Not only demands for Jury Trials -
Occupy should start the Nullify movement - E.G. if you are on a jury refuse to return a guilty verdict for victimless BS charges.
Not this again.
Jury Nullification is Russian Roulette with all chambers loaded.
Ask a black man or woman of a certain age what jury nullification meant to them. Ask a border state Hispanic legal or illegal immigrant the same question now.
The geek enters a court as the outsider --- not the home town boy ---- and he will ---- quite predictably --- get hammered into the marble flooring if he tries to play the nullification card.
"Self-represented defendants are not bound by lawyers' ethical codes. This means that a defendant who represents himself can delay proceedings and sometimes wreak havoc on an already overloaded system by repeatedly filing motions."
You can ask a judge to make some reasonable allowances for your ignorance of proper procedure.
But don't for one minute think that you can play him for a fool.
Why do we still want our artificial light to be the same color of candles used back in the stupid ages?
Think of the choices you have made in clothing and in interior design:
Materials. Colors. Textures, Patterns --- all will be affected by any change in lighting. You wife won't take kindly if your high-efficiency lamps turn her newly remodeled kitchen and bath into the CSI Morgue.
The constitution was in active service for longer than the Enterprise, but it's no longer in active service. It's been a museum for 100 years.
How much of the an original wooden vessel survives after ten years, thirty years, 100 years is a very interesting question. In the end, you are always looking at a restoration or re-construction.
Wood rots. Hemp rots. Canvas rots.
Rumors had circulated for half a century that the Constellation was not what its promoters claimed it to be, and [Dana] Wegner's report confirmed them. Investigators from the Navy discovered that the supposed Revolutionary War-era frigate in Baltimore Harbor was actually a Civil War era sloop that had been built in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1854. All it shared with the frigate built in Baltimore in the eighteenth century was its name. It resembled a Revolutionary War-era frigate because during early renovations, some of the ship's admirers had "restored" the Constellation to appear to be almost 60 years older than it was; for example, they added a second gun deck and made other alterations. For most of its tenure in Baltimore, the Constellation was living a lie. [This] distortion of history came at the expense of the Constellation's own very interesting history. It was, for example, the last and largest all sail-powered sloop commissioned by the U.S. Navy, and while it did not engage in a famous sea battle, as did its predecessor, it did work to interdict the slave trade during the mid-1800s.
I just tried bing on a list of sample (obscure, complicated) queries that are relevant to me, personally. google found the correct page in 3 out of 4. bing got 1 out of 4.
Before modding you up to +4, I would like to see your queries. Not that I don't trust you... But something which can tested is more persuasive to my way of thinking than any anecdote.
[I} was then surprised how on a search for ubuntu it quite prominently gave a link about how ubuntu was an imperfect alternative to windows. It took me back to "get the facts".
Hmmm...
I'll have to call you on this:
Because what see in Bing is the Ubuntu home page as the top link, a quick access search bar for Ubuntu.com, a Downloads link, and many, many, more pages of immediately useful, clearly relevant links.
Any loss would come from the loss of a potential sale, but as most file sharing either is done by people who would never pay for the stuff they download (no lost sale)....
The car thief doesn't get let off the hook because he would never would have paid for the cars he stole.
Tell me why again why the geek with a PC and a broadband connection is entitled to freely download movies and games that others must rent from the Red Box or go without.
"File sharing" implies that you are both uploading and downloading files.
The Kazaa client made it explicit by displaying progress bars for both upload and download traffic. There was not so much as fig leaf to disguise that you were engaged in an unlicensed wholesale redistribution.
The feds should be going after the users that upload the content, not the hosts.
Megaupload was paying bounties for hot files.
That takes you light years distant from being an innocent host ----and it means that the uploaders whose rewards can be traced are toast --- the only question is how long it will take before they feel the burn.
What are YOU going to do about it? you sound as if the libre office project owes you something because you deign to use it. It is the other way around.
It is this attitude that puts billions of dollars in the pockets of Apple and Microsoft each quarter.
