Let's just solve this like the American government, by changing the definition of an enemy combatant. Add the word "virtual" in there somewhere and we can do whatever the f&*k we want in video games. Torture, imprisonment, etc.
Seriously these people need to have their heads examined.
Maybe it would be easier to block all traffic to India and this Minister could allow sites and communications with sites he feels are not "offensive". Oh, and do it in real time.
Solution: if you dont like the tactics of the company boycott them. Tell all your friends to not use their services. They will just find someone else to blame for their woes.
They should not be allowed to do this. As a carrier they should simply provide access. By restricting that access they are in affect censoring the internet. That is not their role.
Maybe I want to view the website, or lets say that the website is an opposing carriers website then what?
How can I be informed as the consumer if the news they publish is also censored? Newspapers and TV can do this based on what they report to a certain extent, but internet service should not be.
What if they blocked all access to Shaws website? Or since they are in the cellular market blocked all access to competing networks (Fido, Rogers, etc.)?
Obviously they are not a common carrier. They should be charged.
All the books deal with racial, political, sexual or other explicit content. By keeping their children and the public ignorant they further their cause, which is ignorance. Ignorance fosters hatred and stereotypes, plain and simple.
We read a lot some of those books in school. I havent turned out to be that bad. I'd like to see how their children have turned out.
If you dont like it, no one says that you have to read it. That is the only form of censorship we need in this world. No one should have the right to say "no, you cant read that".
To say otherwise is to go against everything our society holds dear.
You are also forgetting one thing. That is perceptible differeneces. Your eye cannot see the difference, but a computer could. Information is lost regardless.
PNG was made to replace GIF. JPEG is meant for photos.
Arguing this point is useless. If you want to use PNG for photos do so.
Actually that model you suggest applies to most things we buy. Cars, houses, food, etc. They all increase in value with time, put my pay does not scale in the same manner, even with inflation calculated in. I am paying the same for a CD now as I was back in the early 90's if not a little more.
VCRs, and other electronics have come down, so they are something that does scale.
When your parents bought a house they paid for it in 15-25 years and it probably cost them 60000.00 on a combined salary of 25000.00. Now a house costs 250000.00 and I make 40000.00.
How is this right. Its all about price and demand, but something is not right here?
This is why we are all on a collision course for economic disaster.
Why not use a mechanical pencil with extra leads. No sharpening then.
Hard to believe that NASA would spend millions of dollars though. They could have pleaded to the kids of america to come up with a solution and then just paid Bic or somebody else to make the pen for them.
It was 60 Minutes on Sunday that aired that episode. This would probably fool all security measures as the tinfoil blocks the magnetic field produced by the tag.
Its just a bonus that it will work with RFID as well.
Spend millions of dollars on a foolproof system to stop shoplifting and the world just invents a smarter shoplifter. If you get caught though it's fairly obvious what you are doing.
What this is really about is so that they can run a program from outside the browser, by using a configuration file.
Since they lost out on that other patent and are fighting it, by circumventing it.
This way they can store the data necessary to launch an application externally from the browser by having a xml file parsed and scripts run from it. This way the browser is not using a plugin.
Until this case is proven in court Google will just sit back and wait. A counter-suit by Google may ensue as to the timing of this claim.
SCO will not have a chance against all these large corporations suing them. Divide and conquer is the way to go.
There is no benefit for Google to pay up now. They can just wait and see what the courts decide on the SCO vs. IBM trial first. Sure it may hurt their public offering, but marginally.
Its not like SCO can really expect otherwise. They are just using scare tactics, hoping to get someone to but them out or to pay up. Maybe paying up will cause a ripple effect and cause others to pay up but I doubt it.
SCO are a bunch of bullies that need to shown what happens to bullies, either that or we need to find a larger bully!
Hopefully their shareholders will start to take notice of their shenanigans and pull out. That will cook their goose!
This article is definitely geared to cause a strong opinions in people. It is pure flamebiat. How can someone know what a dead person whould do? Are they phychic?
