Copyright restricts copying, not distribution.... it is making the "copies" that is illegal, not the redistribution.
Making a copy in itself is a technical violation, but if you don't distribute it no harm has been done to the owner of copyright and if a case were brought, most likely no damages would be awarded. The act of publishing makes it a much more serious violation -- in assessing the penalties the court looks at actual or possible losses of the owner (I have had occasion to look into the case law of this as I work in book publishing).
Note that none of the above applies to (most) software, which is distributed under a license, so copyright law does not (usually) apply.
Copyright still applies; any licensing is additional. However, previously a compiled binary was not held to be copyrightable. (Source code or scripts or any associated artwork are certainly copyrightable.) I believe that it is under recent amendments (the infamous DMCA) though.
They were using the work of a whole host of other people -- filmographers, recording engineers, writers, etc
True. However, almost all these people would be dead by now. And even those still alive would be very unlikely to have seen one cent from Fox (which is still selling its own version, apparently, according to the story) considering the way movie residuals worked then -- pretty sure production people would get nothing beyond their original salary.
This is the equivalent of taking a novel by, say, Charles Dickens, editing it and perhaps adding another chapter, changing the title and claiming it as a new novel written by yourself. Really sleazy, IMHO.
How much credit does Disney give the Brothers Grimm?
I agree that the honest thing to do (for Disney too) is to acknowledge the source material, even if just small print in the credits. Wouldn't hurt them and removes the furtiveness of just rebadging it.
"Not only is Russian Ark the longest shot in film history, it is also the first feature film ever created in a single take."
Warhol made some rather longer ones. Such as EMPIRE, BW/Silent/8 hrs, 5 mins (filmed June 25/26, 1964). A continuous shot, though since each reel was 35 minutes long it was impossible for it to be a continuous take (and I doubt any movie ever made really is).
The film begins with a totally white screen and as the sun sets, the image of the Empire State Building emerges. The floodlights on its exterior come on, the building's lights flicker on and off for the next 6 1/2 hours, then the floodlights go off again in the next to the last reel so that the remainder of the film takes place in nearly total darkness. (warholstars.org)
if the human condition had remained to be "Survival of the Fittest" as opposed to "Equal opportunity for everyone," the human race would be completely different right now.
This "equal opportunity" idea didn't have much impact till the 18th Century (French and American Revolutions). Even then, it had little impact on daily life till perhaps post WWII. So this process, if it exists at all, has had little chance to degrade the human race, and that in only a few First World countries.
Look at some places much closer to "red in tooth and claw" life, like, say, most of Africa, Bangladesh, etc. There the levels of health, education and intelligence (because of childhood dietary deficiency, not inherent genetics, before anyone gets excited) are quite a bit lower than fat complacent First World countries.
Further, it takes many generations of breeding to change the characteristics of a species. As we're not fruitflies, this is centuries of real time, and if we're still around at all we will have gene technology all worked out and be able to design our descendants (or even redesign ourselves).
Recording off the radio is making a copy of coprighted material. In almost all jurisdicitions this constitutes a breach of copyright.
I don't think so. Copyright basically prevents unauthorised publication, not the act of copying itself. If you sold or eevn just gave away copies you certainly would be vio;ating copyright. Making a "backup" for your own use is exactly the same as time-shifing TV shows, which "in almost all jurisidctions" is legal.
Unless some fascist interpretation of the DMCA has changed this, of course.
Who cares? They're both red and white and start with "the".
A closer relationship than that. The Inquirer was founded (about two years ago, I think) by Mike Magee, who previously founded and edited The Register, which continues in his absence.
Battlestar Galactica was the only one that got it right.
It was an aircraft carrier in space whereas the Enterprise was a Battleship in space.
The Enterprise was not a warship, it was an exploration and research ship. Just for fighting, two or three smaller ships could be built and crewed for the same cost and give a lot more firepower and flexibility.
The answer very well might be "no, you can't link or mirror." By not asking, they avoid the issue of somebody saying "no", but also cut off the possibility of "yes, but please mirror it."
