Doesn't the loser of some cases have to pay court costs for both sides?
They should take the MPAA to court and show them whats up. The MPAA wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on, they'd have nothing except empty threats which got them in trouble.
Could companies be prosecuted for exploiting bugs and vulnerabilities to install their garbage on people's machines? I don't know how many reinstalls I've went through, forgot to turn off the fifteen different settings in IE, and ended up with webpages spamming my desktop and taskbar as hard as they could by going to a seemingly harmless website, or mistyping the name of a popular website.
I recently fixed someone's computer that had so much spyware, it was running like a 66MHz machine on Windows 98SE. They were using a 2.5GHz with 512MB of RAM. The start button would take three seconds of griding to hit, and hitting it made three or four spam windows pop up, mostly about gambling, porn, or pills.
Scams are criminal acts.
Thus, the money was removed from the bank due to a criminal act.
A bank that loses money to a criminal act that refuses to reimburse its customers might well lose its status as a bank. They took from her, without her permission, money from her bank account. Which is stealing, fraud, etc, etc.
Maybe it was her fault it got stolen, but the money was stolen, from the bank.
No one would be denying you a college education.
There are plenty of colleges that just don't give a damn. If your WAP is that important to you, go find one.
No one is forcing you to go to a certain college. If you want to go to another one, one that doesn't care, it might be more trouble (money, time, distance, etc) but your freedom is certainly there.
The FCC is the only body allowed to say whats legal and whats not regarding the wireless spectrum.
If the school says that you can't use WAPs, and you use WAPs, you could very well get kicked out. No, they can't file criminal charges against you, but you can be thrown out.
I said it was similar. Point is, what you're doing is affecting other people in a bad way. Denying them of service, etc. While FCC law states that they must deal, school rules might state differently.
Point is, the FCC can throw you in jail if you break their laws. But if you violate school rules, you can be thrown out just as easily.
Talking is perfectly legal, and the constitution grants us the right to free speech. But disrupting classes with your speech could very well get you kicked out, even if its not illegal.
The university has every right to ban WAPs, although I would prefer them to wait until the next school year, so people can choose to go there or not if its a 'deal breaker' for them.
Think about it. You go to their school, you agree to their rules.
There are laws against playing your stereo too loud. Sure, it might be in your house, but the signal is escaping your house and bothering the neighbors, their neighbors, and the adjacent blocks. It should be about the same way in this case.
As long as you don't bother anyone else (eg, very low power on your WAP) and it doesn't create any (potential) problems within the school, it should be allowed.
Of course, the problem being that most people buy them, hook them in, and think they work automagically. They have no idea what settings are, power levels, etc, etc.
If so inclined, the university could choose a night and have a WAP Orientation class where they show people how to use their WAPs to get them in compliance with the rules I listed.
After all, how are they going to detect your WAP if the power is so low that it won't leave your room?
People that sell weapons, tools, and cars better be punished too. I mean, they sold me that car, I had to run down the school children. They sold me the pistol, so I had to shoot someone. They sold me the chainsaw so I had to re-enact a movie that they produced.
What about people that cut you off? What about people not paying attention? What about people that drive impaired? What about people that drive shitty cars likely to explode? What about people that pull out or cross lanes at dangerous times?
Clearly speed is to blame for all of these people, and driving slower will eliminate the most dangerous problems associated with driving.
Look at Diablo 2. Remember how rare the SoJ (Stone of Jordan) was initially? Then guess what became the currency because it was duped to hell.
SoJs remained the most standard currency for a long, long time. You want this? 40 SoJs. That? 20 SoJs. The economy of the game was quite interesting, because it was so flexible.
According to the RIAA, if you rent or buy a movie, its for you only. Not your family, or your friends, but yours. If you let someone borrow it, or someone else watches it with you, its illegal.
Of course they're pissed off.
I think this is a great idea though. I'd do it if I were rich and had the $$ to bribe the police to sit down and shut up, because they'd bust the gathering thinking it was some kind of bizarre ritual.
Real responded with people breaking their encryptation and adding real support to their own players quite badly. With legal threats, etc.
