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Beatles Bite Apple
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I belive Micheal Jackson controls all the beatles works. So I would say he is sueing Apple.
Owning the copyright to The Beatles' music is not the same as owning the Beatles' record company. Michael Jackson purchased the rights to the songs from Apple Records. Now, unles he's also bought the company since then, Michael Jackson doesn't own Apple Records, or its holding company (Apple Corps), and so he isn't suing Apple Computers.
If you buy a wrench from Home Depot, do you own Home Depot?
Edward Teller, one of the 20th Century's greats in physics, died Tuesday afternoon at his home in Stanford. He was 95.
Adolph Hitler, one of the 20th Century's greats in ethnically-centered tourism and transportation, died today at his suite in Berlin of projectile trauma to the head. He was 56.
Osama Bin Laden, one of the 21st Century's greats in aviational planning, died today in his cave in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan. He was 46.
Pol Pot, one of the 20th century's greats in pro-illiterate advocacy, died today near Anlong Veng. He was either 70 or 73.
We can go on, of course. This criminal makes something that kills hundreds of thousands of people and we're supposed to mourn that he died comfortably at the ripe age of 95?
If I charged you for sex, I could easily get $100/hour. How about I have sex with you, without your consent, for free?
Very good point. Just one problem: If you look and weigh anything like the rest of us slashdotters, you may be setting your price a bit high. I've found that 10 cents (Canadian) is the most any one of us here can expect for our sexual services (we have to pay for the condom and flowers ourselves). The worse part is when they try to haggle and get more for the 10 cents. I once had to throw in a week of tech support for free.
He's talking about what's right and wrong, and all you can say is what's legal and illegal? Slavery was legal. People who rescued (or "stole," if we follow your logic) slaves were criminals. Consumption of alcohol was illegal in this country a short while ago. On the other hand, in some countries marrying a 9 year-old girl is legal.
Get over your laws and think for yourself for a change.
Sometime during the late 90's I purchased a copy of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" album for around $20.
Some time in the early 90's I bought the same CD for $15.00. Some time in the early 90's when CD technology was new and making CDs was more expensive, I didn't pay more than $12.00 for a single CD (including tax). That's when I built my huge CD collection. Then one day I walked into a record store and all their CDs were $16.00. That's when I stopped buying CDs. Then napster came along and the rest is hisotory. Now they want to "reduce" prices? It's like the new coke/classic coke shit, except it's too little too late.
If the CD is clearly labeled (as the parent post suggests), then taking it back would just get RTFL (read the fookin' label) looks from the sales clerk, lawyers, and judges.
You are right, though. The RIAA would blame declining sales on piracy. It's a no-win situation.
In my rockstar dreams, I win a grammy (an RIAA marketting tool), go up to claim it, then smash it with a long anti-RIAA diatribe. One can dream, but realistically, if more musicians used direct sales and did their own promotions without going through parasitic record companies, then the RIAA would disappear.
They are the web hosts and the ISPs. A middleman is a person who buys from producers and sells to consumers. The web hosts and ISPs don't buy his work and they don't sell his work.
If this dude sold his comics out of his apt, would you call his landlord and the electric company middlemen?
UN has passed
a laughably broad and unrealistic human rights
convention
Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. hahhahahaha this is so funny. You're so right
Article 2: some bullshit about not discriminating on the basis of sex, race, color, religion ROTFLMAO
Article 3:Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Freakin' idealists with their human rights
Article 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude such toilet paper this UN declaration of human rights is.
Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment how laughably broad! Can you believe this crock of shit
Article 6: Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law This one is a real tickler. How unreasonable.
and it goes on like this for another 24 or so articles.
Those founding pinkos of America also had some unrealistic notions about rights and lefty things like that. I'd quote them too, but I'm running out of irony.
Face it. The liberal values of one generation are opposed to death by conservatives of their time, only to be held up as dogma by conservatives of the next generation. Human progress is a constant move toward liberalism, impeded and shat upon by simple-minded fools who are too comfortable with the status-quo. Your idealogical descendants will wear brown shirts and hold vigils when some crazy redneck judge is prevented from having a monument to the UN declaration of human rights placed in a courtroom.
How many of us who are up in arms about this gave a flip when unskilled and then skilled blue collar jobs were being shipped overseas? A natural defense mechanism was to blame the victims for not having proper education, skills, creativity, etc., because it kept us from thinking about the same thing happening to us.
