It's against the law almost everywhere to be in Possession of stolen goods.
If you can prove that you had no expectation that the goods were stolen, then you probably won't be charged. But the stolen items will be returned to the original, legitimate owner, and no compensation will be given to whomever they were confiscated from.
That doesn't seem to stop people finding all the free stuff in the iPhone App Store.
Having never used an iPhone, I wasn't aware there were 0$ things in the app store.
A part of my point (which I should have spent the time typing, rather than just thinking it) is that people are already confused about the multiple meanings of the word "free". Adding a thing called a "store", which most people are accustomed to associating with "costs money", and therefore !free would do nothing to make them less confused.
Yeah, I know my punctuation and sentence structure sucks
2 dependencies for me
1) how micro a micro-payment payment are they talking about
2) how trustworthy is the payment system. There are still a lot of people who won't have anything to do with PayPal, and it's the most mature on-line payment system that I am aware of.
There is more than one meaning for the word "free".
And the definition you aren't looking at *is* one of the most important value measurements of open source.
what happened to intuitively poking around and make things work?
You might learn best that way, and I certainly learn well that way, but thousands of sales reps, admins, clerks and middle managers can't learn that way. Not won't, can't.
Just the same way us geeks suck at lots of the things that are intuitive to them.
Surveillance: Recording or monitoring activities. May include drawing diagrams, note taking, use of cameras, binoculars or other vision-enhancing devices or possessing floor plans or blueprints of railroad facilities.
Elicitation: Attempts to obtain operation, security and personnel-related information regarding a railroad facility. May be made by mail, fax, e-mail, telephone or in person.
Tests of Security: Attempts to measure locomotives or other equipment before some rent-a-cop shows up to push his considerable weight around
Acquiring Supplies: Attempts to improperly acquire items . May include the acquisition of rocks, old track spikes, equipment manuals, track plans or train schedules.
Suspicious Persons: Someone who does not appear to belong in a workplace, neighborhood or business establishment due to their behavior, including questions they ask.
Dry Runs/Trial Runs: Behavior that appears to be preparation for train watching. Activity could include mapping out routes and determining the timing of traffic lights and flow.
Deploying Assets: Gathering lumber, assorted metal and plastic items, along with powders (such as plaster)and chemicals (such as glues ans solvents, casting resin). This is the last opportunity to alert authorities before the modelling act act occurs.
A lot of blogs allow posters to choose their name and then requires them to put in an e-mail address. The e-mail address isn't displayed publicly, but is used, in part, to drive other features of the blog (like e-mailing replies to comments).
There's no saying that an e-mail address needs to be easily traceable to a particular person.
The e-mail address that I usually use to sign up for things is a free webmail address, and when i signed up for it, I used a different webmail address when it asked. And so on thru half a dozen different webmail addresses, until eventually we get to an address that was issued by an ancient ISP, which went bankrupt about 8 years ago.
I didn't set up all these addresses specifically to hide behind (mostly, I was just using them as spam catchers, or because I'm a pack rat when it comes to e-mail addresses), but it does work out that way.
Why did it take so long for someone (and an AC too) to make this point?
Cheap isn't the main value in DIY. It's the satisfaction of actually doing the project.
Really?
I heard about those, but I never saw one in any WalMart I went into (and I was looking).
The staff had no idea what I was talking about when I asked (not that I'm surprised by that).
Even though where I work is mostly WinXP (with a smattering of Solaris), I have run several of our vendor-supplied custom apps just fine with Ubuntu/Wine, without any custom tweaks.
Things like Ericsson WinFIOL, Remedy AR user, Otima's Remote Commander, and various Alcatel clients (MDR 4000, 6000, 8000)
If Linux was easier to use and free/cheap (as in beer), it wouldn't take long for it to be adopted.
I think it's more like:
If Linux was pre-installed on more machines available at retail locations (not mail-order, but actual bricks-n-mortar stores) then you'll start seeing more people adopt it.
The vast majority of computer users have never installed an OS, and would never do it by choice. If they had to install Windows (or OSx) before using their brand new computer, the world would have a lot less computer users.
content owners demanded that Boxee stop displaying Hulu content
*shrug*
If they don't want me to watch their content, I have no problem obliging them.
And since Hulu is only available in one country in the world (not the one where I live) I guess there's a lot of their precious content that I won't be watching.
Doesn't bother me, I've managed to survive this long without it.
