I hat the way the RIAA/MPAA is paying for their own laws. The US is not my country, so I cannot stop them, but I will do all that I can in my own country if they try their tactics on me and mine.
That said, we are all advocates of supporting independent OSs, so why not music? I have happily subscribed to EMusic.com for the enormous fee of $10/month. I can download as much good quality MP3s as I want at great speeds with the knowledge that I am supporting independent music and the RIAA can kiss my European a$$ as they won't see a penny.
It's a bit difficult to comment on a story, when the story requires subscription to the print edition of a magazine to view it! That, or wait a week until the story is released to the masses.
What is left of the hypersonic engine crashed into the desert 400 km (250 miles) west of Woomera and will now be recovered.
OK, so on its decent, it should have reached mach 7.6 before hitting the ground. Ehm, travelling at 133km/second and more streamlined that bullet, isn't it going to be rather difficult to recover that thing?
In fact, they should be able to be the first to collect some accurate readings from the earth's core, seeing as that is where it will likely end up.
from EULA from all Apple software: The Apple software is not intended for use in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control systems, life support machines or other equipment in which failure of the Apple software could lead to death, personal injury, or severe or environmental damage.
So that rules Mac OS X out as the operating system.
Shame M$ don't put such limits of liability into their EULA.
huh? WTF! I just installed iTunes3 from my idisk and then went to get the Backup and iDisk utility from the same place, and now iTunes3 is no longer there!!!
I'm not very impressed with the price hike on iTools/.mac from gratis to 100 bucks (ok, 50 for the first year). Jeeze, you don't get much for 100 bucks nowadays!
I'm a bit bewildered though as to whether it's really $100 for *everyone* - I registered my.mac account way back when in the US. Now back in Europe, it is asking me for $100, even though my local currency is the Euro.
I think I might wait the full 75 days to buy at the reduced $49 price, because $49 today=49Eu, but in 75 days, $49 will probably only cost me 35 Euros or thereabouts.
I haven't seen them on TV at all. I think these ads are US only, in fact that wouldn't surprise me
actually, most of european advertising standards forbids one company from trying to *steal* customers from another company by saying the other companies products are crap... one of my first adverts in the US that caught my eye was a Coke advert with a guy asking for a Coke in a store, where the reply was "we only have Pepsi". The customer said something obnoxious and walked out the store. For me, that was bloody funny, as those company-bashing adverts are down-right disallowed in Europe. Hence the lack of 'switch' ads over here...
OK, since slashdot didn't want this story, I'll post it here since it seems appropriate.
It appears that one of the leaders in nanotechnology, Bell laboratories, is under investigation due to allegations of scientific fraud on 3 counts. It appears that research published by Jan Hendrik Schön on the use of organic molecules deposited in thin films to be used in nanotechnology chips and the like appears to reproduce the same graph in three different papers one three different datasets.
The article, published by Nature, can be found here
Now, update to last weeks' issue of Nature, and it appears that Bell labs fraud has spread to supercomputers, where another paper (by the same author) using fullerenes and CaO to eliminate electrical resistance is under dispute.
Now I'm no boffin, but when multiple paper's by one person (who is first author on all of them) come under suspision on multiple occassions by people such as noble laureates, things start to look a bit suspicious...
could Bell labs rise from this scandal in light of the WorldCom debacle?
--- This story was not selected for slashdot, but could someone mod me up for bringing it to light... I seem to have some bad karma
Just an observation. You can download the 10.1.4 update by selecting USA/Canada as your country (which is selected by default), but if you switch country options to the UK you can only download 10.1.3.
Could this be because of the EULA change being unlawful outside the US?
Music should be free, gamez should be free No it shouldn't.
As a kid, I pirated all the my C64 games from my friends, OR more cunningly, bought them from my local WHSmith (UK chain) for 5-10 quid, took them home, copied them, then took them back and said the tape (YES TAPE) was not working, and demanded a refund based on my statutory rights of faulty goods. The shop could do one of two things 1) Prove I was lying by loading the game on a C64 (which they didn't sell) 2) Give me my money back Win, win situation for me:) Aah those were the days! I agree though, prices for games are now way too high, and I can see my lil lad in 5 yrs time asking me to buy him the latest and greatest... he will have to put up with what I had to - wait til Xmas or bday for it, when by then the response will be: 1) Dad, it's soooo old is that game
or 2) Naah, I tried that one (through a warezed copy) and it's crap (hmmm, that one sounds fmailiar)
footnote - I was the only kid on the block who had a tape-to-tape recorder, so I was *cool*
OK, a few things are floating around in the space between my ears.