I'm guessing them just using the Real player itself isn't going to change things much. They're still going to hear the music or see the video or whatever.
Point is, they're not going to hear the music along with watching their high end machine brought to its knees by Real-installed spyware and bitching coming from Real's player if they use a player that isn't Real's own, but supports Real's files.
DeCSS had legitimate uses, too. Such as adding DVD support to programs without having to pay a massive licencing fee and not having to pay for one of those lame ass DVD player programs. But it got shot down.
I guarentee if it were a consumer doing it, they'd either be sued pantsless without warning, or issued C&Ds.
Funny how that works, isn't it. Since we all know that large companies are completely without sin.
That the spyware is going to slow their computer down by 20%, or constantly download streaming AVI files to play in a banner window its about to pop up?
No, its going to say that its improving your internet experience. Or is about to give you a better deal to a Flordia vacation. Or that its going to make your life better.
How 'bout legislation requiring that each piece of spyware be registered through some kind of tracking agency that decides if the spyware is actually a piece of software that the person might willingly install?
Who's going to install something that says its going to popup banners on your desktop every 3 minutes on the dot? Or something that says its going to transmit your personal usage information to some corporation so they can send you more spam? Who's going to install something that takes up 30% of your system resources so it can go off like a fucking ape whenever its raining nearby?
You have a problem with the contract but you want the service. You can't negotiate the contract, because it was drawn up by a legal team that was paid just for that purpose.
So then you have to decide. Whats more important to you? Remaining out of a binding contract and going without the service, or signing the binding contract and being with service, knowing that they could jack your prices up 10x and you'd still have to pay a fee to drop the service.
Around Knoxville, there are lots of empty payphone boxes. Because companies are realizing that upkeep costs are geting too unproportional with the profit that comes in from the payphones. I've stopped at three different payphones before only to find that there was no payphone in the box.
So whats more important? Your ability to communicate or not having to fight some corporation that lacks a soul over its monthly rate increase?
Roaming fees are so bad here in Knoxville, that if you have a cellphone registered for my town, and go three minutes in any direction, its considered to be roaming.
In Knoxville, its even worse. Usually driving to one quadrant of town is enough to cause roaming fees to kick in.
So let me get this straight. We gotta pay for the phone. We gotta pay for the service in using the phone. We gotta pay for the taxes that the government has imposed upon the carrier. We gotta pay for using the phone outside of our 'normal habitat' which basically equates to paying extra for using our phones outside of a three mile radius. We gotta pay for the CEO's daughter's wedding. We gotta pay for his dog's new penthouse.
Its so easy for them to tag extra charges onto us, and if we throw up our hands and say we've had enough, we have to pay extra to drop the contract. Why can't anything be done about this? Why can businesses write one-way contracts that give all the power to the company while screwing the consumer who should have the lion's share of the power. After all, it is the money of the consumer.
Unless you wanna go RIAA and say that everyone using a landline is stealing from cellular carriers.
Obviously someone here has played games from the Battletech series, or has read the books. Could this be a good precursor for the 'powered armor' being looked at seriously by the military?
This wouldn't be such a big thing at this point. It would give a little advantage, but the best would probably still be the best.
The problem is that this would open a whole new can of worms. Then you would have judges spending their time approving or disapproving other active measures as well, and less runners actually in it for the spirit of the run.
In things like track competitions or marathons, should such 'active' measures be allowed? I mean, what if I had a pair of smart shoes that were attached to a motorcycle...
In other news, Joe Sixpack totally fucks up the complex weather physics and animal behavior in Deer Hunter 25.
Not everyone cares about games that much. How many people--how many nerds--have the patience required to sit around and revise algos for one game so it'll have a few fps more?
What if other companies did similar things?
What if companies involved with the stock market used their insider info to give them a step-up when it comes to which stocks to buy and sell? Yeah, its a bad idea.
Same here.
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Doesn't the loser of some cases have to pay court costs for both sides? They should take the MPAA to court and show them whats up. The MPAA wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on, they'd have nothing except empty threats which got them in trouble.
