In their appeal, movie-studio and recording-industry plaintiffs argued that if the court does not reverse Wilson's ruling, "it will gravely threaten any possibility for meaningful copyright protection in the digital era."
I don't think "meaningful" is what they're after. How about "totalitarian" or "draconian" for adjectives, guys? You've far exceeded the realm of just "meaningful." I don't think suing 12-year-olds and senior citizens has a whole lot to do with meaning.
How about Apple's release of countless models of Macintosh systems in the mid-90s, all with unique proprietary hardware configurations, causing stores nationwide to drop support and driving Apple to the brink of bankruptcy? I'd bet half of the death predictions for Apple fell within that time period.
A "Sundance Channel of video games" sounds intriguing, but is there really a market for that sort of thing? OSS games are one thing, but would people be willing to pay for what are essentially going to be no-name games (by comparison to Resident Evil, Half-Life 2, Halo, etc.) and have them distributed via the DRMed-up-the-wazoo methods Infinium originally mentioned? Don't get me wrong-I'm all for giving small-time developers a way to get their stuff out, but...they really might be better off just releasing their stuff as shareware or under the GPL and remaining in the tried-and-true PC world.
IANAL, but it seems to me like this really has more to do with stealing bandwidth than copyright-related issues. Yeah, I guess I'm being mindlessly pedantic, but at least trying to stop bandwidth theft is a little more justifiable than what the DMCA aims to do. It's not quite as innovation-stifling or draconian, though I still am left with an uneasy feeling about it.
Oh, and I do believe I read that firewalls and NAT boxes --WOULD-- now be allowed under the rewritten bill. Doesn't matter though, uneasy feeling's still there. I'm kinda glad I don't live in Tennessee right now...
Greeeeeat. This thing looks like the precursor to the individualised advertising in Minority Report. Couple this with RFIDs, sold-to-highest-bidder advertising slots and rights, and it's a marketer's dream come true. Pity it may well be a privacy advocate's worst nightmare.
The possibilities for pr0n-related use are endless. Imagine, stand inside a giant one curled into a ring and just tell Mom to ignore any strange comments she hears about Natalie Portman for the next two hours.
Hmm...there've been a lot of comments about Rowe selling out to Microsoft and caving into corporate bribery and pressure, but what would he truly have gained by keeping his website?
Don't get me wrong, lord knows I'm no fan of Microsoft, but...really the only value of that domain in particular was the humor of the name. He could very easily migrate his files to another site, keep everything he had from the previous site, and maybe host it on his Xbox after he installed Linux and Apache on it:-P
And while an MCSE isn't my first certification of choice, are not all opportunities for gaining knowledge opportunities to be taken advantage of? At the very least, having an MCSE would help him to "know the enemy."
Most emulators provide some way of moving data back and forth from the emulated environment to the "real world" and back again. If you need to transfer something, just verify that it isn't a virus, move it to your production environment (via shared folders or, in VPC's case, simple drag-and-drop), and you're done. Happy sending!
Wait a minute, wait a minute...he ran the school's network and accrued a GPA of higher than 4.0? And you don't see ANY POSSIBLE CONNECTION? Oh, he didn't use the keylogger to spy, suuuuuuuure...:-P
Sneaky student or not, though, this man is a saint.
The answer, or rather, question, may be simpler than expected. Should these be issues at all? The Internet has the potential to be the ultimate even ground for peoples of all race, color, and mentality to communicate and be heard just as loud as the proverbial next guy. The more regulation there is, the harder it becomes for such a vision to become reality. Yes, there are such things as t3h pr0n and abominations like goatse, but ideally a system would eventually arise that permits people to filter for themselves what they would see-this is to say that it would be automated somehow, as obviously anyone can filter what their own eyes see simply by choosing whether or not to hit Enter after typing a URL.
Censorship is something to be treated very, very carefully. And we're living in a world right now where all too many people are overeager to jump on the censorship train and start filtering everything under the sun. Be careful, or else you might wind up filtering the sun as well, and where would the light come from then?
It'll be interesting to see what the future holds for Red Hat, though, as well as a few other things. With Win98SE losing its support come June and RH9 come April, I wonder how many will migrate to something different and how many will stick it out, hoping nothing catastrophic happens to their legacy platform of choice.
Will others take note of this and follow suit? Exactly how successful does this have to be, in terms of number of songs sold or amount of revenue generated, before other services will reconsider their business practices and drop WMA for MP3/OGG/insert-codec-of-choice-here, axe the DRemember-R-is-for-RestrictionsM, change prices, or any combination of the above? Given enough success, this could be the start of a revolution, or it could be just one bastion of sensibility in a desert of corporate lunacy.
I'll resist making an Ellen Feiss "switcher" joke here...
OK, no I won't. "And the server was like, bleep, and I was like, huh? But then I got a Mac, and never suffered the Slashdot Effect again. I'm Ellen, and I'm an Internet culture phenomenon."
