So first they make sure he's truly screwed right before a critical Senate seat election. Now they say Nevermind! No matter where you are in the political spectrum -- especially if you're an Alaska voter -- can this be considered justice. All involved in this farce should be in jail for a good long time (e.g. 10 years w/no time off and no Club Fed)!
It's not like I've seen anyone else doing this. These books aren't available at all right now. It's only because Google has gone out and done all the hard work that now everyone else wants in on the pie. I applaud Google for making available something that simply wasn't there before -- and if they profit from it, well they earned it!
I read Roger's review, and it couldn't have been more positive towards the movie. And it's not like he can't call a bad movie bad (e.g. Valkyrie).
Reports say that Wolverine was downloaded at least 75,000 times, meaning that most of those copies are likely still out there - or deleted by people who would have hated to find out that they'd just been tricked into spending $10 to see a movie that they personally wouldn't have enjoyed a month from now.
To pretend that the press should ignore what a whole large group of other people are out there already talking about is to handcuff them to the point that they can't do their job.
Roger Friedman's job was to be in the forefront of the entertainment world news. In this regard he was doing his job. Murdoch can claim the high moral ground here if he wishes, but his people were out there doing what they were being paid to do.
contacted the original designer's clients. The lawyers told them the designer is being investigated for copyright infringement and their logos might be copied
This is slander, and interference with a contractual business relationship. I'd expect them to get slapped down very hard over that one.
It's a given that you cannot infringe your own copyright. If this designer still owns the copyright on his images then he should be suing for everything from malicious prosecution to SLAPP, and most any lawyer should be happy to take his case.
If this designer sold the entire copyright (foolish), or did it as Work for Hire (foolish) then he may be out of luck here.
If the designer does still own his own copyrights, and wants to cause trouble even through he has licensed them to this site, then he should be suing for Misuse of Copyright and getting their license to use his work revoked.
Until the hardware shows up at independent review sites and lives up to the rather over-the-top claims, this is all hype and FUD. As long as your current GPU provides 60fps on the games you want to play at your monitor's resolution, everything else means nothing.
If not Fair Use, how about individual Civil Disobedience? Consider filesharing as protected, not for profit, speech in protest of the decades of record companies ripping off consumers as well as artists through their longtime payola, high bar of entry for everything from recording studios to pressing plants, monopoly of the sources of production, distribution, promotion, and sales of music. And don't forget the bundling of 1 worthwhile song and 11 crap tracks in a highly overpriced, take-it-or-leave-it, CD, or the outrageous statutory damages that their lobbying and paying off of the politicians have jammed into Copyright Law. Oh, and did I mention their outright theft of the Public Domain. Songs copyrighted today will not enter the PD during the remainder of your life time. Not exactly what our Founding Fathers had in mind, having lived through that situation of eternal copyrights in Europe of the time already.
Yeah, I'd call that something to protest by any means possible.
This is so clearly Bait & Switch that TW should be proscuted within an inch of their corporate lives. Their top officers should be in jail, to wit:
1: Promise unrealistic, unlimited downloads and speeds that discourage all competition.
2: Once you have the monopoly and the consumer has nowhere else to go, bring in onerous download caps that actually reflect the basic capabilities of your pitiful system.
3: Buy off Washington so that you won't be punished for #1 and #2.
4: PROFIT!
The really Big Lie in all of this is that the argument for caps is that the system only has a very limited capability. Yet WITHOUT CHANGING OUT A SINGLE PIECE OF HARDWARE you can get a much higher cap simply by paying a much higher amount of money. Where did all that extra bandwidth come from? Clearly cable companies lie like rugs, and the public and regulatory agencies continue to buy into those lies as we're all being screwed over!
They just want to make sure you become a properly informed citizen from a reliable and unbiased source!
The sad fact of this is that they're right. Fox News only looks far right because everyone else is so very far left. FN is actually pretty much in the middle--and all alone there.
It has been completely stupid to dispense with parity memory and ECC memory in PC's. Apple was the first to go to 8-bit memory bytes long ago (and they still cost more!) and now it seems everyone below the server level is happy playing without a net. Even GPU cards, if used for highly parallel FP calculations should have the ability to detect when a memory error has happened and signal the application to handle. Completely stupid, and beyond completely stupid, that we trust our calculations to a system now that can't even determine if it has made an error!
