If you are going to be pedantic about definitions, using piracy as a term for copyright infringement has been around for several hundred years - the english language is interesting like that, one word can have several meanings.
But theres nothing in that ruling that *requires* NBC or Microsoft to allow you to record something - and thats my point and you have precisely fallen into the same trap most people seem to when it comes to the fair use clauses in
US copyright law (which I am using as an example, its pretty similar in most other copyright law I am familiar with).
While there are rulings saying time shifting is not illegal, those rulings do not place vendors under a requirement to ensure you have the ability to carry out actions granted under fair use rights - basically, fair use rights are not something the vendor has a requirement to protect and allow use of, they are only (theoretical) protection from legal actions in certain circumstances.
Bribe? Launchers carry an awful lot of ballast up with each rocket, it might be easy to get Lockheed, Boeing, ESA or NASA to switch some of that for a well designed and built beeper sat to piggy back on the last stage of a geosync launch maybe, especially if it raises their profile in a charitable fashion.
Theres nothing in law that says that NBC or Microsoft *must* let you record something - its a common misconception here on Slashdot that the fair use clauses force a copyright holder to comply with them.
If the customers go somewhere else to get it, they most likely are no longer Verizon customers. Plus, you assume that customers *have another alternative*, which is not always the case. Indeed, in some cases Verizon is in fact preventing access to their customers - not all customers "can still go elsewhere to get alt.*". Bollocks - Verizon is in no way preventing their customers from going to Giganews or another NNTP provider and pointing their NNTP clients at the Giganews servers. No way at all. Their customers can most certainly go elsewhere for the service if they still require it.
Regardless, this goes to the heart of net neutrality, and is a argument over technicality at best as it pertains to my original comment. Not to say this argument is not important - competiton or the lack thereof in regions is key to the net neutrality debate.
But, again, going back to my original comment, to say that the lack of legislation on net neutrality over the past five years has had no effect on how corporations has acted is silly at best. No, this has nothing at all to do with net neutrality, this is a business refusing to provide a particular service en masse - any net neutrality law would not prevent Verizon from doing this.
Again, no - their own customers can still go elsewhere to get alt.*, Verizon is not stopping them doing so, they just aren't carrying the branch themselves.
I just wish there was a way to revert the 'Awesome Bar' to the standard address bar that FF2 had (with no automatic searching, just url matching), because I hate the new functionality. Of course there's a way. There's an extension.:) From that page:
Note that the underlying autocomplete algorithm is the Firefox 3 algorithm, not the Firefox 2 algorithm. oldbar only affects the presentation of the results. Its the algorithm that I want to disable completely.
I just wish there was a way to revert the 'Awesome Bar' to the standard address bar that FF2 had (with no automatic searching, just url matching), because I hate the new functionality.
You do realize you can keep a backup of the file yourself, right? EA are under no obligation to waste bandwidth allowing you to download the file time and again for free.
There are several ways for the Houses of Commons to overrule the Lords - one of which is to bring the matter to a vote under the Parliament Act, which you mention, and another way is for the Government to pass an 'Orders in Chamber' which enacts law with no vote.
Under the first method, the matter still has to go to a vote again, and you are not voting on the same issue as the first time the Commons voted on it - you are now voting with the knowledge that half the Houses of Parliament does not agree with the statute, and that can have the effect of changing the voting of members. The second method has been directly challenged in court, and overturned on many occasions - it is currently under review for downsizing, as the method has been declared unlawful.
Charles I - executed 1649.
Oliver Cromwell - died in 1658, his regime was overthrown in 1660.
George III - ruled with a majority in the elected Parliament.
You cite three persons all a product of the 20th Century - the House of Lords has been a part of British Parliament since 1295. It seems to have done us well in the past 713 years....
I'm sorry, but why does everyone think that a terrorist's only weapon is a jet? How hard do you think it is to make a bomb (hint: diesel fuel+ammonium nitrate found in fertilizer = half the explosive force of dynamite per mass)? Any pissed off retard can mix a truckload those two together and blow up any building. So why hasn't it happened?. Oklahoma City Bombing, April 19th 1995 - shortly before 9am, Timothy McVeigh parked a van containing a 5,000lb bomb made mainly of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, nitromethane, and diesel fuel outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. At 9.02am the bomb detonated, killing 168.
Basically, on Windows Safari automatically downloads files, in imitation of its behavior on OSX, but whereas on OSX it downloads them to a nice ~/Downloads directory on Windows it downloads them to the desktop. Also, on OSX Safari tags the downloaded file as 'unsafe', but it fails to use the Windows functionality to do the same on Windows. This leaves a whole load of files that you never asked for or wanted lying around on your computer in a state that is one step away from being executed.
This 'attack' allows a malicious person to force Safari to dump thousands of files on your desktop, which in and of itself is not a nice thing, but when coupled with other exploits it can lead to code execution of these files you never wanted in the first place - whether those exploits are patched by the vendor (Microsoft) or not, we both know that a significant portion of desktops are not kept fully up-to-date with security releases.
One of the top third party.Net tools at the moment is ReSharper, from JetBrains (not affiliated, just a satisfied customer) - they manage to make money because people want their tool.
BTW and kind of off topic... Do you know why oil is 136 a barrel? Yeah. OPEC, and prohibitive taxes and restrictions on domestic drilling, plus increased fossil fuels demand from developing nations. That has a bit to do with it, but mainly its at $136 a barrel because the dollar isn't worth as much as it used to be.
