It may scare some portion of 10% of the impulse buyers whos disk is in stock and who managed to get a hold of a salesperson or navigate 20 long isles to find it. It will whoever attract the other 90% of impulse buyers who want to just key in the title and burn any movie ever released. Not to mention the ability to have smaller stores in locations where the space is expensive or simply not available. As for burning at home, this is no doubt the future of legal digital information retail. But 9GB download for a full quality DVD or much more for high-def formats is a bit excessive at the moment.
Although individual animals may not have the same rights as humans, it's prudent to give them a right to survive as species and enjoy healthy genetic diversity.
Every law is about forcing people and every law except those concerning violence, global destruction/environment damage or close personal possessions is optional and should only be passed if it benefits most people. If I am forced to accept copyright, the copyright owner should have some obligations in return.
Once you accept that restrictions on private business, weather having sex or exchanging information, between two people is unnatural, how can you require people to distribute source to their work if they don't want to? Only if we accept copyright it makes sense to require the owner to release the source after a while so that other people can create derivative works in exchange for accepting the restrictions for limited time. But if you give away the binary without any obligations, neither should you have any towards others. Even today people who just release a binary compiled from GPLed source into public domain shouldn't be subject to any requirements to release the source.
What kind of non-nasty functions to you propose to use to manipulate strings then? strncpy can leave non-\0 terminated strings. STL is for C++ only. Going to write your own library? Good luck when you try to combine your code with 10 other people who made them same decision or stuck with standard C.
Care to explain, given that the function has been documented to return -1 on failure, there is no cleanup to be done and C++ exceptions are not available?
Because then you will not be allowed to call them C libs anymore. ANSI-C includes a specific set of string functions, sorry. Alternatives that specify length have their own problems of truncating the string silently or non null-terminating it. So basically you still have to add "if (strlen(s) >= sizeof(buf)) return -1", just like with plain strcpy.
More importantly, a business has money to buy all these software licenses, but can not spare $50 to buy a 15" CRT monitor for a worker educated enough to use a computer in the first place. I really hope this is a hoax designed to attract attention to working conditions in Banglore. A PC with 8 monitors, 8 keyboards/mice and OSS could be useful for light office work or data entry though.
Not to punish promotion of multi-colored butterflies. Microsoft should be broken up into several companies and barred from anti-competitive practices. But this doesn't make any more sense than punishing P2P downloaders under laws passed to fight actual maritime pirates.
Well, at least I have an option to learn accurate science. Hey, they'll probably explain the basics on TV shows like Dateline. With FDA, I am forced to take guidance of people who believe earth is 6000 years old. Hey, if human body is perfectly designed, why do we need drugs in the first place?
How are they going to recoup these costs from penniless AIDS patients? Property rights should only be enforced when the benefit of the owner from keeping the property is at least loosely comparable to advantages withheld from the public. Weather it's generic drugs for the poor, public access to privately owned scenic land, freely using commercial software for education or picking leftover fruit after the harvest, your property rights are not always absolute. Even government relocates people on the path of a new highway or in an unsustainable disaster zone.
Let's not confuse legal and social aspect of the situation. As a victim of a violent crime or someone close to them there comes a point where you have to stop thinking about the perpetrator and hold yourself - or that person - responsible for your own actions and state of mind as well as all effects that such lifestyle has on yourself and others. This doesn't mean that the improvement will come automatically, without treatment or effort on your part. Take pills, travel around the world, get a black belt in martial arts, do whatever works for you. But don't torture yourself and everyone around by being forever stuck in victim mentality.
As for the legal angle, eggshell skull rule is just a wikipedia page. Sometimes it's reflected in law, sometimes it's not. For example, murder and involuntary manslaughter have different punishments. As far as I know, rapists have been charged with murder if victim dies of injuries but not if she commits suicide a year later. This is not to say that any real-world rape should be treated lightly by the law. But Second-life rape would be probably covered by "crumbling skull" rule. Someone so psychologically fragile that she would be permanently traumatized by watching an animation will eventually crack anyway.
1. Most of the country may not have known, or have chosen to turn a blind eye to atrocities. But IBM executives surely visited Germany from time to time and should have known what their advanced technology was used for. Similarly I wouldn't make any excuses for anyone who does business with sectarian Iraq government today.
2. There would have been lots of ways to hamper Nazi efforts without risking employees' lives. IBM USA could have sent a bogus replacement part as a high-priority update that would, say, cause an electric short after a one month delay.
