I think the argument against AllofMP3.com is that the act of creating a copy occurs on the PC of the downloader. As that PC is located in the US, the copying occurs in the US, and thus US law applies.
If the same PC were in Russia during the download, and then that PC was carried into the US, it would be 100% legal no questions asked. This is what your links argue. But your links do nothing to discuss the location of the "act of downloading."
And I have no idea why you were moderated as a troll.
Aren't YOU scared by the U.S. government? If you aren't, then you probably don't know very much about it. Last time I checked Microsoft hasn't killed anyone, have they? I haven't heard even the most rabid anti-Microsoft person ever accuse Microsoft of murder - even on Slashdot!!! I am just not that scared of Microsoft the make a deal with the devil to "protect" me from them.
The government is not one large intelligence, with one mind and goal. (Well, except for the parts being run by the Republican machine, and even then I'd hesitate to use the word "intelligence".)
There are different parts of the government that work better than others. I consider the NTSB, for example, to be a damn fine example of government doing its job, and doing it well. As far as the justice department goes, a guy I went to high school with is now a DoJ lawyer, working exclusively on anti-trust cases. I don't think he is in any way part of some great conspiracy; given the focus of his job, he's going to do it to the best of his ability.
They used their near-monopoly as leverage to force PC makers such as Dell to use only their products, thus preventing Dell from bringing installation convenience and economies of scale to non-Microsoft alternative products.
"Well, first of all I wish that he had not blocked our efforts to study this last year, but ensuring fair, accurate voting for our citizens is better late than never. We'll get started immediately to implement fixes to the process and work with the governor on this issue."
The media picked it up as "Democrats critized the governor for his change of position on the issue" but "promised to work to enact new legislation."
Slashdot reported "Democrats critized the flip-flop."
And you complained about the Democrats.
I see the first quote as a very guarded way to say that you are pleased with the governor has done, without it being a sound bite exploitable by the Karl Roves of the world in the next election. From there it was distorted until it simply mentioned the criticism, which amazingly still makes it exploitable by Roves.
(I didn't RTFA and I made up all these quotes for illustrative purposes only.)
I met him in college years ago when he held a discussion for the honors program at my school. I have a signed copy of Einstein's Dreams in my library. This was a very small group - perhaps 15 students, 2 faculty members, and him, so it was more informal and personal.
In person, he comes across as very sincere and intellectual. I believe that he has a good, rational, critically-thinking mind, and thus, compared to many other humans, the oxygen he uses is much less wasted.
Since the ultimate outcome of the Microsoft antitrust suit is that you can use unfair tactics and get just about clean away with it, maybe we should junk the whole business. I don't see whom antitrust law really benefits.
And since OJ showed you can commit murder and get just about clean away with it, we should scrap the whole criminal justice system./sarcasm
Seriously, stopping unfair business practices is one of the things that even a libertarian should want from their government. The free market cannot exist in places where the market is manipulated, such as due to trusts or fraud, and there is no one that can stop it like the government.*
*And no, "if the consumers don't like the trust they can just buy from someone else" isn't a valid reply. For it to be a monopoly convicted of antitrust violations, the holder of the monopoly must be using their leverage to actively prevent competition, depriving consumers of the opportunity to purchase alternative products.
Personally, I don't see that Apple fits into this category at all. I can buy songs from third-party sites (like Magnatune, or soon through Songbird) and put them on my Digisette. I can buy songs from iTunes, write them to a CDRW, rip them back as MP3, and put them on my Digisette. And I can buy songs from Magnatune and put them on my iPod, if I had one.
The only thing monopolistic about the digital music business is how the record labels, through their monopoly on specific artists' music, can use that leverage to enfore draconian licensing and protection technologies on the industry. And claiming that the monopoly granted to the owner of a copyright can qualify for antitrust violations is an unproven stretch.
The year after Rudyard Kipling's estate's copyright expired on The Jungle Book, Disney released a animated film based on his story.
