and we all hate uneducated people who can't pronounce words correctly either!
That's a lot of people to hate, especially since, as you say, there's a whole world of people out there. You should probably look into some anger management counseling.
But seriously, if "nukular" was an acceptable pronounciation by Jimmy Carter -- who was one of the first nuclear engineers in the Navy (Academy class of 1946) -- and tens of millions of other Americans -- including Dwight Eisenhower and Bill Clinton -- why single out George Bush?
Because before Bush was elected, "nucular" was used as a political tool to represent the argument that Bush is unintelligent. But now, it's used as a symbol of the anger the left feels over Bush being elected twice. When's the last time you ever heard someone complain about "nucular" without some large degree of bitterness in their voice?
Actually, in a 1944 Bugs Bunny cartoon, The Old Grey Hare, a newspaper headline from the future reads, "Smellovision replaces television? Carl Stalling sez, 'It'll never work!'"
There's no hypocrisy. And here's another overused joke for you to bitch about:
1. Slashdot takes Microsoft's advertising money. 2. Slashdot runs Microsoft's ads. 3. Slashdot readers block, ignore, or laugh at Microsoft's ads. 4. Microsoft doesn't sell any more software because of those ads. 5. ??? 6. Profit!!
In response to the question you tried to ask, though, no. Bypassing security is not a DMCA violation. The DMCA forbids bypassing schemes that restrict access to copyrighted works.
Unless "ficken" is "Gavin Clarke in San Francisco", a writer for The Register, "ficken" didn't write it at all. He just copied and pasted it verbatim from the article without providing attribution.
Article submitters need to give proper attribution when they quote another article, and/.'s editors really need to make sure that the articles they approve provide that attribution when the submission does nothing more than quote another article verbatim. You editors do read the linked pages before you approve the articles, right?
One of my favorite game soundtracks is from TES: Morrowind. Jeremy Soule came up with about an hour's worth of phenomenal orchestral composition, and the collector's edition of the game included these songs on an extra CD. (Yes, the game has them in mp3 format, so I could have burned my own, but that's beside the point.) Considering that there are hundreds of hours of gameplay available in Morrowind (and I'm sure I spent that much time playing), it's amazing that not once did I tire of the music. Not only did I never turn it off in-game, but I also listen to it in my car on occasion. Compare this to the pretty good soundtracks from Diablo II and World of Warcraft, which got old after a while.
Nobuo Uematsu, famed composer for the Final Fantasy series of games, also deserves recognition. For several games in a row, he was composing music for very limited platforms. Then comes FF8, with a wonderful orchestral piece accompanying the closing credits. There were indications that Square had made FF8 into sort of a movie that you play. This was shortly before their full CG Final Fantasy theatrical movie came out, and it seemed like FF8 was partially a technology proof-of-concept and partially an attempt to get geared up for making a movie. Anyway, the "game as movie" theme would simply not have worked had the music been merely average, but Uematsu's soundtrack made it work.
I agree with you on multiple counts. First off, while Microsoft and spammers are both evil, at least you have the choice not to be subjected to Microsoft products. Spam is all about eliminating the ability to choose whether you receive their e-mail or not.
And second, I agree that punitive damages shouldn't go into the hands of the plaintiff, but should be used to benefit society as a whole. As long as actual damages to the plaintiff are covered, anything above that is just an undeserved windfall. The point of punitive damages is punishment of the offender. While there's probably no completely equitable way to assign those funds (other than dividing them up equally among the population of a jurisdiction), handing the money to the government is more fair to society than giving it to a person or company that has already recouped their losses.
Assigning punitive damages to the government would also help reduce the massive drain on the economy caused by litigation, by removing a large part of the incentive for plaintiffs (and, more importantly, their lawyers) to sue. It'd be a definite boon for anybody who pays money into the health care industry.
Presumably, if the artist didn't hold the copyright on the music, they would be unable to grant Apple a license to sell the music on iTMS, and Apple wouldn't start selling the music in the first place. The implication is that Apple is selling their music, which means that while Sony has some sort of exclusivity agreement with the artist, they don't hold the copyright on the music itself.
