This attempt to change the rules after you've purchased the hardware should be slammed down in the hardest possible fashion. Sony should have to refund in full the purchase price of the PS3 and all games and accessories that you purchased for it if you don't wish to accept the new terms.
This post also incorporates all of the above suggested punishments and outrages against Sony times 2.
Of course, it might be difficult from a practical standpoint to track down enough individual members who agree to be certified into the class, especially given the large numbers of works involved, but it may be possible depending upon what requirements are imposed by the judge to certify the class.
The moment that they're tracked down they are no longer authors of orphan works, i.e. Catch-22.
Wait a moment here. You're this close to receiving your hardware and you don't even know what O/S you're planning to use, what interconnect to choose, or what problems you intend to solve with it? Where do you get funding like this?
Compared to the first Stimulus Plan that cost us $866 (Carl Sagan's favorite word) Billions of Dollars, and now the (now that Stimulus is a bad word) proposed $447 Billion Jobs Plan that is really a Wealth Redistribution Plan by any other name, a mere $26 Billion infrastructure upgrade that actually does something useful sounds like a real bargain.
Were any of their arguments actually based around the constitutionality of that act?
Yes it was. If you'd followed the news and arguments you would have known that the protesters, EFF (totally WRONG in this situation) and California ACLU (always WRONG in every situation) had called the original protest cell phone repeater shut down a violation of the protester's Freedom of Speech. And that comes directly from the Constitution.
The problem is that people think that they have a lot more Rights than they actually do have.
than spraying hot lead around innocent passengers.
You clearly know nothing about guns or firearms training now, do you? For starters, the lead or other alloy used has not picked up significant heat, and they weren't shooting at the passengers. No one else was injured, but I'm sure that you consider that just a lucky coincidence now, don't you?
Lethal force is really only justifiable where there is a genuine threat to life that cannot be mitigated through retreat.
Most sane, rational places retreat is not required any longer. Of course, SF may be neither sane, nor rational. All that is required is that the person properly believe that there is a threat of injury or death to them or others. You can (stupidly) come at me with a penknife that you claim is not going to actually kill me and I can shoot you anyway. It doesn't have to be life or death for me in that situation when I have the pistol.
If you really think this was about safety, terrorism, or the limited set constitutional rights that BART officially recognizes, then you're dumber than your idiotic posts already reveal.
I think that the person you just outed is yourself. It is completely about both safety, and the rights of people who just want to get from Point A to Point B to not be made part of your demonstration against their will. Those people have rights too.
Cell phones make it easier to assembly a large mass of people at any given location, because of instance communication (calls, texting, and internet).
That's a guess, but I think that was probably what they were thinking.
More than that. The demonstration leaders had announced their intention of organizing the crowd in the most effective manner for their own purposes during the first demonstration by using cell phones, twitter, and texting ahead of time. I don't think that they had anticipated this response from BART.
And if anyone had a heart attack on a train this weekend, and no one was able to call for assistance, you would have been charged with criminal negligence and sent to prison.
Cutting off cell service? Why? Because people never protested or rioted before the existence of cell phones?
Can someone explain the logic?
The logic is that today's protestors don't know how to organize with old technologies because they're a bunch of spoiled brats whining - I Can't Tweet, my life is RUINED! Bring in the ACLU, my Constitutional rights to be an asshat have been trampled.
And if anyone had a heart attack on a train this weekend, and no one was able to call for assistance, you would have been charged with criminal negligence and sent to prison.
If I has been in charge of BART this weekend (and I was up in the Bay Area during this) I would have shut the whole courtesy BART cell phone repeater system down and told the EFF and the ACLU to take a flying f'ing leap into the bay. There is NOTHING in the Constitution about freedom of speech that says that you have to assist demonstrators in shutting down your system. BART exists to move people efficiently in a city with too many cars, too much pollution, and never enough parking. The demonstrators are a bunch of loonies who want to be part of an Anonymous based action and have no right to even be on BART's private property for that purpose. If BART directors actually had a spine that wasn't broken down by too much bending down to Political Correctness they wouldn't have these issues. This is something to be sorted out in the courts, not on the streets - unless you really want to become Egypt. Personally, I don't.
I'm ready to kill all software patents. Does Android compete with Oracle? (No, Oracle doesn't market phones or tablets and never will.) Does Android compete with Microsoft. (Not really.) Does Android compete with Apple. (No, if you want an iPhone you're not going to buy an Android phone and vice versa.) Did anybody other than Google put in the effort to create Android and deserve the rewards for doing so? (No, they just want to collect money for doing nothing more than filing a patents that they don't even use in this market.)
Who loses when all of these patents are enforced. (We, the public, do - Big Time!)
I play Nintendo 64 games - Super Mario 64 and Zelda Ocarina of Time. Their 3D game play was just amazing when it debuted. It was the same impact as the first time I played Spacewar back in the day, or saw my first HP-35 calculator.
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This attempt to change the rules after you've purchased the hardware should be slammed down in the hardest possible fashion. Sony should have to refund in full the purchase price of the PS3 and all games and accessories that you purchased for it if you don't wish to accept the new terms.
This post also incorporates all of the above suggested punishments and outrages against Sony times 2.
Of course, it might be difficult from a practical standpoint to track down enough individual members who agree to be certified into the class, especially given the large numbers of works involved, but it may be possible depending upon what requirements are imposed by the judge to certify the class.
The moment that they're tracked down they are no longer authors of orphan works, i.e. Catch-22.
