Oh good, I was hoping my tax dollars would go to fund research on how to stop my dog from scratching his ass in public, after all no need to be financially responsible. Yay, corporate destruction, let the government do and pay for everything, but not control anything, laws are bad, patents are bad, let's all work for free, we'd all pay our fair share, no slackers, honest.
Will the spammers be signing up all the poor people down there to do their dirty work for them?
Yes, something similar has already happened around here (Ontario, Canada). We noticed about a million email relay attempts from a library proxy machine machine in a nearby city that started every day at 7am and ended every day at 4pm -- apparently a spammer had installed spamware on one or more of the machines there and each day as the machine was powered on it'd start it's spamming routine. A couple emails back and forth between the techs there got things straightened out pretty quick, but spammers are certainly aware of the opportunities...
Sigh. For the upteenth-million time, you haven't paid for the content, you've paid for the right to watch it. If they were selling the content it'd go for a several million dollars probably, so you probably rather pay for the right, right?
Don't worry, some of us understand your statement. For the rest of you, revenue != profit. Laying people off doesn't increase *revenue*, all it can do is reduce *expenses*. Well, unless your sales force is so bad that they are pissing off customers and by having less sales people you piss off less, but I doubt that is the strategy.
IANAL, but at first glance I'd say that Windows Update doesn't require a username/password to get the updates and in several places that was mentioned in the McCrappy patent.
Am I correct in saying that you can record PPV events you payed for to VHS for personal use to view again in your home for free? Or is that illegal too.
"and the understand that the person who buys that work has full control over the use and disposal of that work".
When you purchase something that is copyrighted, your ownership exists on the physical component, not the information that is contained within. This is what seems to confuse people with saying that they have purchased a CD and therefore own the music on it. They don't own the music, they own the media that contains the music they have licensed. They can't go around selling the music (they can sell the medium on which they purchased), but they do not "have full control over the use and disposal of that work". Yes, copyright is there to protect the commercial interests of development of information, without copyright there would be no incentive for creation of these works.
> Copyright is only for for-profit piracy protection
According to whom?
I don't get it, why does everyone think they have a right to use information in a way that it is not licensed for. Rarely do you actually buy information, you license it. If that is the way the creator (who invested their time, research, new thoughts or whatever is in the information) intended to distribute it, then you either abide by those restrictions or find information elsewhere.
Access to information does not infer any rights to use that information.
Actually that's not quite true, the cache is good for keeping bursty writes smooth, however if you are pushing data to it as fast as it can write to disk then the buffer will become full and at that point it writes to disk at the same rate it receives data, the buffer just postpones that fact for a short period of time.
In my experience, unless your ISP artificially throttles back your available bandwidth, most people will find cable to be significantly faster than DSL
"What is not generally well-known is that the upstream cap can also affect the downstream speed -- if the upstream is saturated by uploading (e.g., sending a large PowerPoint file to the boss, or running a Napster or other public service), the downstream will drop to about the same speed. This is due to a weakness in the basic TCP Internet protocol, not Cable or DSL per se, and not the service provider.
Cable Internet is more vulnerable to this problem than DSL. Unlike DSL, where each subscriber has a dedicated connection to the head-end (DSLAM), the Cable Internet upstream path to the head-end (CMTS) is shared by all subscribers on a given cable segment. If that upstream gets saturated, which might be caused by only a relatively few subscribers, downstream speeds take a big drop for all subscribers on that segment."
Didn't Mars do this to us? Here we were, Earth, just sitting there all nice and quiet, and WHAMO, a big-ass-teroid comes and causes havoc and more havoc, and again wreaking havoc, causing all these stupid creatures called humans to evolve.
It's fucking capatalist yuppies like you that screw everything up. If there were "magic photocopiers", and someone wanted to come and copy my kitchen table - sure, I'd say - why the hell not? Why the fuck should I care? As long as I still have the original, thats fine.
No profits = no company = no development = no jobs, I guess you might like a world where the government is the only option for self-survial, or perhaps you plan on working the land to live, and to hell with all this technology stuff, because, I mean who would pay for it anyways...
