Intellectual property exists as much as any other property does - remember, its the same style of artificial laws that restrict my ability to take your car, house or other property. The argument that you lose something physical when I do that does not change the fact that its still an artificial restriction.
Did you license your work or were you paid outright for it? Thats where your argument, which we see fairly regularly here on Slashdot, falls down completely. You can license your work regardless of what it is - whether someone will buy your licensed plate washing services is another matter...
Your attitude fails to recognize the realities of history. I know it's awfully convenient to be ignorant and say, "Stop living in the past," but knowing history is the only way to understand the present.
Theres a world of difference between knowing history and being held accountable for historic actions.
When we talk about reparations, we are not talking about carrying out affirmative action, or positive discrimination, or lending money at low rates.
When reparation is demanded, its invariably monetary payoffs. Or in other words, compensation to people alive today for actions done to people alive hundreds of years ago. That, along with the demands for apologies for those same actions, is what I am against because it holds me responsible for actions carried out by people I have no connection to, or had an ability to influence.
If you're a white person that didn't grow up in an urban slum in the United States, you owe a hell of a lot to a bunch of dead slaves and their survivors who have been not allowed to create the generational wealth that you benefit from.
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If your society was enriched by the enslavement or destruction of another, you don't owe them something, you owe them everything. Not only due to the wealth that was robbed from them, but by the moral obligation to right a wrong. It's doubtful that any person could untangle the horrors societies have done to another, and come up with some dollar figure, but that still doesn't excuse your kind of attitude.
I don't particularly care what argument you can or can't stand - the basic fact of the matter is the people that actually need to be punished have been dead for generations. I do not want to be held accountable for their actions because I am not accountable for the actions of others, especial others that I have never met or had a chance to influence.
If reparations had any basis or validity in law, why stop at slavery? Can I get reparations please for the generations of brutality and oppression my ancestors received at the hands of the English when they occupied Wales? How about the deaths of several of my ancestors at the hands of the Catholic Church - please hand over your cheque book Mr Pope, I think I'm owed money.
Britain has yet to seriously discuss reparations for the damage done to Africa from the profits they made in the slave trade.
And I seriously hope we never do, not because I agree with slavery, but because I disagree with being held accountable for something that someone did 200 years ago.
THe problem is, there is only one thing on the list that actually didn't fool me - sure, the entire article put me into a 'whoa, MS actually got off their butt for 8.1? For real?', but the *only* feature out of that entire list that set off alarm bells was this:
Server-side code decompiler
If youâ(TM)ve ever wished to know how sites and web applications work, Eagle Eyes (the name is fitting in this context) will let you view the server-side source code of a web page. We didnâ(TM)t explore this feature much, but from basic tests, the server-side code decompiler was able to tell us how the Mixx promotional algorithm worked.
It isn't necessarily a bad thing, but thats not for you or Google to decide - the content owner doesn't want it, and the argument that 'but they are benefiting from it anyway' does not trump the content owners rights.
Not sure why this article is 'news', its been tried before and even Boeing could not make it cost effective even when dealing with new-build aircraft (no retrofitting needed, lower costs than dealing with airframes that have already come off the production line) - the service was discontinued at the end of 2006.
Interestingly enough, Connexion was a partnership between Boeing, American, United and Delta airlines. I wonder what has changed...
There is a potential loss - the copyright holders may decide, at any point up to when their copyright expires, to put the old version on the market. Take a look at gog.com for a good example.
How does PeerGuardian actually protect you? Its pretty easy for the RIAA to cycle adsl lines, oe heck even dialup accounts, on a monthly basis, even to the extent of renting an apartment with 5 phone lines and rotating the ISPs every other month - are PeerGuardian fast enough to catch those IP addresses before they are actively used by the RIAA? Is there any real way to actually accurately identify those IP addresses at all?
Actually you will find that any large retailer will pass the full POS charge of the refund or return on to the manufacturers distributor, and they will pass the charge back to the manufacturer. Yes, I have seen it done in several large chains that way. Its marked as the handling charge.
Because actual resources were consumed by Apple on the behalf of the developer when an app was purchased - banking costs, accounting costs, bandwidth, storage et al. They don't magically get zeroed out when a refund is processed, they have already been consumed.
