that happens to be addictive as hell to some people.. But it is still just a game. Personally I stay the hell away from those sorts of games the same way I avoid crack cocaine and heroin.. Heroin users have a community too. I always used to listen to them talk on the bus in the morning till they all got off at the methadone clinic. Seemed like nice people, but I don't want to join their community.
The problem is that the 31 year job seeker with the crappy credit is not the 18 year old little jerk who ran up all that debt in college because some credit card company thought it was a good idea to loan him $15,000. Not that the 31 year old shouldn't pay all that money back- the point is the 31 year old is much more responsible than the 18 year old ever was. Employers should understand that at the very least. And credit card companies should encourage this thinking since the 31 yo looking for job is the one to has to pay off the debt or declare bancruptcy..
Except that according to the law the game currency doesn't have value. The federal government frowns on people who try to create a new currency, as do most governments I think. Just a point to one earlier poster too: the monopoly money that is stolen isn't legally stolen if it's never removed from the context of the game. If I walk out of your house and down the street with the fake money then it might be theft, but still only of something worth maybe a penny or two. My understanding is that it isn't possible to remove online game currency from the game.. where would you take it?
IANAL blah blah blah..
I really think that people who get ripped off in the game need to solve it in the context of the game.. Or just go ride a bike or something and forget about it.
1.Recorded music for given for free as advertisement. (people would get it free anyway) 2.Tour with high ticket prices. 3.Profit (for either artist or record label). I assume that record labels will lose becuase artists would rather make money and really, what do artists need record labels for anyway if the labels can't sell records for them? I see smaller independant acts being more popular. Small labels that figure out how to make money while giving away the recorded material online will flourish.
Right!
IF you consider downloading a file stealing
AND stealing is a fireable offence
THEN the employee should be fired.
Apple does consider downloading a file stealing.
Apple considers stealing to be a fireable offence.
The employees got fired.
You can argue about the semantics of stealing if you wish but I think by working for a company you are agreeing to follow certain policies. Some companies may consider taking an extra coffee break "stealing" from the company. While it probably wouldn't hold up in a court of law as theft they can still fire you for it.
I don't consider downloading a file to for educational purposes stealing, but I don't run Apple, I don't work for Apple and I don't make the rules.
A friend of mine had her laptop stolen from her home here in Portland Oregon. She managed to find the laptop listed on E-bay with images of the serial number in plain view. I managed to look in the directory of the webserver the guy was using to host images and found images of lots of stolen goods and the thief himself. She bid on her own laptop got the guys address and called the police. She gave them all of this, his address, the image of the thief, the image of the serial number on ebay, and images of all the other stolen goods, and copies of the original receipts from gateway with the serial number on them. They took a week and a half to get back to her and then said that they didn't get some of the evidence because they couldn't figure out how to check their email...
Eventually (couple of more weeks) after countless phone calls and visits to the police station they did go and repossess her laptop, no charges were ever filed.
Good luck getting police to follow through on anything more complicated than "some culered feller hanging around lookin 'spicous"
They simply lack the capacity to understand technology and the desire to solve any actual crimes.
I understand how science threatens religion and faith. Science, while not ruling out the possibility of (a) God certainly seems to highlight how silly the whole concept is. What I don't understand is why religious people care? Don't they already ignore logic just by believing what they do? Why can they ignore some logic and not other logic? Seems to me that if you believe in an invisible super hero in the sky that loves you (but might send you to hell to suffer for eternity if you don't behave) and that AIDS is proof that god hates fags, that it should be easy to believe that evolution proves that god exists..
Why are they so selective about common sense?
Or is religion all just a way for a few wealthy old men to control simpletons for political ends?
if people are actually downloading music illegally or not. RIAA still uses the law as a club and collects from people who may or may not be downloading music illegally. At this point you might as well download as much music as you want, the chances of getting sued are about the same as if you don't- and you chances of winning such a case would be exactly the same either way.
You might as well...
The DS is the first game system I bought since my sega genesis system back when.. oh before time itself. I love this thing! It is a hell of a lot more advanced than the Sega, costs about the same, and is like 1/10 the size. I spent the first few days just shaking my head at the power, capability, and size of the thing. And the games are actually entertaining, not frustrating or something you have to give up your life in order to play properly.