He's not alive and we cannot answer this question! The real question is what would YOU do.
If I didnt believe in music piracy before, I sure do now. This is goddamn rediculous!
A 20% levy on storage media is insane. Why should the government protect an organization that has a flawed business model. The people have obviously decided that the product is overpriced and have taken matters into their own hands.
Its the corporations that need to change not us. Since I am paying this levy I am sure and goddamned going to enjoy it!
You thought music piracy was bad now, wait and see what happens later when the levy is added!
I have one question though. When the music industry records so and sos new album onto a blank CD do they have to pay the levy too?
If they dont, why are they exempt? Doesnt seem fair does it.
I would also think that hard drives should be exempt as their main function is to store data, not music. A portable MP3 player is a different story as it is intended for the purpose of playing music. Flash disks are not music devices either, so they should be exempt too.
I would think that they would have to prove that the media is overwhelmingly going to be used to pirate music or contain music files. For hard drives that is not the case as mostof the data is OS and data/application related.
Whats going to happen when the software manufacturers start crying that they are losing too much money to puracy? Are they going to petition for a levy too?
This is just wacked? It just goes to show you what lobby groups with money can accomplish.:-(
Since corporations are thought of as individuals, isnt asking IBM to provide information as to its guilt a serious problem. Couldnt IBM plead the 5th ammendment?
I cant provide information as to my guilt as that would incriminate myself? Isnt it up to SCO to prove that IBM is at fault instead of the other way around?
And, isnt IBM innocent until proven guilty instead of guilty until proven innocent? Is this the outcome of democracy within the USA? What a tragedy!
If this is true and is proven to be true, heads will roll, namely SCO's.
After all this, I can't believe that this has come out, it doesn't surprise me in this day and age of sleazy business tactics, but this is really low. They should be ashamed of themselves.
I hope the FBI, DoJ and Stock Exachange Commission get involved now as it looks like pumpndump, Fraud, extortion, and slander to me.
ISPs are the providers of bandwidth. Thats all. They shouldnt have to police the use of that bandwidth. That is for the authorities to do.
The music industry wants a carte blanche tax for the stolen music people are trading, but they cant for certain say how many files are traded just that they are. I dont buy it and I dont think that the supreme court will either.
I as a consumer should not have to pay for the crimes of others. This is a breach of my rights. They are basically saying that all citizens are criminals and therefore should have to pay for their crimes.
Here in Canada if a restaurant plays the radio in their establishment they have to pay royalties to SOCAN. If that isnt retarded I dont know what is.
Also if the owner of a restaurant buys a CD and plays in int thier establishment they also have to pay royalties. I can sort of understand this statement, as they are not suppoesed to use these CDs for public performances.
The first statement is ludicrous though as the radio stations already pay for the broadcasts.
Are we as consumers going to have to start paying to listen to radio stations?
Thats a scam. How do they know what was downloaded? They dont and never will. The artists dont see a dime of this revenue. SOCAN and/or the RIAA will keep it all beacuse of their legal/staff operating costs.
Why did the government consult the spammers? You dont make a deal with the criminals do you? Why should the government get involved with these people? They are the ones causing the problems and will most likely have it written so that the law will be ineffectual.
For a world power the United States sure has no backbone when dealing with criminals! Once lawyers get involved, it appears all the military might in the world proves to be useless.
They couldnt sell their own product as its outdated and pales in comparison to Linux, so they have to try and hijack the work of thousands of people to make their quarterly projections.
Its really sad that they think that this is right. Even if there was misappropriated code it wouldnt entitle them to the whole enchilada.
I hope that they get laughed out of the courtroom and noone will buy their company. It will be great to see all the shareholders and so forth sick their own lawyers on McBride and his cronies.
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Sounds like fast food is going to make dumb people dumber. Great, just what we need.
Let's just solve this like the American government, by changing the definition of an enemy combatant. Add the word "virtual" in there somewhere and we can do whatever the f&*k we want in video games. Torture, imprisonment, etc.