Well, you could always try it, but you really should consult a medical professional about it first. We here at/. could doubtless explain to you the subtle nuances of neural feedback technology, perhaps even reverse-engineer it for you, but only you, your child, and a doctor are qualified to determine what's right in your scenario.
That said, I do agree with the poster saying that AD/H/D is not a real disorder. We live in a society that celebrates mediocrity and conformity, and both myself and many I knew were "diagnosed" with this "disorder" as a result of our general tendencies to think very, very differently from other children (hmm, perhaps why I use a Macintosh?:-P ) If you think this is going to cause physical health problems, though, then it should go without saying that you should seek professional advice. But do seriously weigh the pros and cons of your choices before pursuing "treatment" when her condition may not even deserve to be called a disorder in the first place.
At any rate, best of luck to you all.
Indeed, this is great news. And this is one copyright I won't mind respecting:-)
It's good to see a company with its head screwed on straight, who can acknowledge when its time to move on from old wares and just let them go, instead of clinging to everything it's ever had its hands in, even when it's obviously pointless to do so.
OK, if I read right, the article stated that there were no grounds for the suit because the entertainment studios had pledged not to sue over commercial skipping and sharing, and have so far upheld their promise.
So it seems to me that no real harm has been done here, despite the knee-jerk reaction to view any EFF endeavours being shot down as a bad thing.
At least it's good to see that the studios have actually been behaving themselves. And honestly, is the commercial-skipping and file-sharing going to hurt them all that much? So far I get the impression that ReplayTV/TiVo/insert-DVR-of-choice-here is still something of a niche market. At least far more so than PCs, which are far more "dangerous" in terms of piracy, now are.
Maybe the Deep Thought supercomputer will be played by Virginia Tech's Power Mac G5 cluster! I'm sure Apple would state that if any computer can tell us the meaning of life, it's the G5. How's 'bout it, guys?
Whatever happens, it's good to see that at least someone is standing fast against the Microsoft juggernaut. This is looking to be very good for the OSS movement.
Not likely to be catastrophic to Microsoft, but at least it might knock them down a peg...please?
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Easy, just have 'em make a game out of Excel Saga. That sucking sound you hear is any and all sensibility being vacuumed out into space.
In their appeal, movie-studio and recording-industry plaintiffs argued that if the court does not reverse Wilson's ruling, "it will gravely threaten any possibility for meaningful copyright protection in the digital era."
I don't think "meaningful" is what they're after. How about "totalitarian" or "draconian" for adjectives, guys? You've far exceeded the realm of just "meaningful." I don't think suing 12-year-olds and senior citizens has a whole lot to do with meaning.
Sony did call the CPU of the PS2 the "Emotion Engine." I wonder if this is what they had in mind?
How about Microsoft for... No, this is too easy. I'll let someone else fill in the blank.
How about Apple's release of countless models of Macintosh systems in the mid-90s, all with unique proprietary hardware configurations, causing stores nationwide to drop support and driving Apple to the brink of bankruptcy? I'd bet half of the death predictions for Apple fell within that time period.
Should've been "oh, wait, that XP." Too much time on the phpBB boards. *sigh* There goes my "funny" mod...
Oh, God, NO! Not in OSS, you can't taint it like that!
Oh, wait, [i]that[/i] XP! Oh, okay, I feel better now. Phew...you had me scared for a minute there.
A "Sundance Channel of video games" sounds intriguing, but is there really a market for that sort of thing? OSS games are one thing, but would people be willing to pay for what are essentially going to be no-name games (by comparison to Resident Evil, Half-Life 2, Halo, etc.) and have them distributed via the DRMed-up-the-wazoo methods Infinium originally mentioned? Don't get me wrong-I'm all for giving small-time developers a way to get their stuff out, but...they really might be better off just releasing their stuff as shareware or under the GPL and remaining in the tried-and-true PC world.
IANAL, but it seems to me like this really has more to do with stealing bandwidth than copyright-related issues. Yeah, I guess I'm being mindlessly pedantic, but at least trying to stop bandwidth theft is a little more justifiable than what the DMCA aims to do. It's not quite as innovation-stifling or draconian, though I still am left with an uneasy feeling about it.
Oh, and I do believe I read that firewalls and NAT boxes --WOULD-- now be allowed under the rewritten bill. Doesn't matter though, uneasy feeling's still there. I'm kinda glad I don't live in Tennessee right now...
Greeeeeat. This thing looks like the precursor to the individualised advertising in Minority Report. Couple this with RFIDs, sold-to-highest-bidder advertising slots and rights, and it's a marketer's dream come true. Pity it may well be a privacy advocate's worst nightmare.
The possibilities for pr0n-related use are endless. Imagine, stand inside a giant one curled into a ring and just tell Mom to ignore any strange comments she hears about Natalie Portman for the next two hours.
Hmm...there've been a lot of comments about Rowe selling out to Microsoft and caving into corporate bribery and pressure, but what would he truly have gained by keeping his website?
