www.btexact.com/docimages/42270/42270.pdf+introduc tion+of+ID+cards+in+the++site:btexact.com&hl=en&ie =UTF-8
http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:OuHNJeCwdWUJ
Could certainly use some more seeders. No one on the tracker has more than 15% of the whole
I certainly don't support the RIAA's tactics. But I do not support downloading copyrighted music that you have note paid for.
I am a firm believer in fair use and hate all the DRM crap floating around.
The case with the books is not fair use. So I answer your questions only to satisfy whatever curiosity you may have. In these books people are not only stealing words from my mouth and passing them off as their own (the theories in question are undoubtedly mine), but selling them to boot!
My comments were in no way meant to take a stand one way or another with regards to copyright law. But if you were a software developer and found someone selling books with your proprietary algorithms as their own you'd probably take action too.
Umm, maybe you missed the point. It allows me to find others who are stealing from *me*
When you pass off somone else's ideas as those of your own it's called plagiarism.
I'm not suing them for any monetary damages. Just a requirement that my own work be attributed to me.
Bash Amazon all you want, but this is a very useful technology.
In five minutes I was able to find three books that talked about findings first listed in two of my own published scientific papers, yet these books did not cite me, or anyone else, as the source of that information. My lawyer is currently preparing three letters.
I also found two other books in which the author used verbatim quotes and original theories from various interviews I have given, yet both authors passed off the statements as their own. My lawyer is now preparing five letters.
Aside from being used to protect my own research rights, I have found the search system useful for finding topics of interest discussed in certain books which are not referenced in any of the descriptions about the books. I just ordered three books I would not otherwise have ever purchased.
While I don't think highly of all of Amazon's practices, I must hand it to them for whatever technical undertaking created this search feature.