Now the same thing is happening to the techie job market and we still have people saying things like "if you don't have {insert random skill that hasn't been shipped overseas yet} you deserve to lose your job. Harumph harumph, social darwinism, blah blah blah."
So, the next time you hear about blue collar jobs being moved to Mexico for the good of the shareholders, or a Walmart driving local businesses out for gains in efficiency, don't think of the displaced people as uneducated fools who deserve what they get. I'm in medical school right now and I could rest smugly on the fact that the AMA is maintaining a chokehold monopoly on the physician supply, but the fact is, all of us are affected by the worship of the bottom line.
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Let's go back to 1953. Back then Iran was a moderate democracy (not the pretend-democracy it is now). They decided that the 16% of the oil profits they were getting from the Brits for extracting oil was a bit low. The brits balked. Iranians nationalized their oil. Brits and Americans overthrew the democracy and installed a dictator, the shah, who was corrupt, pro west, etc.
So the students rebelled thinking they were going to get a democracy, but instead got a dictatorship that was even worse than the previous one. One that saw as its mission the export of islamic fundamentalism and the funding of terrorist groups.
Skip many years. Fast forward through Iran-Iraq war and our role in helping both sides with intel so that neither side would wons, etc...
Now we're sponsoring freedom and democracy. About 50 years and hundreds of thousands of lives too late, but better late than never, right?
If all of this anonymizer shit means the people of Iran will get some help freeing themselves from a group of bloodthirsty fundamentalist fuckwads, great. But let's not delude ourselves about our real motivations. We use lofty language about democracy when it suits us, and just as easily discard it to support dictators.
By the way, there hasn't been a Persia for a long time. It's been "Iran" since 1935. If you want to make yourself sound like a rug or a cat, be my guest.
My guess is that U.S. Millitary special ops who are undercover need to be able to safely communicate back home with out fear of being discovered by the local government.
I am a member of special ops in Iran right now reading/. anonymously through this service. Also, when I have to communicate our dear leader, G.W. Bush, I just login to my yahoo mailbox and send a message to president@whitehouse.gov with my highly classified info (I accidentally sent a message to president@whitehouse.org once. Boy was my face red)
This anonymizer service is really the most secure way we special ops folks have to communicate. After many years and many billions of dollars spent on developing secure communications, who knew we could've just set up a proxy server? Once we found this out, all we had to do is ask another agency (all the different agencies in DC work in perfect harmony) to implement this.
On a related note, don't you just hate when Yahoo! puts those damn horoscope adverts at the bottom of your emails? It makes my dispatches to the national security council look so damn unprofesh! I mean, here I am writing to the leader of the free world and some of the brightest minds in the oil industry about some top secret Axis of Evil tupperware party (that's where they hide the weed. In the tupperware. Those ads about buying drugs supporting terrorism weren't jokes) and it says "Do yo yahoo!" on the bottom. Shit.
Tonight on Fox: Analogies Gone Wild
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P2P Spam?
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from the article "You can liken this guy to Lex Luthor and we're all supermen," said Russ Cooper, a security expert at Trusecure in Herndon, Va. "Luckily we've been able to get the kryptonite from around our necks each time so far."
At least we can be glad that these guys spend all their intellectual energy on security instead of wasting a synapse on coming up analogies that make sense:)
I haven't read anything about the dictionary addressing. We've gotten hit pretty badly as well. The worm apparently also looks in the infected user's browser cache, so it could have gotten your email address from a protected internal company html file. If enough people have this page in their cache, and enough of them get the worm, you get pummelled.
Good point, but the article says that the council simply did not have time to consider this offer.
from the article "Our consultant had no time to double-check the offer, whether it was really cost effective, or whether there were hidden costs," she says. "We did not take it seriously."
if it's not faster then Apple should sell it for its innovation, style, performance, and the courage to move forward agressively and definitively. People here just have this weird habit of getting pissed off when they get lied to. Now arguing whether or not apple lied is a valid subject, but to say that lying doesn't matter is just wrong.
No matter which side of the idiotic wintel/mac/*nix war you're on, we need to make sure we don't get played for fools
Most of the physicists I knew run *nix for their simulations, use LaTeX (not word) to do word processing and DTP, and use pdf files for presentations.
Not a flame, just a note on how things were when I knew physicists. Now I'm stuck with bio types:) Maybe things have changed and physicists are moving toward macs; I don't claim expertise in this area.
