Retroactive laws are not illegal. What it says is (I'm paraphrasing): No person shall be affected in his person or posesions by the retroactive application of a new law. In other words, you can make retroactive laws that benefit someone, but not that damage someone. In this case, since corporations are persons (aren't you americans crazy?), you can't make this law...
Quote poster: As a home owner or head of the house or parent, it's YOUR responsibility to know what they hell is happening under your roof, as well as watching/knowing who our kids associate with, and where they go. It's only after they leave the house that they should have ANY privacy. Period. End of discussion.
Dude, if they're under your roof, there's hardly any need for the device. When they leave is when you use it, but that's, according to you, when they deserve their privacy. So, you're putting a GPS on them while they're home, and taking it off when they leave? Now, I feel there's something wrong with that resoning... what could it be...?
Please, stop saying "it's nice to see tha mainstream press start taking an interest in copy protection schemes". It's hard to take the "starting to" part seriously after reading that same phrase in 300 previous posts...
Two years ago, we saw several companies trying to impulse "a new way to surf the net" (cuecat, anyone?). It turned out that people were happy to type URLs and use search engines, thank you. My point is, there are plateaus. There are points when you have to say "this is good enough, no need to spend a lot more time and money for less return". Some call it the 80-20 law. I believe MMORPGs are very close to their plateaus now. There are only so many more changes that can be made without the need for mayor investent, both from enterprises and users, that I don't see happening anytime soon. MMORPGs are almost as good as they're going to get, at least on fun factor. I'm not trolling. I'm just sick of "the sky's the limit" mentality, when there's always a practical limit, and it's often closer than you want to believe. Sorry about the rant. I'll shut up now and return to my rocking chair.
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Change "Rames in" for "Ramen is"...
Real sorry about that. The worst part is I actually previewed my post. (No that's not true. The worst part is that I actually work as a newspaper editor, but that would be too embarrasing to admit.)
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Let me see how this would work.... Spammer sends mail. Spammer gets a reply that mocks him to hell and back. Spammer then concludes that he actually got a business opportunity. It doesn't add up. And before you answer, two more things: a) Apparently, spammers do read the replies, since most of them never bother to send back a second reply. So no "sheer numbers" argument, and b) If you think he gives them any hope, go read the letters, they would deceive nobody into thinking he is legit. To a spammer who offers help to companies in financial trouble, he replies that his company is so deep in it that all employees are eating Ramen, and promplty adds "Rames in the name of the new japanese intern". So, they HAVE to realize they're being mocked. In short, I'd say more power to him,and kudos on a great writing style. He had me in stitches. Definitively worth a read.
From Hollings' speech: I want to stress, however, in the strongest terms possible, that the standards agreed to by industry would not be permitted to thwart legitimate consumer copying of programming in the home - for time shifting purposes, for example. Similarly, the technologies and encoding rules would be required to take into account the need to preserve fair use of otherwise protected content - for educational and research purposes for example. Specifically, our bill requires that encoding rules "take into account the limitations on exclusive rights of copyright holders, including the fair use doctrine." In addition, the legislation specifies that no copy protection technology may prevent consumers from "making a personal copy for lawful use in the home" of non pay-per-view television programming. I want to be clear on this point: no legislation can or should pass Congress in this area that does not seek to protect legitimate consumer copying and fair use practices.
Believe him or not. But I'm sorta relieved they at least felt obliged to state this.
Hear, hear! I still have my Billy and the Boingers vinyl single (altough it looks more like some kind of plastic), that came with the Billy and the Boingers: Bootleg Bloom County book. Glad you reminded mw I gotta burn that on a CD... flexible or otherwise.
If you can give me one, just one reason how this is "News", is "for Nerds" or "Matters" (it is "stuff", I'll give you that), I'll take back my dislike for it. it's not that it was posted by Jon Katz (at least in my case), it's just that it's not interesting/not new/pretty lame. At least, in my opinion.
