First, idiots who try to save money that way would totally fuck up their hardware and blame the company. Second, people would just say their hard drive or LCD died and get one shipped to them for free. Ever think about that, genius?
Yup, I did. So did some others who've already replied to the arguments in your comment. And thanks for acknowledging my genius.
I wish companies offered discounted DIY warranties, where they shipped you the part and a short instruction sheet and you could replace it yourself, even for semi-complicated things like keyboards.
Basically, it'd be a warranty on only parts, but you could choose to supply your own labor (instead of paying them to do it).
So is it illegal to induce a minor to purchase a CD by selling a pornographic artist, such as Britney Spears or Madonna?
Or selling Coca-Cola by having a very sexually attractive actress in a commercial?
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>This new Copyright Inducement law will not be applied to everyone who it could be applied to.
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and when ordinary people start getting busted for doing utterly benign things, there will be a backlash.
ahhhhh... but therein lies the key... You're right that a law that starts being used to bust everyone will soon be repealed.
But when an unreasonable law is rarely applied, and therefor publicly accepted/ignored, then everyone becomes a criminal, though usually thy're not prosecuted. Think of stupid 55 mph speed limits. Everyone (in my area) drive at 60-80 miles an hour, and 99% never get a ticket, so they never lobby to get the unreasonable law repealed and the limit raised. But for those who do get caught, they have no recourse in court, and the argument "everyone else was driving 80 mph" never proves to be an effective defense, since the law was so clearly broken and teh speeder was so clearly guilty.
Thus, instead of keeping people safe by making people drive more slowly, selective enforcement gives the law enforcers broad, imbalanced powers. They can pull over just about anyone on the entire highway, since very few people drive at 55 mph or lower. I'd bet that statistically 95% of people drive at least 5 mph over the speed limit on the highway. So if they don't like the way someone looks, or they want to meet a cute woman, or any other reason, a police officer can pull over anyone at any time, because they were "speeding".
This new Copyright Inducement law will now be applied to everyone who it could be applied to. It will be applied selectively. Most people, unaffected personally, will not be motivated to get it repealed. Congresspeople will see hat it's not a majority concern in their district, so they won't pay attention to it. And, like the 1% of highway speeders, a few unlucky bastards will find themselves undeniably guilty under the law with million dollar court cases against them.
So thats why it's up to activists and watchdogs to get this legislation stopped before it gets passed.
but this poor SOB shouldn't have his daughter man-handled and him and her arrested for "resisting arrest" because he did nothing wrong and has the right to not speak to anyone!!!!
I just don't understand how you can be convicted of "resisting arrest" when there were no grounds for a legal arrest... so you were trying to prevent an illegal act -- the illegal arrest. Shouldn't the officer go to jail and you be rewarded?
But rather than just bitching about it, how about you just exercise some patience and wait a little while? Counting them out before they even get started is a little unfair, don't you think?
I was going to give a good ole "You must be new here" troll until I saw you're/.'er 6145.
"Gore supported the V-chip!" (despite the fact that the V-chip is one of the most minor of these sorts of issues, and that the Republicans supported it more).
Also the V-Chip is entirely under the control of the TV's owner, usually parents. My TV at home has a V-Chip but I've never used it (no young kids around). I'm sure it adds only a very tiny cost to the price of each TV, so what's the big deal?
This patent is such BS that even the STORY SUBMITTER found prior art. It didn't even take a freakin' comment. I wonder if that EFF patent group will catch this.
What methods are available for challenging a patent, anyway?
In particular, if you divide their bandwidth to the Internet, by the number of students, I bet you get a lot less than gigabit.
No, an internet connection doesn't really need to be fibre based. But internal network activity will benefit, and fibre will give them room to grow.
Plus, this will prepare them for an Internet2 upgrade in the future.
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Whose HD can constantly suck up more than a 100 MB pipe?
100 MByte/sec HD != 100Mbit network
You only realistically get about 10MBytes/second over a 100Mbit network. So Gigabit (1000 Mbit) would be closer to the hard drive limit. SATA drive are capable of 150 MByte/second transfer rate, although not many production drive currently do today.
Plus, downloading to your HD isn't the only thing you can do with a network. You can stream live lectures to people's rooms, use a network application server to allow students to access large server programs, VNC from the helpdesk with no choppiness, etc.
why run expensive fiber when you can run cheapo Cat 5
Becase it's a big undertaking to rewire a campus, so you'd better do it right and prepare for the future, instead of locking yourself into today/yesterday's technology.
