You do know that there actually was an invasion on that night. The radio play was just cover. I was in a movie all about it. Kudos to the first person who names that movie!
You may be confusing the program, Spybot Search and Destroy with the term, spybot. Spybots are the very malware that Spybot Search and Destroy removes.
I can't believe they gave in to such an obvious slapp suit. Calling something what it is isn't libel. Nobody agrees to install gator. A pop up appears, and people click on it to make it go away. That does not constitute an agreement.
I am a computer tech at a small mom-and-pop TV repair and computer store. I spend most of my time cleaning up systems that have become completely useless because of spyware like, Gator, Bonzi Buddy, Xupiter, Weatherbug, Comet Cursor, the list goes on and on. Sometimes, Lavasoft Ad-aware won't get them all, and I have to use Spybot search and destroy. This crapware was turned the internet into a minefield for the non-technical, who are the majority of computer users. It is a public nusiance. The people who create this stuff are racketeers. Perhaps the people behind all this crapware believe that computers are meant for the techno-elite, and never should have reached the masses. If their goal is to make millions give up on computers, they may be succesful. If only the techno-elite used computers, I would be out of a job, but I might be happier. Cleaning this crap off of hard drives because people need their data instead of just formatting them and reinstalling is making me CRAZY!!
There was a story in The Onion about the RIAA suing radio stations for giving away free music last October. It's not on their site any more, but the text of it, minus pictures is on the Wayback Machine. Check it out!
Yeah! Suing kindly old grandfathers and twelve-year-old girls who live in public housing with their single mothers is PR? The RIAA are worse than the mafia. Don't Buy CDs.
Libraries can lend CDs out because of the first sale principle. When they bought the CD, royalties were paid. Now it is theirs to listen to, lend out, or use as a coaster if that amuses them. If you borrow the CD, and copy it, you are committing copyright infringement, but you are responsible for this, not the library. Don't admit that you do that, and you won't get caught. This is no threat to the RIAA because the teeny pop tenn-age girls adore isn't at the library, just artsy music. Besides, teen girls want to posess tangible things like 'Nsync and Backstreet Boys CDs with pitures of the boys they drool over, and printed lyrics. They can't posess or collect these things if they have to take them back to the library.
Proverbially, you are a horse and buggy dealer, and the automobile has been invented. You are obsolete, and will soon reside in the dustbin of history.
There can be businesses without corporations, such as sole proprietorships, partnerships, and cooperatives. Everone accepts that these entities are things. They have no 'personhood'. Corporations, things that have been given virtual 'personhood' by the law, are frequently monsters. Perhaps a thing that has 'personhood' is a thing that should not be.
I don't see a silver lining coming from the courts or Congress, but from technology. The DMCA and CTEA remind me of the flurry of laws passed after the invention of the automobile to stifle it, and prop up the horse and buggy industry. They were futile. File trading, and other new technologies are making copyright law unenforceable, and irrelevant. Soon, copyright will be cast into the dustbin of history where it belongs.
I meant to claim this comment, but I tried to to it from within hotmail, instead of opening another browser window Somehow that didn't work.....
If you publish a novel, most people will want your genuine article, not all the knock-offs which happen anyway, copyright laws or not. Copyright is difficult to enforce, and every time it is successfully enforced, it stifles the progress of science and the useful arts, it doesn't promote them. Thanks to file trading, copyright laws are becoming an exercise in futility. They will soon be irrelevant.
As for wanting to have control, control is an illusion. Once we express an idea, what other people do with it is out of our hands. For example, right here on slashdot, you can make a statement you really feel, and mean seriously. The mods just call it troll or flamebait. You can make as statement that you think adds a lot to a conversation, and it can be ignored. Once an idea is out of our heads, it is out of our hands. We are fooling ourselves to think otherwise.
Also, not being able to say something that has been said before because it is copyrighted, and you would be infringing violated the basic human right of free speech.
Copyright is a anachronism. File trading will soon put it in the dustbin of history where it belongs. An Idea, once expressed, belongs to us all. Those wishing to posess "intellectual property" need only to keep their thoughts in their heads.
This is a somewhat insightful comment, except that Orrin Hatch is in the Senate, not The House of Representatives. More Senators die in office than are voted out.
As for term limits, the same people who would be put out of a job by them would have to vote for them. This, unfortunately, just won't happen.
"IBM's Unix license is irrevocable, perpetual and fully paid up. It cannot be terminated."
But SCO can be terminated, and IBM programmed the Terminators! "Hasta la vista, baybee."
According to the article, Galileo will be based in Brussels. Could it be an information gathering network for the Beast of Belgium that has nothing to do with navigation? That is supposed to be in Brussels, too. One can only wonder.
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The RIAA needs to join the horse-and-buggy industry in the dustbin of history, and we have the power to make it happen. Don't buy CDs.
Indeed! So-called reality shows are the crappiest crap that the idiot box ever crapped out, and they are the only thing on.
