This is excellent and brings up quite a few legal questions.
Given that I'm not a lawyer though I'll just give my opinion (worth less than the original price of the song).
1) Unless it clearly states in the agreement made with apple, there is nothing preventing him from making this sale. He purchased the right to listen to that song in the specific format, it's his to dispose of as he chooses.
2) Making a sale for a profit in no way makes him a bad person (and he's claiming he'll be donating the money). I can't see how he could be legally required to pass this profit on to the original artist or to the supervising agency (in this case Apple who sold him the song).
3) The RIAA has nothing to do with this. As someone mentioned, they don't complain about the resale of CDs or DVDs (at this point) and there is no legal basis for them to in the future.
All and all I think this is an excellent way to bring attention to this issue. My only concern is that it will cloud the already muddy legal waters and make things more difficult for us lay folk to understand.
A good company is going to thank you for finding security holes and they are going to fix them (apache is one that pops to mind). A bad company is going to get pissy about you exposing flaws than they have (those are not bugs, they are undocumented features).
at some point, people will stop sending messages indicating flaws to companies that have them, and they'll stop using that software.
this is an example of darwinism, those companies that are prepared to evolve and change as a result of outside stimuli will succeed... or at least we can hope that's the way it works...
right after politicians (or marketers, and there really isn't that much of a difference) realize that we will do the 'spam' for them if they impress us, I'm sure we'll see a better quality of product.
if someone impresses the hell out of me and makes me want to vote for them, I'm going to tell my friends and co workers. This isn't just random email to little old ladies in different ridings, I'll be talking to people who can vote and who can influence other people to do the same.
of course, this sorta 'word of mouth' approach went out when you had to start paying to run.
Where I work there are 15 or 20 people who run linux as a desktop beside their windows pcs. For the most part, these are qa (like myself) or development users.
Shocking I know.
Would you believe that our arts & crafts department (multimedia) uses Macintosh?
I think it's all about what you need to do your job. We can all pick our own OS (provided you have the ability to maintain it on a basic level yourself) and we are tasked, as professionals, to getting our jobs done. period.
if we need linux, we use it. if we need window$, we use it. and yes, we do even use macs where we have to.
Just what I see where I work. I can understand security concerns, but believe most of them to be groundless where it comes to OS. if a standard user in a company has the rights to affect anything of import in a lan or wan... someone has screwed up setting up the security in general.
I'm imagining you see the scenario something like this.
Vogon1: Sir, we seem to be picking up a broadcast indicating intelligent live in sector 3.
Vogon2: Excellent, post the coordinates to the internal network, let's see if anyone else has found this before.
Vogon1: Sir, I'm not getting any historical hits, looks like this is a first post.
Vogon2: Change our course so we can go take a look.
Vogon1: Sir, seems there was a hacker in the network, he's posted the coordinates to a public net, Stabcomma.universe
Vogon2: Shit, belay the course redirection. By the time we get there those younger technogeeks will have probed everyone and eaten all the cows. You just know they are going to ruin all the parking by leaving donuts in the fields.
--
One of the writers over at OuterLimits or TwilightZone should do something with this...
I try and force myself to take a 2km (1.2mile) walk/jog/run with my dog every morning (although I missed today, grr). Since I do it before I go to work, I still have time for a shower if I get up a good sweat. I'm telling myself I'll increase the distance when I bring it down to 10 minutes or less (10m14s is the best so far) consistently.
If I have to talk to someone one off in the office, I get up and walk to their desk instead of using (enter tool of choice I use centericq) to message them.
At lunch, even if I only have a few minutes I try and go for a walk. We are lucky and have showers here, but not everyone does so walk instead of run and wind up all sweaty.
Drink more water, less pop.
Drink good beer... well, really, you aren't quitting drinking beer if you enjoy it, so why bother drinking the crap beer if you are doing all this extra work so you can enjoy it. Personally, I like a nice black and tan if you have a good local stout. A lager goes well with curry though so that's to be considered.
I do agree with the poster who suggested it's ok to look like an idiot exercising... better than looking like an idiot dying of a heart attack.
I like it, my boss isn't so happy with it though, he's waiting for me to finish it so that he can read it, but still wants to maintain 'some' productivity out of me and can't rush me... heheheh
It's an excellent series by a writer I'm glad to have come across. I highly recommend them. If you hate waiting for the 'next book' though beware, you will be.
This is akin to punishment without the benefit of trial.
I'm a Canadian, but isn't that something the American government states it will ensure in the constitution? A fair and speedy trial.
If a member of a political party is quite literally advocating an action that breeches your constitutional rights, can't you request he step down or have his party kick his ass out of congress?
Just a thought. Cheers from the wet coast of Canada.
A great project is an interactive CD-ROM 'yearbook' for the grad class.