The mega corp funds open source projects to advance its own interests. When a project doesn't measure up to the user's expectations the cord is cut.
Business has somehow gotten the whacked idea that it can't survive without paying hundreds of dollars per seat for an app that creates and edits office documents.
The geek sees the stand-alone office suite.
What he does not see is that MS Office is sold as part of an integrated office system that scales to an enterprise of any size.
Why doesn't the console gamer either hook up a PC to the TV or STFU?
The video game console is set up in a family room or a fully kitted out home theater with front projection, surround sound, lounge seating and a popcorn machine.
The emphasis is on social gaming with family and friends.
Half the fun in owning a Kinect or Wii controller is watching your kids and your Dad at play in a game they can enjoy together.
On December 8, 2011, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg dismissed the last remaining count of the class action lawsuit, stating: "As a legal matter, [..] plaintiffs have failed to allege facts or articulate a theory on which Sony may be held liable."
Digging a little deeper:
Seeborg found the plaintiffs could not prove that they had a right to expect the OS feature beyond Sony's warranty period or continued access to the Playstation Network.
"The dismay and frustration at least some PS3 owners likely experienced when Sony made the decision to limit access to the PSN service to those who were [un]willing to disable the Other OS feature on their machines was no doubt genuine and understandable," Judge Seeborg wrote. "As a matter of providing customer satisfaction and building loyalty, it may have been questionable."
The problem is that the plaintiffs could not prove that they were entitled to an ongoing relationship with Sony after the date of purchase, and they had the option of turning down the update and continuing their use of their Linux installations. "As a legal matter... plaintiffs have failed to allege facts or articulate a theory on which Sony may be held liable," Judge Seeborg wrote.
The choice may have been a difficult one for those who valued both the Other OS feature and access to the PSN, but it was still a choice.
[For] Sony's conduct to have been in any manner wrongful, it is not enough for
plaintiffs to show that they have a right to expect continued availability of the Other OS feature
beyond the warranty period, but also a right to continued access to the PSN. Nothing in plaintiffs' factual allegations or their arguments is sufficient to support a
conclusion that Sony has any obligation to maintain the PSN in operation indefinitely.
In short, even assuming it would be wrongful under one or more of plaintiffs' legal theories
for Sony unilaterally to disable the Other OS feature after expiration of the warranty period but
during the reasonably expected lifetime of machines that were otherwise still working properly, the facts show that Sony did not do so, except with the consent of owners who exercised an affirmative choice to install Firmware Update 3.21. For some, that choice may not have been made without regret, but absent some legal entitlement to continued access to the PSN, it was still a choice.
They won't think twice about deputizing the FBI to kick in your door if you so much as rip a DVD to your computer, so why do you feel you owe them your attention?
Money. Talent. Technical resources.
In 100 years there have been two feature length films based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Princess of Mars." The first was an obscure direct-to-video indie release in 2009. The second is Andrew Stanton's first live action film for Disney --- with a budget of $250 million.
If there is anything better in Sci-Fi than the opening chapters of Wall-E, I have yet to see it.
They keep their locked down content to themselves.
And the internet is for unlocked content.
Either they play by the rules of the playing field or they go elsewhere.
They should stop trying to break the internet and go somewhere else where they can be happy.
I wasn't aware "The Internet" had any rules.
Traffic moves both openly and encrypted.
Some sites are accessible to anyone while others are restricted. Some services are free while others demand payment.
Slashdot has its own "locked content" and paid subscription benefits.
Content can go elsewhere.
To the Internet enabled HDTV, the video game console and set top box.
To the app store and the walled garden of the iOS, the Kindle and Windows 8 Metro.
The problem for the geek is that users move to the platforms supported by the major content providers.
Disney and Warner were the first Hollywood studios to move into television production in a very big way. Davy Crockett. Zorro. Maverick. When Disney moved to NBC and full color production, the audience moved with them.
If people can make a living out of making and servicing these toilets then the sanitary and economic (from the created industry) benefit will spread quickly and independently without requiring the oversight of a foreign NGO.