The only difference is after she's done she actually thinks I'm interested in how ugly her best friends brother's cousin's roomate's nephew's baby is while I'm fully aware she couldn't give a crap if my Necromancer leveled !twice! tonight.:)
I'd like to see a vote on how many guys here have encountered that double-standard. I get in trouble if I look bored when hearing about something boring, but I get a bored look if I try to talk about my latest Genossian Lab raid in SWG.
No, that's just to show you they're available. You can probably pick one up at a video game store. You could also have a friend with a credit card sign you up for a few months, and you give him the cash.
Most banks in the US give you a debit card that also works like a visa/mastercard, does your bank do that?
The reason that we execute/incarcerate murderers is not that they cause economic damage, but that we believe murder is immoral and hurts our society in general. Murder is takinf someone's life away.
Virus-writer cause economic trouble, but they never take another human's life. They take some money away.
Believe it or not, but not everything people do is economically-motivated.
I'm really getting sick of all the business process patents. Selling concert CD's immediately after the show is nothing new; how many thousands of live albums are available on the market today? This method is just faster distribution than before; it's not an original process. Would you award a patent to a record company for selling live albums in stores a month after the concert? Of course not! So why do they get a patent for selling it 15 minutes later in the venue?
Maybe they could patent the actual recording/distribution kiosk design, because that would take some original, creative engineering to make it work. But the idea of "selling CD's after a show" is nothing new.
I would have completely agreed with you befor the PATRIOT act. Now once you're arrested you're instantly guilty, and your conviction is fully supported by the law. You will not ge to see a lawyer, call your family, pass go, collect $200, nothing.
So personally, I'd rather just stay off that damn list in the first place.
If he offers help you can say "schedule 40" first but if it doesn't ring a bell it can't hurt to say "plastic water pipe" before you discount him as a source of information.
If you wanted his help finding something, you could have described what you were looking for a little less scientifically, once you realized the guy wasn't as well versed in netwroking gear as you. While he may not recognize "RJ45s for plenum cable", he probably knows where the "connectors that go on the ends of a network cable" are. He can't know your level of knowledge before he asks the question, so he offers to help you, then honestly admits you've out-teched him.
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First, idiots who try to save money that way would totally fuck up their hardware and blame the company. Second, people would just say their hard drive or LCD died and get one shipped to them for free. Ever think about that, genius?
Yup, I did. So did some others who've already replied to the arguments in your comment. And thanks for acknowledging my genius.
I wish companies offered discounted DIY warranties, where they shipped you the part and a short instruction sheet and you could replace it yourself, even for semi-complicated things like keyboards.
Basically, it'd be a warranty on only parts, but you could choose to supply your own labor (instead of paying them to do it).
But when it's presented as hard fact in documentary form, it IS a problem because it is NOT hard fact.
Replace "documentary form" with "President Bush's speeches to the public" and you'd be right on the money.
So is it illegal to induce a minor to purchase a CD by selling a pornographic artist, such as Britney Spears or Madonna?
Or selling Coca-Cola by having a very sexually attractive actress in a commercial?
>This new Copyright Inducement law will not be applied to everyone who it could be applied to.
and when ordinary people start getting busted for doing utterly benign things, there will be a backlash.
ahhhhh... but therein lies the key... You're right that a law that starts being used to bust everyone will soon be repealed.
But when an unreasonable law is rarely applied, and therefor publicly accepted/ignored, then everyone becomes a criminal, though usually thy're not prosecuted. Think of stupid 55 mph speed limits. Everyone (in my area) drive at 60-80 miles an hour, and 99% never get a ticket, so they never lobby to get the unreasonable law repealed and the limit raised. But for those who do get caught, they have no recourse in court, and the argument "everyone else was driving 80 mph" never proves to be an effective defense, since the law was so clearly broken and teh speeder was so clearly guilty.
Thus, instead of keeping people safe by making people drive more slowly, selective enforcement gives the law enforcers broad, imbalanced powers. They can pull over just about anyone on the entire highway, since very few people drive at 55 mph or lower. I'd bet that statistically 95% of people drive at least 5 mph over the speed limit on the highway. So if they don't like the way someone looks, or they want to meet a cute woman, or any other reason, a police officer can pull over anyone at any time, because they were "speeding".
This new Copyright Inducement law will now be applied to everyone who it could be applied to. It will be applied selectively. Most people, unaffected personally, will not be motivated to get it repealed. Congresspeople will see hat it's not a majority concern in their district, so they won't pay attention to it. And, like the 1% of highway speeders, a few unlucky bastards will find themselves undeniably guilty under the law with million dollar court cases against them.
So thats why it's up to activists and watchdogs to get this legislation stopped before it gets passed.
but this poor SOB shouldn't have his daughter man-handled and him and her arrested for "resisting arrest" because he did nothing wrong and has the right to not speak to anyone!!!!
