All he is saying is that if people want to write DRM then thats up to them and no doubt he also thinks that if people wish to use it then thats up to them too.
Having a "moral responsibility to intervene when you see someone doing something wrong" has got nothing whatsoever to do with it.
The similarity between slavery and dictatorships is that both of them tend to limit peoples civil liberties and DRM is capable of limiting your civil liberties too so in that respect there are similarities.
DRM has the capability to limit your civil liberties because once the copyright period on a piece of music or literature expires then this work should be freely available to the general public. Works protected by DRM may choose to ignore this right and even when the copyright period expires the DRM built into a work may prevent the work being available to the general public.
DRM places too much power in the hands of the producers of music, literature or whatever and not enough power in the hands of society so it isn't surprising that elements of society are opposed to DRM not because of some irrational bias but because they realise its potential to circumvent their civil rights.
Clearly there needs to be a debate about the best way of encouraging artists to create works of art and allow those works to provide the maximum benefit to society that they can.
Well done ! I "learnt" French & German and got an E and a D respectively at GCSE and I think I was lucky with the D.
I was under the impression that the speaking part of both exams was mostly going be judging the quality of your French or German accent so I had studied 'Allo 'Allo and various war films extensively but tragically during the exam it became clear that you needed to use some of the foreign words as well and speak so you could be understood.
Amazingly, now over 10 years later I still can't speak a word of either language.
If a radio DJ told you to drink water till you died, would you? And more importantly, is he to blame for your death?" If a radio DJ told you to drink water until you won a Wii and then you later died because you didn't know that drinking too much water could kill you is he to blame for your death ?
I'll give you a hint, yes he most probably is because before he sets up any competitions where he gets people to drink a lot of water a reasonable person would expect that he had checked out whether that was a safe thing to do or not.
It's not like this woman had some kind of weird medical condition or unusual allergy to water, if you made anyone drink a similar amount of water then they are likely to die or suffer very severe consequences too.
If a radio DJ ran a competition to get people to drink some South American poison that he knew would kill them once they'd drunk 2 litres of it but he told them it was perfectly safe to drink then it would be a clear case of murder. The only difference in this case is that he hadn't bothered to find out if the liquid he was using was poisonous or not.
Another way the terrorist may get this information is by going to see his brothers in terrorist outlets such as WH Smiths.
His terrorist comrades will already have labelled an area of the shop "Maps" to tip off their nefarious brethren that this is the place they can gain aid and succour for their insurgent evil.
The terrorist will glance to the left, and to the right to ensure they are un-observed and pick up on of the maps. The Ordnance Survey wilfully include guides on the back of EVERY MAP which they use to communicate to the terrorists exactly which map they need to buy for the area in which their terrorism will take place.
Grasping their maps of mis-intention they will be simply waved through the checkouts by the abetting assistants and charged a couple of quid, free to plan their monstrosity in the comfort of their own homes.
Seriously though Google doesn't go out and make any of these maps themselves and if Google were to shut up shop tomorrow all the information it currently has is available just as easily from elsewhere.
I definitely don't want Government departments knowing anything about my banks, telecoms, or utilities etc and absolutely definitely don't want them to have direct access to any data associated with my private life.
Luckily they aren't suggesting this right now, just that all Government departments should access any data that one of them has stored on me.
Personally I think in theory it's a good idea but in practice its a horrible idea since each department will find and increasing number of reasons to interfere with data traditionally belonging to someone else and general incompetence will cause all my medical records ( for example ) to be changed by someone checking my tax returns.
I think it matters, anywhere which develops a large enough gulf between the rich people and the ordinary people is likely to set its self up for trouble.
The first problem is that the rich people will most likely be the ones running the country and they will most likely tend to be running it more for their benefit than for the benefit of the ordinary person.
The second problem is when the ordinary people cannot see anyway to become as rich as the rich people or cannot see why they should have so much money whilst they don't. Especially if the off-spring of the rich people apparently do nothing but waste their lives in an orgy of pointless frivolity right in the publics face.
Ordinarily in these situations the ordinary people would get together and force changes on the way things are ran so they get more of a share in the wealth they are working to create but where the rich people have managed to put enough systems in place to prevent that happening successfully then they just give up and resort to crime since it is the only option left which is widely available and holds out the promise of great riches.
Bang on, if for example that plaform was used to store large quantities of drugs ready for smuggling over to the mainland it would not be around long enough for its operators to say "Jack Robinson".
Any activity on the platform which is likely to cause any kind of incident; be it illegal filesharing or acting as a magnet for naval actions between the RIAA and The Pirate Party will see the end of the whole thing arrive very quickly under the barrel of a British Destroyer.
And even if they do get the money who is going to trust a bunch of pirates with £500 Million. With that money in the bank buying a rusting steel coffin in the middle of nowhere is not going to look like a very good option compared to building yourself a well defended palace on some tropical island somewhere and living like a Pirate King for the rest of your life.
At that price surely it would be cheaper to build your own platform and if they truly are pirates it would be much cheaper to buy a pirate ship and take it by force.