Just to clarify the parent posters information, Option 43 (Vendor Specific Information) is a valid but optional part of the DHCP spec, covered in RFC 2132, part 8.4. A server not equipped to handle the Vendor Specific Information must ignore it.
I know about the scripting offerings that is available for Windows. All of them have their major fallouts for being on the Windows platform. Have you tried PowerShell?
These problems go to Windows to its core. How do we change the Registry in text format so that we can guarantee that we do not corrupt it? I'm sure there's a commandline regedit somewhere, but I'd like to edit it as flat files ala/etc. http://pshell.info/basics/148/powershell-and-registry-access/
I'd like to use a Microsoft system that does not require graphical support. Where's a rich commandline for those that need no graphics (samba server, calendar/mail server..)? Windows Server 2008 Core has a very very basic GUI, with pretty much all configuration done by commandline.
There's tons of things here and there that will lessen the usability of ported BASH and python on Windows. WSH is also a answer, but still does not enough compared to bash and linux. I cant find many things that Windows is better at than Linux. I actually prefer Powershell to Bash at the moment. I don't know if that will change in the future or what, but from what I have seen of Powershell in the past few months, I wish there was a Linux version of it.
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All property law are a privilege granted by the government.
If you are going to be pedantic about definitions, using piracy as a term for copyright infringement has been around for several hundred years - the english language is interesting like that, one word can have several meanings.
The oldbar extension does not change the autocomplete algorithm, just how the results are displayed.
But theres nothing in that ruling that *requires* NBC or Microsoft to allow you to record something - and thats my point and you have precisely fallen into the same trap most people seem to when it comes to the fair use clauses in US copyright law (which I am using as an example, its pretty similar in most other copyright law I am familiar with).
While there are rulings saying time shifting is not illegal, those rulings do not place vendors under a requirement to ensure you have the ability to carry out actions granted under fair use rights - basically, fair use rights are not something the vendor has a requirement to protect and allow use of, they are only (theoretical) protection from legal actions in certain circumstances.
Bribe? Launchers carry an awful lot of ballast up with each rocket, it might be easy to get Lockheed, Boeing, ESA or NASA to switch some of that for a well designed and built beeper sat to piggy back on the last stage of a geosync launch maybe, especially if it raises their profile in a charitable fashion.
Theres nothing in law that says that NBC or Microsoft *must* let you record something - its a common misconception here on Slashdot that the fair use clauses force a copyright holder to comply with them.
So tell me, which idiots believe the world is going to stand still just because they paid out money for something?
Again, no - their own customers can still go elsewhere to get alt.*, Verizon is not stopping them doing so, they just aren't carrying the branch themselves.
Verizon isn't preventing access to anything, they are only not carrying alt.* themselves - nothing preventing you getting it from another provider.
I just wish there was a way to revert the 'Awesome Bar' to the standard address bar that FF2 had (with no automatic searching, just url matching), because I hate the new functionality.
Where does the government get the missing tax revenue from? Its going to come out of your pocket one way or another.
You do realize you can keep a backup of the file yourself, right? EA are under no obligation to waste bandwidth allowing you to download the file time and again for free.
There are several ways for the Houses of Commons to overrule the Lords - one of which is to bring the matter to a vote under the Parliament Act, which you mention, and another way is for the Government to pass an 'Orders in Chamber' which enacts law with no vote.
Under the first method, the matter still has to go to a vote again, and you are not voting on the same issue as the first time the Commons voted on it - you are now voting with the knowledge that half the Houses of Parliament does not agree with the statute, and that can have the effect of changing the voting of members. The second method has been directly challenged in court, and overturned on many occasions - it is currently under review for downsizing, as the method has been declared unlawful.
Charles I - executed 1649.
Oliver Cromwell - died in 1658, his regime was overthrown in 1660.
George III - ruled with a majority in the elected Parliament.
Seems the system worked during all those cases.
You cite three persons all a product of the 20th Century - the House of Lords has been a part of British Parliament since 1295. It seems to have done us well in the past 713 years....
Read Slashdot: Microsoft Urges Windows Users To Shun Safari - it explains what happens in more detail.
Basically, on Windows Safari automatically downloads files, in imitation of its behavior on OSX, but whereas on OSX it downloads them to a nice ~/Downloads directory on Windows it downloads them to the desktop. Also, on OSX Safari tags the downloaded file as 'unsafe', but it fails to use the Windows functionality to do the same on Windows. This leaves a whole load of files that you never asked for or wanted lying around on your computer in a state that is one step away from being executed.
This 'attack' allows a malicious person to force Safari to dump thousands of files on your desktop, which in and of itself is not a nice thing, but when coupled with other exploits it can lead to code execution of these files you never wanted in the first place - whether those exploits are patched by the vendor (Microsoft) or not, we both know that a significant portion of desktops are not kept fully up-to-date with security releases.
What a ludicrous reason.
One of the top third party .Net tools at the moment is ReSharper, from JetBrains (not affiliated, just a satisfied customer) - they manage to make money because people want their tool.
Just to clarify the parent posters information, Option 43 (Vendor Specific Information) is a valid but optional part of the DHCP spec, covered in RFC 2132, part 8.4. A server not equipped to handle the Vendor Specific Information must ignore it.
Theres a significant difference between end-user cheap and military-cheap.