You don't need permission to link to a site (I know some stupid sites tried to say you did, but none have held up in court). You don't ask permission, just give warning that you're planning to do that, and ask if they want it to be mirrored.
With this kind of story, it's been around for a few months and is hardly time sensitive.
If a site really doesn't want links it can easily just take the page down for a few hours (as the floppy Enterprise site did recently), or just check for a Slashdot referrer and reject it.
He was talking about *external* reference vectors, not internal ones.
I think we were both talking about the relationship between these.
On a ship with AG, the internal gravitational direction has no relation whatsoever to your external coordinate system.
I was assuming that the artificial gravity of the ship would have to vary to compensate for acceleration to keep a steady field inside, and that this might be simpler if they were in the same direction.
It appears he was moving the site anyway, so indeed, just bad timing. The google cache of the page says something like "I'm moving the site to new hosting this week, because my hosting service is putting pop-ups on my page".
No, that was his old site at fortunecity. The Google cache says he was moving on 31 Jan. The link was to his new one at his pown subdomain.
Since virtually all movie and TV spaceships have artificial gravity (even when they're still using some archaic V2-like rocket for propulsion, (because freefall is impossible to do on a budget), and the "real" acceleration is almost always going to be along the axis of the ship, it "stands to reason" (mine anyway) that the decks should be perpendicular to the axis, i.e. you're usually travelling "straight up" if you're standing on the deck. This would have the advantage of making the artificial gravity simpler (Don't have to worry much about sideways forces), and should the AG fail, at least you'd fall onto the deck (or more likely, get smeared over it from the thousands of g's they must pull, even on ST impulse power.
But instead, most seem to have their decks like a sea-going ship or an airliner, parallel to the axis.
The only relic still available is on his old site at fortunecities, the background image is still there which is fairly interesting in itself. I think some other bits of that site might still be there if you can work out the URLs. Nothing on the Wayback Machine for either site.
Cowboy Neal is doing well today. Earlier his spam story is a dupe, now this one where he kills a site before there'sa "FIRST POST".
Slashdot needs 1) dupe detection (or at least marking,
2) some way to mirror low-bandwidth sites (give a veto to the owner)
3) spellcheck on submissions (ESPECIALLY for the editors)
It wasn't a bad idea all the times it's been suggested over the last two or three years.
At this moment, Cowboy Neal has an apology added to the article. Why the fuck can't he pull it from the front page then? Are these guys too busy watching anime that they can't work out a way to detect dupes (since they dupe stories twice on the same day quoting the same sources, obvioulsy there is no system at all in place to even try), or at least a way to hide them after realising it.
I see the parent "Dupe (Score:1, Redundant)" was modded "redundant" by some twat of a moderator. The following post "Duplicate (Score:3, Informative)", was psoted one minute later.
Lately I have found that the majority of/. stories are delayed mirrors of Google News Sci/Tech section. I generally check Google News for the stories, then come here about 2 hours later to see the dialog about the story. I knew this story would be making its way here sooner or later.
That is terrifying, when you realise that Google reports Slashdot stories. If Slashdot them reports these when they get to Google again, we are headed for the apocalypse.
And just to document the last time I saw this story, it was four days ago (perhaps an improvement on the 2-hour dupe of an Apple story last week). The source in that case (Linuxdevices.com) seemed a more detailed story:
Posted by timothy
on Tuesday April 08, @07:27AM from the mux-demux dept.
An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices.com reports that Microsoft has licensed InterVideo Inc. to supply Windows Media Technology to makers of Linux-based consumer devices. Under the agreement, InterVideo is licensed to take the components of the Windows Media Format, port them to Linux, and provide them to manufacturers who are interested in running Windows Media Technology on Linux-based consumer devices such as set-top boxes, personal video recorders, and other hybrid multimedia devices."
Bzzzt. Wrong. The fact that whatever media you are paying attention to is too inadequate to prevent this misunderstanding on your part tells me a great deal right off the bat.
Perhaps I should have specified the popular media. But even on the BBC, you're lucky to hear one Afghan story a day.
I am. Here's my long term plan; every now and then we invade, wipe out whatever troublemaker regime has managed to evolve and then leave.
