Downloading (or uploading) a copyright song without the permission of the author (or copyright holder, which may not be the same thing as the author/artist) is a violation of copyright. This is an entirely different thing than stealing.
Taking the CD from the store would be theft.
Violating copyright on a sharing network may, or may not increase sales for the artist or decrease such sales (music sales during the life cycle of napster seem to indicate that they increase sales). Taking a CD without permission physically denies the store use of the CD as a sale product and can easily be proven to cost them money (replacement costs and/or one sale now impossible).
No "branded" is quite appropriate. It matters not whether the branding was accurate or not. He would have had no opportunity to clear his name. The effect is the same on both innocent and guilty.
Besides -- being sympathetic to communism is not a crime. Neither is speaking about one's thoughts about communism and/or capitalism (remember the first amendment?). Things like advocating the violent overthrow of the government would be a crime, but only the most radical communists advocate things like that. -- of course, the same things could be said about laisez-faire capitalists, on the right wing.
This is effectively a censorship issue.. Apple is attempting to get sites to self-sensor. If these sites depend on apple, then many of them WILL censor themselves to be able to get (non-rumor) info from Apple.
Censorship is not just a government/people issue. It is also a corporat/people issue. As corporations continue to merge and grow, the effective difference between the effects of corporate censorship and government censorship will become mostly moot.
It's been a very long time since I've used pascal (for obvious reasons, given my last post). The two obvious restrictions that come to mind are the inability to allocate variable sized arrays and an I/O system that's rather grotty. being forced to use begin and end instead of brackets didn't help me much either.
You can use extensions, but then you lose the portability. At that point, what's the real purpose of using a high-level language? Pascal is fine for teaching, but it's not designed as a production language, and it shouldn't generally be used as one.
Perl rocks. PHP rocks. C rocks. Pascal rocks. Bash rocks. One just isn't any better than any other.....
Until you got to the Pascal rocks part, I was right with you. Pascal was a teaching language with arbitrary restrictions that should have never made it out of the classroom. If you want a nice language along that line, try ALGOL/68.
Back in the late '70s the Ontario Science Center in Toronto had an example of walk-around hologram. It was actually done as multiple verticle hologram strips
done duch that, as you walked around, you'd see multiple shifting shapes.
In this case it was a girl in her underwear squirming out of her panties. ...All funded by government money and admission fees.
The founders of the US were VERY interested in having control of businesses. They were QUITE aware that a big business isn't much different than a government.. In fact, the tea that whas tossed at The Boston Tea Party belonged to, if I remember correctly, the East India Tea Company, who's monopoly on tea trade they especially despised.
Even the godfather of modern Capitalism -- Adam Smith was very aware that, in the market place, a large company is as bad as (if not worse than) the government. His ideal capitalistic world was a large number of SMALL (and I emphasize small with large letters) companies.
To see a small number of very large conglomerates controling not only the market -- but also the government, would have him (and most of the forefathers of the United States) spinning in his grave.
In the first century of America's existence, the people (via the government) kept a very tight reign on corporations -- not wanting to see the kind of corporate control of every day life that was part of what lead to the Revolution. The turning point was the US Civil war. During that time, the government(s) of the US was almost wholly occupied with fighting versions of itself. The corporate entities of the time took advantage of that distraction and weakness to firmly clamp their claws into the inner workings of the Government -- and thus, into everyday American life.
It's also for software you didn't have when you booted the kernel (i.e. testing).
If you had to reboot your system everytime you made a slight change to your module, it would increase the development time. I also don't think that there's that much difference between a boot-time loaded module system and a run-time loaded module (some, but not that much).
I think the better question is: what is the problem that rusty sees with run-time loadable kernel modules? I'm betting that they save most driver developers more than they cost.
Pekhtin cited examples such as mass brawls staged by football fans, attacks on foreign visitors and an incident earlier this month near Moscow when an anti-Semitic sign was booby-trapped to explode, injuring a woman who tried to remove it.
Right -- Like Russia doesn't already have laws against rioting in the streets, randomly assaulting people or setting bombs that to injure and/or kill people cleaning up graffiti.
There's no need for laws against those things, because they're already illegal.
The laws are, however really useful against anybody who is doing something you don't like -- including political parties starting to gain popularity. The nice thing about those laws is that they have very vague definitions of what's illegal and very broad descriptions of what you can do about it -- and when someone gets arrested 'for violating anti-terror laws' most people aren't going to realize that the real 'crime' was threatening to become a real alternative to the current ruling party(s).
