Keep it in your bloody head then and shut up. I can personally build anything you can build if you don't sic lawyers on me first.
Furthermore, no one demands anything of copyright holders. They just go about their business doing as they please until the copyright holder shows up with a lawyer saying "You can't invent the telephone, I invented it first so you've gotta buy it from me. All of you. And your kids. And their kids. Your great grandchildren can do as they please. Until we change the laws again, of course..."
But it's interesting that you choose Bell... if he hadn't invented the telephone, it would have been invented by Edison within a few years time. He was employed by Western Union attempting to complete this project at the time.
If neither of them had invented it, someone else would have. The fact they got there first is no reason for the rest of mankind to pay a levy or do without.
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This is mostly old tech now, but it still plays DVDs, plays DivX5/AC3 spanned across up to 3CDs for highest quality, holds 70GB of MP3s, surfs web, checks mail, plays 3d shooters, emulates every console and arcade game EVER, captures, timeshifts, does slideshows off my digicam, supports my universal remote, and is simple enough for my wife to use.
Just a quick comment to all those ppl out there who are too thick to see the utility of this (expiry or no):
It's for sending thing's across a network. Which means you send it, recieve it, and unencrypt it. Then it's done it's job.
How irresponsible would they be to leave beta encryption sitting around in use? They've prevented those too thick to ditch the beta from harming themselves... good job PGP.
Simple. Cheap secure online voting will allow more referendums. Referendum is the only true democracy.
It will allow individuals to propose bills, have them ratified by the population and put into law without the possibility of influence by special interest groups.
What a moronic comment. Open souce software will earn you plenty of money IF SOMEONE HIRES YOU TO BUILD IT.
Businessman - "I need this problem fixed. There isn't any software (open or otherwise) that does what I need."
Programmer - "I'll fix it for you. I'll be using a bunch of open source code in my solution. This will save you time and money. Once the solution is done, you can use it for as long as you need, you just can't sell it. It will take x months to finish and cost x."
Businessman - "Sounds good."
Is this too complex for you? It may be... you seem a little thick...
The answers simple. Economic sanctions against Israel, economic sanctions against the United States. Not to be ceased until they have disarmed themselves of weapons of mass destruction and destroyed their munitions factories.
Humans are much more adaptable to climate change than most other plants and animals. But with 6 billion+ mouths to feed, its not quite clear how we'd adapt to a climatic problem of this kind of scale.
Communism and democracy are not mutually exclusive, dimwit. You can have a democratic communist society just as easily as you can have a democratic capitalist society.
As a matter of fact, a communist democracy would be far superior to any government currently in existance. It would be communal resources (no money, no poverty and no idle rich wasting vast amounts of resources generated by other peoples labour) combined with democratic rule.
Everything bad about the current state of the western world can be traced back to capitalism. The rise of large corporates with huge amounts of capital restricts freedom and corrupts democracy.
Want an example of a communist democratic society?
The gist of the thing is that there are no telcos, no land lines, just wireless. You're not giving away anything, aside from having your hardware switch packets, just like everything else. In exchange, you're getting free service, just like everyone else.
This looks so cool, but I must say, I've got my doubts about a carrier technology that is so vulnerable to interference being able to take out telcos who have the most powerful interference-generating machines on earth. It wouldn't take much to knock down the network, and the telcos and the government have their hands deep in each others pockets.
For that matter, it would be pretty easy for anyone with a beef to jam things up.
Between the greedy people, the stupid people and the malicious people...
I had this problem at work until I learned to make it work for me...
1) Don't express launch dates as dates, no matter what. Express them as dedicated weeks of work.
2) When bug-fixes/feature creep occur, indicate that the work will take 3 times as long as it will actually take.
3) Require manager to sign off everything you do that distracts you from your current project before you touch it.
In this fashion, you can reach a point where as far as management is concerned, you have been making zero progress on your core project because they told you to do these other tasks, while in actuality, you're getting ahead of your "adjusted" schedule. And if it starts to get too much for you, you have some accounted for hours to look at porn on the company paycheck.
If you can learn to do something creative that you can do by yourself where delivery is measured in weeks or months. That is the first step. What that thing is depends on what you're good at or like.
If you can find a business that regularly requires what you can deliver, that's the second step. You may not have much flexibility until you establish trust, but this is your first client.
Once you establish trust (the third step), you can work from wherever you want as long as you deliver on schedule.
The final step is looking for more clients, earning you more money and more security.
