Nope. Us dinosaurs who are still hanging on to our PC's know how to build them and maintain them. Even if Intel drops PC chips to focus on - what, exactly? - there's always AMD, and if that dies there will be others. The motorcar might have become more popular than the horse, but people still keep and ride horses.
How far can the government go to obtain biometric markers such as fingerprints and hair?
They can go as far as just taking you around the back of the courthouse and shooting you. Of course those governments don't tend to be popular, but it happens. It all depends how much power the people give the government, until a critical mass is reached where the government no longer needs the people and can just give itself power. Guess which phase the US is in today.
It's pretty clear that the photographer has a right to claim a portion of that fee.
OK I'm going to start charging every patient whose life I save a portion of any income or profit they make for the rest of their life. Especially the rich ones that have windfalls. Seriously no. Only an idiot thinks that someone will win a multimilion dollar contract based on pretty pictures. I expect a damn sight more than that from someone who wants me to invest my money. It's like saying the font maker, the printer and the paper manufacturer of the brochures and printed material also have a claim. Not to mention the manufacturers of the furniture in the board room where we had the meetings, and the caterer. Jeeezus when will people stop being stupid about this BS "Intellectual Property" concept.
It's wrong to violate a contract with a photographer and use his pictures in a way that specifically wasn't intended. But that doesn't mean that just because some beads were placed inappropriately on the icing of a cake, the bead maker is suddenly entitled to the whole cake. Here- have you beads back. And a small fine. Like say 4000 euros which is what the "work" was valued at - since obviously he had no problem selling it for that price.
Show me my signature on the contract. Oh wait, you can't. You can just try that very weak "Terms of Service" or "End User License Agreement" which has never really been tested in court. What's more - if they reserve the right to modify the terms, well guess what - so do I. An agreement between two parties is between BOTH parties. If I "agreed" to the contract via VPN I could argue with the same force as they can that the fact that they accepted my money via VPN and that I've always used VPN signifies their acceptance of my modification to their TOS... They had no trouble accepting my payment that way. They can't object to providing service. If they really mean what they say in their TOS they should not allow VPN access at all, even to sign up.
A geographical restriction is a contract matter between a content publisher and a distributor. It has nothing to do with law, and everything to do with "rights agreements". A consumer, however, cannot be bound by a contract between two third parties. If I make a contract with my friend stating that you can no longer drive your car and try to enforce it in court I will be laughed out of the courthouse. Consumers are paying for the content - no copyright infringement is happening. An artist doesn't get to say when or where you're allowed to hear his music or play his CD.
But you have to make your living. "I spent 6 hours taking pictures pay me 2 million Euro" is not exactly what people would call an "honest day's work" either. Fuck the starving artist. I spent 15 years in school to earn the right to exercise a profession where I handle people's lives daily, and I certainly don't make 4000 Euro per afternoon. There is more than one kind of dishonesty.
You can't be in breach of a contract that has expired. Of course if the contract clearly stated that ownership and rights of the photos remained with the photographer, then they are using them without his permission and could be liable. On the other hand if this wasn't clear (or clear enough) in the contract, ownership of the photos could belong to the hotel as a "work for hire".
It's up to lawyers and courts to argue about. $2 million seems a bit steep and the guy seems a bit greedy. Usually greedy doesn't play all that well in a courtroom (if it even makes it that far). After all it's not like the photographer can show that he is suffering economic harm because those particular photos are on the hotel website.
It's probably going to be a slap on the wrist for the hotel, a small award for the photographer, and the lawyers on both sides will make money - which was the plan all along when "Intellectual Property" was invented.
Wait, did you just say that American government is "main street"? ROFL. Main street is over here. The US government is way the hell over there doing god knows what.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Goldman Sachs does this several times a minute every minute of every trading day. It's only illegal if you coerce others into selling via the press, etc.
Yes we can learn a great deal about the former finance minister of a bankrupt country. Almost as much as we can learn about world peace from the US Pentagon.
Yeah it is some computer. And they haven't even turned it "on" yet. The entire universe we perceive is merely fluctuations and movements of static electricity and background noise through the circuits...
Slashdot Mirror
Arguably human level AI gets you all the traffic fatalities we have today. You need to BEAT human level AI...
Needing an "else" is just shitty programming. I bet you use GOTO as well :P
Government overreach is the issue. Oh heavens. Good lord! We can't have people having sex on the PUBLIC roads!
Can insist on data from Facebook and Whatsapp and threaten and put people in jail, but can't even impeach their own corrupt President.
Same. 47 more to go (because OP obviously got it if he wrote it).
Nerds can be smegheads. Just look at Arnold J. Well yeah ok he fails at being a nerd, too. More a nerd wannabe.
