So i see the MPAA is trying to incite a public death threat campaign against the poor schulbs they are underpaying.
And yet somehow the movie studios keep raking in huge profits. So who is the bigger villain here? The slave driver or the pirate who wants to put the slave driver out of business?
(yes i know the last bit is a bit simplistic.. just suspend your disbelief.:)
only problem with loser pays is when giant mega corps manage to squash little guys with real grievances, you end up driving someone who was trying to get their fair share even further into the poorhouse. I have read some rather unsavory goings on at BASF about the little guys getting screwed.
Also remember that these razors are a few grams of steel and a few ounces of plastic. At 3 bucks each they are like making something like 12000% profit.
I dont think it works exactly that way. My understanding is that if you take GPL code and add or modify you cannot charge for that. I believe it is perfectly legal to charge for a product that works with linux, and you can even have externally linked proprietary bits.
yeah i was talking to a friend also, basically im thinking this, you play a copy of the town you are in locally, with some traffic for other visitors. you have porter hold your axe while you visit (non residents only). Nooks would have to restock. if the host town goes offline nooks closes up, and you can play the game in 'local' mode unti you decide to go home.
Only problem left if item dulpication of things left on the ground.
I suppose someone could maliciously fill up the dump.
Please recall the MPAA vs DeCSS. (aka DoJ vs that kid) It was basically argued that if you had DeCSS the *only* thing you could possibly use it for was to pirate dvds. YA false argument fed to us. They dont want to go thru the trouble of actually proving any allegations, that would mean that their cases would see the light of day and be destroyed by it like a blood sucking vampires.
Have any of the alleged dmca cases gone to court other than adobe's? I haven't heard of many that made it to the jury phase. The best way to keep a bad law from being tested is to keep it away from a jury.
Ya know i think its about time that the internet community start a PAC to *not* re-elect this corrupt mouthpiece. I suggest a rabid tasmanian devil in his place.
' I wonder how long it will be before those detailed logs ARE required by law?"
I foresee something much worse, in fact I have been worrying about it for years. As it has been reported there are those ISPs that seem to want to have their nose up your butt and watch everything you do.
Well I foresee soon that *all* suspected criminal activity will have to be reported, oh and all those pesky logs you have around because you wanna be a hyper nosy jerk? Well you, my friend, have just just blown you plausible deniability plea. Because you are keeping all those logs, and you didn't notify the 'authorities' right away you have blown your safe harbor status cause the RIAA came to you. So guess what? You have just become an accessory after the fact. *oops*
When I tell people this they think im overly paranoid. well you decide.
You are indeed right. However 2 caveats, when that manger is in government they can hide there forever.
And secondly the other thing to keep in mind is that there is a whole class of people that 'outsourceing' is their solution. When the problem is outsourced they dont have to know anything other than how much money gets spent, and how to make the vendor come down in price.
heh bribes, thats funny because i was just talking about general job incompetence not actual corruption:)
Ya know you are really on to the dirty secret of the IT industry.
This is how i've seen these things come down. A clueless "manager" (i.e. a person who manages, as opposed to a qualified IT person who happens to be in charge) talks to slick sales droid and droid promises him 75% saving and 45% less manpower and upgrade this blah blah that. Well see we know the market droid has no idea what the real IT situation is, but it doesn't matter. why? Because the manager, while sitting at his nice oak desk, has no clue either, he's so far removed from the everyday needs of the CHUDs in the cubes. So he (and less likely she) buys in the the droidtalk, and cant contradict anything cause he knows nothing. He wont admit he known nothing because he's the *MANAGERGUY* who is supposed to know what is going on. And he cant actually call in any IT people because that will also destroy the illusion. So what happens? You get a bunch of greedy sales guys selling stuff the end users don't need to some schmuck in a suit that went golfing yesterday when the computer room was on fire.
This story is really interesting for showing us what, as the blurb says, MS will give up to try to hold on to its contracts. Please permit me to juggle for a moment...
The fact that MS was willing to let Munich unbundle office is indicative that people dont want to pay for huge monster suites that they arent using most of. And in a govt organization this is even more true. Your average memo writing paper pusher doenst need to use excel.
