I think The kitchen shears I have, about $1, are powerful and sharp enough, and as safe. For more heavyweight use, gardening shears. Ultimately, woodworking tools. The idea that you have to use a certified "package opening tool" is just more consumerism. If you don't have any of those, at least $6 isn't extortionate.
do you really want someone smart, in a criminal way, to run the country?
Just think of Richard Nixon. Extremely smart, very insecure, vicious temper, paranoid. Achieved some foreign policy coups, as realpoltik suited his scheming mind, but morally bankrupt and fatally damaged the trust people felt for their government. Gates has by all accounts perpetrated lots of sleazy scams on his competition and partners. All that would come back to destroy him should he declare -- just imagine Swift Boat Vets For Truth x 20.
In that case "Participants were given local client access to the target computer and invited to try their luck." Which is a big leg up. No evidence of "hackers exploiting Mac vulnerabilities for months" in the real world.
I meant in a somewhat sane society. Obviously. =P Russia...does not exactly qualify.
The USA has a compulsory licence for radio broadcasting. (Though that's hardly a beacon of sanity either.) I don't think there's an opt-out there either. If you don't sign up, you just don't get paid.
Released this week you say? The article I'm referring to was posted a few months ago.
You didn't explicitly "refer to" any article. So one assumes you were talking about this from last week:
Mystery of Ancient Calculator Finally Cracked On November 24th, 2006 with 240 comments jcaruso writes, "It's been more than 100 years since the discovery of the 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, but researchers are only now figuring out how...
New Clues for Antikythera Mechanism On June 13th, 2006 with 183 comments fuzzybunny writes "The Register reports that British and Dutch scientists located a previously undetected word on the Antikythera Mechanism which seems to...
The initial discovery was posted before. This article, however, is about how it works
Bullshit.
It was discovered in 1902. Slashdot's search doesn't seem to go back that far. Both Slashdot stories are about the same research results released this week.
Then I started thinking about the iBrator and Ellen Fleiss again and all was well.
I think you're confusing two icons: Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood madam, Ellen Feiss, teenage Mac switcher. The first is a bit skanky these days, the latter is probably legal now.
Changes in the security model. Finally, supposedly, MS is taking security seriously. And if so, a lot of gaping holes will be closed in macros, which will mean a non-trivial upgrade. So cross your fingers.
You seem to be about the only person here with actual experience on the supply side. I always did wonder if AllofMP3 actually would pay up if asked; but I wanted to give the m the benefit of the doubt.
Now, imagine a company that tells you they are selling your music and they offer to pay you 1 penny per song. Of course you refuse.
See my reply to your other message. And how much do you think an artist gets for radio play, in any country? They have no choice in that either. So do you listen to the radio? Do you feel immoral in doing so?
So if the royalty price that AllofMP3 offered was not enough, does that mean that AllofMP3 can go ahead with their business model and not pay anything at all?
As I understand it, it's not an offer. The amount is fixed by law. And supposedly AllofMP3 has paid this and it's being held by the Russian copyright agency. So if no one claims it you'll get a tax cut....
Vendor says, my song is worth $x, if you want to sell it, thats what you pay. Country y says, no we don't want to pay that, vendor puts pressure on them through larger more powerful country until they get what they get everywhere else. No amount of misguided pseudo-moralistic posturing
You seem to understand the situation. It's pressure; money and guns talk.
Which is an advance; first you claimed it was a matter of "rights". Then "feelings"; now it's just "power". People with powerful friends can fuck you over, and it's "pseudo-moralistic posturing" to complain.
And what is it with you people anyway, are you tag teaming me?
Yes, and we're opening your mail, bugging your phone and polluting your precious bodily fluids.
You may have noticed that there are about one million subscribers to Slashdot. Sometimes more than one person takes part in a thread.
Anyway, I said "foreigner", as you seem not to have any regard for the rights of anyone outside your own little nation. Your "feelings" are more important than anyone else's legal rights, and wil be enforced at gunpoint (or by trade boycotts in this case).
The summary suggests that an appeal might be on its way, and I imagine the ruling will be shot down. To make any changes to currency would not only require completely recirculating the billions of papers out there, but it would probably require drastic changes to the printing process. Different shapes, sizes, or including braille print sound like expensive alterations.
Any transition would not be overnight. It'd basically just involve new bills, no mass callback. The mint's printing methods are changing all the time; however they take care not to change the superficial appearance. So the cost would be minimal. Paper money wears out fairly rapidly and after a few years most currency in circulation would be compliant. America is oddly conservative in its currency. Most countries redesign, sometimes radically, every 10 or 20 years.
Eh where in any of my posts did I say that there wasn't?
When you said they had "no right" to sell the music. Now youre talking about "feelings". And "using leverage" to put someone out of business doesn't strike me as terribly moral. But they're only foreigners, after all.
All that means is that Russian law was borked according to the owners of the copyright, and its their opinion that people listen to, not yours.
People who own copyright don't make laws. Not in my country, anyway. But you're right in one thing, the government listens to them. Nothing to do with morality or legality though.
The *AAs have the right to refuse to deal with them, or any vendor they like. That doesn't give vendors the right to go ahead and sell their music anyway.
