Under the brits the guy would do cold porridge, under the special HK administration, who knows?
There are few changes in the law or its administration. Many judges are still British, as is the basis of the law. Mainland law has trumped a few local laws, but only in high-profile cases involving electoral procedures, etc. There is still no capital punishment.
Photo images of the labels of the compact discs were also found on the computer.... Senior Inspector Kwan said the originating "seeder" computer was most responsible for the distribution of the copyrighted work...
Mr Francis argued that the process of downloading was initiated by the downloading computer and not by the seeder computer. But Senior Inspector Kwan said the seeder computer had to be turned on and connected to a BitTorrent-user website first.
. You can speak out agaisnt the president, but you cannot talk about ways to kill him.
Of course you can. You can even make movies and TV shows about it (at least once a year on The West Wing and 24). You may well be harassed, but if it's not an actual threat, you won't be sent to the Gulag (unless you're a Muslim, that is).
But for anything more advanced, yes, you're going to have to do some work.
That's what I meant. I was responding to a poster saying it's "easy". I wouldn't be using it at all if I didn't think it was worth the trouble. Mostly, AFTER you learn how to do something, it's fairly smooth. The initial learning is the hard part. I use it often enough to appreciate its power, but not enough to forget how arcane some of the controls and methods are to a beginner.
I use it once a week or less, and after three years have learnt to do a few things, but every time I need to do something different I have to spend half an hour digging through the help, which is almost as bad as a Unix man page, or Googling for an explanation. Unless you meant "easy to use after you're experienced", certainly not "easy to learn" for most people.
it puzzles me how the deaths of a couple of dozen astronauts can call our exploration of space into question but the deaths of 2000 soliders in Iraq does not call the entire military apparatus into question.
Losing a few soldiers in Mogadishu was enough to make the US shy off peace-keeping for the next decade, allowing millions to die in Rwanda, for instance. The appetite for war and accepting sacrifice was only renewed after 9/11, with a palpable enemy to fight. (And I know al-Qaeda has no links to Iraq in reality, we're talking about the zeitgeist.) Similarly, risks were accepted in the original space race, as it was seen as part of the Cold War. If China, or even Europe, starts to lay claim to space, maybe the motivation will return.
some enterprising spammers do is set up porn sites that tell people "enter the word you see here and get free porn!". Lots of horny geeks do the spammers' work for them.
Really? How do you know this? I know the idea has been proposed and is mentioned quite often, but if you can't give a URL for a captcha-porn site, I must conclude that this is still an urban legend.
Come on folks, we can't even organise ourselves on Earth to prevent avoidable damage from hurricanes and earthquakes, we can't agree on whether we are causing climate change by producing greenhouse gases, we are faced with an influenza pandemic that no-one really knows how to deal with, and we still have R&D money to spend on sending people to the moon and Mars?
Taking money from NASA won't help any of that. There's plenty of pork barrels around that will absorb any spare cash. Why not look at larger items, for what you spend in Iraq in a week you could already have a a base on the lunar pole.
NASA isn't banning interspecial sex, just sex among the crew
To be serious for a moment, no one seems to have read TFA. The Slashdot heading is false. TFA says nothing about "banning" sex, just that it is a subject that has been ignored but must be studied in planning long missions.
Now returning you to your scheduled program of sniggering jokes....
The software should come with a big read warning sign, "Change the default password, and give each user a unique password!
Several systems I've used issue you with a password, say 4 letters or numbers. The first time you login, a password change progam runs and won't let you do anythng else till you've changed your password, and it has to be longer, so you can't keep the initial one.
It is a troll. But now the post is modded "insightful" by similar rednecks who will also go on to upmod other inane posts referring to the direction toilet water flushes, sheep and crocodile references, and similar cutting-edge wit.
defense of being an innocent infringer. Take a look at 17 USC 405(b).
You take a look. It applies only to items "which the copyright notice has been omitted", not items which have not been "registered". [I see now you added the condition of omitting notice, though I originally only discussed omitting registration. If I was publishing anything at all, I'd put a copyright line in it, though I wouldn't bother to register unless I was a large corporation.] And further, to items "publicly distributed by authority of the copyright owner before... 1988", not now.
Also, if you don't register and didn't put a notice on the work, the other person can use the defense that they thought it was public domain, thereby making registration very important.
Such a defence would fail. Copyright is the default. Nothing is in the public domain unless the copyright has expired, or it's EXPLICITLY put there.