They can do the video footage (few seconds of each grad saying hi), intro scenes into the school or on the grounds, a couple of small games, that can be played, some generic geek stuff (woo hoo) like multi-os platform stability (java based?)...
ohhh, and you can sell the result to the grads. Way better than just a website (although you should put one up to market to the school), lots of content (use your imagination) and it can generate funds for that new server array for the computer class next year!
Cheers.
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The shop I'm at now has a surprisingly older crowd of coders. They also have a distinct policy against hiring anyone without experience.
I have no doubt (having seen it in interviews myself recently) that there is a trend towards hiring younger staff, fresher faces, cheaper assets/liabilities. But no all shops are like this.
For the most part, I've found that places that were hit fairly hard in the past two years but are coming back, are more likely to hire experience and not just warm bodies. Your skills will come into it when they realize they don't have time to train the younger crowd.
I'm 32 now and sitting somewhere in the middle between older and wiser, and younger and faster. I'm just hoping I don't have to wind up in the market looking for a job anytime soon.
I find I'm the same way. I see something cool, learn about it, bounce away from it, and find something else cool. By no stretch can I do any of these things extremely well, but I can do many of them with basic proficiency.
And I agree, that's the main benefit of being a generalist geek, always learning something new, either technology based, or mundane.
Brewing beers and mead (yum), fiddling with a rubiks cube, picking up a new language (code or linguistic), doesn't matter, it's all about continuing the growth process and learning (shit, that sounded mushy).
Saddly, this won't work, particularly not with games.
I use vmware extensively in testing and the major limitation is direct access to sound and video. Try as much as you like, you can't get most games working this way.
I agree with the other person who replied that this is also an expensive way to go.
I have the same desire to switch my kids to linux from XP, but have yet to find a way of doing this that still lets my teenage boy play star craft and my younger son play nhl2002 (or my wife to play sims saddly).
cheers.
As a parent I'm more likely to get stressed if the schools are trying to teach my kids on computers that couln't run those games.
As long as the game nights are outside school hours (they are) and have some modicum of supervision (not a lurking teacher, but some adult in the room at least), I'm all for it.
As for your comment "Good computers are just greater incentive to misuse the resource", you have to be joking. That's like saying having good teachers is just an incentive to waste their talents.
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nice too that they are the only local cel provider that bills per second, not per minute. that's the number one reason I'm still with them.
This is the first I've heard that the resale of a CD or DVD is not allowable.
Do you have some information to back this up that we can look at?
Cheers
This is excellent and brings up quite a few legal questions.
Given that I'm not a lawyer though I'll just give my opinion (worth less than the original price of the song).
1) Unless it clearly states in the agreement made with apple, there is nothing preventing him from making this sale. He purchased the right to listen to that song in the specific format, it's his to dispose of as he chooses.
2) Making a sale for a profit in no way makes him a bad person (and he's claiming he'll be donating the money). I can't see how he could be legally required to pass this profit on to the original artist or to the supervising agency (in this case Apple who sold him the song).
3) The RIAA has nothing to do with this. As someone mentioned, they don't complain about the resale of CDs or DVDs (at this point) and there is no legal basis for them to in the future.
All and all I think this is an excellent way to bring attention to this issue. My only concern is that it will cloud the already muddy legal waters and make things more difficult for us lay folk to understand.
Cheers.
A good company is going to thank you for finding security holes and they are going to fix them (apache is one that pops to mind). A bad company is going to get pissy about you exposing flaws than they have (those are not bugs, they are undocumented features).
at some point, people will stop sending messages indicating flaws to companies that have them, and they'll stop using that software.
this is an example of darwinism, those companies that are prepared to evolve and change as a result of outside stimuli will succeed... or at least we can hope that's the way it works...
right after politicians (or marketers, and there really isn't that much of a difference) realize that we will do the 'spam' for them if they impress us, I'm sure we'll see a better quality of product.
if someone impresses the hell out of me and makes me want to vote for them, I'm going to tell my friends and co workers. This isn't just random email to little old ladies in different ridings, I'll be talking to people who can vote and who can influence other people to do the same.
of course, this sorta 'word of mouth' approach went out when you had to start paying to run.
Was there really a shock to find that politics was blending with spam?
Soon we'll wind up getting spammed right before elections, people offering penis enlargement for votes.
Where I work there are 15 or 20 people who run linux as a desktop beside their windows pcs. For the most part, these are qa (like myself) or development users.
Shocking I know.
Would you believe that our arts & crafts department (multimedia) uses Macintosh?
I think it's all about what you need to do your job. We can all pick our own OS (provided you have the ability to maintain it on a basic level yourself) and we are tasked, as professionals, to getting our jobs done. period.
if we need linux, we use it. if we need window$, we use it. and yes, we do even use macs where we have to.
Just what I see where I work. I can understand security concerns, but believe most of them to be groundless where it comes to OS. if a standard user in a company has the rights to affect anything of import in a lan or wan... someone has screwed up setting up the security in general.
Cheers
That's a scarey thought.