When you are a country of ~30 million situated next to a neighbour ten times your size (and that neighbour has a penchant for economic and cultural imperialism), sometimes you have to take steps to prevent the trampling of your artistic community.
Or accept that if your populations' artistic ability is about the same you'll produce 10% the amount of great art as that neighbor. It's not like US TV channels and record companies will discriminate against Canadian artists if they could squeeze money out of them.
Back in the day when the CanCon broadcast rules came in, the issue was that there was no way for Canadian music to be recorded and put in front of the public. The only ones who could afford to make and distribute records were the record companies, who were all American. Any time a Canadian record company tried to start up they would end up bankrupt, or bought out by one of the big guys.
And those big record companies had no interest in putting any effort or resources into foreign performers. It wasn't out of any sense of cultural imperialism or any other social mandates. It was just easier to stay closer to home, where there were plenty of artists that they didn't have to go and find.
Thus CanCon rules, and 30% percent of radio air time all of a sudden looking for music to fill that time.
And, yes, it did put a lot of crap on the air for some time until the cream had a chance to float to the top.
That said, this idea of trying the same thing on the internet is a stupid idea, and one I hope dies a fast death.
The big difference is that the barrier to entry for content producers is so low, and the potential audience is so large that anyone who produces good content can find an audience large enough to support themselves.
Canadians can tell our stories to ourselves just as easily as telling it to the rest of the world. And just as easily as the rest of the world tells their stories.
The important thing is to produce content that is "good", not simply "good for you".
Slashdot Mirror
Oooh, yeah.
Those are the ones that can see thru clothing, right?
I hear they are real popular in the airports where they are testing them.
Edmonton international is just as "middle of nowhere". It's about 40 min to downtown in a cab.
That would make software crashes much more interesting.
Actually, I am not so sure of the real value of these cameras. I mean, yes, in many circumstances they are helpful, but in all?
I'm sure these wanted criminals will soon be recognized and arrested based on the surveillance camera images...
The basic black hoodie... Thwarting millions of dollars of surveillance technology since forever
It's against the law almost everywhere to be in Possession of stolen goods.
If you can prove that you had no expectation that the goods were stolen, then you probably won't be charged. But the stolen items will be returned to the original, legitimate owner, and no compensation will be given to whomever they were confiscated from.
Caveat emptor
IANAL, etc...
That doesn't seem to stop people finding all the free stuff in the iPhone App Store.
Having never used an iPhone, I wasn't aware there were 0$ things in the app store.
A part of my point (which I should have spent the time typing, rather than just thinking it) is that people are already confused about the multiple meanings of the word "free". Adding a thing called a "store", which most people are accustomed to associating with "costs money", and therefore !free would do nothing to make them less confused.
Yeah, I know my punctuation and sentence structure sucks
And do call it an App Store (or something similar if that's too (tm) Apple)
Or something different because "store" implies "costs money"
2 dependencies for me
1) how micro a micro-payment payment are they talking about
2) how trustworthy is the payment system. There are still a lot of people who won't have anything to do with PayPal, and it's the most mature on-line payment system that I am aware of.
Exactly what I did with an old one IBM from work with a broken screen
FreeNAS
There is more than one meaning for the word "free".
And the definition you aren't looking at *is* one of the most important value measurements of open source.
What is it with the fetish to put everything inside the TV?
*DUH*
'cause if one of those parts fails, you have to buy a whole new TV.
Think of the profits that would be lost if people could replace only the part that is broken. Won't someone think of the corporate bottom line?
what happened to intuitively poking around and make things work?
You might learn best that way, and I certainly learn well that way, but thousands of sales reps, admins, clerks and middle managers can't learn that way.
Not won't, can't.
Just the same way us geeks suck at lots of the things that are intuitive to them.
Vast majority of ISPs (Time Warner included) will not offer business services to residential addresses.
Apparently they can't grasp the concept of a home based business?
Surveillance: Recording or monitoring activities. May include drawing diagrams, note taking, use of cameras, binoculars or other vision-enhancing devices or possessing floor plans or blueprints of railroad facilities.
Elicitation: Attempts to obtain operation, security and personnel-related information regarding a railroad facility. May be made by mail, fax, e-mail, telephone or in person.
Tests of Security: Attempts to measure locomotives or other equipment before some rent-a-cop shows up to push his considerable weight around
Acquiring Supplies: Attempts to improperly acquire items . May include the acquisition of rocks, old track spikes, equipment manuals, track plans or train schedules.
