The same people mentioned in the article also have managed to keep cell towers from being put up - thus, no one in the area has a cell phone. They also are lobbying to have the radio tower at the local high school shut down. (Apparently, KPFA over the hill in Booneville is okay, however)
They can stick all the policies they want on it, but I doubt that they have any legal force. Normal copyright laws and exculsions would apply, and, since there's no agreement or license, regardless of what they stick in the small print, nothing extra applies. In fact, as I read more closely, it's right there - "Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law".
To my knowledge (limited), publicly available archives have always fallen under fair use.
Thats not to say that someone won't sue, but, considering that they seem to be more than willing to pull things at owner request, I doubt they'll ever end up in court. And if they do, they'll probably win.
I read a news article a while ago (can't find links, sorry) where real-life crime caused by Internet situations was becoming a real problem - the police called them "real-life PKs". Some Singaporean version of EQ actually has to have a paramilitary security force, and the CEO has recieved death threats and offers of bribes in return for game benefits.
Re: the governments statement - they really would prefer that gangs settle fights with fists rather than counterstrike?!
I can't imagine that MS didn't circulate a memo telling all it's employees to send email, much like the thing with that web poll a couple weeks ago. From the reponse that people had to that, I'd be more than a little suprised if a wide variety of Ms employees didn't send email from multiple email accounts, etc. Not with "offical" company sanction of course, but most likely with a wink and a nod.
You know, what I find disturbing is that he's just now learning DirectX. And that he's REALL EXCITED about the new games! Because! His page has lots! Of exclamation points!
Quick note: reducing the disparity between the lowest paid worker and the highest paid worker (line worked and CEO) would certainly allow them to keep 'costs" the same, produce products at the same price, and up the wages of thier employees. This can probably happen in every industry (I say probably because I don't know my way around every industry).
Mild nitpick: Like alot of things, what you describe as the feudal state is accurate, but true only in theory and often broke down in practice. For example, the concept of the Church punishing a feudal lord for failing to provide for his serfs is... romantized, at best. the church actually contributed to the that sort of thing, because it was considered a serfs "place" to be exploited by his lord, much as we now consider it the "place" of cheap immigrant workers to do dangerous, poorly paid labor.
Just as in my previous post - by design, only the (small) minority of people can move out of thier bracket. Yes, we need low-level workers to keep our economy working. Nobody likes such work (well, a minority at best). You say that everyone who really wants to doesn't have to do such work. So what happens if all the people who currently fill boxes STOP DOING it? Of course, you can just say that anyone filling boxes is stupid, and feel warm and fuzzy that you're doing well by walking on the backs of stupid people.
By the design of our society, not everyone can do this. If everyone did, it would be an economic disaster. Therefore, saying "I did it, you can too" is not a reasonable argument against improving working conditions at the bottem end of the spectrum. If the ability and opportunity to rise above your social and economic class was widespread, our society (or, really, any non-flat [read: socialist] society), would fall.
They get charged through the nose for all the bandwidth the attack takes. Theres a certain amount of money budgeted for bandwidth, but the a DoS attack hits and suddenly you're running at 100x normal bandwidth cost for however long it takes you to break the attack - that kind of fee can certainly break a company that already lives on the edge.
The statistics show that poor people don't go to college as much as rich people. It shows nothing about the reasons why, whether it's social enviroment, affordability, or university discrimination. All it shows is that if you're poor, odds are better that you won't have gone to college than if you're rich. The parent post is correct.
Just curious and somewhat offtopic, but isn't that smuggling? And if they made it a standard buissness practice, couldn't they get in a LOT of trouble if anyone ratted them out?
As someone who once helped run an ecommerce site, it's because almost any store will have FedEx, UPS, and/or USPS shipping accounts all set up and constantly in use, while stuff like slow-boat shipping from independent companies is an incredible hassle to set up. Also not likely to be cheaper unless your physical location in a warehouse district near a major shipping hub.
Giving both seller and buyer benefit of the doubt, selling used games is not warez. Even selling game and keeping a copy for yourself doesn't make the sold game warez.
Not sure what your problem is, actaully. When I go to doomworld with new opera, it renders EXACTLY as IE does. I can mail you my screenshot, if you like.
As for the DHTML... well, yeah, the JS support isn't all there yet. But assuming the sites usable without it, then it's not so much of a problem (I've only gone to a couple sites that were literally unusable in Opera, and I didn't like them much in IE or Mozilla, either.
I'm curious if you can point me to a site that has the images in tables thing you talk about, the only display problems I run into are sites that use browser-specific DHTML. And for what it's worth, a small ad banner next to your menu bar is alot less intrusive that pop-up adds.
While I love opera, I have to concede it's less feature-rich than IE or Mozilla in alot of areas. Of course, the ones it does have that they don't, I really like, like toggling images with a single keystroke, and it beats the pants off all them in speed and footprint.
Something to remember about trusting a big faceless corp with your info vrs. your neighbor: A big, faceless corp deals with thousands and thousands of accounts, and nobody at that corp cares about you specifically, and even if a given person did, they'd have a hard time picking your specific data out of the noise. Your neighbor, on the other hand, is alot more likely to be curious about your personal habits, and won't have nearly as much data coming through to look at and make sense of.
Whenever I hear people make this argument, I like to point out that capitalism ain't doing so hot, either. And while communism may have never been implemented properly (and it may, in fact, be impossible to do so), socialism does pretty well for itself.
a "proper" web site will degrade gracefully and transparently in the case of a browser that doesn't support any of it's "enhanced experiences". Lynx is an excellent example, a great many blind people use it with screen readers. This site doesn't. I didn't see anything in the parent post about all communication being textual, but it SHOULD be accesible via a text only interface.