Regarding gas, I used to get really annoyed at the signs that had the price of gas at "1.34 9/10" instead of "1.34 9/1000" or simply "1.349". But, hey. I'm anal:)
Back to the topic at hand, it is just you:), because psych studies have shown that people will think $2999 is MUCH cheaper than $3000 (not just by a dollar) That's why everyone and their mom does this.
Anyway, the point being made in the article is that such pricing is misleading. It misleads the majority of people into thinking they're getting a better deal. Just because everyone else does it, doesn't mean it's right. Many people have flamed the poor guy (I'm assuming it's a guy), but his problem may be just that he's a bit naive about how things work in this country. That would also explain why he answers every drooling lunatic that sends him an email, and why he feels it necessary to debunk astrology. Give the kid a break, you guys.
Of course, if he is a grown-up who's lived in the US for decades, then flame away:)
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Owning the copyright to The Beatles' music is not the same as owning the Beatles' record company. Michael Jackson purchased the rights to the songs from Apple Records. Now, unles he's also bought the company since then, Michael Jackson doesn't own Apple Records, or its holding company (Apple Corps), and so he isn't suing Apple Computers.
If you buy a wrench from Home Depot, do you own Home Depot?
Adolph Hitler, one of the 20th Century's greats in ethnically-centered tourism and transportation, died today at his suite in Berlin of projectile trauma to the head. He was 56.
Osama Bin Laden, one of the 21st Century's greats in aviational planning, died today in his cave in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan. He was 46.
Pol Pot, one of the 20th century's greats in pro-illiterate advocacy, died today near Anlong Veng. He was either 70 or 73.
We can go on, of course. This criminal makes something that kills hundreds of thousands of people and we're supposed to mourn that he died comfortably at the ripe age of 95?
Very good point. Just one problem: If you look and weigh anything like the rest of us slashdotters, you may be setting your price a bit high. I've found that 10 cents (Canadian) is the most any one of us here can expect for our sexual services (we have to pay for the condom and flowers ourselves). The worse part is when they try to haggle and get more for the 10 cents. I once had to throw in a week of tech support for free.
He's talking about what's right and wrong, and all you can say is what's legal and illegal? Slavery was legal. People who rescued (or "stole," if we follow your logic) slaves were criminals. Consumption of alcohol was illegal in this country a short while ago. On the other hand, in some countries marrying a 9 year-old girl is legal.
Get over your laws and think for yourself for a change.
So this is like the "some Puerto Rican guy" on South Park? :)
Thanks. The irony is that I'm usually the one debunking urban legends :)
Some time in the early 90's I bought the same CD for $15.00. Some time in the early 90's when CD technology was new and making CDs was more expensive, I didn't pay more than $12.00 for a single CD (including tax). That's when I built my huge CD collection. Then one day I walked into a record store and all their CDs were $16.00. That's when I stopped buying CDs. Then napster came along and the rest is hisotory. Now they want to "reduce" prices? It's like the new coke/classic coke shit, except it's too little too late.
You are right, though. The RIAA would blame declining sales on piracy. It's a no-win situation.
In my rockstar dreams, I win a grammy (an RIAA marketting tool), go up to claim it, then smash it with a long anti-RIAA diatribe. One can dream, but realistically, if more musicians used direct sales and did their own promotions without going through parasitic record companies, then the RIAA would disappear.
They are the web hosts and the ISPs. A middleman is a person who buys from producers and sells to consumers. The web hosts and ISPs don't buy his work and they don't sell his work.
If this dude sold his comics out of his apt, would you call his landlord and the electric company middlemen?
Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. hahhahahaha this is so funny. You're so right
Article 2: some bullshit about not discriminating on the basis of sex, race, color, religion ROTFLMAO
Article 3:Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Freakin' idealists with their human rights
Article 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude such toilet paper this UN declaration of human rights is.
Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment how laughably broad! Can you believe this crock of shit
Article 6: Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law This one is a real tickler. How unreasonable.
and it goes on like this for another 24 or so articles.
Those founding pinkos of America also had some unrealistic notions about rights and lefty things like that. I'd quote them too, but I'm running out of irony.
Face it. The liberal values of one generation are opposed to death by conservatives of their time, only to be held up as dogma by conservatives of the next generation. Human progress is a constant move toward liberalism, impeded and shat upon by simple-minded fools who are too comfortable with the status-quo. Your idealogical descendants will wear brown shirts and hold vigils when some crazy redneck judge is prevented from having a monument to the UN declaration of human rights placed in a courtroom.
Ethanol here I come...