If your wife's ex-lover is a confessed serial killer, the evidence against you has to be pretty damning for you not to create reasonable doubt. Like if he was videotaped by a policeman while committing a murder and later signed a statement that he is a person on the video. It's not a big stretch of imagination that someone who killed 8 times and didn't get caught is capable of some creativity when planting evidence.
Care to substantiate this claim? Do you have credible documents that show IBM immediately stopping export of technology when Hitler started oppressing jews and did everything in their power to sabotage and destroy technology already in place?
So don't be surprised if IBM technology is once again used for oppression. It would be perfect, for example, for keeping track of RFIDs implanted into inmates of Chinese forced labor camps. Will IBM again order their "Asian" division not to discuss such uses of technology with headquarters?
I am a victim of many years of physical abuse and not a rape victim only because, where I come from, overt gays would be probably beaten to death themselves. I agree that being subject to crime can bring in depression, being unable to stand up for yourself in other situations and many other unhealthy tendencies. But, unless someone cuts off your limbs, you should never say that the crime was worse than killing or that suffering should go on for the rest of your life. If you are an adult with previously healthy life, give yourself 3 years. If the crime "still affects your life on daily basis", your suffering is no longer caused by the criminal. Rather, it's your own self-destructive behavior and thought patterns as well as possibly people close to your or society at large that prop up your "victim" or "damaged" image.
As an example, think of Jessica Lynch. Yes, lots of lies have been told about the events in Iraq. But, without question, she was rapped and severely injured on her mission. Does she sound like a victim to you? I hear she got married and had a daughter shortly after coming home.
However, it would be totally appropriate for Linden virtual justice system to order virtual incarceration complete with virtual prison showers. Or even virtually lethal injection whereupon your virtual assets are given to the victim and you are never allowed to apply for another account.
RIAA should be required to show evidence that a particular person rather than just a particular peace of hardware was involved in file sharing to start a lawsuit. If you have kids visiting your house, it's possible and likely that one of them will do a quick download. And, given that there is no requirement to even secure GUNS kept at home, I don't see how we can require people to keep their gaming box under lock and key. Difficult, I know. But we want one to build a good case to abridge someone's freedom by dragging them to court.
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It may scare some portion of 10% of the impulse buyers whos disk is in stock and who managed to get a hold of a salesperson or navigate 20 long isles to find it. It will whoever attract the other 90% of impulse buyers who want to just key in the title and burn any movie ever released. Not to mention the ability to have smaller stores in locations where the space is expensive or simply not available. As for burning at home, this is no doubt the future of legal digital information retail. But 9GB download for a full quality DVD or much more for high-def formats is a bit excessive at the moment.
Although individual animals may not have the same rights as humans, it's prudent to give them a right to survive as species and enjoy healthy genetic diversity.
Every law is about forcing people and every law except those concerning violence, global destruction/environment damage or close personal possessions is optional and should only be passed if it benefits most people. If I am forced to accept copyright, the copyright owner should have some obligations in return.
Once you accept that restrictions on private business, weather having sex or exchanging information, between two people is unnatural, how can you require people to distribute source to their work if they don't want to? Only if we accept copyright it makes sense to require the owner to release the source after a while so that other people can create derivative works in exchange for accepting the restrictions for limited time. But if you give away the binary without any obligations, neither should you have any towards others. Even today people who just release a binary compiled from GPLed source into public domain shouldn't be subject to any requirements to release the source.
What kind of non-nasty functions to you propose to use to manipulate strings then? strncpy can leave non-\0 terminated strings. STL is for C++ only. Going to write your own library? Good luck when you try to combine your code with 10 other people who made them same decision or stuck with standard C.
Care to explain, given that the function has been documented to return -1 on failure, there is no cleanup to be done and C++ exceptions are not available?
Because then you will not be allowed to call them C libs anymore. ANSI-C includes a specific set of string functions, sorry. Alternatives that specify length have their own problems of truncating the string silently or non null-terminating it. So basically you still have to add "if (strlen(s) >= sizeof(buf)) return -1", just like with plain strcpy.
Personally, I prefer NSString.
Multi-user games already have a split screen view with split keyboard controls.
On the second thought, this would be perfect for extreme programming. Remember, you have to sit close enough to smell each other's farts.
More importantly, a business has money to buy all these software licenses, but can not spare $50 to buy a 15" CRT monitor for a worker educated enough to use a computer in the first place. I really hope this is a hoax designed to attract attention to working conditions in Banglore. A PC with 8 monitors, 8 keyboards/mice and OSS could be useful for light office work or data entry though.
Apparently it's not supported in some areas. May be inconvenient, but having no way to get help in an emergency sucks way more.