I just don't understand how you can be convicted of "resisting arrest" when there were no grounds for a legal arrest... so you were trying to prevent an illegal act -- the illegal arrest. Shouldn't the officer go to jail and you be rewarded?
But rather than just bitching about it, how about you just exercise some patience and wait a little while? Counting them out before they even get started is a little unfair, don't you think?
/.'er 6145.
I was going to give a good ole "You must be new here" troll until I saw you're
"Gore supported the V-chip!" (despite the fact that the V-chip is one of the most minor of these sorts of issues, and that the Republicans supported it more).
Also the V-Chip is entirely under the control of the TV's owner, usually parents. My TV at home has a V-Chip but I've never used it (no young kids around). I'm sure it adds only a very tiny cost to the price of each TV, so what's the big deal?
Well put.
then the future is now! :-)
This patent is such BS that even the STORY SUBMITTER found prior art. It didn't even take a freakin' comment. I wonder if that EFF patent group will catch this.
What methods are available for challenging a patent, anyway?
In particular, if you divide their bandwidth to the Internet, by the number of students, I bet you get a lot less than gigabit.
No, an internet connection doesn't really need to be fibre based. But internal network activity will benefit, and fibre will give them room to grow.
Plus, this will prepare them for an Internet2 upgrade in the future.
Whose HD can constantly suck up more than a 100 MB pipe?
100 MByte/sec HD != 100Mbit network
You only realistically get about 10MBytes/second over a 100Mbit network. So Gigabit (1000 Mbit) would be closer to the hard drive limit. SATA drive are capable of 150 MByte/second transfer rate, although not many production drive currently do today.
Plus, downloading to your HD isn't the only thing you can do with a network. You can stream live lectures to people's rooms, use a network application server to allow students to access large server programs, VNC from the helpdesk with no choppiness, etc.
why run expensive fiber when you can run cheapo Cat 5
Becase it's a big undertaking to rewire a campus, so you'd better do it right and prepare for the future, instead of locking yourself into today/yesterday's technology.
Hmmmm... maybe she'd pay more attention if I told the story in a language other than Shyriiwook...
The only difference is after she's done she actually thinks I'm interested in how ugly her best friends brother's cousin's roomate's nephew's baby is while I'm fully aware she couldn't give a crap if my Necromancer leveled !twice! tonight. :)
I'd like to see a vote on how many guys here have encountered that double-standard. I get in trouble if I look bored when hearing about something boring, but I get a bored look if I try to talk about my latest Genossian Lab raid in SWG.
No, that's just to show you they're available. You can probably pick one up at a video game store. You could also have a friend with a credit card sign you up for a few months, and you give him the cash.
Most banks in the US give you a debit card that also works like a visa/mastercard, does your bank do that?
Most games have pre-paid game cards...
He gets to use email in prison, but instead of using spam filtering software, he can only use the opt-out link at the bottom of each message.
This is kind of a retarded premise...
The reason that we execute/incarcerate murderers is not that they cause economic damage, but that we believe murder is immoral and hurts our society in general. Murder is takinf someone's life away.
Virus-writer cause economic trouble, but they never take another human's life. They take some money away.
Believe it or not, but not everything people do is economically-motivated.
I, for one, welcome our new 3D rendered...cuddly...uh... oh forget it.
I'm really getting sick of all the business process patents. Selling concert CD's immediately after the show is nothing new; how many thousands of live albums are available on the market today? This method is just faster distribution than before; it's not an original process. Would you award a patent to a record company for selling live albums in stores a month after the concert? Of course not! So why do they get a patent for selling it 15 minutes later in the venue?
Maybe they could patent the actual recording/distribution kiosk design, because that would take some original, creative engineering to make it work. But the idea of "selling CD's after a show" is nothing new.
I would have completely agreed with you befor the PATRIOT act. Now once you're arrested you're instantly guilty, and your conviction is fully supported by the law. You will not ge to see a lawyer, call your family, pass go, collect $200, nothing.
So personally, I'd rather just stay off that damn list in the first place.
If he offers help you can say "schedule 40" first but if it doesn't ring a bell it can't hurt to say "plastic water pipe" before you discount him as a source of information.
If you wanted his help finding something, you could have described what you were looking for a little less scientifically, once you realized the guy wasn't as well versed in netwroking gear as you. While he may not recognize "RJ45s for plenum cable", he probably knows where the "connectors that go on the ends of a network cable" are. He can't know your level of knowledge before he asks the question, so he offers to help you, then honestly admits you've out-teched him.