I posit that current anti-americanism is not a "hate America" or "hate Americans" posture, but "hate the imperialist behaviour of the current American government" in the name of the American people. I think Blair is being a dickhead too, but I don't translate that into a blanket anti-British feeling.
Boycotts work by keeping the issue alive in the media - ie they stream negative PR for as long as possible. Agreed, the economic sanction itself is almost worthless.
Good idea, but you would have to actually not self-encrypt the message. Once you have provided your password to the authorities it can be checked . They won't simply take your word for it.
Actually that wouldn't make me a pirate or a thief since I bought the software. I would be violating a license provision, a civil matter, and realistically I doubt the provision would stand up in court. Although MS have the legal horsepower, they couldn't afford to lose a case like this.
If you read the Yahoo page at http://yahoo.pcworld.com/yahoo/article/0,aid,11579 3,00.asp then you will see the statistic is "The research reveals 37 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds have downloaded a full-length motion picture from the Internet."
Also "24 percent of respondents reported that they had downloaded a movie online".
The 37%, being 'full length' is presumably meant to imply Hollywood releases, but can still include public domain stuff like the Prelinger material linked above, which includes full length movies.
It does piss me off that the MPA tries to associate every movie download as being of their copyrighted property; that's not so.
...is not the only tax and individual pays into the coffers. Sales tax and car licence fees are 2 more.
So while the Corporation's income tax is the maximum it can possibly be, the 987,209 million from individuals is just the base minimum; in practice, it's at least 10% higher (my estimate).
Nice idea, but not practical. The British Library used to encourage publishers to send it copies of all periodicals for permanent archival in addition to book publications. Long since they can't afford the space. There is a LOT of transient and trite material out tehre covered by copyright law.
Just imagine archiving everything transmissed for TV anywhere in the world for posterity.
A couple of times I tried calling back the caller number after a TM call. In UK you can dial a number to get the number of the last incoming call. When I tried the number, I got a message saying the number was for outgoing calls only. In other words the caller ID is spoofed because the number is useless.
...is that the software system design, default behaviour, and security level is so poor that a 17 year old can easily exploit it and cause so much damage.
I also nicely ask people who send me 'interesting' stuff (jokes/politics/whatever) and cc people I don't know not to do it again. The second offense, I am ruder. I have had no spam ever on my 3 yr old yahoo address...
This rebuff doesn't work. If my grandma if 102 yrs old and has smoked 60 a day since age of 12 with nary a cough, does that mean smoking isn't harmful? It COULD mean that, of couse - but maybe it happens to be an exception.
Say you have a country with endemic racism (or sexism, ageism - any prejudice will do) and enact laws that say practicing such prejudice in, say, hiring procedure is illegal.
Unless you TRACK the problem (ie measure the race/sex/age of hiring in the example - then observance to law cannot be proved. And is therefore lip-service. These statistics are KEY to prosecution.
Anyone noticed it is a little difficult to buy anything by a USB DSL modem nowadays? Plenty of 10baseT/USB Cable modems though. Have I missed something obvious here?
What will happen is that the courts will accept certain evidences as un-contestable.
So persons with access to the evidence trail/databases can more easily prove someone guiltly (who isn't) because the forgery is percieved to be difficult.
When the storage methods for evidence etc are themselves subject toi screcy, proving tampering will be very difficult for the defendent.
There is a solution: prosecution must prove that the evidence was not tampered with.
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I am curious if you know this, or surmise this.
I posit that current anti-americanism is not a "hate America" or "hate Americans" posture, but "hate the imperialist behaviour of the current American government" in the name of the American people. I think Blair is being a dickhead too, but I don't translate that into a blanket anti-British feeling.
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"Boycotts in general are mostly useless."
Boycotts work by keeping the issue alive in the media - ie they stream negative PR for as long as possible. Agreed, the economic sanction itself is almost worthless.
Good idea, but you would have to actually not self-encrypt the message. Once you have provided your password to the authorities it can be checked . They won't simply take your word for it.