Could companies be prosecuted for exploiting bugs and vulnerabilities to install their garbage on people's machines? I don't know how many reinstalls I've went through, forgot to turn off the fifteen different settings in IE, and ended up with webpages spamming my desktop and taskbar as hard as they could by going to a seemingly harmless website, or mistyping the name of a popular website.
I recently fixed someone's computer that had so much spyware, it was running like a 66MHz machine on Windows 98SE. They were using a 2.5GHz with 512MB of RAM. The start button would take three seconds of griding to hit, and hitting it made three or four spam windows pop up, mostly about gambling, porn, or pills.
Does this include computers being mauled by worms and spyware because the user is John Q. Clicksyesalot?
The roots to any polynomial are only a few minutes away with some good programming.
Scams are criminal acts. Thus, the money was removed from the bank due to a criminal act. A bank that loses money to a criminal act that refuses to reimburse its customers might well lose its status as a bank. They took from her, without her permission, money from her bank account. Which is stealing, fraud, etc, etc. Maybe it was her fault it got stolen, but the money was stolen, from the bank.
No one would be denying you a college education. There are plenty of colleges that just don't give a damn. If your WAP is that important to you, go find one. No one is forcing you to go to a certain college. If you want to go to another one, one that doesn't care, it might be more trouble (money, time, distance, etc) but your freedom is certainly there.
The FCC is the only body allowed to say whats legal and whats not regarding the wireless spectrum. If the school says that you can't use WAPs, and you use WAPs, you could very well get kicked out. No, they can't file criminal charges against you, but you can be thrown out. I said it was similar. Point is, what you're doing is affecting other people in a bad way. Denying them of service, etc. While FCC law states that they must deal, school rules might state differently. Point is, the FCC can throw you in jail if you break their laws. But if you violate school rules, you can be thrown out just as easily. Talking is perfectly legal, and the constitution grants us the right to free speech. But disrupting classes with your speech could very well get you kicked out, even if its not illegal.
The university has every right to ban WAPs, although I would prefer them to wait until the next school year, so people can choose to go there or not if its a 'deal breaker' for them.
Think about it. You go to their school, you agree to their rules.
There are laws against playing your stereo too loud. Sure, it might be in your house, but the signal is escaping your house and bothering the neighbors, their neighbors, and the adjacent blocks. It should be about the same way in this case.
As long as you don't bother anyone else (eg, very low power on your WAP) and it doesn't create any (potential) problems within the school, it should be allowed.
Of course, the problem being that most people buy them, hook them in, and think they work automagically. They have no idea what settings are, power levels, etc, etc.
If so inclined, the university could choose a night and have a WAP Orientation class where they show people how to use their WAPs to get them in compliance with the rules I listed.
After all, how are they going to detect your WAP if the power is so low that it won't leave your room?
Think about it.
I remember there used to be killer floppy disks you could make that would give no indication that it had just killed the floppy drive.
Could it be the same thing with this? Maybe a CD to play the video clip from "The Ring" and kill the player?
How would you go about making a CD that isn't too suspicious that would kill CD/DVD players?
People that sell weapons, tools, and cars better be punished too. I mean, they sold me that car, I had to run down the school children. They sold me the pistol, so I had to shoot someone. They sold me the chainsaw so I had to re-enact a movie that they produced.
What about people that cut you off?
What about people not paying attention?
What about people that drive impaired?
What about people that drive shitty cars likely to explode?
What about people that pull out or cross lanes at dangerous times?
Clearly speed is to blame for all of these people, and driving slower will eliminate the most dangerous problems associated with driving.
Look at Diablo 2. Remember how rare the SoJ (Stone of Jordan) was initially? Then guess what became the currency because it was duped to hell.
SoJs remained the most standard currency for a long, long time. You want this? 40 SoJs. That? 20 SoJs. The economy of the game was quite interesting, because it was so flexible.
According to the RIAA, if you rent or buy a movie, its for you only. Not your family, or your friends, but yours. If you let someone borrow it, or someone else watches it with you, its illegal. Of course they're pissed off. I think this is a great idea though. I'd do it if I were rich and had the $$ to bribe the police to sit down and shut up, because they'd bust the gathering thinking it was some kind of bizarre ritual.
Real responded with people breaking their encryptation and adding real support to their own players quite badly. With legal threats, etc.
