Happiness is a state of mind - not a particular activity. Try finding happiness in the everyday joys of life such as getting up each morning, eating, sleeping.
OK, convince you that Digital Rights Management is a free speech problem.
OK, say we have the present (as you don't like the future) and somebody buys a microphone with DRM built in. They want to broadcast what they're saying online. How do they do this without the device thinking they are trying to circumvent copyright? After all.... all legal stuff would have a code embedded so they must be illegal! I know this is a weak argument... but it's 10:26p.m. here. I can't even remember the original comment I made that you replied to... oh well - will feel better in the morning after a nights sleep...
Thank you for your long and detailed replies to my original post. Anything that restricts the freedom of speech (and fair use) provisions is bad. I am someone who has their freedom of speech restricted under UK law - but that's another story....
My comment was short and off the cuff designed to provoke a reaction. If digital rights management is built into hardware (as it is already) it'll prevent people doing what they are legally entitled to do. Eg - how can you review a computer game if you can't record playing it for a TV show etc? There are fair use provisions for review, for research, for education etc...
Although I agree with much of what you write, I feel that you are missing the ultimate ends where this is going.... copyright or otherwise it's about royalties to artists who don't own the companies that they've sold the rights to (eg Sony, Walt Disney etc) - and corporations are interested in squeezing as much money out of their intellectual property as they can - especially as copyright has a limited shelf life.
Wake up and smell the coffee - they have tried DRM on a limited scale in music CDs and it got shouted down by the consumer. If business puts laws into place the consumer would have to repeal them - and probably removing the interlock would be a prosecutable offence..... as the previous poster pointed out. We do live in a capitalist society yes - but.... most people are more sane and rational about these issues than either the publishing companies, the government or the artists/writers etc......
Yet another nail in the coffin of freedom of speech and the ability to do things easily. Mind you I'm sure they'll incorporate DRM into everything new eventually and then just wait for the other hardware devices to fail....
Yep, they're cheap enough to replace with minimal impact on your wallet.... however LCD displays vary in price enormously - replacement ones can end up costing more than the cost of the entire unit.
From my experience the breathtaking CGI scenes they show to give publicity to a game usually end up just being cut scenes in the game, rather than the way the game is actually played....
One wonders when the high-tech companies will concentrate on the high-tech rather than the legal side.... mind you there was the whole Sun vs Microsoft case which Sun won over Java - perhaps IBM are hoping for similarly high damages...
Most UK readers (apart from me) wouldn't know what a PIP is. There are occupational pensions, private pensions, government state pension, government state second pension etc etc..... bit confusing for most really.
As I'm self-employed I look after my own pension fund.:P
It would be nice to know if I was ever a resident alien in the US but due to international tax treaties I am exempt to most US taxes as I am a foreign national....
Partly, but with slashdot being based in the States and a lot of its posters and readers being American - you'd expect that.... Learning more about other foreign countries helps people to appreciate the diversity.
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I think some people have a hard time seperating science fiction from science fact as science fiction slowly becomes science fact (at least in hard sci-fi as opposed to science that's been twisted to be implausible by dramatic licence).
As the police were the ones who authorised (over the telephone) the bike being removed it wouldn't be wise. I agree with you over the criminal damage thing - I should file a letter of claim and if they don't pay use the Small Claims Court. I agree with you that it seems in breach of article 17 part 2 of the declaration of human rights:-
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
as they didn't remove all the bikes.
They did (finally) drop the insistence on a lost luggage/ property charge. I did report it initially to the police - but a branch that was local to me and about 200 miles from where it happened. The local bye laws in this country allow the train companies to do what they like regarding property (unfortunately). Telling me if it had been a car they would've blown it up - is not consoling.
