Labour (Sorry, New Labour) is just a conservative in sheeps clothing, spend too much on public services that then go cut those services...ABC Bin collection in point, my bin is emptied every 2 weeks...My babies nappies and the flies are horrendous Conservative are just out to enrich their own pockets (well, so are labour TBH) and make rich people richer and support companies. Liberal Democrats have some really odd policies and I don't believe they have the strength to be a valid ruling party. UKIP/NBP etc - racist, facist bigots that I would rather fight than have these people in power. The rest (Pirate party included) - Too small to make a difference.
At least the Pirate party has a policy that I AM interested in...
Having said all that, I don't believe that people should have a free reign of music, games and other works of art...Companies will just stop producing...However, I believe that I should be able to copy, transform and move between devices that I own for my or my familys consumption...Soon they will require a purchase for each member of the family that will watch a DVD because in fact you ARE broadcasting to the rest of your family...
Patents, copyright and trademarking all need an overhaul...If that's what the pirate party are suggesting, or at least make one of the major parties take note, then I will look at voting for them...
Now think about how many Sat Nav touch screens are out now...Mobile phones are only the tip. Which is why it is illegal to use a mobile phone (unless using hands-free) or interact with a sat nav device while driving...You need to pull over first or risk a £60 fine and 3 points on your license... http://www.nopenaltypoints.co.uk/TheLawAndUsingYourMobilePhoneWhileDriving.html
Oh, and if they feel that you were driving dangerously because of using an mp3, sat nav or phone, you can get up to 2 years in the slammer:
Let's make this perfectly clear for you non-UK/GB folk.
It's my taxes that pay for the purchase, upkeep and display of all these works of art (and all other UK/GB tax payers). Those works and the museum itself belong to the people of UK/GB (as in ownership), what is done with it is at the discretion of the body that we have appointed to do so.
They committed to, online, allow the viewing of said pieces of work (they didn't need to) at a cost to us the taxpayer. We paid for the cameraman, the logistics and technical requirements to present these online to the rest of the world, at our cost. We also permit, upon request and cost, to use those pictures which, under UK copyright law, belong to either the photographer or the employer of the photographer at the time the picture was take. Irrelevant that it is a piece of public art, the art is, the image is not. We have a right to charge for items under our copyright that cost us, the taxpayer, to produce. Deal with it.
I am an avid Linux and FreeBSD user, have been for a long time. However, I do use Windows on one of my home machine, mainly cause I like to play games...
Now, I think that Windows 7 is by far the best OS to have come out of Redmond for a long time. Yes XP was good (after SP2), but it did suffer from limitations. The 64-bit version is a dead end so my new hardware can not be leveraged with Windows XP. I used Vista for a year and, while bloated and heavy, was an OK OS. I have a miniMac for work at home, I don't like it...The user interface is klunky IMHO. I do like the console though.
Suse Linux is my fav linux, purely because the issues I have had have been easily resolved, package management is good and it just works. CentOS my fav for a server (with no gui).
Back on topic now, Microsoft didn't just decide to remove IE from Windows, they though long and hard about how they can still get what they want and fit into the requirements of the EU. You think they just thought that that was the easiest? No. They did it because 1) They know that most people will just install IE anyway because its what they know. 2) They can blame the lack of functionality on the EU. 3) It's a two-finger salute to the EU. It fulfills the law, but in the worst possible way. 4) If users had a choice on install they may indeed pick something else...it's like free advertising for other browsers, not something M$ would want to do.
Now the EU won't accept this. They will still go after Microsoft because they are not stupid. The question is if the law supports them, which I am not sure it will (I think EU will lose, but who knows the politcal pressure behind the scenes can do many magical things).
Ban all distribution of copyrighted material, legal or otherwise, over the internet...Then the music companies will have what they want but at a cost that will hurt them. Let's see if they are will to pay the price...
October 25th 2001 - XP Release date 20th January 2007 - Vista RTM
XP->Vista 5.3 Years Vista->Windows 7 2.5/3 Years
People who didn't upgrade from XP - 8 years.
It should be significantly cheaper to upgrade Vista to Windows 7 than XP to windows 7...Otherwise you are hurting your most loyal base of users...And making the people that suffered the Vista upgrade suffer again needlessly.
