Workers have probably displaced viruses simply on the strength of MediaDefender's e-mails all going public this weekend due to the truly stupid actions of one person, whom I'm very glad today that I'm not him!
Not only does Comcast not give you any absolute download limits, they also don't appear to offer any tool to let you gauge what you've downloaded this period to know if you're near the limit. I would happily join a huge Class Action Lawsuit against Comcast for deceptive business practices.
And if it included those crappy Motorola DVR's they have rented with all the known problems there, then all the better!
Downloading isn't illegal. It's de facto public domain.
Illegal downloading isn't detectable.
If they set up a sting site and get you to download copyrighted content from it, it's "authorized".
If they tap your telephone line, cable connection, or spyware in your computer, that's illegal on their part.
Legally proving that you ever downloaded anything (as opposed to getting it from somewhere else) is so virtually impossible that it should have been stricken from everyone of these complaints long ago. It's just that it sounds so very "criminal", when you're trying to influence a technically illiterate judge. Adding "and/or" doesn't cure this defect.
The Judge got mad at me, though, when I indicated to him that it was a violation of Rule 11 for the attorney to have made the deliberately false statement, instead of getting mad at the attorney who'd lied to the Court.
And he'd seemed like such a nice judge right up to that point too.
re-digitize an analog signal, with inevitable quality loss in the process.
It's not the loss in quality on the DVR that's the problem. It's the fact that the analog broadcast takes up a whole lot more space on the hard drive afterwards than the digital channels.
Don't give in just because the city attorney says he wants it all back. He is not the law. Only a court can decide what's legal and what isn't. Taking legal advice from a city attorney, or the policeman who just arrested you, is some of the worst advice you will get.
This isn't the first time I've heard technogeeks congratulate themselves for "changing the world" when all they did was surf the waves of technological progress.
At Apple the SJ Reality Distortion Field spreads outward, causing the Apple faithful to stand in line for days to spend $599 for an iPhone that could be bought two days later with no waiting at all, and seven weeks later for $200 less.
At Microsoft, the BG Reality Distortion Field spreads inward, causing top management to believe there were no computers at all until Microsoft came along.
there would have been no Google without Microsoft. 'I mean, the fact is: Google's existence and success required Microsoft to have been successful previously to create the platform that allowed them to go on and connect people to their search servers.
This is exactly Microsoft's problem, and the reason why Craig Mundie can't fix it. He sees the world through Microsoft blinders, and believes all goodness has come from them -- even though their most successful products were developed outside of MS and acquired by them. With Craig Mundie in charge, MS will continue to make the same mistakes it has in the past, and won't end up changing when it needs to change.
I remember far enough back to when IBM was considerd by all convention wisdom to have an "unbreakable lock" on the computer market. We all know what happened there.
The fact that we have it out there gives us a good business, but in some ways it doesn't give us an advantage over any of the other developers in terms of being able to utilize it.
Except for those secret unpublished APIs, that is.
If you don't like the rules, then don't participate in the auction. You won't be missed. In fact, given that you already have the phone service side of the duopoly, I'd prefer that you not be part of this anyway! Pick up the toys you tossed out of the pram, and just go home.
Under the FCC's rules, whoever wins the spectrum auction must allow consumers to use any device and any lawful application on their networks. After the FCC's decision, Verizon quickly made its position clear. "Imposing any such requirements in the competitive wireless market would reduce the revenue the government will receive from the spectrum auction and limit the introduction of new and innovative wireless services,"
Total B.S.! If I can use any device, then I can use the most innovative devices from anyone building them. If Version provides the most new and innovative wireless services at a fair price, they get my business. If someone else does, my business goes there. In short, Version contradicts themselves in the very same sentence.
As for reducing the revenue the government will receive from the spectrum auction, like how does that happen? Is Verizon going to pay a bazillion dollars for the spectrum if you have to buy only their devices and services afterwards, and that no one will buy a single Hz of it otherwise? I doubt that!
It's all such total B.S. from Verizon that nobody should be taking them seriously for a single instant -- and throw those blighters out of court!
The PS3 is so much faster than the other consoles that I only need 3.7 million of them to do more work than all the XBox 360 and Wiis combined, so there!
This sums up much of Canada's problem. And while I could give them the solution to it, they wouldn't understand it because they've never understood it before.
Reimbursement comes in many forms. Apple could just designate someone to feed these three meters on a regular schedule, so that their customers don't have to.
begin to replace flash memory in three to five years
Five years! It's always Five Years!
By 2012 I expect to have, this super memory technology, solar cells with efficiency above 70% for pennies per watt, flying cars, paper thin televisions the size of my wall, fuel cell powered hybrid cars, batteries replaced by power cells that store more power, cost less, are infinitely rechargeable, and charge/discharge like capacitors -- plus several other things from the last few months of Slashdot.
Also the Mayan calendar will have expired, and the entire West Coast in to the Sierra Nevada mountains will be flooded, so I don't know how useful this all will be to me.
liberals 'could be expected to more readily accept new social, scientific or religious ideas.'