Yeah, you've got to outlaw any and all critical comments about religion. Aside from the very touchy Muslims who view almost everything said by anybody else as an Insult to Islam that you must Now Die For, all these other religions who all claim to have God (Muslin == Allah) on their side and that the truth is with them are far too fragile to withstand any actual questioning. Except for Scientology, who fights back against the least bad word in the nastiest ways possible, and the Muslims who riot in the streets and end up killing each other because someone drew a cartoon of The Prophet halfway around the world, all these strong religions with both God and The Truth on their side as just way too fragile to stand up against the least little wind of discourse.
WE MUST DO THIS NOW! POLITICAL CORRECTNESS DEMANDS IT OF US!
In fact, in order to comply with this you've got to remove this post posthaste!
So Apple rips off its developers to ensure that it receives a profit no matter what. So half the players of your game get tired of it after 3 months and demand refunds so that in essence they got to play it for free. When this happens Apple keeps all their profits and the developer has nothing. What happens if everyone eventually returns it for a refund? Do you pay Apple?
So why is this news, and why are you surprised?
If you ever had a reason to want to avoid the Apple monopoly App Store as a developer this is certainly a good one. Can you return music to iTMS that you don't like after 90 days as well?
And if you can return any App this easily, why was anyone complaining about the I Am Rich ripoff app?
Or as an alternative, we could actually track down the people who continue to make the Internet a swamp, beat them within an inch of their lives, let them spend a hot humid summer in full body traction, and maybe not only wouldn't they do it again but others might not either.
Furthermore, the action also seeks to terminate Intel's license to NVIDIA's valuable patent portfolio, which no doubt is reverberating with some level of intensity in the halls of Intel."
Don't get your hopes up; it will never happen. But it's fun to think about what would happen if Intel had to shut down for a few weeks until they got their lawyers reined in and back under control.
But seeing that the phone is $400 more without a contract pretty much proves what the cell phone companies have been saying all along.
Not at all! All that the $400 higher price for the unlocked iPhone is proving is that Apple is still charging a premium price for what they feel is a high-demand item without competition for as long as they can get away with it. Look at Apple's profit margins on the bare iPhone and you'll see that they could market it at a far lower price and still make plenty of dosh if they had the manufacturing capability (they don't) to produce that many more of them, and the support staff (they don't) to handle that many additional new customers.
Remember that the iPhone itself isn't the only profit that Apple makes from this device. In addition to kickbacks from AT&T on the contracts, they collect a hefty percentage from all sales from both the Apps Store and iTMS. More iPhones out there means more sales from all these channels as well.
Apple just prefers to screw you in every way possible, and will continue to do so as long as fanbois buy the line: "We have to charge more so that we can continue to bring all these wonderful devices to you."
They can't compete on 3G performance.
They can't compete on 3G coverage for all users.
They can't compete on price.
So they buy off Apple and force people to use a carrier that they wouldn't have chosen otherwise (Apple is scum for going along with this), on a data plan they wouldn't have selected, because AT&T can't win without cheating. So much for capitalism and may the best company win on the prices and performance.
I remember a real idiot 20 years ago -- Jeremy Rifkin, if my memory hasn't failed me completely -- claiming that Cold Fusion would be the very worst thing possible. How would cheap clean abundant energy be the worst thing possible? Because it would allow for further population increases.
I expect nothing less this time around if there's even a glimmer of a spark of something like that happening here again.
don't you think stories like this that aren't really even news are getting a little too much attention?
No I don't! The RIAA and MPAA are trying their mightiest to bring down the free exchange of ideas, knowledge, and data that we enjoy over the Internet as well as (with the help of Microsoft and Apple lackeys) control what you can and cannot do on your own personal computer. If you think this is some far off battle on some arcane legal minutiae that will never touch your own life, you are so wrong that there aren't words to describe how wrong you are.
There is some true irony here as one of the Plaintiffs in this case who is arguing that such damages shouldn't be limited to a single-digit ratio of actual damages, argued (and won) in an Appeals Court case when they were the Defendant that such damages should be so limited.
Estoppel is the word that first comes to mind here.
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You go for DPI.
I go for encryption, SSL, and HTTPS. Even my slowest home system can easily handle this.
