who've gone on and on and ON about how'd they'd pay for their music if only they could get it online as single tracks: I know expect you all to go and pay for every one of those 10000000 files in your Kazaa Shared Folders, ok?
That was kinda my point, that they interfere with the electronics, whereas parent poster was insinuating in true 'blame the RIAA / MS' style that it was all a big conspiracy.
On Air Canada and Air Transat I had my TiBook with me. Both times I 'accendently' had the airport card on for a bit before noticing my battery life was not as long as I would like. But they didn't ask, nor care about the laptop.
That would be super cool to have a little WC3 tourny over WiFi on the long flight across the Atlantic though.. hmmm.
It's such a pity this didn't cause your plane to fall out of the sky.
In a phone conversation with an IT worker-bee at a State Government agency I was informed that we could not use certain software due to fact that it is freeware. The word freeware, not Open-Source was used. In my amazement I was blurted out that it was one of the "dumbest things I ever heard" and was told that the State IT governing board wanted a license just in case they needed to sue somebody.
You might be a better software engineer if you thought before you spoke then. Surprisingly, companies don't want you using freeware, whose 'EULA's' usually consist of 'we are not responsible blah blah blah' because if said freeware were to fuck up and cause the company problems they would have no comeback against anyone.
Think first, type later.
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What a fucking moron. The parent post should be +5 funny, only/. users think 'funny' means 'bitches about MS / Windows'.
employing a 'criminal' may affect corporate synergy, be angering the sad-act M$-advocates, if the big bosses 'thought out of the box' and embraced OSS culture instead of rejecting it, they would find great benefits could be theirs.
I think all people predisposed to running m$ operating systems and applications see Open Source advocates as criminals, since they are 'stealing' from Bill and his market share.
Yeah, I'm really pissed I can't play my Playstation 2 games on Linux. I really hate Sony's "all-Sony" strategy.
If you (and all the other nobwits who've put the EXACT same response) want to cut off your nose to spite your face, thats fine. Me, I browsed to the page in Phoenix, it told me to use IE, so I loaded that and hey presto.
Since I have more important things to worry about than my OS of choice, it doesn't affect me one little bit if I have to use IE to view a page, though I guess down in your momma's basement things like this can seem REAL important.
I know it may affect Benetton's corporate synergy, but maybe if they used the power of OSS development to produce thes RFID's there would be less privacy concerns? Maybe their bosses should think 'out of the box'.
Merriam-Webster: "to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully."
Unless you pay for copyrighted music, legally, you don't have the right to possess a copy. So yes, if you're downloading copyrighted music across unregulated network, then you are stealing. "Duh."
Bollocks. Without breaking the law, you cannot listen to that music without giving them money. Therefore listening to it without giving them money is depriving them of that money.
If one of your friends gives you 20 dollars for another of your friends, but you keep it, is that not stealing, because the second friend never had it in the first place? After all, they are not losing something *tangible* that they already have.
The money you shouold pay to listen to copyrighted material is just as tangible as the money in the case above.
To listen to music track x you must pay money to the copyright holder. If you get if off Kazaa you do not do this. Therefore, the person who holds the copyright is x dollars worse off. Simple.
Just to point out that an hour of music was NEVER worth $15-$20. RIAA were (lawsuit) and are pricefixing.
Something is worth what people will pay for it. If you have some superb business acumen that you can knock out a record label that sells music for 5 bucks or whatever, you do that and become a billionaire instead of just another whiny slashdot bullshitter.
Please put this in your sig if you think/. should stop posting NYTimes articles.
Stop being so gay, and just put archive instead of news into the URL. Hence, no login needed. You sure are some kind of computer genius.
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Listen dickface, why should I have to reformat my BRAND NEW FUCKING DISK just because some virgin cockslurpers wanted to put Linux on it?
Dear fuckwit, hard disks come ready formatted.
Well, they've got nothing much else to do these days what with the sweeping redundancies and the move to cheaper, foreign imports - leave them alone!
Yes, because when I buy a hard disk, I *want* it to be full of shit I don't want.
Man, you are too funny.
who've gone on and on and ON about how'd they'd pay for their music if only they could get it online as single tracks: I know expect you all to go and pay for every one of those 10000000 files in your Kazaa Shared Folders, ok?
That was kinda my point, that they interfere with the electronics, whereas parent poster was insinuating in true 'blame the RIAA / MS' style that it was all a big conspiracy.
That would be super cool to have a little WC3 tourny over WiFi on the long flight across the Atlantic though.. hmmm.
It's such a pity this didn't cause your plane to fall out of the sky.
Yeah, and petrol stations ban them so they can charge you a ridiculous amount of money to uh, oh wait....
You might be a better software engineer if you thought before you spoke then. Surprisingly, companies don't want you using freeware, whose 'EULA's' usually consist of 'we are not responsible blah blah blah' because if said freeware were to fuck up and cause the company problems they would have no comeback against anyone.
Think first, type later.
What a fucking moron. The parent post should be +5 funny, only /. users think 'funny' means 'bitches about MS / Windows'.
I think all people predisposed to running m$ operating systems and applications see Open Source advocates as criminals, since they are 'stealing' from Bill and his market share.
There are hamburgers that will eat you? I'm set for life...
Is that right? Are you gonna turn up as an Anonymous Coward? Why don't you put the name of my street to show how clever you are?
If you were a truly l33t d00d, you would have used 'FOAD'. Try harder next time, thanks for playing.
If you (and all the other nobwits who've put the EXACT same response) want to cut off your nose to spite your face, thats fine. Me, I browsed to the page in Phoenix, it told me to use IE, so I loaded that and hey presto.
Since I have more important things to worry about than my OS of choice, it doesn't affect me one little bit if I have to use IE to view a page, though I guess down in your momma's basement things like this can seem REAL important.
Ooooh, you big spoilsport.
I know it may affect Benetton's corporate synergy, but maybe if they used the power of OSS development to produce thes RFID's there would be less privacy concerns? Maybe their bosses should think 'out of the box'.
This is bound to impose on corporate synergy. Spam filter developers need to think 'out of the box', possibly utilising the power of OSS development.
I give up. you're a virgin cocksmoker.
Merriam-Webster: "to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully."
Unless you pay for copyrighted music, legally, you don't have the right to possess a copy. So yes, if you're downloading copyrighted music across unregulated network, then you are stealing. "Duh."
If one of your friends gives you 20 dollars for another of your friends, but you keep it, is that not stealing, because the second friend never had it in the first place? After all, they are not losing something *tangible* that they already have.
The money you shouold pay to listen to copyrighted material is just as tangible as the money in the case above.
To listen to music track x you must pay money to the copyright holder. If you get if off Kazaa you do not do this. Therefore, the person who holds the copyright is x dollars worse off. Simple.
Something is worth what people will pay for it. If you have some superb business acumen that you can knock out a record label that sells music for 5 bucks or whatever, you do that and become a billionaire instead of just another whiny slashdot bullshitter.
Please put this in your sig if you think /. should stop posting NYTimes articles.
Stop being so gay, and just put archive instead of news into the URL. Hence, no login needed. You sure are some kind of computer genius.
Aaaarggghhhhh, Stealing is a valid pseudonym for copyright infringement, ok?