Go for it. Every twelve years elect a sockpuppet, invade, bankrupt your economy, knock a few points off global GDP, and create another million potential suicide bombers. Much more fun than the tedious work of building up a real democracy, as worked tolerably well in Germany and Japan after WWII.
In any case, the backroom boys' plan is to have a long term base in Iraq where you can base troops and bombers to project power throughout the Middle East. They know that Saudi Arabia is the real problem, (that's where Osama and his buddies come from, after all), and that would be an excellent way to keep them in line. Maybe you should just gas all the Iraqis and blame Saddam for that to prevent any interference.
Let the UN try to build out Iraqi Internet. Frankly I have no hope for the place and I'd rather we just get out.
Excellent plan. That's what you did in Afghanistan (the first time, and probably this time too as they seem to have dropped off the media). Then you created a breeding ground for the Taleban and a home for bin Laden.
They'll still have the 2nd (?) largest reserves of oil in the world, unless you steal it, and so be able to rearm in no time.
Try to keep a longer attention span. You've destroyed two countries so far (Iran, Syria, North Korea in the queue). Now rebuild them, or be watching your backs forever after. Life is not a video game, it isn't "GAME OVER" when you take the presidential palace, it's just beginning.
I don't know, but I find that laser is the way to go, it may only be black and white, and it may be expensive. But it lasts.
I love lasers too, (except when the damn things jam). But I haven't seen any mention of dot matrix so far... I have a Panasonic KX-p1124 that I salvaged from the trash near my house. We had one at the office I worked for printing invoices. These really do last forever. The consumable is an ink ribbon that costs a few dollars for thousands of pages. You can use the cheapest paper, and tractor feed rarely jams. The graphic quality is 360dpi. And they're really noisy. But for most office use, they're really an excellent choice -- you get a dot matrix invoice, you know it's serious, not some over-decorated thing in coloured ink that'll fade away in a couple of months.
When I started uni, in 1977, our "terminals" were mark-sense cards, and our output was dot-matrix. Later we were allowed to use keyboards, but no screen -- everything was echoed to a dot matrix. We played Star Trek like that, "srs" to print a short-range scan..... In the Physics Dept a guy had worked out a driver to print electron orbitals, using one pin of a dot matrix head (I suppose it was too hard to use all nine).
During that time, no group whatsoever staged any kind of demonstration demanding independence for Hong Kong. Why? Most Chinese supported unification with mainland China.
I don't usually reply to ACs, but, this is still bullshit. Hong Kong people (I live there, I have an ID card, I'm married to a Chinese, so I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT) did not ever want to be part of China. As for demonstrations, over 1 million demonstrated against China in 1989 after Tiananmen Square, and still do every 4th June since.
Hongkongers aren't stupid, they know that China would never let it become independent. How about Taiwan? There the people have an army (and the US fleet) to prevent the PLA from rolling over them, they DO have a choice, and have overwhelmiongly chosen to remain separate.
Hong Kong was British for longer than Puerto Rico was American. Now compare Hong Kong's definitive desire to reunite with China (as opposed to independence, or whatever other options were on the table)
I have responded to the original poster, but just want to point out here that there is and was no "definitive desire" to reunite with the Mainland by the people who actually live here. Do you seriously imagine that a rich First-world city wants to be subject to a corrupt Third World dictatorship? Deng Xiao Ping demanded Hong Kong be handed over. There were no "other options on the table" at all. There was no plebiscite, no choice.
I read the full article about the so-called Chinese search engine. It smacks of further government control.
Maybe you missed this part: "China Search Alliance launched its first fee-based search service, the Search Ranking service, in China. If customers buy a keyword or search catalog, their names will be ranked higher on the list of search results." That sounds more like good old capitalism to me.
the Chinese on Taiwan use their constitution to declare that Tibet is part of mainland China while the Chinese People's Liberation Army torture and kill Tibetan nuns.
Non sequitar. Taiwan is the "Republic of China", they (officially, though not assertively for a while now) claim sovereignty over the entire mainland too.
The Chinese have no ethics.
