If you're going to that much trouble, wire it in to the light circuit. It could charge the batteries if the lights are off periodically. In fact you'd be a fool to go near it again, the IP could be tracked to the restaurant or whatever and "they" would have it under observation, maybe causing a fault to see if you fix it.
I have several domains that I've purchased, but they are currently only used for mail purposes. I did purchase them for actual use, but why not let me set up domain parking?
If they don't have any content, putting ads on them is totally parasitic. Which is good for you, you make money for nothing, but a waste of time for everyone who stumbles on your page.
But you knew that. If you don't care about ading more worthless crap to the world, fine.
If the 'application' is bundled, I consider it a part of the OS. You can't tell me that perl is not part....
Perl, maybe. How about media players? Office suites? Games? Etc, etc. Or if you insist, you should count all the exploits for MS Office in with those for Windows, as it is after all very often bundled with a new PC.
People discuss, they find common ground and form accepted truths.
Really? In my experience, people discuss, then they argue, call each other names and NO ONE (well, hardly anyone, I shouldn't fall into the same exaggeration) ever changes their mind.
While there are opinions apparently held by a majority, that's not the same as saying "Slashdotters support X". For comparison, if I said "Americans support X", that would be just as silly and untrue a generalisation, for almost any X. And for this issue, while many, myself included, enjoy putting Microsoft down, you will ALWAYS find a bunch of sincere posts supporting it. And as well a bunch of trolls just being contrary on either side, hard to tell sometimes.
As for modding up and down, that's in theory at least only meant to promote interesting posts, remove trolls; not a vote of agreement. Though of course people will tend to mod down opinions they disagree with, but it only takes two or three moderations to make a post a +5 or 0, so that really isn't a significant measure. I've occasionally been modded down for having an unpopular (anti-American) opinion, where in another context I was modded up for a similar sentiment. It's pretty capricious.
Some people have posted this on Slashdot. To maintain that there is a single "Slashdotter" point of view is just a straw man. For ANY point of view you can find hundreds of posts by "Slashdotters" supporting OR contradicting it.
MY PERSONAL point of view is that the statistics presented are suspicious. Previous MS press releases (aka "independent reports") have counted the same error multiple time, have counted bugs in applications bundled with Linux against OS bugs in Windows, etc.
3. Death of the registered person means death of the copyright (you can't encourage dead people to make new works no matter how hard you try)
However, while I broadly agree with your other proposals, this one has some problems. For instance, an elderly, or ill, author, or one involved in dangerous sports like mountain climbing, would have a hard time finding a publisher, as they would be afraid that their investment in advances and publishing costs would not have time to pay off before the copyright went into public domain. So the author would either not get published or get a very unfavourable deal, probably no advance at all. Copyright for ten or at most 20 years after the author's death is reasonable, I think.
"Can you copyright a square grid and some coloured boxes?"
Yes. Lots of designs are trademarked. A famous example is Coke's "dynamic ribbon device." You can't put it on your own brand of cola.
The Coke ribbon is unique and distinctive, and trademarked; a square grid is none of these.
The copycat game looks, walks, and quacks like Scrabble
So?
Monopoly, where the names are changed but the gameplay is fundamentally the same (to be extra clear, I am referring to unlicensed Monopoly renames). Parker Brothers has taken them to court and prevailed.
Citations? Anyway, have they prevailed in the sense of having a judgemenr made, or by the "copycats" conceding rather than facing the massive costs of defending themselves against a large corporation?
Travelers have been able to pick up such technology for $50 for a decade now.
Travellers have been able to pick up pocket phrase books for about $1 for the last 200 years. I have a nice collection on my bookshelf, well thumbed and annotated from my travelling days. Seeing as you actually have to type your phrase into this thing, I really doubt it performs any faster than a thoughtfully indexed phrase book.
Um... it's fairly obvious that the makers of these games are intentionally trying to rip off the games
Yes. But that doesn't make it illegal. How many popular TV shows or movies are blatant ripoffs of an older show, movie or even comic book? As long as it isn't identical, copyright doesn't apply. They may pay for a rights deal if they want to use the same title and theme music, otherwise it's perfectly legit to recycle elements of culture. That's what culture is, art does not arise by immaculate conception in a clean room.
the issue is that they copied the game board's layout, possibly right down to the various colors (whatever they mean).