This is the same argument Negroponte made for the OLPC laptop.
I just finished reading my Gutenberg ebook copy of A Princess of Mars so that I can have it fresh in my mind and be outraged at what Disney has done to a great classic.
Andrew Stanton's credits include:
Up, Wall-E, Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc and Toy Story. The opening chapters of Wall-E are as fine a thing as we have in the entire genre of science fiction in literature, film or television.
I just finished reading my (free, of course) Gutenberg ebook copy of A Princess of Mars
The non-profit Library of America is publishing "The Princess of Mars" in a fine new hardcover edition. Sewn bindings. Acid free stock. $10.75 on pre-order from Amazon,com
Princess of Mars
Also available in a Burroughs Centennial edition from LOA, Tarzan of the Apes. $11.64
There are many collections of Burroughs Martian stories available for the Kindle, most priced at 99 cents.
Incidentally, if you think Disney is done ripping off the public domain, then you've missed John Carter. Wondering why on Earth Disney would create a film about a Civil War vet who is sent to Mars to save the Princess of Helium?
Because it's based on the now public domain A Princess of Mars Disney is, to this day, still profiting off the public domain, while refusing to allow anything they have made to ever enter it.
There was an obscure direct-to-dvd live action adaptation of "The Princess of Mars" released in 2009. Princess of Mars Disney is the first major studio to take on Burroughs Martian tales in 100 years --- in a high-riisk $250 million dollar production.
This is why you make the movie:
The world of Barsoom is a romantic vision of a dying Mars, based on now-outdated scientific ideas made popular by Astronomer Percival Lowell in the early 20th century. While depicting many outlandish inventions, and advanced technology, it is a savage world, of honor, noble sacrifice and constant struggle, where martial prowess is paramount, and where many races fight over dwindling resources. It is filled with lost cities, heroic adventures and forgotten ancient secrets.
MGM in its prime was the home of the prestige big budget production based on works in the public domain.
Disney was a small independent studio that used animation to remain competitive. That meant looking for stories that could be best told through animation. Legends and fairy tales, and fantasies like "Pinocchio" were the obvious way to go.
The geek doesn't know popular culture as well as he thinks he does. A casual search of IMdB will expose hundreds if not thousands of adaptations based on the same public domain sources used by Disney. Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Cinderella," for example.
But many of the Disney classics were not based on public domain sources: Dumbo, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, 101 Dalmations and so on.
Microsoft need fear no "Office Alternative". If LibreOffice couldn't kill the inferior and more expensive Microsoft Office...
Microsoft sells the MS Office suite as part of an integrated office system that scales to an enterprise of any size. Programs like Outlook, Sharepoint, Vizio and so on. Solutions for the client, the server and the web.
While that may be true, that doesn't appear to be the judge's rational for convicting the kid.
Not really.
The judge is only saying that the "ethical" hacking" argument is bogus. That as a defense it is worthless.
The judge doesn't want to hear what might happen to Facebook and its users somewhere down the road. There are too many many variables and the answer is unknown. He is in the business of fixing responsibility for what happened in the past.
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder if Windows 8 will actually default to the correct time zone _after_ I've already told it what country I am in.
How many time zones in your country?
Not only demands for Jury Trials -
Occupy should start the Nullify movement - E.G. if you are on a jury refuse to return a guilty verdict for victimless BS charges.
Not this again.
Jury Nullification is Russian Roulette with all chambers loaded.
Ask a black man or woman of a certain age what jury nullification meant to them. Ask a border state Hispanic legal or illegal immigrant the same question now.
The geek enters a court as the outsider --- not the home town boy ---- and he will ---- quite predictably --- get hammered into the marble flooring if he tries to play the nullification card.
"Self-represented defendants are not bound by lawyers' ethical codes. This means that a defendant who represents himself can delay proceedings and sometimes wreak havoc on an already overloaded system by repeatedly filing motions."
You can ask a judge to make some reasonable allowances for your ignorance of proper procedure.
But don't for one minute think that you can play him for a fool.