But it's not like Canada and the US have been that much better with our so-called 'anti-terror' either! Canada's law would have classified general strikes as terrorism), and US laws seem to allow them to hold US citizens indefinitely and without trial if they are deemed 'illegal combatants' even if they've never left US soil.
I think that most of these sightings were actually Americans...
Strange creatures in strange garb, from a faraway place, speaking a strange language (the accent gets deep enough...) and with no apparent knowledge of human (or at least local) customs.
and they're always trying to 'probe' the local women (not to mention the sheep)!
What this is is a software
watchdog timer. It's available in the Linux kernel, and I'm sure that it would take minimal work to have it execute arbitrary code instead of resetting the box.
Last time I checked, I could get about $1.50CA for every $1US.
Exchange rate is only part of the issue. It turns out that, in Vancouver, Canada, my $1CAN will buy about the same as your $1US bill will buy in Los Angeles.
I noticed that effect when I went out to buy film (I use film like some people use toilet paper). The prices for film are the same in the States and Canada ($7 for a 36 roll)... In other words I get about a 30% discount by stocking up at home, after the exchange rate is figured in.
There are a few reasons for this.. some are market driven. Others are things like the fact that the cost of health care is handled by taxes. In the US, health care takes a big bite out of a worker's income -- thus requiring higher wages (and higher insurance payments to handle any accidental occurrence).
Numbers are one thing, but once you get used to distinguishing by color, you stop looking at numbers.
Here in Canada, it's pretty easy" 5's are blue, 10's are purple, 20's are green and 50's are red. and 100's are brown.
(this used to cause problem for some people when we still had 2's -- which were orange. Under sodium lights, you actually had to look at the numbers, or risk
paying $100 for a $2 item).
It's not that I have lost the ability to read number, but why???
I look at the crumpled bill that I pull from my pocket, and I can tel by the blue bits all over it that i've got a 5. No need to unfold it to find the silly number, and no need to make sure that there isn't an extra '0' after the '5'.
If a bill falls out of my pocket in the wind, I can tell at a glance if it's worth chasing after. In a good wind, a blue $5 isn't worth trying to catch... If it's red, I'll be willing to chace that $50 for a couple of blocks.
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They look alike to people who aren't exposed to asians in daily life.
Asians tend to live in a multi-asian culture, so it's easy for them to tell asians apart. because they have to hone their asian-differentiatiation skills.
Similarly, someone who grew up in Italy might have a hard time telling a bunch of swedes apart unless {s,}he had managed to live in sweden for a while.
(yep... Tall blonde... what the hell else do you need to know?).
OS/9 was NOT (as far as I know) written by Microsoft. It was was also not written for the COCO. It was written for 6809 cpu's generally, and then ported to the COCO late in it's life cycle.
What MS did write for the COCO was the 'Microsoft Basic interpreter'. OS/9 required that you pretty much ditch all the MS code and go to an entirely different OS. I had OS/9 for a while, but I started using Unix a short time later... OS/9 Is essentially UNIX for a 64K address space.
So why don't you show me a picture?
er, uhm, because... I'm naked...
so why don't you show me your picture?
click
HI {boss, partner, etc,}, I'm stuck in traffic, I'll be there as soon as I can!
Oh yeah, show me a picture!
One nice thing about cell phones is that you can have them anywhere.
Do you really want your customer to know that you're negotiating that $2M contract from your bathroom, or the nearby nude beach? Are those few times when it actually works to connect your Digital Camera to your Cellphone (doable as another reader pointed out) worth the loss of privacy that comes from having it on all the time?
Besides -- in those situations where I'm really interested in sending an image over my cell phone, it's more likely that I want to send a 1K x 2K image than a 200x300 image that barely shows any detail at all. In that case, it's going to be a real digital camera that I'll want to use.
Those misspellings are obvious attempts at getting money... off Yahoo!'s brandname
In some cases, that may be the case -- but sites like yahoo-sucks.com or fuck-yahoo.org might be legitimate criticism or satire sites. The name, itself is a statement. It's clear that the site has no direct relationship to yahoo (other than being critical of it), and the site owner would probably be very happy to increase that logical separation. Network users would be very unlikely to type it in by mistake.
In cases like those, handing over the domain is little more than an attempt (successful, at that!) at censorship.
On the bright side, if we're paying royalties for the media, this would indicate that it's now legal and legitimate to suck stuff off of sites like (the now defunct) Napster. Since we already pay royalties for the CDs that we buy, These royalties must be for music on CD's that we didn't buy. I'd definitely be up to making that argument in court (and in public), and that's the spin that I'd put on it for now (in hopes that the music industry would back off).