Yes, the board is the same. So what? Can you copyright a square grid and some coloured boxes? Thay don't use the word "Scrabble" or the logo, so trademark doesn't apply. I'd be surprised if this was patentable. So just what and how does this infringe?
I think you are purposefully missing the point. If the prosecutor involved agreed with you, there would be no lawsuit.
That's not "the point".
And as long as they are treating the torrent files as infringing in and of themselves
Again, you are assuming that whatever the prosecutor says is simply a legal opinion. Obviously there is a great deal of political pressure on them to "do something". Fortunately judges are usually more concerned with what the law actually says.
I mean seriously, the amount of traffic that the Pirate Bay moves is staggering.... Just listing the details each piece of media involved would take thousands of pages.
Yes, if you find "zero" staggering. Either you don't understand, or are deliberately ignoring the fact, that TPB does not host media files. And if you think they're responsible for the torrents they link to, then every general search engine is just as guilty of pointing to the files of dubious provenance you can find using them.
It's that 'entitlement' that feels off to me; no matter what the duration, it still boils down to a law mandating that after some period, everybody (just for existing) becomes entitled to the fruits of my/your efforts. That doesn't feel right.
That's what a society is. You give as well as receive.
I'm not sure why we should ever necessarily be entitled to anything we haven't earned
Consider a few bon mots: "No man is an island." "I stand on the shoulders of giants." "Bad artists copy. Great artists steal." All artistic work is a part of a culture. The creators borrow/reinterpret works of others. Do you really want people to consume your work and not think about it, not comment on it, not recycle it? Can you create an art work from a vacuum?
Consider how this ends up. I would need your permission to quote your lines above before commenting on them. Or consider Disney, how they have taken control of parts of our shared culture and locked it up in copyright and trademark law. And now they want to take control of my computer, TV, and communications in order to safeguard their revenue stream. so they can be sure I do not enjoy the "fruits of their labour" without paying over and over for the privilege.
Why is it only musicians? There are more artforms beyond music, and not all of them have artists beholden to large companies via contracts. There are many who own the copyrights themselves, what about them?
Most writers and musicians do indeed "own" their copyrights of their works. But most have signed contracts with publishers giving certain parts of these rights (notably, reproduction and distribution) to the publishers. These rights are normally not time limited, expiring when the publisher lets the item go off the market. Until very recently with Internet publishing, very few people could practically publish and distribute their own work.
In Hong Kong, where no one buys authorized media, the popular music and film scene continues today as it did before the rise of easy duplication.
I live in Hong Kong, and so I can say this is bullshit. First, bootleg media is not everywhere. You can get it of course, but there are plenty of big legit CD and video shops. However, there has indeed been a slump in local movies and music production. The reasons are complex, due to crappy quality derivative movies and prepackaged unoriginal musical performers being pushed by the labels as much as anything, but part certainly is that a lot of the export market was lost, as in SE Asia bootlegs certainly are prevalent.
Yes but why as an artist don't I have to right to control my work?
Who says you don't? What I think you mean is that you want the power to control what others do with copies of your work. Which is not the same thing at all. If you want complete control, don't give it to anyone. If you want an audience, you must allow them to use it, in some ways. At a minimum, to view/hear/experience it; and if such requires the user to supply his own playing equipment, why do you think you have a right to tell him how he can use it?
Summary: "The poetic justice is that Soghoian had been investigated for 6 months by the FBI and TSA because he pointed out a vulnerability in the US air transport system; no charges were ever filed."
TFA: "I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't grinning from ear to ear with the news of this report. It's poetic justice, if you will, for the unpleasantness that TSA put me through."
IN TFA it isn't really "poetic justice" either. It's just "justice", lacking any of the irony necessary to make it "poetic". But makes a bit more sense than the summary. Also TFA uses "begs the question" incorrectly, ("This begs the question: Who are these guys...") meaning just "raises the question". Why do people insist on using phrases they don't understand? Makes them look like idiots.
have you any idea how much it will cost IBM to train and establish a support mechanism for these machines?
Do you know that it will cost more than training support for Windows?
One thing I do know is that the DRM in Windows makes support a big pain. You can't easily roll out a custom boot disc, for instance, to solve problems. In fact, I sometimes use Linux boot discs to fix Windows myself.
Also, Thinkpads are made by "Lenovo", not "IBM" these days. Though IBM probably still provides many services.