Next time yes - it's alarmed with ferocious attack dogs unleashed if they try to remove it.;) This wasn't London. *grins* In London they'd have had the bomb squad out. *grins*
As the police were the ones who authorised (over the telephone) the bike being removed it wouldn't be wise. I agree with you over the criminal damage thing - I should file a letter of claim and if they don't pay use the Small Claims Court. I agree with you that it seems in breach of article 17 part 2 of the declaration of human rights:-
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
as they didn't remove all the bikes.
They did (finally) drop the insistence on a lost luggage/ property charge. I did report it initially to the police - but a branch that was local to me and about 200 miles from where it happened. The local bye laws in this country allow the train companies to do what they like regarding property (unfortunately). Telling me if it had been a car they would've blown it up - is not consoling.
Don't talk to me about GNER!!! Last year on March 20th they removed my bike by breaking the lock on it at York station as an "anti-terrorist" measure. They then wanted a lost property fee for it back, sent it to Newark, back to York - despite saying it's not their "policy" to send bikes by trains...
All this and they didn't remove any of the hundred or so bikes for hire on platform 1..... oh well I suppose that was the paranoia of the days of the Iraq conflict (happened four days before Iraq invasion) - and I suppose the JIC assement probably lent to an overly paranoid communique from GCHQ....
rant over...
internet on trains good - but story very outdated....
"You can do all of the planning using the software, hit a button and the vehicle will take off and fly the mission," said Riner. "With the click of a mouse you can change its mission, or another aircraft can communicate with it and take control."
Ahh - soon they'll just have a robotic ship then and save on military wages.... *grins* - just some general pressing buttons miles from the battlefield...
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Glad to know I still have my critics... I'm not on 56k any more though - so perhaps a change of name is in order!
Happiness is a state of mind - not a particular activity. Try finding happiness in the everyday joys of life such as getting up each morning, eating, sleeping.
Phoenix 0.1 .......... in the future
Phoenix 0.2
Phoenix 0.3
Phoenix 0.4
Phoenix 0.5
Phoenix 0.6
Firebird 0.7
Firefox 0.8
Firefox 0.9
From_the_Flames 1.0
From_the_Flames 1.1
From_the_Flames 1.2
From_the_Flames 1.3
From_the_Flames 1.4
or ashes - insert your favourite phoenix/fire joke...
OK, convince you that Digital Rights Management is a free speech problem.
OK, say we have the present (as you don't like the future) and somebody buys a microphone with DRM built in. They want to broadcast what they're saying online. How do they do this without the device thinking they are trying to circumvent copyright? After all.... all legal stuff would have a code embedded so they must be illegal! I know this is a weak argument... but it's 10:26p.m. here. I can't even remember the original comment I made that you replied to... oh well - will feel better in the morning after a nights sleep...
Thank you for your long and detailed replies to my original post. Anything that restricts the freedom of speech (and fair use) provisions is bad. I am someone who has their freedom of speech restricted under UK law - but that's another story....
My comment was short and off the cuff designed to provoke a reaction. If digital rights management is built into hardware (as it is already) it'll prevent people doing what they are legally entitled to do. Eg - how can you review a computer game if you can't record playing it for a TV show etc? There are fair use provisions for review, for research, for education etc...
Although I agree with much of what you write, I feel that you are missing the ultimate ends where this is going.... copyright or otherwise it's about royalties to artists who don't own the companies that they've sold the rights to (eg Sony, Walt Disney etc) - and corporations are interested in squeezing as much money out of their intellectual property as they can - especially as copyright has a limited shelf life.
Wake up and smell the coffee - they have tried DRM on a limited scale in music CDs and it got shouted down by the consumer. If business puts laws into place the consumer would have to repeal them - and probably removing the interlock would be a prosecutable offence..... as the previous poster pointed out. We do live in a capitalist society yes - but.... most people are more sane and rational about these issues than either the publishing companies, the government or the artists/writers etc......
Yet another nail in the coffin of freedom of speech and the ability to do things easily. Mind you I'm sure they'll incorporate DRM into everything new eventually and then just wait for the other hardware devices to fail....