Wait a moment here. You're this close to receiving your hardware and you don't even know what O/S you're planning to use, what interconnect to choose, or what problems you intend to solve with it? Where do you get funding like this?
Compared to the first Stimulus Plan that cost us $866 (Carl Sagan's favorite word) Billions of Dollars, and now the (now that Stimulus is a bad word) proposed $447 Billion Jobs Plan that is really a Wealth Redistribution Plan by any other name, a mere $26 Billion infrastructure upgrade that actually does something useful sounds like a real bargain.
So sometimes it's faster, and sometimes it's slower, and always it's more expensive per GB. That makes this a pretty useless article.
It made me think of the airborne aircraft carrier in Sky Captain and the World of tomorrow...
And that made me think of Angelina Jolie.
It's called a boat.
If you believe that the (US) patent system is broken, work on changing it.
I would, but the (US) copyright system is broken even worse and it's taking all of my efforts to try and get that one fixed first.
This sounds like a Mel Brooks comedy...
1: Get hundreds of millions in government loans.
1a: Hire sexy secretary.
2: Declare bankruptcy.
3: PROFIT!
Were any of their arguments actually based around the constitutionality of that act?
Yes it was. If you'd followed the news and arguments you would have known that the protesters, EFF (totally WRONG in this situation) and California ACLU (always WRONG in every situation) had called the original protest cell phone repeater shut down a violation of the protester's Freedom of Speech. And that comes directly from the Constitution.
The problem is that people think that they have a lot more Rights than they actually do have.
than spraying hot lead around innocent passengers.
You clearly know nothing about guns or firearms training now, do you? For starters, the lead or other alloy used has not picked up significant heat, and they weren't shooting at the passengers. No one else was injured, but I'm sure that you consider that just a lucky coincidence now, don't you?
Nobody was in any way concerned about anything until the cops inflamed the situation.
Congratulations for the absolutely stupidest statement in this entire discussion.
Lethal force is really only justifiable where there is a genuine threat to life that cannot be mitigated through retreat.
Most sane, rational places retreat is not required any longer. Of course, SF may be neither sane, nor rational. All that is required is that the person properly believe that there is a threat of injury or death to them or others. You can (stupidly) come at me with a penknife that you claim is not going to actually kill me and I can shoot you anyway. It doesn't have to be life or death for me in that situation when I have the pistol.
I do not see what there is to protest about. It almost seems like vigilantly justice towards the police.
This is San Francisco. That's exactly what it is.
Yes, this IS what it's really about.
If you really think this was about safety, terrorism, or the limited set constitutional rights that BART officially recognizes, then you're dumber than your idiotic posts already reveal.
I think that the person you just outed is yourself. It is completely about both safety, and the rights of people who just want to get from Point A to Point B to not be made part of your demonstration against their will. Those people have rights too.
Cell phones make it easier to assembly a large mass of people at any given location, because of instance communication (calls, texting, and internet).
That's a guess, but I think that was probably what they were thinking.
More than that. The demonstration leaders had announced their intention of organizing the crowd in the most effective manner for their own purposes during the first demonstration by using cell phones, twitter, and texting ahead of time. I don't think that they had anticipated this response from BART.
And if anyone had a heart attack on a train this weekend, and no one was able to call for assistance, you would have been charged with criminal negligence and sent to prison.
P.S. IANAL - and obviously neither are you.
They'd rather shut down service than allow people to freely speak their mind...
Yeah, that's what this was all about. Next time try putting brain in gear before putting hands on keyboard.
Cutting off cell service? Why? Because people never protested or rioted before the existence of cell phones?
Can someone explain the logic?
The logic is that today's protestors don't know how to organize with old technologies because they're a bunch of spoiled brats whining - I Can't Tweet, my life is RUINED! Bring in the ACLU, my Constitutional rights to be an asshat have been trampled.
They probably also voted for Obama.
And if anyone had a heart attack on a train this weekend, and no one was able to call for assistance, you would have been charged with criminal negligence and sent to prison.
A Red Herring fallacy if there ever was one.
If I has been in charge of BART this weekend (and I was up in the Bay Area during this) I would have shut the whole courtesy BART cell phone repeater system down and told the EFF and the ACLU to take a flying f'ing leap into the bay. There is NOTHING in the Constitution about freedom of speech that says that you have to assist demonstrators in shutting down your system. BART exists to move people efficiently in a city with too many cars, too much pollution, and never enough parking. The demonstrators are a bunch of loonies who want to be part of an Anonymous based action and have no right to even be on BART's private property for that purpose. If BART directors actually had a spine that wasn't broken down by too much bending down to Political Correctness they wouldn't have these issues. This is something to be sorted out in the courts, not on the streets - unless you really want to become Egypt. Personally, I don't.
I'm ready to kill all software patents. Does Android compete with Oracle? (No, Oracle doesn't market phones or tablets and never will.) Does Android compete with Microsoft. (Not really.) Does Android compete with Apple. (No, if you want an iPhone you're not going to buy an Android phone and vice versa.) Did anybody other than Google put in the effort to create Android and deserve the rewards for doing so? (No, they just want to collect money for doing nothing more than filing a patents that they don't even use in this market.)
Who loses when all of these patents are enforced. (We, the public, do - Big Time!)
I play Nintendo 64 games - Super Mario 64 and Zelda Ocarina of Time. Their 3D game play was just amazing when it debuted. It was the same impact as the first time I played Spacewar back in the day, or saw my first HP-35 calculator.
And for best robot game, my vote goes to: Machinarium .
Will Tom Servo and Crow get front row seats? That could backfire.
Funny +2