... with the form at https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/requestform final.pdf which means you don't have to open 3 'accounts' with passwords, email addresses etc. But, of course, someone could steal your application in the mail...
Actually that wouldn't make me a pirate or a thief since I bought the software. I would be violating a license provision, a civil matter, and realistically I doubt the provision would stand up in court. Although MS have the legal horsepower, they couldn't afford to lose a case like this.
How are these even an issue, unless you are a pirate?
The activation means that XP has a life limited by MS. My 3 legal copies of 2k have life only limited by my needs.
If you read the Yahoo page at http://yahoo.pcworld.com/yahoo/article/0,aid,11579 3,00.asp then you will see the statistic is "The research reveals 37 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds have downloaded a full-length motion picture from the Internet."
Also "24 percent of respondents reported that they had downloaded a movie online".
The 24% includes perfectly free-to-download stuff shorts like http://pocketmovies.net/ and http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php
The 37%, being 'full length' is presumably meant to imply Hollywood releases, but can still include public domain stuff like the Prelinger material linked above, which includes full length movies.
It does piss me off that the MPA tries to associate every movie download as being of their copyrighted property; that's not so.
...is not the only tax and individual pays into the coffers. Sales tax and car licence fees are 2 more.
So while the Corporation's income tax is the maximum it can possibly be, the 987,209 million from individuals is just the base minimum; in practice, it's at least 10% higher (my estimate).
Copyright is implicit; no reg. required.
Nice idea, but not practical. The British Library used to encourage publishers to send it copies of all periodicals for permanent archival in addition to book publications. Long since they can't afford the space. There is a LOT of transient and trite material out tehre covered by copyright law.
Just imagine archiving everything transmissed for TV anywhere in the world for posterity.
A couple of times I tried calling back the caller number after a TM call. In UK you can dial a number to get the number of the last incoming call. When I tried the number, I got a message saying the number was for outgoing calls only. In other words the caller ID is spoofed because the number is useless.
Clever idea though.
...is that the software system design, default behaviour, and security level is so poor that a 17 year old can easily exploit it and cause so much damage.
The problem with money orders is the pain if they are lost.
I much prefer to send a check for that reason.
Ecards, party organise sites also.
I also nicely ask people who send me 'interesting' stuff (jokes/politics/whatever) and cc people I don't know not to do it again. The second offense, I am ruder. I have had no spam ever on my 3 yr old yahoo address...
This rebuff doesn't work. If my grandma if 102 yrs old and has smoked 60 a day since age of 12 with nary a cough, does that mean smoking isn't harmful? It COULD mean that, of couse - but maybe it happens to be an exception.
Say you have a country with endemic racism (or sexism, ageism - any prejudice will do) and enact laws that say practicing such prejudice in, say, hiring procedure is illegal.
Unless you TRACK the problem (ie measure the race/sex/age of hiring in the example - then observance to law cannot be proved. And is therefore lip-service. These statistics are KEY to prosecution.
Hmmm... isn't shoplifting a misdemeanor not a felony?
NT4 is great, if you never want to use USB.
So, nowadays, NT4 is less than great.
...so what are the best value (as opposed to cheapest) for money capture cards and encoding software? Presume output will be SVCD encoded.
Anyone noticed it is a little difficult to buy anything by a USB DSL modem nowadays? Plenty of 10baseT/USB Cable modems though. Have I missed something obvious here?
...I haven't actually laughed out loud (scared the cat, too) at a /. post for a while.
White LEDs provide the backlight in every cell phone with a colour display. Now.
What will happen is that the courts will accept certain evidences as un-contestable.
So persons with access to the evidence trail/databases can more easily prove someone guiltly (who isn't) because the forgery is percieved to be difficult.
When the storage methods for evidence etc are themselves subject toi screcy, proving tampering will be very difficult for the defendent.
There is a solution: prosecution must prove that the evidence was not tampered with.