If you don't get obscure sci fi references you're probably just a security guard class 4 and don't belong here.
Oh. How wonderful. JUST 40 light years away. Fucking journalists. It might as well be in the next galaxy, we are never going there. Ever.
Nope. Us dinosaurs who are still hanging on to our PC's know how to build them and maintain them. Even if Intel drops PC chips to focus on - what, exactly? - there's always AMD, and if that dies there will be others. The motorcar might have become more popular than the horse, but people still keep and ride horses.
Yup I'm fine with Windows 7 SP1. And Windows update set to OFF.
How far can the government go to obtain biometric markers such as fingerprints and hair?
They can go as far as just taking you around the back of the courthouse and shooting you. Of course those governments don't tend to be popular, but it happens. It all depends how much power the people give the government, until a critical mass is reached where the government no longer needs the people and can just give itself power. Guess which phase the US is in today.
It's pretty clear that the photographer has a right to claim a portion of that fee.
OK I'm going to start charging every patient whose life I save a portion of any income or profit they make for the rest of their life. Especially the rich ones that have windfalls. Seriously no. Only an idiot thinks that someone will win a multimilion dollar contract based on pretty pictures. I expect a damn sight more than that from someone who wants me to invest my money. It's like saying the font maker, the printer and the paper manufacturer of the brochures and printed material also have a claim. Not to mention the manufacturers of the furniture in the board room where we had the meetings, and the caterer. Jeeezus when will people stop being stupid about this BS "Intellectual Property" concept.
It's wrong to violate a contract with a photographer and use his pictures in a way that specifically wasn't intended. But that doesn't mean that just because some beads were placed inappropriately on the icing of a cake, the bead maker is suddenly entitled to the whole cake. Here- have you beads back. And a small fine. Like say 4000 euros which is what the "work" was valued at - since obviously he had no problem selling it for that price.
Show me my signature on the contract. Oh wait, you can't. You can just try that very weak "Terms of Service" or "End User License Agreement" which has never really been tested in court. What's more - if they reserve the right to modify the terms, well guess what - so do I. An agreement between two parties is between BOTH parties. If I "agreed" to the contract via VPN I could argue with the same force as they can that the fact that they accepted my money via VPN and that I've always used VPN signifies their acceptance of my modification to their TOS... They had no trouble accepting my payment that way. They can't object to providing service. If they really mean what they say in their TOS they should not allow VPN access at all, even to sign up.
A geographical restriction is a contract matter between a content publisher and a distributor. It has nothing to do with law, and everything to do with "rights agreements". A consumer, however, cannot be bound by a contract between two third parties. If I make a contract with my friend stating that you can no longer drive your car and try to enforce it in court I will be laughed out of the courthouse. Consumers are paying for the content - no copyright infringement is happening. An artist doesn't get to say when or where you're allowed to hear his music or play his CD.
if you have to make your living
But you have to make your living. "I spent 6 hours taking pictures pay me 2 million Euro" is not exactly what people would call an "honest day's work" either. Fuck the starving artist. I spent 15 years in school to earn the right to exercise a profession where I handle people's lives daily, and I certainly don't make 4000 Euro per afternoon. There is more than one kind of dishonesty.
You can't be in breach of a contract that has expired. Of course if the contract clearly stated that ownership and rights of the photos remained with the photographer, then they are using them without his permission and could be liable. On the other hand if this wasn't clear (or clear enough) in the contract, ownership of the photos could belong to the hotel as a "work for hire".
It's up to lawyers and courts to argue about. $2 million seems a bit steep and the guy seems a bit greedy. Usually greedy doesn't play all that well in a courtroom (if it even makes it that far). After all it's not like the photographer can show that he is suffering economic harm because those particular photos are on the hotel website.
It's probably going to be a slap on the wrist for the hotel, a small award for the photographer, and the lawyers on both sides will make money - which was the plan all along when "Intellectual Property" was invented.
Wait, did you just say that American government is "main street"? ROFL. Main street is over here. The US government is way the hell over there doing god knows what.
You don't need to improve the weapon - you need to improve the people.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Goldman Sachs does this several times a minute every minute of every trading day. It's only illegal if you coerce others into selling via the press, etc.
I'm sure that between this and the devastating Climate Change summit, ISIS will surrender any day now.
Funny I heard almost exactly those same words from an American president.
Yes we can learn a great deal about the former finance minister of a bankrupt country. Almost as much as we can learn about world peace from the US Pentagon.
Yeah it is some computer. And they haven't even turned it "on" yet. The entire universe we perceive is merely fluctuations and movements of static electricity and background noise through the circuits...
some experts have pointed to increased abuse of prescription opiates
That is a symptom, not the cause.
Barney Stinson
Who? QED