Under Russian law there is a compulsory licensing; i.e., a fixed rate mediated by a copyright bureau that collects from broadcasters and publishers and disburses payments. Something similar operates in many countries for radio broadcast rights, it's not a "communist" idea, just in case you were thinking that. Of course, if a rights owner and a publisher make their own contract, that will take precedence.
First off, at the end of the day AllofMP3 was not giving artists and production / media companies their required due, so what they were doing was immoral
Allof MP3 offered to pay royalties. All anyone had to do was fill out a form. The **AAs refused to deal with them, so they could do exactly what they've done today: call them pirates and get the US govt to force them out of business.
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I think The kitchen shears I have, about $1, are powerful and sharp enough, and as safe. For more heavyweight use, gardening shears. Ultimately, woodworking tools. The idea that you have to use a certified "package opening tool" is just more consumerism. If you don't have any of those, at least $6 isn't extortionate.
Just think of Richard Nixon. Extremely smart, very insecure, vicious temper, paranoid. Achieved some foreign policy coups, as realpoltik suited his scheming mind, but morally bankrupt and fatally damaged the trust people felt for their government. Gates has by all accounts perpetrated lots of sleazy scams on his competition and partners. All that would come back to destroy him should he declare -- just imagine Swift Boat Vets For Truth x 20.
In that case "Participants were given local client access to the target computer and invited to try their luck." Which is a big leg up. No evidence of "hackers exploiting Mac vulnerabilities for months" in the real world.
The USA has a compulsory licence for radio broadcasting. (Though that's hardly a beacon of sanity either.) I don't think there's an opt-out there either. If you don't sign up, you just don't get paid.
Really? Have hackers been exploiting Mac vulnerabilities for months? Have any of these gone beyond proof-of-concept, if that?
The article I'm referring to was posted a few months ago.
You didn't explicitly "refer to" any article. So one assumes you were talking about this from last week:
This search finds that, as well as
Which is probably what you were thinking of.
Bullshit.
It was discovered in 1902. Slashdot's search doesn't seem to go back that far. Both Slashdot stories are about the same research results released this week.
I think you're confusing two icons: Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood madam, Ellen Feiss, teenage Mac switcher. The first is a bit skanky these days, the latter is probably legal now.
There is, in the editing interface. I've used it on another site based on Slashcode. They just don't give a fuck.
Zonk, it would reduce embarrassment if you spellchecked your work, especially the headlines.
I don't think so. There is a reason it's called a "compulsory" license.
Can you point out where in the copyright legislation there is an opt-out clause?
Changes in the security model. Finally, supposedly, MS is taking security seriously. And if so, a lot of gaping holes will be closed in macros, which will mean a non-trivial upgrade. So cross your fingers.
You seem to be about the only person here with actual experience on the supply side. I always did wonder if AllofMP3 actually would pay up if asked; but I wanted to give the m the benefit of the doubt.
Then you should contact ROMS. They should pay you; probably not much, but something.
See my reply to your other message. And how much do you think an artist gets for radio play, in any country? They have no choice in that either. So do you listen to the radio? Do you feel immoral in doing so?
As I understand it, it's not an offer. The amount is fixed by law. And supposedly AllofMP3 has paid this and it's being held by the Russian copyright agency. So if no one claims it you'll get a tax cut....
You seem to understand the situation. It's pressure; money and guns talk.
Which is an advance; first you claimed it was a matter of "rights". Then "feelings"; now it's just "power". People with powerful friends can fuck you over, and it's "pseudo-moralistic posturing" to complain.
And what is it with you people anyway, are you tag teaming me?
Yes, and we're opening your mail, bugging your phone and polluting your precious bodily fluids.
You may have noticed that there are about one million subscribers to Slashdot. Sometimes more than one person takes part in a thread.
Ah, the old "You called me a Nazi" strawman...
Anyway, I said "foreigner", as you seem not to have any regard for the rights of anyone outside your own little nation. Your "feelings" are more important than anyone else's legal rights, and wil be enforced at gunpoint (or by trade boycotts in this case).
Same reason you don't go metric.
Any transition would not be overnight. It'd basically just involve new bills, no mass callback. The mint's printing methods are changing all the time; however they take care not to change the superficial appearance. So the cost would be minimal. Paper money wears out fairly rapidly and after a few years most currency in circulation would be compliant. America is oddly conservative in its currency. Most countries redesign, sometimes radically, every 10 or 20 years.
When you said they had "no right" to sell the music. Now youre talking about "feelings". And "using leverage" to put someone out of business doesn't strike me as terribly moral. But they're only foreigners, after all.
People who own copyright don't make laws. Not in my country, anyway. But you're right in one thing, the government listens to them. Nothing to do with morality or legality though.
Because they refused to take it.
Under Russian law there is a compulsory licensing; i.e., a fixed rate mediated by a copyright bureau that collects from broadcasters and publishers and disburses payments. Something similar operates in many countries for radio broadcast rights, it's not a "communist" idea, just in case you were thinking that. Of course, if a rights owner and a publisher make their own contract, that will take precedence.
Allof MP3 offered to pay royalties. All anyone had to do was fill out a form. The **AAs refused to deal with them, so they could do exactly what they've done today: call them pirates and get the US govt to force them out of business.