"BBC also has a statutory right to broadcast any copyright media it chooses without prior permission"
How on Earth does that square with the Paris Convention? Or indeed with the European convention terms which refer to individuals rights to their property???
Some interesting thoughts. Thanks. I agree I am ill-informed on UK copyright, I never did any copyright as a Patent Examiner. But,... you may find this search http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22fair+use%22+si te%3Apatent.gov.uk+copyright
interesting.
I quote [http://www.patent.gov.uk/copy/notices/2003/regimp actassessment/annex4.htm]
"It is also the case that no general 'fair use' exception to copyright is provided in UK law, or in the [European Patents?] Directive"
Of course we could be clashing on what the term "fair use" actually entails. For example in the US you can copy a CD you own to use in your car under "fair use" terms. This is illegal in the UK.
Also as you correctly say "fair dealing" does exist in UK. But this seems to be limited to private use of minimal excerpts copied by a librarian [!] or to commercial use in critiques and news reports [I say commercial as I don't think it would be classed as a news report or critique of you photocopied a book and then wrote on the cover " this book is great!";0) ]
Finally I think you misunderstood when I said that "If copyright laws were strictly followed life would [be] far less of a rich tapestry": What I meant was that their are certain activities that appear to infringe on copyright which don't really appear to be harmful to the owners of the right and which enhance the tapestry of life, such as googles image cache or the reproduction of an image of any modern building by virtue of taking a photo of your Mum in front of it [it's not private study, it's not critique or journalism, it's not allowed in the UK without the architects permission as far as I can see].
Check your hosts information on a whois directory eg via samspade... that way you can see if they are a reseller and go straight to the source. The nameserver and registrant details should give the game away.
For example, I currently (until it expires in the next month or so) use studentwebhosting ('SWH') for my alicious.com sites. SWH use Fasthosts as their registrant. Checking Fasthosts, I find that they are their own registrant and have their own DNS servers. Perhaps I'm wrong but I reckon that SWH are part of the Fasthosts reseller program!
Somewhere in all this zoneedit turns up, they have 4 dns servers. Which makes it look like they are a major hosting centre. Checking on their webpage shows that they are a DNS supplier not a major hosting supplier.
Just a thought.
This question is a little like asking "what's the best garage to take my car to". Some motor mechanics are going to "help" you, some clueless newbies will try to help and petrolheads will probably all disagree or want you to be specific about your make/model/requirements. But you might well get some decent answers in with all the chaf.
Well, they do still cover up some cartons, like on the makes on Blue Peter (a kids program where they often make things out of junk).
However, they advertise their own programs (eg on other channels) incessantly. It's almost like watching commercial telly. They also have a strange idea that the [BB] Corporation is a business. Thus they do things like spend half the license fee [a tax on TV owners in favour of the BBC] on Premiership football [ie Soccer] which is a huge advert in itself. When commercial businesses are prepared to be extorted out of customers money more fool them. When a publicly funded body goes round supporting multimillion £ wage cheques I get angry.
There is no such thing as "fair use" in the UK (and Europe AFAIK).
I doubt that this would really fall under fair use in US as, from what I've read, that applies to re-use of copyrighted works when you have some rights to them already (quoting books, re-formatting musical works, etc.).
This is an adaptation of an original work. It shows the initial artistic work in low quality and therefore infringes not only on the commercial rights of the "artist" but also on their moral rights!
Consider how to prevent people buying a poster and then distributing their own postcards of that poster in competition with the original artist. Sounds like google is doing the digital equivalent.
If copyright laws were strictly followed life would far less of a rich tapestry.
PS: I don't see anything wrong with what google do per se, just pointing out that it seems incompatible with the law.
Clearly you drill down to a different question entirely. The question of what age is it easiest to learn changes dramatically whether you are talking social etiquette, computer code or hide-and-[go-]seek.
I imagine it varies [for computer coding] according to the specific persons development. Also are you talking about coding effectively in a commercial environment (where social skills are vital) or lone-coding in your bedroom/study. Vastly different environments... as I am now learning!
