Breyer's dissent has a bit of nice reasoning in it, actually.
"But what sense does it make
to forbid selling to a 13-year-old boy a magazine with an
image of a nude woman, while protecting a sale to that 13
year-old of an interactive video game in which he actively,
but virtually, binds and gags the woman, then tortures
and kills her? What kind of First Amendment would
permit the government to protect children by restrict-
ing sales of that extremely violent video game only when
the woman—bound, gagged, tortured, and killed—is also
topless?
This anomaly is not compelled by the First Amendment.
It disappears once one recognizes that extreme violence,
where interactive, and without literary, artistic, or similar
justification, can prove at least as, if not more, harmful to
children as photographs of nudity. And the record here is
more than adequate to support such a view. That is why I
believe that Ginsberg controls the outcome here a fortiori.
And it is why I believe California’s law is constitutional on
its face.
"
Basically, the court had previously ruled that it's ok to ban porn sales to children, and the court is generally bound to prior rulings unless overturned by new legislation. The logic used to ban pornography sales to kids still applies to this case.
Not saying it's a good law, but Breyer's position makes a lot of sense.
AFAIK, the licensing only applies if you are using the mp3 format for commercial gain. Nobody is going to sue you for converting your own music files to mp3s.
If, on the other hand, you were marketing a product that made use of the format, you would face legal penalties if you didn't negotiate a license.
IANAL, but I've been helping my wife study for the bar exam.
Mod parent down, or at least change from informative to funny.
The real list:
LAST PICTURE SHOW IN ARCHER CITY, TX (RRSHOW) Friday, August 19 8:00 pm (No Passes) IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE - 3D! in ROSWELL, NM (RRSHOW) Sunday, August 21 8:00 pm ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST IN MONUMENT VALLEY (RRSHOW) Tuesday, August 23 8:00 pm PLANET OF THE APES AT LAKE POWELL, UT (RRSHOW) Wednesday, August 24 8:00 pm REPO MAN ROAD RALLY IN LOS ANGELES, CA (RRSHOW) Friday, August 26 8:00 pm NORTH BY NORTHWEST IN BAKERSFIELD (RRSHOW) Sunday, August 28 8:00 pm BULLITT ROAD RALLY IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA (RRSHOW) Tuesday, August 30 8:00 pm THE GOONIES IN ASTORIA, OR (RRSHOW) Thursday, September 1 8:00 pm CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AT DEVILS TOWER, WY (RRSHOW) Saturday, September 3 8:00 pm CAT BALLOU AT BUCKSKIN JOES, CO (RRSHOW) Monday, September 5 8:00 pm HUD IN CLAUDE, TX (RRSHOW) Wednesday, September 7 8:00 pm
The bicycle/motorist problem runs both ways. There are a lot of bicyclists who disregard the rules of the road in addition to the drivers. I've come closer than I'd like to hitting cyclists who blew through stop signs.
I'm not saying that you are an irresponsible biker, but whenever I hear about bicycle/automobile interaction, it is usually focused on bad drivers.
Unless they're just focusing on the financial success: "Halo 2 made $125 million on its first day of release. By contrast, the biggest opening weekend in film history was Spider-Man, which netted a mere $114 million over three days."
Of course that monetary comparison is valid, since we all know that movie tickets coast $50 each nowadays.
Also, along with all these other fine replies, I agree that the parent is not a troll and is, in fact, making a valid point.
Please stop spewing the 1/2 speed/2x price bullshit.
Apple machines may cost more, but not nearly 100% more. Performance is pretty comparable, unless you bought into Intel's "Mhz is the only measure of a chip" mindset.
Throughout this thread, there are numerous claims of XBOX and PS2 hardware failures, but not a single mention of the Gamecube. Is it just the Nintendo fanboyism (I am guilty of this, myself), or is the GCN simply a better quality product?
However, since
Badnarik is on the far right of the political spectrum instead of the far left, wouldn't a vote for him take away a vote that should have been for Bush otherwise?
