When the interpretations of the "justices" run contrary to the text, the text also means nothing. See the first and fourth amendments, which used to be the law of the land.
Then there's no data loss, and thus no ethical or legal obligation to tell anyone, and thus no need to handle getting caught with your pants down gracefully.
Exactly--the local utility or Blockbuster doesn't have access to the SSA database to validate numbers, and if you're not applying for credit, they don't have any business with it anyway.
Some utilities might try to pull credit and come up with no hit, and perhaps request a deposit. The strategy I use is to just mix up some digits in my own, so I can claim accidental transposition if the place is actually able to verify the number's bogus. Hasn't happened yet.
Could it be that this new upstart made a big deal about their social responsibility, going so far as to make their motto "Don't be evil," while Cisco and Yahoo (whose actions in China are indeed reprehensible and the executives who authorized them deserving of death by hanging for their crimes against humanity) did not?
Furthermore, they point out that DRM systems don't automatically switch themselves off when a work goes out of copyright.
With the Supreme Court having said Congress can authorize perpetual copyright so long as it's done a finite number of years at a time, the copyrighted work will turn to dust before the it goes out of copyright.
It is a restriction on what the user can do with the product based on something VMware doesn't want the users to do -- they even added code to enforce the restriction. While this is trivially patched around, it's the wrong attitude for a vendor to have towards their customers.
Try changing the OUI (first three bytes) to something besides 00:50:56. It's impossible without patching the binary. So if you're trying to run a honeypot or have some other reason for not wanting users or others on the network know your VM is a VM, VMware is not the right product.
. . . of much commercial value for long, given that the model of computing is headed for a TCPA/Palladium/Remote attestation/Client assurance/DRM lockdown. Emulating "trusted" computing would defeat the whole purpose of the "content" and computing industries' march towards that model. That, and they'll buy laws making even attempting such emulation punishable by just short of death.
It'll let you assign an arbitrary MAC address. VMware won't. Thus, VMware is inferior in that regard. Why do proprietary fanatics think they need to be apologists for commercial software?
Fortunately, I charged the cat food on my Visa, and (having tried in good faith to settle the problem with the merchant within 50 miles of my home first) just did a chargeback against the merchant who wouldn't take it back, rather than deal with the manufacturer's bureacracy. My cat's still terminally ill, though. Maybe I'll try that open-recipe cat food next time.
That would be a workable solution -- but what will probably really happen is that some kind of cottage industry will spring up -- ISTR there is already a company that wants to provide a sales tax "solution" atop credit card billing information. I suppose it's cynical, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Senators behind "leveling the playing field" have taken contributions from that company.
It shouldn't be a big deal for the SOS of each state to roll up data from the local taxing authorites hierarchically and "own" the database, but if it's done that way, the mappings can't be locked up with copyright, and the potential subscription fees from all the merchants -- maybe even a cut of collected tax (!) -- would dry up.
While ZIP+4 would reduce the number of those cases, it would vastly expand the maintance of such a table. ZIP+4 does not uniquely identify a residence -- my neighbor's and my houses share the same ZIP+4, for example.
As long as Apple's around, Microsoft can claim they don't have a monopoly on (non-open source) desktop operating systems. So while they'll continue to own part of Apple, they won't buy it outright.
You could, but you had to open the catfood and feed it to your cat before you could discover the existence of the EULA, much less its terms. The pet food store won't accept returns of opened bags of cat food, citing USDA and manfacturer policies about "food piracy."
Then their product will be useless. The ISPs know that free music and movies are the "killer app" for broadband. While they may play some appeasement games with the copyright cartels, at the end of the day, a broadband connection for 99.99% of the population is as useful as dialup without the ability to move content quickly with no filtering. And once it's no more useful than dialup, people will pay no more than dialup for it.
Now we can watch for the seemingly endless parade of TiVo apologist talking about how TiVo's still the greatest thing since sliced bread even though they use DRM, force downgrades to remove features, and incorporate ads.
. . . and thus there's a damn high bar for libel, as there should be. His bewailing common carrier protections is his way of trying to make sure the little guy can't publish, which is what this crap is really all about.
you deserve what you got for giving money to the DMCA-wielding jackbooted thugs. No sympathy here. You knew they were evil and bought from them anyway. A fool and his money and all that.