So, Im one of those 'casual' gamers who spent the $120- I used to be more involved in gaming but I just seem to have other things to do with my time now, with the ds I can play between the other things I do..
Politics should have no sway over anything in my opinion. Bunch of the same rich assholes running the same popularity contests they did in high school only now do it with money, hookers and the fate of our country at stake. In a better universe every issue would be decided by logical analysis of all known paths to reach the result that would benefit the most people the most. But no, we are human beings, so at best we argue like petty children and at worst we blow the crap out of each other with high tech weaponry.
Stupid humans..
Why do I have the feeling that no matter who wins this struggle I'm going to lose?
The ramifications of being able to 'filter' things this small are mind boggling. Specially if it's cheap! Chemists have the need to seperate solutions all the time and I'm sure this could be used for things other than salt water.. I wonder if this will help me make crank in my basement... hmmm
An abacus is a computer. A calculator is a computer. My watch is a computer. Gaming consoles are cumputers. A personal desktop computer is a computer. Now go away.
I think she was kind of making fun of that fact herself in the quote. "Alliteration is cool"? HA I guess that is a good reason to support Net Neutrality. Besides, this hot famous person thinks it is good so it must be.
Im still torn on the issue. I can see how it might be cool to not have to pay for 50 megabits to the whole internet, just to the movie server you want to get movies from. On the other hand once you start down that road whats to stop them from setting the bandwidth to 1kbps on competitors sites?
More detailed regulation is needed.
I agree with the feeling behind the sentiment but I can picture my 1st grade teacher saying "two wrongs don't make a right" etc. etc.. We do need to hold these guys responsible for the laws they pass and the oath they take. We just have to figure out a better way than destroying what we are trying to protect...
Shock Collars maybe?
ZZZT! Bad Congressman! Bad! BBZZZZT! Respect the constitution! BZZZZZT!
One: This Amir is a slimy crook and is getting everything he deserves.
Two: The buyer is an unreasonable dick and should be brought up on some sort of charges.
Too bad laws don't take this into account. At least not in the US, not sure about the UK. Seems like in the US it wouldn't matter if Amir was a slimeball or not he could still sue the guy who bought the laptop and make his life miseralble if not deprive him of lots of money..
There should be a slimy crook/unreasonable dick law... Im going to write my congressman right now.
Ravers are "kids" no matter what age they are. You can be 35 years old and be a raver kid. Although I've been told that you should give up the life by the time you are 30. But it's too much fun to give up completely. Ive meet people in their 50's at raves. I would agree that eight-teen and nine-teen would qualify as teenagers. The word teen is right there in the name of the age. eh?
If I understand the concept I think slashdot readers would be one group that would help with this. How many times have people posted all the "prior art" examples for these lawsuit harvest patents on/.? Open source developers that have projects threatened by junk patents etc etc. I think this is a fantastic development.
my 2 cents, not one red cent more from me.
I'm wondering. Would the bill apply to Internet2? Would it apply to any IP based network? Obviously not all IP networks are The Internet. At what point could educational establishments along with sympathetic corportations like Google and sites like slashdot start their own internetwork and leave the tiered internet crowd without google, ebay, amazon or any of the geeks who actually make the internet an interesting place to be? Wouldn't customers sign up for google's internet rather than at&t's?
Yea it had a meaning. According to the m-w.com dictionary it means:
1 a : having a body part and especially a limb so disabled as to impair freedom of movement b : marked by stiffness and soreness 2 : lacking needful or desirable substance : WEAK, INEFFECTUAL 3 slang : not being in the know : SQUARE
I think when you call someone lame you might be using the second or perhaps the third definition. So stop being so lame and gay.
P.S. I am tagging everything "Bisexual" when i see the gay and straight tags..
Slashdot Mirror
Email brings me: Work related stuff, spam, emails from relatives, spam, bills, and spam. Oh yea, and spam.
The Web brings me: Porn, work avoidance, time waster sites, entertainment, movie listings, directions to the party, Porn, and slashdot...
I'll keep the web, hands down.
