I doubt the current Malevolent Dictator For Life can go about shooting monks for 7+ years without some kind of retaliation from the rest of the world.
The outside world has almost as little influence on Myanmar as on North Korea. As long as the Chinese will deal with them, it flat out doesn't matter, and the Chinese aren't likely to stop dealing with them any time soon.
Apparently the recently deceased whackjob of a supreme leader, Saparmurat Niyazov (AKA Serdar Turkmenbashi, "Leader of All Turkmen") banned male TV news anchors from wearing makeup because he mistook one for a woman. I wonder if that will be the next step in King of the World's plan.
Any company led by half a brain ought to be keeping track of exactly what that paycheck is buying them, as in how much time you spend on what.
You should consider keeping track yourself and making it available to your immediate superior. Worst case it's a CYA when someone further up the line complains.
He could also just as well argue that he generates MORE interest and therefore MORE sales by making such comments.
I just told a friend about this (linked a YouTube video of his "Steal It" speech) and her immediate response was "I need to go buy their latest CD just for that".
Anecdote, sure, but amusing and revealing nevertheless.
An anecdote regarding the Apple store-within-a-store in CompUSA. A friend of mine used to work at the local CompUSA before the Apple employees came in to work the Apple area.
He said that the "repair" guys, when presented with any kind of Mac problem that needed fixing, went out into the back room and physically bashed it up so they could just have Apple deal with it.
Will someone please tell me how these fucking tags, or any of the other letsshoveanentiresentenceinonetag tags contribute in any meaningful way to reading Slashdot? You used to be able to turn this shit off. Click on it, and it doesn't even link to the stupid post that was tagged. Waste of fucking time. Every time I visit slashdot, I ask myself louder and louder why, because shit like this makes it more of a problem than a solution to anything.
Right, because no one puts on perfume or aftershave to hide their true scent in person.
And no one works on changing their voice so they can appear to be more (or less depending) authoritative than their normal voice makes them seem.
And no one dresses up (or down) to try and mask their socio-economic status from whatever social circle they're trying to get into.
And no one flat out lies about themselves in the real world too. All perfectly honest.
Just because you're close enough to a person that you could slap them, doesn't mean the person is any less of a mirage than they are online. Hell, in the world of blogs, you can often find out more about someone than you can from meeting them.
Hey NBC: I have chosen not to have cable, but want to pay you for Heroes. Guess what my only alternative will be if you pull it from iTunes?
Oh, I dunno? Buy them on DVD, or even rent the damn DVD. It's coming out soon as far as I've heard. I don't really know. I chose long ago to dump cable TV ($50+/month? In my personal opinion, anyone willing to pay $600/year so someone else gets to shove ads down your throat is nuts) and I don't bother downloading TV shows from the net. It isn't worth it. A close friend of mine used to torrent Heroes episodes he missed, until she got a DMCA takedown letter from NBC Universal through her ISP. I had to talk him down because he was petrified he was going to get sued and kicked out of school for it.
If the show is good, you'll know about it, and the DVD will be out soon if you REALLY want to pay for them. Learn some patience. You'll avoid wasting a lot of bandwidth on crappy shows by just waiting for that DVD release. It's getting sooner and sooner these days. Hell, you can even rent the DVD and do what thou wilt with it if you feel like sticking it to the man or something.
If some content creator doesn't release your material in a format that you want to use their material in, the only really effective way is to just ignore the damn content, and don't jump through hoops to get it. Make them come to you. If they don't care to give you stuff the way you want it, go to someone that will. Oh right, I forgot. You simply can't LIVE without watching Heroes. You'll just DIE if you don't know what's happening in your super magic fantasy sci-fi soap opera of the day. My bad.
Linux has the reputation of being usable only by teenage computer geeks and this does not help.
You mean the pimpled teenage computer geeks working at, and making a mint for International Business Machines? Or are we talking the idealistic nerds piling cash upon cash at Dell Computer?
If they make their business decisions based on what their snobby, spoiled rotten kids tell them Linux users are like, then they deserve all the extra costs maintaining Windows has left them with.
Burning an MP3 onto a CD most assuredly creates a material object in which a work is fixed. How you could argue otherwise is beyond me. A magnetic storage hard drive, or a flash drive most certainly has the data fixed inside it. The fact that the work can be "unfixed" later on doesn't change the fact that it's fixed in that object now. You can remove all the ink from the pages of a book too. That doesn't mean a copied book isn't fixed.