Using software you haven't bought is theft. That's the law so too bad.
The question comes, is how *bad* is it? "I would never have bought it, so the sware company loses nothing, and gains nothing" Furrymuff. I'll go a long with that. More so, there are millions of people using pirated softare for personal use who fit into that category - the respective law enforcement agencis gonna bust them all?
No. Now. What about yerman who has 100+ gigs of warez sitting on a publicly accessible HD?
This is a different kettle of fish. They may be a hoarder for the hell of it, but (s)he has perhaps crossed the line because now they are distributing said illegal content. This is the bug up the sware Co's ass. Since it makes it easier for the big fish to get a hold of fresh, big sware, copy it and sell it on.
*off-topic switch* The British government just made it 'legal' to own and use cannabis (not in front of the children, mind' by declassing it to a class C drug, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME tripling the maximum penalty of supplying cannabis to 15 years.
This keeps the punters happy, while severely deterring the fly-by-night dealer. (Additionally, increases in demand should deter increase in prices for cannabis in the UK, IMO)
So, why do this for cannabis? Perhaps the stiff 15 yr penalty for dealing it will scare off the sardines, and leave wide open the bigger fish free for the catch. Maybe not.
Could such a similar scenario not exist for warez?
As I said at the beginning, just something floating around in space while reading this thread...
Banks, however, aside from loans do charge you for your $
A lot of us who reside outside the US (read England or France but no doubt many others) have enjoyed *Free Banking* for quite a while now. The only thing you get charged for are going overdrawn and the like, where you are using the bank's money. Banks here treat customers as just that; customers. Hell, it's even free to user other banks cash machines (teller machines) to withdraw money. For more things than a lot of Americans realise, America is in the dark ages. not a troll, just fact.
How can I be a troll by taking the pish out of myself? I am a blinf dumbass since I just descovered how to reply to an article (re: my previous post) cheers for giving a newbie neg karma damn moderators - moderate with moderation will ya
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I hat the way the RIAA/MPAA is paying for their own laws. The US is not my country, so I cannot stop them, but I will do all that I can in my own country if they try their tactics on me and mine. That said, we are all advocates of supporting independent OSs, so why not music? I have happily subscribed to EMusic.com for the enormous fee of $10/month. I can download as much good quality MP3s as I want at great speeds with the knowledge that I am supporting independent music and the RIAA can kiss my European a$$ as they won't see a penny.
wouldn't a velcro mitten be like sticking wire a scouring pad to his hands?
it's the 'features' cover story, and requires a paid subscription to the magazine to view it. Wayda go /.
It's a bit difficult to comment on a story, when the story requires subscription to the print edition of a magazine to view it! That, or wait a week until the story is released to the masses.
tits! make that 133km/min still, the point still stands for 2.2 km/sec (133km/min, 8000km/hour) ;)
OK, so on its decent, it should have reached mach 7.6 before hitting the ground. Ehm, travelling at 133km/second and more streamlined that bullet, isn't it going to be rather difficult to recover that thing?
In fact, they should be able to be the first to collect some accurate readings from the earth's core, seeing as that is where it will likely end up.
The Apple software is not intended for use in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control systems, life support machines or other equipment in which failure of the Apple software could lead to death, personal injury, or severe or environmental damage.
So that rules Mac OS X out as the operating system.
Shame M$ don't put such limits of liability into their EULA.hmmmm
get it from your idisk...
I'm a bit bewildered though as to whether it's really $100 for *everyone* - I registered my .mac account way back when in the US. Now back in Europe, it is asking me for $100, even though my local currency is the Euro.
I think I might wait the full 75 days to buy at the reduced $49 price, because $49 today=49Eu, but in 75 days, $49 will probably only cost me 35 Euros or thereabouts.
So, Windownium would not be an element then, but some kind of alloy?
actually, most of european advertising standards forbids one company from trying to *steal* customers from another company by saying the other companies products are crap...
one of my first adverts in the US that caught my eye was a Coke advert with a guy asking for a Coke in a store, where the reply was "we only have Pepsi". The customer said something obnoxious and walked out the store. For me, that was bloody funny, as those company-bashing adverts are down-right disallowed in Europe.
Hence the lack of 'switch' ads over here...