Suspicious Persons: Someone who does not appear to belong in a workplace, neighborhood or business establishment due to their behavior, including questions they ask.
Dry Runs/Trial Runs: Behavior that appears to be preparation for train watching. Activity could include mapping out routes and determining the timing of traffic lights and flow.
Deploying Assets: Gathering lumber, assorted metal and plastic items, along with powders (such as plaster)and chemicals (such as glues ans solvents, casting resin). This is the last opportunity to alert authorities before the modelling act act occurs.
A lot of blogs allow posters to choose their name and then requires them to put in an e-mail address. The e-mail address isn't displayed publicly, but is used, in part, to drive other features of the blog (like e-mailing replies to comments).
There's no saying that an e-mail address needs to be easily traceable to a particular person.
The e-mail address that I usually use to sign up for things is a free webmail address, and when i signed up for it, I used a different webmail address when it asked. And so on thru half a dozen different webmail addresses, until eventually we get to an address that was issued by an ancient ISP, which went bankrupt about 8 years ago.
I didn't set up all these addresses specifically to hide behind (mostly, I was just using them as spam catchers, or because I'm a pack rat when it comes to e-mail addresses), but it does work out that way.
Dammit, why don't I have mod points today...
Why did it take so long for someone (and an AC too) to make this point?
Cheap isn't the main value in DIY. It's the satisfaction of actually doing the project.
Not necessarily.
A lot of amps these days use DSPs to emulate the sound of famous tube amps of days gone by.
Really?
I heard about those, but I never saw one in any WalMart I went into (and I was looking).
The staff had no idea what I was talking about when I asked (not that I'm surprised by that).
Even though where I work is mostly WinXP (with a smattering of Solaris), I have run several of our vendor-supplied custom apps just fine with Ubuntu/Wine, without any custom tweaks.
Things like Ericsson WinFIOL, Remedy AR user, Otima's Remote Commander, and various Alcatel clients (MDR 4000, 6000, 8000)
If Linux was easier to use and free/cheap (as in beer), it wouldn't take long for it to be adopted.
I think it's more like:
If Linux was pre-installed on more machines available at retail locations (not mail-order, but actual bricks-n-mortar stores) then you'll start seeing more people adopt it.
The vast majority of computer users have never installed an OS, and would never do it by choice. If they had to install Windows (or OSx) before using their brand new computer, the world would have a lot less computer users.
content owners demanded that Boxee stop displaying Hulu content
*shrug*
If they don't want me to watch their content, I have no problem obliging them.
And since Hulu is only available in one country in the world (not the one where I live) I guess there's a lot of their precious content that I won't be watching. Doesn't bother me, I've managed to survive this long without it.
And for heavens sake, ban the "1984" book.
And Little Brother and probably dozens of others which are below most people's radar.
Ma.gnolia.....?
/dirty dozen
Looks off into space for a second, draws in breath thru teeth in a thoughtful seeming manner...
*shrugs*
Never heard of it.
When you are a country of ~30 million situated next to a neighbour ten times your size (and that neighbour has a penchant for economic and cultural imperialism), sometimes you have to take steps to prevent the trampling of your artistic community.
Or accept that if your populations' artistic ability is about the same you'll produce 10% the amount of great art as that neighbor. It's not like US TV channels and record companies will discriminate against Canadian artists if they could squeeze money out of them.
Back in the day when the CanCon broadcast rules came in, the issue was that there was no way for Canadian music to be recorded and put in front of the public. The only ones who could afford to make and distribute records were the record companies, who were all American. Any time a Canadian record company tried to start up they would end up bankrupt, or bought out by one of the big guys.
And those big record companies had no interest in putting any effort or resources into foreign performers. It wasn't out of any sense of cultural imperialism or any other social mandates. It was just easier to stay closer to home, where there were plenty of artists that they didn't have to go and find.
Thus CanCon rules, and 30% percent of radio air time all of a sudden looking for music to fill that time.
And, yes, it did put a lot of crap on the air for some time until the cream had a chance to float to the top.
That said, this idea of trying the same thing on the internet is a stupid idea, and one I hope dies a fast death.
The big difference is that the barrier to entry for content producers is so low, and the potential audience is so large that anyone who produces good content can find an audience large enough to support themselves.
Canadians can tell our stories to ourselves just as easily as telling it to the rest of the world. And just as easily as the rest of the world tells their stories.
The important thing is to produce content that is "good", not simply "good for you".
the tax is repealed.
Uh huh.
Just like every other "temporary" tax has been repealed.