Point to the fact that the boundary between BC and AD wasn't set until at least 532 AD, and it was arbitrary and guessed at then, then get back to me with your concern about the year "0"
Now we're going to have to deal with a rehash of all of that "You shouldn't call it the Millennium Bug, the new Millennium doesn't start until 1/1/2001, morons" BS...
It'll all be for noobs until you can keybind your macros...which requires a much more complex interface than a simple joystick...I mean, come on, what is this, pac-man?
gimme a control that lets me:
[StartMacro Name = 'RoadRage']
/swerveleft
/blinkheadlights
/accelerate 90
/flipoffotherdriver
[EndMacro]
and then we'll be talking...till then...back to the drawing board.
"Why people play with their money against clearly unfavorable odds is beyond me"
It's called entertainment.
I can go to Atlantic City, be treated like a King for 3 days, staying in a top class hotel room I didn't pay for, with people tending to my every whim, simply by being willing to risk some cash at the tables.
And the games themselves are fun as well. There is a group energy behind a winning craps table, or the tension of the moment the roulette wheel is about to drop, or even the (generally) goodnatured cutthroated competition of a poker table.
And yes, I generally drop 2-300 bucks over the course of the three day trip. But I got three nights in the hotel, food, drink, and fun for that $300.
Or I could go to a MLB game, drop that same amount of money, with no possibility of getting it back, and emerge a mere 3-4 hours later.
"Google unenforceable, unconscionable, consideration"
Google "Has been enforced frequently", "Copyright Law says they don't even have to let you have it at all if they don't want to", and "In exchange for being allowed a license to install the game and access their servers".
No Court is ever going to turn down a game writer's ability to police their game. Yes, if there was a EULA term that says "You agree to give us your first born child and all your base", a Court might turn that away, however, a EULA that says "If you want to play this game, you must play it by our rules, if you don't like it, you should return the software immediately for a refund" has never been defeated in a court of law.
As opposed to Conservative fantasies, which don't even bother starting out as absolute do-whatever-you-want-just-don't-kill-anyone free-for-all and just go straight to the authoritarian group usurping natural ownership and dictating rules galore stage....
You would have been better off just saying "Power corrupts"
The 1st Amendment has generally had stronger protections than the 2nd. You don't *need* a firearm to survive in Society, you do need the ability to communicate with your peers.
I would think automated Robotic Calling programs, which have been around for...sheesh...at least a decade now...would qualify as prior art here.
I acknowledge that at least the suing company is in the market of actually selling something to 911's, EMS's and the like, and the increasing use of twitter for "Follow me for important safety updates" is probably cutting into their business...dramatically....but...I don't think this lawsuit deserves legs.
(quote)
McCain/Feingold: What part of Congress shall make no law... is beyond the comprehension of the Honorable Senators? Note that the entirety of the Campaign Finance regulatory regime fails this test along with most of the FEC regulatory machinery.
(/quote)
The same part that lets them ban child porn. (No, I am not in favor of child porn, I'm just using the 'Child porn is the root password to the Constitution' logic.)
"No law" doesn't mean "No law", it means That the Constitutional Principles the law being examined is furthering (Fair and honest elections, people electing their representatives, not corporations, etc) are furthered more than the constitutional principals being diminished by the law (unlimited speech in the political arena)
That balance falls in favor of "Yes, you can restrict someone's ability to essentially buy an office".
"Okay Joe, here's your options, you can take this box home for $699, plug it in, turn it on and it will work reasonably well...*OR* you can use your old PC to download one of 1000 linux variants, all with different advantages and disadvantages, copy it over to this new box, spend hours installing and tweaking it, with no guarantee it will work with this hardware, and then it will work....reasonably well.
Once vendors start including it on the box by default at build time, people will adopt it.
It's too much hassle to switch back *for the average user*.
Yes, the Slashdot crowd will rollback, but for Joe "I just wanna check e-mail and look at my porn on the Intraweb", whatever comes on the box at purchase time will be the OS he uses...and that's a majority of the market right now.
Many (most?) state's laws regarding prostitution require actual physical contact (or the promise of same), so, since a digital being can't perform physical contact, an agreement to "I'll let you enter commands on Second life that will show animations where your avatar appears to be fucking mine and use poseballs to enhance the animation for 30 minutes for 1000 Linden" actually *might be* valid. (assuming all the other requirements for a contract are met)
Regardless, though...the contract in question here wasn't actually *for* cybersex, it was for the creation and ownership of a digital thing *used in* Cybersex...and that sort of contract would almost certainly be enforceable, assuming all the other requirements were met.
