As it stands now in the US, something could be out of copyright, yet it is (AFAIK) still illegal to crack the DRM. The two facets are, unfortunately, separate legal issues.
I think the key point is cracking it without the copyright holder's permission. If it's in the public domain, then there is no copyright holder, and hence, no violation of the DMCA.
When Hollings (D-Disney) was proposing the SSSCA/CBDTPA, I wrote to Pres. Bush and asked him to work against it, and veto it. I spewed a lot of malarkey that I didn't believe, such as "Hollywood liberal elite", "Unnecessary regulation of business", etc...
Putting someone's own prejudices to work for you is sometimes all that you can do.
We have a tool that's used for code review logging. It's written in Access (don't ask), by a developer who did it in his spare time.
The guy who wrote it didn't have a clue -- he ties fields directly to the DB (using the DB controls), so there's no transactions, you can't undo, you can't say, "No I didn't mean that... cancel".
On top of that, the guy couldn't design a UI to save his life, so users are continually corrupting the database, overwriting records when they mean to create new ones, etc.. And no, we can't change it, we're subs to the prime, and the prime has mandated the use of this piece of shit.
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was at Fry's Electronics recently ... The sales critter explained that the HP cartridge is actually integrated into a new printer head
A Fry's Salesmonkey who actually knew something technical about the equipment, and correctly stated that information to the customer?
Where was it? And what was the salesperson's name? We must contact the store, as this person obviously needs to be fired!
Cramer is also the guy who developed the Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.
IANAP, alas, but if I understand it properly, it explains the weirdness such as the two-slit experiment and Schroedinger's Cat.
As it stands now in the US, something could be out of copyright, yet it is (AFAIK) still illegal to crack the DRM. The two facets are, unfortunately, separate legal issues.
I think the key point is cracking it without the copyright holder's permission. If it's in the public domain, then there is no copyright holder, and hence, no violation of the DMCA.
Disclaimer: IANAL, and I don't play one on TV.
The real question is, why is the 911 info buried deeply in the menus?
They started us on Karel back at UCSC in '82.
We disguised a landmine as a beeper and blew him up.
Nice software, Stephanie!
Just means that they have put the eavesdropping equipment on board, so those astronauts can't discuss anything that's Unamerican(tm).
What's the difference between Pac-Man eating dots and me sitting at my desk, eating Nerds candy?
You eat NERDS????? You cannibal! Don't you know that this site is "News For Nerds"???
Won't SOMEBODY think of the Nerds?
So you commit pesticide using a can of pesticide?
That seems recursive to me somehow....
Most secure facilities that I've been in require Sargent and Greenleaf combo locks.
Reminds me of a guy from JPL I used to know. His plates read "MVEM JSU" with a license plate holder that read "This License is NP-Complete".
What's he going to do now?
IBM = Irritable Bald Monkeys.
No, I'm pretty sure Steve Ballmer works for Microsoft, not IBM...
[P.S.] Agree with other response, I'd always heard IBM stood for "I've been moved" as well.
Money, at least, has the virtue of flowing automatically to those who labor and innovate and create pleasure for others.
Then how do you explain the RIAA?
You're right. I could have sworn I saw Ms. Higginson listed as Weir on "The Lost City".
I stand corrected.
The original Wier was a far better choice.
According to IMDB, Higginson was the blond Weir in "The Lost City".
But you've got it backwards, we want it to use less power, so we can use more!
Damn straight. I've got a 4GB drive (with physical write protect switch). It cost me $100. (I didn't bother messing aroudn with the Fry's $25 rebate).
You're off by a factor of 10. It was 8.3%, or 0.083 solar masses.
When Hollings (D-Disney) was proposing the SSSCA/CBDTPA, I wrote to Pres. Bush and asked him to work against it, and veto it. I spewed a lot of malarkey that I didn't believe, such as "Hollywood liberal elite", "Unnecessary regulation of business", etc...
Putting someone's own prejudices to work for you is sometimes all that you can do.
Except that since it's 100AU, and an AU is approximately 8 light-minutes, a roundtrip ping time would be 1600 minutes, or 26 hours 40 minutes.
Now, granted, a 1 day ping time is slow, but it's not a 30 year ping time!
So would using the DMCA as a sledgehammer in this instance be a GOOD THING??????
I thought the first elected representative government was in Iceland circa 1000.
Or, as I said (along the same lines) back in 2002, P2P Killed Elvis!!!
Damn! I haven't heard that song since I was 15 (over 25 years ago)! Thanks!
We have a tool that's used for code review logging. It's written in Access (don't ask), by a developer who did it in his spare time.
The guy who wrote it didn't have a clue -- he ties fields directly to the DB (using the DB controls), so there's no transactions, you can't undo, you can't say, "No I didn't mean that... cancel".
On top of that, the guy couldn't design a UI to save his life, so users are continually corrupting the database, overwriting records when they mean to create new ones, etc.. And no, we can't change it, we're subs to the prime, and the prime has mandated the use of this piece of shit.