Good musicians earn their living through concerts , shit ones through radio ad revenue.
I'll take it as given that the you think of a professional musician as a twenty-year old kid, single, with the stamina of an army mule.
Why do we still want our artificial light to be the same color of candles used back in the stupid ages?
Think of the choices you have made in clothing and in interior design:
Materials. Colors. Textures, Patterns --- all will be affected by any change in lighting. You wife won't take kindly if your high-efficiency lamps turn her newly remodeled kitchen and bath into the CSI Morgue.
Did you guys know that the Enterprise is the United States' only nuclear wessel?
I am not sure if you mean this as a joke.
There are ten Nimitz class carriers in service. Nuclear Powered Surface Ships of the World
The constitution was in active service for longer than the Enterprise, but it's no longer in active service. It's been a museum for 100 years.
How much of the an original wooden vessel survives after ten years, thirty years, 100 years is a very interesting question. In the end, you are always looking at a restoration or re-construction.
Wood rots. Hemp rots. Canvas rots.
Rumors had circulated for half a century that the Constellation was not what its promoters claimed it to be, and [Dana] Wegner's report confirmed them. Investigators from the Navy discovered that the supposed Revolutionary War-era frigate in Baltimore Harbor was actually a Civil War era sloop that had been built in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1854. All it shared with the frigate built in Baltimore in the eighteenth century was its name. It resembled a Revolutionary War-era frigate because during early renovations, some of the ship's admirers had "restored" the Constellation to appear to be almost 60 years older than it was; for example, they added a second gun deck and made other alterations. For most of its tenure in Baltimore, the Constellation was living a lie.
[This] distortion of history came at the expense of the Constellation's own very interesting history. It was, for example, the last and largest all sail-powered sloop commissioned by the U.S. Navy, and while it did not engage in a famous sea battle, as did its predecessor, it did work to interdict the slave trade during the mid-1800s.
Archival Authenticity in a Digital Age
I just tried bing on a list of sample (obscure, complicated) queries that are relevant to me, personally. google found the correct page in 3 out of 4. bing got 1 out of 4.
Before modding you up to +4, I would like to see your queries. Not that I don't trust you... But something which can tested is more persuasive to my way of thinking than any anecdote.
[I} was then surprised how on a search for ubuntu it quite prominently gave a link about how ubuntu was an imperfect alternative to windows. It took me back to "get the facts".
Hmmm...
I'll have to call you on this:
Because what see in Bing is the Ubuntu home page as the top link, a quick access search bar for Ubuntu.com, a Downloads link, and many, many, more pages of immediately useful, clearly relevant links.
[2:15 PM ET March 10]
Any loss would come from the loss of a potential sale, but as most file sharing either is done by people who would never pay for the stuff they download (no lost sale)....
The car thief doesn't get let off the hook because he would never would have paid for the cars he stole.
Tell me why again why the geek with a PC and a broadband connection is entitled to freely download movies and games that others must rent from the Red Box or go without.
"File sharing" implies that you are both uploading and downloading files.
The Kazaa client made it explicit by displaying progress bars for both upload and download traffic. There was not so much as fig leaf to disguise that you were engaged in an unlicensed wholesale redistribution.
The feds should be going after the users that upload the content, not the hosts.
Megaupload was paying bounties for hot files.
That takes you light years distant from being an innocent host ----and it means that the uploaders whose rewards can be traced are toast --- the only question is how long it will take before they feel the burn.
Become friends with a member of the IT department. Alcohol can go a long way in beginning an IT related friendship.
Get your friend in IT fired and you won't have any friends in IT.
What are YOU going to do about it? you sound as if the libre office project owes you something because you deign to use it. It is the other way around.
It is this attitude that puts billions of dollars in the pockets of Apple and Microsoft each quarter.
The mega corp funds open source projects to advance its own interests. When a project doesn't measure up to the user's expectations the cord is cut.
Business has somehow gotten the whacked idea that it can't survive without paying hundreds of dollars per seat for an app that creates and edits office documents.
