much to my surprise though, almost every post I've read is against this. Maybe all the anti-MS posts in agreement are just being moderated too low for me to see.
...but you seem to have parked your car slightly over the line in MY parking space. Hold on just a minute while I get my rocket launcher out of the trunk.
Seriously though, all debates on the legality of downloading music aside, how can a US sentaor promote punishing one crime with a more severe one? copyright infringement vs. destruction of property?
I got a free Reese's cup out of the vending machine today because it's broke and doesn't charge for one of it's slots. I suppose I should have my hand cut off or something for eating it instead of returning it.
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" 2) Put cinderblocks around room
3) Put bricks around cinderblocks"
ok, thanks for the lesson on security... I think I have that covered now but I forgot to make a door so how do I get out?
I think if you hold the shift key when you put in a CD/DVD, it doesn't automatically run anything. (in various versions of Windows) Or you could try disabling the auto insert notification.
Just tested the shift key and it works on audio cds but I don't have any movies at work.:)
Presuming I own the disc, shouldn't I be allowed to do whatever I want with it?
"I had to replace all of my cassettes with CD's 15 years ago."
Now that's just silly, quality aside, do you really think you should have to buy all of your music again when a new media standard comes out? I guess you have a copy of all of your favorite songs on record, 8 track, casette and CD. Maybe back in the day when software companies used to ship their games with 5.25" and 3.5" disks, they shouldn't have. Instead they should have made you pay full price when you got your first 3.5" drive.
I really hope you're just a troll and don't belive what you're saying.
" The only reason I still use ICQ is because it's one of the few clients that lets you keep messages in the tray and have non-conversation mode messaging."
Have you tried trillian? It lets you do that as well I believe. http://www.trillian.cc/
I was going to ask if Miranda has an IRC plugin as well because I haven't seen anyone mention it specifically and I didn't see it mentioned on the web site.
Then I decided to not be lazy and found that it does for anyone else that may be wondering.
I've been using Trillian for a while now but I may have to check out Miranda when I get home.
"So, according to this guy, "sharing" only takes place when the lender doesn't have the shared book/CD/whatever available for their use. If the lender retains a copy, or the original, then it's not, "sharing," but, "copying.""
I've wondered about this before. What would be their reaction if someone developed a system that actually did keep track of who was playing a song. i.e. Joe, Bob and all their friends put their mp3s on a server. When Joe wants to listen to one of Bob's songs, it's downloaded to his PC and as long as he's listening to it, no one else can until Joe is done with it. My college use to run a key server that would do that same idea with programs. For example, Photoshop would be installed on the network so that anyone in the lab could run it but it would check with the keyserver on start up to make sure that there were never more people using it than were licensed to.
My little scenario is lacking a lot of details but if something like that existed, would the RIAA still have any valid arguments against it?
"
He says you have a license to that particular format, and says downloading from P2P would be wrong because it would have come from CD, which is a different release (of the same song), and therefore a work you dont have a license to"
No, look again because he said this twice..
"As a technical matter, it is illegal to download a recording from another that is not yours." and "you cannot download somebody else's copy of a recording."
So, if you download an mp3 of a song you own, regardless of what media you purchased it on and what media the mp3 was recorded from, you're breaking the law because that mp3 didn't come from media which you own. He just threw in the bit about quality to distract people from what he was really saying.
I agree with the person that said he's basically skirting around the issue because either answer (you own the physical media or you own a license to the music that comes on the media) would be bad for the RIAA.
When I was a kid and first started messing around with programming, it wasn't that hard to make something relatively cool. You could pretty much make a text based adventure game with if, goto and a print statement.
That could still be done quite easily in some simple langauge but it's not quite as cool now as it once was since games now have graphics and everything.:)
I've seen several people mention Linux or Cygwin as an option for a free compiler. That might be ok for an older kid but I think it might be a bit much for a 6 year old which I think is around the time I started writing stuff on my aunt's C64.
I remember the first time I looked at C after getting used to QuickBasic and my reaction was along the lines of 'whoa, what's with all those funny squiggly characters like the { and %... maybe I'm not ready for C just yet'.
Here's a path that may not be too bad... start with HTML where it's really simple to make a page with forms and graphics and such. Then from there, go to a scripting langauge like PHP to generate the HTML so you start getting simple programming experience. Visual Basic might also work but isn't free. In my opinion though, you need something that's simple from a programming standpoint but will still let you do something that is going to interest a kid.
Another thing to look into might be Lego Mindstorms. While not exactly cheap, it wouldn't be that hard for a kid to build a little car of some kind and program it to drive around and make turns or something.