MS, being the monster it is, is tripping over itself trying to dodge the bullets of its smaller, faster, and more flexible competitors. It's as if MS wants to jam the status quo down the throats of large organizations, hoping everyone will think "well everyone else uses MS is going to have to also to work with the rest of the to world." (not to mention I [and probably you] have heard variations on this theme before)
In today's climate of cost cutting and internet security disasters, the managers want to make sure people have the necessities to perform their job functions and not a bunch of extra crap to screw around with. A one size (license) fits all approach cannot meet that goal. The fact that the CEO has to show up implies 1 of 2 things. 1) The salesperson didnt have the authority to make such changes that the customer wanted. 2) Or if he did the initial beating over the head of the initial proposal spooked Munich so much they needed executive handholding.
Lint - Professional amateur analysis while you wait. Call for more details!
I recall reading recently about a spat between Nintendo and Universal(?). Basically Universal called up Nintendo one day saying to cough up millions of bucks for Donkey Kong, because, so they claimed that they (universal) owned the rights to King Kong. Well as the story went, Nintendo wanted to quickly settle as to not rock to boat of their franchise. So they went away tell universal they were going to research the amount and get back to them. Well Nintento cameback and told universal to go wash their heads. It seems that back in the day Universal went thru great pains to prove that King Kong was public domain so *they* didnt have to pay royalities. Of course Universal sued and lost badly as I recall reading. What can we extrapolate from this? Basically, if they cant get you to cough up legally, they will try to do it illegaly, by lying or misrepresentation. Its about who can scam the most bucks.. its not about 'intellectual property' at all.
ya know i vaguely recall the need for an actual computer when you make a super computer. But hey perhaps if you hang the printout of linux from the ceiling it can emulate the structure of fairy cake (obscure reference;)
It kind of concerns me that the encryption isnt hardwired into the phone, and that it can be turned on an off at a whim. I wonder if the russian or US govt's allow the encryption on their stuff be turned off, or is this a lowly citizen thing only.
ok this is beginning to become clear. If you want to CYA and be lazy and just pay the RIAA someone can do so. otherwise they have to put work into getting their individual ducks in a row. Is this right? If the RIAA were demanding money that dont play RIAA works, I would have expected them to be sued for extortion a long time ago.
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So i see the MPAA is trying to incite a public death threat campaign against the poor schulbs they are underpaying.
And yet somehow the movie studios keep raking in huge profits. So who is the bigger villain here? The slave driver or the pirate who wants to put the slave driver out of business?
(yes i know the last bit is a bit simplistic.. just suspend your disbelief.:)
funny i thought the comment section was invented for off the cuff editorialization:)
only problem with loser pays is when giant mega corps manage to squash little guys with real grievances, you end up driving someone who was trying to get their fair share even further into the poorhouse. I have read some rather unsavory goings on at BASF about the little guys getting screwed.
Also remember that these razors are a few grams of steel and a few ounces of plastic. At 3 bucks each they are like making something like 12000% profit.
Clauses of contracts that are illegal are non-binding.
I dont think it works exactly that way. My understanding is that if you take GPL code and add or modify you cannot charge for that. I believe it is perfectly legal to charge for a product that works with linux, and you can even have externally linked proprietary bits.
yeah i was talking to a friend also, basically im thinking this, you play a copy of the town you are in locally, with some traffic for other visitors. you have porter hold your axe while you visit (non residents only). Nooks would have to restock. if the host town goes offline nooks closes up, and you can play the game in 'local' mode unti you decide to go home.
Only problem left if item dulpication of things left on the ground.
I suppose someone could maliciously fill up the dump.
it would be great to visit other online towns in animal crossing 2:)
and then deforest the town as a free service:)
Please recall the MPAA vs DeCSS. (aka DoJ vs that kid) It was basically argued that if you had DeCSS the *only* thing you could possibly use it for was to pirate dvds. YA false argument fed to us. They dont want to go thru the trouble of actually proving any allegations, that would mean that their cases would see the light of day and be destroyed by it like a blood sucking vampires.
Have any of the alleged dmca cases gone to court other than adobe's? I haven't heard of many that made it to the jury phase. The best way to keep a bad law from being tested is to keep it away from a jury.
Ya know i think its about time that the internet community start a PAC to *not* re-elect this corrupt mouthpiece. I suggest a rabid tasmanian devil in his place.
OH come now... like that will work.. if you had the logs you *must* have known... and so on... :)
' I wonder how long it will be before those detailed logs ARE required by law?"
I foresee something much worse, in fact I have been worrying about it for years. As it has been reported there are those ISPs that seem to want to have their nose up your butt and watch everything you do.
Well I foresee soon that *all* suspected criminal activity will have to be reported, oh and all those pesky logs you have around because you wanna be a hyper nosy jerk? Well you, my friend, have just just blown you plausible deniability plea. Because you are keeping all those logs, and you didn't notify the 'authorities' right away you have blown your safe harbor status cause the RIAA came to you. So guess what? You have just become an accessory after the fact. *oops*
When I tell people this they think im overly paranoid. well you decide.