Why should Apple eat that cost? Its the developers app that caused the refund to happen...
Its all academic anyhow, since this entire story has been proven false - Apple do not get teh developer to pay the full 100% refund, so yes Apple are indeed eating the cost of the consumables.
When the Infinite SMS debacle struck (Inner Fence made an app for 99c which used Googles API to send SMSes cost free, Google then removed the API and people are *still* moaning about it on the Google Groups SMS Labs page), Inner Fence said this:
Apple does not give app developers any way to perform refunds. Hopefully, at 99Â people will feel like our app paid for itself after only a few messages.
But either way, Apple is still providing a service here that both the developers and the consumers are using. Just because the consumer requires a refund doesn't make the cost of providing that service magically disappear.
Courts hate people trying to be 'smart' infront of them with arguments, and this is exactly what iiNet is doing. Why limit this to Bittorrent? If breaking the item in question down into individual packets eliminates the copyright concern, then surely just transferring the file by any means digitally will do the same - I can't think of a single protocol which doesn't use packets to transfer a fractional payload of the total, including TCP.
iiNet are going to fall flat on their face with this argument.
I've been using Windows 7 since the beta was released to MSDN users, and I cannot honestly say that I've actually noticed the missing status bar - its simply been a non-issue for myself, the information is available in several separate locations that are just as accessible. If its not bothered me that much, can it really be the fundamental, serious show stopper that you are making it out to be?
Yes, the menus and configuration screens are very very similar to Vista, in that they have hidden a few things, but once you realise what they have done it does make sense. An interesting test would be to see how long it would take you to find the same information and configuration screens in another OS that you have never touched before...
The problem with the 'issues' quoted in your linked comment is that they are actually personal opinions about changes, and not actual functional issues that need resolving. You are more than welcome to disagree with changes, and they may indeed alter your established personal routines for the worse rather than the better, but that doesn't make them issues that need 'correction'.
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Intellectual Property doesn't exist. Get over it.
Intellectual property exists as much as any other property does - remember, its the same style of artificial laws that restrict my ability to take your car, house or other property. The argument that you lose something physical when I do that does not change the fact that its still an artificial restriction.
Did you license your work or were you paid outright for it? Thats where your argument, which we see fairly regularly here on Slashdot, falls down completely. You can license your work regardless of what it is - whether someone will buy your licensed plate washing services is another matter...
Your attitude fails to recognize the realities of history. I know it's awfully convenient to be ignorant and say, "Stop living in the past," but knowing history is the only way to understand the present.
Theres a world of difference between knowing history and being held accountable for historic actions.
When we talk about reparations, we are not talking about carrying out affirmative action, or positive discrimination, or lending money at low rates.
When reparation is demanded, its invariably monetary payoffs. Or in other words, compensation to people alive today for actions done to people alive hundreds of years ago. That, along with the demands for apologies for those same actions, is what I am against because it holds me responsible for actions carried out by people I have no connection to, or had an ability to influence.
I can't stand this argument.
If you're a white person that didn't grow up in an urban slum in the United States, you owe a hell of a lot to a bunch of dead slaves and their survivors who have been not allowed to create the generational wealth that you benefit from.
...
If your society was enriched by the enslavement or destruction of another, you don't owe them something, you owe them everything. Not only due to the wealth that was robbed from them, but by the moral obligation to right a wrong. It's doubtful that any person could untangle the horrors societies have done to another, and come up with some dollar figure, but that still doesn't excuse your kind of attitude.
I don't particularly care what argument you can or can't stand - the basic fact of the matter is the people that actually need to be punished have been dead for generations. I do not want to be held accountable for their actions because I am not accountable for the actions of others, especial others that I have never met or had a chance to influence.
If reparations had any basis or validity in law, why stop at slavery? Can I get reparations please for the generations of brutality and oppression my ancestors received at the hands of the English when they occupied Wales? How about the deaths of several of my ancestors at the hands of the Catholic Church - please hand over your cheque book Mr Pope, I think I'm owed money.
Get real. Stop living in the past.
Britain has yet to seriously discuss reparations for the damage done to Africa from the profits they made in the slave trade.