The geek sees the stand-alone office suite.
What he does not see is that MS Office is sold as part of an integrated office system that scales to an enterprise of any size.
As much as it will piss off the gay community, it IS legal to hate your roommate and to try to embarrass them.
Hate is an emotion.
Public exposure or harassment of another's sexual behavior is an action.
Why the geek would think that such an action is or should be legally protected is as clear as mud to me,
Why doesn't the console gamer either hook up a PC to the TV or STFU?
The video game console is set up in a family room or a fully kitted out home theater with front projection, surround sound, lounge seating and a popcorn machine.
The emphasis is on social gaming with family and friends.
Half the fun in owning a Kinect or Wii controller is watching your kids and your Dad at play in a game they can enjoy together.
It may seem like a dumb request, but most Windows, OS X, Xbox360, PS3 and Wii games don't seem to understand this simple concept.
The PC game is played solo.
There are others competing for use of your big screen HDTV.
The PC gamer will complain about the mediocre graphics and controls of the console port.
The console gamer will complain about "balance" --- anything that gives the PC gamer a competitive edge.
On December 8, 2011, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg dismissed the last remaining count of the class action lawsuit, stating: "As a legal matter, [..] plaintiffs have failed to allege facts or articulate a theory on which Sony may be held liable."
Digging a little deeper:
Seeborg found the plaintiffs could not prove that they had a right to expect the OS feature beyond Sony's warranty period or continued access to the Playstation Network.
Sony Tosses PlayStation 3 Upgrade Claims Aside
"The dismay and frustration at least some PS3 owners likely experienced when Sony made the decision to limit access to the PSN service to those who were [un]willing to disable the Other OS feature on their machines was no doubt genuine and understandable," Judge Seeborg wrote. "As a matter of providing customer satisfaction and building loyalty, it may have been questionable."
The problem is that the plaintiffs could not prove that they were entitled to an ongoing relationship with Sony after the date of purchase, and they had the option of turning down the update and continuing their use of their Linux installations. "As a legal matter... plaintiffs have failed to allege facts or articulate a theory on which Sony may be held liable," Judge Seeborg wrote.
Judge dismisses "Other OS" class-action suit against Sony
The choice may have been a difficult one for those who valued both the Other OS feature and access to the PSN, but it was still a choice.
[For] Sony's conduct to have been in any manner wrongful, it is not enough for plaintiffs to show that they have a right to expect continued availability of the Other OS feature beyond the warranty period, but also a right to continued access to the PSN. Nothing in plaintiffs' factual allegations or their arguments is sufficient to support a conclusion that Sony has any obligation to maintain the PSN in operation indefinitely.
In short, even assuming it would be wrongful under one or more of plaintiffs' legal theories for Sony unilaterally to disable the Other OS feature after expiration of the warranty period but during the reasonably expected lifetime of machines that were otherwise still working properly, the facts show that Sony did not do so, except with the consent of owners who exercised an affirmative choice to install Firmware Update 3.21. For some, that choice may not have been made without regret, but absent some legal entitlement to continued access to the PSN, it was still a choice.
IN RE SONY PS3 OTHER OS LITIGATIONI [Full text]
They won't think twice about deputizing the FBI to kick in your door if you so much as rip a DVD to your computer, so why do you feel you owe them your attention?
Money. Talent. Technical resources.
In 100 years there have been two feature length films based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Princess of Mars." The first was an obscure direct-to-video indie release in 2009. The second is Andrew Stanton's first live action film for Disney --- with a budget of $250 million.
If there is anything better in Sci-Fi than the opening chapters of Wall-E, I have yet to see it.
They keep their locked down content to themselves.
And the internet is for unlocked content.
Either they play by the rules of the playing field or they go elsewhere.
They should stop trying to break the internet and go somewhere else where they can be happy.
I wasn't aware "The Internet" had any rules.
Traffic moves both openly and encrypted.
Some sites are accessible to anyone while others are restricted. Some services are free while others demand payment.