Seriously these people need to have their heads examined.
Maybe it would be easier to block all traffic to India and this Minister could allow sites and communications with sites he feels are not "offensive". Oh, and do it in real time.
Solution: if you dont like the tactics of the company boycott them. Tell all your friends to not use their services. They will just find someone else to blame for their woes.
They should not be allowed to do this. As a carrier they should simply provide access. By restricting that access they are in affect censoring the internet. That is not their role.
Maybe I want to view the website, or lets say that the website is an opposing carriers website then what?
How can I be informed as the consumer if the news they publish is also censored? Newspapers and TV can do this based on what they report to a certain extent, but internet service should not be.
What if they blocked all access to Shaws website? Or since they are in the cellular market blocked all access to competing networks (Fido, Rogers, etc.)?
Obviously they are not a common carrier. They should be charged.
magic, witches, warlocks, familiars, witchcraft, sorcery.
All the books deal with racial, political, sexual or other explicit content. By keeping their children and the public ignorant they further their cause, which is ignorance. Ignorance fosters hatred and stereotypes, plain and simple.
We read a lot some of those books in school. I havent turned out to be that bad. I'd like to see how their children have turned out.
If you dont like it, no one says that you have to read it. That is the only form of censorship we need in this world. No one should have the right to say "no, you cant read that".
To say otherwise is to go against everything our society holds dear.
IE is crap, long live Mozilla
You are also forgetting one thing. That is perceptible differeneces. Your eye cannot see the difference, but a computer could. Information is lost regardless.
PNG was made to replace GIF.
JPEG is meant for photos.
Arguing this point is useless. If you want to use PNG for photos do so.
Actually that model you suggest applies to most things we buy. Cars, houses, food, etc. They all increase in value with time, put my pay does not scale in the same manner, even with inflation calculated in. I am paying the same for a CD now as I was back in the early 90's if not a little more.
VCRs, and other electronics have come down, so they are something that does scale.
When your parents bought a house they paid for it in 15-25 years and it probably cost them 60000.00 on a combined salary of 25000.00. Now a house costs 250000.00 and I make 40000.00.
How is this right. Its all about price and demand, but something is not right here?
This is why we are all on a collision course for economic disaster.
Why not use a mechanical pencil with extra leads. No sharpening then.
Hard to believe that NASA would spend millions of dollars though. They could have pleaded to the kids of america to come up with a solution and then just paid Bic or somebody else to make the pen for them.
It was 60 Minutes on Sunday that aired that episode. This would probably fool all security measures as the tinfoil blocks the magnetic field produced by the tag.
Its just a bonus that it will work with RFID as well.
Spend millions of dollars on a foolproof system to stop shoplifting and the world just invents a smarter shoplifter. If you get caught though it's fairly obvious what you are doing.
STOP the plunder by the pirate sector!
What this is really about is so that they can run a program from outside the browser, by using a configuration file.
Since they lost out on that other patent and are fighting it, by circumventing it.
This way they can store the data necessary to launch an application externally from the browser by having a xml file parsed and scripts run from it. This way the browser is not using a plugin.
think about it.
Not a chance!
Until this case is proven in court Google will just sit back and wait. A counter-suit by Google may ensue as to the timing of this claim.
SCO will not have a chance against all these large corporations suing them. Divide and conquer is the way to go.
There is no benefit for Google to pay up now. They can just wait and see what the courts decide on the SCO vs. IBM trial first. Sure it may hurt their public offering, but marginally.
Its not like SCO can really expect otherwise. They are just using scare tactics, hoping to get someone to but them out or to pay up. Maybe paying up will cause a ripple effect and cause others to pay up but I doubt it.
SCO are a bunch of bullies that need to shown what happens to bullies, either that or we need to find a larger bully!
Hopefully their shareholders will start to take notice of their shenanigans and pull out. That will cook their goose!
This article is definitely geared to cause a strong opinions in people. It is pure flamebiat. How can someone know what a dead person whould do? Are they phychic?
