Mickey Mouse is a bad example, since he's a trademark.
His older movies are copyright, and should be public domain by now, but noone but Disney would ever be able to use the image of Mickey Mouse in any derivative work.
Maybe some director want's to use some old song in his '50s era gangster epic.
Hell, stuff like Chuck Berry, Elvis, Beatles, Buddy Holly, Hendrix... That'll always be profitable.
How much is Brockheimer (sp?) paying to use those Who songs as the theme for his umpteen billion CSI spinoffs?
The stuff that isn't well known or popular... Who knows? Society is weird, all of a sudden some obscure song from 1961 is the biggest dance craze of 2005.
Even if it's worth no more than a nickel, they don't want to take the chance of losing it.
It doesn't cost them anything to keep they copyrights for decades or centuries.
Perhaps if it did, things would change. They'd have to decide, song by song, which are worth holding onto. But, if holding copyrights are a financial burden to the holder, it'd bar regular folks from the same protection that rich folks or corporations have.
It says that if the 2004 model comes with leather seats with built-in asswarmers, they have no plans to retrofit those built-in asswarmers into older models.
Basically, the new IE with it's new features (pop up blocking, etc) is only available under XP. It doesn't say that there won't be security patches for 2000.
2000 is still under support, and MS is still obligated by billions in support contracts to maintain it.
This is just slashbot FUD. There is no good bullshit. Pro-Linux/Anti-MS bullshit is as smelly as Pro-Windows/Anti-Linux bullshit.
Microsoft this week reiterated that it would keep the new version of Microsoft's IE Web browser available only as part of the recently released Windows XP operating system, Service Pack 2.
Only the new version of the browser is available under XP Service Pack 2, for architectural reasons the other OS's lack (NoExecute and whatever else).
It says nowhere they won't provide patches for the most current IE's available under 2000.
The new IE only runs under XP SP 2. You also need to upgrade if you want true HT support, BTW.
The US never needed it. We've always had flat-rate local phone dialing, so modems took off here. There were plenty of services to dial into, many of them free. Some not, but the prices were never that high. Probably comparable to your "TV Tax".
What was Commodores service called? Q-Link? Koala-Link? It was something like that. It was friggin cool, it was like the internet just for C-64s.
So while UK'ers were glued to their CeeFax screens, I was dialing into various BBS's and information services.
I don't use any of the P2P filesharing apps, the combination of ftp and knowing the right people worked before, it works still, and it'll work 10 years from now after congress has laid down 90000 laws specific to "P2P networks".
I don't know how better informed they could be. The rating system is prominent on the package, and easy to understand, no signs or brochures needed.
I mean, the box for GTA3 has a hooker and a pimp and other thugs on it, has a giant M for mature, under which it says "Realistic Blood and Gore" "Adult situations" and "Foul language", or something close to that.
Who looks at that and thinks "this sounds like a great present for my 4 year old nephew"?
The movie industry survived without special laws. Noone was stupid enough to think that Scarface was a good movie for little kids.
Know what it's about? Get out your tinfoil hat. The video game industry has surpassed the movie industry in sales. It's imperative that the MPAA cut it's hamstrings, or do something to slow it down. More people have played "Chronicles of Riddick" on XBox than have seen the movie.
Not that I'm suggesting that Arnold Shwarzenegger has any ties to the movie industry, or anything like that.
Try to make it more of a pain in the ass to buy video games, just maybe people will spend their entertainment bucks on DVDs instead.
It proves they go to their favorite hacker website, download some proof of concept code, and wrap some VBScript around it.
I wouldn't call Sasser a work of genious, but a work of pure assholery. He didn't invent something, or do it to prove a point. The point was proven, the exploit was known. He did it to be a 1337 h4x0r.
I think the fact that these teens exist is a result of their own stupidity. Guess what, you want to commit crimes for attention, it just might fuck your entire life up.