Most probably poor people in Brazil will not have an option to sue any drug companies.
Would you rather a) buy an operating system with known security problems or b) be shot in a mafia hit?
Not to punish promotion of multi-colored butterflies. Microsoft should be broken up into several companies and barred from anti-competitive practices. But this doesn't make any more sense than punishing P2P downloaders under laws passed to fight actual maritime pirates.
Well, at least I have an option to learn accurate science. Hey, they'll probably explain the basics on TV shows like Dateline. With FDA, I am forced to take guidance of people who believe earth is 6000 years old. Hey, if human body is perfectly designed, why do we need drugs in the first place?
How are they going to recoup these costs from penniless AIDS patients? Property rights should only be enforced when the benefit of the owner from keeping the property is at least loosely comparable to advantages withheld from the public. Weather it's generic drugs for the poor, public access to privately owned scenic land, freely using commercial software for education or picking leftover fruit after the harvest, your property rights are not always absolute. Even government relocates people on the path of a new highway or in an unsustainable disaster zone.
Let's not confuse legal and social aspect of the situation. As a victim of a violent crime or someone close to them there comes a point where you have to stop thinking about the perpetrator and hold yourself - or that person - responsible for your own actions and state of mind as well as all effects that such lifestyle has on yourself and others. This doesn't mean that the improvement will come automatically, without treatment or effort on your part. Take pills, travel around the world, get a black belt in martial arts, do whatever works for you. But don't torture yourself and everyone around by being forever stuck in victim mentality.
As for the legal angle, eggshell skull rule is just a wikipedia page. Sometimes it's reflected in law, sometimes it's not. For example, murder and involuntary manslaughter have different punishments. As far as I know, rapists have been charged with murder if victim dies of injuries but not if she commits suicide a year later. This is not to say that any real-world rape should be treated lightly by the law. But Second-life rape would be probably covered by "crumbling skull" rule. Someone so psychologically fragile that she would be permanently traumatized by watching an animation will eventually crack anyway.
Well,
1. Most of the country may not have known, or have chosen to turn a blind eye to atrocities. But IBM executives surely visited Germany from time to time and should have known what their advanced technology was used for. Similarly I wouldn't make any excuses for anyone who does business with sectarian Iraq government today.
2. There would have been lots of ways to hamper Nazi efforts without risking employees' lives. IBM USA could have sent a bogus replacement part as a high-priority update that would, say, cause an electric short after a one month delay.
If your wife's ex-lover is a confessed serial killer, the evidence against you has to be pretty damning for you not to create reasonable doubt. Like if he was videotaped by a policeman while committing a murder and later signed a statement that he is a person on the video. It's not a big stretch of imagination that someone who killed 8 times and didn't get caught is capable of some creativity when planting evidence.
Care to substantiate this claim? Do you have credible documents that show IBM immediately stopping export of technology when Hitler started oppressing jews and did everything in their power to sabotage and destroy technology already in place?
So don't be surprised if IBM technology is once again used for oppression. It would be perfect, for example, for keeping track of RFIDs implanted into inmates of Chinese forced labor camps. Will IBM again order their "Asian" division not to discuss such uses of technology with headquarters?
I am a victim of many years of physical abuse and not a rape victim only because, where I come from, overt gays would be probably beaten to death themselves. I agree that being subject to crime can bring in depression, being unable to stand up for yourself in other situations and many other unhealthy tendencies. But, unless someone cuts off your limbs, you should never say that the crime was worse than killing or that suffering should go on for the rest of your life. If you are an adult with previously healthy life, give yourself 3 years. If the crime "still affects your life on daily basis", your suffering is no longer caused by the criminal. Rather, it's your own self-destructive behavior and thought patterns as well as possibly people close to your or society at large that prop up your "victim" or "damaged" image.
As an example, think of Jessica Lynch. Yes, lots of lies have been told about the events in Iraq. But, without question, she was rapped and severely injured on her mission. Does she sound like a victim to you? I hear she got married and had a daughter shortly after coming home.
However, it would be totally appropriate for Linden virtual justice system to order virtual incarceration complete with virtual prison showers. Or even virtually lethal injection whereupon your virtual assets are given to the victim and you are never allowed to apply for another account.
People share files.
RIAA should be required to show evidence that a particular person rather than just a particular peace of hardware was involved in file sharing to start a lawsuit. If you have kids visiting your house, it's possible and likely that one of them will do a quick download. And, given that there is no requirement to even secure GUNS kept at home, I don't see how we can require people to keep their gaming box under lock and key. Difficult, I know. But we want one to build a good case to abridge someone's freedom by dragging them to court.