Let's rumble! This is such an unenforceable, ludicrous, unconstitutional mess, I hope it comes to a vote and gets passed. Then voters can have it rubbed in their faces again how little their representatives care about their interests.
I want to see the prisons filled with college kids, software developers, music-loving grandmothers, and other good citizens these content fascists want to criminalize. This issue needs to get into the minds of the general public (not just Slashdot) in a direct way. Then we can see some action on copyrights, intellectual property, and get the interests of consumers to the table. Consumers have the votes.
I wonder if, as time goes on, the used CD market will continue to increase. I know I am finding more things at the used shops than I used to.. (this is based on the highly scientific 'personal experience' statistical sampling technique, heh). If so, I would see this as a greater factor than downloads, since it's direct competition.
I bet the music industry wishes it could time-bomb CD's like the software industry does with upgrades.
I would bet that the RDBMS-like filesystem of the future releases of Windows will require some of the massive computing power of the new Intel chips. Always thinking ahead, those guys... Put the bloat in the filesystem. Brilliant!
This isn't science, it's policy. Correlation is very close to causation when you are talking about public policy.
If someone is pulling your side of a tug-o-war, they're on your damn side.
If you look at the conclusions you are led to if you accept individual liberty as the paramount right, you wind up with a society in which corporations are completely unregulated. You wind up with individuals able to pursue their individual profit without any concern for the general welfare of society. You get individuals greedily grabbing shared resources for their own gain.
That's extremist, and right-wing. Now, in the real world, we don't have binary choices. Just because I oppose a position that holds individual liberty to be the paramount right that trumps all others, does not mean I think liberty is of no value.
You just wish I did, so you could ignore the merits of my position.
Rupert Murdoch is on the board of directors, as is the CEO of TCI. Major media companies are in a position to promote a think tank in ways that cannot be measure in dollar amounts...
It's not confusion. I don't have to accept someone's positively spun self-labeling. Libertarianism, in its extremist positions regarding the liberty of the individual (and corporations) promotes a right-wing agenda.
'less government is better'. Why? Or is this just a religious belief?
Personally I don't want some pal of the governor to be able to put a copper mine in the state park. I don't want my perfectly-fine publicly operated water supply 'deregulated' and put into the hands of Enron to allow the magic of the market to fuck me. In other words, your views are simplistic and wrong.
Indeed, it is an opinion. Actually a very slanted editorial. Right-wing muckraking is so very tedious. All the huge profits made by environmentalists, they are just as greedy as the corporates they oppose, yadda yadda.
I would suspect that the main reason for the difference between IBM and Sun in this regard is the difference in their business models. Sun generally seems to try to sell software/hardware packages. IBM tries to sell the software and hardware and also a big wad of consulting to get things started. The consulting is where most of the money comes from for IBM. So they can take the loss on the software itself.
Perhaps Sun needs to develop a big services organization to thrive. It could be difficult, due to their culture..
Companies will do things like this after the game is over to try and get some nickels on the dollar for the VC's. I would expect them to settle for a low dollar amount.
If I recall correctly, the motivational clauses at the beginning of sections of the Constitution and Bill of Rights have little legal weight. For example, see the Second Amendment. Strict constructionists do not seem to hold any great reverence for those clauses.
I would expect the current Court to be sympathetic to the interests of publishers who wish to reap profits from copyrighted works. They tend (broadly) to support the maintenance and extension of property rights.
OK, but where does it stop? We already have the preponderence of military power in the world, and are allied with all the nearest runners-up. Do we need to prepare to conquer the entire world? There are plenty of other things to spend money on that actually help people out. Road spending nationwide is taking a big hit, as are schools. These things are arguably more strategic and valuable than giant flying laser planes.
You do yourself a disservice by assuming that people who object to spending all this money in this way don't understand that the world is a hostile place. That is a false assumption. Can we cut something else, if these giant flying lasers of death are so mission-critical? We will military-spend ourselves into another 80s-style stagnation/recession period if we are not careful.
What to do if a violent guy comes to your demonstration and hits you if you object to your government starting wars:
Fucking shoot his arrogant, simplistic, stupid ass.
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"The WSJ and MSNBC are notriously against Microsoft and this article is right in line with their more baseless attacks. "
Do you know what the first two letters of 'MSNBC' stand for?
"The Court understands fully why licensing has many advantages for software publishers. However, this preference does not alter the Court's analysis that the substance of the transaction at issue here is a sale and not a license," Judge Pregerson writes. If you put your money down and walked away with a CD, you bought that copy, EULA or no EULA."
Quite a weakening of the standard 'anything goes' rule for EULAs.
When I've gotten assignments like this, it's because my boss is responding to a committee of managers above them who are creating all the non-task-related requirements.