Slashdot has its own "locked content" and paid subscription benefits.
Content can go elsewhere.
To the Internet enabled HDTV, the video game console and set top box.
To the app store and the walled garden of the iOS, the Kindle and Windows 8 Metro.
The problem for the geek is that users move to the platforms supported by the major content providers.
Disney and Warner were the first Hollywood studios to move into television production in a very big way. Davy Crockett. Zorro. Maverick. When Disney moved to NBC and full color production, the audience moved with them.
The pattern repeats in each new generation.
If people can make a living out of making and servicing these toilets then the sanitary and economic (from the created industry) benefit will spread quickly and independently without requiring the oversight of a foreign NGO.
This is the same argument Negroponte made for the OLPC laptop.
1.84 million distributed.
24,000 to Asia.
360,000 to Uruguay
870,000 to Peru.
One Laptop per Child
I just finished reading my Gutenberg ebook copy of A Princess of Mars so that I can have it fresh in my mind and be outraged at what Disney has done to a great classic.
Andrew Stanton's credits include:
Up, Wall-E, Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc and Toy Story. The opening chapters of Wall-E are as fine a thing as we have in the entire genre of science fiction in literature, film or television.
I just finished reading my (free, of course) Gutenberg ebook copy of A Princess of Mars
The non-profit Library of America is publishing "The Princess of Mars" in a fine new hardcover edition. Sewn bindings. Acid free stock. $10.75 on pre-order from Amazon,com Princess of Mars
Also available in a Burroughs Centennial edition from LOA, Tarzan of the Apes. $11.64
There are many collections of Burroughs Martian stories available for the Kindle, most priced at 99 cents.
Incidentally, if you think Disney is done ripping off the public domain, then you've missed John Carter. Wondering why on Earth Disney would create a film about a Civil War vet who is sent to Mars to save the Princess of Helium?
Because it's based on the now public domain A Princess of Mars
Disney is, to this day, still profiting off the public domain, while refusing to allow anything they have made to ever enter it.
There was an obscure direct-to-dvd live action adaptation of "The Princess of Mars" released in 2009. Princess of Mars Disney is the first major studio to take on Burroughs Martian tales in 100 years --- in a high-riisk $250 million dollar production.
This is why you make the movie:
The world of Barsoom is a romantic vision of a dying Mars, based on now-outdated scientific ideas made popular by Astronomer Percival Lowell in the early 20th century. While depicting many outlandish inventions, and advanced technology, it is a savage world, of honor, noble sacrifice and constant struggle, where martial prowess is paramount, and where many races fight over dwindling resources. It is filled with lost cities, heroic adventures and forgotten ancient secrets.
Barsoom
"A Princess of Mars is singularly important... in that it innovated the grammar for the American version of the lost world romance." --- Junot Diaz
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Princess of Mars
MGM in its prime was the home of the prestige big budget production based on works in the public domain.
Disney was a small independent studio that used animation to remain competitive. That meant looking for stories that could be best told through animation. Legends and fairy tales, and fantasies like "Pinocchio" were the obvious way to go.
The geek doesn't know popular culture as well as he thinks he does. A casual search of IMdB will expose hundreds if not thousands of adaptations based on the same public domain sources used by Disney. Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Cinderella," for example.
But many of the Disney classics were not based on public domain sources: Dumbo, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, 101 Dalmations and so on.
Microsoft need fear no "Office Alternative". If LibreOffice couldn't kill the inferior and more expensive Microsoft Office...
Microsoft sells the MS Office suite as part of an integrated office system that scales to an enterprise of any size. Programs like Outlook, Sharepoint, Vizio and so on. Solutions for the client, the server and the web.
While that may be true, that doesn't appear to be the judge's rational for convicting the kid.
Not really.
The judge is only saying that the "ethical" hacking" argument is bogus. That as a defense it is worthless.
The judge doesn't want to hear what might happen to Facebook and its users somewhere down the road. There are too many many variables and the answer is unknown. He is in the business of fixing responsibility for what happened in the past.
He cares only about what you did.