"You find a great story, research it for authenticity or dupes, then find alternate links, and finally write up a paragraph with good HTML and perfect grammer. After all this, you recieve this notice:"
Wow, I guess that's probably why all my stories get rejected.. I spend maybe 5-10minutes writing up a summary.:)
"If you want kids to be able to write by hand, you just have to force them to do it in school."
heh hehe, yes I remember many of my teachers that would jump at the chance to force me to turn in papers handwritten because handwriting is so much more legible than typing.:)
I really don't see what's so special about cursive anyway. To be quite honest, I look back on it as a waste of time that could have been better spent teaching me something else. I think some time in high school I gave up cursive and printed things exclusively because it was just as quick and more legible than my cursive writing. I suppose there may have been some extra advantage to writing in cursive like how learning binary and hex changed the way I looked at numbers.
I do realize that what a lawyer charges is not the same as their take home pay. I personally can't say that I've come across a lawyer that has the lifestyle of a teacher but maybe you know different lawyers than I do.
Here's the problem, I'm by no means rich but I make a decent salary. However if some large company sued me and I had to hire a lawyer to protect myself, it wouldn't be very long at all before I ran out of money. I think a problem exists when people can be bullied like that simply because they don't have as much money to throw at a lawyer when compared to the person attacking them.
I really don't see how that's much different than mugging somebody on the street. You demand something of the person and then instead of threatening them with bodily harm, you threaten them with financial ruin.
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much to my surprise though, almost every post I've read is against this. Maybe all the anti-MS posts in agreement are just being moderated too low for me to see.
"I have spent years explaining to relatives that the same file name in 2 places is 2 different files."
:)
Wait till they ask you about shortcuts.
"He endorsed technology that would twice warn a computer user about illegal online behavior, "then destroy their computer."
2 warnings in fact.. how generous.
He looks kind of old, maybe he's just getting senile.
...but you seem to have parked your car slightly over the line in MY parking space. Hold on just a minute while I get my rocket launcher out of the trunk.
Seriously though, all debates on the legality of downloading music aside, how can a US sentaor promote punishing one crime with a more severe one? copyright infringement vs. destruction of property?
I got a free Reese's cup out of the vending machine today because it's broke and doesn't charge for one of it's slots. I suppose I should have my hand cut off or something for eating it instead of returning it.
" 2) Put cinderblocks around room
3) Put bricks around cinderblocks"
ok, thanks for the lesson on security... I think I have that covered now but I forgot to make a door so how do I get out?
" Edible DVDs"
;)
Won't work. You would be sharing your music with far too many people when you flush it and it ends back up in drinking water.
I think if you hold the shift key when you put in a CD/DVD, it doesn't automatically run anything. (in various versions of Windows) Or you could try disabling the auto insert notification. Just tested the shift key and it works on audio cds but I don't have any movies at work. :)
"You didn't buy the music, you bought the disc. "
Presuming I own the disc, shouldn't I be allowed to do whatever I want with it?
"I had to replace all of my cassettes with CD's 15 years ago."
Now that's just silly, quality aside, do you really think you should have to buy all of your music again when a new media standard comes out? I guess you have a copy of all of your favorite songs on record, 8 track, casette and CD. Maybe back in the day when software companies used to ship their games with 5.25" and 3.5" disks, they shouldn't have. Instead they should have made you pay full price when you got your first 3.5" drive.
I really hope you're just a troll and don't belive what you're saying.
"I think IBM has found it's much more satisfying to slowly drain the blood from their prey"
so in other words, we're going to be seeing SCO stories on slashdot for quite a while longer?
"IBM: We ship your clothes,"
:)
ship your clothes? I thought brown did that.
I agree. Wish I had mod points.
Don't listen to all the slashdot people telling you to quit. The fact is they're unemployed and that's their sneaky way of getting a tech job again. ;)
"My number was ~1.1 million"
;)
nanner nanner, mine's under 200000.
I think I started on ICQ around early '96. Why do I feel so old all of a sudden?
" The only reason I still use ICQ is because it's one of the few clients that lets you keep messages in the tray and have non-conversation mode messaging." Have you tried trillian? It lets you do that as well I believe. http://www.trillian.cc/
I was going to ask if Miranda has an IRC plugin as well because I haven't seen anyone mention it specifically and I didn't see it mentioned on the web site.
Then I decided to not be lazy and found that it does for anyone else that may be wondering.
I've been using Trillian for a while now but I may have to check out Miranda when I get home.