The way I've gotten through it is to find out what the project really is, and figure out what tool is best for the job, and figure out why the features not in that tool aren't needed for the project. Then my boss can get through the meeting where they have to present the technical solution.
(1) I have not seen any credible posts demanding that auto-download and install of patches be on by default on Windows systems. There have been buggy patches before for Windows, could be again.
(2) Slashdot isn't a unitary entity. If you make the mistake of expecting every J. Random Poster's comment taken together to represent a coherent position on anything, you will be disappointed.
Slashdot Mirror
I want to see the prisons filled with college kids, software developers, music-loving grandmothers, and other good citizens these content fascists want to criminalize. This issue needs to get into the minds of the general public (not just Slashdot) in a direct way. Then we can see some action on copyrights, intellectual property, and get the interests of consumers to the table. Consumers have the votes.
I bet the music industry wishes it could time-bomb CD's like the software industry does with upgrades.
I would bet that the RDBMS-like filesystem of the future releases of Windows will require some of the massive computing power of the new Intel chips. Always thinking ahead, those guys... Put the bloat in the filesystem. Brilliant!
This isn't science, it's policy. Correlation is very close to causation when you are talking about public policy. If someone is pulling your side of a tug-o-war, they're on your damn side.
If you look at the conclusions you are led to if you accept individual liberty as the paramount right, you wind up with a society in which corporations are completely unregulated. You wind up with individuals able to pursue their individual profit without any concern for the general welfare of society. You get individuals greedily grabbing shared resources for their own gain.
That's extremist, and right-wing. Now, in the real world, we don't have binary choices. Just because I oppose a position that holds individual liberty to be the paramount right that trumps all others, does not mean I think liberty is of no value.
You just wish I did, so you could ignore the merits of my position.
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Rupert Murdoch is on the board of directors, as is the CEO of TCI. Major media companies are in a position to promote a think tank in ways that cannot be measure in dollar amounts...
It's not confusion. I don't have to accept someone's positively spun self-labeling. Libertarianism, in its extremist positions regarding the liberty of the individual (and corporations) promotes a right-wing agenda.
Personally I don't want some pal of the governor to be able to put a copper mine in the state park. I don't want my perfectly-fine publicly operated water supply 'deregulated' and put into the hands of Enron to allow the magic of the market to fuck me. In other words, your views are simplistic and wrong.
Indeed, it is an opinion. Actually a very slanted editorial. Right-wing muckraking is so very tedious. All the huge profits made by environmentalists, they are just as greedy as the corporates they oppose, yadda yadda.
And subversive sublimation, i.e. the creation of original high-value works of original expression.
Perhaps Sun needs to develop a big services organization to thrive. It could be difficult, due to their culture..
Extreme pro-market ideology. The current US Government has a philosophical belief that all regulation of business by the Government is morally wrong.
Correct. The right to keep and bear arms is not limited by the militia clause.
Companies will do things like this after the game is over to try and get some nickels on the dollar for the VC's. I would expect them to settle for a low dollar amount.
I would expect the current Court to be sympathetic to the interests of publishers who wish to reap profits from copyrighted works. They tend (broadly) to support the maintenance and extension of property rights.
What a great opportunity for you to stop resting on your laurels and learn something then.
You do yourself a disservice by assuming that people who object to spending all this money in this way don't understand that the world is a hostile place. That is a false assumption. Can we cut something else, if these giant flying lasers of death are so mission-critical? We will military-spend ourselves into another 80s-style stagnation/recession period if we are not careful.
Fucking shoot his arrogant, simplistic, stupid ass.
"The WSJ and MSNBC are notriously against Microsoft and this article is right in line with their more baseless attacks. " Do you know what the first two letters of 'MSNBC' stand for?
Why stop there?
Bullets are speech.. I was firing into the air to celebrate 4th of July. Yeehaw!
Urine is speech - I'm making a statement pissing the wall of the courthouse here.
Baseball bats are speech - man, that guy called me a faggot, I just gave him my heartfelt reply..
Socialism calls for the creation of a socialist state.
"The Court understands fully why licensing has many advantages for software publishers. However, this preference does not alter the Court's analysis that the substance of the transaction at issue here is a sale and not a license," Judge Pregerson writes. If you put your money down and walked away with a CD, you bought that copy, EULA or no EULA." Quite a weakening of the standard 'anything goes' rule for EULAs.
The way I've gotten through it is to find out what the project really is, and figure out what tool is best for the job, and figure out why the features not in that tool aren't needed for the project. Then my boss can get through the meeting where they have to present the technical solution.
Your sig answers your post.
(1) I have not seen any credible posts demanding that auto-download and install of patches be on by default on Windows systems. There have been buggy patches before for Windows, could be again.
(2) Slashdot isn't a unitary entity. If you make the mistake of expecting every J. Random Poster's comment taken together to represent a coherent position on anything, you will be disappointed.