In the US, this wouldn't fly. Apple would be opening themselves up to a slam-dunk lawsuit for contract interference. Maybe contract law is different in Japan, though.
The fellow's name is Motoharu Sano, and his band is called the Hobo King Band. Apparently, their music is not currently available on the American version of iTMS.
I agree. I still have all but one of the textbooks I bought throughout my postsecondary education, and many still come in handy every now and then.
But there are lots of college students who already sell back their textbooks to their school's bookstore after they're done with the class, and this is sort of the same thing - you essentially get back 33% of your book's purchase price, and you save yourself a trip to the bookstore. The question is whether the purchase price is actually a ripoff since you get no hard copy, meaning you need a laptop if you want to take your book with you to the library, the restroom, class, a neighboring dorm, or your parents' house.
My conclusion was, solve the education problems (that is, access to good education and a supportive home environment) facing poor kids and you are far more likely to solve the inequity problem.
Agreed, but we still need to examine why students in high school aren't learning, but can then go on to CC and get prepared to attend a four-year college.
For example, is it because the students who attend CC (since it's optional, compared to high school) are interested in learning, but their educational growth was stunted by the environment created by their classmates who weren't interested in learning? In that case, could the solution be something as simple as removing students who are unwilling to participate in their own high school education, and who instead try to ruin things for everyone else?* A restoration of discipline in the classroom, with administrators being much quicker to suspend/expel unruly students, is key here. I know it sounds harsh, but perhaps the "no child left behind" concept actually does more harm than good, especially when you want to reduce race and class inequities in higher education and the workplace. The hope would be that, as those of disadvantaged race or class pull themselves up and away from the true dregs of society, the tendency of people to become juvenile delinquents in future generations would be reduced.
Or, is there a cultural influence that exists in high school ("school ain't cool") which these students grow out of once they get older? If this is the problem, perhaps the solution is to combine new, more engaging teaching methods with increased police and judicial focus on reducing teen delinquency.
(* Another potential solution, to help improve the extracurricular and home environment, would be to provide government subsidies to ship off particularly unruly - perhaps criminally so - students to attend "boot camp" schools which remove them not only from the school environment but from the neighborhood altogether.)
How does the RIAA work it out to where they can sue on behalf of member companies without those companies assigning copyright to the RIAA? Could you just do the same thing with the FSF?
Maybe it is an urban legend, but since I was shooting for "funny" rather than "informative" I figured I'd risk being wrong and let somebody else do the fact-checking for me.;)
That said, maybe you're right, and I should at least do a Google search. Well, it turns out that getting info on this phenomenon-or-urban-legend is fairly difficult. The only page I found that has any remotely reputable mention of this is this one, and it doesn't look like the sources it cites refer to this phenomenon specifically. Snopes doesn't seem to have anything at all on this topic.
As it turns out, if you wire up the part of a mouse's brain that generates sexual gratification to a switch, and then give the mouse access to that switch, it will repeatedly push that button to the abandonment of all other necessities of life (food, sleep) until it dies.
Apparently, all it took in this case was a game, and the game didn't even involve sex. I wonder what that says about humans.
1. Linux is free (as in beer). 2. Windows is not free. 3. The applicable statute and federal regulation establishes a right for any developer of a work in the covered class to preregister that work for copyright. 4. Requiring the use of a web browser only available with a non-free operating system amounts to the requirement of an additional fee. This fee is not permitted by statute, because the Copyright Office is not given permission to cause fees to be collected by other agencies. Nor could any subsidy to Microsoft be considered to be "fair and equitable and give due consideration to the objectives of the copyright system" (17 USC 708(b)(4)).
Note that this argument doesn't apply the other way around. The government can feel free to "subsidize" free web browsers that work on free operating systems, because no cost is incurred to the preregistration applicant.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe Rojakpot is the Roland of a new generation.
and we all hate uneducated people who can't pronounce words correctly either!
That's a lot of people to hate, especially since, as you say, there's a whole world of people out there. You should probably look into some anger management counseling.
We already know that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
But seriously, if "nukular" was an acceptable pronounciation by Jimmy Carter -- who was one of the first nuclear engineers in the Navy (Academy class of 1946) -- and tens of millions of other Americans -- including Dwight Eisenhower and Bill Clinton -- why single out George Bush?