"So, according to this guy, "sharing" only takes place when the lender doesn't have the shared book/CD/whatever available for their use. If the lender retains a copy, or the original, then it's not, "sharing," but, "copying.""
I've wondered about this before. What would be their reaction if someone developed a system that actually did keep track of who was playing a song. i.e. Joe, Bob and all their friends put their mp3s on a server. When Joe wants to listen to one of Bob's songs, it's downloaded to his PC and as long as he's listening to it, no one else can until Joe is done with it. My college use to run a key server that would do that same idea with programs. For example, Photoshop would be installed on the network so that anyone in the lab could run it but it would check with the keyserver on start up to make sure that there were never more people using it than were licensed to.
My little scenario is lacking a lot of details but if something like that existed, would the RIAA still have any valid arguments against it?
" He says you have a license to that particular format, and says downloading from P2P would be wrong because it would have come from CD, which is a different release (of the same song), and therefore a work you dont have a license to"
No, look again because he said this twice.. "As a technical matter, it is illegal to download a recording from another that is not yours." and "you cannot download somebody else's copy of a recording."
So, if you download an mp3 of a song you own, regardless of what media you purchased it on and what media the mp3 was recorded from, you're breaking the law because that mp3 didn't come from media which you own. He just threw in the bit about quality to distract people from what he was really saying.
I agree with the person that said he's basically skirting around the issue because either answer (you own the physical media or you own a license to the music that comes on the media) would be bad for the RIAA.
no doubt... he wants porn with someone else's personal juice stains all over it. I suppose it's DVD though, wouldn't be quite as bad as magazines.
:)
er, I meant to say who instead of he
no doubt... he wants porn with someone else's personal juice stains all over it. I suppose it's DVD though, wouldn't be quite as bad as magazines.
When I was a kid and first started messing around with programming, it wasn't that hard to make something relatively cool. You could pretty much make a text based adventure game with if, goto and a print statement.
:)
That could still be done quite easily in some simple langauge but it's not quite as cool now as it once was since games now have graphics and everything.
I've seen several people mention Linux or Cygwin as an option for a free compiler. That might be ok for an older kid but I think it might be a bit much for a 6 year old which I think is around the time I started writing stuff on my aunt's C64.
I remember the first time I looked at C after getting used to QuickBasic and my reaction was along the lines of 'whoa, what's with all those funny squiggly characters like the { and %... maybe I'm not ready for C just yet'.
Here's a path that may not be too bad... start with HTML where it's really simple to make a page with forms and graphics and such. Then from there, go to a scripting langauge like PHP to generate the HTML so you start getting simple programming experience. Visual Basic might also work but isn't free. In my opinion though, you need something that's simple from a programming standpoint but will still let you do something that is going to interest a kid.
Another thing to look into might be Lego Mindstorms. While not exactly cheap, it wouldn't be that hard for a kid to build a little car of some kind and program it to drive around and make turns or something.
Of course I'll stick with Winzip because I'm a Windows user.
Ok, yes I'm kidding but wouldn't that be the assumption of the general public?
"You find a great story, research it for authenticity or dupes, then find alternate links, and finally write up a paragraph with good HTML and perfect grammer. After all this, you recieve this notice:"
:)
Wow, I guess that's probably why all my stories get rejected.. I spend maybe 5-10minutes writing up a summary.
"If you want kids to be able to write by hand, you just have to force them to do it in school."
:)
heh hehe, yes I remember many of my teachers that would jump at the chance to force me to turn in papers handwritten because handwriting is so much more legible than typing.
I really don't see what's so special about cursive anyway. To be quite honest, I look back on it as a waste of time that could have been better spent teaching me something else. I think some time in high school I gave up cursive and printed things exclusively because it was just as quick and more legible than my cursive writing. I suppose there may have been some extra advantage to writing in cursive like how learning binary and hex changed the way I looked at numbers.
I do realize that what a lawyer charges is not the same as their take home pay. I personally can't say that I've come across a lawyer that has the lifestyle of a teacher but maybe you know different lawyers than I do.
Here's the problem, I'm by no means rich but I make a decent salary. However if some large company sued me and I had to hire a lawyer to protect myself, it wouldn't be very long at all before I ran out of money. I think a problem exists when people can be bullied like that simply because they don't have as much money to throw at a lawyer when compared to the person attacking them.
I really don't see how that's much different than mugging somebody on the street. You demand something of the person and then instead of threatening them with bodily harm, you threaten them with financial ruin.
"As a programmer writing software for spacecraft you must be able to anticipate every possible value and account for it."
I think there's something wrong with that statement in regards to anything that's going to be exploring the unknown.