This is an idea that's far more than overdue. "Submarine Copyright Infringement" claims should have been outlawed long ago - especially with statutory damages to unreasonably high now. This doesn't hurt the author of the work at all since s/he will still get the compensation they would have gotten from the beginning if they had been found. I am just so sick and tired of copyright suits - the latest on the movie Charlie Wilson's War - that start out by demanding that all distribution of the infringing work be halted, and millions of dollars awarded for something that's so brief in the movie that you can barely even tell that it's there. And there are just too many truly stupid juries in this country that uphold that kind of garbage. This type of reform will only make society richer if it can pass in its relatively present form!
For the home user XP MCE is a far better deal cost-wise. It gives the most important feature of multi-processor support, while dropping the ability to join an Active Directory domain. A very fair trade-off for the home user.
This should be causing the black hole to lose energy then, because you can't accelerate matter to high speeds without putting energy into it, and that energy has to come from somewhere.
Also TFA refers to this as a "tremendous particle accelerators". Is it busy creating Higgs bosons then?
I'll ask a dumb question: Why can't a system admin just copy the relevant logs to a disk, turn it over to the RIAA, and let them sort it out?
That wouldn't give the RIAA the information they're looking for. All the automatic logs attempt to do is match an IP address to a MAC (media access control) address on the remote device at the time in question. Who is the supposed owner of the equipment with that MAC address is in a second completely separate database, which contains most likely just student id numbers matched to the MAC addresses on file -- information the RIAA is most definitely NOT entitled to have for any non-involved student. And then you'd need to take the student id numbers to a third database that contains all their directory information -- again information the RIAA is NOT entitled to have for any non-involved student.
You can't just give the RIAA a dump of all the university's student and IT databases and let them paw through it looking for the specific information they seek. The privacy violations in that are immense!
the lawyer issued a similar subpoena to a doctor and a Harvard professor under similar circumstances.
I thought everybody knew you don't mess with Harvard when it comes to legal matters. Even the RIAA has stayed far clear of Harvard Square with their John Doe suits and subpoenas for student information.
A music thief is someone who steals CDs from Best Buy.
And the punishment (fines) for stealing that physical CD from Best Buy is one to several hundred times less than the statutory damages asked for and allowed under law ($750 to $150,000 PER TRACK) for online copyright infringement. Tell me how that makes any sense!
And the recording industry is lobbying hard to RAISE those statutory damage limits EVEN HIGHER.
I'm sorry, but they have an overly exaggerated view of the true value of their product.
I've read the magistrate judge's order twice, and can't see where he is under the apparent impression that the RIAA only wants to sit down and have a friendly Father/Son chat with these college students.
But then there's this:
absent the identifying information from the university, plaintiffs simply cannot proceed with their lawsuit, establishes to the Court's satisfaction that Marshall University's obligation under the subpoena is not unduly burdensome.
That seems to make no logical sense at all. The judge seems to be saying that if Plaintiffs cannot proceed with their case otherwise, then there is no such thing as a subpoena that's too burdensome on non-party Marshall University.
and BitTorrent acknowledged that Comcast has the right to police its own network.
Hey, I'm sorry but BitTorrent doesn't speak for me. They're not even a user and I am, so who died and made them God to decide what's right for Comcast and what's not?
This is such a bad idea for users. Like 2 wolves and a sheep getting together for a democratic vote on what's for dinner - except the sheep isn't even invited to the vote.
The chances of Comcast coming up with anything that users themselves will find the least bit palatable is next to nothing, but the fools in the media and government won't hear about that because they're too busy applauding how industry is clearly now ready to take the lead and solve the problems without government intervention.
Such a transparent attempt to kill Net Neutrality, when all we as user want is: It's our pipe. We pay for it. So let us decide how we want to utilize our paid-for bandwidth. And don't make it our problem that you have oversold your system capacity by hundreds of times!
I remember when back in the good old days of the IBM EGA (640x350 6-bit color) adapter, when semi-clone cards were made they were all rounded up and tested against the IBM "standard". The IBM card had a couple flaws at the time, two of the bottom scan lines were interchanged, and it interfered with the computer's (IBM PC) ability to Warm Boot. Each card was given a percentage rating of how well it compared to the IBM Standard, and comments on whether or not the bugs in the original were fixed, or kept for compatibility reasons. Also, for less money, all of the clone cards came with the maximum 256KB of memory, while the IBM EGA only had 64KB standard, with the rest able to be added through a daughter card.
What most made me smile was that the IBM EGA card was included in the matrix of results, showing a rating of 100% compatibility with itself.
OOXML is such a fraud that it's disgusting that we continue to waste such time on it. If it could win on the merits it wouldn't need such underhanded tactics by its (very few) supporters. It's clearly intended as an ODF-killer by creating an unnecessary parallel "standard".
It was probably some outside consultant that convinced them of the perceived need to produce a "competitive" web-site in today's market, and only this garbage will do.
Don't these PHB clowns realize that it's content that draws people to a site, and excessive bandwidth, insecure plug-ins required, inane registration requirements, and slow downloads that drive them away again.
Scott Adam's personal e-mail address is well-known (remember to put 'Dilbert' in the subject line to slip past his spam filter). One can still complain to him directly.