As for abandoning wide scale communication... you need to drink less coffee and get off the crack. Or see this link.
It just occured to me that, if he's unlucky, he'll get one of those proffs that likes to test you on specific bits of obscure trivia rather than on concepts and ideas, in which case he'd have to cram even if he were every kernel maintainer wrapped into one:P
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The same people mentioned in the article also have managed to keep cell towers from being put up - thus, no one in the area has a cell phone. They also are lobbying to have the radio tower at the local high school shut down. (Apparently, KPFA over the hill in Booneville is okay, however)
I'll be damned, I grew up in Mendo. Everything you say is true :P.
To my knowledge (limited), publicly available archives have always fallen under fair use.
Thats not to say that someone won't sue, but, considering that they seem to be more than willing to pull things at owner request, I doubt they'll ever end up in court. And if they do, they'll probably win.
Oops. Chalk another one up to dumb-ass americans who can't tell Asian {cities|countries|people} apart.
Re: the governments statement - they really would prefer that gangs settle fights with fists rather than counterstrike?!
I can't imagine that MS didn't circulate a memo telling all it's employees to send email, much like the thing with that web poll a couple weeks ago. From the reponse that people had to that, I'd be more than a little suprised if a wide variety of Ms employees didn't send email from multiple email accounts, etc. Not with "offical" company sanction of course, but most likely with a wink and a nod.
You know, what I find disturbing is that he's just now learning DirectX. And that he's REALL EXCITED about the new games! Because! His page has lots! Of exclamation points!
Log in, please.
Quick note: reducing the disparity between the lowest paid worker and the highest paid worker (line worked and CEO) would certainly allow them to keep 'costs" the same, produce products at the same price, and up the wages of thier employees. This can probably happen in every industry (I say probably because I don't know my way around every industry).
Mild nitpick: Like alot of things, what you describe as the feudal state is accurate, but true only in theory and often broke down in practice. For example, the concept of the Church punishing a feudal lord for failing to provide for his serfs is... romantized, at best. the church actually contributed to the that sort of thing, because it was considered a serfs "place" to be exploited by his lord, much as we now consider it the "place" of cheap immigrant workers to do dangerous, poorly paid labor.
Just as in my previous post - by design, only the (small) minority of people can move out of thier bracket. Yes, we need low-level workers to keep our economy working. Nobody likes such work (well, a minority at best). You say that everyone who really wants to doesn't have to do such work. So what happens if all the people who currently fill boxes STOP DOING it? Of course, you can just say that anyone filling boxes is stupid, and feel warm and fuzzy that you're doing well by walking on the backs of stupid people.
By the design of our society, not everyone can do this. If everyone did, it would be an economic disaster. Therefore, saying "I did it, you can too" is not a reasonable argument against improving working conditions at the bottem end of the spectrum. If the ability and opportunity to rise above your social and economic class was widespread, our society (or, really, any non-flat [read: socialist] society), would fall.
They get charged through the nose for all the bandwidth the attack takes. Theres a certain amount of money budgeted for bandwidth, but the a DoS attack hits and suddenly you're running at 100x normal bandwidth cost for however long it takes you to break the attack - that kind of fee can certainly break a company that already lives on the edge.
The statistics show that poor people don't go to college as much as rich people. It shows nothing about the reasons why, whether it's social enviroment, affordability, or university discrimination. All it shows is that if you're poor, odds are better that you won't have gone to college than if you're rich. The parent post is correct.
Just curious and somewhat offtopic, but isn't that smuggling? And if they made it a standard buissness practice, couldn't they get in a LOT of trouble if anyone ratted them out?
As someone who once helped run an ecommerce site, it's because almost any store will have FedEx, UPS, and/or USPS shipping accounts all set up and constantly in use, while stuff like slow-boat shipping from independent companies is an incredible hassle to set up. Also not likely to be cheaper unless your physical location in a warehouse district near a major shipping hub.
Giving both seller and buyer benefit of the doubt, selling used games is not warez. Even selling game and keeping a copy for yourself doesn't make the sold game warez.
As for the DHTML... well, yeah, the JS support isn't all there yet. But assuming the sites usable without it, then it's not so much of a problem (I've only gone to a couple sites that were literally unusable in Opera, and I didn't like them much in IE or Mozilla, either.
While I love opera, I have to concede it's less feature-rich than IE or Mozilla in alot of areas. Of course, the ones it does have that they don't, I really like, like toggling images with a single keystroke, and it beats the pants off all them in speed and footprint.
Something to remember about trusting a big faceless corp with your info vrs. your neighbor: A big, faceless corp deals with thousands and thousands of accounts, and nobody at that corp cares about you specifically, and even if a given person did, they'd have a hard time picking your specific data out of the noise. Your neighbor, on the other hand, is alot more likely to be curious about your personal habits, and won't have nearly as much data coming through to look at and make sense of.
Whenever I hear people make this argument, I like to point out that capitalism ain't doing so hot, either. And while communism may have never been implemented properly (and it may, in fact, be impossible to do so), socialism does pretty well for itself.
As for abandoning wide scale communication... you need to drink less coffee and get off the crack. Or see this link.
It just occured to me that, if he's unlucky, he'll get one of those proffs that likes to test you on specific bits of obscure trivia rather than on concepts and ideas, in which case he'd have to cram even if he were every kernel maintainer wrapped into one :P
Wouldn't any reasonable educational facility let him test out of classes like that? I mean, jeez, it's not like he doesn't know his stuff.
Uh, yeah. I'm sure they have the storage space to compile for EVERY POSSIBLE CONFIGURATION. Using that cool new 100:1 compression, maybe.