Walmart's Linux PCs are sold off it's web site. If granny simply reads the adds in her Sunday papers, and shops the chain's brick and motar stores, there is no reason to think she knows Linux exists.
Publisher 2003 currently ranks #150 on the Amazon.com sales list as a stand-alone program, $70 after holiday rebates. There will always be someone who needs to get a small print job out the door with a minimum of trouble and expense.
Remember, this is the country that routinely dropped colour from video taken "behind the iron curtain
The first studio news broadcasts in color began in the U.S. in the mid-1960s. The Soviet Union didn't have a color service until the mid-1960s, neither did the U.K., Canada, or anyone else, for that matter.
If you think that color was being stripped from video, it is probably because you have forgotten that almost no one at the height of the cold war owned a color tv set and the logistics of color production made it very expensive.
Ampex introduced the first studio color video tape recorder, vacuum tube technology, in 1965. Betacam camcorders do not arrive on the scene until 1982.
The country that loudly objected to the development of biological weapons anywhere, by anyone, until some of our congress critters got mailed samples of weaponized anthrax we had made in our biological weapons labs. Oops.
The ultimate source of the anthrax used in the attacks was traced to the The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRID) at Ft. Detrick, Maryland. But the Ames stain appears in both relatively benign and weaponized states in the attacks and is known to have been held by over a dozen labs here and abroad. 2001 anthrax attacks
It is at least plausible that the anthrax was weaponized outside of any legitimate lab, as the attacker gained confidence in his handling of the material.
Our legislators pass laws without reading them, in some cases without being allowed to read them and/or discuss them, and we pass laws which average citizens are not allowed to own a copy of.
It is common in the American system for legislation to reach the floor late in the session and be adopted under what passes for party discipline in the U.S. A great deal of "pork" may be tacked on at the last minute. But anything significant or controversial has usually survived a through working-over in committe.
Copies of the U.S. Code can be purchased from the Government Printing Office at about $80 a volume.
$135 for the full set and supplement on CD-ROM. You can search or browse the code (as ASCII text) for free. United States Code: Main Page
Comparisons between closed, propreitary, for profit, software and sales of prepackaged support releases are not a benchmark of quality or popularity.
which gives you an easy out whenever an OSS project fails to gain significant market share. but I don't see this argument being made when it is Firefox that takes the spotlight.
You have nothing to lose and every reason to believe that you can get away with it.
Not a chance. The burden on the prosecution is proof beyond a reasonable doubt, you do not escape conviction by going into court with a defense that is laughably implausible.
The young girl in question ceratinly is guilty of the crime, even though you suggest that she isn't.
It simply strikes me as cynical and self-serving when you protest the RIAA's pursuit of the "young girls" who support your download habit, but take no responsibility for helping to get them into trouble.
Of course if the sound card is DRM enabled, it will hear the sub-audible "watermark" in the audio & not record the audio. And of course Soldering irons will have been banned by the DMCA, so you'll already be in prison for you first act.
Heathkit has been extinct for twenty years. How many users would feel comfortable touching a soldering iron to a sound card, much less start mucking around with a multi-function integrated audio chip on a motherboard?
1) Unless you put time and money into your setup, you'll get a crap recording that sounds like AM radio played during a thunderstorm. If you believe the "analog hole" provides a cheap and easy solution, you have probably been listening to too much death metal played at full volume without earplugs.
2) Next-generation rights management will be embedded in the music and will remain embedded in your copy.
Because who wants to copy and cut all their CDs over analog audio, when it's so much easier to download the fully converted mp3s from P2P?
if you can easily download mp3 or wma cuts or from your CD to your mobile players, what then? you'll get a professional rip at a high sampling rate, something rare in P2P
the downloaded version can be used any way you like, while the store bought one can only be used in very limited ways.
"Limited" only in the sense it can't be uploaded for unlimited distribution over the Internet? Something a lot of people don't particularly care about anyway, and wouldn't miss.
That's not even counting the people who will refuse to buy it on principle (though most who will do that are already boycotting them for other reasons like because they sue young girls and purchase laws with impunity).