It appears that one of the leaders in nanotechnology, Bell laboratories, is under investigation due to allegations of scientific fraud on 3 counts. It appears that research published by Jan Hendrik Schön on the use of organic molecules deposited in thin films to be used in nanotechnology chips and the like appears to reproduce the same graph in three different papers one three different datasets.
The article, published by Nature, can be found here
Now, update to last weeks' issue of Nature, and it appears that Bell labs fraud has spread to supercomputers, where another paper (by the same author) using fullerenes and CaO to eliminate electrical resistance is under dispute.
Now I'm no boffin, but when multiple paper's by one person (who is first author on all of them) come under suspision on multiple occassions by people such as noble laureates, things start to look a bit suspicious... could Bell labs rise from this scandal in light of the WorldCom debacle?
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This story was not selected for slashdot, but could someone mod me up for bringing it to light... I seem to have some bad karma
ehm, my last post read: 5.1.4 and 5.1.3 -- OS X updates on the brain, clearly
You can download the 10.1.4 update by selecting USA/Canada as your country (which is selected by default), but if you switch country options to the UK you can only download 10.1.3.
Could this be because of the EULA change being unlawful outside the US?
Methinks, you're yanking my chain...
I don't give a XXXX
Any old donkey could do an apache redirect of the domain back to 2600, or wherever. That way, Ford homepage never loads.
No it shouldn't. As a kid, I pirated all the my C64 games from my friends, OR more cunningly, bought them from my local WHSmith (UK chain) for 5-10 quid, took them home, copied them, then took them back and said the tape (YES TAPE) was not working, and demanded a refund based on my statutory rights of faulty goods.
The shop could do one of two things
1) Prove I was lying by loading the game on a C64 (which they didn't sell)
2) Give me my money back
Win, win situation for me
Aah those were the days!
I agree though, prices for games are now way too high, and I can see my lil lad in 5 yrs time asking me to buy him the latest and greatest... he will have to put up with what I had to -
wait til Xmas or bday for it, when by then the response will be:
1) Dad, it's soooo old is that game or
2) Naah, I tried that one (through a warezed copy) and it's crap (hmmm, that one sounds fmailiar)
footnote - I was the only kid on the block who had a tape-to-tape recorder, so I was *cool*
Using software you haven't bought is theft. That's the law so too bad.
The question comes, is how *bad* is it?
"I would never have bought it, so the sware company loses nothing, and gains nothing"
Furrymuff. I'll go a long with that. More so, there are millions of people using pirated softare for personal use who fit into that category - the respective law enforcement agencis gonna bust them all?
No.
Now. What about yerman who has 100+ gigs of warez sitting on a publicly accessible HD?
This is a different kettle of fish. They may be a hoarder for the hell of it, but (s)he has perhaps crossed the line because now they are distributing said illegal content.
This is the bug up the sware Co's ass. Since it makes it easier for the big fish to get a hold of fresh, big sware, copy it and sell it on.
*off-topic switch*
The British government just made it 'legal' to own and use cannabis (not in front of the children, mind' by declassing it to a class C drug, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME tripling the maximum penalty of supplying cannabis to 15 years.
This keeps the punters happy, while severely deterring the fly-by-night dealer. (Additionally, increases in demand should deter increase in prices for cannabis in the UK, IMO)
So, why do this for cannabis?
Perhaps the stiff 15 yr penalty for dealing it will scare off the sardines, and leave wide open the bigger fish free for the catch. Maybe not.
Could such a similar scenario not exist for warez?
As I said at the beginning, just something floating around in space while reading this thread...
and there are 3 PhD theses worth of research behind the algorithms
1) I hope those doctorates are receiving royalties
A lot of our buyers are universities, in some cases graduate students
2) which graduate students can afford $16000 sware?
Banks, however, aside from loans do charge you for your $
A lot of us who reside outside the US (read England or France but no doubt many others) have enjoyed *Free Banking* for quite a while now. The only thing you get charged for are going overdrawn and the like, where you are using the bank's money. Banks here treat customers as just that; customers. Hell, it's even free to user other banks cash machines (teller machines) to withdraw money.
For more things than a lot of Americans realise, America is in the dark ages.
not a troll, just fact.
encoding email addresses using web character stnds would fight them off for a while....
Try a thesaurus.
How can I be a troll by taking the pish out of myself?
I am a blinf dumbass since I just descovered how to reply to an article (re: my previous post)
cheers for giving a newbie neg karma
damn moderators - moderate with moderation will ya