Congress disagrees. The NET Act (No Electronic Theft) has been law since 1997. To a thief, theft is a taking for which he may do hard time. That is exactly how copyright infringement is defined under Titles 17 and 18 of the U.S. Code.
Oh no! And then we'd have a competitive economy, where companies struggle against each other to provide better service or lower prices
It's not much of a struggle if you just feed off of someone else's work. Damn shame if remaining competitive means putting time and money into engineering a better solution on your own.
Most of the kids I've had interaction with, or have been able to listen to comments from believe that video games represent things we can NOT do in life, and therefore make a great escape.
The problem here is that Columbine incidents involve kids whose contact with others is minimal and disorted.
Who, exactly, would do the picking? Based on what criteria? And who would decide that person/organization actually was a good choice to pick an alternative?
Joe will chose the distro supported (and likely provided) by his ISP. Without a toll-free number to call when his connection goes south, he will never install Linux. It is as simple as that.
If I were Bill Gates I'd shell out some money for that stuff.
Perhaps he will. He purchased Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester at auction for $30 million and founded Corbis, which owns historically significant collections like the Bettmann Achieve.
But copyright infringement isn't theft, and I'm tired of dumbasses who try to mutate the meme just by incesantly repeating it.
The theft of intangibles has become part of the language, ordinary usage, and cannot be extracted from it now. It has also become part of the law, as in the NET Act (No Electronic Theft Act) of 1997.
When you are sentenced under Title 18 of the federal code, it doesn't matter much whether the judge calls copyright infringement theft or calls it applesauce, it still means you will be doing hard time.
Encyclopedias are written by encyclopedia writers, wikipedia articles are usually written by experts in the particular field.
Contributers to the Brittanica have included Malthus on population control, T.E. Lawrence on Guerrilla Warfare, Einstein on Space-Time, Bruno Bettelheim, on the psychology of the Nazi death camps. That is one definition of expertise and another of effective communication, the ability to rise above the mediocre.
the lucky farmer will be able to pay online for his patent license to use the seeds carefully engineered and lovingly provided to him by the GM corp's (Monsanto et al.), who bought their monopoly from his government.
Yes! something in it for everybody. Whoopdy doo!
and if the engineered seed is more resistant to drought and disease, requires less herbicide or tillage, delievers better yields and a more marketable crop, exactly what has the farmer lost?
For example, a farmer in a developing country might be able to use such a device to determine whether his crop would fetch a higher price in a village to the North or the South.
Why not simply broadcast local market reports over the radio, as has been done in the U.S. for generations? A "lifeline" dynamo receiver can take a lot of punishment, be distributed very cheaply, and never needs batteries.
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Given that most customers use PCs almost exclusively for word processing, e-mail, and web surfing, a $100 PC with a low-cost, less-powerful processor...would meet the needs of most customers. Such a PC would sell like hotcakes.
This idea has had more revivals than Frankenstein.
But there is always a deal-breaker, for some it is media play, for others it is photography, or games.
Microsoft has absolutely nothing to do with the low cost of PC hardware.
The OEMs ship seven to nine million XP systems a month. Standardization based on Windows results in huge economies of scale in production and distribution which continue to drive the prices of PCs down, not up.
I personally would rather own a separate camera that does a good job, plus a separate 'phone which is damn near indestructible, plus a separate highly capable PDA than the latest flashy but fragile phone with sucky camera and really cramped PDA features jammed into it
But, there are others, quite a few, in fact, that don't want to be weighted down with a half-dozen gadgets, when a pocketable, multi-purpose, cell-phone, will do. The PDA in particular seems to be headed for extinction.
I've helped several blind people find the location of something they were 10 feet from. They were pretty sure they were close, but didn't know where to go next. Their dog would keep them on the sidewalk, but had no idea that they wanted to enter the building not go past it.
But what advantage is there to using a robot instead of a much simpler and cheaper RFID reader? Tag a building in a way that says "Outpatient Clinic - Entrance." A dog could probably be trained to respond directly/independently to audio cues.
Could anyone explain it to me why on Earth would such a robot - an otherwise great idea - be anny better with RFID than without it
The guidance system needs to be simple, reliable, and cheap. You don't need a camera or optical reader of any sort. Paint bar codes or guide tracks on a floor and they will inevitably be muddied and erased. Fire-resistant RFID tags could be very useful in guiding the disabled through emergency escape routes and procedures.
It should be possible to train animal aides to use simple RFID receivers. Perhaps using audio cues that translate to "Follow me" or "Danger, Keep away."
You not only have to buy a new player, you have to directly hook it up to 5.1 speakers; bypassing the quality Dolby Digital and DTS tuners and speakers that audiophiles already have.
A quick search at Froogle found many players with digital audio output. High-end players like those from Denon may include Firewire. Denon DVD5900
Hatred of Microsoft diminishes by orders of magnitude the further you get from Slashdot. Fundamentally, the reason anti-trust prosecutions stall out is because they don't have any popular support.
some random purchase made on your card was used against you to not only make you a suspect, but CHARGE you?
It isn't a random purchase, it is a purchase of a firestarter, an acclerant, perhaps, that may have been used in an arson.
