By posting anything (via Chrome) to your blog(s), any forum, video site, myspace, itunes, or any other site that might happen to be supporting you, Google can use your work without paying you a dime. They can go and edit it all they want. Even further, you're claiming that you have the power to grant these rights. So if you work for Wired, TechCrunch, Arstechnica, any of the other big web publishers, or a university where you're posting a research paper, you CANNOT agree to the Chrome ToS because you most likely don't have the right to give a license to your IP that you produce for your company/university.
You left out the part of "any item of equipment designed, made, or adapted to manufacture a controlled substance or a controlled substance analogue." This sounds like your standard burglary tools clause, and these are probably not actually illegal in TX on their own. The typical burglary tool list makes it illegal to possess hammers, screwdrivers, crowbars, etc., but only with intent to unlawfully enter or remain in a conveyance. All that happens is that when they bust someone, they can charge them with more counts that will be much easier to stick (and force a plea). Besides "a filter" is on the list, and it would be laughable to think that everyone who goes to their local big box to buy an AC filter or some cheese cloth is now a criminal.
And even then, you still have due process and the takings clause.
-- Florida Criminal Defense Attorney. I'm not your attorney. Always consult an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction.
If I was one of these studio execs or general counsel for these studios, I'd be filing a lawsuit right now for false advertising, breach of contract, fraud in inducement, etc, etc.
Unless, of course, I was naive enough to sign a contract to buy some DRM where the strength of the DRM was not a term.
Agreed. The vast majority of crap that ends up on digg/netscape/reddit is either blogspam or some blog that re-stated another article without citing its source. The amount of intentional duping and copying is ridiculous. Of course, you can't copyright facts, and all the videos are on youtube, so I don't see the situation getting better.
And then you have the crap that's simply not newsworthy... like the video on the front page of ireport right now that has a ketchup bottle arguing with a mustard container over which is better.
If slashdot had a "misleading" tag for headlines, I would be adding that right about now.
Martin is in favor of implementing the next level of the 70/70 rule which would be really nasty in capping a lot of the things Comcast can do because Comcast is already at 27% market share.
However, Martin is also in favor of destroying net neutrality, and anyone who knows anything about economics knows that tiered networking will bring media consolidation to websites.
-- law student who spent last 3 weeks researching telecom law for senior thesis.
1) The hard drive does not get wiped. X-ray machines use various alpha/beta/gamma rays. Metal detectors use eddie (sp) currents, which is a principle of magnetic flux. Metal detectors will wipe your hard drive.
2) TSA does scan the laptops through the x-ray machine. Some airports (like Atlanta International) also have gas chromatographs (or some similar tech) where they put your entire carry-on bag in a small glass chamber, a circular paper disc is loaded into this tray, the TSA agent pushes the start button, and you see your bag slide to one side of the chamber as a huge amount of air rushes through. I'm guessing this is used to detect compounds beyond trace elements that might be volatile.
I'm not saying she can't appeal. I'm just saying that if the appellate court doesn't grant cert, it doesn't matter. On the first day of reporting, I was wondering why the legal head of BMG was allowed to testify as to her opinion of what copyright law is. That's simply not relevant.
I'm just as pro-linux as the next slashdot geek, but look at it from MS's standpoint.
If they try to innovate, they're seen as monopolizing, anti-trust violating, anti-competitive, baby eaters. Examples:
-- Adding WMP, IE, MSNIM, and MS Works as pre-installs.
-- Building up the Office line past Word, Excel, and PPT, into Visio, Project, and OneNote
If they don't innovate, they're seen as stagnating idiots falling behind. Examples:
-- 2+ yr old versions of FF, Opera, and Safari are still years ahead of IE7
-- Aero features (and speed) are a joke compared to C-F and OSX's compositor
-- Ubuntu's sudo decimates UAC
Someone has to say it. MS is damned if they do, and damned if they don't.
my local blockbuster does 1.99$ (2.13 after tax) for a 2 day or 5 day rental depending on whether its a new release or not. that's approximately 9 rentals a month for 20$. then add in the fact that u get free rental coupons all the time in the mail, and also u get the rent 5 get 1 free, and rent 2 new releases (2 days), get a blockbuster favorite (5 day) free. but alas, thats my local blockbuster back at my parents house. the blockbuster here at college blows shriveled monkey balls.