Clearly they were developing the story in anticipation of the exipiration of the copyright. (This is fine - it is the fact that Disney has taken from the public commons but not given back that is the problem.)
No, I'm not afraid of my government. (At least not that afraid.) I'm afraid of paramilitary nutcases that will take public speech as a direct attack on their views, and retaliate.
You know, like blowing up or burning down churches of people who speak out against racism or segregation?
As a SWAG, lets say there was a fanbase of 10M worldwide. If just one third could be convinced to pony up $1 per episode - that's $3.3M right there. By using the internet and some sort of paypal like system (pay attention to what google is doing in this area, they seem to be thinking right along these lines) they could collect that $1 per episode and put it into an escrow account. When the balance reaches $3.3M production begins. When the episode is completed, it is released to the public domain and the money is released to the production company.
Public domain means no copyright, which means all things are possible - even derivative works. If the development company does this for even one episode, then someone else - Spielberg, Warner, Fox, etc. - can take the Farscape line and produce their own episodes, or their own feature films.
Sure, to the public that paid for this one episode, that might be a benefit. But, for the production company, they have just lost all control over the future of one of their creative products, in return for a measly $300k.
I don't think any television or movie production company would go for such a deal. Now, if you allowed them to release under a creative commons license, such as one that allowed for free distribution but restricted derivative works, for-pay distribution, and public performances, then I bet you might find a company willing to take a shot at it. (And I'd be one person donating $1. Heck, make it $2 - I pay that for shows on iTunes anyway.)
My MP3 player is a Digisette, which is shaped like a cassette tape and plays in a tape player. (I have a convertible and won't put in a custom stereo.)
It holds 350 MB, including the on-board memory and a plug-in MMC expansion card.
For my car music, I craft a playlist that specifically includes music I want to hear while driving. In other words, mostly music I can sing along to. =) Fortunately I'm pretty tolerant of repetition; I recently updated the playlist, but before that I listened to the same 5 hours of music on rotation for two years.
At work, though, I have 8.5 GB in a folder on my PC, all on Winamp shuffle..
My next player, when it is finally time to retire the Digisette, will be large enough to hold everything.
I think most criminals don't try to "outrun" a helicopter, if they even notice it is following them. Hence they'll pay more attention to the road. This is as opposed to a car chase, where the criminals are spending all their time looking in their rearview mirror, right until they hit grandma.
I found it pretty cool. Malicious code at the phone company's central office used to serupticiously record the conversations of top government officials and foreign diplomats? Way cool from a technical/geek standpoint.
>> But as of now, you're just crowing because you're on top. And the only reason you're on top is the fluke of you being born in the right time and at the right place.
No, I'm pointing out that selective and cross breeding is not the same as genetic modification.
Also, I'm mentioning that I personally want to ensure a long lifespan for myself, and I do what I can to secure that. There are people in the world who subsist on less than $1 a day, and are at constant risk of death. I donate money to charity, but I do not donate so much that I am left with only $1 a day for myself./shrug Given that you are spending time posting on Slashdot, I doubt you do, either.
If Monsanto wanted to donate a GM corn that would grow in a desert to the people of north Africa, by all means let them do so.
I think you went off on a rant on things I didn't say. Bad strawman.
When selective and cross breeding results in something nature abhors, nature makes it sterile. This limits the effects to things that are, basically, still "natural".
Direct genetic modification can create things that were "never meant to be", and could cause problems for other other organism who injest them. Things like this are usually only sterile because the vendor wants to protect its IP; I fear genetically modified species mutating to avoid gentic sterilization and unleashing themselves on the wild.
Or, at least, that is what most eaters of organic food believe. Personally, I figure that eating clean, fresh organic food won't hurt me or shorten my life. GM foods might not either, but why risk it? I make enough money to be choosy.
>> Then again I still hold to the idea that the only people who want to hide behind anonymity are people that have something to hide that they should not be.
You mean like people who want to say something very important, but don't want their wife and child shot by snipers in response?
I was in 3rd grade math class. The 5th-grade science class down the hall had been watching it live. A few minutes after it happened, the science teacher came in and told us about it.