The investigators would have been looking at how the fire had started, and how it had spread, and asking whether this was an amatuer or a professional job. I'd not be surprised to learn that the firefighter was suspect for other reasons.
If I wanted to burn your house down, but make sure you got the blame for it, I could just go into safeway and give them YOUR name and YOUR phone number, buy the equipment, set fire to your house and YOU would hang for it.
The state does not build a prosecution on a single piece of evidence, nor does a criminal with any intelligence base his frame on anything so fragile. The Safeway purchase would be dated and timed. You might be caught on camera or catch the attention of a clerk for the most trival of reasons. Your victim could have an air-tight alibi.
You particularly do not want to target a volunteer firefighter or someone else in town that everyone knows by sight.
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Congress disagrees. The NET Act (No Electronic Theft) has been law since 1997. To a thief, theft is a taking for which he may do hard time. That is exactly how copyright infringement is defined under Titles 17 and 18 of the U.S. Code.
It's not much of a struggle if you just feed off of someone else's work. Damn shame if remaining competitive means putting time and money into engineering a better solution on your own.
It can also be the boss not allowing others to own the computers he paid for.
Linux will be ready for the desktop when --- and only when --- conversion stories don't begin with I decided to make my Dad switch from WinXP.
The problem here is that Columbine incidents involve kids whose contact with others is minimal and disorted.
Joe will chose the distro supported (and likely provided) by his ISP. Without a toll-free number to call when his connection goes south, he will never install Linux. It is as simple as that.
and just where are these facts to be found?
Perhaps he will. He purchased Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester at auction for $30 million and founded Corbis, which owns historically significant collections like the Bettmann Achieve.
Copyright infringement was criminalized quite a few years back. Cybercrime
The theft of intangibles has become part of the language, ordinary usage, and cannot be extracted from it now. It has also become part of the law, as in the NET Act (No Electronic Theft Act) of 1997.
When you are sentenced under Title 18 of the federal code, it doesn't matter much whether the judge calls copyright infringement theft or calls it applesauce, it still means you will be doing hard time.
Contributers to the Brittanica have included Malthus on population control, T.E. Lawrence on Guerrilla Warfare, Einstein on Space-Time, Bruno Bettelheim, on the psychology of the Nazi death camps. That is one definition of expertise and another of effective communication, the ability to rise above the mediocre.
and if the engineered seed is more resistant to drought and disease, requires less herbicide or tillage, delievers better yields and a more marketable crop, exactly what has the farmer lost?
Why not simply broadcast local market reports over the radio, as has been done in the U.S. for generations? A "lifeline" dynamo receiver can take a lot of punishment, be distributed very cheaply, and never needs batteries.
This idea has had more revivals than Frankenstein.
But there is always a deal-breaker, for some it is media play, for others it is photography, or games.
International pricing for the Amida Simputer is $300 USD for gray-scale, $480 USD for color, shipping extra. No modem. Amida Models and Pricing.
The OEMs ship seven to nine million XP systems a month. Standardization based on Windows results in huge economies of scale in production and distribution which continue to drive the prices of PCs down, not up.
having watched dogs in action, I'd say their mobility was excellent.
Among other things, he has dragged Apple, kicking and screaming, into competition at the $500 price-point.
But, there are others, quite a few, in fact, that don't want to be weighted down with a half-dozen gadgets, when a pocketable, multi-purpose, cell-phone, will do. The PDA in particular seems to be headed for extinction.
But what advantage is there to using a robot instead of a much simpler and cheaper RFID reader? Tag a building in a way that says "Outpatient Clinic - Entrance." A dog could probably be trained to respond directly/independently to audio cues.
But you don't hear many stories like this about guide dogs, do you? Here is a typical training regime: The Phases of Guidework Training
The guidance system needs to be simple, reliable, and cheap. You don't need a camera or optical reader of any sort. Paint bar codes or guide tracks on a floor and they will inevitably be muddied and erased. Fire-resistant RFID tags could be very useful in guiding the disabled through emergency escape routes and procedures.
It should be possible to train animal aides to use simple RFID receivers. Perhaps using audio cues that translate to "Follow me" or "Danger, Keep away."
A quick search at Froogle found many players with digital audio output. High-end players like those from Denon may include Firewire. Denon DVD5900
Hatred of Microsoft diminishes by orders of magnitude the further you get from Slashdot. Fundamentally, the reason anti-trust prosecutions stall out is because they don't have any popular support.
It isn't a random purchase, it is a purchase of a firestarter, an acclerant, perhaps, that may have been used in an arson.
The investigators would have been looking at how the fire had started, and how it had spread, and asking whether this was an amatuer or a professional job. I'd not be surprised to learn that the firefighter was suspect for other reasons.
If I wanted to burn your house down, but make sure you got the blame for it, I could just go into safeway and give them YOUR name and YOUR phone number, buy the equipment, set fire to your house and YOU would hang for it.
The state does not build a prosecution on a single piece of evidence, nor does a criminal with any intelligence base his frame on anything so fragile. The Safeway purchase would be dated and timed. You might be caught on camera or catch the attention of a clerk for the most trival of reasons. Your victim could have an air-tight alibi.
You particularly do not want to target a volunteer firefighter or someone else in town that everyone knows by sight.