Sorry, I was at work and didn't have time to have my lawyers review my post.
You are correct that what I should have said is "sharing gobs of copyrighted materials is illegal"
Look, I'm a casual infringer myself, mostly copying CD's from friends of stuff that I would NEVER pay 15 buck for. I don't see that as harming the big guns, and I doubt they will be knocking on my door. BUT, we've got a whole generation of individuals who believe that because this stuff is out there they have a right to take it.
YES the recording industry has to evolve, and yes they wll employ all the tried and true entrenched practices of big business to resist that evolution, but that doesn't make the extreme file sharers any more correct or legal, and they are making all those who DO have legitimate fair use claims suffer.
You would probably only appear to be a 'MAJOR' abuser if you sat your ass down on over 500 of your favorite CD's. If you want to convert your own entire CD Library to MP3, but download them because you are too lazy (seems quite improbable to me) you should probably expect a knock on your door.
Again, the RIAA isn't going to go after someone who downloads 10-20 tracks a month, but if you SHARE 500 or so copywrited works you will probably be in trouble, and should be.
How could this be a big blow to those who are file swapping legit? If you are legit but the activity looks like you are a major illegal abuser, you will probably be investigated, but the chances of that are slim.
You 'Kids' need to understand that MOST file swapping is illegal, so the legit uses will suffer because of it.
Yes, the MPAA ratings are not a law, they are a voluntary restriction adopted by the MPAA as a result of the threat of local and federal legislation. If (enough) movie theaters did not voluntarily agree to abide by the industries ratings system they would have had one forced upon them.
In this case, there is also an Industry ratings program, but not enough video sales establishments are complying with it, so the Government feels that it needs to get envolved.
How anyone can disagree that minors should be protected from extremely violent or sexual content is beyond me. If the industry won't (can't) effectively do it, the Government should and will.
Also, how anyone other than a pimple faced whiney uber-geek can say that a computer game is a form of free speech is also beyond me. Get a life people...
It will just tell coprate america that in your zip code, 3300 people watched friends while 4300 were watching CSI? How does this cause a problem for you personnally?
Like this is the first company to hype their product's capabilities but fail to deliver on the hype? So what??? Get a clue, or more importantly, a life. Don't you have better things to do with your time / money?
At least the perps of this hack decided to flex their muscles in an arena that 'really' doesn't hurt anyone, except for the reputation of the game's host. Compared to other events in the world this just doesn't stack up as something to get too excited about.
Now if they had interrupted the network feed of the final American Idol or something I could see where we might need to get the full force of the Government involved...
By the way, why do these gamers need a 'Safe Zone'? Is that to rest? Do you get those in real life when you want to take a break from the action?
They also seem to think that IBM and other United Linux partners might have included SCO IP into verious software.
SCO DOES believe that IBM has illegally taken SCO Intellectual Property and deliberately fed it into the linux community. If you read the complaint the scenario goes something like this...
SCO and IBM enter into agreement to produce 'hardened' Unix for the Intel Platform. When this development is done, and SCO expects IBM to market it, IBM says "nevermind we don't want to go in that direction anymore". Months later IBM announces an initiative to help the linux community 'harden' linux
SCO claim that IBM illegally used what they learned from SCO to make IP contributions to Linux. So even if the code wasn't copied the knowhow was illegally transfered from a private partnership with huge NDA coverage, to a public project without SCO's consent. If this is true, they have a case against IBM
I do not know what there case may be against Red Hat etc.
A great interview with an obviously insightful man.
The question concerning positive, pro-active action in support of sane technology regulation leaves me wondering how a bandwagon like that can get rolling. Is the EFF the obvious conduit for that type of activity. Do we need a concerted PR compagn to raise additional $ for the EFF with the specific intent that the EFF use it to start a PR arm that operates with 'traditional' political insider methods.
I swear the lawmakers can't all be morons (as we know) but someone needs to educate those who have decided to stay passive on these issues, and relying on the few enlightened lawmakers who have about a thousand other things do do probably won't get it done!
They know it's a dupe!!! Every year they post more and more stupid 4/1 stories and sit back and laugh at how seriously many of you take this stuff.
This year they decided it would be fun to combine the two things that seem to piss many readers off more than anything else by duping one 4/1 story as many times as they can.
John Cusak at about 17 yrs old. Classic 'loser gets the girl' plot with hot french exchange student, crazed paperboy "I want my two dollars!!!", Asian Howard Cosell Wannabe and psyco neighbors. Not to mention a great car and final ski race show down with the popular dude. Bitchin soundtrack too.
By the way, who knows which film my tag line is from???