Try and get a job in retail with a shoplifting conviction. Try and get a job as a kindergarten teacher with an assault conviction. Try and get anywhere in politics with virually any conviction greater than a traffic violation.
Boo hoo for teens too stupid to realize actions have consequences, sometimes life long consequences. And I'm sick of people blaming "the education system" or "society".
This kid was mentally developed enough to know what he was doing was wrong, and did it anyways. He's lucky to be offered a job doing anything more technical than digging holes in the dirt.
A security company might benefit from his experience, or even just the marketting angle "the best hackers work for us!"
In the field I'm in, he'd be a liability. We do government stuff, relating to law enforcement, and while we're not a bunch of angels, we don't want any skeletons in our closet either.
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Mickey Mouse is a bad example, since he's a trademark.
His older movies are copyright, and should be public domain by now, but noone but Disney would ever be able to use the image of Mickey Mouse in any derivative work.
an official kicked him in the back: a Russian launch tradition
What? Kicking ass is a proud American tradition with a long history. This is just an example of the westernization of Russia.
No toilets? Wouldn't that make for a really shitty space program?
You had to upgrade from 2.4, didn't you?
Sure, they can be profitable.
Maybe some director want's to use some old song in his '50s era gangster epic.
Hell, stuff like Chuck Berry, Elvis, Beatles, Buddy Holly, Hendrix... That'll always be profitable.
How much is Brockheimer (sp?) paying to use those Who songs as the theme for his umpteen billion CSI spinoffs?
The stuff that isn't well known or popular... Who knows? Society is weird, all of a sudden some obscure song from 1961 is the biggest dance craze of 2005.
Even if it's worth no more than a nickel, they don't want to take the chance of losing it.
It doesn't cost them anything to keep they copyrights for decades or centuries.
Perhaps if it did, things would change. They'd have to decide, song by song, which are worth holding onto. But, if holding copyrights are a financial burden to the holder, it'd bar regular folks from the same protection that rich folks or corporations have.
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It makes complete sense.
Ford is including OnStar in lots of its vehicles. They haven't showed up to install it in the 1978 Ranger I use to tear around in the fields.
Slashdot, in it's "we hate MS" fervor has resorted to all-out bullshit. They lie worse than MS's marketting department.
No, that's not what the article says at all.
It says that if the 2004 model comes with leather seats with built-in asswarmers, they have no plans to retrofit those built-in asswarmers into older models.
Basically, the new IE with it's new features (pop up blocking, etc) is only available under XP. It doesn't say that there won't be security patches for 2000.
2000 is still under support, and MS is still obligated by billions in support contracts to maintain it.
This is just slashbot FUD. There is no good bullshit. Pro-Linux/Anti-MS bullshit is as smelly as Pro-Windows/Anti-Linux bullshit.
First fucking line of the article.
Microsoft this week reiterated that it would keep the new version of Microsoft's IE Web browser available only as part of the recently released Windows XP operating system, Service Pack 2.
Only the new version of the browser is available under XP Service Pack 2, for architectural reasons the other OS's lack (NoExecute and whatever else).
It says nowhere they won't provide patches for the most current IE's available under 2000.
The new IE only runs under XP SP 2. You also need to upgrade if you want true HT support, BTW.
The US never needed it. We've always had flat-rate local phone dialing, so modems took off here. There were plenty of services to dial into, many of them free. Some not, but the prices were never that high. Probably comparable to your "TV Tax".
What was Commodores service called? Q-Link? Koala-Link? It was something like that. It was friggin cool, it was like the internet just for C-64s.
So while UK'ers were glued to their CeeFax screens, I was dialing into various BBS's and information services.
"Out of band" would mean not within the bandwidth of the channel itself. SAP is broadcast "out of band", IIRC.
Look at the last picture on the page, from your first link.
Is that what I think it is? It looks like a Commodore 64 era money shot!
The mild regime of IP protection in the past has led to a very innovative and competitive software industry (in the EU)
Why have most new software products and the corps that rule the software world been based in the US or Japan?