I still believe that Windows 7 should be a free upgrade to Windows Vista buyers...It's been a very short run for Vista and with people having forked out for Vista I think that Microsoft may have a difficult time charging again for Windows 7.
And you can tear my fingers from around my controller from my cold dead hands if you disagree...
Seriously, its up to parents to make sure that this doesn't happen, not Government. The problem is that there are too many lazy parents that prefer to keep their kids quiet with TV and Video Games than actually play together...Eductation doesn't stop at school, parents have an equal, if not more important, role in educating their children.
Not to mention that when they have all the rights to bend you over and shaft you, they will...
Step 1) Gain access to full disclosure of every person. Step 2) Change laws at your discretion until every person has no right to think. Step 3) Profit...
It is GREED for POWER...And if the last year and a bit should have taught us ANYTHING it's that GREED is BAD, ergo invasion of privacy is BAD.
We don't like to compete in a fair competition market and thus request that laws are implemented to stop the Indie market. Only established companies should be able to sell games to consumers and alternatives are bringing down a valuable market, thus they should be labeled terrorist to the Western market and their operations should be stopped. We suggest the US Government employ our proposal published under 'Operation Killjoy.'
Let's be frank, I and nearly everyone else here and on the net have at least breached copyright on 3 occasions. Should we therefore all be band from using the internet the following will happen:
1) Google will lose all their ad revenue. 2) In fact all companies will no longer have an audience to shovel their products. 3) Companies will fold. 4) Techies will find a way around it anyway. 5) We will laugh because we have the DVD/CD Writers and there is always VHS and tape to fall back to.
It is futile...
Actually on a positive note I have been using Spotify recently, a nice music app that streams music for free with a vocal advert (like the radio) every 20 minutes or so (and always at the end of a track, never in the middle).
This then makes more sense to buy the boxed version of a game over an electronic distribution which flys in the face of the earlier discussions on physical copies of games: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/05/0655225
If I donwload a load of digital MP3 files but never listen to them, am I breaking copyright law? In my mind no because in essence I have not reproduced the music until I run it through an mp3 player that interprets the bits into an signal that can be played by my speakers (analog). Obviously if I play a beep for 1 and nothing for 0 I am reproducing, but not in the way the artist intended.
The reason I ask is I wonder if one can make a "library" of all music ever produced for future prosperity...
Actually, nuclear weapons are not detonated, they need to be armed/activated.
Detonated means that the weapon is fired at a given moment, like pressing a big red button. Nuclear Weapons are armed and then released...In fact, most land or sub based missiles are activated in-flight using a remote code that arms them so that if the missile goes widely of course (or heaven forbids turns in flight towards allies), the weapon can be "not activated". Not sure if you can deactivate one once it is activated though.
This is marked as funny but actually, in towns, you do give way differently...
In France, but not as defacto as it used to be, you give way to the right! That is, if you are driving down a road and there is a car coming out from the right, you have to stop and give way...Called "Priorite a droite" (minus accents from a UK keyboard).
Roundabouts used to be different too but they have since seen sense...Originally you used to have to give way to cars entering the roundabout (yes, stopping on the roundabout as necessary).
So, my best guess is that the UK Sub was driving in a straight line when a crazed French d(r)iver came from the right expecting the UK sub to give way, which it didn't, hence crash. Litigation will be based on whether the waters at the point of collision are French, UK or whether they should have respected International maritime law...whatever that is.
Which is why the "people" should hit them where it hurts...stop buying music...Stop it...completely...no music purchase means no budget for combatting piracy...no music companies...no problem.
I say that we need to organise, online, a mass protest...For 2 months (or more), agree to not purchase music...make it a cult...hit it where it hurts...their bottom line...Start buying music from the artist rather than the industry...
Every year we pay a council tax. Part of this council tax is to pay for policing. Should you feel that strongly about issues, you should refuse to pay the police section of the bill and wait for your time in court to get the publicity you need.
I won't do this, I have a young family and a home to keep up...
Slashdot Mirror
The study omits the fact that it is much more fun to watch the replays of mowing down people...
Depends on their alcohol level at the time of conception...