You are indeed right. However 2 caveats, when that manger is in government they can hide there forever.
And secondly the other thing to keep in mind is that there is a whole class of people that 'outsourceing' is their solution. When the problem is outsourced they dont have to know anything other than how much money gets spent, and how to make the vendor come down in price.
heh bribes, thats funny because i was just talking about general job incompetence not actual corruption:)
Ya know you are really on to the dirty secret of the IT industry.
This is how i've seen these things come down. A clueless "manager" (i.e. a person who manages, as opposed to a qualified IT person who happens to be in charge) talks to slick sales droid and droid promises him 75% saving and 45% less manpower and upgrade this blah blah that. Well see we know the market droid has no idea what the real IT situation is, but it doesn't matter. why? Because the manager, while sitting at his nice oak desk, has no clue either, he's so far removed from the everyday needs of the CHUDs in the cubes. So he (and less likely she) buys in the the droidtalk, and cant contradict anything cause he knows nothing. He wont admit he known nothing because he's the *MANAGERGUY* who is supposed to know what is going on. And he cant actually call in any IT people because that will also destroy the illusion. So what happens? You get a bunch of greedy sales guys selling stuff the end users don't need to some schmuck in a suit that went golfing yesterday when the computer room was on fire.
This story is really interesting for showing us what, as the blurb says, MS will give up to try to hold on to its contracts. Please permit me to juggle for a moment...
The fact that MS was willing to let Munich unbundle office is indicative that people dont want to pay for huge monster suites that they arent using most of. And in a govt organization this is even more true. Your average memo writing paper pusher doenst need to use excel.
MS, being the monster it is, is tripping over itself trying to dodge the bullets of its smaller, faster, and more flexible competitors. It's as if MS wants to jam the status quo down the throats of large organizations, hoping everyone will think "well everyone else uses MS is going to have to also to work with the rest of the to world." (not to mention I [and probably you] have heard variations on this theme before)
In today's climate of cost cutting and internet security disasters, the managers want to make sure people have the necessities to perform their job functions and not a bunch of extra crap to screw around with. A one size (license) fits all approach cannot meet that goal. The fact that the CEO has to show up implies 1 of 2 things. 1) The salesperson didnt have the authority to make such changes that the customer wanted. 2) Or if he did the initial beating over the head of the initial proposal spooked Munich so much they needed executive handholding.
Lint - Professional amateur analysis while you wait. Call for more details!
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I recall reading recently about a spat between Nintendo and Universal(?). Basically Universal called up Nintendo one day saying to cough up millions of bucks for Donkey Kong, because, so they claimed that they (universal) owned the rights to King Kong. Well as the story went, Nintendo wanted to quickly settle as to not rock to boat of their franchise. So they went away tell universal they were going to research the amount and get back to them. Well Nintento cameback and told universal to go wash their heads. It seems that back in the day Universal went thru great pains to prove that King Kong was public domain so *they* didnt have to pay royalities. Of course Universal sued and lost badly as I recall reading. What can we extrapolate from this? Basically, if they cant get you to cough up legally, they will try to do it illegaly, by lying or misrepresentation. Its about who can scam the most bucks.. its not about 'intellectual property' at all.
(boy i hope that story was true:)
this also explains why the govt has so much it keeps secret.
ya know i vaguely recall the need for an actual computer when you make a super computer. But hey perhaps if you hang the printout of linux from the ceiling it can emulate the structure of fairy cake (obscure reference;)
Why dont they crank up the broadcast power on the cellphone like 50x and give all the bugs cancer:)
a $5 bill walks into a confessional and says.....
It kind of concerns me that the encryption isnt hardwired into the phone, and that it can be turned on an off at a whim. I wonder if the russian or US govt's allow the encryption on their stuff be turned off, or is this a lowly citizen thing only.
ok this is beginning to become clear. If you want to CYA and be lazy and just pay the RIAA someone can do so. otherwise they have to put work into getting their individual ducks in a row. Is this right? If the RIAA were demanding money that dont play RIAA works, I would have expected them to be sued for extortion a long time ago.
Which laws? Can someone please provide at least anecdotal evidence that someone was forced to pay the RIAA when no RIAA represented music was played?
the other 9% need to be locked in the bowels of caldera and be forced to find ways to say that the GPL didnt apply to SCO linux:)