Because before Bush was elected, "nucular" was used as a political tool to represent the argument that Bush is unintelligent. But now, it's used as a symbol of the anger the left feels over Bush being elected twice. When's the last time you ever heard someone complain about "nucular" without some large degree of bitterness in their voice?
Actually, in a 1944 Bugs Bunny cartoon, The Old Grey Hare , a newspaper headline from the future reads, "Smellovision replaces television? Carl Stalling sez, 'It'll never work!'"
There's no hypocrisy. And here's another overused joke for you to bitch about:
1. Slashdot takes Microsoft's advertising money.
2. Slashdot runs Microsoft's ads.
3. Slashdot readers block, ignore, or laugh at Microsoft's ads.
4. Microsoft doesn't sell any more software because of those ads.
5. ???
6. Profit!!
You mean the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA? The DMCRA is something else altogether, and the "DRMCA" doesn't even exist.
In response to the question you tried to ask, though, no. Bypassing security is not a DMCA violation. The DMCA forbids bypassing schemes that restrict access to copyrighted works.
It's important to teach him those life skills of "trolling" and "flaming" at an early age!
And in this case, there's no contract to break. But Google can still IP ban you if they want.
I guess now I don't need to register iwonderhowlongadomainnamecanbe.com.
Unless "ficken" is "Gavin Clarke in San Francisco", a writer for The Register, "ficken" didn't write it at all. He just copied and pasted it verbatim from the article without providing attribution.
/.'s editors really need to make sure that the articles they approve provide that attribution when the submission does nothing more than quote another article verbatim. You editors do read the linked pages before you approve the articles, right?
Article submitters need to give proper attribution when they quote another article, and
I'm also not a fan of that website you linked. Give me a non-flash version, or give me death! (Okay, maybe not death.)
One of my favorite game soundtracks is from TES: Morrowind. Jeremy Soule came up with about an hour's worth of phenomenal orchestral composition, and the collector's edition of the game included these songs on an extra CD. (Yes, the game has them in mp3 format, so I could have burned my own, but that's beside the point.) Considering that there are hundreds of hours of gameplay available in Morrowind (and I'm sure I spent that much time playing), it's amazing that not once did I tire of the music. Not only did I never turn it off in-game, but I also listen to it in my car on occasion. Compare this to the pretty good soundtracks from Diablo II and World of Warcraft, which got old after a while.
Nobuo Uematsu, famed composer for the Final Fantasy series of games, also deserves recognition. For several games in a row, he was composing music for very limited platforms. Then comes FF8, with a wonderful orchestral piece accompanying the closing credits. There were indications that Square had made FF8 into sort of a movie that you play. This was shortly before their full CG Final Fantasy theatrical movie came out, and it seemed like FF8 was partially a technology proof-of-concept and partially an attempt to get geared up for making a movie. Anyway, the "game as movie" theme would simply not have worked had the music been merely average, but Uematsu's soundtrack made it work.
I agree with you on multiple counts. First off, while Microsoft and spammers are both evil, at least you have the choice not to be subjected to Microsoft products. Spam is all about eliminating the ability to choose whether you receive their e-mail or not.
And second, I agree that punitive damages shouldn't go into the hands of the plaintiff, but should be used to benefit society as a whole. As long as actual damages to the plaintiff are covered, anything above that is just an undeserved windfall. The point of punitive damages is punishment of the offender. While there's probably no completely equitable way to assign those funds (other than dividing them up equally among the population of a jurisdiction), handing the money to the government is more fair to society than giving it to a person or company that has already recouped their losses.
Assigning punitive damages to the government would also help reduce the massive drain on the economy caused by litigation, by removing a large part of the incentive for plaintiffs (and, more importantly, their lawyers) to sue. It'd be a definite boon for anybody who pays money into the health care industry.
Presumably, if the artist didn't hold the copyright on the music, they would be unable to grant Apple a license to sell the music on iTMS, and Apple wouldn't start selling the music in the first place. The implication is that Apple is selling their music, which means that while Sony has some sort of exclusivity agreement with the artist, they don't hold the copyright on the music itself.
