What new law was passed that criminalized this behavior?
Copyright infringement is a civil matter. The DMCA simply makes it alot easier to harass people for alleged infringements.
Wasn't copyright infringement been illegal long before file sharing became popular?
The DMCA has removed a fair amount of the due process necessary to prosecute an infringement claim. Of course, the RIAA would have probably done what they're doing even without the new laws, but there's no reason to make their job easier at our expense.
Her parents want her (and themselves) to spend years in litigation? Blow the college fund? I don't think so.
Why not just hire a lawyer to wrap the college fund up as a trust (well out of their hands) and then, when the RIAA comes knocking, tell them they're not collectable, have a nice day?
This is why the callcentre staff all have pretend European names, and are given classes in the vernacular of whichever locale they deal with (at least in the best call centres).
Yeah, and they still suck. The accent is usually obvious, hard to understand, and insulting besides. In addition, once you get below the surface, there's nothing there - they only know how to read a script.
Copyright law of protected media entitles the owner to ONE backup.
Sorry, no. Copyright limits your non-infringing uses based on 4 principles, the most important of which is monetary damage to the copyright holder. The whole one copy thing isn't codified anywhere.
It states that you agree that the CD's you got with your laptop ARE your backups. (Legally, everyone's entitled to ONE backup of their media) Which means you legally CANNOT make a backup image of your harddrive. Because you already have the backup software on the CD's.
How so? Backups are merely an example of allowable copying under copyright law. I could make 100 copies of the software and be in the clear so long as I didn't distribute them.
If I were the boss in Scenario One, I'd fire the tech. Okay, I wouldn't fire him, but I'd chew his ass out good.
Oh goody, dump a load of shit on my head and then bitch at me because I don't work through the weekend to finish it. No offense, but managers likethat are a good argument for car repair. At least then I'd get paid for every hour.
Entrance costs $1.50. I always hand over a $5. I always get $4.50 back. Explaining the situation doesn't help since there's the language, age and progressive barriers with the clerk.
Ever consider that maybe you're getting a discount for showing up every damn day?
Heck, I used to develop in a shop where any developer above "junior programmer" was expected to know how to reinstall the OS (Solaris, Ultrix or AIX), configure it for Oracle, install Oracle, install our software (a GIS system), and generally manage their own workstations.
You worked at my place didn't you? Does the phrase 'minimal crust' mean anything?
It deemed to hard to do true engineering on software. Thats bunk, coders just want to be "artistic" and forget engineering
Software is not a car. If it were, neon colored spark plug wires would make your car go faster, and using the wrong color could make your wheels fall off.
You remind me of the people that say mandatory sentencing doesn't work.
Mandatory sentencing doesn't work.
Funny thing is now we have mandatory sentencing guidelines and put criminals in prison and leave them there, there are people who whine about the rising prison population.
We are bitching about the fact that we have more people in prison than any other country on Earth, that most of them are non-violent drug offenders who would be better served by treatment, and that we are releasing violent criminals early to make room for these druggies, who tend to fall under the auspices of mandatory sentencing.
No one seems to notice that the crime rates across the US are uniformly decreasing as the criminals are taken off the street for longer periods of time.
Crime has been decreasing since the 70s. I expect that the longer prison sentences will actually slow this decline, as amateur criminals get put away in a place where they learn how better to be a criminal, while at the same time redusing their chances at a decent life once they are released.
Well, people shouldn't have to go to jail because they're assholes.
Totally agree. The flip side is that people who aren't assholes can avoid jail because they don't piss the victim off enough to press charges, or they don't do something stupid and obvious, not being an asshole and all.
The thing I find interesting is that I had originally heard that this guy was prosecuted for damaging Tornado's rep by alerting their customers. The argument was that the mere mention of a problem was enough - details weren't necessary. Now I hear that it's because he overloaded their mailswerver? The original story stated that he spread out the mailings to avoid that specifically. Which is it?
My point isn't that the US Military devices won't screw up US military communications, but that the US military has come up with a mechanism to deal with this if someone else has similar devices.
I thought that the point was that nobody we're likely to fight uses this stuff.
So, stop being a scared-straight yuppie and start acknowledging how these companies are consummate law-breakers who will do anything to stick you with a bill. You acted in good faith, but it is they who've invested in a fast-and-loose system that's so open to fraud. They (not you) should bear the costs of their lack of investment in a secure system.
One more thing to add: you can dispute that line multiple times and, should they fail to respond in time even once, they must remove the line.
I WILL take a job that is "beneath" me rather than take Govt. charity.