my personal opinion, bein a computer geek and all, knowin some of what goes on in the so called "underground", is that the music industry is going to be split wide open like a barrel with a battle axe thru the center, and various other industries who practice the same "sue anyone making money off our product" ideology. you may ask where im going with this, but it's all a case of the big company versus not the public (who is commiting the crimes), but the public's medium. notice- mythic is not suspending accounts of these "farmers" (as it's not logistically possible), and they arent filing suit upon any of the "farmers" violating what they think is in their eula. similar to the napster case- the big 5 didnt sue the copyright infringers, but they did sue the companies who ran the programs for which the piracy was commited. the big companies desire to take a percentage of every tiny amount of money that may be brought about by something they are related to. the same is going on with Linux and the dvd decryption coding. the giant corporations scream DMCA! DMCA! and the DMCA is basically what stands in between any of these auction sites and the online game companies, any of the music distribution progs and the record labels, and any of the video distrubution progs and the motion picture association/filmmakers of america. my personal opinion is that until the internet is restricted to a finite and regulated size, the big companies will always lose to the people. if you dont believe me, look at AOL vs trillian. AOL blocked trillian from accessing aolim servers just recently, and within 20 minutes, the trillian programmers had a patch out that fixed it, and AOL cant crack it yet. morpheus is also now under fire, but look at a gigantic community that is almost completely unregulatable. check out www.neo-modus.com. direct connect is by far, what i know of as the greatest file sharing program on the planet- it has over a petabyte of data. most people dont even know what a petabyte is. piracy on our system of internet is inevitable, and as computers become more godly with regular users having over 30 gigs of hd space and 1ghz processors, and even worse- broadband, the time bomb is waiting to explode. the whole issue of massive corporation versus the medium will definitely reach terminal velocity by 2010. this is just a trivial battle in big picture. there is no possible way of regulating this system. not even with proprietary music or video formats (and there is no restrictive format for the game equipment) can the corporations eliminate piracy. encryption will always be breakable. sdmi was cracked within hrs of release. dvd encryption was cracked a long time ago- well over a year as to my knowledge. as judges realize the logistics of the impossibility of defending the corporations, the big cases will be won in the favor of the people, and cases such as this (where the corporation targets the trade medium and not the traders) will not even be debatable.
actually what i think the ceo has concluded is that with the tiny seek times (of course dram has miniscule seektimes compared to hd) the site is bogged down by less users at any given time keeping the site faster. faster site = better advertising medium = more money from advertisers. this may be more expensive initially but over a few months definitely makes up for it when the topic is overhead cost on comparison of hd to dram. i dont know of any other viable explanation. even if i hit up pricewatch, i still cant get anything nearly comparable (in dram) to the 130 USD for 60 gigs.
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By posting anything (via Chrome) to your blog(s), any forum, video site, myspace, itunes, or any other site that might happen to be supporting you, Google can use your work without paying you a dime. They can go and edit it all they want. Even further, you're claiming that you have the power to grant these rights. So if you work for Wired, TechCrunch, Arstechnica, any of the other big web publishers, or a university where you're posting a research paper, you CANNOT agree to the Chrome ToS because you most likely don't have the right to give a license to your IP that you produce for your company/university.
You left out the part of "any item of equipment designed, made, or adapted to manufacture a controlled substance or a controlled substance analogue." This sounds like your standard burglary tools clause, and these are probably not actually illegal in TX on their own. The typical burglary tool list makes it illegal to possess hammers, screwdrivers, crowbars, etc., but only with intent to unlawfully enter or remain in a conveyance. All that happens is that when they bust someone, they can charge them with more counts that will be much easier to stick (and force a plea). Besides "a filter" is on the list, and it would be laughable to think that everyone who goes to their local big box to buy an AC filter or some cheese cloth is now a criminal.
And even then, you still have due process and the takings clause.
-- Florida Criminal Defense Attorney. I'm not your attorney. Always consult an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction.
they can easily provide HD video with net neutrality in place.
here's an article on coax signals analysis that estimates we could easily get 46 HD signals concurrently with our current infrastructure.
it seems that the site is being slashdotted (and probably on the other aggregators too). it's running ridiculously slow.
it also seems that the site rips data in real time from wikipedia, and wikimedia started forwarding all requests to the leech page.
screen: http://img.djlosch.com/ewiki.jpg
If I was one of these studio execs or general counsel for these studios, I'd be filing a lawsuit right now for false advertising, breach of contract, fraud in inducement, etc, etc. Unless, of course, I was naive enough to sign a contract to buy some DRM where the strength of the DRM was not a term.
Agreed. The vast majority of crap that ends up on digg/netscape/reddit is either blogspam or some blog that re-stated another article without citing its source. The amount of intentional duping and copying is ridiculous. Of course, you can't copyright facts, and all the videos are on youtube, so I don't see the situation getting better.
And then you have the crap that's simply not newsworthy... like the video on the front page of ireport right now that has a ketchup bottle arguing with a mustard container over which is better.
If slashdot had a "misleading" tag for headlines, I would be adding that right about now.
Martin is in favor of implementing the next level of the 70/70 rule which would be really nasty in capping a lot of the things Comcast can do because Comcast is already at 27% market share.
However, Martin is also in favor of destroying net neutrality, and anyone who knows anything about economics knows that tiered networking will bring media consolidation to websites.
-- law student who spent last 3 weeks researching telecom law for senior thesis.