:-P
Don't get me wrong, lord knows I'm no fan of Microsoft, but...really the only value of that domain in particular was the humor of the name. He could very easily migrate his files to another site, keep everything he had from the previous site, and maybe host it on his Xbox after he installed Linux and Apache on it
And while an MCSE isn't my first certification of choice, are not all opportunities for gaining knowledge opportunities to be taken advantage of? At the very least, having an MCSE would help him to "know the enemy."
Just this geek's $0.02 worth of food for thought.
Most emulators provide some way of moving data back and forth from the emulated environment to the "real world" and back again. If you need to transfer something, just verify that it isn't a virus, move it to your production environment (via shared folders or, in VPC's case, simple drag-and-drop), and you're done. Happy sending!
Wait a minute, wait a minute...he ran the school's network and accrued a GPA of higher than 4.0? And you don't see ANY POSSIBLE CONNECTION? Oh, he didn't use the keylogger to spy, suuuuuuuure... :-P
Sneaky student or not, though, this man is a saint.
The answer, or rather, question, may be simpler than expected. Should these be issues at all? The Internet has the potential to be the ultimate even ground for peoples of all race, color, and mentality to communicate and be heard just as loud as the proverbial next guy. The more regulation there is, the harder it becomes for such a vision to become reality. Yes, there are such things as t3h pr0n and abominations like goatse, but ideally a system would eventually arise that permits people to filter for themselves what they would see-this is to say that it would be automated somehow, as obviously anyone can filter what their own eyes see simply by choosing whether or not to hit Enter after typing a URL.
Censorship is something to be treated very, very carefully. And we're living in a world right now where all too many people are overeager to jump on the censorship train and start filtering everything under the sun. Be careful, or else you might wind up filtering the sun as well, and where would the light come from then?
But what about a **NEON** Genesis? Eh? Eh?
...I'll shut up now.
It'll be interesting to see what the future holds for Red Hat, though, as well as a few other things. With Win98SE losing its support come June and RH9 come April, I wonder how many will migrate to something different and how many will stick it out, hoping nothing catastrophic happens to their legacy platform of choice.
Will others take note of this and follow suit? Exactly how successful does this have to be, in terms of number of songs sold or amount of revenue generated, before other services will reconsider their business practices and drop WMA for MP3/OGG/insert-codec-of-choice-here, axe the DRemember-R-is-for-RestrictionsM, change prices, or any combination of the above? Given enough success, this could be the start of a revolution, or it could be just one bastion of sensibility in a desert of corporate lunacy.
I'll resist making an Ellen Feiss "switcher" joke here...
OK, no I won't. "And the server was like, bleep, and I was like, huh? But then I got a Mac, and never suffered the Slashdot Effect again. I'm Ellen, and I'm an Internet culture phenomenon."
SsssssssssMOKIN' !!!!!
Well, you could always try it, but you really should consult a medical professional about it first. We here at /. could doubtless explain to you the subtle nuances of neural feedback technology, perhaps even reverse-engineer it for you, but only you, your child, and a doctor are qualified to determine what's right in your scenario.
:-P ) If you think this is going to cause physical health problems, though, then it should go without saying that you should seek professional advice. But do seriously weigh the pros and cons of your choices before pursuing "treatment" when her condition may not even deserve to be called a disorder in the first place.
At any rate, best of luck to you all.
That said, I do agree with the poster saying that AD/H/D is not a real disorder. We live in a society that celebrates mediocrity and conformity, and both myself and many I knew were "diagnosed" with this "disorder" as a result of our general tendencies to think very, very differently from other children (hmm, perhaps why I use a Macintosh?
Indeed, this is great news. And this is one copyright I won't mind respecting :-)
It's good to see a company with its head screwed on straight, who can acknowledge when its time to move on from old wares and just let them go, instead of clinging to everything it's ever had its hands in, even when it's obviously pointless to do so.
OK, if I read right, the article stated that there were no grounds for the suit because the entertainment studios had pledged not to sue over commercial skipping and sharing, and have so far upheld their promise.
So it seems to me that no real harm has been done here, despite the knee-jerk reaction to view any EFF endeavours being shot down as a bad thing.
At least it's good to see that the studios have actually been behaving themselves. And honestly, is the commercial-skipping and file-sharing going to hurt them all that much? So far I get the impression that ReplayTV/TiVo/insert-DVR-of-choice-here is still something of a niche market. At least far more so than PCs, which are far more "dangerous" in terms of piracy, now are.
Maybe the Deep Thought supercomputer will be played by Virginia Tech's Power Mac G5 cluster! I'm sure Apple would state that if any computer can tell us the meaning of life, it's the G5. How's 'bout it, guys?
Whatever happens, it's good to see that at least someone is standing fast against the Microsoft juggernaut. This is looking to be very good for the OSS movement. Not likely to be catastrophic to Microsoft, but at least it might knock them down a peg...please?