For me, I peaked at about 17 for learning purposes (best A-level results in my town) and then went on to a 2:2 at Uni. My angle on life changed, mainly because I did philosophy at Uni and became a Christian. Maturity makes learning a different experience too as knowledge appears more valuable at certain ages. I do find my memory has degenerated vastly (I'm 28, or 29, something like that;0)>
FWIW, I'm sure there was a point around here somewhere!
So now, with Firefox, there will be development on Internet Explorer.
If only that were true...
IE is so in need of fixing and has been for years. Sure they've dabbled with it but couldn't they put a team on it for a couple of months to fix the css bugs??
Couldn't we ransom them with a ddos attack to fix IE? We all agree to make 50 hits to a page on CSS compliance on the MSDN site at say 1500 hours EST every Tuesday
I switched to Firefox as Firebird just as it changed from Phoenix, on Linux I've found it faster than Opera (could be my implementation??).
Anyway, recently returning to Opera I found that the free version has graphical ads as before but now they are moving images (dynamic). This is very annoying. The one thing I hate on webpages is moving ads taking your eye away from what you're reading. And what about that interface... it's so cluttered in the default and it takes a while to switch all those extra sidebars and menus off.
I tried to stick with it, but it still seems slower than Firefox (which on my system appears to leak memory like a sieve, 2 hours runtime at best before it's so sluggish I have to restart it).
KHTML is a whole mess of IE-like non-standards compatability so far as I see, so I rarely use that.....
But it seems you can't move money around without leakage from the CFM as eg. banks are not totally included in the framework.
Of course capitalists can applaud the strength of their system as the poorer you make people the harder they have to work to make ends meet, thus stimulating growth!!
"Derivatives can be used for gambling, but they can also be used for transferring risk"
What I know about derivatives can be written on the head of pin... however (as this is slashdot:0)>... surely the "transferring risk" means getting better odds on your gamble? And the greater efficiency [sounds like marketing speak]: I'm thinking you are using a narrowly defined definition of efficiency such as monetary growth or something.
The UFT quote might be a little off the mark, however (s)he is right about the non-productive part. After all, what materials do you process? What products do you output?
Someone else comments on moving money around between Fat-Cats. That's not how it works. People get rich (on the whole) by other people getting poor.
Funnily, I was at the stage of doubting 'other minds' just before becoming a Christian. I'm still not/entirely/ convinced. But I know as sure as I know anything that God _is_ and is Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
Good post though.
Not sure on the consistency point. Why do you believe that. Does it help? I suppose you're basically saying that the universe is scientifically understandable? Aren't singularities inconsistencies - or are they consistent inconsistentcies??!.
OpenOffice.org format may not be vendor neutral particularly (though like others said, KOffice at least uses it) but it is an open and prevalent format. MS.doc is prevalent but as it's not open then it's not necessarily going to have filters available for it in the future. I think OOo is safer in this respect. Also OOo format is (compressed) xml so can probably be parsed by xml readers (? - I haven't got a clue, really!!).
Games fall under the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) jurisdiction in the UK (see eg http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4069887.stm for general info and some comments from Patricia Hewitt; which also gives info on Europe wide classification called PEGI (see http://www.ps2home.co.uk/video_games_age_ratings.h tm)).
However the video recordings act (1984) goes alongside the BBFC classification and states:
"It is an offence to supply, or offer to supply, a video recording to any person who has not attained the age specified on the recording. This legislation applies to video films, video games and computer games."
(see http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/D0183498F672087280256E1D003F1B5F)
Now, for parents they may have a get out saying it's not a 'supply' (IANAL), perhaps the legislators (sp?) slipped up and meant to say 'an offence to make available...'. Anyone know if this has been tested in court?
Ditto... since I came across GIF in '96 (or whenever) I've pronounced it with a hard G. For the same reason, that the G is the G of Graphic[al|s].
I know geeks like to mess with acronyms but the author is being a bit of a dork on this one (if indeed the linked-to emails aren't made up). What's his rationale for the soft-g?