1) The hard drive does not get wiped. X-ray machines use various alpha/beta/gamma rays. Metal detectors use eddie (sp) currents, which is a principle of magnetic flux. Metal detectors will wipe your hard drive.
2) TSA does scan the laptops through the x-ray machine. Some airports (like Atlanta International) also have gas chromatographs (or some similar tech) where they put your entire carry-on bag in a small glass chamber, a circular paper disc is loaded into this tray, the TSA agent pushes the start button, and you see your bag slide to one side of the chamber as a huge amount of air rushes through. I'm guessing this is used to detect compounds beyond trace elements that might be volatile.
I'm not saying she can't appeal. I'm just saying that if the appellate court doesn't grant cert, it doesn't matter. On the first day of reporting, I was wondering why the legal head of BMG was allowed to testify as to her opinion of what copyright law is. That's simply not relevant.
Unless she gets an appeal, it won't matter. Failing to cite a single case in a different jurisdiction is hardly a sanctionable offense.
"what does your robot do?
it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls"
-- c/o bash.org
I'm just as pro-linux as the next slashdot geek, but look at it from MS's standpoint. If they try to innovate, they're seen as monopolizing, anti-trust violating, anti-competitive, baby eaters. Examples: -- Adding WMP, IE, MSNIM, and MS Works as pre-installs. -- Building up the Office line past Word, Excel, and PPT, into Visio, Project, and OneNote If they don't innovate, they're seen as stagnating idiots falling behind. Examples: -- 2+ yr old versions of FF, Opera, and Safari are still years ahead of IE7 -- Aero features (and speed) are a joke compared to C-F and OSX's compositor -- Ubuntu's sudo decimates UAC Someone has to say it. MS is damned if they do, and damned if they don't.
my local blockbuster does 1.99$ (2.13 after tax) for a 2 day or 5 day rental depending on whether its a new release or not. that's approximately 9 rentals a month for 20$. then add in the fact that u get free rental coupons all the time in the mail, and also u get the rent 5 get 1 free, and rent 2 new releases (2 days), get a blockbuster favorite (5 day) free. but alas, thats my local blockbuster back at my parents house. the blockbuster here at college blows shriveled monkey balls.
my personal opinion, bein a computer geek and all, knowin some of what goes on in the so called "underground", is that the music industry is going to be split wide open like a barrel with a battle axe thru the center, and various other industries who practice the same "sue anyone making money off our product" ideology. you may ask where im going with this, but it's all a case of the big company versus not the public (who is commiting the crimes), but the public's medium. notice- mythic is not suspending accounts of these "farmers" (as it's not logistically possible), and they arent filing suit upon any of the "farmers" violating what they think is in their eula. similar to the napster case- the big 5 didnt sue the copyright infringers, but they did sue the companies who ran the programs for which the piracy was commited. the big companies desire to take a percentage of every tiny amount of money that may be brought about by something they are related to. the same is going on with Linux and the dvd decryption coding. the giant corporations scream DMCA! DMCA! and the DMCA is basically what stands in between any of these auction sites and the online game companies, any of the music distribution progs and the record labels, and any of the video distrubution progs and the motion picture association/filmmakers of america. my personal opinion is that until the internet is restricted to a finite and regulated size, the big companies will always lose to the people. if you dont believe me, look at AOL vs trillian. AOL blocked trillian from accessing aolim servers just recently, and within 20 minutes, the trillian programmers had a patch out that fixed it, and AOL cant crack it yet. morpheus is also now under fire, but look at a gigantic community that is almost completely unregulatable. check out www.neo-modus.com. direct connect is by far, what i know of as the greatest file sharing program on the planet- it has over a petabyte of data. most people dont even know what a petabyte is. piracy on our system of internet is inevitable, and as computers become more godly with regular users having over 30 gigs of hd space and 1ghz processors, and even worse- broadband, the time bomb is waiting to explode. the whole issue of massive corporation versus the medium will definitely reach terminal velocity by 2010. this is just a trivial battle in big picture. there is no possible way of regulating this system. not even with proprietary music or video formats (and there is no restrictive format for the game equipment) can the corporations eliminate piracy. encryption will always be breakable. sdmi was cracked within hrs of release. dvd encryption was cracked a long time ago- well over a year as to my knowledge. as judges realize the logistics of the impossibility of defending the corporations, the big cases will be won in the favor of the people, and cases such as this (where the corporation targets the trade medium and not the traders) will not even be debatable.
actually what i think the ceo has concluded is that with the tiny seek times (of course dram has miniscule seektimes compared to hd) the site is bogged down by less users at any given time keeping the site faster. faster site = better advertising medium = more money from advertisers. this may be more expensive initially but over a few months definitely makes up for it when the topic is overhead cost on comparison of hd to dram. i dont know of any other viable explanation. even if i hit up pricewatch, i still cant get anything nearly comparable (in dram) to the 130 USD for 60 gigs.
that was hilarious....props to ya on that one. after all, wasnt sdmi cracked in like 2 hrs or somethin?