Now, I'm in no way advocating the removal of the concept of jury nullification from our system, but I'm simply stating that to just throw out such a blanket action as the answer to this question doesn't help much because the action itself is under attack by significant powers in the legal realm. What, the government is attacking something which limits its power? No way...
...there are often dozens of solutions to both simple/mundane problems (text editors, media players, command line shells, etc)... Text editors are mundane? Someone hasn't started NetBeans lately...
Does anyone actually believe this is anything really intentional? I know it's Microsoft we're talking about, but it seriously just sounds like a bug in their activation/authentication system (Microsoft products have bugs sometimes, right?). If it was actually working as intended, it'd at least prompt him to purchase Visio instead of Office. This guy can't be the only guy who's tried to do this. File a bug report and try back tomorrow. That's the problem, really. MS added some useless activation code that does nothing to stop pirates, but gets in the way of legitimate users. And, on top of that, it gets in the way of legitimate users in ways that MS didn't even intend. Its broken from the ground up.
When you pay several hundred dollars for a piece of software, you have a right to expect it to actually work. For that matter, when you buy any piece of software, you have a right to expect to be able to pop the disk in your computer and use it.
I'll add to that MPL. GPL vs. MPL vs. BSD is "make all code free" vs "keep my code free" vs "do as you wish" And the LGPL, which is reasonably similar to the MPL, and too popular to ignore.
Copyright holders have the legal right to restrict how their content is used, reproduced, etc. They have laws preventing the infringement of these rights.
Individuals also have rights, such as the right to time shift or media shift content that they have purchased. Why do individuals not have laws preventing the infringement of these rights? E.g., why does the law prevent circumvention of copy protection, rather than preventing copy protection itself?
You've got it wrong: the government thinks that it is *not* illegal to copy music for personal use. The levy gives me the right to make copies of music for my use. Period. Nothing illegal about it. Which makes this quote:
CRIA's President Graham Henderson argued in his affidavit that a recent decision from the Copyright Board of Canada 'broadens the scope of the private copying exception to avoid making illegal file sharers liable for infringement.' wrong. They are not "illegal file sharers," they are completely legal file sharers, who are not infringing in any way.
I agree, that considering how many minor things are consider to taint the jury, a polygraph is probably just about the worst of them. The reliability just isn't there, and even when they are accurate, they don't really give any indication of what the lie actually is.. And that's why this is guaranteed to be overturned on appeal.
Hey mods: how, exactly, is this comment "insightful?" All it does is parrot standard/. groupthink ("Everything the government ever does sucks and doesn't work") without taking into consideration the fact that one of the highest-paying users of contract labor just might be able to afford top-notch engineers when they really care about results.
Everything the Government does does suck and fail to work. And the FBI has a history of sucking out at tech projects; Google around for the Virtual Case File system. $170 million essentially piled high and lit aflame.
So why is this legal and mod chips illegal? What's so special about computer hardware when it's got an MS or Sony logo on it, as opposed to an Apple or AT&T logo?
It would be nice if Slashdot added a feature in which a post could be modded down enough that it was actually deleted (lazy deletion at least) When I read this, I immediately thought "there's really no reason to remove a post entirely. That's just censorship."
Then I clicked the "Parent" link.
Now, I think it would be nice if Slashdot added a feature in which a post could be modded down enough that the poster was actually deleted.
The best sys admins are the ones you never notice.
If the productive workers in a company never see or need to talk to a sys admin it's been a productive day for the admins. Bingo. So here's what you do:
Leave for a week.
When you get back, after you've managed to suppress the fires and riots, fight your way to Mr. Bean's office, talk him down off of his desk, get him to put away the spear, and tell him "that's why you keep us around." If he wants it quantified, write it up as "Number of Cannibal Insurrections Suppressed Per Week (Estimated)."
To make a great game usually takes a lot of cash. Using alternate distribution channels severely lowers your sales potential. While it's a nice thought, I doubt no matter how good, the big blockbuster games couldn't pay for themselves if they couldn't sell retail.
Sometimes it takes a blockbuster game to make a distribution channel viable. See Steam; Steam sucks, but if you wanted Half Life 2, you needed Steam... so everyone has Steam.
If the game is good enough, people will get it, even if the means is a bit new.
Seriously, check out his other stuff at jacklewis.net, unfortunately you can't read his insane ratings with Firefox, which is a shame because they're quite amusing.
I just downloaded the User Agent Switcher plugin so I could give this site a go. I'm multitasking, so my eyes were only wandering across the page s I went to download it, and instead of "install now," I thought it said "buy now." I nearly had a heart attack.
I'm not even particularly zealous about killing ads, but if you're stalling out my webpage then it's in/etc/hosts for you.
Agreed. For the most part, I'm happy to let ads load, but there are four things that will get you added to my killfile real quick:
* Boobies (or anything else that might get me fired) * Shaking, flashing, screen grabbing, "look at me!" type stuff * Fake dialogs and error messages * Slowdown
I just started filtering for the last one recently. For about a week straight I kept seeing "waiting for ads.doubleclick.so.goram.slow" in my status bar, and eventually I just adblocked their entire domain.
Also, slashcode is apparently unable to figure out what to do with ul and li tags.
Unfortunately, when the company folds protecting the stakeholders there is nobody left to sue! Oooops! There goes that darn accountability!
Eh? The company was destroyed. If you think the company should be punished, is there any better punishment? Isn't this a good thing? It means that the company is not going to do that again. Maybe it would satisfy people if the guy killed himself?
The problem with that is that a corporation is kind of an ethereal entity to begin with: it never really existed, except as an abstract concept, so "punishing" it is kind of meaningless.