The young girls who are exposed to civil and criminal penalties because they supply the music you download? That is a little like saying that John should go free while his underage prostitute takes the fall. You tempt a child into crime, you should accept responsibility for the consequences of your actions.
It is no good saying that the law is wrong when the law is enforced and you know it, but the child doesn't.
A principled boycott requires that there can be no mistaking your intentions, you do not download music in ways that make it appear you are simply trying to avoid paying the license. It means going Cold Turkey or not all.
No pictures, unfortunately, but a good description of the late American architect Richard Foster's rotating house can be found here: Their life revolved around home It is a stunner to be found in once-rural Connecticut, glass walled on a long-stemmed base. (Foster was a partner of Philip Johnson) For the most part, he relied on off-the-shelf, low-maintenance, industrial solutions for electricity, plumbing, etc. The house, 500,000 pounds, the motor, 1 1/4 horsepower.
This pack of lies they call evidence could have been made up about any of them.
To which the jury's usual response is "Quilty!"
It is only coincidence that the IM writing style is so very like your own, that the content and timing of the messages make perfect sense if you are the author, etc., etc. Yeah, right.
Martha Stewart went to prison based on what she communicated with her stock broker, not that she communicated with him.
But you must begin your case by establishing that there was communication. You can build from there even when you don't know what was said. Juries dislike coincidence.
The burden of proof in a civil case is simply "more probable than not." You might want to think about that a little.
In a criminal case, your old messages would be a legitimate starting point for an investigation and likely enough on their own to justify a search. To get a warrant, the police don't have to prove you sent the incriminating messages, they just have to persuade a judge that it is reasonable to suppose that you did.
"Plausible Deniability" are not the words a defense attorney wants to hear from a client. For the prosecution, they are golden. The judge will see the lie, the jury will see the lie, and they will be against you from the start.
The odds are getting pretty damn good that users have upgraded to XP. Talk to your cable guy. W2K was never significant in the home, but, even among developers, XP has 60% of the market. OS Platform Statistics
You are working the night shift. The main post office is closed, but the kiosk is open 24/7, well lighted, and secure. You pick up your mail, drop off a parcel and are gone in five minutes. Sometimes surveillance works in your interest.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Ben Franklin
For most of our history there has been no such thing as an anonymous mail drop. You took your parcel to the local post office, which in a small town would likely be in the back of a general store or tavern.
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But it does explain why Linux is going nowhere in the mass consumer market.
There are economies of scale and Windows sells.
Walmart's Linux PCs are sold off it's web site. If granny simply reads the adds in her Sunday papers, and shops the chain's brick and motar stores, there is no reason to think she knows Linux exists.
a pity to post this as an A,C,. because it deserves to be modded up.
The cheapest Windows laptop sold off Walmart.com sells for $548, with a 40 GB HDD, DVD-ROM and interated 802.11b wireless networking.
Publisher 2003 currently ranks #150 on the Amazon.com sales list as a stand-alone program, $70 after holiday rebates. There will always be someone who needs to get a small print job out the door with a minimum of trouble and expense.
The first studio news broadcasts in color began in the U.S. in the mid-1960s. The Soviet Union didn't have a color service until the mid-1960s, neither did the U.K., Canada, or anyone else, for that matter.
If you think that color was being stripped from video, it is probably because you have forgotten that almost no one at the height of the cold war owned a color tv set and the logistics of color production made it very expensive.
Ampex introduced the first studio color video tape recorder, vacuum tube technology, in 1965. Betacam camcorders do not arrive on the scene until 1982.
The country that loudly objected to the development of biological weapons anywhere, by anyone, until some of our congress critters got mailed samples of weaponized anthrax we had made in our biological weapons labs. Oops.
The ultimate source of the anthrax used in the attacks was traced to the The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRID) at Ft. Detrick, Maryland. But the Ames stain appears in both relatively benign and weaponized states in the attacks and is known to have been held by over a dozen labs here and abroad. 2001 anthrax attacks
It is at least plausible that the anthrax was weaponized outside of any legitimate lab, as the attacker gained confidence in his handling of the material.
Our legislators pass laws without reading them, in some cases without being allowed to read them and/or discuss them, and we pass laws which average citizens are not allowed to own a copy of.