I don't know where you live, but in the US, unemployment is paid for by the companies that employ you. It's not a charity so much as a buffer that has the effect of reducing instability for people that just lost their job.
But you don't *hide* advanced options, and you definitely don't have two modes... keep the advanced options there, and make as much stuff reversible as possible so users will feel more comfortable poking around and trying things to get the hang of it. In most apps today, much more is technically undo-able than apps generally allow.
Sure you hide the advanced stuff. You just have a config option that switches between advanced and simple, with the advanced stuff being a natural extension of the simple. Most people aren't interested in doing complex things with an app like email - they just want to get their work done, or maybe send pictures of their kids around.
A concrete example for this simple/advanced dichotomy might be a spam filter - simple gives you a switch to turn the filter on and off, and allows you to deemphasize flagged files. It also sets sensible defaults, like disabling http retrieval and JS in flagged files independent of whether it's available elsewhere. Advanced allows you to set more aggressive filtering, set up whitelists, automatically delete the spam, and so on. If you stuck that functionality in front of the novice, they might inadvertently nuke their mail archives or get into a jam that they can't easily get out of. It's the difference between driving to the store and driving on a track.
Consider this: Microsoft has been ordered not to use the term MSCE in both the United States and Canada because Microsoft does not have the legal right to "certify" people as engineers. This playing fast and loose with terms now extends to:
Damn straight! What business does MS have certifying people as civil engineers?
Great idea, unfortunately the burden of proof falls on the victim in cases of fraud
Nah, you dispute the items, and they have 30 days to respond or have the item expunged. Most large companies can't respond in 30 days. This is how some of those 'credit-cleaning' services operate.
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Do you feel that way about vandalism, too?
No, but that's not the sort of thing 12 year olds commonly do. Hopscotch, on the other hand...
What new law was passed that criminalized this behavior?
Copyright infringement is a civil matter. The DMCA simply makes it alot easier to harass people for alleged infringements.
Wasn't copyright infringement been illegal long before file sharing became popular?
The DMCA has removed a fair amount of the due process necessary to prosecute an infringement claim. Of course, the RIAA would have probably done what they're doing even without the new laws, but there's no reason to make their job easier at our expense.
it puzzles me why CDroms will be a necessity with the huge broadband penetration in Japan.
Simple - you don't need to connect a machine to the network to usa a CD, so you don't risk infection by Blaster.
Her parents want her (and themselves) to spend years in litigation? Blow the college fund? I don't think so.
Why not just hire a lawyer to wrap the college fund up as a trust (well out of their hands) and then, when the RIAA comes knocking, tell them they're not collectable, have a nice day?
Therefore "[sic]" "I couldn't care less about this; I care nothing whatsoever."
Sir, your pedantry is showing.
Furthermore, if there is linked material, almost nobody ever goes any deeper than the initial layer. It's very sad.
Perhaps that's due to all the other people hitting your site at the same time, making everything slow as hell?
This is why the callcentre staff all have pretend European names, and are given classes in the vernacular of whichever locale they deal with (at least in the best call centres).
Yeah, and they still suck. The accent is usually obvious, hard to understand, and insulting besides. In addition, once you get below the surface, there's nothing there - they only know how to read a script.
Copyright law of protected media entitles the owner to ONE backup.
Sorry, no. Copyright limits your non-infringing uses based on 4 principles, the most important of which is monetary damage to the copyright holder. The whole one copy thing isn't codified anywhere.
It states that you agree that the CD's you got with your laptop ARE your backups. (Legally, everyone's entitled to ONE backup of their media) Which means you legally CANNOT make a backup image of your harddrive. Because you already have the backup software on the CD's.
How so? Backups are merely an example of allowable copying under copyright law. I could make 100 copies of the software and be in the clear so long as I didn't distribute them.
If I were the boss in Scenario One, I'd fire the tech. Okay, I wouldn't fire him, but I'd chew his ass out good.
Oh goody, dump a load of shit on my head and then bitch at me because I don't work through the weekend to finish it. No offense, but managers likethat are a good argument for car repair. At least then I'd get paid for every hour.
Entrance costs $1.50. I always hand over a $5. I always get $4.50 back. Explaining the situation doesn't help since there's the language, age and progressive barriers with the clerk.
Ever consider that maybe you're getting a discount for showing up every damn day?
Tires squealing on gravel roads
Spitting gravel can sound a lot like squealing tires - try it sometime.