All the other parties are useless anyway:
Labour (Sorry, New Labour) is just a conservative in sheeps clothing, spend too much on public services that then go cut those services...ABC Bin collection in point, my bin is emptied every 2 weeks...My babies nappies and the flies are horrendous
Conservative are just out to enrich their own pockets (well, so are labour TBH) and make rich people richer and support companies.
Liberal Democrats have some really odd policies and I don't believe they have the strength to be a valid ruling party.
UKIP/NBP etc - racist, facist bigots that I would rather fight than have these people in power.
The rest (Pirate party included) - Too small to make a difference.
At least the Pirate party has a policy that I AM interested in...
Having said all that, I don't believe that people should have a free reign of music, games and other works of art...Companies will just stop producing...However, I believe that I should be able to copy, transform and move between devices that I own for my or my familys consumption...Soon they will require a purchase for each member of the family that will watch a DVD because in fact you ARE broadcasting to the rest of your family...
Patents, copyright and trademarking all need an overhaul...If that's what the pirate party are suggesting, or at least make one of the major parties take note, then I will look at voting for them...
"duplication of functionality" = competition
I thought stifling competition was illegal in the US
Now think about how many Sat Nav touch screens are out now...Mobile phones are only the tip. Which is why it is illegal to use a mobile phone (unless using hands-free) or interact with a sat nav device while driving...You need to pull over first or risk a £60 fine and 3 points on your license... http://www.nopenaltypoints.co.uk/TheLawAndUsingYourMobilePhoneWhileDriving.html
Oh, and if they feel that you were driving dangerously because of using an mp3, sat nav or phone, you can get up to 2 years in the slammer:
http://www.safermotoring.co.uk/using-ipod-while-driving.html
Let's make this perfectly clear for you non-UK/GB folk.
It's my taxes that pay for the purchase, upkeep and display of all these works of art (and all other UK/GB tax payers). Those works and the museum itself belong to the people of UK/GB (as in ownership), what is done with it is at the discretion of the body that we have appointed to do so.
They committed to, online, allow the viewing of said pieces of work (they didn't need to) at a cost to us the taxpayer. We paid for the cameraman, the logistics and technical requirements to present these online to the rest of the world, at our cost. We also permit, upon request and cost, to use those pictures which, under UK copyright law, belong to either the photographer or the employer of the photographer at the time the picture was take. Irrelevant that it is a piece of public art, the art is, the image is not. We have a right to charge for items under our copyright that cost us, the taxpayer, to produce. Deal with it.
And isn't it ironic that when it's anti-US you lot scream the loudest, yet when an American does it with a picture of Obama, legal processes ensue... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster#Origin_and_copyright_issues
Tell that to Gary McKinnon http://www.zimbio.com/Hacking/articles/102/Gary+McKinnon+signs+confession+avoid+hacking
The user the US is threatening is in the UK and the servers he downloaded from are in the US...
I am an avid Linux and FreeBSD user, have been for a long time. However, I do use Windows on one of my home machine, mainly cause I like to play games...
Now, I think that Windows 7 is by far the best OS to have come out of Redmond for a long time. Yes XP was good (after SP2), but it did suffer from limitations. The 64-bit version is a dead end so my new hardware can not be leveraged with Windows XP. I used Vista for a year and, while bloated and heavy, was an OK OS. I have a miniMac for work at home, I don't like it...The user interface is klunky IMHO. I do like the console though.
Suse Linux is my fav linux, purely because the issues I have had have been easily resolved, package management is good and it just works. CentOS my fav for a server (with no gui).
Back on topic now, Microsoft didn't just decide to remove IE from Windows, they though long and hard about how they can still get what they want and fit into the requirements of the EU. You think they just thought that that was the easiest? No. They did it because 1) They know that most people will just install IE anyway because its what they know. 2) They can blame the lack of functionality on the EU. 3) It's a two-finger salute to the EU. It fulfills the law, but in the worst possible way. 4) If users had a choice on install they may indeed pick something else...it's like free advertising for other browsers, not something M$ would want to do.
Now the EU won't accept this. They will still go after Microsoft because they are not stupid. The question is if the law supports them, which I am not sure it will (I think EU will lose, but who knows the politcal pressure behind the scenes can do many magical things).
Ban all distribution of copyrighted material, legal or otherwise, over the internet...Then the music companies will have what they want but at a cost that will hurt them. Let's see if they are will to pay the price...