Yeah, even on the story on this same topic posted a few days ago, I speculated that this was a complete fabrication.
If they still can't meet demand, to the point that their advertising is suffering, then I have to concede that I was wrong and Microsoft really does have manufacturing problems. (heheh)
I suppose my Microsoft bias is showing, but I really did take this long to convince me that they weren't operating some vast global conspiracy in this instance.
It's not the tritium that's the problem in DT fusion. Not at all. Tritium degrades rather quickly into helium-3 (12.3 year half life) and has many safe uses.
Instead, it is the 14 MeV neutron generated by a DT reaction that is the problem. D + T -> n (14.07 MeV) + He^4 (3.52 MeV)
Those 14 MeV neutrons are lethal, and they can only be contained by thick shields. Even in a standard fusion reactor with Tungsten inner shield walls, calculations in my plasma science courses years ago showed that, on average, every single atom in the shield wall lattice would be displaced every few months by the bombardment of neutrons. This renders the shield wall A) structurally unstable and in need of replacement, and B) most likely radioactive.
He^3 is preferred because its reaction, while emitting less power, produces only easy-to-control protons and larger, slower, non-radioactive Helium-4 nucleii. He^3 + He^3 -> 2p + He^4 (12.9 MeV)
(And we'll get a working reactor eventually, maybe, with a Tokamak, but I bet it will come sooner if we'd give up on that technology and look at some of the other ideas that have been tossed aside in its pursuit.)
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I think the argument against AllofMP3.com is that the act of creating a copy occurs on the PC of the downloader. As that PC is located in the US, the copying occurs in the US, and thus US law applies.
If the same PC were in Russia during the download, and then that PC was carried into the US, it would be 100% legal no questions asked. This is what your links argue. But your links do nothing to discuss the location of the "act of downloading."
And I have no idea why you were moderated as a troll.
Aren't YOU scared by the U.S. government? If you aren't, then you probably don't know very much about it. Last time I checked Microsoft hasn't killed anyone, have they? I haven't heard even the most rabid anti-Microsoft person ever accuse Microsoft of murder - even on Slashdot!!! I am just not that scared of Microsoft the make a deal with the devil to "protect" me from them.
The government is not one large intelligence, with one mind and goal. (Well, except for the parts being run by the Republican machine, and even then I'd hesitate to use the word "intelligence".)
There are different parts of the government that work better than others. I consider the NTSB, for example, to be a damn fine example of government doing its job, and doing it well. As far as the justice department goes, a guy I went to high school with is now a DoJ lawyer, working exclusively on anti-trust cases. I don't think he is in any way part of some great conspiracy; given the focus of his job, he's going to do it to the best of his ability.
They used their near-monopoly as leverage to force PC makers such as Dell to use only their products, thus preventing Dell from bringing installation convenience and economies of scale to non-Microsoft alternative products.
My definition basically covers this.
As I say a few posts above (http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=177649&ci d=14734757) what the Democrats actually said and what was reported by the media and by slashdot are probably very different.
That said, Republicans don't have a good track record for forgiving people who grow and evolve their opinions.
What if the Democrats said:
"Well, first of all I wish that he had not blocked our efforts to study this last year, but ensuring fair, accurate voting for our citizens is better late than never. We'll get started immediately to implement fixes to the process and work with the governor on this issue."
The media picked it up as "Democrats critized the governor for his change of position on the issue" but "promised to work to enact new legislation."
Slashdot reported "Democrats critized the flip-flop."
And you complained about the Democrats.
I see the first quote as a very guarded way to say that you are pleased with the governor has done, without it being a sound bite exploitable by the Karl Roves of the world in the next election. From there it was distorted until it simply mentioned the criticism, which amazingly still makes it exploitable by Roves.
(I didn't RTFA and I made up all these quotes for illustrative purposes only.)
I met him in college years ago when he held a discussion for the honors program at my school. I have a signed copy of Einstein's Dreams in my library. This was a very small group - perhaps 15 students, 2 faculty members, and him, so it was more informal and personal.