Yea, like Grand Theft Auto. It's just a way to escape from all the murder, drugs and prostitution out on the streets..
that happens to be addictive as hell to some people.. But it is still just a game. Personally I stay the hell away from those sorts of games the same way I avoid crack cocaine and heroin.. Heroin users have a community too. I always used to listen to them talk on the bus in the morning till they all got off at the methadone clinic. Seemed like nice people, but I don't want to join their community.
The problem is that the 31 year job seeker with the crappy credit is not the 18 year old little jerk who ran up all that debt in college because some credit card company thought it was a good idea to loan him $15,000. Not that the 31 year old shouldn't pay all that money back- the point is the 31 year old is much more responsible than the 18 year old ever was. Employers should understand that at the very least. And credit card companies should encourage this thinking since the 31 yo looking for job is the one to has to pay off the debt or declare bancruptcy..
Except that according to the law the game currency doesn't have value. The federal government frowns on people who try to create a new currency, as do most governments I think. Just a point to one earlier poster too: the monopoly money that is stolen isn't legally stolen if it's never removed from the context of the game. If I walk out of your house and down the street with the fake money then it might be theft, but still only of something worth maybe a penny or two. My understanding is that it isn't possible to remove online game currency from the game.. where would you take it? IANAL blah blah blah.. I really think that people who get ripped off in the game need to solve it in the context of the game.. Or just go ride a bike or something and forget about it.
1.Recorded music for given for free as advertisement. (people would get it free anyway)
2.Tour with high ticket prices.
3.Profit (for either artist or record label).
I assume that record labels will lose becuase artists would rather make money and really, what do artists need record labels for anyway if the labels can't sell records for them? I see smaller independant acts being more popular. Small labels that figure out how to make money while giving away the recorded material online will flourish.
Just a guess. We'll see.
..playing is way too much work!
Right! IF you consider downloading a file stealing AND stealing is a fireable offence THEN the employee should be fired. Apple does consider downloading a file stealing. Apple considers stealing to be a fireable offence. The employees got fired. You can argue about the semantics of stealing if you wish but I think by working for a company you are agreeing to follow certain policies. Some companies may consider taking an extra coffee break "stealing" from the company. While it probably wouldn't hold up in a court of law as theft they can still fire you for it. I don't consider downloading a file to for educational purposes stealing, but I don't run Apple, I don't work for Apple and I don't make the rules.
A friend of mine had her laptop stolen from her home here in Portland Oregon. She managed to find the laptop listed on E-bay with images of the serial number in plain view. I managed to look in the directory of the webserver the guy was using to host images and found images of lots of stolen goods and the thief himself. She bid on her own laptop got the guys address and called the police. She gave them all of this, his address, the image of the thief, the image of the serial number on ebay, and images of all the other stolen goods, and copies of the original receipts from gateway with the serial number on them. They took a week and a half to get back to her and then said that they didn't get some of the evidence because they couldn't figure out how to check their email...
Eventually (couple of more weeks) after countless phone calls and visits to the police station they did go and repossess her laptop, no charges were ever filed.
Good luck getting police to follow through on anything more complicated than "some culered feller hanging around lookin 'spicous"
They simply lack the capacity to understand technology and the desire to solve any actual crimes.
I understand how science threatens religion and faith. Science, while not ruling out the possibility of (a) God certainly seems to highlight how silly the whole concept is. What I don't understand is why religious people care? Don't they already ignore logic just by believing what they do? Why can they ignore some logic and not other logic? Seems to me that if you believe in an invisible super hero in the sky that loves you (but might send you to hell to suffer for eternity if you don't behave) and that AIDS is proof that god hates fags, that it should be easy to believe that evolution proves that god exists..
Why are they so selective about common sense?
Or is religion all just a way for a few wealthy old men to control simpletons for political ends?
if people are actually downloading music illegally or not. RIAA still uses the law as a club and collects from people who may or may not be downloading music illegally. At this point you might as well download as much music as you want, the chances of getting sued are about the same as if you don't- and you chances of winning such a case would be exactly the same either way. You might as well...
It's in my gamefly Q. Should I be worried?