In the states you have a thing called "first to invent" (which boils down to 'whose legal council can prove that they invented it first'). In Europe and practically the rest of the world we have "first to file". So the only important date is the date you apply to a patent office and disclose your invention.
This is good for a few reasons, one being that it embodies the true worth of the patent system (for humanity) that of disclosing your invention to the populace. As opposed to the/more/ finance based system that says "can I make money off this" iff that's true then I'll disclose it. This is a major simplification of the issue, of course, and indeed one can still prevent disclosure after the filing date has been acquired.
Anyway, this is also relevant as governments are considering patent harmonisation and the allowance of software patents appears (at least in the UKPO, but not necessarily by the UKPO, if you follow) to have been considered as the major bargaining chip for agreement in the clash of "first to file" vs. "first to invent".
Democracy is great... I'm not sure that it can ever really work in practice [that's a whole other discussion]. But anyhow, I think the problem here is that you think the west is democratic whilst the predominant politics mindset is capitalism.
"Where there is much light there is also much shadow. -- Goethe"
The above was the quote I got for this story... sort of appropriate as solarpc displays (according to the site, see touchscreen section) emit no radiation! Even black holes can't do that!!
I use firefox reasonably successfully under Slack (now on 10.0 with the PR1.0 Firefox). Apart from a bug with the find tool (which may have been addressed... the changelogs mention something along those lines) it's been good for me. Faster than other browsers (Konq, Opera).
Have you tried a debugger to trace the problem, gdb is not that hard to use. Took about half an hour for me to use it with a sound app that was crashing all the time, turned out to have not got one of the depenencies up to date.
What sort of system (kernel / hardware / mem) do you have running?
Slashdot Mirror
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p actassessment/annex4.htm]
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How on Earth does that square with the Paris Convention? Or indeed with the European convention terms which refer to individuals rights to their property???
Some interesting thoughts. Thanks. I agree I am ill-informed on UK copyright, I never did any copyright as a Patent Examiner. But,... you may find this search http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22fair+use%22+s
interesting.
I quote [http://www.patent.gov.uk/copy/notices/2003/regim
"It is also the case that no general 'fair use' exception to copyright is provided in UK law, or in the [European Patents?] Directive"
Of course we could be clashing on what the term "fair use" actually entails. For example in the US you can copy a CD you own to use in your car under "fair use" terms. This is illegal in the UK.
Also as you correctly say "fair dealing" does exist in UK. But this seems to be limited to private use of minimal excerpts copied by a librarian [!] or to commercial use in critiques and news reports [I say commercial as I don't think it would be classed as a news report or critique of you photocopied a book and then wrote on the cover " this book is great!"
Finally I think you misunderstood when I said that "If copyright laws were strictly followed life would [be] far less of a rich tapestry": What I meant was that their are certain activities that appear to infringe on copyright which don't really appear to be harmful to the owners of the right and which enhance the tapestry of life, such as googles image cache or the reproduction of an image of any modern building by virtue of taking a photo of your Mum in front of it [it's not private study, it's not critique or journalism, it's not allowed in the UK without the architects permission as far as I can see].
Check your hosts information on a whois directory eg via samspade ... that way you can see if they are a reseller and go straight to the source. The nameserver and registrant details should give the game away.
For example, I currently (until it expires in the next month or so) use studentwebhosting ('SWH') for my alicious.com sites. SWH use Fasthosts as their registrant. Checking Fasthosts, I find that they are their own registrant and have their own DNS servers. Perhaps I'm wrong but I reckon that SWH are part of the Fasthosts reseller program!
Somewhere in all this zoneedit turns up, they have 4 dns servers. Which makes it look like they are a major hosting centre. Checking on their webpage shows that they are a DNS supplier not a major hosting supplier.
Just a thought.
This question is a little like asking "what's the best garage to take my car to". Some motor mechanics are going to "help" you, some clueless newbies will try to help and petrolheads will probably all disagree or want you to be specific about your make/model/requirements. But you might well get some decent answers in with all the chaf.
HTH.
"the commercial free BBC"
Well, they do still cover up some cartons, like on the makes on Blue Peter (a kids program where they often make things out of junk).