Here's an analogy. Steve is a plumber. You hire Steve to replace the pipes in your house. Instead, he screws up so badly that you can no longer live in your house. You go to sue him, but he says "sorry, I'm not Steve any more. You can call me Frank, and you can't sue me, 'cause I'm not Steve."
That's basically what's happening here. The people responsible for this cannot be held accountable, because they no longer call themselves Careless, Inc.
[Am I the only one] who immediately opened a new tab and brought up yahoo.com to see a cluttered page (although less so than it used to be) and a Flash advertisement and sat there scratching my head with a "Huh?" look on my face?
body builders and the like have skewed BMIs, for example.
Anyone who does any kind of weight training - the most physically beneficial type of exercise, by the way - is likely to have a skewed BMI.
Take, for example, Brad Pitt in Troy. Obviously not a fatty, and obviously not "bodybuilder" huge, either. He's 5' 11'', and in that movie, weighed in at around 185 pounds. That would give him a BMI of 25.8, which is "overweight."
I ran the number once, and to have a "healthy" BMI, I would have had to get down to negative 2 percent body fat.
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Half a backbone is way too much. A guy in his right mind would have to be totally spineless to try and claim others' work as his own.
...there are often dozens of solutions to both simple/mundane problems (text editors, media players, command line shells, etc)... Text editors are mundane? Someone hasn't started NetBeans lately...When you pay several hundred dollars for a piece of software, you have a right to expect it to actually work. For that matter, when you buy any piece of software, you have a right to expect to be able to pop the disk in your computer and use it.
I must be missing something... all I see is a bunch of stylized "F"s in boxes.
Copyright holders have the legal right to restrict how their content is used, reproduced, etc. They have laws preventing the infringement of these rights.
Individuals also have rights, such as the right to time shift or media shift content that they have purchased. Why do individuals not have laws preventing the infringement of these rights? E.g., why does the law prevent circumvention of copy protection, rather than preventing copy protection itself?
The problem is, if you own a box, you own the auditing system that runs on the box, too.
Hey mods: how, exactly, is this comment "insightful?" All it does is parrot standard /. groupthink ("Everything the government ever does sucks and doesn't work") without taking into consideration the fact that one of the highest-paying users of contract labor just might be able to afford top-notch engineers when they really care about results.
Everything the Government does does suck and fail to work. And the FBI has a history of sucking out at tech projects; Google around for the Virtual Case File system. $170 million essentially piled high and lit aflame.So why is this legal and mod chips illegal? What's so special about computer hardware when it's got an MS or Sony logo on it, as opposed to an Apple or AT&T logo?
Then I clicked the "Parent" link.
Now, I think it would be nice if Slashdot added a feature in which a post could be modded down enough that the poster was actually deleted.
If the productive workers in a company never see or need to talk to a sys admin it's been a productive day for the admins. Bingo. So here's what you do:
Leave for a week.
When you get back, after you've managed to suppress the fires and riots, fight your way to Mr. Bean's office, talk him down off of his desk, get him to put away the spear, and tell him "that's why you keep us around." If he wants it quantified, write it up as "Number of Cannibal Insurrections Suppressed Per Week (Estimated)."
Holy hell, I'd never thought of that before... that's a frightening idea.
Sometimes it takes a blockbuster game to make a distribution channel viable. See Steam; Steam sucks, but if you wanted Half Life 2, you needed Steam... so everyone has Steam.
If the game is good enough, people will get it, even if the means is a bit new.
I just downloaded the User Agent Switcher plugin so I could give this site a go. I'm multitasking, so my eyes were only wandering across the page s I went to download it, and instead of "install now," I thought it said "buy now." I nearly had a heart attack.
Agreed. For the most part, I'm happy to let ads load, but there are four things that will get you added to my killfile real quick:
* Boobies (or anything else that might get me fired)
* Shaking, flashing, screen grabbing, "look at me!" type stuff
* Fake dialogs and error messages
* Slowdown
I just started filtering for the last one recently. For about a week straight I kept seeing "waiting for ads.doubleclick.so.goram.slow" in my status bar, and eventually I just adblocked their entire domain.
Also, slashcode is apparently unable to figure out what to do with ul and li tags.
The problem with that is that a corporation is kind of an ethereal entity to begin with: it never really existed, except as an abstract concept, so "punishing" it is kind of meaningless.
Here's an analogy. Steve is a plumber. You hire Steve to replace the pipes in your house. Instead, he screws up so badly that you can no longer live in your house. You go to sue him, but he says "sorry, I'm not Steve any more. You can call me Frank, and you can't sue me, 'cause I'm not Steve."
That's basically what's happening here. The people responsible for this cannot be held accountable, because they no longer call themselves Careless, Inc.
IANAL, YMMV, HAND, etc, ad infinitum.
The best part is that they actually did jump a bus for that shot. It wasn't drivable afterwards, but it did make the jump.
Yes. The rest of us have FlashBlock installed.
Somewhere, Richard Stallman is muttering "I told you so" through a gnarly beard...
Waist-to-Height ratio requires only a tape measure, and is a much, much better predictor of heart disease.
Anyone who does any kind of weight training - the most physically beneficial type of exercise, by the way - is likely to have a skewed BMI.
Take, for example, Brad Pitt in Troy. Obviously not a fatty, and obviously not "bodybuilder" huge, either. He's 5' 11'', and in that movie, weighed in at around 185 pounds. That would give him a BMI of 25.8, which is "overweight."
I ran the number once, and to have a "healthy" BMI, I would have had to get down to negative 2 percent body fat.
BMI is a joke.
This is one of the rare times that I approve of a software patent, for two reasons:
1. This patent will prevent other people from doing the same thing, and
2. If MS actually does this, more people will leave Windows behind.