A) The public doesn't know or care how TLDs are supposed to work and expect every URL to end in ".com" (and in most cases, they're right).
The (American) public may be stupid, but that DOES NOT mean they're right.
B) ICANN doesn't enforce the TLD "rules" anyway
Sadly, true. And most of the new and upcoming ones --.info,.xxx,.biz, are all scams to sell the same domains to the same companies that own the respective.com.
therefore TLDs serve no useful purpose other than to create confusion in the public and opertunities for shady organizations to generate web trafic (or worse, run phishing sites) by registering a similar name to a legitimate web site. "Your Paypal information needs to be updated, please log on to http:/// www.paypal.cz/ and re-enter your credit card number."
Wait a minute here; you want to get rid of CCTLDs too? Because Americans don't understand that ".cz" is not ".com"? If people can grasp the concept of telephone area codes, they can understand TLDs. It's just that so far the only efforts made to inform the public on the issue have been to MISinform them, by registrars trying to pass off.md (Moldova) as for doctors, or.la (Laos) as Los Angeles and other sleazy schemes. In any case, other countries are not going to give up their CCTLDs any time soon; instead of ripping up the current system, ICANN should 1) forget about new TLDs, 2) enforce current ones' purposes 3) spend a few bucks to educate users as to just what a TLD is. That would do much more to prevent users being suckered; there other ways to get plausible looking URLs even within.com anyway.
The steam powered space ships were used by people in an alternate universe - green mars - to move between earth and mars. I think it is in A Stranger in a Strange Land.
Not Stranger, that was part of his "Future History" (with nuclear powered ships). But you may be right, I did't get into his last few books where he had characters shuttling between fictional universes in between having incest.
For example, in the U.S. you write an article but don't bother to register the copyright. However, you find out people have started using it without your permission so you go an copyright it at that point. Just because you didn't recognize the potential value of your work until later doesn't mean you don't get those rights. That said, you do you lose some claims against early infringers by registering late; but you don't lose your rights entirely.
You have copyright and can sue infringers whether you have "registered" it or not. I believe however you can more easily get statutory damages with a registration.
If they sell computers without OSes, there are going to be more technical support questions. Those tech support staff members cost money, and they need to be more knowledgeable if they need to know how to help setup linux.
If they didn't sell the OS, they're not obliged, morally or legally, to support whatever you install at all. If you bought Redhat or SuSE or whatever, you call them. So cost of support to vendor = zero. Anyway, you've assumed that Linux support costs are bound to be higher than Windows. That's somethng many would dispute. (Not for any random distro, but one designed for consumers, like Linspire.)
Something low tech like Robert Heinlein's gigantic, coal fired, steam powered space ships? Though he never explained where they got the oxidizer from...
Probably because he never wrote any stories about "coal fired spacehips". If he explained the technology at all, his spaceships were usually nuclear powered.
>What I want to see is some guy get into space by sitting on a huge jug of exploding moonshine.
Add in sufficient sheilding, and I think you've just described dozens of sci-fi novels from the 1940s and 1950s.
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There are few changes in the law or its administration. Many judges are still British, as is the basis of the law. Mainland law has trumped a few local laws, but only in high-profile cases involving electoral procedures, etc. There is still no capital punishment.
He had a copy (or bootleg) discs and seeded them to BT. See this story from the South China Morning Post (it's a mirror, the Post site is subscription only).
Of course you can. You can even make movies and TV shows about it (at least once a year on The West Wing and 24). You may well be harassed, but if it's not an actual threat, you won't be sent to the Gulag (unless you're a Muslim, that is).
That's what I meant. I was responding to a poster saying it's "easy". I wouldn't be using it at all if I didn't think it was worth the trouble. Mostly, AFTER you learn how to do something, it's fairly smooth. The initial learning is the hard part. I use it often enough to appreciate its power, but not enough to forget how arcane some of the controls and methods are to a beginner.
Mod that man "funny.
I use it once a week or less, and after three years have learnt to do a few things, but every time I need to do something different I have to spend half an hour digging through the help, which is almost as bad as a Unix man page, or Googling for an explanation. Unless you meant "easy to use after you're experienced", certainly not "easy to learn" for most people.
