To be fair, the article starts with; A Spanish intellectual property law has finally banned unauthorized peer-to-peer file-sharing in Spain, making it a civil offense even to download content for personal use.
I assume the patches would fall under "authorized peer-to-peer file-sharing".
At least the government appears to be handling the monopoly issue (Not satisfactory perhaps). In this case, they're preparing to more or less protect them..
Will the companies dare release DRM free media? I seem to recall a bit of a stir when they started releasing region free DVD players, and even now you often have to type in a certain combination to remove the region restriction.
Most likely, the alternatives will come in form of FOSS. This is, off course, harder when it comes to stand-alone players though.. Perhaps a business segment there?
Most people know about region coding on DVD's, but they don't really care much. There are now DVD players that are region free, and the CSS thing has bascially just been forgotten. People have a short attention span, and if they are going to stand up for something, they need to see it happen to them regularly I guess.
Educating them would also mean that they would have to give more thought in technology, and from my point of view, it seems most of them just want it to work. Perhaps we can hope that the DRM makers make DRM so incredibly hard to work out that people will actually pay attention to it. Until then, we're trying to swim uphill while picking up a couple of people here and there.
Science isn't about trusting the brains of those who are smart, it's about testing and observations. String theory has yet to produce any significant scientific evidence.
Here's an actual example. This video originally showed a fight from the latest event in the Pride Fighting Championship in Japan, now it just says; This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner Pride FC - Dream Stage Entertainment, Inc because its content was used without permission
Youtube have been removing a lot of Mixed Martial Arts videos at the request of Pride and UFC..
Certainly. The article is either horribly misleading or the study was incredibly poor. Calling a bunch of people and have them say how much they've used a cell phone over the past 10 - 20 years and then conclude it's the phone's fault if they have had or have brain tumour? Seriously..
Well, what is identified as the main reason behind tumours is the radiation that comes from the antenna of the cell phone. Using a hands-free set makes sure that the antenna is far away from your head. Now, having it in your front pocket...
Don't know if you're joking or not, but even in the summary it is mentioned the British article which goes against this, so no, we didn't "know" this 20 years ago. Hell, we still don't KNOW that it causes tumours either. What's significant about this study is the timespan of it.
Who says they're trying? "Everyone" knows that April 1st stories on Slashdot are bogus. Or perhaps you really think we'll be seeing this pink theme and stories about cuteoverload from now on? Laugh, it's funny.
Here in Norway we've seen a rise of companies offering "triple play", i.e. phone, broadband and cable all over fiberoptics. Affordable prices as well, especially the phone is a lot cheaper than what regular phone providers offer.
No matter how good the Cell processor is, what about the GPU? Even though it's just rumours at this point, isn't their graphics card pretty much similar in specs to the one in the 360?
With this new privilege, they'll be able to prevent retransmission even if the copyright on that content is owned by somebody else--even, in fact, if that content was in the public domain.
Now, IANAL, but I think you might be right. Basically, Slashdot could legally prevent me from writing my comment on another site having a similar discussion?
I found Wikipedia to be an excellent starting point on several issues when I was writing my thesis, but I did not use it as the source itself. The explanations on wikipedia are often very good and will give some insight into a topic you can explore further with more indepth research papers.
So it basically does for videos what Google image search does for images if I've understood this correctly? Not that there's anything wrong with that, it works alright with Google images so far.
Well, Firefox comes with a feed on by default. Even though people have realised they should use alternative browsers people still struggle to use the update function, let alone the RSS function. I'd say there's a good chance of some people "using" it unknowingly.
Same thing for me. Although I like to keep up with what's happening, having the same story duplicated over every news paper you're subscribing too is boring and tedious. I didn't find it any easier than using a good old browser, seriously.
Isn't that the wonder of it? Even with today's tools that will allow us to really visualise the game, most of us prefer the old fashion way of playing RPGs. We each have our own perception on how the world should look, and we picture it ourselves. No game or movie can replace that.
I think he meant that you'll be allowed to kill any service even if it will make Windows crash, not that shutting down any service will crash Windows. The task manager process shut down is basically Window's equivalent of kill -9.
I care, and since it's posted here, there are probably others as well. Don't like it, don't read it.
I enjoy getting info on Linux distros on Slashdot, their updates etc. It sure as hell beats having 2000 Google stories and 5 "infomercials" for some dude looking for money to fund some science project. If you're tired of these submissions, just choose to ignore Linux threads in your preferences page.
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To be fair, the article starts with; A Spanish intellectual property law has finally banned unauthorized peer-to-peer file-sharing in Spain, making it a civil offense even to download content for personal use.
I assume the patches would fall under "authorized peer-to-peer file-sharing".
