We're not claiming to have invented anything new, really," says Boldrin. "We're recognizing something that we think has been around ever since there has been innovation...."
Wow. They should patent that "not anything new" idea, just like everybody else, nowadays;-).
I wouldn't tell my 12 year-old self anything, because I wouldn't want anything to change.
My 12 year-old self learned long ago that you don't need to get first post to be noticed. All you need to do is respond to first post to get noticed.
Those convicted "are receiving sentences based on the fear of the worst-case scenario rather than what the case may really be about," Granick said.
In many cases, the victim would be ignored if s/he didn't over-state the actual damages. I've heard victim after victim (right here on slashdot) state that they've went to the FBI/local officials, and were denied help because the actual damages didn't add up to a certain amount.
No wonder victims are overstating the problem, it's because they don't like being ignored.
It sounds like next week is cool sci-fi week. First, on Sunday, X-Men is showing on Fox. Then for the rest of the week, it's Giant Robot Week on the Cartoon Channel. Cool!
In most cases, desktops don't even need to be configurable, because most people use the defaults. For example, look at slashdot. Many many/. people post as Anonymous Coward because they don't want to bother configuring beyond the defaults. If those/. folks would try logging in and changing some of the configuration settings, their slashdot experience would probably increase quite a bit (they wouldn't have to read my posts for example;-)), but they don't bother.
Bear Pond Books in Montpelier will purge purchase records for customers if they ask, and it has already dumped the names of books bought by its readers' club.
This is overall a great thing, but still an elaborate publicity stunt;-). I'm pretty surprised that this made/. news, but then again.
I bet there were a lot more copies of "Girls Gone Wild - Spring Break #19" sent around the campus than "Friends - The one where they shave a turkey". If the University decide to stop Friends from being distributed, then should they also stop the porn? What if the porn doesn't have an easily found copyright? Who's going to verify which porn is copyrighted?;-)
It's different if they just want to conserve some bandwidth, but if they are just trying to stop the distribution of copyrighted works, then that sounds like an impossible task. Who owns the copyright on "Redhead Sticking a Cucumber up her Ass" ?
If I had to choose between the two, I'd have to go with the iBook as well. However, I don't really need to choose between the two... I want to have both;-).
For the most part, though, I'd rather just use a super-fast desktop as my linux box, and then use my iBook as my laptop. That's a killer combination for me, personally.
Leave it to a lawyer to have one of the most verbose interviews on Slashdot;-). Even the questions themselves were mostly very verbose. Just compare this interview with the one that William Shatner did. You'll notice that Moglen goes into much greater detail than Shatner, even though Moglen is, no doubt, way more busy.
"I want people to walk into every store in America and see that the product they're about to buy has restrictions..."
This can be taken pretty far:
"This item cannot be used as a shoe, pair of pants, or candy. If used as any of those devices, Sony is relieved of all responsibilities. This item's only function is as a beer mug."
It will also allow companies to make the migration process easier since they can run multiple instances of the Windows operating system on a single PC...
I personally think this is Microsoft's solution to the "you can only have one version of Internet Explorer on your machine" problem. Has anyone else ran into that problem? It makes it darn near impossible to test web sites with older versions of IE. Microsoft's only proposed solution is to partition your hard drive for multiple Windows installations, and installing different IE's in each one (ludicrous).
I guess this solution will make it easier to run those different Windows installations. Moderate this as funny.
Does anyone know how eBay would start collecting taxes? Would they do it on the items full price? Or maybe just on fees that eBay collected? And/Or would each seller have to start collecting taxes on every item sold?
I, for one, don't collect taxes when I'm running a garage sale.
Everyone should sell their McDonalds stock immediately! The stock is going down down down. Only suckers would keep it. They are being sued left and right, and it's only gonna get worse. Plus the fact that their restaurants are grimy, and they are slow, and their prices are kept artificially low (read Fast Food Nation).
Now, is the SEC gonna come and get me? What if I'm selling short?
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Wow. They should patent that "not anything new" idea, just like everybody else, nowadays ;-).
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But remember, Safari is based upon open source software. It's not like Apple has to create/maintain it from scratch.
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Poor Uncie Herb ;-)
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Maybe we should all help contribute to the 'slash' code instead of working on this commercial project. Ha!
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In many cases, the victim would be ignored if s/he didn't over-state the actual damages. I've heard victim after victim (right here on slashdot) state that they've went to the FBI/local officials, and were denied help because the actual damages didn't add up to a certain amount.
No wonder victims are overstating the problem, it's because they don't like being ignored.
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You'd think it was sweeps month. Oh, it is.
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This is overall a great thing, but still an elaborate publicity stunt ;-). I'm pretty surprised that this made /. news, but then again.
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It's different if they just want to conserve some bandwidth, but if they are just trying to stop the distribution of copyrighted works, then that sounds like an impossible task. Who owns the copyright on "Redhead Sticking a Cucumber up her Ass" ?
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For the most part, though, I'd rather just use a super-fast desktop as my linux box, and then use my iBook as my laptop. That's a killer combination for me, personally.
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For those that are going to use my journal:
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This can be taken pretty far:
"This item cannot be used as a shoe, pair of pants, or candy. If used as any of those devices, Sony is relieved of all responsibilities. This item's only function is as a beer mug."
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I personally think this is Microsoft's solution to the "you can only have one version of Internet Explorer on your machine" problem. Has anyone else ran into that problem? It makes it darn near impossible to test web sites with older versions of IE. Microsoft's only proposed solution is to partition your hard drive for multiple Windows installations, and installing different IE's in each one (ludicrous).
I guess this solution will make it easier to run those different Windows installations. Moderate this as funny.
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I, for one, don't collect taxes when I'm running a garage sale.
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Now, is the SEC gonna come and get me? What if I'm selling short?
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