So first they make sure he's truly screwed right before a critical Senate seat election. Now they say Nevermind! No matter where you are in the political spectrum -- especially if you're an Alaska voter -- can this be considered justice. All involved in this farce should be in jail for a good long time (e.g. 10 years w/no time off and no Club Fed)!
It's not like I've seen anyone else doing this. These books aren't available at all right now. It's only because Google has gone out and done all the hard work that now everyone else wants in on the pie. I applaud Google for making available something that simply wasn't there before -- and if they profit from it, well they earned it!
I read Roger's review, and it couldn't have been more positive towards the movie. And it's not like he can't call a bad movie bad (e.g. Valkyrie).
Reports say that Wolverine was downloaded at least 75,000 times, meaning that most of those copies are likely still out there - or deleted by people who would have hated to find out that they'd just been tricked into spending $10 to see a movie that they personally wouldn't have enjoyed a month from now.
To pretend that the press should ignore what a whole large group of other people are out there already talking about is to handcuff them to the point that they can't do their job.
Roger Friedman's job was to be in the forefront of the entertainment world news. In this regard he was doing his job. Murdoch can claim the high moral ground here if he wishes, but his people were out there doing what they were being paid to do.
This is slander, and interference with a contractual business relationship. I'd expect them to get slapped down very hard over that one.
It's a given that you cannot infringe your own copyright. If this designer still owns the copyright on his images then he should be suing for everything from malicious prosecution to SLAPP, and most any lawyer should be happy to take his case.
If this designer sold the entire copyright (foolish), or did it as Work for Hire (foolish) then he may be out of luck here.
If the designer does still own his own copyrights, and wants to cause trouble even through he has licensed them to this site, then he should be suing for Misuse of Copyright and getting their license to use his work revoked.
Disclaimer: IANAL, so hire someone who is.
So did it, or didn't it, put a payload into stable Earth orbit? That would answer a lot of questions as to just what this launch actually was.
Until the hardware shows up at independent review sites and lives up to the rather over-the-top claims, this is all hype and FUD. As long as your current GPU provides 60fps on the games you want to play at your monitor's resolution, everything else means nothing.
If not Fair Use, how about individual Civil Disobedience? Consider filesharing as protected, not for profit, speech in protest of the decades of record companies ripping off consumers as well as artists through their longtime payola, high bar of entry for everything from recording studios to pressing plants, monopoly of the sources of production, distribution, promotion, and sales of music. And don't forget the bundling of 1 worthwhile song and 11 crap tracks in a highly overpriced, take-it-or-leave-it, CD, or the outrageous statutory damages that their lobbying and paying off of the politicians have jammed into Copyright Law. Oh, and did I mention their outright theft of the Public Domain. Songs copyrighted today will not enter the PD during the remainder of your life time. Not exactly what our Founding Fathers had in mind, having lived through that situation of eternal copyrights in Europe of the time already.
Yeah, I'd call that something to protest by any means possible.
This is so clearly Bait & Switch that TW should be proscuted within an inch of their corporate lives. Their top officers should be in jail, to wit:
1: Promise unrealistic, unlimited downloads and speeds that discourage all competition.
2: Once you have the monopoly and the consumer has nowhere else to go, bring in onerous download caps that actually reflect the basic capabilities of your pitiful system.
3: Buy off Washington so that you won't be punished for #1 and #2.
4: PROFIT!
The really Big Lie in all of this is that the argument for caps is that the system only has a very limited capability. Yet WITHOUT CHANGING OUT A SINGLE PIECE OF HARDWARE you can get a much higher cap simply by paying a much higher amount of money. Where did all that extra bandwidth come from? Clearly cable companies lie like rugs, and the public and regulatory agencies continue to buy into those lies as we're all being screwed over!
There are reasons I don't read Slashdot on 4/1. This is only one of them.
The sad fact of this is that they're right. Fox News only looks far right because everyone else is so very far left. FN is actually pretty much in the middle--and all alone there.
Was it cosmic rays, or Alpha particle decay from impure materials that was going to do in our memory soon? IIRC it was the latter.