I'm guessing them just using the Real player itself isn't going to change things much. They're still going to hear the music or see the video or whatever.
Point is, they're not going to hear the music along with watching their high end machine brought to its knees by Real-installed spyware and bitching coming from Real's player if they use a player that isn't Real's own, but supports Real's files.
DeCSS had legitimate uses, too. Such as adding DVD support to programs without having to pay a massive licencing fee and not having to pay for one of those lame ass DVD player programs. But it got shot down.
I guarentee if it were a consumer doing it, they'd either be sued pantsless without warning, or issued C&Ds.
Funny how that works, isn't it. Since we all know that large companies are completely without sin.
And what will they say?
That the spyware is going to slow their computer down by 20%, or constantly download streaming AVI files to play in a banner window its about to pop up?
No, its going to say that its improving your internet experience. Or is about to give you a better deal to a Flordia vacation. Or that its going to make your life better.
How 'bout legislation requiring that each piece of spyware be registered through some kind of tracking agency that decides if the spyware is actually a piece of software that the person might willingly install?
Who's going to install something that says its going to popup banners on your desktop every 3 minutes on the dot? Or something that says its going to transmit your personal usage information to some corporation so they can send you more spam? Who's going to install something that takes up 30% of your system resources so it can go off like a fucking ape whenever its raining nearby?
You have a problem with the contract but you want the service. You can't negotiate the contract, because it was drawn up by a legal team that was paid just for that purpose. So then you have to decide. Whats more important to you? Remaining out of a binding contract and going without the service, or signing the binding contract and being with service, knowing that they could jack your prices up 10x and you'd still have to pay a fee to drop the service. Around Knoxville, there are lots of empty payphone boxes. Because companies are realizing that upkeep costs are geting too unproportional with the profit that comes in from the payphones. I've stopped at three different payphones before only to find that there was no payphone in the box. So whats more important? Your ability to communicate or not having to fight some corporation that lacks a soul over its monthly rate increase?
Roaming fees are so bad here in Knoxville, that if you have a cellphone registered for my town, and go three minutes in any direction, its considered to be roaming. In Knoxville, its even worse. Usually driving to one quadrant of town is enough to cause roaming fees to kick in. So let me get this straight. We gotta pay for the phone. We gotta pay for the service in using the phone. We gotta pay for the taxes that the government has imposed upon the carrier. We gotta pay for using the phone outside of our 'normal habitat' which basically equates to paying extra for using our phones outside of a three mile radius. We gotta pay for the CEO's daughter's wedding. We gotta pay for his dog's new penthouse. Its so easy for them to tag extra charges onto us, and if we throw up our hands and say we've had enough, we have to pay extra to drop the contract. Why can't anything be done about this? Why can businesses write one-way contracts that give all the power to the company while screwing the consumer who should have the lion's share of the power. After all, it is the money of the consumer. Unless you wanna go RIAA and say that everyone using a landline is stealing from cellular carriers.
Its alright, the more they raise their prices, the less people that can and will afford it, and the more people will use pirated versions.
Obviously someone here has played games from the Battletech series, or has read the books. Could this be a good precursor for the 'powered armor' being looked at seriously by the military?
This wouldn't be such a big thing at this point. It would give a little advantage, but the best would probably still be the best. The problem is that this would open a whole new can of worms. Then you would have judges spending their time approving or disapproving other active measures as well, and less runners actually in it for the spirit of the run.
In things like track competitions or marathons, should such 'active' measures be allowed? I mean, what if I had a pair of smart shoes that were attached to a motorcycle...
In other news, Joe Sixpack totally fucks up the complex weather physics and animal behavior in Deer Hunter 25.
Not everyone cares about games that much. How many people--how many nerds--have the patience required to sit around and revise algos for one game so it'll have a few fps more?
"Don't forget massive incompatibility and upgrade hassles."
I read that as:
"Don't forget about the sudden explosion of extended-temp jobs flooding the market as the Internet decides to change over..."
What if other companies did similar things? What if companies involved with the stock market used their insider info to give them a step-up when it comes to which stocks to buy and sell? Yeah, its a bad idea. Same here.