I just installed 1.0PR and got everything just the way I wanted it, including a recalcitrant Java terminal emulator working. Ah, well, price of progress, and off I go to do it all again!
The RIAA's propagada website isn't currently answering up, so I don't know if they've disappeared their previous statements. However, the archive.org version contains the following paragraph. While they try to blur the issue a little by mixing it with downloading, the paragraph, particularly the last paragraph, pretty clearly states that they consider making MP3s from one's own CDs is illegal, inasmuch as (in their opinion) the AHRA only covers analog copies and computers don't contain (and none I buy ever will) a serial copy management system.
4. If I just download sound recordings from an illicit music site or if I make sound files on my computer from my CDs, it's just a copy for personal use and not a violation.
Personal use copying was considered by Congress when it enacted the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (AHRA). The AHRA was a legislative compromise to deal with certain, specifically defined, categories of digital audio copying. Attempting to balance the various competing interests, among other things, the AHRA provides that manufacturers of covered devices must (1) register with the Copyright Office; (2) pay a statutory royalty on each device and piece of media sold; and (3) implement what is known as a serial copyright management system (or SCMS) which prevents all but first generation copies. In exchange for this, the manufacturers of the devices, which might have otherwise found themselves subject to liability for contributory copyright infringement (among other things), received a statutory immunity from suit.
Consumers also received something. As long as the copying is done for noncommercial use, the AHRA gives consumers immunity from suit for all analog music copying, and for digital music copying with AHRA covered devices. It is important to note that the AHRA does not say that such copying is lawful; it simply provides an immunity from suit.
The difference between copying to cassette (for instance) as opposed to a computer hard drive is that audio cassette players (as well as Minidisc and DAT players) are devices covered by the AHRA and a computer is not. The specific reasons are technical but boil down to this: The AHRA covers devices that are designed or marketed for the primary purpose of making digital musical recordings. Multipurpose devices, such as a general computer or a CD-R drive, are not covered by the AHRA. This means that they do not pay royalties or incorporate SCMS protections. It also means that neither the devices nor the consumers who use them receive immunity from suit for copyright infringement.
Thank you. I was going to say the same thing: perhaps if the RIAA hadn't been "bright lining" and wielding copyright law to the point of the absurd (e.g. having said it's illegal to rip CDs for your personal use), perhaps all the smart people at MIT wouldn't be trying to put the screws to them as much as possible within the law.
The Powermate is not all that good for Tempest, because it doesn't spin freely (think dodging a flipper that's almost on top of you). A better choice for a spinner is the Logitech Wingman Warrior joystick, which includes a spinner that does freewheel. Unfortunately, the last Windows version supported is Windows 98, and it's a PC 15-pin gameport device so won't work on a Mac.
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Thanks for the correction--where I pasted from claimed to be hosting the KJV. Not having my own copy, I couldn't verify them, but they looked right. Examining the three, I can't see any material difference. There are different or missing articles and a synonym used. The biggest problem I could find in looking was the difference between in and on--and that's probably an ambiguity that can't be resolved from the original Greek.
I'm not a particularly religious person, but if I'm ever told I have to have one of these implanted by the government, I'm going to become one real quick. The best way for the government to prove the Book of Revalation wrong in this regard would be to pass laws specifically forbidding any required use of these to receive any government benefit or as a condition of participation in any program.
Windows XP and Mozilla Firefox both request user permission before sending crash information. X1 calls home on each startup. (Note that I'm specifically referring to crash data in XP--XP calls home six ways from Sunday if the features that do so aren't disabled, such as Windows Time Service. This is a selling point for Windows 2000.) And while some might find that acceptable, I do not. The requirement to be allowed to call home in an application that indexes sensitive locally stored data is simply unacceptable in any way in any product I'll be buying.
What valid reason does it have to connect at all? Updates? I can handle those manually at a time of my own choosing, thank you very much. Given the number of possible backchannels, modes of encryption, etc., I am simply not willing to take the chance that only "anonymous usage statistics" or what have you are being sent. Especially not from a program I'm paying for.
And does it call home like X1? That's the sole thing that kept me from buying X1. Nothing that's conducting full-text searches of every file I have is going to be allowed to connect to the Internet, ever.
Let's not forget which President executed this law..
I'm so sick of hearing that trotted out. Sure, Clinton signed it. But it passed the Senate unanimously. Now that doesn't make the Democrats innocent, but it sure doesn't make the Republicans any less guility of selling us down the river.
I think this could lead to "not distributable in the US" clauses...
Good thing there'll always be someone in Eastern Europe ready to step up with a download site plastered with a "DO NOT DOWNLOAD FROM THE U.S. (wink, wink; nudge, nudge" disclaimer.
How about the military absentee ballots also in Florida being discounted? Guess which way *they* lean?
Right now, I'd wager those lean more towards Kerry than some might think. I know how I'd be voting if I were over there after having my enlistment extended by a stop-loss order.
Obviously they're so certain of a quick trial in which they'll prevail that they see no need of the domain after a year. Certainly by then they'll have title to everything IBM owns, including domain names to use as they wish.
Obviously, you didn't get the idea from 1984 that control of language is of great help with control of thought. The corporate-controlled government is creating a crime out of something that should be and once was a civil matter, and manipulation of the language (such as referring to copyright infringement as "theft") is part of that process.