Yeah, you know...aside from that whole Mars Rover thing (5+ years on a 4 month plan...better return on time planned than Gilligan's Island "3 hour tour"
Or the successful repair/upgrade missions to the Hubble Space Telescope
Or, you know, building a space station...
Or any of the 2700 other successes they've had. Yes, you're right...the manned program...not going so good...but considering that they'd jettison it if they weren't forced to keep it by Washington...they're doin alright.
Registered mail gets you a shiny sticker on the front of the envelope that has a tracking number, and a receipt of what happened. Also requires a signature on delivery, unless you waive that.
It doesn't do thing one to prove the envelope wasn't unandresealed.
You *could* write it up, seal it in an envelope, and deposit said envelope with a lawyer/barrister along with an affadavit stating what is in the envelope dated appropriately. That's gonna cost more than the USPS charges, though. Probably easier just to publish it somewhere and be done.
"This rationale was proposed, and discredited, over 150 years ago. Trade secrets are notoriously hard to keep, as the poster JesseMcDonald points out."
Oh really? Pop quiz time then....
Name the 12 secret herbs and spices in Original recipe KFC, and their proportions therein.
What is the formula for Coca-Cola, any variation thereof.
However, Blizzard gives the user an explicit license to do what is necessary to play the game, within the rules Blizzard sets forth.
All that this decision has proved is "The grantor of the license has the right to terminate said license if the terms and conditions it set forth to grant the license are not followed".
Blizzard's terms are "You can use this game, so long as you don't bot". If you bot, Blizzard did not grant you a license, therfore you have no right to make a copy at all. If you're not botting, Blizzard gave you a license to make the necessary copy in RAM (and, presumably on your hard drive) to run the game.
"How does this ruling and the previous ruling account for this section of copyright law which says that it is not an infringement for you to make a copy of a legally acquired program provided "that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner""
Simple....
Making the new copy of Blizzard's code in the RAM space used by Glider is not an "essential" step in the playing of the game of World of Warcraft.
In fact, it is a step that is against Blizzard's rules, explicitly laid out in their ToS and EULA, which is agreed to upon opening a World of Warcraft account (and reinforced every major patch by forcing an "I agree" to continue).
Making a copy in the normal address space used by Windows (or Mac, or even Linux) is essential, therefore allowed by that section of law, but isn't anything against the EULA anyhow.
Slashdot Mirror
Point to the fact that the boundary between BC and AD wasn't set until at least 532 AD, and it was arbitrary and guessed at then, then get back to me with your concern about the year "0"
Now we're going to have to deal with a rehash of all of that "You shouldn't call it the Millennium Bug, the new Millennium doesn't start until 1/1/2001, morons" BS...
gimme a control that lets me:
[StartMacro Name = 'RoadRage']
/swerveleft
/blinkheadlights
/accelerate 90
/flipoffotherdriver
[EndMacro]
and then we'll be talking...till then...back to the drawing board.
"Why people play with their money against clearly unfavorable odds is beyond me" It's called entertainment. I can go to Atlantic City, be treated like a King for 3 days, staying in a top class hotel room I didn't pay for, with people tending to my every whim, simply by being willing to risk some cash at the tables. And the games themselves are fun as well. There is a group energy behind a winning craps table, or the tension of the moment the roulette wheel is about to drop, or even the (generally) goodnatured cutthroated competition of a poker table. And yes, I generally drop 2-300 bucks over the course of the three day trip. But I got three nights in the hotel, food, drink, and fun for that $300. Or I could go to a MLB game, drop that same amount of money, with no possibility of getting it back, and emerge a mere 3-4 hours later.
"Google unenforceable, unconscionable, consideration"
Google "Has been enforced frequently", "Copyright Law says they don't even have to let you have it at all if they don't want to", and "In exchange for being allowed a license to install the game and access their servers".
No Court is ever going to turn down a game writer's ability to police their game. Yes, if there was a EULA term that says "You agree to give us your first born child and all your base", a Court might turn that away, however, a EULA that says "If you want to play this game, you must play it by our rules, if you don't like it, you should return the software immediately for a refund" has never been defeated in a court of law.
How long before google starts a service to provide scanned copies of these new dead tree versions online and indexed?
All these years I'd volunteered to be a fat donor....finally realized!
No, but farming eternal life is a lot easier in Wintergrasp at level 80...
As opposed to Conservative fantasies, which don't even bother starting out as absolute do-whatever-you-want-just-don't-kill-anyone free-for-all and just go straight to the authoritarian group usurping natural ownership and dictating rules galore stage....