They are just as (un) ethical as anyone else. Americans don't have a lot of credibility these days when it comes to ethics, unfortunately for the world, "power corrupts" and since the US became the one true superpower, it certainly has.
Most Chinese in Hong Kong support the return of Hong Kong to mainland China. A CNN/Time survey showed...the Chinese in Hong Kong cheered the mainland Chinese government.
Complete bullshit. I live in HK. The polls you quote reflect the pragmatism of local Chinese who know that they have no alternative, since their abandonment by Margaret Thatcher in 1984. Given a free choice, almost all would have it remain a British colony. Those that could afford to, moved to Canada or the UK (some have come back, now protected by a foreign passport). (Look at current events in Gibraltar where the residents deeply oppose being handed over to Spain.) Six years after the handover, aside from tycoons with Beijing connections, few would not wish to turn back the clock. But as that's impossible, they just kowtow to China and squirrel away money to protect their families from an uncertain future.
The Chinese son of the chairman of a powerful conglomerate in Taiwan has joined with the son of Jiang Zemin, the butcher of Tibet, to build an advanced silicon-wafer factory in Shanghai.
Businessmen are immoral everywhere. IBM sold computers to the Nazis. Same answer to your other points I've omitted.
Chinese (and other Orientals) are over-represented in engineering and business schools, but they are under-represented in meetings of Amnesty International. Why?
Because they'd have a black mark on their files when they went home.
9. No clip dupe detection in the timeline
Long taken for granted among Avid editors, dupe detection is incredibly helpful, especially when cutting longform documentaries and music videos.
Would that they could port this "dupe detection" to Slashcode, maybe it could prevent them posting the same story twice in a row.
Slashdot Mirror
Making a copy in itself is a technical violation, but if you don't distribute it no harm has been done to the owner of copyright and if a case were brought, most likely no damages would be awarded. The act of publishing makes it a much more serious violation -- in assessing the penalties the court looks at actual or possible losses of the owner (I have had occasion to look into the case law of this as I work in book publishing).
Note that none of the above applies to (most) software, which is distributed under a license, so copyright law does not (usually) apply.
Copyright still applies; any licensing is additional. However, previously a compiled binary was not held to be copyrightable. (Source code or scripts or any associated artwork are certainly copyrightable.) I believe that it is under recent amendments (the infamous DMCA) though.
True. However, almost all these people would be dead by now. And even those still alive would be very unlikely to have seen one cent from Fox (which is still selling its own version, apparently, according to the story) considering the way movie residuals worked then -- pretty sure production people would get nothing beyond their original salary.
This is the equivalent of taking a novel by, say, Charles Dickens, editing it and perhaps adding another chapter, changing the title and claiming it as a new novel written by yourself. Really sleazy, IMHO.
How much credit does Disney give the Brothers Grimm?
I agree that the honest thing to do (for Disney too) is to acknowledge the source material, even if just small print in the credits. Wouldn't hurt them and removes the furtiveness of just rebadging it.
Warhol made some rather longer ones. Such as EMPIRE, BW/Silent/8 hrs, 5 mins (filmed June 25/26, 1964). A continuous shot, though since each reel was 35 minutes long it was impossible for it to be a continuous take (and I doubt any movie ever made really is).
The film begins with a totally white screen and as the sun sets, the image of the Empire State Building emerges. The floodlights on its exterior come on, the building's lights flicker on and off for the next 6 1/2 hours, then the floodlights go off again in the next to the last reel so that the remainder of the film takes place in nearly total darkness. (warholstars.org)
This "equal opportunity" idea didn't have much impact till the 18th Century (French and American Revolutions). Even then, it had little impact on daily life till perhaps post WWII. So this process, if it exists at all, has had little chance to degrade the human race, and that in only a few First World countries.
Look at some places much closer to "red in tooth and claw" life, like, say, most of Africa, Bangladesh, etc. There the levels of health, education and intelligence (because of childhood dietary deficiency, not inherent genetics, before anyone gets excited) are quite a bit lower than fat complacent First World countries.
Further, it takes many generations of breeding to change the characteristics of a species. As we're not fruitflies, this is centuries of real time, and if we're still around at all we will have gene technology all worked out and be able to design our descendants (or even redesign ourselves).