In the US, this wouldn't fly. Apple would be opening themselves up to a slam-dunk lawsuit for contract interference. Maybe contract law is different in Japan, though.
The fellow's name is Motoharu Sano, and his band is called the Hobo King Band. Apparently, their music is not currently available on the American version of iTMS.
George Takei: Let's take them out with us. Do you guys have a self destruct code? Like "Destruct Sequence one-A, two-B, three"--
(Bender's head explodes instantly.)
Bender: Thanks a lot, Takei! Now everybody knows!
Learning is only a subset of artificial intelligence.
I agree. I still have all but one of the textbooks I bought throughout my postsecondary education, and many still come in handy every now and then.
But there are lots of college students who already sell back their textbooks to their school's bookstore after they're done with the class, and this is sort of the same thing - you essentially get back 33% of your book's purchase price, and you save yourself a trip to the bookstore. The question is whether the purchase price is actually a ripoff since you get no hard copy, meaning you need a laptop if you want to take your book with you to the library, the restroom, class, a neighboring dorm, or your parents' house.
My conclusion was, solve the education problems (that is, access to good education and a supportive home environment) facing poor kids and you are far more likely to solve the inequity problem.
Agreed, but we still need to examine why students in high school aren't learning, but can then go on to CC and get prepared to attend a four-year college.
For example, is it because the students who attend CC (since it's optional, compared to high school) are interested in learning, but their educational growth was stunted by the environment created by their classmates who weren't interested in learning? In that case, could the solution be something as simple as removing students who are unwilling to participate in their own high school education, and who instead try to ruin things for everyone else?* A restoration of discipline in the classroom, with administrators being much quicker to suspend/expel unruly students, is key here. I know it sounds harsh, but perhaps the "no child left behind" concept actually does more harm than good, especially when you want to reduce race and class inequities in higher education and the workplace. The hope would be that, as those of disadvantaged race or class pull themselves up and away from the true dregs of society, the tendency of people to become juvenile delinquents in future generations would be reduced.
Or, is there a cultural influence that exists in high school ("school ain't cool") which these students grow out of once they get older? If this is the problem, perhaps the solution is to combine new, more engaging teaching methods with increased police and judicial focus on reducing teen delinquency.
(* Another potential solution, to help improve the extracurricular and home environment, would be to provide government subsidies to ship off particularly unruly - perhaps criminally so - students to attend "boot camp" schools which remove them not only from the school environment but from the neighborhood altogether.)
How does the RIAA work it out to where they can sue on behalf of member companies without those companies assigning copyright to the RIAA? Could you just do the same thing with the FSF?
Well, here's an extra post just for you. Next time, log in so we can flame each other like grownups :)
Maybe it is an urban legend, but since I was shooting for "funny" rather than "informative" I figured I'd risk being wrong and let somebody else do the fact-checking for me. ;)
That said, maybe you're right, and I should at least do a Google search. Well, it turns out that getting info on this phenomenon-or-urban-legend is fairly difficult. The only page I found that has any remotely reputable mention of this is this one, and it doesn't look like the sources it cites refer to this phenomenon specifically. Snopes doesn't seem to have anything at all on this topic.
As it turns out, if you wire up the part of a mouse's brain that generates sexual gratification to a switch, and then give the mouse access to that switch, it will repeatedly push that button to the abandonment of all other necessities of life (food, sleep) until it dies.
Apparently, all it took in this case was a game, and the game didn't even involve sex. I wonder what that says about humans.
1. Linux is free (as in beer).
2. Windows is not free.
3. The applicable statute and federal regulation establishes a right for any developer of a work in the covered class to preregister that work for copyright.
4. Requiring the use of a web browser only available with a non-free operating system amounts to the requirement of an additional fee. This fee is not permitted by statute, because the Copyright Office is not given permission to cause fees to be collected by other agencies. Nor could any subsidy to Microsoft be considered to be "fair and equitable and give due consideration to the objectives of the copyright system" (17 USC 708(b)(4)).
Note that this argument doesn't apply the other way around. The government can feel free to "subsidize" free web browsers that work on free operating systems, because no cost is incurred to the preregistration applicant.