October 25th 2001 - XP Release date
20th January 2007 - Vista RTM
XP->Vista 5.3 Years
Vista->Windows 7 2.5/3 Years
People who didn't upgrade from XP - 8 years.
It should be significantly cheaper to upgrade Vista to Windows 7 than XP to windows 7...Otherwise you are hurting your most loyal base of users...And making the people that suffered the Vista upgrade suffer again needlessly.
I still believe that Windows 7 should be a free upgrade to Windows Vista buyers...It's been a very short run for Vista and with people having forked out for Vista I think that Microsoft may have a difficult time charging again for Windows 7.
And you can tear my fingers from around my controller from my cold dead hands if you disagree...
Seriously, its up to parents to make sure that this doesn't happen, not Government. The problem is that there are too many lazy parents that prefer to keep their kids quiet with TV and Video Games than actually play together...Eductation doesn't stop at school, parents have an equal, if not more important, role in educating their children.
Not to mention that when they have all the rights to bend you over and shaft you, they will...
Step 1) Gain access to full disclosure of every person. Step 2) Change laws at your discretion until every person has no right to think. Step 3) Profit...
It is GREED for POWER...And if the last year and a bit should have taught us ANYTHING it's that GREED is BAD, ergo invasion of privacy is BAD.
Rest my case your honour...
We don't like to compete in a fair competition market and thus request that laws are implemented to stop the Indie market. Only established companies should be able to sell games to consumers and alternatives are bringing down a valuable market, thus they should be labeled terrorist to the Western market and their operations should be stopped. We suggest the US Government employ our proposal published under 'Operation Killjoy.'
Let's be frank, I and nearly everyone else here and on the net have at least breached copyright on 3 occasions. Should we therefore all be band from using the internet the following will happen:
1) Google will lose all their ad revenue.
2) In fact all companies will no longer have an audience to shovel their products.
3) Companies will fold.
4) Techies will find a way around it anyway.
5) We will laugh because we have the DVD/CD Writers and there is always VHS and tape to fall back to.
It is futile...
Actually on a positive note I have been using Spotify recently, a nice music app that streams music for free with a vocal advert (like the radio) every 20 minutes or so (and always at the end of a track, never in the middle).
This then makes more sense to buy the boxed version of a game over an electronic distribution which flys in the face of the earlier discussions on physical copies of games: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/05/0655225
All they would need to do is look on google maps for "blurred" areas and target them knowing full well that it is a "target"...
Should we take out this set of houses, or this slightly soft-blurred areas just here that is blurred because it will cause real pain?...hmm, choices
This is a ridiculous idea.
The reason I ask is I wonder if one can make a "library" of all music ever produced for future prosperity...
Karem
Detonated means that the weapon is fired at a given moment, like pressing a big red button. Nuclear Weapons are armed and then released...In fact, most land or sub based missiles are activated in-flight using a remote code that arms them so that if the missile goes widely of course (or heaven forbids turns in flight towards allies), the weapon can be "not activated". Not sure if you can deactivate one once it is activated though.
In France, but not as defacto as it used to be, you give way to the right! That is, if you are driving down a road and there is a car coming out from the right, you have to stop and give way...Called "Priorite a droite" (minus accents from a UK keyboard).
Roundabouts used to be different too but they have since seen sense...Originally you used to have to give way to cars entering the roundabout (yes, stopping on the roundabout as necessary).
So, my best guess is that the UK Sub was driving in a straight line when a crazed French d(r)iver came from the right expecting the UK sub to give way, which it didn't, hence crash. Litigation will be based on whether the waters at the point of collision are French, UK or whether they should have respected International maritime law...whatever that is.
Another UAC prompt...Yes, by all means, not like there isn't enough of them already!
My response is http://gamecopyworld.com/
Which is why the "people" should hit them where it hurts...stop buying music...Stop it...completely...no music purchase means no budget for combatting piracy...no music companies...no problem. I say that we need to organise, online, a mass protest...For 2 months (or more), agree to not purchase music...make it a cult...hit it where it hurts...their bottom line...Start buying music from the artist rather than the industry...
I won't do this, I have a young family and a home to keep up...
Considering that Vista is a beta version of Windows 7, I wreckon that Vista->Windows 7 should be a free upgrade...