Yep, they're cheap enough to replace with minimal impact on your wallet.... however LCD displays vary in price enormously - replacement ones can end up costing more than the cost of the entire unit.
I think there'll be too much publicity about the thing around the time for anyone of that ilk not to have heard about it.....
Yes but they could call it something cool instead related to fire that they could trademark - like Prometheus for example.
From my experience the breathtaking CGI scenes they show to give publicity to a game usually end up just being cut scenes in the game, rather than the way the game is actually played....
Yep, however much it was interesting to start with - endless stories about SCO etc are just tedious......
What do you mean by JAE????
One wonders when the high-tech companies will concentrate on the high-tech rather than the legal side.... mind you there was the whole Sun vs Microsoft case which Sun won over Java - perhaps IBM are hoping for similarly high damages...
Most UK readers (apart from me) wouldn't know what a PIP is. There are occupational pensions, private pensions, government state pension, government state second pension etc etc..... bit confusing for most really.
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As I'm self-employed I look after my own pension fund.
OK Mr. sarcasm........
It would be nice to know if I was ever a resident alien in the US but due to international tax treaties I am exempt to most US taxes as I am a foreign national....
Partly, but with slashdot being based in the States and a lot of its posters and readers being American - you'd expect that.... Learning more about other foreign countries helps people to appreciate the diversity.
I think some people have a hard time seperating science fiction from science fact as science fiction slowly becomes science fact (at least in hard sci-fi as opposed to science that's been twisted to be implausible by dramatic licence).
Please explain what a 401(k) plan is for us non-Americans.....
As the police were the ones who authorised (over the telephone) the bike being removed it wouldn't be wise. I agree with you over the criminal damage thing - I should file a letter of claim and if they don't pay use the Small Claims Court. I agree with you that it seems in breach of article 17 part 2 of the declaration of human rights:-
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
as they didn't remove all the bikes.
They did (finally) drop the insistence on a lost luggage/ property charge. I did report it initially to the police - but a branch that was local to me and about 200 miles from where it happened. The local bye laws in this country allow the train companies to do what they like regarding property (unfortunately). Telling me if it had been a car they would've blown it up - is not consoling.
Which other Solar Systems would you be comparing it to? We can only notice the larger planets eg Jupiter size etc in other solar systems.
a) no signs because of b) local bye-laws
;) This wasn't London. *grins* In London they'd have had the bomb squad out. *grins*
Next time yes - it's alarmed with ferocious attack dogs unleashed if they try to remove it.
As the police were the ones who authorised (over the telephone) the bike being removed it wouldn't be wise. I agree with you over the criminal damage thing - I should file a letter of claim and if they don't pay use the Small Claims Court. I agree with you that it seems in breach of article 17 part 2 of the declaration of human rights:-
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
as they didn't remove all the bikes.
They did (finally) drop the insistence on a lost luggage/ property charge. I did report it initially to the police - but a branch that was local to me and about 200 miles from where it happened. The local bye laws in this country allow the train companies to do what they like regarding property (unfortunately). Telling me if it had been a car they would've blown it up - is not consoling.
Don't talk to me about GNER!!! Last year on March 20th they removed my bike by breaking the lock on it at York station as an "anti-terrorist" measure. They then wanted a lost property fee for it back, sent it to Newark, back to York - despite saying it's not their "policy" to send bikes by trains...
All this and they didn't remove any of the hundred or so bikes for hire on platform 1..... oh well I suppose that was the paranoia of the days of the Iraq conflict (happened four days before Iraq invasion) - and I suppose the JIC assement probably lent to an overly paranoid communique from GCHQ....
rant over...
internet on trains good - but story very outdated....
"You can do all of the planning using the software, hit a button and the vehicle will take off and fly the mission," said Riner. "With the click of a mouse you can change its mission, or another aircraft can communicate with it and take control."
Ahh - soon they'll just have a robotic ship then and save on military wages.... *grins* - just some general pressing buttons miles from the battlefield...