From the article: "When Alex was playing Lemonade Stand I watched and nearly got hooked. I like most any game". Anyone remembers that game? I wonder it it's the Applesoft Basic one, with terrible graphics, horrible "music" and incredibly adictive (yeah, I lost many hours typing groups of three numbers and calling it 'fun'. If that ain't geeky, I don't know what is)
I started playing D&D some 15 years ago, when there were no weird dice (at least, not that we could find), so we copied the figures from a polyedrons book on cardboard and made our own. You haven't played D&D until you've played with 10 inches hollow cardboard dice... and until you have a home rule that prohibits sneezing after you roll;)
is this really the right time to buy a new, troubled company? I applaud the effort to save Ars Digita, but there is a reason it had gone under... Somehow, I think a company should refrain from acquisitions until it is comfortably in the black itself. I'd hate for RedHat to burn through its reserves faster than necesary.
"Taxing the intellectual property of software companies makes about as much sense as taxing the thought process of a university professor, said Rep. Jeff Morris, D-Anacortes".
So, all teachers, writers, musicians and similar should be tax-exempt? At least nobody would think of taxing the thought process of a representative. It just wouldn't be worth it.
The way I see it, this would work extremely well to find the most obscure references and complete information about a subject, but would be pretty bad for general purpose searching (a.k.a. googling). A subject like "cosplay" certainly tends to create a community of pages, but search for something like "distributed computing" or "operating systems". If a search engine comes out of this, I think I'll first google for whatever I want, and if I can't find it/come out with too little info, I'd expand my search into this "communi-search"
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I stand corrected :)
(That means I don't know everything? Damn!)
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Thats John Merrick, dude...
Retroactive laws are not illegal.
What it says is (I'm paraphrasing): No person shall be affected in his person or posesions by the retroactive application of a new law.
In other words, you can make retroactive laws that benefit someone, but not that damage someone.
In this case, since corporations are persons (aren't you americans crazy?), you can't make this law...
On behalf of the Judge, I just want to say:
Ouch!
Man, I hope your kid never wants a little brother (sister)...
Quote poster:
As a home owner or head of the house or parent, it's YOUR responsibility to know what they hell is happening under your roof, as well as watching/knowing who our kids associate with, and where they go. It's only after they leave the house that they should have ANY privacy. Period. End of discussion.
Dude, if they're under your roof, there's hardly any need for the device. When they leave is when you use it, but that's, according to you, when they deserve their privacy.
So, you're putting a GPS on them while they're home, and taking it off when they leave?
Now, I feel there's something wrong with that resoning... what could it be...?
Please, stop saying "it's nice to see tha mainstream press start taking an interest in copy protection schemes". It's hard to take the "starting to" part seriously after reading that same phrase in 300 previous posts...
What are you talking about? GPL==General Public License
Two years ago, we saw several companies trying to impulse "a new way to surf the net" (cuecat, anyone?). It turned out that people were happy to type URLs and use search engines, thank you.
My point is, there are plateaus. There are points when you have to say "this is good enough, no need to spend a lot more time and money for less return". Some call it the 80-20 law.
I believe MMORPGs are very close to their plateaus now. There are only so many more changes that can be made without the need for mayor investent, both from enterprises and users, that I don't see happening anytime soon.
MMORPGs are almost as good as they're going to get, at least on fun factor.
I'm not trolling. I'm just sick of "the sky's the limit" mentality, when there's always a practical limit, and it's often closer than you want to believe.
Sorry about the rant. I'll shut up now and return to my rocking chair.
Change "Rames in" for "Ramen is"...
Real sorry about that. The worst part is I actually previewed my post.
(No that's not true. The worst part is that I actually work as a newspaper editor, but that would be too embarrasing to admit.)
Let me see how this would work.... ,and kudos on a great writing style. He had me in stitches. Definitively worth a read.
Spammer sends mail. Spammer gets a reply that mocks him to hell and back. Spammer then concludes that he actually got a business opportunity.
It doesn't add up.