Maybe, just maybe, there is something to this "financial incentive" business that patents bring to the table.
They don't, most use eDonkey. This is slashdot and that line was just the manditory plug for some gpl'ed bullshit.
eDonkey sucks. It's slow and I've never completed a download on it, even when it's "available" from like 100s of people.
P2P sucks. Give me a good private ftp site any day.
There's some non-copyright stuff out there.
I don't use any of the P2P filesharing apps, the combination of ftp and knowing the right people worked before, it works still, and it'll work 10 years from now after congress has laid down 90000 laws specific to "P2P networks".
Then everyone with Tourrettes (sp?) syndrome will start getting bogus takedown notices.
That's because the PS2 linux dev kit is warez.
Yeah, boo-hoo downloading obscure warez on P2P is slow.
I don't know how better informed they could be. The rating system is prominent on the package, and easy to understand, no signs or brochures needed.
I mean, the box for GTA3 has a hooker and a pimp and other thugs on it, has a giant M for mature, under which it says "Realistic Blood and Gore" "Adult situations" and "Foul language", or something close to that.
Who looks at that and thinks "this sounds like a great present for my 4 year old nephew"?
The movie industry survived without special laws. Noone was stupid enough to think that Scarface was a good movie for little kids.
Know what it's about? Get out your tinfoil hat. The video game industry has surpassed the movie industry in sales. It's imperative that the MPAA cut it's hamstrings, or do something to slow it down. More people have played "Chronicles of Riddick" on XBox than have seen the movie.
Not that I'm suggesting that Arnold Shwarzenegger has any ties to the movie industry, or anything like that.
Try to make it more of a pain in the ass to buy video games, just maybe people will spend their entertainment bucks on DVDs instead.
Just a thought.
Governor and video game star Arnold Schwarzenegger
Video game star? What video game was he in besides T2: Arcade?
Sure, stratjakt@hotmail.com. Come get me RIAA!
How could they expect to enforce this in other states, let alone other nations?
What's with California? Do they think they're the worlds government or something?
Yet, all the new internet laws seem to be popping up in California. That place is the land of the batshit crazy freaks.
That'd be nice if you have the manpower or spare time to babysit all your employees.
I don't and nor does anyone in this office, if theres any question of trust around here, you're out on your ass.
You don't necessarily need TS/SCI to work for the NSA. Of course, not having it certainly limits how far you can go.
Everyone on my wifes side of the family is some form of NSA spook. The grandparent article was pure horseshit, too.
It doesn't necessarily prove any talent at all.
It proves they go to their favorite hacker website, download some proof of concept code, and wrap some VBScript around it.
I wouldn't call Sasser a work of genious, but a work of pure assholery. He didn't invent something, or do it to prove a point. The point was proven, the exploit was known. He did it to be a 1337 h4x0r.
I think the fact that these teens exist is a result of their own stupidity. Guess what, you want to commit crimes for attention, it just might fuck your entire life up.
Try and get a job in retail with a shoplifting conviction. Try and get a job as a kindergarten teacher with an assault conviction. Try and get anywhere in politics with virually any conviction greater than a traffic violation.
Boo hoo for teens too stupid to realize actions have consequences, sometimes life long consequences. And I'm sick of people blaming "the education system" or "society".
This kid was mentally developed enough to know what he was doing was wrong, and did it anyways. He's lucky to be offered a job doing anything more technical than digging holes in the dirt.
It's PR for the company. "We're the experts in security! We hired the kid who wrote the biggest worms evar!".
The fact that writing the worm took no skill won't be in the marketting literature, and most PHBs won't know.
A security company might benefit from his experience, or even just the marketting angle "the best hackers work for us!"
In the field I'm in, he'd be a liability. We do government stuff, relating to law enforcement, and while we're not a bunch of angels, we don't want any skeletons in our closet either.