Unlike drugs, or kiddy porn where the mere possession is a crime, copyright infringement is only a tort if it can be proven that you transferred the files to someone else
"In the common law, a tort is a civil wrong, other than a breach of contract, for which the law provides a remedy." Tort
How many times is it necessary to say this? "Proof beyond a reasonable doubt" applies to criminal cases only. There is no finding of guilt or innocence in a civil case, only a determination of legal responsibility, a judgment for the plaintiff or defendant based on the simplest and most plausible interpretation of the evidence.
Linux's widespread adoption, and its acceptance as an enterprise tool have all combined to lessen the need for what LUGs offer. Today's LUG is less a vibrant beacon of a community of users and more of a professional/social club for admins.
Where I live, Linux has zero visibility outside the university and college campus, no presence, no spokesman, no involvement in the community whatever.
Yes, there is employment for the big-system Linux administrator. But Linux in the home, Linux in small business, not in this universe.
The chance of it humiliating Mr. Seigenthaler before his friends seems approxiimately zero.
You haven't the right to make that assumption.
The original purpose of a libel action was to keep the peace, maintain a civil public discourse, not to compensate the victim. That is why truth was traditionally not a defense and why an accusation of murder remains damaging as a matter of law even if no one can be found who believes it.
The law of libel is treacherous ground for any publisher, and a Wiki is not immune. The first line of defense has always been editorial review before publication, and you abandon it at your peril.
Maybe Microsoft jumped ship when NBC decided to offer their shows on iTunes? Apple is a competitor to Microsoft in digital media.
iTunes drives sales of the iPod. But Apple had to port iTunes to Windows to gain significant market share. That lesson hasn't been lost on others in the business: Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, etc., and it is not good news for a consumer-oriented Linux distro.
It seems fairly unlikely, unfortunately, that we'll see Mr. Seigenthaler apologising for the lasting harm he's indirectly caused by provoking that reaction over a silly joke making unbelievable claims about him.
Let's all blame the victim, eh?
the offensive content in the Seigenthaler article was first removed by an anonymous contributor. What one put in, another removed. Which is exactly how it's supposed to work.
Not good enough, not nearly good enough.
This so-called prankster found it trivially easy to get his malacious little "biography" in print and working outside the Wikipedia and its internal controls using it to humiliate Mr. Seigenthaler before his friends.
Truth is, meaningful details about this "peer revuew" of the Wikipedia are hard to come by even on Nature's own web site: Internet encyclopaedias go head to head
If something is too much of a pain, then people are going to avoid it. Wiki works because it is relatively pain-free to use
There is nothing painless about writing an essay for a popular audience that will survive meaningful editorial review.
Well, that's the whole point, isn't it - Walmart still has their original copies. Get it.
No, I don't get it.
When our local mini-mart began taking losses from shoplifting, it cut back on stock that could most easily be stolen. The five-fingered discount hurt everyone.
I hate that publishers that own rights to something can just squat on not only that "intellectual" property but any derivative work.
How on earth does this sort of thing Promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts?
It forces competitors to come up with something new and something better.
You want to write a successful series of children's books? You don't need Narnia and you don't need Hogwarts: A Series of Unfortunate Events
By the way, it is quite ironic that while the FBI classifies PETA, Greenpeace and ELF as terrorists, they DO NOT classify white supremacist groups who practice para-military operations and gladly sport their copies of "The Anarchist Cookbook" and "The Turner Diaries".
These people are not criminals, and the punishment is WAY WAY out of line in relation to the supposed harm done to society.
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
Shoplifting 77 boxed games from Walmart is worth 1-3 years hard time in your county lock-up or state pen on the felony charge. Why should it be different when you conspire with a clerk to have the games loaded on a hardrive, for one-tenth their retail price?
I foresee a frenzy of cheap Chinese-made DVD recorders where you can simply press "tray open" and "0" to switch off the DRM system.
You build for export, you want to see your product on the shelves at Walmart. Not rusting in a container on the LA docks because it didn't clear customs.
Carnegie funded construction only. In only four or five cases did he provide an endowment to fund the purchase of books, maintainance and staffing. Under such a formula, the poorest of the poor get nothing.
Microsoft was the company which got that contract- but it could've been anyone.
I don't believe there were any other players in the game but Digital Research.
Microsoft in three years had become dominant in microcomputer languages, It was not an unknown quantity to IBM. Gates saw the commercial potential of IBM's 16-bit micro perhaps more clearly than anyone else, fought hard to get the contract, and was shrewd enough to nail it down without losing control of the O/S.
Even before Compaq's reverse-engineering of the IBM PC BIOS, the MS-DOS compatible PC was a marketable property.