In person, he comes across as very sincere and intellectual. I believe that he has a good, rational, critically-thinking mind, and thus, compared to many other humans, the oxygen he uses is much less wasted.
Damn that's sweet. I had no idea.
Since the ultimate outcome of the Microsoft antitrust suit is that you can use unfair tactics and get just about clean away with it, maybe we should junk the whole business. I don't see whom antitrust law really benefits.
/sarcasm
And since OJ showed you can commit murder and get just about clean away with it, we should scrap the whole criminal justice system.
Seriously, stopping unfair business practices is one of the things that even a libertarian should want from their government. The free market cannot exist in places where the market is manipulated, such as due to trusts or fraud, and there is no one that can stop it like the government.*
*And no, "if the consumers don't like the trust they can just buy from someone else" isn't a valid reply. For it to be a monopoly convicted of antitrust violations, the holder of the monopoly must be using their leverage to actively prevent competition, depriving consumers of the opportunity to purchase alternative products.
Personally, I don't see that Apple fits into this category at all. I can buy songs from third-party sites (like Magnatune, or soon through Songbird) and put them on my Digisette. I can buy songs from iTunes, write them to a CDRW, rip them back as MP3, and put them on my Digisette. And I can buy songs from Magnatune and put them on my iPod, if I had one.
The only thing monopolistic about the digital music business is how the record labels, through their monopoly on specific artists' music, can use that leverage to enfore draconian licensing and protection technologies on the industry. And claiming that the monopoly granted to the owner of a copyright can qualify for antitrust violations is an unproven stretch.
The year after Rudyard Kipling's estate's copyright expired on The Jungle Book, Disney released a animated film based on his story.
Clearly they were developing the story in anticipation of the exipiration of the copyright. (This is fine - it is the fact that Disney has taken from the public commons but not given back that is the problem.)
No, I'm not afraid of my government. (At least not that afraid.) I'm afraid of paramilitary nutcases that will take public speech as a direct attack on their views, and retaliate.
You know, like blowing up or burning down churches of people who speak out against racism or segregation?
As a SWAG, lets say there was a fanbase of 10M worldwide. If just one third could be convinced to pony up $1 per episode - that's $3.3M right there. By using the internet and some sort of paypal like system (pay attention to what google is doing in this area, they seem to be thinking right along these lines) they could collect that $1 per episode and put it into an escrow account. When the balance reaches $3.3M production begins. When the episode is completed, it is released to the public domain and the money is released to the production company.
Public domain means no copyright, which means all things are possible - even derivative works. If the development company does this for even one episode, then someone else - Spielberg, Warner, Fox, etc. - can take the Farscape line and produce their own episodes, or their own feature films.
Sure, to the public that paid for this one episode, that might be a benefit. But, for the production company, they have just lost all control over the future of one of their creative products, in return for a measly $300k.
I don't think any television or movie production company would go for such a deal. Now, if you allowed them to release under a creative commons license, such as one that allowed for free distribution but restricted derivative works, for-pay distribution, and public performances, then I bet you might find a company willing to take a shot at it. (And I'd be one person donating $1. Heck, make it $2 - I pay that for shows on iTunes anyway.)
My MP3 player is a Digisette, which is shaped like a cassette tape and plays in a tape player. (I have a convertible and won't put in a custom stereo.)
It holds 350 MB, including the on-board memory and a plug-in MMC expansion card.
For my car music, I craft a playlist that specifically includes music I want to hear while driving. In other words, mostly music I can sing along to. =) Fortunately I'm pretty tolerant of repetition; I recently updated the playlist, but before that I listened to the same 5 hours of music on rotation for two years.
At work, though, I have 8.5 GB in a folder on my PC, all on Winamp shuffle..
My next player, when it is finally time to retire the Digisette, will be large enough to hold everything.
I think most criminals don't try to "outrun" a helicopter, if they even notice it is following them. Hence they'll pay more attention to the road. This is as opposed to a car chase, where the criminals are spending all their time looking in their rearview mirror, right until they hit grandma.
