But what about "rape" and "murder"? When you copy a movie, you are metaphorically raping the director by taking something he considers precious, without consent, for your own pleasure. And you are metaphorically murdering his chance of making a profit out of you.
How is the term "theft" a metaphor?
"Copyright infringement" should be reserved for cases such as when I make a video game that stars Mario or Pokemon, infringing upon Nintendo's copyright.
No, it shouldn't - because that would be a case of trademark infringement, not copyright infringement, unless you used Nintendo's actual artwork or level layouts.
Any what if I do use Nintendo's actual artwork? That would be copyright infringement, which is drastically different than using the term "copyright infringement" to denote the act of the unauthorized copying and distribution of an entire piece of work.
Of course, it's not your fault you don't know the difference. You've been confused by everyone using words wrongly. If everyone used "theft" to mean theft and "copyright infringement" to mean copyright infringement and "trademark infringement" to mean trademark infringement, then there would be no confusion. When you start using "theft" to mean copyright infringement, it's hardly surprising that you then get confused and use "copyright infringement" to mean trademark infringement.
From dictionary.com:
Theft: The act or an instance of stealing.
Steal: To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
Property: Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks.
I would posit that you are the one that is confused.
Microsoft has applied for funding to start an open source project called "POSIE", an acronym for the term "Proof that Open Source Is Evil." Microsoft requires funding due to a lack of volunteers. When asked why he doesn't simply throw a mountain of cash at the project, Bill Gates replied, "I'm not going to contribute any money to something that is Clearly Evil and Wrong".
Bleh. I find nothing wrong with the terms "piracy" and "theft" to describe such actions. "Copyright infringement" should be reserved for cases such as when I make a video game that stars Mario or Pokemon, infringing upon Nintendo's copyright.
If a DVD is a product which provides the service of displaying a movie, then stealing that movie is a theft of service.
All the more reason to patent and copyright everything! See, the world doesn't have to worry about handing over proprietary or critical technologies, as long as we arm (literally) the RIAA and MPAA, and patent lawyers, with automatic weapons and a license to kill.
By timing multiple runs you can get a decent estimate of how long time the strcmp function took, which means you can guess which character was first differing character in the password.
Can I buy some pot from you?
Maybe that would work with a ONE MEGAHERTZ PROCESSOR. But do you have any idea how fast processors are these days? And how likely any deviance in the cache state, IO controller state, page faults, multi-user latency, or power management will throw your precious timings right out the window?!?!?!
I mean, c'mon, think about things before you say them. Even REAL TIME SYSTEMS AT NASA don't run with enough consistency to be able to tell WHICH CHARACTER IN A STRCMP OPERATIONS fails.
Listen, you know what would truly be news? The day that Dvorak says something Score +5: Insightful. This guy is less coherent and competent than my grandmother, who is dead.
As it is, all pending Dvorak story submissions should be entitled:
Opinions are like assholes - no one wants a whiff of Dvorak's.
I'm working with some dissidents who are looking for ways to use the Internet from within repressive regimes.
I'm surprised that repressive regimes allow Internet. Or wait, am I thinking of oppressive regimes. Or surpressive regimes... Damn I always get my regimes mixed up.
Anyways, tell them to play EverQuest - that will make them forget about the regimes. Although then they'll have to worry about repressive clans and PK'ers.
In addition to evaluating and scoring web page content, the ranking of web pages are admittedly still influenced by the frequency of page or site updates. What's new and interesting is what Google takes into account in determining the freshness of a web page.
Since the story submission didn't end the post with a question, I feel compelled to add one:
How will this affect the ranking of insightful FAQs, which by nature my not change frequently?
Another shout-out poll to my homeboy Slashdotters: Do you pronounce FAQs as "F-A-Q's" or "Faks"?
Ever exceed the speed limit? Congratulations you, and just about every other citizen, are a criminal by definition.
Actually, you're not. That's why the court system is broken up into many divisions, including the Civil Division, Criminal Division, Family Division, Probation Division, etc. The Civil Division handles civil affairs such as traffic fines, while the Criminal Division handles actual crimes.
"Officials said 12 out of 13 segments that comprise the first boom had deployed successfully, but segment 10 was not fully locked into place."
I TOLD THEM TO CHECK SEGMENT 10!
Sheehs, my coworkers are all slackers. I told Marco to check ALL the segments, but he winked and said, "What's the probability that segment 10 will fail if all the others are working?"
REAL ID also prohibits states from issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens. This makes no sense, and will only result in these illegal aliens driving without licenses -- which isn't going to help anyone's security.
In my moderately small apartment complex (I am middle-aged, and so are my neighbors), my network can detect 12 other wireless networks in the immediate area. Often, I have problems with channel collision, where my network will just be bullied out of existence by other networks.
At such times, my laptop, in my den, cannot see the wireless router in my living room. Granted, it doesn't occur often, but it's a major incovenience when it does.
Well, you should do what I'm doing. I'm in the same situation, and I've decided to program an Artificial Intelligence (AI) bot running on AIM (haha, get it?) to manage our keys.
I've almost finished programming it with some neat defense technology, to deal with hackers that try to break into it, or child pedos that think it's a seven year old boy and want to play.
Now, I'm going to give it some ability to review the source code for our missile-launching satellites and robotic defense schematics.
BTW you'll find this funny: it's already smart enough to complain about the name I gave it. Although personally, I think SkyNet is a great name.
"Our online business now accounts for about 75 percent of total sales. We learned from the tracking report that the average time to conversion for our site was about 18 hours. That surprised us,"
I hope I'm not the only one that suspects ScanAlert of quoting "dazed and confused" retailers, in order to lend legitimacy to the importance of their "shocking" report.