Of course, you cut off right before I said if one wants simplicity, to just wait and let someone else package it for you. For the geek, like the original poster was, it is simple
Which means that for everyone else if a package doesn't exist for your distro, it might as well not exist at all. Command-line syntax is hell for the casual typist.
Prehaps if he'd had a more intelligent fire-depeartment structure, there could've been 1000 fewer deaths. But it's a stretch to blame him for that incompetence
Tell me how you evacuate twin 110 story towers in 103 minutes. Tell me why the NYFD is responsible for the structural failures that brought the towers down so quickly. The WTC was the creation of the notoriously arrogant and autonomous NYC Port Authority.
Why are the rich and powerful obsessed with fighting disease?
Perhaos because they have the ambition, patience, imagination and resources to be effective.
feeding the third world should be of greater importance
"The most famous health campaign..started with Rockefeller money was the drive, begun in 1907, to rid the rural American South of hookworm.
Called "the germ of laziness" because it caused anemia and made victims lethargic and dull-witted, hookworm afflicted up to a third of Southerners. "A lot of people would say, 'you've got to reduce poverty to get rid of hookworm.' But the Rockefellers said, 'You don't need a 20-year intervention. You can use shoes." The Rich, Sometimes, Are the Best Medicine
Dude, there's this thing called multitasking. Download the client, check back in a bit. Jump to the console, run:
tar xfz gaim-x.x.x.tar.gz && cd gaim-x.x.x &&./configure && make && make install
Simple
and the Geek still wonders why everyone else stays with Windows and the Mac.
You need only to look at all the local libraries that were built and furnished with books
"Of the 2,509 libraries Andrew Carnegie constructed throughout the English-speaking world..only five...he actually endowed... All other towns...were required to subsidize their library by an annual amount that, at least, equalled ten-percent of the cost of the library building, an arrangement soon dubbed The Carnegie Formula."
The formula encouraged community involvement in the library progran, but it also meant that the richest of cities would get the lion's share of the grants. Toronto's Carnegie Libraries
As I understand it, both formats allow "one click" transfers to hard disk drives, distribution through home networks and standard-definition downloads to portable devices.
That sounds like "Fair Use" to me. I would like the option to stream low-res video over IM chat links and the like. But that is not a deal-breaker.
The first edition was published 1768-1771 in three volumes.
Brittanica gets a new edition every 20 years (?)
The print edition was revised this year. The Brittanica Book of the Tear was first published in 1938. Brittanica has been on-line since 1981, beginning with Lexis-Nexis.
One edition of Brittanica is several thousand dollars
The holiday special: $1500 US for the cloth-bound Brittanica, Book of the Year, Great Books of The Western World, Annals of America, and Webster's Third International Dictionary. 120+ handsome, well-made, hardcover books, with free shipping.
The 2006 Brittanica DVD: $20 US.
Another four years and Brittanica is out of Business
Considering most of the prophecies posted on Slashdot, I have my doubts.
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"In the common law, a tort is a civil wrong, other than a breach of contract, for which the law provides a remedy." Tort
How many times is it necessary to say this? "Proof beyond a reasonable doubt" applies to criminal cases only. There is no finding of guilt or innocence in a civil case, only a determination of legal responsibility, a judgment for the plaintiff or defendant based on the simplest and most plausible interpretation of the evidence.
Where I live, Linux has zero visibility outside the university and college campus, no presence, no spokesman, no involvement in the community whatever.
Yes, there is employment for the big-system Linux administrator. But Linux in the home, Linux in small business, not in this universe.
You haven't the right to make that assumption.
The original purpose of a libel action was to keep the peace, maintain a civil public discourse, not to compensate the victim. That is why truth was traditionally not a defense and why an accusation of murder remains damaging as a matter of law even if no one can be found who believes it. The law of libel is treacherous ground for any publisher, and a Wiki is not immune. The first line of defense has always been editorial review before publication, and you abandon it at your peril.
iTunes drives sales of the iPod. But Apple had to port iTunes to Windows to gain significant market share. That lesson hasn't been lost on others in the business: Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, etc., and it is not good news for a consumer-oriented Linux distro.
Let's all blame the victim, eh?
the offensive content in the Seigenthaler article was first removed by an anonymous contributor. What one put in, another removed. Which is exactly how it's supposed to work.
Not good enough, not nearly good enough.
This so-called prankster found it trivially easy to get his malacious little "biography" in print and working outside the Wikipedia and its internal controls using it to humiliate Mr. Seigenthaler before his friends.
Mr. Seigenthaler owes the Wikipedia nothing.
Spys and terrorists dislike carrying fake ID, especially when it has to be purchased from parties likely to be under survelliance for other reasons.
What we had was a comparison of 42 articles on science and something less than a ringing endorsement of the Wikipedia. Wikipedia science 31% more cronky than Britannica's.