A lot of new ideas are just plain wrong. Accepting every new idea that comes along just because it's new throws out knowledge and wisdom that has properly withstood the test of time. I'd rather stick with what works, than fall for every new scam that comes along.
Keep an open mind, and a lot of garbage will be thrown into it.
We own the copyrights to all the music you'll ever want to listen to.
Q.E.D. Because we own all copyrights, we own these copyrights and you must pay us.
There really is only One Record Company now, despite the fiction of several different names. We think alike. We act alike. We sue alike. We settle alike. Q.E.D.
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And my snub to UMG is to download it for free, in the universal MP3 format, which plays just fine on the iPod.
Hey Universal, you've still got another foot to take aim at!
Workers have probably displaced viruses simply on the strength of MediaDefender's e-mails all going public this weekend due to the truly stupid actions of one person, whom I'm very glad today that I'm not him!
And if it included those crappy Motorola DVR's they have rented with all the known problems there, then all the better!
Illegal downloading isn't detectable.
If they set up a sting site and get you to download copyrighted content from it, it's "authorized".
If they tap your telephone line, cable connection, or spyware in your computer, that's illegal on their part.
Legally proving that you ever downloaded anything (as opposed to getting it from somewhere else) is so virtually impossible that it should have been stricken from everyone of these complaints long ago. It's just that it sounds so very "criminal", when you're trying to influence a technically illiterate judge. Adding "and/or" doesn't cure this defect.
And he'd seemed like such a nice judge right up to that point too.
It's not the loss in quality on the DVR that's the problem. It's the fact that the analog broadcast takes up a whole lot more space on the hard drive afterwards than the digital channels.
Don't give in just because the city attorney says he wants it all back. He is not the law. Only a court can decide what's legal and what isn't. Taking legal advice from a city attorney, or the policeman who just arrested you, is some of the worst advice you will get.
Wonderful, quotable, line!
At Microsoft, the BG Reality Distortion Field spreads inward, causing top management to believe there were no computers at all until Microsoft came along.
This is exactly Microsoft's problem, and the reason why Craig Mundie can't fix it. He sees the world through Microsoft blinders, and believes all goodness has come from them -- even though their most successful products were developed outside of MS and acquired by them. With Craig Mundie in charge, MS will continue to make the same mistakes it has in the past, and won't end up changing when it needs to change.
I remember far enough back to when IBM was considerd by all convention wisdom to have an "unbreakable lock" on the computer market. We all know what happened there.
Minix.
Except for those secret unpublished APIs, that is.
You're wrong.
Details please. I love a good smackdown!
If you don't like the rules, then don't participate in the auction. You won't be missed. In fact, given that you already have the phone service side of the duopoly, I'd prefer that you not be part of this anyway! Pick up the toys you tossed out of the pram, and just go home.
Total B.S.! If I can use any device, then I can use the most innovative devices from anyone building them. If Version provides the most new and innovative wireless services at a fair price, they get my business. If someone else does, my business goes there. In short, Version contradicts themselves in the very same sentence.
As for reducing the revenue the government will receive from the spectrum auction, like how does that happen? Is Verizon going to pay a bazillion dollars for the spectrum if you have to buy only their devices and services afterwards, and that no one will buy a single Hz of it otherwise? I doubt that!
It's all such total B.S. from Verizon that nobody should be taking them seriously for a single instant -- and throw those blighters out of court!
The PS3 is so much faster than the other consoles that I only need 3.7 million of them to do more work than all the XBox 360 and Wiis combined, so there!
Well you could post an electronic, easy to fill in the blanks, form or link on your main page. That would make for a good start.
This sums up much of Canada's problem. And while I could give them the solution to it, they wouldn't understand it because they've never understood it before.
Reimbursement comes in many forms. Apple could just designate someone to feed these three meters on a regular schedule, so that their customers don't have to.
Metric.
Five years! It's always Five Years!
By 2012 I expect to have, this super memory technology, solar cells with efficiency above 70% for pennies per watt, flying cars, paper thin televisions the size of my wall, fuel cell powered hybrid cars, batteries replaced by power cells that store more power, cost less, are infinitely rechargeable, and charge/discharge like capacitors -- plus several other things from the last few months of Slashdot.
Also the Mayan calendar will have expired, and the entire West Coast in to the Sierra Nevada mountains will be flooded, so I don't know how useful this all will be to me.
This is certain to make Vista more popular than ever.
A lot of new ideas are just plain wrong. Accepting every new idea that comes along just because it's new throws out knowledge and wisdom that has properly withstood the test of time. I'd rather stick with what works, than fall for every new scam that comes along.
Keep an open mind, and a lot of garbage will be thrown into it.
We own the copyrights to all the music you'll ever want to listen to.
Q.E.D. Because we own all copyrights, we own these copyrights and you must pay us.
There really is only One Record Company now, despite the fiction of several different names. We think alike. We act alike. We sue alike. We settle alike. Q.E.D.