Anyway, saying a vote for *fringe candidate* is a vote for *bad politician* is very simplistic and not always true.
"Worse, HTML used to be fairly forgiving for the author so Newbies could get a decent page without spending hours and hours trying to figure out why their page is coming up blank or trying to figure out why the validator is complaining at them."
HTML being forgiving is a bad thing. Sure, it's easier for the average person to crank out a homepage, but without strict standards, we ended up with a myriad of browser incompatibilities and mountains of sloppy coding that can't be parsed correctly.
"Even when prior art is presented, re-exams are rare. The patent office held only 6,136 between the time the agency was authorized to do so in July 1981 and the end of March 2004, said Brigid Quinn, a patent office spokeswoman."
I'm not so sure that magma pockets are a more likely source of ammonia. I thought many astronomers felt that Mars' core had cooled, since it did not have a dynamo driven magnetic field.
Who the hell modded this informative? It's incorrect.
Apple controls the technological measure that controls access to copyrighted material. When the technology is circumvented, it is the owner of the technology that has the right to (ab)use the DMCA, not the owner of the copyrighted material behind the protection. The copyright owners get to sue when their material is illegally distributed. That has not happened (to anyone's knowledge) in this case.
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They are even encrypting the officers names!
TFS wrote:
"Lt. Phlunte Riddle"
There was this company called Google that came out of some phD students' work. I think it's still around and doing business.
Breyer's dissent has a bit of nice reasoning in it, actually.
"But what sense does it make to forbid selling to a 13-year-old boy a magazine with an image of a nude woman, while protecting a sale to that 13 year-old of an interactive video game in which he actively, but virtually, binds and gags the woman, then tortures and kills her? What kind of First Amendment would permit the government to protect children by restrict- ing sales of that extremely violent video game only when the woman—bound, gagged, tortured, and killed—is also topless? This anomaly is not compelled by the First Amendment. It disappears once one recognizes that extreme violence, where interactive, and without literary, artistic, or similar justification, can prove at least as, if not more, harmful to children as photographs of nudity. And the record here is more than adequate to support such a view. That is why I believe that Ginsberg controls the outcome here a fortiori. And it is why I believe California’s law is constitutional on its face. "
Basically, the court had previously ruled that it's ok to ban porn sales to children, and the court is generally bound to prior rulings unless overturned by new legislation. The logic used to ban pornography sales to kids still applies to this case. Not saying it's a good law, but Breyer's position makes a lot of sense.
If EA releases Tiger Woods Gold 2012 there would be complaints if it was actually a NASCAR simulator?
Actually, I think they could successfully pull off a Tiger Woods dating sim.
I think Rolling Releases will begin sometime after Quizzical Quail is released.
"If we cower in our shoes and crap in pants, the terrorists have won."
I can't cower in my shoes....TSA made me remove them.
Also, they took my pants.
...all of the fields of science are abused for your viewing pleasure, biology, chemistry, engineering, and psychics.
John Edward must be thrilled to know that he is a scientist now.
Somebody better let Paris Hilton know that Beijing took her title while she was in prison.
So what happens when you point it at Steve Jobs?
Augmented Reality Scope + Distorted Reality Field = ?????
"Except that the whole *point* of DRM is to be in the way. What would a DRM system that did not get in the way look like?"
iTunes?
AFAIK, the licensing only applies if you are using the mp3 format for commercial gain. Nobody is going to sue you for converting your own music files to mp3s.
If, on the other hand, you were marketing a product that made use of the format, you would face legal penalties if you didn't negotiate a license.
IANAL, but I've been helping my wife study for the bar exam.
Mod parent down, or at least change from informative to funny.