I don't think so. Copyright basically prevents unauthorised publication, not the act of copying itself. If you sold or eevn just gave away copies you certainly would be vio;ating copyright. Making a "backup" for your own use is exactly the same as time-shifing TV shows, which "in almost all jurisidctions" is legal.
Unless some fascist interpretation of the DMCA has changed this, of course.
A closer relationship than that. The Inquirer was founded (about two years ago, I think) by Mike Magee, who previously founded and edited The Register, which continues in his absence.
Where were who?
Space Marines too.. Where were they?
What Space Marines?
I think ...
The Enterprise was not a warship, it was an exploration and research ship. Just for fighting, two or three smaller ships could be built and crewed for the same cost and give a lot more firepower and flexibility.
You don't need permission to link to a site (I know some stupid sites tried to say you did, but none have held up in court). You don't ask permission, just give warning that you're planning to do that, and ask if they want it to be mirrored.
With this kind of story, it's been around for a few months and is hardly time sensitive.
If a site really doesn't want links it can easily just take the page down for a few hours (as the floppy Enterprise site did recently), or just check for a Slashdot referrer and reject it.
I think we were both talking about the relationship between these.
On a ship with AG, the internal gravitational direction has no relation whatsoever to your external coordinate system.
I was assuming that the artificial gravity of the ship would have to vary to compensate for acceleration to keep a steady field inside, and that this might be simpler if they were in the same direction.
No, that was his old site at fortunecity. The Google cache says he was moving on 31 Jan. The link was to his new one at his pown subdomain.
But instead, most seem to have their decks like a sea-going ship or an airliner, parallel to the axis.
Cowboy Neal is doing well today. Earlier his spam story is a dupe, now this one where he kills a site before there'sa "FIRST POST".
Slashdot needs 1) dupe detection (or at least marking,
2) some way to mirror low-bandwidth sites (give a veto to the owner)
3) spellcheck on submissions (ESPECIALLY for the editors)
It wasn't a bad idea all the times it's been suggested over the last two or three years.
At this moment, Cowboy Neal has an apology added to the article. Why the fuck can't he pull it from the front page then? Are these guys too busy watching anime that they can't work out a way to detect dupes (since they dupe stories twice on the same day quoting the same sources, obvioulsy there is no system at all in place to even try), or at least a way to hide them after realising it.
That is terrifying, when you realise that Google reports Slashdot stories. If Slashdot them reports these when they get to Google again, we are headed for the apocalypse.
And just to document the last time I saw this story, it was four days ago (perhaps an improvement on the 2-hour dupe of an Apple story last week). The source in that case (Linuxdevices.com) seemed a more detailed story:
Perhaps I should have specified the popular media. But even on the BBC, you're lucky to hear one Afghan story a day.
I am. Here's my long term plan; every now and then we invade, wipe out whatever troublemaker regime has managed to evolve and then leave.
Go for it. Every twelve years elect a sockpuppet, invade, bankrupt your economy, knock a few points off global GDP, and create another million potential suicide bombers. Much more fun than the tedious work of building up a real democracy, as worked tolerably well in Germany and Japan after WWII.
In any case, the backroom boys' plan is to have a long term base in Iraq where you can base troops and bombers to project power throughout the Middle East. They know that Saudi Arabia is the real problem, (that's where Osama and his buddies come from, after all), and that would be an excellent way to keep them in line. Maybe you should just gas all the Iraqis and blame Saddam for that to prevent any interference.
Excellent plan. That's what you did in Afghanistan (the first time, and probably this time too as they seem to have dropped off the media). Then you created a breeding ground for the Taleban and a home for bin Laden.
They'll still have the 2nd (?) largest reserves of oil in the world, unless you steal it, and so be able to rearm in no time.
Try to keep a longer attention span. You've destroyed two countries so far (Iran, Syria, North Korea in the queue). Now rebuild them, or be watching your backs forever after. Life is not a video game, it isn't "GAME OVER" when you take the presidential palace, it's just beginning.