He's not alive and we cannot answer this question! The real question is what would YOU do.
If I didnt believe in music piracy before, I sure do now. This is goddamn rediculous!
:-(
A 20% levy on storage media is insane. Why should the government protect an organization that has a flawed business model. The people have obviously decided that the product is overpriced and have taken matters into their own hands.
Its the corporations that need to change not us. Since I am paying this levy I am sure and goddamned going to enjoy it!
You thought music piracy was bad now, wait and see what happens later when the levy is added!
I have one question though. When the music industry records so and sos new album onto a blank CD do they have to pay the levy too?
If they dont, why are they exempt? Doesnt seem fair does it.
I would also think that hard drives should be exempt as their main function is to store data, not music. A portable MP3 player is a different story as it is intended for the purpose of playing music. Flash disks are not music devices either, so they should be exempt too.
I would think that they would have to prove that the media is overwhelmingly going to be used to pirate music or contain music files. For hard drives that is not the case as mostof the data is OS and data/application related.
Whats going to happen when the software manufacturers start crying that they are losing too much money to puracy? Are they going to petition for a levy too?
This is just wacked? It just goes to show you what lobby groups with money can accomplish.
Since corporations are thought of as individuals, isnt asking IBM to provide information as to its guilt a serious problem. Couldnt IBM plead the 5th ammendment?
I cant provide information as to my guilt as that would incriminate myself? Isnt it up to SCO to prove that IBM is at fault instead of the other way around?
And, isnt IBM innocent until proven guilty instead of guilty until proven innocent? Is this the outcome of democracy within the USA? What a tragedy!
yeah, thats the one.
If this is true and is proven to be true, heads will roll, namely SCO's.
After all this, I can't believe that this has come out, it doesn't surprise me in this day and age of sleazy business tactics, but this is really low. They should be ashamed of themselves.
I hope the FBI, DoJ and Stock Exachange Commission get involved now as it looks like pumpndump, Fraud, extortion, and slander to me.
Pure and utter crap.
ISPs are the providers of bandwidth. Thats all. They shouldnt have to police the use of that bandwidth. That is for the authorities to do.
The music industry wants a carte blanche tax for the stolen music people are trading, but they cant for certain say how many files are traded just that they are. I dont buy it and I dont think that the supreme court will either.
I as a consumer should not have to pay for the crimes of others. This is a breach of my rights. They are basically saying that all citizens are criminals and therefore should have to pay for their crimes.
Crap!
If ISPs were responsible they they would be arrested as Child Pornographers, Fraud Artists, etc, etc, etc.
They simply provide bandwidth for their customers. They should not have to police the data as well. That is for the Federal authorities to do.
Here in Canada if a restaurant plays the radio in their establishment they have to pay royalties to SOCAN. If that isnt retarded I dont know what is.
Also if the owner of a restaurant buys a CD and plays in int thier establishment they also have to pay royalties. I can sort of understand this statement, as they are not suppoesed to use these CDs for public performances.
The first statement is ludicrous though as the radio stations already pay for the broadcasts.
Are we as consumers going to have to start paying to listen to radio stations?
Thats a scam. How do they know what was downloaded? They dont and never will. The artists dont see a dime of this revenue. SOCAN and/or the RIAA will keep it all beacuse of their legal/staff operating costs.
Why did the government consult the spammers? You dont make a deal with the criminals do you? Why should the government get involved with these people? They are the ones causing the problems and will most likely have it written so that the law will be ineffectual.
For a world power the United States sure has no backbone when dealing with criminals! Once lawyers get involved, it appears all the military might in the world proves to be useless.
They couldnt sell their own product as its outdated and pales in comparison to Linux, so they have to try and hijack the work of thousands of people to make their quarterly projections.
Its really sad that they think that this is right. Even if there was misappropriated code it wouldnt entitle them to the whole enchilada.
I hope that they get laughed out of the courtroom and noone will buy their company. It will be great to see all the shareholders and so forth sick their own lawyers on McBride and his cronies.