The DS is the first game system I bought since my sega genesis system back when.. oh before time itself. I love this thing! It is a hell of a lot more advanced than the Sega, costs about the same, and is like 1/10 the size. I spent the first few days just shaking my head at the power, capability, and size of the thing. And the games are actually entertaining, not frustrating or something you have to give up your life in order to play properly. So, Im one of those 'casual' gamers who spent the $120- I used to be more involved in gaming but I just seem to have other things to do with my time now, with the ds I can play between the other things I do..
Politics should have no sway over anything in my opinion. Bunch of the same rich assholes running the same popularity contests they did in high school only now do it with money, hookers and the fate of our country at stake. In a better universe every issue would be decided by logical analysis of all known paths to reach the result that would benefit the most people the most. But no, we are human beings, so at best we argue like petty children and at worst we blow the crap out of each other with high tech weaponry.
Stupid humans..
Why do I have the feeling that no matter who wins this struggle I'm going to lose?
The ramifications of being able to 'filter' things this small are mind boggling. Specially if it's cheap! Chemists have the need to seperate solutions all the time and I'm sure this could be used for things other than salt water.. I wonder if this will help me make crank in my basement... hmmm
An abacus is a computer. A calculator is a computer. My watch is a computer. Gaming consoles are cumputers. A personal desktop computer is a computer. Now go away.
I think she was kind of making fun of that fact herself in the quote. "Alliteration is cool"? HA I guess that is a good reason to support Net Neutrality. Besides, this hot famous person thinks it is good so it must be. Im still torn on the issue. I can see how it might be cool to not have to pay for 50 megabits to the whole internet, just to the movie server you want to get movies from. On the other hand once you start down that road whats to stop them from setting the bandwidth to 1kbps on competitors sites? More detailed regulation is needed.
I tried seaching for reference to your trademark but it was not found.
I agree with the feeling behind the sentiment but I can picture my 1st grade teacher saying "two wrongs don't make a right" etc. etc.. We do need to hold these guys responsible for the laws they pass and the oath they take. We just have to figure out a better way than destroying what we are trying to protect...
Shock Collars maybe?
ZZZT! Bad Congressman! Bad! BBZZZZT! Respect the constitution! BZZZZZT!
That would rule.
One: This Amir is a slimy crook and is getting everything he deserves. Two: The buyer is an unreasonable dick and should be brought up on some sort of charges. Too bad laws don't take this into account. At least not in the US, not sure about the UK. Seems like in the US it wouldn't matter if Amir was a slimeball or not he could still sue the guy who bought the laptop and make his life miseralble if not deprive him of lots of money.. There should be a slimy crook/unreasonable dick law... Im going to write my congressman right now.
If anything, the groupthink will be just as bad.
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Any chance of fixing the posting time limit bug guys?
Ravers are "kids" no matter what age they are. You can be 35 years old and be a raver kid. Although I've been told that you should give up the life by the time you are 30. But it's too much fun to give up completely. Ive meet people in their 50's at raves. I would agree that eight-teen and nine-teen would qualify as teenagers. The word teen is right there in the name of the age. eh?
If I understand the concept I think slashdot readers would be one group that would help with this. How many times have people posted all the "prior art" examples for these lawsuit harvest patents on /.? Open source developers that have projects threatened by junk patents etc etc. I think this is a fantastic development.
my 2 cents, not one red cent more from me.
For reference.
I'm wondering. Would the bill apply to Internet2? Would it apply to any IP based network? Obviously not all IP networks are The Internet. At what point could educational establishments along with sympathetic corportations like Google and sites like slashdot start their own internetwork and leave the tiered internet crowd without google, ebay, amazon or any of the geeks who actually make the internet an interesting place to be? Wouldn't customers sign up for google's internet rather than at&t's?
Would the law apply to the new internetwork?Yea it had a meaning. According to the m-w.com dictionary it means:
1 a : having a body part and especially a limb so disabled as to impair freedom of movement b : marked by stiffness and soreness
2 : lacking needful or desirable substance : WEAK, INEFFECTUAL
3 slang : not being in the know : SQUARE
I think when you call someone lame you might be using the second or perhaps the third definition. So stop being so lame and gay.
P.S. I am tagging everything "Bisexual" when i see the gay and straight tags..