You do know that there actually was an invasion on that night. The radio play was just cover. I was in a movie all about it. Kudos to the first person who names that movie!
You may be confusing the program, Spybot Search and Destroy with the term, spybot. Spybots are the very malware that Spybot Search and Destroy removes.
They even found Yellow Cake from Niger!
It said, "Gentlemen: All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha ha ha ha!"
I am a computer tech at a small mom-and-pop TV repair and computer store. I spend most of my time cleaning up systems that have become completely useless because of spyware like, Gator, Bonzi Buddy, Xupiter, Weatherbug, Comet Cursor, the list goes on and on. Sometimes, Lavasoft Ad-aware won't get them all, and I have to use Spybot search and destroy. This crapware was turned the internet into a minefield for the non-technical, who are the majority of computer users. It is a public nusiance. The people who create this stuff are racketeers. Perhaps the people behind all this crapware believe that computers are meant for the techno-elite, and never should have reached the masses. If their goal is to make millions give up on computers, they may be succesful. If only the techno-elite used computers, I would be out of a job, but I might be happier. Cleaning this crap off of hard drives because people need their data instead of just formatting them and reinstalling is making me CRAZY!!
There was a story in The Onion about the RIAA suing radio stations for giving away free music last October. It's not on their site any more, but the text of it, minus pictures is on the Wayback Machine. Check it out!
Yeah! Suing kindly old grandfathers and twelve-year-old girls who live in public housing with their single mothers is PR? The RIAA are worse than the mafia. Don't Buy CDs.
If they replaced the bulbs for the lighted signs on the sides of the Goodyear Blimp with leds, would we call it a Led Zeppelin?
How would Charles Taylor react to that question?
BS: Bullshit MS: More Shit PH.D: Piled higher and deeper
Libraries can lend CDs out because of the first sale principle. When they bought the CD, royalties were paid. Now it is theirs to listen to, lend out, or use as a coaster if that amuses them. If you borrow the CD, and copy it, you are committing copyright infringement, but you are responsible for this, not the library. Don't admit that you do that, and you won't get caught. This is no threat to the RIAA because the teeny pop tenn-age girls adore isn't at the library, just artsy music. Besides, teen girls want to posess tangible things like 'Nsync and Backstreet Boys CDs with pitures of the boys they drool over, and printed lyrics. They can't posess or collect these things if they have to take them back to the library.
What's that like?
Friendster is nice, but I have a lot more fun flaming people at Nemester. Flamewars there rock!
There can be businesses without corporations, such as sole proprietorships, partnerships, and cooperatives. Everone accepts that these entities are things. They have no 'personhood'. Corporations, things that have been given virtual 'personhood' by the law, are frequently monsters. Perhaps a thing that has 'personhood' is a thing that should not be.
I don't see a silver lining coming from the courts or Congress, but from technology. The DMCA and CTEA remind me of the flurry of laws passed after the invention of the automobile to stifle it, and prop up the horse and buggy industry. They were futile. File trading, and other new technologies are making copyright law unenforceable, and irrelevant. Soon, copyright will be cast into the dustbin of history where it belongs.
I meant to claim this comment, but I tried to to it from within hotmail, instead of opening another browser window Somehow that didn't work..... If you publish a novel, most people will want your genuine article, not all the knock-offs which happen anyway, copyright laws or not. Copyright is difficult to enforce, and every time it is successfully enforced, it stifles the progress of science and the useful arts, it doesn't promote them. Thanks to file trading, copyright laws are becoming an exercise in futility. They will soon be irrelevant. As for wanting to have control, control is an illusion. Once we express an idea, what other people do with it is out of our hands. For example, right here on slashdot, you can make a statement you really feel, and mean seriously. The mods just call it troll or flamebait. You can make as statement that you think adds a lot to a conversation, and it can be ignored. Once an idea is out of our heads, it is out of our hands. We are fooling ourselves to think otherwise. Also, not being able to say something that has been said before because it is copyrighted, and you would be infringing violated the basic human right of free speech.
Copyright is a anachronism. File trading will soon put it in the dustbin of history where it belongs. An Idea, once expressed, belongs to us all. Those wishing to posess "intellectual property" need only to keep their thoughts in their heads.
As for term limits, the same people who would be put out of a job by them would have to vote for them. This, unfortunately, just won't happen.
"IBM's Unix license is irrevocable, perpetual and fully paid up. It cannot be terminated." But SCO can be terminated, and IBM programmed the Terminators! "Hasta la vista, baybee."
These robots are totally lame. Why can't they make any cool ones like R2-D2, and C3PO?
According to the article, Galileo will be based in Brussels. Could it be an information gathering network for the Beast of Belgium that has nothing to do with navigation? That is supposed to be in Brussels, too. One can only wonder.
And a bunch of monkeys with typewriters made this website to boot! You just can't ask them to write Shakespeare.
Maybe they will sell models of it at Flag-o-Rama. Isn't that Confeddy Freddy cute?