I definitely don't think that it would be appropriate to be paying for somebody else's crimes. So far, every CD that I've ever burnt has been data -- although I did look at using a burner to duplicate a (dead) friend's music to make it publicly accessible. (there was a consortsium of us looking at that).
In a situation like that, would we be looking for a refund, or attempting to collect the royalties that we paid (along with a boost for any that were subsequently copied)?
The RIIA doesn't care about rationality, reasonablility or fairness. All they care about is increased profits. This may be a lead up to attempting to be able to charge people for every time we USE a work, much less sell it. We can be sure that that's their wet dream, in any case.
The record companies are blaming this loss of market on music piracy, but I'd be inclined to say the opposite. Many of the readers here are aware that in the months after napster (RIP) got shut down, music sales dropped by about the same anomalous 11% that they climbed during Napster's rise. Between shutting down a new avenue of marketing and loss of consumer goodwill, the music shot themselves in the foot. Now they're trying to fleece consumers for the cost of golden crutches.
Any elected rep who votes for this is clearly showing that they couldn't care less about the interests of the voting public, because this measure will do none of us any good (not even budding artists, who won't see a cent of these new royalties)
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Violating copyright on a sharing network may, or may not increase sales for the artist or decrease such sales (music sales during the life cycle of napster seem to indicate that they increase sales). Taking a CD without permission physically denies the store use of the CD as a sale product and can easily be proven to cost them money (replacement costs and/or one sale now impossible).
Besides -- being sympathetic to communism is not a crime. Neither is speaking about one's thoughts about communism and/or capitalism (remember the first amendment?).
Things like advocating the violent overthrow of the government would be a crime, but only the most radical communists advocate things like that. -- of course, the same things could be said about laisez-faire capitalists, on the right wing.
Deep-space Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.
(DOLT).
Censorship is not just a government/people issue. It is also a corporat/people issue. As corporations continue to merge and grow, the effective difference between the effects of corporate censorship and government censorship will become mostly moot.
No MP3s, dood. That's stealin'.
being forced to use begin and end instead of brackets didn't help me much either.
You can use extensions, but then you lose the portability. At that point, what's the real purpose of using a high-level language? Pascal is fine for teaching, but it's not designed as a production language, and it shouldn't generally be used as one.
Until you got to the Pascal rocks part, I was right with you. Pascal was a teaching language with arbitrary restrictions that should have never made it out of the classroom. If you want a nice language along that line, try ALGOL/68.
OK: so how about this:
Comparing OS9 to Windows 2000 is like comparing OSX to win/95.
In this case it was a girl in her underwear squirming out of her panties.
...All funded by government money and admission fees.
Not that I minded, of course.
Even the godfather of modern Capitalism -- Adam Smith was very aware that, in the market place, a large company is as bad as (if not worse than) the government. His ideal capitalistic world was a large number of SMALL (and I emphasize small with large letters) companies.
To see a small number of very large conglomerates controling not only the market -- but also the government, would have him (and most of the forefathers of the United States) spinning in his grave.
In the first century of America's existence, the people (via the government) kept a very tight reign on corporations -- not wanting to see the kind of corporate control of every day life that was part of what lead to the Revolution. The turning point was the US Civil war. During that time, the government(s) of the US was almost wholly occupied with fighting versions of itself. The corporate entities of the time took advantage of that distraction and weakness to firmly clamp their claws into the inner workings of the Government -- and thus, into everyday American life.
I think the better question is: what is the problem that rusty sees with run-time loadable kernel modules? I'm betting that they save most driver developers more than they cost.
Include a little ditty on secure passwords in the preamble to the install instructions.
Right -- Like Russia doesn't already have laws against rioting in the streets, randomly assaulting people or setting bombs that to injure and/or kill people cleaning up graffiti.
There's no need for laws against those things, because they're already illegal.
The laws are, however really useful against anybody who is doing something you don't like -- including political parties starting to gain popularity. The nice thing about those laws is that they have very vague definitions of what's illegal and very broad descriptions of what you can do about it -- and when someone gets arrested 'for violating anti-terror laws' most people aren't going to realize that the real 'crime' was threatening to become a real alternative to the current ruling party(s).
But it's not like Canada and the US have been that much better with our so-called 'anti-terror' either! Canada's law would have classified general strikes as terrorism), and US laws seem to allow them to hold US citizens indefinitely and without trial if they are deemed 'illegal combatants' even if they've never left US soil.