It is common in the American system for legislation to reach the floor late in the session and be adopted under what passes for party discipline in the U.S. A great deal of "pork" may be tacked on at the last minute. But anything significant or controversial has usually survived a through working-over in committe.
Copies of the U.S. Code can be purchased from the Government Printing Office at about $80 a volume.
$135 for the full set and supplement on CD-ROM. You can search or browse the code (as ASCII text) for free. United States Code: Main Page
which gives you an easy out whenever an OSS project fails to gain significant market share. but I don't see this argument being made when it is Firefox that takes the spotlight.
If the laws defines you actions as a felony or misdemeanor, you do the time, just as you would for any other crime.
Not a chance. The burden on the prosecution is proof beyond a reasonable doubt, you do not escape conviction by going into court with a defense that is laughably implausible.
It simply strikes me as cynical and self-serving when you protest the RIAA's pursuit of the "young girls" who support your download habit, but take no responsibility for helping to get them into trouble.
Heathkit has been extinct for twenty years. How many users would feel comfortable touching a soldering iron to a sound card, much less start mucking around with a multi-function integrated audio chip on a motherboard?
1) Unless you put time and money into your setup, you'll get a crap recording that sounds like AM radio played during a thunderstorm. If you believe the "analog hole" provides a cheap and easy solution, you have probably been listening to too much death metal played at full volume without earplugs.
2) Next-generation rights management will be embedded in the music and will remain embedded in your copy.
if you can easily download mp3 or wma cuts or from your CD to your mobile players, what then? you'll get a professional rip at a high sampling rate, something rare in P2P
"Limited" only in the sense it can't be uploaded for unlimited distribution over the Internet? Something a lot of people don't particularly care about anyway, and wouldn't miss.
That's not even counting the people who will refuse to buy it on principle (though most who will do that are already boycotting them for other reasons like because they sue young girls and purchase laws with impunity).
The young girls who are exposed to civil and criminal penalties because they supply the music you download? That is a little like saying that John should go free while his underage prostitute takes the fall. You tempt a child into crime, you should accept responsibility for the consequences of your actions.
It is no good saying that the law is wrong when the law is enforced and you know it, but the child doesn't.
A principled boycott requires that there can be no mistaking your intentions, you do not download music in ways that make it appear you are simply trying to avoid paying the license. It means going Cold Turkey or not all.
No pictures, unfortunately, but a good description of the late American architect Richard Foster's rotating house can be found here: Their life revolved around home It is a stunner to be found in once-rural Connecticut, glass walled on a long-stemmed base. (Foster was a partner of Philip Johnson) For the most part, he relied on off-the-shelf, low-maintenance, industrial solutions for electricity, plumbing, etc. The house, 500,000 pounds, the motor, 1 1/4 horsepower.
To which the jury's usual response is "Quilty!"
It is only coincidence that the IM writing style is so very like your own, that the content and timing of the messages make perfect sense if you are the author, etc., etc. Yeah, right.
"Plausible Deniability" sucks rocks.
But you must begin your case by establishing that there was communication. You can build from there even when you don't know what was said. Juries dislike coincidence.
In a criminal case, your old messages would be a legitimate starting point for an investigation and likely enough on their own to justify a search. To get a warrant, the police don't have to prove you sent the incriminating messages, they just have to persuade a judge that it is reasonable to suppose that you did.
"Plausible Deniability" are not the words a defense attorney wants to hear from a client. For the prosecution, they are golden. The judge will see the lie, the jury will see the lie, and they will be against you from the start.
and what is your source for this story?
The odds are getting pretty damn good that users have upgraded to XP. Talk to your cable guy.
W2K was never significant in the home, but, even among developers, XP has 60% of the market. OS Platform Statistics
I am reminded of a short, but memorable, quote from an essay on mystery fiction: "The author is the last to know."
This sort of thing can work in a book, but it is hell on the audience for a film or a video.
You are working the night shift. The main post office is closed, but the kiosk is open 24/7, well lighted, and secure. You pick up your mail, drop off a parcel and are gone in five minutes. Sometimes surveillance works in your interest.
For most of our history there has been no such thing as an anonymous mail drop. You took your parcel to the local post office, which in a small town would likely be in the back of a general store or tavern.