And before you answer, two more things:
a) Apparently, spammers do read the replies, since most of them never bother to send back a second reply. So no "sheer numbers" argument, and
b) If you think he gives them any hope, go read the letters, they would deceive nobody into thinking he is legit. To a spammer who offers help to companies in financial trouble, he replies that his company is so deep in it that all employees are eating Ramen, and promplty adds "Rames in the name of the new japanese intern". So, they HAVE to realize they're being mocked.
In short, I'd say more power to him
Check out The Register's coverage of Warwick. This guy is a publicity hound, with little (if anything) to show that justifies all this hype.
This is probably the movie you saw.
Antually, that's "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition". I think averybody suspects it.
From Hollings' speech:
I want to stress, however, in the strongest terms possible, that the standards agreed to by industry would not be permitted to thwart legitimate consumer copying of programming in the home - for time shifting purposes, for example. Similarly, the technologies and encoding rules would be required to take into account the need to preserve fair use of otherwise protected content - for educational and research purposes for example. Specifically, our bill requires that encoding rules "take into account the limitations on exclusive rights of copyright holders, including the fair use doctrine." In addition, the legislation specifies that no copy protection technology may prevent consumers from "making a personal copy for lawful use in the home" of non pay-per-view television programming. I want to be clear on this point: no legislation can or should pass Congress in this area that does not seek to protect legitimate consumer copying and fair use practices.
Believe him or not. But I'm sorta relieved they at least felt obliged to state this.
Informative? For Tux's sake, someone mod this up as funny! (if you don't understand why, follow the link. Pretty good).
Hear, hear!
I still have my Billy and the Boingers vinyl single (altough it looks more like some kind of plastic), that came with the Billy and the Boingers: Bootleg Bloom County book.
Glad you reminded mw I gotta burn that on a CD... flexible or otherwise.
If you can give me one, just one reason how this is "News", is "for Nerds" or "Matters" (it is "stuff", I'll give you that), I'll take back my dislike for it.
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it's not that it was posted by Jon Katz (at least in my case), it's just that it's not interesting/not new/pretty lame. At least, in my opinion.
Flame away
"I like this site. This site is cool".
Just visited it. Cheap soap opera, not very well written, and definitely not interesting. Actually, it's pretty Jon-Katz-esque.
From the article:
"When Alex was playing Lemonade Stand I watched and nearly got hooked. I like most any game".
Anyone remembers that game? I wonder it it's the Applesoft Basic one, with terrible graphics, horrible "music" and incredibly adictive (yeah, I lost many hours typing groups of three numbers and calling it 'fun'. If that ain't geeky, I don't know what is)
I started playing D&D some 15 years ago, when there were no weird dice (at least, not that we could find), so we copied the figures from a polyedrons book on cardboard and made our own. ;)
You haven't played D&D until you've played with 10 inches hollow cardboard dice... and until you have a home rule that prohibits sneezing after you roll
is this really the right time to buy a new, troubled company? I applaud the effort to save Ars Digita, but there is a reason it had gone under...
Somehow, I think a company should refrain from acquisitions until it is comfortably in the black itself. I'd hate for RedHat to burn through its reserves faster than necesary.
I loved this quote...
"Taxing the intellectual property of software companies makes about as much sense as taxing the thought process of a university professor, said Rep. Jeff Morris, D-Anacortes".
So, all teachers, writers, musicians and similar should be tax-exempt?
At least nobody would think of taxing the thought process of a representative. It just wouldn't be worth it.
Gotta love those dry days, when you're walking on a thick carpet and your phone rings.
Hope you don't keep it in your pants pocket.
The way I see it, this would work extremely well to find the most obscure references and complete information about a subject, but would be pretty bad for general purpose searching (a.k.a. googling). A subject like "cosplay" certainly tends to create a community of pages, but search for something like "distributed computing" or "operating systems".
If a search engine comes out of this, I think I'll first google for whatever I want, and if I can't find it/come out with too little info, I'd expand my search into this "communi-search"