At least the government appears to be handling the monopoly issue (Not satisfactory perhaps). In this case, they're preparing to more or less protect them..
Will the companies dare release DRM free media? I seem to recall a bit of a stir when they started releasing region free DVD players, and even now you often have to type in a certain combination to remove the region restriction.
Most likely, the alternatives will come in form of FOSS. This is, off course, harder when it comes to stand-alone players though.. Perhaps a business segment there?
Most people know about region coding on DVD's, but they don't really care much. There are now DVD players that are region free, and the CSS thing has bascially just been forgotten. People have a short attention span, and if they are going to stand up for something, they need to see it happen to them regularly I guess.
Educating them would also mean that they would have to give more thought in technology, and from my point of view, it seems most of them just want it to work. Perhaps we can hope that the DRM makers make DRM so incredibly hard to work out that people will actually pay attention to it. Until then, we're trying to swim uphill while picking up a couple of people here and there.
Science isn't about trusting the brains of those who are smart, it's about testing and observations. String theory has yet to produce any significant scientific evidence.
You still have to wait; Please bear in mind that ReactOS 0.3.0 RC1 is still in alpha stage and is not recommended for everyday use.
And for a release CANDIDATE?
Here's an actual example. This video originally showed a fight from the latest event in the Pride Fighting Championship in Japan, now it just says; This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner Pride FC - Dream Stage Entertainment, Inc because its content was used without permission
Youtube have been removing a lot of Mixed Martial Arts videos at the request of Pride and UFC..
It will probably get passed around the net as if Bush said he developed the iPod. Al Gore never did say he "invented the internet" either.
Do you have a link to this study? It would be interesting to read, seriously, I'm not trying to be an ass.
Certainly. The article is either horribly misleading or the study was incredibly poor. Calling a bunch of people and have them say how much they've used a cell phone over the past 10 - 20 years and then conclude it's the phone's fault if they have had or have brain tumour? Seriously..
Well, what is identified as the main reason behind tumours is the radiation that comes from the antenna of the cell phone. Using a hands-free set makes sure that the antenna is far away from your head. Now, having it in your front pocket ...
Don't know if you're joking or not, but even in the summary it is mentioned the British article which goes against this, so no, we didn't "know" this 20 years ago. Hell, we still don't KNOW that it causes tumours either. What's significant about this study is the timespan of it.
Who says they're trying? "Everyone" knows that April 1st stories on Slashdot are bogus. Or perhaps you really think we'll be seeing this pink theme and stories about cuteoverload from now on? Laugh, it's funny.
Here in Norway we've seen a rise of companies offering "triple play", i.e. phone, broadband and cable all over fiberoptics. Affordable prices as well, especially the phone is a lot cheaper than what regular phone providers offer.
No matter how good the Cell processor is, what about the GPU? Even though it's just rumours at this point, isn't their graphics card pretty much similar in specs to the one in the 360?
With this new privilege, they'll be able to prevent retransmission even if the copyright on that content is owned by somebody else--even, in fact, if that content was in the public domain.
Now, IANAL, but I think you might be right. Basically, Slashdot could legally prevent me from writing my comment on another site having a similar discussion?
I found Wikipedia to be an excellent starting point on several issues when I was writing my thesis, but I did not use it as the source itself. The explanations on wikipedia are often very good and will give some insight into a topic you can explore further with more indepth research papers.
So it basically does for videos what Google image search does for images if I've understood this correctly? Not that there's anything wrong with that, it works alright with Google images so far.
Well, Firefox comes with a feed on by default. Even though people have realised they should use alternative browsers people still struggle to use the update function, let alone the RSS function. I'd say there's a good chance of some people "using" it unknowingly.
Same thing for me. Although I like to keep up with what's happening, having the same story duplicated over every news paper you're subscribing too is boring and tedious. I didn't find it any easier than using a good old browser, seriously.
Isn't that the wonder of it? Even with today's tools that will allow us to really visualise the game, most of us prefer the old fashion way of playing RPGs. We each have our own perception on how the world should look, and we picture it ourselves. No game or movie can replace that.
I think he meant that you'll be allowed to kill any service even if it will make Windows crash, not that shutting down any service will crash Windows. The task manager process shut down is basically Window's equivalent of kill -9.
They could complain to Dell, HP et al. and not necessarily Microsoft themselves since as you say, they don't really have much to do with this.
I care, and since it's posted here, there are probably others as well. Don't like it, don't read it.
I enjoy getting info on Linux distros on Slashdot, their updates etc. It sure as hell beats having 2000 Google stories and 5 "infomercials" for some dude looking for money to fund some science project. If you're tired of these submissions, just choose to ignore Linux threads in your preferences page.