Now the same thing is happening to the techie job market and we still have people saying things like "if you don't have {insert random skill that hasn't been shipped overseas yet} you deserve to lose your job. Harumph harumph, social darwinism, blah blah blah."
So, the next time you hear about blue collar jobs being moved to Mexico for the good of the shareholders, or a Walmart driving local businesses out for gains in efficiency, don't think of the displaced people as uneducated fools who deserve what they get. I'm in medical school right now and I could rest smugly on the fact that the AMA is maintaining a chokehold monopoly on the physician supply, but the fact is, all of us are affected by the worship of the bottom line.
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
So the students rebelled thinking they were going to get a democracy, but instead got a dictatorship that was even worse than the previous one. One that saw as its mission the export of islamic fundamentalism and the funding of terrorist groups.
Skip many years. Fast forward through Iran-Iraq war and our role in helping both sides with intel so that neither side would wons, etc...
Now we're sponsoring freedom and democracy. About 50 years and hundreds of thousands of lives too late, but better late than never, right?
If all of this anonymizer shit means the people of Iran will get some help freeing themselves from a group of bloodthirsty fundamentalist fuckwads, great. But let's not delude ourselves about our real motivations. We use lofty language about democracy when it suits us, and just as easily discard it to support dictators.
By the way, there hasn't been a Persia for a long time. It's been "Iran" since 1935. If you want to make yourself sound like a rug or a cat, be my guest.
I am a member of special ops in Iran right now reading /. anonymously through this service. Also, when I have to communicate our dear leader, G.W. Bush, I just login to my yahoo mailbox and send a message to president@whitehouse.gov with my highly classified info (I accidentally sent a message to president@whitehouse.org once. Boy was my face red)
This anonymizer service is really the most secure way we special ops folks have to communicate. After many years and many billions of dollars spent on developing secure communications, who knew we could've just set up a proxy server? Once we found this out, all we had to do is ask another agency (all the different agencies in DC work in perfect harmony) to implement this.
On a related note, don't you just hate when Yahoo! puts those damn horoscope adverts at the bottom of your emails? It makes my dispatches to the national security council look so damn unprofesh! I mean, here I am writing to the leader of the free world and some of the brightest minds in the oil industry about some top secret Axis of Evil tupperware party (that's where they hide the weed. In the tupperware. Those ads about buying drugs supporting terrorism weren't jokes) and it says "Do yo yahoo!" on the bottom. Shit.
"You can liken this guy to Lex Luthor and we're all supermen," said Russ Cooper, a security expert at Trusecure in Herndon, Va. "Luckily we've been able to get the kryptonite from around our necks each time so far."
At least we can be glad that these guys spend all their intellectual energy on security instead of wasting a synapse on coming up analogies that make sense :)
How about property taxes? Wholly owning and operating your car doesn't stop the gov't from taxing it :)
So, looks like beaming data between two PDAs or phones is safe, for now.
(Quote from DSLreports via syates21.)
I haven't read anything about the dictionary addressing. We've gotten hit pretty badly as well. The worm apparently also looks in the infected user's browser cache, so it could have gotten your email address from a protected internal company html file. If enough people have this page in their cache, and enough of them get the worm, you get pummelled.
Wow. Thanks. This was most informative. Do you know of a good book that goes into more depth on these issues?
Sorry, couldn't resist the three wasn'ts in one sentence
from the article
"Our consultant had no time to double-check the offer, whether it was really cost effective, or whether there were hidden costs," she says. "We did not take it seriously."
are you off your meds again? :)
No matter which side of the idiotic wintel/mac/*nix war you're on, we need to make sure we don't get played for fools
The author of the article seems barely literate. It's undreadable
Not a flame, just a note on how things were when I knew physicists. Now I'm stuck with bio types :) Maybe things have changed and physicists are moving toward macs; I don't claim expertise in this area.
Back to the topic at hand, it is just you :), because psych studies have shown that people will think $2999 is MUCH cheaper than $3000 (not just by a dollar) That's why everyone and their mom does this.
Anyway, the point being made in the article is that such pricing is misleading. It misleads the majority of people into thinking they're getting a better deal. Just because everyone else does it, doesn't mean it's right. Many people have flamed the poor guy (I'm assuming it's a guy), but his problem may be just that he's a bit naive about how things work in this country. That would also explain why he answers every drooling lunatic that sends him an email, and why he feels it necessary to debunk astrology. Give the kid a break, you guys.
Of course, if he is a grown-up who's lived in the US for decades, then flame away :)