I wasn't even responding to the "made available" argument. The parent of my post gave a really bad example, and people for some reason modded him up "informative" which was is ludicrous. If no one had bothered to claim that his comment was in any way informative, I would've felt no need to respond.
Libraries and archives have a lot of exceptions within copyright law, as does copying for research/educational purposes. This is established stuff. Don't you think book publishers did the same kind of hand waving when copy machines began springing up in libraries all over the place?
Your comment displays a fundamental ignorance of copyright law in the United States.
One person copying a song to MP3 format and giving it to someone who owns a CD that already has that song is illegal. You have infringed on the copyright owner's exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords (unless you've received special permission because the author released it under the GPL, creative commons, or licensed you specifically).
Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:
(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;
(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and
(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.
106A. Rights of certain authors to attribution and integrity
(a) Rights of Attribution and Integrity. -- Subject to section 107 and independent of the exclusive rights provided in section 106, the author of a work of visual art --
(1) shall have the right --
(A) to claim authorship of that work, and
(B) to prevent the use of his or her name as the author of any work of visual art which he or she did not create;
(2) shall have the right to prevent the use of his or her name as the author of the work of visual art in the event of a distortion, mutilation, or other modification of the work which would be prejudicial to his or her honor or reputation; and
(3) subject to the limitations set forth in section 113(d), shall have the right --
(A) to prevent any intentional distortion, mutilation, or other modification of that work which would be prejudicial to his or her honor or reputation, and any intentional distortion, mutilation, or modification of that work is a violation of that right, and
(B) to prevent any destruction of a work of recognized stature, and any intentional or grossly negligent destruction of that work is a violation of that right.
That means you do not have the right to give MP3 copies of music from a CD you own to someone who owns the same CD. You are infringing on those enumerated rights. Now, there are fair use exceptions, but if you actually read them (and you'll be able to in a second) you'll see that every one of them must be considered by a judge or jury to see if an individual's actions count as fair use.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include --
(1) the purpose and character of the use, includin
The terrorists are colluding with the Dark Iron dwarves to blow up the Loch Modan damn! It had bin Laden's fingerprints all over it from day one, and now it's proven.
I haven't noticed a particular increase in hardware problems between Linksys, Netgear, and "random other cheap router provider" in my work. I have noticed that they're nearly all uniformly worth what you pay for them (IE, not a hell of a lot). I've had a rash of bad Netgears recently. I've seen a lot of Linksys issues, but I tend to see more Linksys products around here than any other brand, so that's not unreasonable. Linksys also pushed a lot harder with their VPN offerings early, so they got a foot in that door before Netgear did, and it's become a kind of quasi-standard for us, because while they've got issues, they're ones we're familliar with. I've never had much problem with straight-up DOA boxes from anyone, now that I come to think of it.
Your experience is not universal. I have a pretty common monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 940bw) and an NVIDIA video card. No amount of in-Ubuntu configuration would give me the default 1440x900 resolution, nor would it define the sync on the monitor correctly. Thankfully for me, I've used Linux enough that I was able to edit the X config files and get things working right. My father, mother, and anyone else I know wouldn't last that long.
Lexmark was just prevented from going after people circumventing it.
Nothing in the court battle they lost said that they couldn't build a better mouse trap, just that they couldn't sue cartridge manufacturers that figured out how to make replacement cheese.
Yeah, I live in Massachussetts. My Congressman is a Democrat, my Senators are Democrats, my representatives in both houses of the state legislature are Democrats.
While it's possible to argue that the Democrats aren't much better. Throwing such Massachussetts Republican darlings like Mit Romney and our Harvard educated Chief Justice in after throwing the bums I've got out just doesn't sound horribly appealing to me.
So frankly, the only fucking thing I have is getting fucking angry.
I agree completely about the RMT basically being a wash in World of Warcraft. In Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, and other games where Souldbound items didn't exist (or existed in very limited amounts...Camelot epic armor was no drop iirc).
Everyone in a MMO is a farmer. The people who complain about those that engage in RMT generally comes from people pissed off that someone else is farming where they want to be farming. Personally, I just decided to look where the farmers aren't or can't be, and attack those markets. I make a ton of gold on stuff no farmer bothers to touch.
Perhaps someone will get the point that humans, on Earth, in this country called the United States of America, which the US Congress happens to have at least a portion of authority over, are way more important than sending humans to a rock somewhere out there in space.