But you didn't like that, because you have a magic photocopier too. You wanted to photocopy all of your stuff at a cost of $~0.30 to you, and sell the copies at the full retail cost of the originals. Because you believe that don't just own the toaster, you insist that you own the idea of the toaster.
So why should any company decide to develop a toaster then, if there isn't any way they can make money because 'its okay to steal as long as its a copy'...?
Ah, I remember when I used to be so smart too that you couldn't teach me anything. Now that I've been at it for 10 or 15 years I look back at how little I knew then......business isn't all about the technical components or being able to write a web server in 200 bytes, its about businss plans, communication, team development, specifications, documentation and all the other boring crap that you don't want to deal with at 16.
Of course I can't tell this to anyone under 20 because I'm obviously wrong, but don't worry you'll learn soon enough.:-)
I think we should resist "micropayment" by any means necessary. Why? Simple. No such system will be put in place nowadays without massive government involvement, monitoring, and tracking, to say nothing about credit bureau involvement.
As humans, it isn't that we *don't* have the ability to clean things up, reduce toxins, invent cleaning bio-technolgoies, etc - rather its just too expensive -- for now. When it comes down to survival of our species, I think you'll find that the Earth as a whole won't find the expense all that bad anymore.
Whew, good thing Monica had some "pH buffered solution" kicking around, and I guess all those times they've dug up bodies for DNA evidence the were lucky to have the bodies submerged in the precious liquid, and all those extinct animals they are bringing back too... ???
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Oh good, I was hoping my tax dollars would go to fund research on how to stop my dog from scratching his ass in public, after all no need to be financially responsible. Yay, corporate destruction, let the government do and pay for everything, but not control anything, laws are bad, patents are bad, let's all work for free, we'd all pay our fair share, no slackers, honest.
Will the spammers be signing up all the poor people down there to do their dirty work for them?
Yes, something similar has already happened around here (Ontario, Canada). We noticed about a million email relay attempts from a library proxy machine machine in a nearby city that started every day at 7am and ended every day at 4pm -- apparently a spammer had installed spamware on one or more of the machines there and each day as the machine was powered on it'd start it's spamming routine. A couple emails back and forth between the techs there got things straightened out pretty quick, but spammers are certainly aware of the opportunities...
> the content that you have paid for
Sigh. For the upteenth-million time, you haven't paid for the content, you've paid for the right to watch it. If they were selling the content it'd go for a several million dollars probably, so you probably rather pay for the right, right?
Don't worry, some of us understand your statement. For the rest of you, revenue != profit. Laying people off doesn't increase *revenue*, all it can do is reduce *expenses*. Well, unless your sales force is so bad that they are pissing off customers and by having less sales people you piss off less, but I doubt that is the strategy.
IANAL, but at first glance I'd say that Windows Update doesn't require a username/password to get the updates and in several places that was mentioned in the McCrappy patent.
Making a VHS (or any other format) copy of analog video introduces noise, so you cannot make an unlimited number of generations.
WTF?
You're saying that because your copy is not perfect it's okay?
More on topic, you purchased the license for a single viewing of the movie, if you want to watch it more than once go buy it.
Am I correct in saying that you can record PPV events you payed for to VHS for personal use to view again in your home for free? Or is that illegal too.
Illegal.
"and the understand that the person who buys that work has full control over the use and disposal of that work".
When you purchase something that is copyrighted, your ownership exists on the physical component, not the information that is contained within. This is what seems to confuse people with saying that they have purchased a CD and therefore own the music on it. They don't own the music, they own the media that contains the music they have licensed. They can't go around selling the music (they can sell the medium on which they purchased), but they do not "have full control over the use and disposal of that work". Yes, copyright is there to protect the commercial interests of development of information, without copyright there would be no incentive for creation of these works.
> Copyright is only for for-profit piracy protection
According to whom?
I don't get it, why does everyone think they have a right to use information in a way that it is not licensed for. Rarely do you actually buy information, you license it. If that is the way the creator (who invested their time, research, new thoughts or whatever is in the information) intended to distribute it, then you either abide by those restrictions or find information elsewhere.