I'd say you'd both be better off if you watched none of them and instead spent the time watching some decent films.
The original Star Wars was an entertaining enough nice little film but in no way at all does it deserve the adoration it seems to get. I've only seen one a half of the new ones and they were completely dreadful. Don't subject anyone to that.
To be completely correct the scenario would be like this.
The MPAA are sitting on their porch with a large bag labelled "Free Money, Come & Get Some" so you go over and ask them for some. They give you something which looks like money until you've got a bit further down the road when you realise it's only fake money.
The MPAA then follow you down the road back to your house and call the police asking them to charge you with stealing their money except rather than demanding just the money they pretended to give you back to you they ask for 100 dollars back for every dollar you didn't get because if you had have got it then you might have given it to anyone of your 100 friends. If you had it, which you didn't because the money was fake.
Exactly, I'm certainly going to spend the next couple of months writing "leaked" documents about all the activity going on in Area 51 the goverment doesn't want you to know about, how Tony Blair orders the whipping of African children which he has recorded and sent to him to watch at dinner parties and how Diana was in fact a thick overprivelidged whinger who only achieved fame by marrying a Prince.
IBM want to make an example of them to discourage anyone else launching frivolous lawsuits against them and to turn around now and buy them would negate the point of the entire excercise.
Novell want money from SCO for the licence fees they are selling which Novell should have got the lions share of. They are hardly like to buy SCO when they could easily get all their assets anyway when SCO has to pay up.
I can't see anyone else being interested since the dreadful health SCO is currently in is nothing to the health they will be in a year or so when they have lost all these lawsuits and lost more money and assets in the process.
Why New South Wales ? Is there really a New North Wales and if not why choose to name somewhere after only South Wales, why not East Wales or West Wales or North Wales or even just Wales or better still Britain ?
It would have been a standard mercury thermometer and it was measured in farenheit and whilst I'm sure it wasn't recorded to 1/100th of a degree the records would still be accurate enough to obtain meaningful data from.
The important measurements for the comparison talked about in this article is the average yearly temperature for the country which is a perfectly feasible data point to get from the records based on data gathered by these type of thermometers.
Voting with your dollars gives us cheaper goods in greater quantity I think there is more to life than cheap goods and cheap goods is certainly not the sole and overiding goal of any society I'd like to be a part of.
Not true, the first mercury thermometer was invented in 1716 ( or sometime close to then ) but other types of thermometer exsisted for 200 years prior to this although with any standardised scale.
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Moron.
All he is saying is that if people want to write DRM then thats up to them and no doubt he also thinks that if people wish to use it then thats up to them too.
Having a "moral responsibility to intervene when you see someone doing something wrong" has got nothing whatsoever to do with it.
The similarity between slavery and dictatorships is that both of them tend to limit peoples civil liberties and DRM is capable of limiting your civil liberties too so in that respect there are similarities.
DRM has the capability to limit your civil liberties because once the copyright period on a piece of music or literature expires then this work should be freely available to the general public. Works protected by DRM may choose to ignore this right and even when the copyright period expires the DRM built into a work may prevent the work being available to the general public.
DRM places too much power in the hands of the producers of music, literature or whatever and not enough power in the hands of society so it isn't surprising that elements of society are opposed to DRM not because of some irrational bias but because they realise its potential to circumvent their civil rights.
Clearly there needs to be a debate about the best way of encouraging artists to create works of art and allow those works to provide the maximum benefit to society that they can.
Well done ! I "learnt" French & German and got an E and a D respectively at GCSE and I think I was lucky with the D.
I was under the impression that the speaking part of both exams was mostly going be judging the quality of your French or German accent so I had studied 'Allo 'Allo and various war films extensively but tragically during the exam it became clear that you needed to use some of the foreign words as well and speak so you could be understood.
Amazingly, now over 10 years later I still can't speak a word of either language.
I'll give you a hint, yes he most probably is because before he sets up any competitions where he gets people to drink a lot of water a reasonable person would expect that he had checked out whether that was a safe thing to do or not.
It's not like this woman had some kind of weird medical condition or unusual allergy to water, if you made anyone drink a similar amount of water then they are likely to die or suffer very severe consequences too.
If a radio DJ ran a competition to get people to drink some South American poison that he knew would kill them once they'd drunk 2 litres of it but he told them it was perfectly safe to drink then it would be a clear case of murder. The only difference in this case is that he hadn't bothered to find out if the liquid he was using was poisonous or not.
Another way the terrorist may get this information is by going to see his brothers in terrorist outlets such as WH Smiths.
His terrorist comrades will already have labelled an area of the shop "Maps" to tip off their nefarious brethren that this is the place they can gain aid and succour for their insurgent evil.
The terrorist will glance to the left, and to the right to ensure they are un-observed and pick up on of the maps. The Ordnance Survey wilfully include guides on the back of EVERY MAP which they use to communicate to the terrorists exactly which map they need to buy for the area in which their terrorism will take place.
Grasping their maps of mis-intention they will be simply waved through the checkouts by the abetting assistants and charged a couple of quid, free to plan their monstrosity in the comfort of their own homes.