Strange creatures in strange garb, from a faraway place, speaking a strange language (the accent gets deep enough...) and with no apparent knowledge of human (or at least local) customs.
and they're always trying to 'probe' the local women (not to mention the sheep)!
'nuff said.
Other than that, what's new about this?
Exchange rate is only part of the issue. It turns out that, in Vancouver, Canada, my $1CAN will buy about the same as your $1US bill will buy in Los Angeles.
I noticed that effect when I went out to buy film (I use film like some people use toilet paper). The prices for film are the same in the States and Canada ($7 for a 36 roll)... In other words I get about a 30% discount by stocking up at home, after the exchange rate is figured in.
There are a few reasons for this .. some are market driven. Others are things like the fact that the cost of health care is handled by taxes. In the US, health care takes a big bite out of a worker's income -- thus requiring higher wages (and higher insurance payments to handle any accidental occurrence).
Let's see now.. It's green, so It must be a $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 or $1000. Boy oh boy, that narrows it down bigtime!
In a few years time, though, the idea of recognizing bills by color will be commonplace in the States.
Here in Canada, it's pretty easy" 5's are blue, 10's are purple, 20's are green and 50's are red. and 100's are brown. (this used to cause problem for some people when we still had 2's -- which were orange. Under sodium lights, you actually had to look at the numbers, or risk paying $100 for a $2 item).
It's not that I have lost the ability to read number, but why??? I look at the crumpled bill that I pull from my pocket, and I can tel by the blue bits all over it that i've got a 5. No need to unfold it to find the silly number, and no need to make sure that there isn't an extra '0' after the '5'.
If a bill falls out of my pocket in the wind, I can tell at a glance if it's worth chasing after. In a good wind, a blue $5 isn't worth trying to catch... If it's red, I'll be willing to chace that $50 for a couple of blocks.
Asians tend to live in a multi-asian culture, so it's easy for them to tell asians apart. because they have to hone their asian-differentiatiation skills.
Similarly, someone who grew up in Italy might have a hard time telling a bunch of swedes apart unless {s,}he had managed to live in sweden for a while. (yep... Tall blonde... what the hell else do you need to know?).
What MS did write for the COCO was the 'Microsoft Basic interpreter'. OS/9 required that you pretty much ditch all the MS code and go to an entirely different OS. I had OS/9 for a while, but I started using Unix a short time later... OS/9 Is essentially UNIX for a 64K address space.
- So why don't you show me a picture?
- HI {boss, partner, etc,}, I'm stuck in traffic, I'll be there as soon as I can!
One nice thing about cell phones is that you can have them anywhere .er, uhm, because... I'm naked...
so why don't you show me your picture?
click
Oh yeah, show me a picture!
Do you really want your customer to know that you're negotiating that $2M contract from your bathroom, or the nearby nude beach? Are those few times when it actually works to connect your Digital Camera to your Cellphone (doable as another reader pointed out) worth the loss of privacy that comes from having it on all the time?
Besides -- in those situations where I'm really interested in sending an image over my cell phone, it's more likely that I want to send a 1K x 2K image than a 200x300 image that barely shows any detail at all. In that case, it's going to be a real digital camera that I'll want to use.
In some cases, that may be the case -- but sites like yahoo-sucks.com or fuck-yahoo.org might be legitimate criticism or satire sites. The name, itself is a statement. It's clear that the site has no direct relationship to yahoo (other than being critical of it), and the site owner would probably be very happy to increase that logical separation. Network users would be very unlikely to type it in by mistake.
In cases like those, handing over the domain is little more than an attempt (successful, at that!) at censorship.
I definitely don't think that it would be appropriate to be paying for somebody else's crimes. So far, every CD that I've ever burnt has been data -- although I did look at using a burner to duplicate a (dead) friend's music to make it publicly accessible. (there was a consortsium of us looking at that).
In a situation like that, would we be looking for a refund, or attempting to collect the royalties that we paid (along with a boost for any that were subsequently copied)?
The record companies are blaming this loss of market on music piracy, but I'd be inclined to say the opposite. Many of the readers here are aware that in the months after napster (RIP) got shut down, music sales dropped by about the same anomalous 11% that they climbed during Napster's rise. Between shutting down a new avenue of marketing and loss of consumer goodwill, the music shot themselves in the foot. Now they're trying to fleece consumers for the cost of golden crutches.
Any elected rep who votes for this is clearly showing that they couldn't care less about the interests of the voting public, because this measure will do none of us any good (not even budding artists, who won't see a cent of these new royalties)