It has been completely stupid to dispense with parity memory and ECC memory in PC's. Apple was the first to go to 8-bit memory bytes long ago (and they still cost more!) and now it seems everyone below the server level is happy playing without a net. Even GPU cards, if used for highly parallel FP calculations should have the ability to detect when a memory error has happened and signal the application to handle. Completely stupid, and beyond completely stupid, that we trust our calculations to a system now that can't even determine if it has made an error!
Yeah, you've got to outlaw any and all critical comments about religion. Aside from the very touchy Muslims who view almost everything said by anybody else as an Insult to Islam that you must Now Die For, all these other religions who all claim to have God (Muslin == Allah) on their side and that the truth is with them are far too fragile to withstand any actual questioning. Except for Scientology, who fights back against the least bad word in the nastiest ways possible, and the Muslims who riot in the streets and end up killing each other because someone drew a cartoon of The Prophet halfway around the world, all these strong religions with both God and The Truth on their side as just way too fragile to stand up against the least little wind of discourse.
WE MUST DO THIS NOW! POLITICAL CORRECTNESS DEMANDS IT OF US!
In fact, in order to comply with this you've got to remove this post posthaste!
So Apple rips off its developers to ensure that it receives a profit no matter what. So half the players of your game get tired of it after 3 months and demand refunds so that in essence they got to play it for free. When this happens Apple keeps all their profits and the developer has nothing. What happens if everyone eventually returns it for a refund? Do you pay Apple?
So why is this news, and why are you surprised?
If you ever had a reason to want to avoid the Apple monopoly App Store as a developer this is certainly a good one. Can you return music to iTMS that you don't like after 90 days as well?
And if you can return any App this easily, why was anyone complaining about the I Am Rich ripoff app?
Isn't this a little early for April 1?
Or as an alternative, we could actually track down the people who continue to make the Internet a swamp, beat them within an inch of their lives, let them spend a hot humid summer in full body traction, and maybe not only wouldn't they do it again but others might not either.
And put it on YouTube afterwards.
Don't get your hopes up; it will never happen. But it's fun to think about what would happen if Intel had to shut down for a few weeks until they got their lawyers reined in and back under control.
Not at all! All that the $400 higher price for the unlocked iPhone is proving is that Apple is still charging a premium price for what they feel is a high-demand item without competition for as long as they can get away with it. Look at Apple's profit margins on the bare iPhone and you'll see that they could market it at a far lower price and still make plenty of dosh if they had the manufacturing capability (they don't) to produce that many more of them, and the support staff (they don't) to handle that many additional new customers.
Remember that the iPhone itself isn't the only profit that Apple makes from this device. In addition to kickbacks from AT&T on the contracts, they collect a hefty percentage from all sales from both the Apps Store and iTMS. More iPhones out there means more sales from all these channels as well.
Apple just prefers to screw you in every way possible, and will continue to do so as long as fanbois buy the line: "We have to charge more so that we can continue to bring all these wonderful devices to you."
AT&T's real problem is:
They can't compete on 3G performance.
They can't compete on 3G coverage for all users.
They can't compete on price.
So they buy off Apple and force people to use a carrier that they wouldn't have chosen otherwise (Apple is scum for going along with this), on a data plan they wouldn't have selected, because AT&T can't win without cheating. So much for capitalism and may the best company win on the prices and performance.
The notice of dismissal still calls for each side to bear its own costs. If this is a victory, I'd hate to see a defeat!
I remember a real idiot 20 years ago -- Jeremy Rifkin, if my memory hasn't failed me completely -- claiming that Cold Fusion would be the very worst thing possible. How would cheap clean abundant energy be the worst thing possible? Because it would allow for further population increases.
I expect nothing less this time around if there's even a glimmer of a spark of something like that happening here again.
No I don't! The RIAA and MPAA are trying their mightiest to bring down the free exchange of ideas, knowledge, and data that we enjoy over the Internet as well as (with the help of Microsoft and Apple lackeys) control what you can and cannot do on your own personal computer. If you think this is some far off battle on some arcane legal minutiae that will never touch your own life, you are so wrong that there aren't words to describe how wrong you are.
There is some true irony here as one of the Plaintiffs in this case who is arguing that such damages shouldn't be limited to a single-digit ratio of actual damages, argued (and won) in an Appeals Court case when they were the Defendant that such damages should be so limited.
Estoppel is the word that first comes to mind here.