Losing a few soldiers in Mogadishu was enough to make the US shy off peace-keeping for the next decade, allowing millions to die in Rwanda, for instance. The appetite for war and accepting sacrifice was only renewed after 9/11, with a palpable enemy to fight. (And I know al-Qaeda has no links to Iraq in reality, we're talking about the zeitgeist.) Similarly, risks were accepted in the original space race, as it was seen as part of the Cold War. If China, or even Europe, starts to lay claim to space, maybe the motivation will return.
Really? How do you know this? I know the idea has been proposed and is mentioned quite often, but if you can't give a URL for a captcha-porn site, I must conclude that this is still an urban legend.
Taking money from NASA won't help any of that. There's plenty of pork barrels around that will absorb any spare cash. Why not look at larger items, for what you spend in Iraq in a week you could already have a a base on the lunar pole.
These guys better not try that in Washington.
To be serious for a moment, no one seems to have read TFA. The Slashdot heading is false. TFA says nothing about "banning" sex, just that it is a subject that has been ignored but must be studied in planning long missions.
Now returning you to your scheduled program of sniggering jokes....
Which isn't new, it just quotes the GamePC article.
Several systems I've used issue you with a password, say 4 letters or numbers. The first time you login, a password change progam runs and won't let you do anythng else till you've changed your password, and it has to be longer, so you can't keep the initial one.
WTF? Which Australian schools teach Creationism?
It is a troll. But now the post is modded "insightful" by similar rednecks who will also go on to upmod other inane posts referring to the direction toilet water flushes, sheep and crocodile references, and similar cutting-edge wit.
Could someone explain how "Arkansas" is apparently pronounced "Arkinsaw"? I assumed they were two different states till recently.
You take a look. It applies only to items "which the copyright notice has been omitted", not items which have not been "registered". [I see now you added the condition of omitting notice, though I originally only discussed omitting registration. If I was publishing anything at all, I'd put a copyright line in it, though I wouldn't bother to register unless I was a large corporation.] And further, to items "publicly distributed by authority of the copyright owner before ... 1988", not now.
We're talking about a web appliance/thin client/WebTV kind of thing, not a current PC.
Such a defence would fail. Copyright is the default. Nothing is in the public domain unless the copyright has expired, or it's EXPLICITLY put there.
The (American) public may be stupid, but that DOES NOT mean they're right.
B) ICANN doesn't enforce the TLD "rules" anyway
Sadly, true. And most of the new and upcoming ones -- .info, .xxx, .biz, are all scams to sell the same domains to the same companies that own the respective .com.
therefore TLDs serve no useful purpose other than to create confusion in the public and opertunities for shady organizations to generate web trafic (or worse, run phishing sites) by registering a similar name to a legitimate web site. "Your Paypal information needs to be updated, please log on to http:/// www.paypal.cz/ and re-enter your credit card number."
Wait a minute here; you want to get rid of CCTLDs too? Because Americans don't understand that ".cz" is not ".com"? If people can grasp the concept of telephone area codes, they can understand TLDs. It's just that so far the only efforts made to inform the public on the issue have been to MISinform them, by registrars trying to pass off .md (Moldova) as for doctors, or .la (Laos) as Los Angeles and other sleazy schemes. In any case, other countries are not going to give up their CCTLDs any time soon; instead of ripping up the current system, ICANN should 1) forget about new TLDs, 2) enforce current ones' purposes 3) spend a few bucks to educate users as to just what a TLD is. That would do much more to prevent users being suckered; there other ways to get plausible looking URLs even within .com anyway.
Not Stranger, that was part of his "Future History" (with nuclear powered ships). But you may be right, I did't get into his last few books where he had characters shuttling between fictional universes in between having incest.
Problem? That's the whole reason the different TLDs were created.
You have copyright and can sue infringers whether you have "registered" it or not. I believe however you can more easily get statutory damages with a registration.
If they didn't sell the OS, they're not obliged, morally or legally, to support whatever you install at all. If you bought Redhat or SuSE or whatever, you call them. So cost of support to vendor = zero. Anyway, you've assumed that Linux support costs are bound to be higher than Windows. That's somethng many would dispute. (Not for any random distro, but one designed for consumers, like Linspire.)
Probably because he never wrote any stories about "coal fired spacehips". If he explained the technology at all, his spaceships were usually nuclear powered.
Add in sufficient sheilding, and I think you've just described dozens of sci-fi novels from the 1940s and 1950s.
A Bicycle Built for Brew, (Astounding, 1958)