Seriously though Google doesn't go out and make any of these maps themselves and if Google were to shut up shop tomorrow all the information it currently has is available just as easily from elsewhere.
I definitely don't want Government departments knowing anything about my banks, telecoms, or utilities etc and absolutely definitely don't want them to have direct access to any data associated with my private life.
Luckily they aren't suggesting this right now, just that all Government departments should access any data that one of them has stored on me.
Personally I think in theory it's a good idea but in practice its a horrible idea since each department will find and increasing number of reasons to interfere with data traditionally belonging to someone else and general incompetence will cause all my medical records ( for example ) to be changed by someone checking my tax returns.
I think it matters, anywhere which develops a large enough gulf between the rich people and the ordinary people is likely to set its self up for trouble.
The first problem is that the rich people will most likely be the ones running the country and they will most likely tend to be running it more for their benefit than for the benefit of the ordinary person.
The second problem is when the ordinary people cannot see anyway to become as rich as the rich people or cannot see why they should have so much money whilst they don't. Especially if the off-spring of the rich people apparently do nothing but waste their lives in an orgy of pointless frivolity right in the publics face.
Ordinarily in these situations the ordinary people would get together and force changes on the way things are ran so they get more of a share in the wealth they are working to create but where the rich people have managed to put enough systems in place to prevent that happening successfully then they just give up and resort to crime since it is the only option left which is widely available and holds out the promise of great riches.
If a chimp can get himself elected to run the USA I shouldn't think piloting spacecraft will be much beyond there abilities.
Are you sure you rented the right thing ? V is a different kettle fish and utterly awful in every sense.
Bang on, if for example that plaform was used to store large quantities of drugs ready for smuggling over to the mainland it would not be around long enough for its operators to say "Jack Robinson".
Any activity on the platform which is likely to cause any kind of incident; be it illegal filesharing or acting as a magnet for naval actions between the RIAA and The Pirate Party will see the end of the whole thing arrive very quickly under the barrel of a British Destroyer.
And even if they do get the money who is going to trust a bunch of pirates with £500 Million. With that money in the bank buying a rusting steel coffin in the middle of nowhere is not going to look like a very good option compared to building yourself a well defended palace on some tropical island somewhere and living like a Pirate King for the rest of your life.
Can gorillas swim, or pilot small manuevable water craft ?
At that price surely it would be cheaper to build your own platform and if they truly are pirates it would be much cheaper to buy a pirate ship and take it by force.
I'd say you'd both be better off if you watched none of them and instead spent the time watching some decent films.
The original Star Wars was an entertaining enough nice little film but in no way at all does it deserve the adoration it seems to get. I've only seen one a half of the new ones and they were completely dreadful. Don't subject anyone to that.
Instead watch Dune or V for Vendetta.
V is for Vendetta is a great film. Stephen Fry should do more acting.
To be completely correct the scenario would be like this.
The MPAA are sitting on their porch with a large bag labelled "Free Money, Come & Get Some" so you go over and ask them for some. They give you something which looks like money until you've got a bit further down the road when you realise it's only fake money.
The MPAA then follow you down the road back to your house and call the police asking them to charge you with stealing their money except rather than demanding just the money they pretended to give you back to you they ask for 100 dollars back for every dollar you didn't get because if you had have got it then you might have given it to anyone of your 100 friends. If you had it, which you didn't because the money was fake.
I hope that makes the situation crystal clear !
Exactly, I'm certainly going to spend the next couple of months writing "leaked" documents about all the activity going on in Area 51 the goverment doesn't want you to know about, how Tony Blair orders the whipping of African children which he has recorded and sent to him to watch at dinner parties and how Diana was in fact a thick overprivelidged whinger who only achieved fame by marrying a Prince.
Who would want to buy SCO ?
IBM want to make an example of them to discourage anyone else launching frivolous lawsuits against them and to turn around now and buy them would negate the point of the entire excercise.
Novell want money from SCO for the licence fees they are selling which Novell should have got the lions share of. They are hardly like to buy SCO when they could easily get all their assets anyway when SCO has to pay up.
I can't see anyone else being interested since the dreadful health SCO is currently in is nothing to the health they will be in a year or so when they have lost all these lawsuits and lost more money and assets in the process.
Why New South Wales ? Is there really a New North Wales and if not why choose to name somewhere after only South Wales, why not East Wales or West Wales or North Wales or even just Wales or better still Britain ?
Hah hah hah ha. I imagine potato farming is way way harder than creating an awful lot of what passes for art these days.
It would have been a standard mercury thermometer and it was measured in farenheit and whilst I'm sure it wasn't recorded to 1/100th of a degree the records would still be accurate enough to obtain meaningful data from.
The important measurements for the comparison talked about in this article is the average yearly temperature for the country which is a perfectly feasible data point to get from the records based on data gathered by these type of thermometers.
Not true, the first mercury thermometer was invented in 1716 ( or sometime close to then ) but other types of thermometer exsisted for 200 years prior to this although with any standardised scale.