Theft is removing from someone physical property or actual assets, and is a violation of criminal law.
Copyright infringement is diluting the value of an existing copyright, and depriving someone of *potential* assets. It is, accordingly, a violation of CIVIL law.
They are really two very distinct concepts.
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Larry Niven dealt with a lot of this an essay about why Superman is always free on Saturday night.
It deals more with biology and psychology, but there's a lot of physics involved, too.
As far as copyright goes, I think it would hold up legally; it has in the past for Phoenix, with the IBM BIOS, and for AMD and Cyrix, when they made clones of Intel chips.
Mr. Rose: What business are you in, Google? Just tell me what business you're in!
Peaches: Just say you're in the search business, Google, 'cause that's the only business you wanna be in!
Muddy: Hey Google! Listen, Google! You don't wanna go in the content business with Mr. Rose, man!
Mr Rose: What you wanna do?
Muddy: Just tell him you're in the search business!
Did you do know that a lot (most) of astronomy pictures are shown upside-down? It has been a convention pretty much since they started taking pictures through telescopes.
Interestingly enough, this would cause west to appear on the right in a photograph.
Limb. Look for the definition that says "Astronomy" in front of it.
They aren't talking about installing a speaker and microphone on the outside of a fighter jet (or spaceship), they're talking talking about using sound to represent data from other sensors.
How did you think they were going to pick up any sounds around a jet with a microphone? At a couple of hundred miles an hour, the atmosphere could be accurately descibed as "gale force wind".
YOU CANNOT BREAK THE LAW, EVEN FOR GOOD REASONS! IF YOU DO, EXPECT TO GO TO JAIL!
Rosa Parks broke the law. Gandhi broke the law. Our founding fathers broke the law. They all seem like pretty good reasons to me.
Adrian Lamo does expect to go to jail. He is willing to turn himself in, once he knows what the charges are.
Except that what Adrian Lamo does is find holes, leave some proof of their existence, and then notify the parties concerned.
Eric's case would be parallel if he ordered the food, and then walked into Res. Life with the food in his hand, before he got caught.
You forgot English majors. It's "comprising", not "comprised of".
Sorry. I try to shy away from being a usage nazi, but the distinction between 'comprise' and 'compose' is a valuable one. Unfortunately, people like the sound of the word 'comprise', so its meaning is gradually being conflated with compose.
I don't want to lose another good word to business speak. 'Solution', I weep for thee.
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Interesting fact: Did you know that there is no sanitary handwashing code for shipping clerks? Happy snacking :)
Yeah, they totally should of known better.
Sure, I'll mod you up... whoops.
Nevermind.
Theft is removing from someone physical property or actual assets, and is a violation of criminal law.
Copyright infringement is diluting the value of an existing copyright, and depriving someone of *potential* assets. It is, accordingly, a violation of CIVIL law.
They are really two very distinct concepts.
Larry Niven dealt with a lot of this an essay about why Superman is always free on Saturday night.
It deals more with biology and psychology, but there's a lot of physics involved, too.
As far as copyright goes, I think it would hold up legally; it has in the past for Phoenix, with the IBM BIOS, and for AMD and Cyrix, when they made clones of Intel chips.
That's the whole philosophy behind clean room design.
You are right about the patent issue, though. There's no way around a valid patent.
Only on /. could a post stating that Thai hookers come from Thailand get rated "+1 informative".
Although I do think the sarcasm is funny.
Mr. Rose: What business are you in, Google? Just tell me what business you're in!
Peaches: Just say you're in the search business, Google, 'cause that's the only business you wanna be in!
Muddy: Hey Google! Listen, Google! You don't wanna go in the content business with Mr. Rose, man!
Mr Rose: What you wanna do?
Muddy: Just tell him you're in the search business!
If you want a C&D letter from Microsoft, you can get one for the cost of a domain registration, if you want. www.myghkrosopht.com
So the entire fields of technical writing, marketing, art, graphic design, etc are all useless?
You had me until "marketing".
Thank goodnes we don't have anything like that here:
Bostonian: Paahk the caah neah Haavaahd Yaahd.
Translation: Stow the automobile in the proximity of Harvard Yard.
Alabaman: Djeetchet? Yompto?
Translation: Have you recently ingested food? Are you desirous of such?
Now all I need is a cardboard box in a Tokyo subway station and some VR goggles and I'll be set.
Did you do know that a lot (most) of astronomy pictures are shown upside-down? It has been a convention pretty much since they started taking pictures through telescopes.
Interestingly enough, this would cause west to appear on the right in a photograph.
Limb. Look for the definition that says "Astronomy" in front of it.
Sarge didn't win for best office assistant.
"Where do you want to go today, dirtbag?"
Dude! They're giving out rusty pliers, too? Man, I've gotta get cracking!
HAH! In Soviet Russia, melted chocolate overlords welcome YOU!
RTFA
They aren't talking about installing a speaker and microphone on the outside of a fighter jet (or spaceship), they're talking talking about using sound to represent data from other sensors.
How did you think they were going to pick up any sounds around a jet with a microphone? At a couple of hundred miles an hour, the atmosphere could be accurately descibed as "gale force wind".
YOU CANNOT BREAK THE LAW, EVEN FOR GOOD REASONS! IF YOU DO, EXPECT TO GO TO JAIL!
Rosa Parks broke the law. Gandhi broke the law. Our founding fathers broke the law. They all seem like pretty good reasons to me.
Adrian Lamo does expect to go to jail. He is willing to turn himself in, once he knows what the charges are.
Except that what Adrian Lamo does is find holes, leave some proof of their existence, and then notify the parties concerned.
Eric's case would be parallel if he ordered the food, and then walked into Res. Life with the food in his hand, before he got caught.
Drinking beer exclusively is always a good plan.
I see that you have never woken up at 3 in the afternoon after a long night of drinking "mystery shots".
Mmmm... Shepherd's pie.
Along with real chips.
Just adding fuel to the fire.
You forgot English majors. It's "comprising", not "comprised of". Sorry. I try to shy away from being a usage nazi, but the distinction between 'comprise' and 'compose' is a valuable one. Unfortunately, people like the sound of the word 'comprise', so its meaning is gradually being conflated with compose. I don't want to lose another good word to business speak. 'Solution', I weep for thee.
I think the analogy he was going for was the RIAA. At least, that's the way I read it.