Blanet immunity? For all liabilities related to a product? Merely because of a connection to security? So if I market a cracker that sometimes has too much rat poison in it, I get blanket immunity because of an rfid tag?
[From the article]They also may get legal protection under the Safety Act of 2002 -- a tort-reform law that offers blanket lawsuit protections to makers of antiterrorism devices, should those devices fail during a terrorist attack.
No, the rat poison will still get them in trouble...
you do realize you _owns_ the radio stations, right? Many of the FM radio station in the US are owned by very large corporations, such as Diney and Time Warner.
if the riaa went after a law that would affect the larger radio station in such a negative way, we're talking multi-billion dollar class-action lawsuites initiated by Disney and Time Warner against the RIAA... now that would be some good entertainment. RIAA might be ruled a monopoly and be required to split into smaller companies (like AT&T did in the 80s).
it's definitly NOT in the RIAA's best interest to try to change the Fair Use laws to their own advantage like that.
...This needs to be done NOW. I'm already boycotting the RIAA. If there's a CD i really want, I get a list of the songs, and I download it.
RIAA: You see, members of Congress, the huge drop we had in sales during this period. Also, look at the thousands of statements made on bulletin boards online about how people just 'download their music now'. Obviously file sharing is an even bigger problem than we thought. We need criminal laws to prevent this now.
Bad move, eh?
you know, i hadn't thought of that.
now that i think of it, the RIAA is in the right that they are trying to protect their IP, but they are going about it the wrong way. What is the right way? No idea. But suing people that could become their customers is not the right way.
i herby retract my previous statement stating that i download music instead of purchasing it through legal means.
i don't listen to music for which there is a legal copyright. i prefer the public domain stuff, like Strauss and Mozart... >
Sorry to be a pescimist, but it'd never work. If the stores saw that a huge volume of product was intended for return (bad for a store because they have to reclaim a commission from the cashier when something is returned), they'd stop accepting returns immediatly.
Other than that, it's actually a good idea.
I personally suggest this: pick any two week period. When that two week period comes, any consumer who is fed up with this shit will not purchase a single cd. This has to be a nation wide thing because, let's face it, most of us go without buying cds for longer than two weeks... now if we could just synchronize those two weeks nationwide...
This needs to be done NOW. I'm already boycotting the RIAA. If there's a CD i really want, I get a list of the songs, and I download it.
Here in California, we have a tax on many recyclable products (soda cans and bottles). The tax is called CRV and is usually something small, like $0.14.
They refund the tax when you recycle the bottle or can. I think they should have a CRV for electronic components. That way, you might have more incentive to recycle them.
Sure, Adobe still has a "vulnerability" in the strict sense of the word, and if they want to continue marketing a weak security product, that is their business
yeah, it's not like they have any competition in the WYSIWYG document market...
yeah... duct tape could've fixed it, but because the SCO is claiming the it holds the copyright to 11% of every roll of the stuff, NASA decided not to include it on the shuttle.
In other news, the SCO filed an injunction against ATI to have the Linux drivers for most of it's newest cards removed from it's website, claiming that 11% of the source code for the drivers actually belonged to the SCO.
I'm signed up with earthlink and i (don't laugh) actually READ the user agreement before signing it.
They specifically state that no more than one computer may use the service at a time. The DSL modem provided to me also enforces it. If two computers try to browse at the same time, one of them will get a web page asking for the PPPOE login info (user and pass). If you type it, then the other computer losses access and gets the same page, while the one that previously required a password suddenly works...
Not a problem to me since I currently only use one computer on the internet here at home, but I suspect that it could be a real bitch at the office where I set up a home-style network with a NAT. (Small office, only six computers)
Solution to the earthlink? I "borrowed" and extra DSL modem from my office (they had several laying around when I started working there) and set up XP (don't laugh) to log in using the built in PPPEO authentication.
If my roommate gets a computer, I'll buy another NIC and use XP's built in NAT. Should work just fine.
I had an old AT case (don't laugh... ok laugh) and it had abig fat two state dpdt switch on the front. (remember those?)
i was doing something that required that i remove the wires from it, noting their postion on the switch with a color coded diagram...
somewhere after unplugging the switch and before pluging it back in (about ten minutes later) the diagram i made got rotated by 90 degrees.