However, they advertise their own programs (eg on other channels) incessantly. It's almost like watching commercial telly. They also have a strange idea that the [BB] Corporation is a business. Thus they do things like spend half the license fee [a tax on TV owners in favour of the BBC] on Premiership football [ie Soccer] which is a huge advert in itself. When commercial businesses are prepared to be extorted out of customers money more fool them. When a publicly funded body goes round supporting multimillion £ wage cheques I get angry.
Rant over!
Name anyone person who is unbiased.
There is no such thing as "fair use" in the UK (and Europe AFAIK).
I doubt that this would really fall under fair use in US as, from what I've read, that applies to re-use of copyrighted works when you have some rights to them already (quoting books, re-formatting musical works, etc.).
This is an adaptation of an original work. It shows the initial artistic work in low quality and therefore infringes not only on the commercial rights of the "artist" but also on their moral rights!
Consider how to prevent people buying a poster and then distributing their own postcards of that poster in competition with the original artist. Sounds like google is doing the digital equivalent.
If copyright laws were strictly followed life would far less of a rich tapestry.
PS: I don't see anything wrong with what google do per se, just pointing out that it seems incompatible with the law.
Clearly you drill down to a different question entirely. The question of what age is it easiest to learn changes dramatically whether you are talking social etiquette, computer code or hide-and-[go-]seek.
... as I am now learning!
;0)>
I imagine it varies [for computer coding] according to the specific persons development. Also are you talking about coding effectively in a commercial environment (where social skills are vital) or lone-coding in your bedroom/study. Vastly different environments
For me, I peaked at about 17 for learning purposes (best A-level results in my town) and then went on to a 2:2 at Uni. My angle on life changed, mainly because I did philosophy at Uni and became a Christian. Maturity makes learning a different experience too as knowledge appears more valuable at certain ages. I do find my memory has degenerated vastly (I'm 28, or 29, something like that
FWIW, I'm sure there was a point around here somewhere!
If only that were true ...
IE is so in need of fixing and has been for years. Sure they've dabbled with it but couldn't they put a team on it for a couple of months to fix the css bugs??
Couldn't we ransom them with a ddos attack to fix IE? We all agree to make 50 hits to a page on CSS compliance on the MSDN site at say 1500 hours EST every Tuesday
Any takers ...
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/810.html apparently it was John Kenneth Galbraith and I got the jist of it!
reminds me of one of my favourite sayings (probably a quote??)
"in capitalism man exploits man, in communism it's the other way 'round"
[chuckle]
I switched to Firefox as Firebird just as it changed from Phoenix, on Linux I've found it faster than Opera (could be my implementation??).
... it's so cluttered in the default and it takes a while to switch all those extra sidebars and menus off.
....
Anyway, recently returning to Opera I found that the free version has graphical ads as before but now they are moving images (dynamic). This is very annoying. The one thing I hate on webpages is moving ads taking your eye away from what you're reading. And what about that interface
I tried to stick with it, but it still seems slower than Firefox (which on my system appears to leak memory like a sieve, 2 hours runtime at best before it's so sluggish I have to restart it).
KHTML is a whole mess of IE-like non-standards compatability so far as I see, so I rarely use that.
But it seems you can't move money around without leakage from the CFM as eg. banks are not totally included in the framework.
Of course capitalists can applaud the strength of their system as the poorer you make people the harder they have to work to make ends meet, thus stimulating growth!!
"Derivatives can be used for gambling, but they can also be used for transferring risk"
... however (as this is slashdot :0)> ... surely the "transferring risk" means getting better odds on your gamble? And the greater efficiency [sounds like marketing speak]: I'm thinking you are using a narrowly defined definition of efficiency such as monetary growth or something.
What I know about derivatives can be written on the head of pin
The UFT quote might be a little off the mark, however (s)he is right about the non-productive part. After all, what materials do you process? What products do you output?
Someone else comments on moving money around between Fat-Cats. That's not how it works. People get rich (on the whole) by other people getting poor.