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How is the term "theft" a metaphor?
No, it shouldn't - because that would be a case of trademark infringement, not copyright infringement, unless you used Nintendo's actual artwork or level layouts.
Any what if I do use Nintendo's actual artwork? That would be copyright infringement, which is drastically different than using the term "copyright infringement" to denote the act of the unauthorized copying and distribution of an entire piece of work.
Of course, it's not your fault you don't know the difference. You've been confused by everyone using words wrongly. If everyone used "theft" to mean theft and "copyright infringement" to mean copyright infringement and "trademark infringement" to mean trademark infringement, then there would be no confusion. When you start using "theft" to mean copyright infringement, it's hardly surprising that you then get confused and use "copyright infringement" to mean trademark infringement.
From dictionary.com:
Theft: The act or an instance of stealing.
Steal: To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
Property: Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks.
I would posit that you are the one that is confused.
Microsoft has applied for funding to start an open source project called "POSIE", an acronym for the term "Proof that Open Source Is Evil." Microsoft requires funding due to a lack of volunteers. When asked why he doesn't simply throw a mountain of cash at the project, Bill Gates replied, "I'm not going to contribute any money to something that is Clearly Evil and Wrong".
If a DVD is a product which provides the service of displaying a movie, then stealing that movie is a theft of service.
Infinium Labs has announce the "Phantom 2", code-named "Ephemeral".
All the more reason to patent and copyright everything! See, the world doesn't have to worry about handing over proprietary or critical technologies, as long as we arm (literally) the RIAA and MPAA, and patent lawyers, with automatic weapons and a license to kill.
Seriously, I guess Google just got a new lease on life, considering it's supposed to die in 5 years, according to Microsoft.
Can I buy some pot from you?
Maybe that would work with a ONE MEGAHERTZ PROCESSOR. But do you have any idea how fast processors are these days? And how likely any deviance in the cache state, IO controller state, page faults, multi-user latency, or power management will throw your precious timings right out the window?!?!?!
I mean, c'mon, think about things before you say them. Even REAL TIME SYSTEMS AT NASA don't run with enough consistency to be able to tell WHICH CHARACTER IN A STRCMP OPERATIONS fails.
As it is, all pending Dvorak story submissions should be entitled:
Opinions are like assholes - no one wants a whiff of Dvorak's.
From today's Slashdot News:
IT: Feds Fund Anti-Terrorism Search Engine
So you see, you can retire as many Carnivores as you want, but you'll never be rid of these contraptions.
My retarded spider monkey takes offense at that.
Microsoft partners with IBM to build a new chip for the XBox 360, and IBM thanks Microsoft by trashing Microsoft's flagship browser?
Man, business relationships used to seem so simple...
I'm surprised that repressive regimes allow Internet. Or wait, am I thinking of oppressive regimes. Or surpressive regimes... Damn I always get my regimes mixed up.
Anyways, tell them to play EverQuest - that will make them forget about the regimes. Although then they'll have to worry about repressive clans and PK'ers.
Congratulations, Carnivore just found a new snack.
Since the story submission didn't end the post with a question, I feel compelled to add one:
How will this affect the ranking of insightful FAQs, which by nature my not change frequently?
Another shout-out poll to my homeboy Slashdotters: Do you pronounce FAQs as "F-A-Q's" or "Faks"?
That's an interesting interpretation. Here's a review of today's submissions, translated to your perspective:
Broadway Awards Spam is about your rights to watch Spamalot, nominated for 14 Tony awards.
IT: More on Last Years Cisco Source Code Theft is about your rights to read about a theft of proprietary source code.
IT: What Does a Spreading Worm Look Like? is about your rights to visualize what a spreading worm looks like.
Games: Gameboy Emulator Released for PSP is about your rights to play Gameboy games on a PSP.
Newest Star Wars Reviews Suprisingly Positive is about your rights to be surprised that Lucas Finally Got It Right(tm).
Wow, with your new scheme, we can get rid of all other topics!
Actually, you're not. That's why the court system is broken up into many divisions, including the Civil Division, Criminal Division, Family Division, Probation Division, etc. The Civil Division handles civil affairs such as traffic fines, while the Criminal Division handles actual crimes.
I TOLD THEM TO CHECK SEGMENT 10!
Sheehs, my coworkers are all slackers. I told Marco to check ALL the segments, but he winked and said, "What's the probability that segment 10 will fail if all the others are working?"
BLEH I SHOULD HAVE YOUR JOB, MARCO!
No, but I imagine we might be censored.
Yeah, that's some REAL good insight.
Sensationalist bullshit.
- a corporation takes money from a customer,
- smears the money with fecal matter from various officers of the corporation,
- rubs the money in the customer's face,
- and then deposits money into bank account when all fecal matter has been transfered to customer's face.
If I patented this, maybe companies would stop doing this to us. Although I guess there already is plenty of prior art.In other news, Amazon.com announced a partnership with wine.com.
At such times, my laptop, in my den, cannot see the wireless router in my living room. Granted, it doesn't occur often, but it's a major incovenience when it does.
I've almost finished programming it with some neat defense technology, to deal with hackers that try to break into it, or child pedos that think it's a seven year old boy and want to play.
Now, I'm going to give it some ability to review the source code for our missile-launching satellites and robotic defense schematics.
BTW you'll find this funny: it's already smart enough to complain about the name I gave it. Although personally, I think SkyNet is a great name.
I hope I'm not the only one that suspects ScanAlert of quoting "dazed and confused" retailers, in order to lend legitimacy to the importance of their "shocking" report.