Your idea of what constitutes "high temperature" and my idea of what constitutes "high temperature" are radically different. Until it runs in my house wiring it really isn't going to impact me any time soon.
Interesting term "firestorm" to describe the interest in this discovery. One is left thinking that the intense firestorm has resulted in pushing temperatures so high that all the superconducting stopped right there.
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Let's get real for a moment here folks. Do you really believe anything that the RIAA actually tells you?
How stupid can a summary be.
The RIAA can't tell the difference between the two!
And that's the problem - and flaw - in all their cases to date.
But are real zebras white horses with black stripes, or black horses with white strips? Yes there is a correct answer to this.
Clearly in this judge's spare time he decides copyright cases in favor of the RIAA.
We just need continually improving ways to make those excess cycles available.
This is an idea that's far more than overdue. "Submarine Copyright Infringement" claims should have been outlawed long ago - especially with statutory damages to unreasonably high now. This doesn't hurt the author of the work at all since s/he will still get the compensation they would have gotten from the beginning if they had been found. I am just so sick and tired of copyright suits - the latest on the movie Charlie Wilson's War - that start out by demanding that all distribution of the infringing work be halted, and millions of dollars awarded for something that's so brief in the movie that you can barely even tell that it's there. And there are just too many truly stupid juries in this country that uphold that kind of garbage. This type of reform will only make society richer if it can pass in its relatively present form!
These fields are accelerating matter AWAY from the black hole at near C velocities. That ain't gravity speaking, and requires a lot of energy.
So is Dell offering MCE as well still?
Just what we need, clouds of more objects in LEO. WATCH OUT! Here comes another one!
Also TFA refers to this as a "tremendous particle accelerators". Is it busy creating Higgs bosons then?
That wouldn't give the RIAA the information they're looking for. All the automatic logs attempt to do is match an IP address to a MAC (media access control) address on the remote device at the time in question. Who is the supposed owner of the equipment with that MAC address is in a second completely separate database, which contains most likely just student id numbers matched to the MAC addresses on file -- information the RIAA is most definitely NOT entitled to have for any non-involved student. And then you'd need to take the student id numbers to a third database that contains all their directory information -- again information the RIAA is NOT entitled to have for any non-involved student.
You can't just give the RIAA a dump of all the university's student and IT databases and let them paw through it looking for the specific information they seek. The privacy violations in that are immense!
I thought everybody knew you don't mess with Harvard when it comes to legal matters. Even the RIAA has stayed far clear of Harvard Square with their John Doe suits and subpoenas for student information.
And the punishment (fines) for stealing that physical CD from Best Buy is one to several hundred times less than the statutory damages asked for and allowed under law ($750 to $150,000 PER TRACK) for online copyright infringement. Tell me how that makes any sense!
And the recording industry is lobbying hard to RAISE those statutory damage limits EVEN HIGHER.
I'm sorry, but they have an overly exaggerated view of the true value of their product.
But then there's this:
absent the identifying information from the university, plaintiffs simply cannot proceed with their lawsuit, establishes to the Court's satisfaction that Marshall University's obligation under the subpoena is not unduly burdensome.
That seems to make no logical sense at all. The judge seems to be saying that if Plaintiffs cannot proceed with their case otherwise, then there is no such thing as a subpoena that's too burdensome on non-party Marshall University.
Is this judge out of his freaking mind!!!
Just because you're taken over by a Good BotNet instead of an Evil one, that doesn't mean that it's a good thing in the grand scheme of things.
I can understand how this protects you against data theft - as long as you don't keep the password scribbled on a PostIt stuck to your notebook.
But how are you protected against loss? If you data is gone due to a head-crash or theft, it's gone. You've lost it, that that's often a huge problem.
Hey, I'm sorry but BitTorrent doesn't speak for me. They're not even a user and I am, so who died and made them God to decide what's right for Comcast and what's not?
The chances of Comcast coming up with anything that users themselves will find the least bit palatable is next to nothing, but the fools in the media and government won't hear about that because they're too busy applauding how industry is clearly now ready to take the lead and solve the problems without government intervention.
Such a transparent attempt to kill Net Neutrality, when all we as user want is: It's our pipe. We pay for it. So let us decide how we want to utilize our paid-for bandwidth. And don't make it our problem that you have oversold your system capacity by hundreds of times!
Count me out.
What most made me smile was that the IBM EGA card was included in the matrix of results, showing a rating of 100% compatibility with itself.
OOXML is such a fraud that it's disgusting that we continue to waste such time on it. If it could win on the merits it wouldn't need such underhanded tactics by its (very few) supporters. It's clearly intended as an ODF-killer by creating an unnecessary parallel "standard".
Not to D-M, which is in Tucson, AZ. RTFM and see that it's headed to Tonopah Test Range Airfield in Nevada
If you enjoy this kind of thing, I can't recommend Ben Rich's book Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed highly enough.
Don't these PHB clowns realize that it's content that draws people to a site, and excessive bandwidth, insecure plug-ins required, inane registration requirements, and slow downloads that drive them away again.
Scott Adam's personal e-mail address is well-known (remember to put 'Dilbert' in the subject line to slip past his spam filter). One can still complain to him directly.
Interesting term "firestorm" to describe the interest in this discovery. One is left thinking that the intense firestorm has resulted in pushing temperatures so high that all the superconducting stopped right there.