I honestly don't see the point. Statistically, what industry is using the OLPC over Windows, Mac, or just plain Linux?
How is that relevant? The qusetion is, what is the most effective way to teach children. Do you ask "What industry is using literature, history, art, music?"
This is a handy thing for temporarily hooking an IDE or SATA drive up to a USB port
I got a similar one recently to clone my laptop hard disk before swapping in the new drive. My no-name version cost about $5. Any store with computer cables and such doo-dads should have these.
Note that the 2.5" drives are powered via the USB connection, you need a separate power cord for the 3.5" (should come in the box with the adapter, or just get an old PC power supply).
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"Pirates of Silicon Valley"
If you're going to that much trouble, wire it in to the light circuit. It could charge the batteries if the lights are off periodically. In fact you'd be a fool to go near it again, the IP could be tracked to the restaurant or whatever and "they" would have it under observation, maybe causing a fault to see if you fix it.
If they don't have any content, putting ads on them is totally parasitic. Which is good for you, you make money for nothing, but a waste of time for everyone who stumbles on your page.
But you knew that. If you don't care about ading more worthless crap to the world, fine.
Perl, maybe. How about media players? Office suites? Games? Etc, etc. Or if you insist, you should count all the exploits for MS Office in with those for Windows, as it is after all very often bundled with a new PC.
Really? In my experience, people discuss, then they argue, call each other names and NO ONE (well, hardly anyone, I shouldn't fall into the same exaggeration) ever changes their mind.
While there are opinions apparently held by a majority, that's not the same as saying "Slashdotters support X". For comparison, if I said "Americans support X", that would be just as silly and untrue a generalisation, for almost any X. And for this issue, while many, myself included, enjoy putting Microsoft down, you will ALWAYS find a bunch of sincere posts supporting it. And as well a bunch of trolls just being contrary on either side, hard to tell sometimes.
As for modding up and down, that's in theory at least only meant to promote interesting posts, remove trolls; not a vote of agreement. Though of course people will tend to mod down opinions they disagree with, but it only takes two or three moderations to make a post a +5 or 0, so that really isn't a significant measure. I've occasionally been modded down for having an unpopular (anti-American) opinion, where in another context I was modded up for a similar sentiment. It's pretty capricious.
Some people have posted this on Slashdot. To maintain that there is a single "Slashdotter" point of view is just a straw man. For ANY point of view you can find hundreds of posts by "Slashdotters" supporting OR contradicting it.
MY PERSONAL point of view is that the statistics presented are suspicious. Previous MS press releases (aka "independent reports") have counted the same error multiple time, have counted bugs in applications bundled with Linux against OS bugs in Windows, etc.
Try quoting the ENTIRE SENTENCE:
"The Tree of Life is an expression first used by Charles Darwin to describe the diversity of organisms on Earth and their evolutionary history."
Did the Kaballah use it in that sense?
However, while I broadly agree with your other proposals, this one has some problems. For instance, an elderly, or ill, author, or one involved in dangerous sports like mountain climbing, would have a hard time finding a publisher, as they would be afraid that their investment in advances and publishing costs would not have time to pay off before the copyright went into public domain. So the author would either not get published or get a very unfavourable deal, probably no advance at all. Copyright for ten or at most 20 years after the author's death is reasonable, I think.
It's becoming standard in all classes, but for now you have to check beforehand on which seats.
In flight laptop power ("Empower")is becoming more common, especially in business class. See http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/05/15/laptop-power-on-planes-observations-tips-and-lessons/
Yes. Lots of designs are trademarked. A famous example is Coke's "dynamic ribbon device." You can't put it on your own brand of cola.
The Coke ribbon is unique and distinctive, and trademarked; a square grid is none of these.
The copycat game looks, walks, and quacks like Scrabble
So?
Monopoly, where the names are changed but the gameplay is fundamentally the same (to be extra clear, I am referring to unlicensed Monopoly renames). Parker Brothers has taken them to court and prevailed.
Citations? Anyway, have they prevailed in the sense of having a judgemenr made, or by the "copycats" conceding rather than facing the massive costs of defending themselves against a large corporation?
Travellers have been able to pick up pocket phrase books for about $1 for the last 200 years. I have a nice collection on my bookshelf, well thumbed and annotated from my travelling days. Seeing as you actually have to type your phrase into this thing, I really doubt it performs any faster than a thoughtfully indexed phrase book.