Funnily, I was at the stage of doubting 'other minds' just before becoming a Christian. I'm still not /entirely/ convinced. But I know as sure as I know anything that God _is_ and is Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
.
Good post though.
Not sure on the consistency point. Why do you believe that. Does it help? I suppose you're basically saying that the universe is scientifically understandable? Aren't singularities inconsistencies - or are they consistent inconsistentcies??!
OpenOffice.org format may not be vendor neutral particularly (though like others said, KOffice at least uses it) but it is an open and prevalent format. MS .doc is prevalent but as it's not open then it's not necessarily going to have filters available for it in the future. I think OOo is safer in this respect. Also OOo format is (compressed) xml so can probably be parsed by xml readers (? - I haven't got a clue, really!!).
Games fall under the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) jurisdiction in the UK (see eg http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4069887.stm for general info and some comments from Patricia Hewitt; which also gives info on Europe wide classification called PEGI (see http://www.ps2home.co.uk/video_games_age_ratings.h tm)).
s .nsf/Links/D0183498F672087280256E1D003F1B5F)
...'. Anyone know if this has been tested in court?
However the video recordings act (1984) goes alongside the BBFC classification and states:
"It is an offence to supply, or offer to supply, a video recording to any person who has not attained the age specified on the recording. This legislation applies to video films, video games and computer games."
(see http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corporate/page
Now, for parents they may have a get out saying it's not a 'supply' (IANAL), perhaps the legislators (sp?) slipped up and meant to say 'an offence to make available
Ditto ... since I came across GIF in '96 (or whenever) I've pronounced it with a hard G. For the same reason, that the G is the G of Graphic[al|s].
I know geeks like to mess with acronyms but the author is being a bit of a dork on this one (if indeed the linked-to emails aren't made up). What's his rationale for the soft-g?
Thanks Mom,
...
Very interesting
In the states you have a thing called "first to invent" (which boils down to 'whose legal council can prove that they invented it first'). In Europe and practically the rest of the world we have "first to file". So the only important date is the date you apply to a patent office and disclose your invention.
/more/ finance based system that says "can I make money off this" iff that's true then I'll disclose it. This is a major simplification of the issue, of course, and indeed one can still prevent disclosure after the filing date has been acquired.
...
This is good for a few reasons, one being that it embodies the true worth of the patent system (for humanity) that of disclosing your invention to the populace. As opposed to the
Anyway, this is also relevant as governments are considering patent harmonisation and the allowance of software patents appears (at least in the UKPO, but not necessarily by the UKPO, if you follow) to have been considered as the major bargaining chip for agreement in the clash of "first to file" vs. "first to invent".
I could go on
Democracy is great ... I'm not sure that it can ever really work in practice [that's a whole other discussion]. But anyhow, I think the problem here is that you think the west is democratic whilst the predominant politics mindset is capitalism.
Yes, agreed, whitespace is very important. But don't put all the whitespace around the edges.
Balance and utility are also important.
It doesn't really matter which you buy as long as you promote it on slashdot with a story that has at least a modicum of believability.
"Where there is much light there is also much shadow. -- Goethe"
... sort of appropriate as solarpc displays (according to the site, see touchscreen section) emit no radiation! Even black holes can't do that!!
The above was the quote I got for this story
I use firefox reasonably successfully under Slack (now on 10.0 with the PR1.0 Firefox). Apart from a bug with the find tool (which may have been addressed ... the changelogs mention something along those lines) it's been good for me. Faster than other browsers (Konq, Opera).
Have you tried a debugger to trace the problem, gdb is not that hard to use. Took about half an hour for me to use it with a sound app that was crashing all the time, turned out to have not got one of the depenencies up to date.
What sort of system (kernel / hardware / mem) do you have running?
How come America seems to be able to apply it's law everywhere but we can't ...
The Data Protection Act 1998 (UK) makes it a legal requirement for companies to secure personal data.
http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk/
There must be something similar in the US??!
Of course if you say "I'm going to sue you for not protecting my personal data; but you could hire me instead" then that sounds a lot like extortion.
Be careful.
pbhj