I don't particulary care if China makes it to Mars before us. This "manned space flight is the only salvation for humanity" nonsense needs to stop. You'd think that simple things, like, oh, not spewing tons of chemicals that cause humans heal problems into the environment might be a slightly simpler, and more cost effective method of saving the human race from extinction than a hideously wasteful space exploration that doesn't have any actual advantage over unmanned probes. If a private entity wants to do it, that's their money to waste. But my government should damn well not be the one wasting it. Tell Mars Society can fund their own damn space program.
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I doubt the current Malevolent Dictator For Life can go about shooting monks for 7+ years without some kind of retaliation from the rest of the world.
The outside world has almost as little influence on Myanmar as on North Korea. As long as the Chinese will deal with them, it flat out doesn't matter, and the Chinese aren't likely to stop dealing with them any time soon.
Apparently the recently deceased whackjob of a supreme leader, Saparmurat Niyazov (AKA Serdar Turkmenbashi, "Leader of All Turkmen") banned male TV news anchors from wearing makeup because he mistook one for a woman. I wonder if that will be the next step in King of the World's plan.
Any company led by half a brain ought to be keeping track of exactly what that paycheck is buying them, as in how much time you spend on what.
You should consider keeping track yourself and making it available to your immediate superior. Worst case it's a CYA when someone further up the line complains.
I just told a friend about this (linked a YouTube video of his "Steal It" speech) and her immediate response was "I need to go buy their latest CD just for that".
Anecdote, sure, but amusing and revealing nevertheless.
So you found the Do Not Call List utterly useless, yes you think everyone should go subscribe to it? Interesting...
An anecdote regarding the Apple store-within-a-store in CompUSA. A friend of mine used to work at the local CompUSA before the Apple employees came in to work the Apple area.
He said that the "repair" guys, when presented with any kind of Mac problem that needed fixing, went out into the back room and physically bashed it up so they could just have Apple deal with it.
I see you haven't flown anywhere this summer...
DK2 does work under SP2, just...badly/strangely.
The install will "fail" but if you install the patch, it'll run fine, you just won't be able to uninstall it cleanly.
Will someone please tell me how these fucking tags, or any of the other letsshoveanentiresentenceinonetag tags contribute in any meaningful way to reading Slashdot? You used to be able to turn this shit off. Click on it, and it doesn't even link to the stupid post that was tagged. Waste of fucking time. Every time I visit slashdot, I ask myself louder and louder why, because shit like this makes it more of a problem than a solution to anything.
Right, because no one puts on perfume or aftershave to hide their true scent in person.
And no one works on changing their voice so they can appear to be more (or less depending) authoritative than their normal voice makes them seem.
And no one dresses up (or down) to try and mask their socio-economic status from whatever social circle they're trying to get into.
And no one flat out lies about themselves in the real world too. All perfectly honest.
Just because you're close enough to a person that you could slap them, doesn't mean the person is any less of a mirage than they are online. Hell, in the world of blogs, you can often find out more about someone than you can from meeting them.
Oh, I dunno? Buy them on DVD, or even rent the damn DVD. It's coming out soon as far as I've heard. I don't really know. I chose long ago to dump cable TV ($50+/month? In my personal opinion, anyone willing to pay $600/year so someone else gets to shove ads down your throat is nuts) and I don't bother downloading TV shows from the net. It isn't worth it. A close friend of mine used to torrent Heroes episodes he missed, until she got a DMCA takedown letter from NBC Universal through her ISP. I had to talk him down because he was petrified he was going to get sued and kicked out of school for it.
If the show is good, you'll know about it, and the DVD will be out soon if you REALLY want to pay for them. Learn some patience. You'll avoid wasting a lot of bandwidth on crappy shows by just waiting for that DVD release. It's getting sooner and sooner these days. Hell, you can even rent the DVD and do what thou wilt with it if you feel like sticking it to the man or something.
If some content creator doesn't release your material in a format that you want to use their material in, the only really effective way is to just ignore the damn content, and don't jump through hoops to get it. Make them come to you. If they don't care to give you stuff the way you want it, go to someone that will. Oh right, I forgot. You simply can't LIVE without watching Heroes. You'll just DIE if you don't know what's happening in your super magic fantasy sci-fi soap opera of the day. My bad.
You mean the pimpled teenage computer geeks working at, and making a mint for International Business Machines? Or are we talking the idealistic nerds piling cash upon cash at Dell Computer?
If they make their business decisions based on what their snobby, spoiled rotten kids tell them Linux users are like, then they deserve all the extra costs maintaining Windows has left them with.