Yes. But that doesn't make it illegal. How many popular TV shows or movies are blatant ripoffs of an older show, movie or even comic book? As long as it isn't identical, copyright doesn't apply. They may pay for a rights deal if they want to use the same title and theme music, otherwise it's perfectly legit to recycle elements of culture. That's what culture is, art does not arise by immaculate conception in a clean room.
So? A trademark does not give you rights to translations of your mark into every language.
Yes, the board is the same. So what? Can you copyright a square grid and some coloured boxes? Thay don't use the word "Scrabble" or the logo, so trademark doesn't apply. I'd be surprised if this was patentable. So just what and how does this infringe?
That's not "the point".
And as long as they are treating the torrent files as infringing in and of themselves
Again, you are assuming that whatever the prosecutor says is simply a legal opinion. Obviously there is a great deal of political pressure on them to "do something". Fortunately judges are usually more concerned with what the law actually says.
Yes, if you find "zero" staggering. Either you don't understand, or are deliberately ignoring the fact, that TPB does not host media files. And if you think they're responsible for the torrents they link to, then every general search engine is just as guilty of pointing to the files of dubious provenance you can find using them.
That's what a society is. You give as well as receive.
I'm not sure why we should ever necessarily be entitled to anything we haven't earned
Consider a few bon mots: "No man is an island." "I stand on the shoulders of giants." "Bad artists copy. Great artists steal." All artistic work is a part of a culture. The creators borrow/reinterpret works of others. Do you really want people to consume your work and not think about it, not comment on it, not recycle it? Can you create an art work from a vacuum?
Consider how this ends up. I would need your permission to quote your lines above before commenting on them. Or consider Disney, how they have taken control of parts of our shared culture and locked it up in copyright and trademark law. And now they want to take control of my computer, TV, and communications in order to safeguard their revenue stream. so they can be sure I do not enjoy the "fruits of their labour" without paying over and over for the privilege.
Most writers and musicians do indeed "own" their copyrights of their works. But most have signed contracts with publishers giving certain parts of these rights (notably, reproduction and distribution) to the publishers. These rights are normally not time limited, expiring when the publisher lets the item go off the market. Until very recently with Internet publishing, very few people could practically publish and distribute their own work.
I live in Hong Kong, and so I can say this is bullshit. First, bootleg media is not everywhere. You can get it of course, but there are plenty of big legit CD and video shops. However, there has indeed been a slump in local movies and music production. The reasons are complex, due to crappy quality derivative movies and prepackaged unoriginal musical performers being pushed by the labels as much as anything, but part certainly is that a lot of the export market was lost, as in SE Asia bootlegs certainly are prevalent.
Who says you don't? What I think you mean is that you want the power to control what others do with copies of your work. Which is not the same thing at all. If you want complete control, don't give it to anyone. If you want an audience, you must allow them to use it, in some ways. At a minimum, to view/hear/experience it; and if such requires the user to supply his own playing equipment, why do you think you have a right to tell him how he can use it?
Summary:
"The poetic justice is that Soghoian had been investigated for 6 months by the FBI and TSA because he pointed out a vulnerability in the US air transport system; no charges were ever filed."
TFA:
"I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't grinning from ear to ear with the news of this report.
It's poetic justice, if you will, for the unpleasantness that TSA put me through."
IN TFA it isn't really "poetic justice" either. It's just "justice", lacking any of the irony necessary to make it "poetic". But makes a bit more sense than the summary. Also TFA uses "begs the question" incorrectly, ("This begs the question: Who are these guys...") meaning just "raises the question". Why do people insist on using phrases they don't understand? Makes them look like idiots.
Do you know that it will cost more than training support for Windows?
One thing I do know is that the DRM in Windows makes support a big pain. You can't easily roll out a custom boot disc, for instance, to solve problems. In fact, I sometimes use Linux boot discs to fix Windows myself.
Also, Thinkpads are made by "Lenovo", not "IBM" these days. Though IBM probably still provides many services.
How is that relevant? The qusetion is, what is the most effective way to teach children. Do you ask "What industry is using literature, history, art, music?"
I got a similar one recently to clone my laptop hard disk before swapping in the new drive. My no-name version cost about $5. Any store with computer cables and such doo-dads should have these.
Note that the 2.5" drives are powered via the USB connection, you need a separate power cord for the 3.5" (should come in the box with the adapter, or just get an old PC power supply).