Surprised you're still posting at 1--nothing seems to get the Mac users riled up more than being reminded that they paid twice as much for pretty much the same commodity hardware. Macs have always been expensive, but back in the day, they at least came with SCSI.
That's pretty cool looking--but wouldn't the price of all the licenses for those Stardock products (which IIRC are subscription licenses, also) make up a nice chunk of the difference in cost between a Mac and its PC equivalent?
Use of the word "suck" is obviously an expression of an opinion, not fact, and can't possibly be libelous. Now if they were to have made up benchmark results, or, perhaps said that the owner of the company has to kill a dog to have an orgasm, then the company might have a libel case.
Playing devil's advocate here--I think that ISPs roll over for anyone claiming to be a copyright holder sucks:
But in the one-sided subscriber "agreement," you've already been indemnified from any action by the customer for anything short of setting fire to his dog.
And as a company, why would you want to keep subscribers around who generate complaints--legitimate or not?
That's good to know. Still scary to picture a world in which a web server could force an authenticated client, whether it be IE or anything else. No more ad blocking or flash filtering for us if that were to come to pass!
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I just installed 1.0PR and got everything just the way I wanted it, including a recalcitrant Java terminal emulator working. Ah, well, price of progress, and off I go to do it all again!
Thank you. I was going to say the same thing: perhaps if the RIAA hadn't been "bright lining" and wielding copyright law to the point of the absurd (e.g. having said it's illegal to rip CDs for your personal use), perhaps all the smart people at MIT wouldn't be trying to put the screws to them as much as possible within the law.
The Powermate is not all that good for Tempest, because it doesn't spin freely (think dodging a flipper that's almost on top of you). A better choice for a spinner is the Logitech Wingman Warrior joystick, which includes a spinner that does freewheel. Unfortunately, the last Windows version supported is Windows 98, and it's a PC 15-pin gameport device so won't work on a Mac.
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I'm not a particularly religious person, but if I'm ever told I have to have one of these implanted by the government, I'm going to become one real quick. The best way for the government to prove the Book of Revalation wrong in this regard would be to pass laws specifically forbidding any required use of these to receive any government benefit or as a condition of participation in any program.
Windows XP and Mozilla Firefox both request user permission before sending crash information. X1 calls home on each startup. (Note that I'm specifically referring to crash data in XP--XP calls home six ways from Sunday if the features that do so aren't disabled, such as Windows Time Service. This is a selling point for Windows 2000.) And while some might find that acceptable, I do not. The requirement to be allowed to call home in an application that indexes sensitive locally stored data is simply unacceptable in any way in any product I'll be buying.
What valid reason does it have to connect at all? Updates? I can handle those manually at a time of my own choosing, thank you very much. Given the number of possible backchannels, modes of encryption, etc., I am simply not willing to take the chance that only "anonymous usage statistics" or what have you are being sent. Especially not from a program I'm paying for.
And does it call home like X1? That's the sole thing that kept me from buying X1. Nothing that's conducting full-text searches of every file I have is going to be allowed to connect to the Internet, ever.
I'm so sick of hearing that trotted out. Sure, Clinton signed it. But it passed the Senate unanimously. Now that doesn't make the Democrats innocent, but it sure doesn't make the Republicans any less guility of selling us down the river.
Good thing there'll always be someone in Eastern Europe ready to step up with a download site plastered with a "DO NOT DOWNLOAD FROM THE U.S. (wink, wink; nudge, nudge" disclaimer.
Right now, I'd wager those lean more towards Kerry than some might think. I know how I'd be voting if I were over there after having my enlistment extended by a stop-loss order.
Obviously they're so certain of a quick trial in which they'll prevail that they see no need of the domain after a year. Certainly by then they'll have title to everything IBM owns, including domain names to use as they wish.
Obviously, you didn't get the idea from 1984 that control of language is of great help with control of thought. The corporate-controlled government is creating a crime out of something that should be and once was a civil matter, and manipulation of the language (such as referring to copyright infringement as "theft") is part of that process.
Neither are critical gits :). The reference isn't original, but it's certainly apropos.
Precisely. Some other examples:
Yeah, you're right, but I couldn't resist the reference :).
Well put!
Ah--thanks. So it's not so much a subscription as a year of upgrades.
Surprised you're still posting at 1--nothing seems to get the Mac users riled up more than being reminded that they paid twice as much for pretty much the same commodity hardware. Macs have always been expensive, but back in the day, they at least came with SCSI.
That's pretty cool looking--but wouldn't the price of all the licenses for those Stardock products (which IIRC are subscription licenses, also) make up a nice chunk of the difference in cost between a Mac and its PC equivalent?
Use of the word "suck" is obviously an expression of an opinion, not fact, and can't possibly be libelous. Now if they were to have made up benchmark results, or, perhaps said that the owner of the company has to kill a dog to have an orgasm, then the company might have a libel case.
But in the one-sided subscriber "agreement," you've already been indemnified from any action by the customer for anything short of setting fire to his dog.
And as a company, why would you want to keep subscribers around who generate complaints--legitimate or not?
That's good to know. Still scary to picture a world in which a web server could force an authenticated client, whether it be IE or anything else. No more ad blocking or flash filtering for us if that were to come to pass!
I suppose that's why the words "A Verisign company" appear under the eNIC logo?