It probably has more to do with the current importance computers have in our society/economy. We have gone away from a production based economy to a service based economy that relies HEAVILY on compuer infrastructure. Since computer crimes actually aren't that difficult to pull off, the powers that be don't want them to get out of hand and erode confidense in the base infrastructure.
100 years ago before the automobile became dominant, society & the economy depended quite a bit on horses. As such, you would be hung for stealing a horse, not because it's such a horrible offense, but because if the punishment wasn't really stiff excess horse theivery would probably have actually undermined the stability of society. Who would want that!
The same forces are probably in effect here.
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OK, so everyone needs to forward selected excerpts from justice Breyer's opinion to as many congressional representatives as they can.
It's clear in his historical study that the granting of a copyright was intended as a two way deal between creators of works and the people. They get a limited time period (originally 14 years) of exclusive use to profit from, after which the public gets the benefit.
The only reason for the Government to originally issue the exclusive period is the payoff that the public gets it once that period has expired! If the public is not going to get access to the works in a reasonable period of time, than the government has no purpose in granting them the exclusive right to begin with.
Of course, since the Government now (mostly) only cares about the interests of the few who have their ear, most of them will never submit to the simplicity of this logic and we are probably stuck with a sham of a system.
Why couldn't I just have created Barney (TM) so I could be on the other side of the fence looking out!
The heat will most definitely radiate back out into the room (it will it least be spread through your computer room and the room on the other side of the wall, unless, as mentioned, your computer is near an external wall with insulation.)
Either way, the wall cavity will quickly pressurize and the back pressure will reduce the airflow and your machine will run hotter!
Also, if you look at the picture, the device is connected to the power supply vents, which do produce heat, but you'd need another for the vents that come off the cpu to really get the heat.
Basically it is inefficient, heats up your 'puter' (I hated typing that!) and the heat still ends up in your house one way or another, just spread out a bit more. If you like other moronic useless gadgets there is no reason not to get two or three of these!
Never has the term 'Get A Life' been more appropriate than in this instance. I would love to know how old this guy is and what brand of underwear he prefers his mom buy for him.
Channel your energies into something important, like ending world hunger, or cancer, or just volunteering at the local teen center for crying out loud!!!
I can't find it in the archives, but/. had a story about a year ago that referenced a website listing the most interesting engineering items in all 50 states. I visited the only one referenced in Oregon this summer (Wallawa Lake Tramway).
How could you possible think that putting this guy's phone number up was going to be a helpful thing? Did you think that just one or two people would call him with all the geeks hopping mad over yet another injustice of the DMCA?
A mind is a terrible thing to waste..., or what a waste it is to lose ones mind, or something like that.
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Who are you making your point to??? If you read the review, they clearly state that they didn't think what they were doing was "AI". They even quote one team member as stating that "AI is Bullshit".
Did you just want to get something off your chest?
A quick google search for 'stepup computing' or 'docunote' finds NOTHING related to this story. If a startup of industry veterans was really getting close to releasing a great product for the mass market you would think they would have a website that someone could find.
Anyone else find something about them other than the article???
We have been struggling with OSX's 'seamless' integration with Novell and are having similar results. Our problems may stem more from Novell's supposed "Native File Access" support than with Apple's side of the connection, but it's been just as frustrating.
If Apple really wants to make OSX compatible with the entrenched NOS's out there, they need to hire a few Active "Directory" and Netware engineers and teach them about the MAC as opposed to the other way around.
I didn't say that it was wrong for the software to cost more than the car, just that it was basic economics that drove the pricing and not just 'high labor costs' as the original poster stated. Normally if demand for something drops (a newer game console comes out), the vendor has to drop the price untill he can't make a profit, at which point there isn't enough demand to sustain the product.
In your case, the supply vs. demand curve has an artificial limit, that only 1000 people would want the software no matter what the price. In that case the vendor has to set the price so that the limited pool can cover their production expenses.
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You are correct that what I should have said is "sharing gobs of copyrighted materials is illegal"
Look, I'm a casual infringer myself, mostly copying CD's from friends of stuff that I would NEVER pay 15 buck for. I don't see that as harming the big guns, and I doubt they will be knocking on my door. BUT, we've got a whole generation of individuals who believe that because this stuff is out there they have a right to take it.
YES the recording industry has to evolve, and yes they wll employ all the tried and true entrenched practices of big business to resist that evolution, but that doesn't make the extreme file sharers any more correct or legal, and they are making all those who DO have legitimate fair use claims suffer.
Again, the RIAA isn't going to go after someone who downloads 10-20 tracks a month, but if you SHARE 500 or so copywrited works you will probably be in trouble, and should be.
You 'Kids' need to understand that MOST file swapping is illegal, so the legit uses will suffer because of it.
In this case, there is also an Industry ratings program, but not enough video sales establishments are complying with it, so the Government feels that it needs to get envolved.