I found it pretty cool. Malicious code at the phone company's central office used to serupticiously record the conversations of top government officials and foreign diplomats? Way cool from a technical/geek standpoint.
Sorry bud, but the guy 7 posts up already patented this:d =14627261
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=176009&ci
Now you owe him $20k.
>> But as of now, you're just crowing because you're on top. And the only reason you're on top is the fluke of you being born in the right time and at the right place.
/shrug Given that you are spending time posting on Slashdot, I doubt you do, either.
No, I'm pointing out that selective and cross breeding is not the same as genetic modification.
Also, I'm mentioning that I personally want to ensure a long lifespan for myself, and I do what I can to secure that. There are people in the world who subsist on less than $1 a day, and are at constant risk of death. I donate money to charity, but I do not donate so much that I am left with only $1 a day for myself.
If Monsanto wanted to donate a GM corn that would grow in a desert to the people of north Africa, by all means let them do so.
I think you went off on a rant on things I didn't say. Bad strawman.
When selective and cross breeding results in something nature abhors, nature makes it sterile. This limits the effects to things that are, basically, still "natural".
Direct genetic modification can create things that were "never meant to be", and could cause problems for other other organism who injest them. Things like this are usually only sterile because the vendor wants to protect its IP; I fear genetically modified species mutating to avoid gentic sterilization and unleashing themselves on the wild.
Or, at least, that is what most eaters of organic food believe. Personally, I figure that eating clean, fresh organic food won't hurt me or shorten my life. GM foods might not either, but why risk it? I make enough money to be choosy.
You must not be feeling lucky...
)
(First Google hit for "mr rogers theme song" is
http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/tv_theme_wav.htm
This was my favorite site for instance maps, when I played:a meMaps/0.php!orderBy=17
http://worldofwarcraft.gameamp.com/game_map/viewG
Your life has no purpose and that's why you play (are addicted to) WoW, but guess what? Your life has even less purpose while you play!
No offense, but trolling on Slashdot on a Saturday is pretty low, too. =p
>> Then again I still hold to the idea that the only people who want to hide behind anonymity are people that have something to hide that they should not be.
You mean like people who want to say something very important, but don't want their wife and child shot by snipers in response?
I was in 3rd grade math class. The 5th-grade science class down the hall had been watching it live. A few minutes after it happened, the science teacher came in and told us about it.
Yeah, even on the story on this same topic posted a few days ago, I speculated that this was a complete fabrication.
If they still can't meet demand, to the point that their advertising is suffering, then I have to concede that I was wrong and Microsoft really does have manufacturing problems. (heheh)
I suppose my Microsoft bias is showing, but I really did take this long to convince me that they weren't operating some vast global conspiracy in this instance.
It's not the tritium that's the problem in DT fusion. Not at all. Tritium degrades rather quickly into helium-3 (12.3 year half life) and has many safe uses.
Instead, it is the 14 MeV neutron generated by a DT reaction that is the problem.
D + T -> n (14.07 MeV) + He^4 (3.52 MeV)
Those 14 MeV neutrons are lethal, and they can only be contained by thick shields. Even in a standard fusion reactor with Tungsten inner shield walls, calculations in my plasma science courses years ago showed that, on average, every single atom in the shield wall lattice would be displaced every few months by the bombardment of neutrons. This renders the shield wall A) structurally unstable and in need of replacement, and B) most likely radioactive.
He^3 is preferred because its reaction, while emitting less power, produces only easy-to-control protons and larger, slower, non-radioactive Helium-4 nucleii.
He^3 + He^3 -> 2p + He^4 (12.9 MeV)
(And we'll get a working reactor eventually, maybe, with a Tokamak, but I bet it will come sooner if we'd give up on that technology and look at some of the other ideas that have been tossed aside in its pursuit.)
Remind me to not eat any Ceviche made with this guy. Lemon or lime juice (ph 2) is used to "cook" Ceviche, but I doubt it would kill them off. Eww.