And I seriously hope we never do, not because I agree with slavery, but because I disagree with being held accountable for something that someone did 200 years ago.
THe problem is, there is only one thing on the list that actually didn't fool me - sure, the entire article put me into a 'whoa, MS actually got off their butt for 8.1? For real?', but the *only* feature out of that entire list that set off alarm bells was this:
Everything else was plausable.
If thats your argument, its a very poor one.
It isn't necessarily a bad thing, but thats not for you or Google to decide - the content owner doesn't want it, and the argument that 'but they are benefiting from it anyway' does not trump the content owners rights.
Not sure why this article is 'news', its been tried before and even Boeing could not make it cost effective even when dealing with new-build aircraft (no retrofitting needed, lower costs than dealing with airframes that have already come off the production line) - the service was discontinued at the end of 2006.
Interestingly enough, Connexion was a partnership between Boeing, American, United and Delta airlines. I wonder what has changed...
Expired user accounts?
Do what Parallels do and ship MacFUSE with your install...
How is this different to keyword search bookmarks? I've been doing amazon searches from my Firefox url bar for several years now...
And by not selling the item, they are indeed exercising the right to control how and when copies are made. You answered your own question.
There is a potential loss - the copyright holders may decide, at any point up to when their copyright expires, to put the old version on the market. Take a look at gog.com for a good example.
Even if the copyright holders no longer wish to sell copies of their older works, why are you entitled to them?
Fortunately they're a lot lazier than you think.
Or so you hope...
How does PeerGuardian actually protect you? Its pretty easy for the RIAA to cycle adsl lines, oe heck even dialup accounts, on a monthly basis, even to the extent of renting an apartment with 5 phone lines and rotating the ISPs every other month - are PeerGuardian fast enough to catch those IP addresses before they are actively used by the RIAA? Is there any real way to actually accurately identify those IP addresses at all?
Actually you will find that any large retailer will pass the full POS charge of the refund or return on to the manufacturers distributor, and they will pass the charge back to the manufacturer. Yes, I have seen it done in several large chains that way. Its marked as the handling charge.
Because actual resources were consumed by Apple on the behalf of the developer when an app was purchased - banking costs, accounting costs, bandwidth, storage et al. They don't magically get zeroed out when a refund is processed, they have already been consumed.
Why should Apple eat that cost? Its the developers app that caused the refund to happen...
Its all academic anyhow, since this entire story has been proven false - Apple do not get teh developer to pay the full 100% refund, so yes Apple are indeed eating the cost of the consumables.
The same way they do when they release through any other publisher - or did you seriously think the publisher eats the cost of the refund?
http://www.innerfence.com/google-shuts-down-infinite-sms
So, apparently Inner Fence are wrong? Lying? Or just plain incompetent?
But either way, Apple is still providing a service here that both the developers and the consumers are using. Just because the consumer requires a refund doesn't make the cost of providing that service magically disappear.
Courts hate people trying to be 'smart' infront of them with arguments, and this is exactly what iiNet is doing. Why limit this to Bittorrent? If breaking the item in question down into individual packets eliminates the copyright concern, then surely just transferring the file by any means digitally will do the same - I can't think of a single protocol which doesn't use packets to transfer a fractional payload of the total, including TCP.
iiNet are going to fall flat on their face with this argument.
I've been using Windows 7 since the beta was released to MSDN users, and I cannot honestly say that I've actually noticed the missing status bar - its simply been a non-issue for myself, the information is available in several separate locations that are just as accessible. If its not bothered me that much, can it really be the fundamental, serious show stopper that you are making it out to be?
Yes, the menus and configuration screens are very very similar to Vista, in that they have hidden a few things, but once you realise what they have done it does make sense. An interesting test would be to see how long it would take you to find the same information and configuration screens in another OS that you have never touched before...
The problem with the 'issues' quoted in your linked comment is that they are actually personal opinions about changes, and not actual functional issues that need resolving. You are more than welcome to disagree with changes, and they may indeed alter your established personal routines for the worse rather than the better, but that doesn't make them issues that need 'correction'.
See my post earlier in this thread for an actual issue that requires correction: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1177883&cid=27355721