Grade inflation breaks new ground.
I love lasers too, (except when the damn things jam). But I haven't seen any mention of dot matrix so far... I have a Panasonic KX-p1124 that I salvaged from the trash near my house. We had one at the office I worked for printing invoices. These really do last forever. The consumable is an ink ribbon that costs a few dollars for thousands of pages. You can use the cheapest paper, and tractor feed rarely jams. The graphic quality is 360dpi. And they're really noisy. But for most office use, they're really an excellent choice -- you get a dot matrix invoice, you know it's serious, not some over-decorated thing in coloured ink that'll fade away in a couple of months.
When I started uni, in 1977, our "terminals" were mark-sense cards, and our output was dot-matrix. Later we were allowed to use keyboards, but no screen -- everything was echoed to a dot matrix. We played Star Trek like that, "srs" to print a short-range scan..... In the Physics Dept a guy had worked out a driver to print electron orbitals, using one pin of a dot matrix head (I suppose it was too hard to use all nine).
I don't usually reply to ACs, but, this is still bullshit. Hong Kong people (I live there, I have an ID card, I'm married to a Chinese, so I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT) did not ever want to be part of China. As for demonstrations, over 1 million demonstrated against China in 1989 after Tiananmen Square, and still do every 4th June since.
Hongkongers aren't stupid, they know that China would never let it become independent. How about Taiwan? There the people have an army (and the US fleet) to prevent the PLA from rolling over them, they DO have a choice, and have overwhelmiongly chosen to remain separate.
I have responded to the original poster, but just want to point out here that there is and was no "definitive desire" to reunite with the Mainland by the people who actually live here. Do you seriously imagine that a rich First-world city wants to be subject to a corrupt Third World dictatorship? Deng Xiao Ping demanded Hong Kong be handed over. There were no "other options on the table" at all. There was no plebiscite, no choice.
Maybe you missed this part: "China Search Alliance launched its first fee-based search service, the Search Ranking service, in China. If customers buy a keyword or search catalog, their names will be ranked higher on the list of search results." That sounds more like good old capitalism to me.
the Chinese on Taiwan use their constitution to declare that Tibet is part of mainland China while the Chinese People's Liberation Army torture and kill Tibetan nuns.
Non sequitar. Taiwan is the "Republic of China", they (officially, though not assertively for a while now) claim sovereignty over the entire mainland too.
The Chinese have no ethics.
They are just as (un) ethical as anyone else. Americans don't have a lot of credibility these days when it comes to ethics, unfortunately for the world, "power corrupts" and since the US became the one true superpower, it certainly has.
Most Chinese in Hong Kong support the return of Hong Kong to mainland China. A CNN/Time survey showed...the Chinese in Hong Kong cheered the mainland Chinese government.
Complete bullshit. I live in HK. The polls you quote reflect the pragmatism of local Chinese who know that they have no alternative, since their abandonment by Margaret Thatcher in 1984. Given a free choice, almost all would have it remain a British colony. Those that could afford to, moved to Canada or the UK (some have come back, now protected by a foreign passport). (Look at current events in Gibraltar where the residents deeply oppose being handed over to Spain.) Six years after the handover, aside from tycoons with Beijing connections, few would not wish to turn back the clock. But as that's impossible, they just kowtow to China and squirrel away money to protect their families from an uncertain future.
The Chinese son of the chairman of a powerful conglomerate in Taiwan has joined with the son of Jiang Zemin, the butcher of Tibet, to build an advanced silicon-wafer factory in Shanghai.
Businessmen are immoral everywhere. IBM sold computers to the Nazis. Same answer to your other points I've omitted.
Chinese (and other Orientals) are over-represented in engineering and business schools, but they are under-represented in meetings of Amnesty International. Why?
Because they'd have a black mark on their files when they went home.
We Americans are kind-hearted and naive.
Half right.
--well, you might also mention Taco's "becomming"
Long taken for granted among Avid editors, dupe detection is incredibly helpful, especially when cutting longform documentaries and music videos.
Would that they could port this "dupe detection" to Slashcode, maybe it could prevent them posting the same story twice in a row.