How anyone can disagree that minors should be protected from extremely violent or sexual content is beyond me. If the industry won't (can't) effectively do it, the Government should and will.
Also, how anyone other than a pimple faced whiney uber-geek can say that a computer game is a form of free speech is also beyond me. Get a life people...
Now if they had interrupted the network feed of the final American Idol or something I could see where we might need to get the full force of the Government involved...
By the way, why do these gamers need a 'Safe Zone'? Is that to rest? Do you get those in real life when you want to take a break from the action?
SCO DOES believe that IBM has illegally taken SCO Intellectual Property and deliberately fed it into the linux community. If you read the complaint the scenario goes something like this...
SCO and IBM enter into agreement to produce 'hardened' Unix for the Intel Platform. When this development is done, and SCO expects IBM to market it, IBM says "nevermind we don't want to go in that direction anymore". Months later IBM announces an initiative to help the linux community 'harden' linux
SCO claim that IBM illegally used what they learned from SCO to make IP contributions to Linux. So even if the code wasn't copied the knowhow was illegally transfered from a private partnership with huge NDA coverage, to a public project without SCO's consent. If this is true, they have a case against IBM
I do not know what there case may be against Red Hat etc.
The question concerning positive, pro-active action in support of sane technology regulation leaves me wondering how a bandwagon like that can get rolling. Is the EFF the obvious conduit for that type of activity. Do we need a concerted PR compagn to raise additional $ for the EFF with the specific intent that the EFF use it to start a PR arm that operates with 'traditional' political insider methods.
I swear the lawmakers can't all be morons (as we know) but someone needs to educate those who have decided to stay passive on these issues, and relying on the few enlightened lawmakers who have about a thousand other things do do probably won't get it done!
What's the next step???
I just read your post after posting mine a little further down the line (Guy's, It's a joke on YOU!)
I just like that we both ended with 'Get a life'
And now, I think I'll go and try to find mine
This year they decided it would be fun to combine the two things that seem to piss many readers off more than anything else by duping one 4/1 story as many times as they can.
As Will Shatner so eloquently put it, get a life!
By the way, who knows which film my tag line is from???
100 years ago before the automobile became dominant, society & the economy depended quite a bit on horses. As such, you would be hung for stealing a horse, not because it's such a horrible offense, but because if the punishment wasn't really stiff excess horse theivery would probably have actually undermined the stability of society. Who would want that!
The same forces are probably in effect here.
It's clear in his historical study that the granting of a copyright was intended as a two way deal between creators of works and the people. They get a limited time period (originally 14 years) of exclusive use to profit from, after which the public gets the benefit.
The only reason for the Government to originally issue the exclusive period is the payoff that the public gets it once that period has expired! If the public is not going to get access to the works in a reasonable period of time, than the government has no purpose in granting them the exclusive right to begin with.
Of course, since the Government now (mostly) only cares about the interests of the few who have their ear, most of them will never submit to the simplicity of this logic and we are probably stuck with a sham of a system.
Why couldn't I just have created Barney (TM) so I could be on the other side of the fence looking out!
Either way, the wall cavity will quickly pressurize and the back pressure will reduce the airflow and your machine will run hotter!
Also, if you look at the picture, the device is connected to the power supply vents, which do produce heat, but you'd need another for the vents that come off the cpu to really get the heat.
Basically it is inefficient, heats up your 'puter' (I hated typing that!) and the heat still ends up in your house one way or another, just spread out a bit more. If you like other moronic useless gadgets there is no reason not to get two or three of these!
I'm sure the poster will get plenty of orders...
Never has the term 'Get A Life' been more appropriate than in this instance. I would love to know how old this guy is and what brand of underwear he prefers his mom buy for him.
Channel your energies into something important, like ending world hunger, or cancer, or just volunteering at the local teen center for crying out loud!!!
Anyone else remember that story?
A mind is a terrible thing to waste..., or what a waste it is to lose ones mind, or something like that.
Did you just want to get something off your chest?
Anyone else find something about them other than the article???
If Apple really wants to make OSX compatible with the entrenched NOS's out there, they need to hire a few Active "Directory" and Netware engineers and teach them about the MAC as opposed to the other way around.
I didn't say that it was wrong for the software to cost more than the car, just that it was basic economics that drove the pricing and not just 'high labor costs' as the original poster stated. Normally if demand for something drops (a newer game console comes out), the vendor has to drop the price untill he can't make a profit, at which point there isn't enough demand to sustain the product.
In your case, the supply vs. demand curve has an artificial limit, that only 1000 people would want the software no matter what the price. In that case the vendor has to set the price so that the limited pool can cover their production expenses.
Again, I guess we agree.