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When the interpretations of the "justices" run contrary to the text, the text also means nothing. See the first and fourth amendments, which used to be the law of the land.
Nice to know that at least in Europe, they have high court judges to whom referring as "Justice" isn't a laughable irony, unlike in the U.S.
Exactly. Volusia County in Florida comes immediately to mind.
Then there's no data loss, and thus no ethical or legal obligation to tell anyone, and thus no need to handle getting caught with your pants down gracefully.
Some utilities might try to pull credit and come up with no hit, and perhaps request a deposit. The strategy I use is to just mix up some digits in my own, so I can claim accidental transposition if the place is actually able to verify the number's bogus. Hasn't happened yet.
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Good point -- "VM" indeed doesn't imply the use of VMware.
Could it be that this new upstart made a big deal about their social responsibility, going so far as to make their motto "Don't be evil," while Cisco and Yahoo (whose actions in China are indeed reprehensible and the executives who authorized them deserving of death by hanging for their crimes against humanity) did not?
You're using VMware? Last time I tried to install OS/2 in a VMware VM, I got a message saying it wasn't supported--refused to even try.
With the Supreme Court having said Congress can authorize perpetual copyright so long as it's done a finite number of years at a time, the copyrighted work will turn to dust before the it goes out of copyright.
It is a restriction on what the user can do with the product based on something VMware doesn't want the users to do -- they even added code to enforce the restriction. While this is trivially patched around, it's the wrong attitude for a vendor to have towards their customers.
Try changing the OUI (first three bytes) to something besides 00:50:56. It's impossible without patching the binary. So if you're trying to run a honeypot or have some other reason for not wanting users or others on the network know your VM is a VM, VMware is not the right product.
. . . of much commercial value for long, given that the model of computing is headed for a TCPA/Palladium/Remote attestation/Client assurance/DRM lockdown. Emulating "trusted" computing would defeat the whole purpose of the "content" and computing industries' march towards that model. That, and they'll buy laws making even attempting such emulation punishable by just short of death.
It'll let you assign an arbitrary MAC address. VMware won't. Thus, VMware is inferior in that regard. Why do proprietary fanatics think they need to be apologists for commercial software?
Fortunately, I charged the cat food on my Visa, and (having tried in good faith to settle the problem with the merchant within 50 miles of my home first) just did a chargeback against the merchant who wouldn't take it back, rather than deal with the manufacturer's bureacracy. My cat's still terminally ill, though. Maybe I'll try that open-recipe cat food next time.
It shouldn't be a big deal for the SOS of each state to roll up data from the local taxing authorites hierarchically and "own" the database, but if it's done that way, the mappings can't be locked up with copyright, and the potential subscription fees from all the merchants -- maybe even a cut of collected tax (!) -- would dry up.
While ZIP+4 would reduce the number of those cases, it would vastly expand the maintance of such a table. ZIP+4 does not uniquely identify a residence -- my neighbor's and my houses share the same ZIP+4, for example.
As long as Apple's around, Microsoft can claim they don't have a monopoly on (non-open source) desktop operating systems. So while they'll continue to own part of Apple, they won't buy it outright.
You could, but you had to open the catfood and feed it to your cat before you could discover the existence of the EULA, much less its terms. The pet food store won't accept returns of opened bags of cat food, citing USDA and manfacturer policies about "food piracy."
What do you do when two or more tax rates apply to areas within a ZIP code? (This isn't an uncommon occurence.)
Then their product will be useless. The ISPs know that free music and movies are the "killer app" for broadband. While they may play some appeasement games with the copyright cartels, at the end of the day, a broadband connection for 99.99% of the population is as useful as dialup without the ability to move content quickly with no filtering. And once it's no more useful than dialup, people will pay no more than dialup for it.
Now we can watch for the seemingly endless parade of TiVo apologist talking about how TiVo's still the greatest thing since sliced bread even though they use DRM, force downgrades to remove features, and incorporate ads.
. . . and thus there's a damn high bar for libel, as there should be. His bewailing common carrier protections is his way of trying to make sure the little guy can't publish, which is what this crap is really all about.
C'mon, that's just crazy talk :).
you deserve what you got for giving money to the DMCA-wielding jackbooted thugs. No sympathy here. You knew they were evil and bought from them anyway. A fool and his money and all that.