Access to information does not infer any rights to use that information.
Actually that's not quite true, the cache is good for keeping bursty writes smooth, however if you are pushing data to it as fast as it can write to disk then the buffer will become full and at that point it writes to disk at the same rate it receives data, the buffer just postpones that fact for a short period of time.
No, a beer commercial.
"1b" seems to match, even "2a" and "2b" really if you consider an email address to be the 'person'.
1. Company name: "Rankin Flowers" ... no thanks, I like mine to smell nice.
... I don't know about you, but it doesn't say much to me.
2. Company name: "The Age of Travel", slogan: "Our name says it all!"
...I recall this being the prediction back in 1998 -- as well as hearing that the Internet would collapse by 1999, then by 2000, then by 2001...
In my experience, unless your ISP artificially throttles back your available bandwidth, most people will find cable to be significantly faster than DSL
See this link for more details...
"What is not generally well-known is that the upstream cap can also affect the downstream speed -- if the upstream is saturated by uploading (e.g., sending a large PowerPoint file to the boss, or running a Napster or other public service), the downstream will drop to about the same speed. This is due to a weakness in the basic TCP Internet protocol, not Cable or DSL per se, and not the service provider.
Cable Internet is more vulnerable to this problem than DSL. Unlike DSL, where each subscriber has a dedicated connection to the head-end (DSLAM), the Cable Internet upstream path to the head-end (CMTS) is shared by all subscribers on a given cable segment. If that upstream gets saturated, which might be caused by only a relatively few subscribers, downstream speeds take a big drop for all subscribers on that segment."
My keyboard has no capital t's.
Can anyone find the details on this? I'm assuming the USPO must hold that one themselves...
Didn't Mars do this to us? Here we were, Earth, just sitting there all nice and quiet, and WHAMO, a big-ass-teroid comes and causes havoc and more havoc, and again wreaking havoc, causing all these stupid creatures called humans to evolve.
It's fucking capatalist yuppies like you that screw everything up. If there were "magic photocopiers", and someone wanted to come and copy my kitchen table - sure, I'd say - why the hell not? Why the fuck should I care? As long as I still have the original, thats fine.
No profits = no company = no development = no jobs, I guess you might like a world where the government is the only option for self-survial, or perhaps you plan on working the land to live, and to hell with all this technology stuff, because, I mean who would pay for it anyways...
But you didn't like that, because you have a magic photocopier too. You wanted to photocopy all of your stuff at a cost of $~0.30 to you, and sell the copies at the full retail cost of the originals. Because you believe that don't just own the toaster, you insist that you own the idea of the toaster.
So why should any company decide to develop a toaster then, if there isn't any way they can make money because 'its okay to steal as long as its a copy'...?
Ah, I remember when I used to be so smart too that you couldn't teach me anything. Now that I've been at it for 10 or 15 years I look back at how little I knew then... ...business isn't all about the technical components or being able to write a web server in 200 bytes, its about businss plans, communication, team development, specifications, documentation and all the other boring crap that you don't want to deal with at 16.
:-)
Of course I can't tell this to anyone under 20 because I'm obviously wrong, but don't worry you'll learn soon enough.
I think we should resist "micropayment" by any means necessary. Why? Simple. No such system will be put in place nowadays without massive government involvement, monitoring, and tracking, to say nothing about credit bureau involvement.
Like credit cards?
Wow, you must be using a different copy of Office than I use - I can count on two fingers the number of times its crashed in the past 3 years.
I'm not so sure about that.
As humans, it isn't that we *don't* have the ability to clean things up, reduce toxins, invent cleaning bio-technolgoies, etc - rather its just too expensive -- for now. When it comes down to survival of our species, I think you'll find that the Earth as a whole won't find the expense all that bad anymore.
Whew, good thing Monica had some "pH buffered solution" kicking around, and I guess all those times they've dug up bodies for DNA evidence the were lucky to have the bodies submerged in the precious liquid, and all those extinct animals they are bringing back too... ???