I hooked the switch back up and turned it on... bam, all the light in the house go off. I think I heared myself say a very profane word quite loudly.
I managed to find the problem and get everything working, no fried hardware.
See, that's what happens when you wire BOTH TERMINALS of a high voltage supply line through a dpdt switch owned by somebody who likes to experiment...
(Those who are wondering what the hell happened, when the switch was turned on, both terminals on the wall plug were shorted, quickly throwing the circut breaker)
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No, the rat poison will still get them in trouble...
i'm rather buy a cd for $3.00, sending $1.50 to the artist, than buy a cd for $15.00, sending $0.10 per hundred cds to the artist.
Sorry to be a pescimist, but it'd never work. If the stores saw that a huge volume of product was intended for return (bad for a store because they have to reclaim a commission from the cashier when something is returned), they'd stop accepting returns immediatly.
Other than that, it's actually a good idea.
I personally suggest this: pick any two week period. When that two week period comes, any consumer who is fed up with this shit will not purchase a single cd. This has to be a nation wide thing because, let's face it, most of us go without buying cds for longer than two weeks... now if we could just synchronize those two weeks nationwide...
This needs to be done NOW. I'm already boycotting the RIAA. If there's a CD i really want, I get a list of the songs, and I download it.
If I get a supeona myself, I'll move to Canada.
Here in California, we have a tax on many recyclable products (soda cans and bottles). The tax is called CRV and is usually something small, like $0.14. They refund the tax when you recycle the bottle or can. I think they should have a CRV for electronic components. That way, you might have more incentive to recycle them.
I'm sure that if the US were to take over the world, everything, including global shipping, would be so much better...
I mean this, of course, in a humorous way, not a "were better than you" way...
yeah... duct tape could've fixed it, but because the SCO is claiming the it holds the copyright to 11% of every roll of the stuff, NASA decided not to include it on the shuttle.
ok... now that we have a matrix drawn up, let's place those bets...
In other news, the SCO filed an injunction against ATI to have the Linux drivers for most of it's newest cards removed from it's website, claiming that 11% of the source code for the drivers actually belonged to the SCO.
Lots and lots of magnet wire, alumenum foil, and three toothpicks
why not just use a high res projector instead? seriously now, they're nasa. they can afford it...
I'm signed up with earthlink and i (don't laugh) actually READ the user agreement before signing it.
They specifically state that no more than one computer may use the service at a time. The DSL modem provided to me also enforces it. If two computers try to browse at the same time, one of them will get a web page asking for the PPPOE login info (user and pass). If you type it, then the other computer losses access and gets the same page, while the one that previously required a password suddenly works...
Not a problem to me since I currently only use one computer on the internet here at home, but I suspect that it could be a real bitch at the office where I set up a home-style network with a NAT. (Small office, only six computers)
Solution to the earthlink? I "borrowed" and extra DSL modem from my office (they had several laying around when I started working there) and set up XP (don't laugh) to log in using the built in PPPEO authentication.
If my roommate gets a computer, I'll buy another NIC and use XP's built in NAT. Should work just fine.
I'd just look around on ebay for a lowpower tv transmitter. transmit on channel 3 or something and make sure all the tvs are tuned in to channel 3.
I had an old AT case (don't laugh... ok laugh) and it had abig fat two state dpdt switch on the front. (remember those?)
i was doing something that required that i remove the wires from it, noting their postion on the switch with a color coded diagram...
somewhere after unplugging the switch and before pluging it back in (about ten minutes later) the diagram i made got rotated by 90 degrees.
I hooked the switch back up and turned it on... bam, all the light in the house go off. I think I heared myself say a very profane word quite loudly.
I managed to find the problem and get everything working, no fried hardware.
See, that's what happens when you wire BOTH TERMINALS of a high voltage supply line through a dpdt switch owned by somebody who likes to experiment...
(Those who are wondering what the hell happened, when the switch was turned on, both terminals on the wall plug were shorted, quickly throwing the circut breaker)