Congratulations! You're a contractor in business for yourself!
If you are, work as many hours as you can, you lazy bastard!
If you're not, tell em to get fucked, this isn't what you signed on for!
And tell em if you work long hours, you reserve the right to call in "sick of working" when you need to.
Its possible to sustain long hours for long periods, as long when your body tells you that you've hit the wall, you listen. If you don't listen, you fall apart/go nuts.
Not being American (thank god) this may already exist without my knowing, although I doubt it...
The answer to this problem, before it gets out of control, is to regulate the airspace. Have it, or a portion of it, officially designated public (ie not commercial) airspace.
Then the commercial enterprises can duke it out with each other without tromping on public services
I've got lungs, and I'm proud of it.
I've got legs and arms, and I'm proud of it.
I've got toenails on all my toes, and I'm proud of it.
I eat food, and I'm proud of it.
My point? What fucking reason do you have to be proud of being a whitebread wop kike nigger fag from the north-north-east side of the planet? If you're proud of these things, you're either a racist, a homo/heterophobe, or possibly both.
Want to kill pride? Apply it to everyone from the most magnificent to the most useless. Raise a few generations on that sort of politically correct double-speak and see what a useless bunch you get.
"I don't have to work hard and succeed to be proud... its my god-given right to be proud just as I am! Now give me my welfare check, I have to meet my buddies down at the bar"
Bottom line: You're not entitled to be proud. You have to earn it. A growing number of sorry sacks of meat out there dont deserve to be proud, and if they buy into your line of bullshit, they never will.
My understanding of the way this system works is that the authour of a piece of media will be able to revoke ppls rights to use it remotely. What needs to happen is for someone to hack some major source of media, and wipe out everyones media. Once this happens, people will refuse to buy the hardware.
If you could wipe out a few multinationals and a few important government departments, that would help bring us all together, "consumers" and government alike.
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If Linus hadn't chosen to GPL his kernel, Linux would not exist. Something else, however, would exist in its place.
Keep it in your bloody head then and shut up. I can personally build anything you can build if you don't sic lawyers on me first. Furthermore, no one demands anything of copyright holders. They just go about their business doing as they please until the copyright holder shows up with a lawyer saying "You can't invent the telephone, I invented it first so you've gotta buy it from me. All of you. And your kids. And their kids. Your great grandchildren can do as they please. Until we change the laws again, of course..."
But it's interesting that you choose Bell... if he hadn't invented the telephone, it would have been invented by Edison within a few years time. He was employed by Western Union attempting to complete this project at the time.
If neither of them had invented it, someone else would have. The fact they got there first is no reason for the rest of mankind to pay a levy or do without.
Oh, and it's full of digital rights: MINE
I'm posting this comment from the sofa on it.
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2 x 256MB PC133 RAM
40G Western Digital Caviar HD (VIA - Primary Master)
Lite-On 40x12x40 CD-RW (VIA - Secondary Master)
60G Seagate Barracuda ATA IV HD (Promise - Primary Master)
Pioneer DVD-ROM DVD116 (Promise - Primary Slave)
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Logitech Freedom Optical Keyboard/Mouse
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Homemade Remote Reciever (Serial Ports obsolete, eh?)
This is mostly old tech now, but it still plays DVDs, plays DivX5/AC3 spanned across up to 3CDs for highest quality, holds 70GB of MP3s, surfs web, checks mail, plays 3d shooters, emulates every console and arcade game EVER, captures, timeshifts, does slideshows off my digicam, supports my universal remote, and is simple enough for my wife to use.
Microsoft and HP can keep their crap.
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Just a quick comment to all those ppl out there who are too thick to see the utility of this (expiry or no):
It's for sending thing's across a network. Which means you send it, recieve it, and unencrypt it. Then it's done it's job.
How irresponsible would they be to leave beta encryption sitting around in use? They've prevented those too thick to ditch the beta from harming themselves... good job PGP.
But that's the american way!
Simple. Cheap secure online voting will allow more referendums. Referendum is the only true democracy.
It will allow individuals to propose bills, have them ratified by the population and put into law without the possibility of influence by special interest groups.
Beats the hell out of anything around now.
What a moronic comment. Open souce software will earn you plenty of money IF SOMEONE HIRES YOU TO BUILD IT.
Businessman - "I need this problem fixed. There isn't any software (open or otherwise) that does what I need."