I'm imagining you see the scenario something like this.
Vogon1: Sir, we seem to be picking up a broadcast indicating intelligent live in sector 3.
Vogon2: Excellent, post the coordinates to the internal network, let's see if anyone else has found this before.
Vogon1: Sir, I'm not getting any historical hits, looks like this is a first post.
Vogon2: Change our course so we can go take a look.
Vogon1: Sir, seems there was a hacker in the network, he's posted the coordinates to a public net, Stabcomma.universe
Vogon2: Shit, belay the course redirection. By the time we get there those younger technogeeks will have probed everyone and eaten all the cows. You just know they are going to ruin all the parking by leaving donuts in the fields.
--
One of the writers over at OuterLimits or TwilightZone should do something with this...
The Day The Earth Was Slashdotted!
Same thing here but I've been making small gains.
I try and force myself to take a 2km (1.2mile) walk/jog/run with my dog every morning (although I missed today, grr). Since I do it before I go to work, I still have time for a shower if I get up a good sweat. I'm telling myself I'll increase the distance when I bring it down to 10 minutes or less (10m14s is the best so far) consistently.
If I have to talk to someone one off in the office, I get up and walk to their desk instead of using (enter tool of choice I use centericq) to message them.
At lunch, even if I only have a few minutes I try and go for a walk. We are lucky and have showers here, but not everyone does so walk instead of run and wind up all sweaty.
Drink more water, less pop.
Drink good beer... well, really, you aren't quitting drinking beer if you enjoy it, so why bother drinking the crap beer if you are doing all this extra work so you can enjoy it. Personally, I like a nice black and tan if you have a good local stout. A lager goes well with curry though so that's to be considered.
I do agree with the poster who suggested it's ok to look like an idiot exercising... better than looking like an idiot dying of a heart attack.
luck.
It's his book I'm reading, he was reading book two and had picked it up ahead of time. I'd finished book two and grabbed his.
a long and complicated story compressed into three lines.
I like it, my boss isn't so happy with it though, he's waiting for me to finish it so that he can read it, but still wants to maintain 'some' productivity out of me and can't rush me... heheheh
It's an excellent series by a writer I'm glad to have come across. I highly recommend them. If you hate waiting for the 'next book' though beware, you will be.
This is akin to punishment without the benefit of trial.
I'm a Canadian, but isn't that something the American government states it will ensure in the constitution? A fair and speedy trial.
If a member of a political party is quite literally advocating an action that breeches your constitutional rights, can't you request he step down or have his party kick his ass out of congress?
Just a thought. Cheers from the wet coast of Canada.
A great project is an interactive CD-ROM 'yearbook' for the grad class.
...
They can do the video footage (few seconds of each grad saying hi), intro scenes into the school or on the grounds, a couple of small games, that can be played, some generic geek stuff (woo hoo) like multi-os platform stability (java based?)
ohhh, and you can sell the result to the grads. Way better than just a website (although you should put one up to market to the school), lots of content (use your imagination) and it can generate funds for that new server array for the computer class next year!
Cheers.
The shop I'm at now has a surprisingly older crowd of coders. They also have a distinct policy against hiring anyone without experience.
I have no doubt (having seen it in interviews myself recently) that there is a trend towards hiring younger staff, fresher faces, cheaper assets/liabilities. But no all shops are like this.
For the most part, I've found that places that were hit fairly hard in the past two years but are coming back, are more likely to hire experience and not just warm bodies. Your skills will come into it when they realize they don't have time to train the younger crowd.
I'm 32 now and sitting somewhere in the middle between older and wiser, and younger and faster. I'm just hoping I don't have to wind up in the market looking for a job anytime soon.
cheers
I find I'm the same way. I see something cool, learn about it, bounce away from it, and find something else cool. By no stretch can I do any of these things extremely well, but I can do many of them with basic proficiency.
And I agree, that's the main benefit of being a generalist geek, always learning something new, either technology based, or mundane.
Brewing beers and mead (yum), fiddling with a rubiks cube, picking up a new language (code or linguistic), doesn't matter, it's all about continuing the growth process and learning (shit, that sounded mushy).
Saddly, this won't work, particularly not with games.
I use vmware extensively in testing and the major limitation is direct access to sound and video. Try as much as you like, you can't get most games working this way.
I agree with the other person who replied that this is also an expensive way to go.
I have the same desire to switch my kids to linux from XP, but have yet to find a way of doing this that still lets my teenage boy play star craft and my younger son play nhl2002 (or my wife to play sims saddly).
cheers.
As a parent I'm more likely to get stressed if the schools are trying to teach my kids on computers that couln't run those games. As long as the game nights are outside school hours (they are) and have some modicum of supervision (not a lurking teacher, but some adult in the room at least), I'm all for it. As for your comment "Good computers are just greater incentive to misuse the resource", you have to be joking. That's like saying having good teachers is just an incentive to waste their talents.