The real list:
LAST PICTURE SHOW IN ARCHER CITY, TX (RRSHOW)
Friday, August 19
8:00 pm (No Passes)
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE - 3D! in ROSWELL, NM (RRSHOW)
Sunday, August 21
8:00 pm
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST IN MONUMENT VALLEY (RRSHOW)
Tuesday, August 23
8:00 pm
PLANET OF THE APES AT LAKE POWELL, UT (RRSHOW)
Wednesday, August 24
8:00 pm
REPO MAN ROAD RALLY IN LOS ANGELES, CA (RRSHOW)
Friday, August 26
8:00 pm
NORTH BY NORTHWEST IN BAKERSFIELD (RRSHOW)
Sunday, August 28
8:00 pm
BULLITT ROAD RALLY IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA (RRSHOW)
Tuesday, August 30
8:00 pm
THE GOONIES IN ASTORIA, OR (RRSHOW)
Thursday, September 1
8:00 pm
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AT DEVILS TOWER, WY (RRSHOW)
Saturday, September 3
8:00 pm
CAT BALLOU AT BUCKSKIN JOES, CO (RRSHOW)
Monday, September 5
8:00 pm
HUD IN CLAUDE, TX (RRSHOW)
Wednesday, September 7
8:00 pm
The bicycle/motorist problem runs both ways. There are a lot of bicyclists who disregard the rules of the road in addition to the drivers. I've come closer than I'd like to hitting cyclists who blew through stop signs.
I'm not saying that you are an irresponsible biker, but whenever I hear about bicycle/automobile interaction, it is usually focused on bad drivers.
Unless they're just focusing on the financial success:
"Halo 2 made $125 million on its first day of release. By contrast, the biggest opening weekend in film history was Spider-Man, which netted a mere $114 million over three days."
Of course that monetary comparison is valid, since we all know that movie tickets coast $50 each nowadays.
Also, along with all these other fine replies, I agree that the parent is not a troll and is, in fact, making a valid point.
Please stop spewing the 1/2 speed/2x price bullshit.
Apple machines may cost more, but not nearly 100% more. Performance is pretty comparable, unless you bought into Intel's "Mhz is the only measure of a chip" mindset.
You're on slashdot, the more common use of MAC in this environment is your network card's MAC address. MAC = Media Access Control
Yes, you are wrong to think this.
First, the study shows linux subject to the most manual attacks. That doesn't jive with your logic.
Also, see the oft repeated marketshare of webservers. Apache is by far the most used, but subject to far less attacks than IIS.
Throughout this thread, there are numerous claims of XBOX and PS2 hardware failures, but not a single mention of the Gamecube. Is it just the Nintendo fanboyism (I am guilty of this, myself), or is the GCN simply a better quality product?
Anyway, saying a vote for *fringe candidate* is a vote for *bad politician* is very simplistic and not always true.
"Worse, HTML used to be fairly forgiving for the author so Newbies could get a decent page without spending hours and hours trying to figure out why their page is coming up blank or trying to figure out why the validator is complaining at them."
HTML being forgiving is a bad thing. Sure, it's easier for the average person to crank out a homepage, but without strict standards, we ended up with a myriad of browser incompatibilities and mountains of sloppy coding that can't be parsed correctly.
XML and XHTML really are a godsend.
Looks like 10%.
"Even when prior art is presented, re-exams are rare. The patent office held only 6,136 between the time the agency was authorized to do so in July 1981 and the end of March 2004, said Brigid Quinn, a patent office spokeswoman."
If there was intelligent life, they'd use linux. Wouldn't have to worry about cleaning it as much.
I'm not so sure that magma pockets are a more likely source of ammonia.
I thought many astronomers felt that Mars' core had cooled, since it did not have a dynamo driven magnetic field.
The eligibility requirement says that you must be a UK resident. Your nationality won't matter if your have a street address in Great Britain.
Who the hell modded this informative? It's incorrect.
Apple controls the technological measure that controls access to copyrighted material. When the technology is circumvented, it is the owner of the technology that has the right to (ab)use the DMCA, not the owner of the copyrighted material behind the protection. The copyright owners get to sue when their material is illegally distributed. That has not happened (to anyone's knowledge) in this case.