Truth is, meaningful details about this "peer revuew" of the Wikipedia are hard to come by even on Nature's own web site: Internet encyclopaedias go head to head
If something is too much of a pain, then people are going to avoid it. Wiki works because it is relatively pain-free to use
There is nothing painless about writing an essay for a popular audience that will survive meaningful editorial review.
No, I don't get it.
When our local mini-mart began taking losses from shoplifting, it cut back on stock that could most easily be stolen. The five-fingered discount hurt everyone.
How on earth does this sort of thing Promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts?
It forces competitors to come up with something new and something better.
You want to write a successful series of children's books? You don't need Narnia and you don't need Hogwarts: A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Feds do take white supremicists seriously: White Supremicists, White supremacist gets 40-year sentence, A Whiter Shade of Christmas
Burning down an empty house is not a "terrorist" activity
I think every living black american would disagree with you on that one. The implicit threat is elemental.
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
Shoplifting 77 boxed games from Walmart is worth 1-3 years hard time in your county lock-up or state pen on the felony charge. Why should it be different when you conspire with a clerk to have the games loaded on a hardrive, for one-tenth their retail price?
You break even only if your net (not gross!) return equals your production costs, marketing and distribution expenses.
Amazon is offering Firefly-The Complete Series and Serenity for $47. Firefly
There isn't much to be said:
Production costs: $40 million US. Gross: $25 million USA. Business Data for Serenity
You build for export, you want to see your product on the shelves at Walmart. Not rusting in a container on the LA docks because it didn't clear customs.
Carnegie funded construction only. In only four or five cases did he provide an endowment to fund the purchase of books, maintainance and staffing. Under such a formula, the poorest of the poor get nothing.
I don't believe there were any other players in the game but Digital Research.
Microsoft in three years had become dominant in microcomputer languages, It was not an unknown quantity to IBM. Gates saw the commercial potential of IBM's 16-bit micro perhaps more clearly than anyone else, fought hard to get the contract, and was shrewd enough to nail it down without losing control of the O/S.
Even before Compaq's reverse-engineering of the IBM PC BIOS, the MS-DOS compatible PC was a marketable property.
Which means that for everyone else if a package doesn't exist for your distro, it might as well not exist at all. Command-line syntax is hell for the casual typist.
Tell me how you evacuate twin 110 story towers in 103 minutes. Tell me why the NYFD is responsible for the structural failures that brought the towers down so quickly. The WTC was the creation of the notoriously arrogant and autonomous NYC Port Authority.
Perhaos because they have the ambition, patience, imagination and resources to be effective.
feeding the third world should be of greater importance
"The most famous health campaign..started with Rockefeller money was the drive, begun in 1907, to rid the rural American South of hookworm.
Called "the germ of laziness" because it caused anemia and made victims lethargic and dull-witted, hookworm afflicted up to a third of Southerners. "A lot of people would say, 'you've got to reduce poverty to get rid of hookworm.' But the Rockefellers said, 'You don't need a 20-year intervention. You can use shoes." The Rich, Sometimes, Are the Best Medicine
tar xfz gaim-x.x.x.tar.gz && cd gaim-x.x.x &&
Simple
and the Geek still wonders why everyone else stays with Windows and the Mac.
"Of the 2,509 libraries Andrew Carnegie constructed throughout the English-speaking world..only five...he actually endowed... All other towns...were required to subsidize their library by an annual amount that, at least, equalled ten-percent of the cost of the library building, an arrangement soon dubbed The Carnegie Formula."
The formula encouraged community involvement in the library progran, but it also meant that the richest of cities would get the lion's share of the grants. Toronto's Carnegie Libraries
As I understand it, both formats allow "one click" transfers to hard disk drives, distribution through home networks and standard-definition downloads to portable devices.
That sounds like "Fair Use" to me. I would like the option to stream low-res video over IM chat links and the like. But that is not a deal-breaker.
I see satellite dishes everywhere, HD on digital cable, four American and three Canadian border stations broadcasting in HD right now.
The first edition was published 1768-1771 in three volumes.
Brittanica gets a new edition every 20 years (?)
The print edition was revised this year. The Brittanica Book of the Tear was first published in 1938. Brittanica has been on-line since 1981, beginning with Lexis-Nexis.
One edition of Brittanica is several thousand dollars
The holiday special: $1500 US for the cloth-bound Brittanica, Book of the Year, Great Books of The Western World, Annals of America, and Webster's Third International Dictionary. 120+ handsome, well-made, hardcover books, with free shipping.
The 2006 Brittanica DVD: $20 US.
Another four years and Brittanica is out of Business
Considering most of the prophecies posted on Slashdot, I have my doubts.