Heck, I used to develop in a shop where any developer above "junior programmer" was expected to know how to reinstall the OS (Solaris, Ultrix or AIX), configure it for Oracle, install Oracle, install our software (a GIS system), and generally manage their own workstations.
You worked at my place didn't you? Does the phrase 'minimal crust' mean anything?
It deemed to hard to do true engineering on software. Thats bunk, coders just want to be "artistic" and forget engineering
Software is not a car. If it were, neon colored spark plug wires would make your car go faster, and using the wrong color could make your wheels fall off.
You remind me of the people that say mandatory sentencing doesn't work.
Mandatory sentencing doesn't work.
Funny thing is now we have mandatory sentencing guidelines and put criminals in prison and leave them there, there are people who whine about the rising prison population.
We are bitching about the fact that we have more people in prison than any other country on Earth, that most of them are non-violent drug offenders who would be better served by treatment, and that we are releasing violent criminals early to make room for these druggies, who tend to fall under the auspices of mandatory sentencing.
No one seems to notice that the crime rates across the US are uniformly decreasing as the criminals are taken off the street for longer periods of time.
Crime has been decreasing since the 70s. I expect that the longer prison sentences will actually slow this decline, as amateur criminals get put away in a place where they learn how better to be a criminal, while at the same time redusing their chances at a decent life once they are released.
It's really useful for helping prevent street crime, and catching real criminals
Not really. It just moves the crime away from the cameras.
Well, people shouldn't have to go to jail because they're assholes.
Totally agree. The flip side is that people who aren't assholes can avoid jail because they don't piss the victim off enough to press charges, or they don't do something stupid and obvious, not being an asshole and all.
The thing I find interesting is that I had originally heard that this guy was prosecuted for damaging Tornado's rep by alerting their customers. The argument was that the mere mention of a problem was enough - details weren't necessary. Now I hear that it's because he overloaded their mailswerver? The original story stated that he spread out the mailings to avoid that specifically. Which is it?
My point isn't that the US Military devices won't screw up US military communications, but that the US military has come up with a mechanism to deal with this if someone else has similar devices.
I thought that the point was that nobody we're likely to fight uses this stuff.
Could these undetonated isomers be "recycled" in a controlled reactor?
Better yet, could we use the technique to accelerate the decay of nuclear waste?
So, stop being a scared-straight yuppie and start acknowledging how these companies are consummate law-breakers who will do anything to stick you with a bill. You acted in good faith, but it is they who've invested in a fast-and-loose system that's so open to fraud. They (not you) should bear the costs of their lack of investment in a secure system.
One more thing to add: you can dispute that line multiple times and, should they fail to respond in time even once, they must remove the line.
If the recepient of your mail also has a server that supports SSL, you are infact, SSL all the way through from end to end.
I feel so good knowing that the Spam in my inbox got to me over an encrypted connection. I wouldn't want anyone snooping that.
I WILL take a job that is "beneath" me rather than take Govt. charity.
I don't know where you live, but in the US, unemployment is paid for by the companies that employ you. It's not a charity so much as a buffer that has the effect of reducing instability for people that just lost their job.
But you don't *hide* advanced options, and you definitely don't have two modes... keep the advanced options there, and make as much stuff reversible as possible so users will feel more comfortable poking around and trying things to get the hang of it. In most apps today, much more is technically undo-able than apps generally allow.
Sure you hide the advanced stuff. You just have a config option that switches between advanced and simple, with the advanced stuff being a natural extension of the simple. Most people aren't interested in doing complex things with an app like email - they just want to get their work done, or maybe send pictures of their kids around.
A concrete example for this simple/advanced dichotomy might be a spam filter - simple gives you a switch to turn the filter on and off, and allows you to deemphasize flagged files. It also sets sensible defaults, like disabling http retrieval and JS in flagged files independent of whether it's available elsewhere. Advanced allows you to set more aggressive filtering, set up whitelists, automatically delete the spam, and so on. If you stuck that functionality in front of the novice, they might inadvertently nuke their mail archives or get into a jam that they can't easily get out of. It's the difference between driving to the store and driving on a track.
Consider this: Microsoft has been ordered not to use the term MSCE in both the United States and Canada because Microsoft does not have the legal right to "certify" people as engineers. This playing fast and loose with terms now extends to:
Damn straight! What business does MS have certifying people as civil engineers?
Great idea, unfortunately the burden of proof falls on the victim in cases of fraud
Nah, you dispute the items, and they have 30 days to respond or have the item expunged. Most large companies can't respond in 30 days. This is how some of those 'credit-cleaning' services operate.