Programmer - "I'll fix it for you. I'll be using a bunch of open source code in my solution. This will save you time and money. Once the solution is done, you can use it for as long as you need, you just can't sell it. It will take x months to finish and cost x."
Businessman - "Sounds good."
Is this too complex for you? It may be... you seem a little thick...
The answers simple. Economic sanctions against Israel, economic sanctions against the United States. Not to be ceased until they have disarmed themselves of weapons of mass destruction and destroyed their munitions factories.
Communism and democracy are not mutually exclusive, dimwit. You can have a democratic communist society just as easily as you can have a democratic capitalist society.
As a matter of fact, a communist democracy would be far superior to any government currently in existance. It would be communal resources (no money, no poverty and no idle rich wasting vast amounts of resources generated by other peoples labour) combined with democratic rule.
Everything bad about the current state of the western world can be traced back to capitalism. The rise of large corporates with huge amounts of capital restricts freedom and corrupts democracy.
Want an example of a communist democratic society?
Star Trek
The gist of the thing is that there are no telcos, no land lines, just wireless. You're not giving away anything, aside from having your hardware switch packets, just like everything else. In exchange, you're getting free service, just like everyone else.
This looks so cool, but I must say, I've got my doubts about a carrier technology that is so vulnerable to interference being able to take out telcos who have the most powerful interference-generating machines on earth. It wouldn't take much to knock down the network, and the telcos and the government have their hands deep in each others pockets.
For that matter, it would be pretty easy for anyone with a beef to jam things up.
Between the greedy people, the stupid people and the malicious people...
I had this problem at work until I learned to make it work for me...
1) Don't express launch dates as dates, no matter what. Express them as dedicated weeks of work.
2) When bug-fixes/feature creep occur, indicate that the work will take 3 times as long as it will actually take.
3) Require manager to sign off everything you do that distracts you from your current project before you touch it.
In this fashion, you can reach a point where as far as management is concerned, you have been making zero progress on your core project because they told you to do these other tasks, while in actuality, you're getting ahead of your "adjusted" schedule. And if it starts to get too much for you, you have some accounted for hours to look at porn on the company paycheck.
You sound like Americans.
If you can learn to do something creative that you can do by yourself where delivery is measured in weeks or months. That is the first step. What that thing is depends on what you're good at or like.
If you can find a business that regularly requires what you can deliver, that's the second step. You may not have much flexibility until you establish trust, but this is your first client.
Once you establish trust (the third step), you can work from wherever you want as long as you deliver on schedule.
The final step is looking for more clients, earning you more money and more security.
Congratulations! You're a contractor in business for yourself!
(I'm working on step 4)
If you are, work as many hours as you can, you lazy bastard! If you're not, tell em to get fucked, this isn't what you signed on for! And tell em if you work long hours, you reserve the right to call in "sick of working" when you need to. Its possible to sustain long hours for long periods, as long when your body tells you that you've hit the wall, you listen. If you don't listen, you fall apart/go nuts.
Early games were released shareware by people who enjoyed making them. What a strange idea... making something to make it.
Not being American (thank god) this may already exist without my knowing, although I doubt it... The answer to this problem, before it gets out of control, is to regulate the airspace. Have it, or a portion of it, officially designated public (ie not commercial) airspace. Then the commercial enterprises can duke it out with each other without tromping on public services
I've got lungs, and I'm proud of it.
I've got legs and arms, and I'm proud of it.
I've got toenails on all my toes, and I'm proud of it.
I eat food, and I'm proud of it.
My point? What fucking reason do you have to be proud of being a whitebread wop kike nigger fag from the north-north-east side of the planet? If you're proud of these things, you're either a racist, a homo/heterophobe, or possibly both.
Want to kill pride? Apply it to everyone from the most magnificent to the most useless. Raise a few generations on that sort of politically correct double-speak and see what a useless bunch you get.
"I don't have to work hard and succeed to be proud... its my god-given right to be proud just as I am! Now give me my welfare check, I have to meet my buddies down at the bar"
Bottom line: You're not entitled to be proud. You have to earn it. A growing number of sorry sacks of meat out there dont deserve to be proud, and if they buy into your line of bullshit, they never will.
My understanding of the way this system works is that the authour of a piece of media will be able to revoke ppls rights to use it remotely. What needs to happen is for someone to hack some major source of media, and wipe out everyones media. Once this happens, people will refuse to buy the hardware. If you could wipe out a few multinationals and a few important government departments, that would help bring us all together, "consumers" and government alike.