Burning an MP3 onto a CD most assuredly creates a material object in which a work is fixed. How you could argue otherwise is beyond me. A magnetic storage hard drive, or a flash drive most certainly has the data fixed inside it. The fact that the work can be "unfixed" later on doesn't change the fact that it's fixed in that object now. You can remove all the ink from the pages of a book too. That doesn't mean a copied book isn't fixed.
I wasn't even responding to the "made available" argument. The parent of my post gave a really bad example, and people for some reason modded him up "informative" which was is ludicrous. If no one had bothered to claim that his comment was in any way informative, I would've felt no need to respond.
Libraries and archives have a lot of exceptions within copyright law, as does copying for research/educational purposes. This is established stuff. Don't you think book publishers did the same kind of hand waving when copy machines began springing up in libraries all over the place?
One person copying a song to MP3 format and giving it to someone who owns a CD that already has that song is illegal. You have infringed on the copyright owner's exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords (unless you've received special permission because the author released it under the GPL, creative commons, or licensed you specifically).
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106
That means you do not have the right to give MP3 copies of music from a CD you own to someone who owns the same CD. You are infringing on those enumerated rights. Now, there are fair use exceptions, but if you actually read them (and you'll be able to in a second) you'll see that every one of them must be considered by a judge or jury to see if an individual's actions count as fair use.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107
Pardon me, but if levelling and item grinding will make you quit, why the fuck are you still playing?
The terrorists are colluding with the Dark Iron dwarves to blow up the Loch Modan damn! It had bin Laden's fingerprints all over it from day one, and now it's proven.
I haven't noticed a particular increase in hardware problems between Linksys, Netgear, and "random other cheap router provider" in my work. I have noticed that they're nearly all uniformly worth what you pay for them (IE, not a hell of a lot). I've had a rash of bad Netgears recently. I've seen a lot of Linksys issues, but I tend to see more Linksys products around here than any other brand, so that's not unreasonable. Linksys also pushed a lot harder with their VPN offerings early, so they got a foot in that door before Netgear did, and it's become a kind of quasi-standard for us, because while they've got issues, they're ones we're familliar with. I've never had much problem with straight-up DOA boxes from anyone, now that I come to think of it.
Your experience is not universal. I have a pretty common monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 940bw) and an NVIDIA video card. No amount of in-Ubuntu configuration would give me the default 1440x900 resolution, nor would it define the sync on the monitor correctly. Thankfully for me, I've used Linux enough that I was able to edit the X config files and get things working right. My father, mother, and anyone else I know wouldn't last that long.
Newsflash: Religion does not require a diety.
Lexmark was just prevented from going after people circumventing it.
Nothing in the court battle they lost said that they couldn't build a better mouse trap, just that they couldn't sue cartridge manufacturers that figured out how to make replacement cheese.
Yeah, I live in Massachussetts. My Congressman is a Democrat, my Senators are Democrats, my representatives in both houses of the state legislature are Democrats.
While it's possible to argue that the Democrats aren't much better. Throwing such Massachussetts Republican darlings like Mit Romney and our Harvard educated Chief Justice in after throwing the bums I've got out just doesn't sound horribly appealing to me.
So frankly, the only fucking thing I have is getting fucking angry.
I agree completely about the RMT basically being a wash in World of Warcraft. In Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, and other games where Souldbound items didn't exist (or existed in very limited amounts...Camelot epic armor was no drop iirc).
Everyone in a MMO is a farmer. The people who complain about those that engage in RMT generally comes from people pissed off that someone else is farming where they want to be farming. Personally, I just decided to look where the farmers aren't or can't be, and attack those markets. I make a ton of gold on stuff no farmer bothers to touch.
If a game stops being fun, you can easily stop paying for it.
It's a lot harder to stop paying for a President once you bought one.
Perhaps someone will get the point that humans, on Earth, in this country called the United States of America, which the US Congress happens to have at least a portion of authority over, are way more important than sending humans to a rock somewhere out there in space.
I don't particulary care if China makes it to Mars before us. This "manned space flight is the only salvation for humanity" nonsense needs to stop. You'd think that simple things, like, oh, not spewing tons of chemicals that cause humans heal problems into the environment might be a slightly simpler, and more cost effective method of saving the human race from extinction than a hideously wasteful space exploration that doesn't have any actual advantage over unmanned probes. If a private entity wants to do it, that's their money to waste. But my government should damn well not be the one wasting it. Tell Mars Society can fund their own damn space program.
Flame on.