You would have been better off just saying "Power corrupts"
The 1st Amendment has generally had stronger protections than the 2nd. You don't *need* a firearm to survive in Society, you do need the ability to communicate with your peers.
Yes, you can ban them from talking to the punishment here is far too harsh to not be challenged.
I acknowledge that at least the suing company is in the market of actually selling something to 911's, EMS's and the like, and the increasing use of twitter for "Follow me for important safety updates" is probably cutting into their business...dramatically....but...I don't think this lawsuit deserves legs.
"Shot quickly, opponent was just what I ordered, A++++++, would frag again"????
The same part that lets them ban child porn. (No, I am not in favor of child porn, I'm just using the 'Child porn is the root password to the Constitution' logic.)
"No law" doesn't mean "No law", it means That the Constitutional Principles the law being examined is furthering (Fair and honest elections, people electing their representatives, not corporations, etc) are furthered more than the constitutional principals being diminished by the law (unlimited speech in the political arena)
That balance falls in favor of "Yes, you can restrict someone's ability to essentially buy an office".
You mean instanced, evenly matched fights where the better team has a chance to win like the WoW battlegrounds?
Fixed your post.
"Okay Joe, here's your options, you can take this box home for $699, plug it in, turn it on and it will work reasonably well...*OR* you can use your old PC to download one of 1000 linux variants, all with different advantages and disadvantages, copy it over to this new box, spend hours installing and tweaking it, with no guarantee it will work with this hardware, and then it will work....reasonably well.
which way is Joe gonna go?
It's too much hassle to switch back *for the average user*.
Yes, the Slashdot crowd will rollback, but for Joe "I just wanna check e-mail and look at my porn on the Intraweb", whatever comes on the box at purchase time will be the OS he uses...and that's a majority of the market right now.
Characteristics of a flu...
given all these, the choice is obvious...
I hereby dub this latest flu the CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FLU
Many (most?) state's laws regarding prostitution require actual physical contact (or the promise of same), so, since a digital being can't perform physical contact, an agreement to "I'll let you enter commands on Second life that will show animations where your avatar appears to be fucking mine and use poseballs to enhance the animation for 30 minutes for 1000 Linden" actually *might be* valid. (assuming all the other requirements for a contract are met)
Regardless, though...the contract in question here wasn't actually *for* cybersex, it was for the creation and ownership of a digital thing *used in* Cybersex...and that sort of contract would almost certainly be enforceable, assuming all the other requirements were met.
Or the successful repair/upgrade missions to the Hubble Space Telescope
Or, you know, building a space station...
Or any of the 2700 other successes they've had. Yes, you're right...the manned program...not going so good...but considering that they'd jettison it if they weren't forced to keep it by Washington...they're doin alright.
Registered mail gets you a shiny sticker on the front of the envelope that has a tracking number, and a receipt of what happened. Also requires a signature on delivery, unless you waive that.
It doesn't do thing one to prove the envelope wasn't unandresealed.
You *could* write it up, seal it in an envelope, and deposit said envelope with a lawyer/barrister along with an affadavit stating what is in the envelope dated appropriately. That's gonna cost more than the USPS charges, though. Probably easier just to publish it somewhere and be done.
Not that I see that as a bad thing...
Oh really? Pop quiz time then....
Name the 12 secret herbs and spices in Original recipe KFC, and their proportions therein.
What is the formula for Coca-Cola, any variation thereof.
However, Blizzard gives the user an explicit license to do what is necessary to play the game, within the rules Blizzard sets forth.
All that this decision has proved is "The grantor of the license has the right to terminate said license if the terms and conditions it set forth to grant the license are not followed".
Blizzard's terms are "You can use this game, so long as you don't bot". If you bot, Blizzard did not grant you a license, therfore you have no right to make a copy at all. If you're not botting, Blizzard gave you a license to make the necessary copy in RAM (and, presumably on your hard drive) to run the game.
No harm, no foul.
Simple....
Making the new copy of Blizzard's code in the RAM space used by Glider is not an "essential" step in the playing of the game of World of Warcraft.
In fact, it is a step that is against Blizzard's rules, explicitly laid out in their ToS and EULA, which is agreed to upon opening a World of Warcraft account (and reinforced every major patch by forcing an "I agree" to continue).
Making a copy in the normal address space used by Windows (or Mac, or even Linux) is essential, therefore allowed by that section of law, but isn't anything against the EULA anyhow.