Why oh WHY do people band about "Democracy" as "Freedom of Speech". The two have absolutely nothing in common.
government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
Freedom of speech is a right
the right of people to express their opinions publicly without governmental interference, subject to the laws against libel, incitement to violence or rebellion
Democracy does not give you the right to freedom of speech, and your shifting of blame to India for having a law that they consider "libel, incitement to violence or rebellion" is telling them to do something that the western world do not! In this country (and my guess in the US too) is that I am not allowed to stand on a box in the street shouting "Down the US, kill them wherever they stand, women, children, we don't care, Jihad blah blah"...
Seriosuly, download Kettle http://kettle.pentaho.org/ and create a transformation of the required data only into a new DB on a seperate server (while you are at it, make it a star or snowflake schema). Give them all the access they want telling them that the data will be updated regularly but is not live.
If you need live data, I think Oracle has a product that creates a direct image of the DB live (i.e. one row changes in DB1, changes in DB2 etc). I think this is expensive though (isn't Oracle always?).
Karem
Whatever he demands from them, he has no rights until it goes before a judge.
And this is equally true of the lawyers.
Actually, he does have a right to know, from his ISP, the details unde the data protection act of what they supplied, this is a basic UK right. And if the ISP is deemed to have profited from an unsolicited sale of your personal details (which your name and address is), then this is taken very seriously. Lastly, if this does go to court, the prosecutors are required to hand over all the information they have on you prior to the case before the judge, so that your lawyers can mount a defense. If they don't, they risk the case being thrown out for withholding information from the defense. I am no lawyer, but I know more about my rights than most people because I ask.
And what if the files were downloaded and never used, is that still infringement? For example, If I randomly say download everything from newsgroup a.b.c, and the game is in there and I delete it after seeing it, have I actually infringed on copyright? I don't think so, just like I don't believe having an mp3 is copyright infringement...Distributing and listening (or broadcasting) it is, but actually having the bits on my computer...questionable IMHO
Do you realise the disruption going to court over something like this is, including the cost of lawyers?
Besides, since when has it been the job of lawyers to inflict fines and penalties? Surely this is the job for the police and judiciary.
Karem
I would ask them for their forensic evidence it was you that downloaded the game. I would also request your ISP for the information that they provided to the company against the Data Protection Act and politely inform them that if they did provide this information then they would be next in line for divulging your personal details.
I would request from the lawyers copies of all the details provided by your ISP. I would also be informing them that their collection and use of your personal details without your approval will be met by even more stringent regulations under British law.
I would also contact the Citizen's Advice Bureau to discuss with them how you should proceed and for them to put you in touch with a lawyer/association.
At the brunt of this, you have to pay for your ISP to have provided the information. This means that your ISP charged for providing them the information, ergo they sold the information to a third-party. I would have their necks if my ISP did this.
Karem
This is all purely a well-thought out ploy to find out who is screwing the state. They did the same with hotels. They opened up the hotels and of the 26 people I know that booked in, at least 16 have now been arrested to determine where they got the money to go to a hotel from...
You don't get money in Cuba outside the few CUC per month legally, unless it is being sent from outside. You can bet your bottom dollar that the buyers of these computers will be put under investigation.
2. made up of what is selected from different sources. 3. not following any one system, as of philosophy, medicine, etc., but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems.
In the UK they are trying to get everyones DNA, irrelevant of whether they are arrested or not. And they want to put the details on an ID card too. Identity theft will flourish, innocent people will be jailed...At least we don't have the death penalty.
Well it the UK its not so simple. Being that we are talking about the BBC, this is funded through a television license (read tax) to the degree of $280 a year. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/licencefee/.
Ergo, if the BBC pays we are effectively paying through our license, but we would have to pay that if we wanted a TV anyway. So getting the BBC to do this would effectively just be, IMHO, a better use of our TV license payments...
100 billion barrels of oil, sitting in the field. 100 billion barrels of oil, sitting in the field. And if one barrel of oil, should be extracted from the earth. There'd be 999,999,999 million barrels of oil, sitting in the field.
You can guess where the song ends...what happens then?
Tell you what, if you had to drive 100 miles on the roads we have here, you would think its a long way. All your roads are straight...you put your cruise control and watch the miles drop off...Most places here in the UK cruise control is completely useless as your are forever turning it on and off...and the roads are a POS.
I have two machines in my house. I have a quad-core 4Gb machine running Vista 64-bit. I have been using Vista for over a year now on this machine and there are some niggles to iron out but nowhere NEAR as many as when XP (and even worse XP64) came out.
I also just got a Dell D830 that had Windows XP on it and I HATED it. It was slow (new install, admittedly the Dell tools and other rubbish had been added) and un-usable. Upon booting, the load splash screen would switch to graphic mode and then stay black for a good 2-4 minutes before getting to the login screen (clean and new remember). I vowed last week to remove XP and Vista was not a choice on this machine (I have seen it on a quad-core with 4Gb). Ergo I went linux, Suse to be exact...I used to work in a FreeBSD environment and loved that, but Suse Linux went on my D830 with hardly a hiccup. I had to update via a wire to get wireless working (although this may have been not necessary and my own doing)...Oh yeah, my ipod won't connect to Amarok without running in root...My whole working life is in Linux now. I got my VPN to my office, my wireless connection, my openoffice...Fantastic and I don't regret it for a second...I had a little slow-down recently when I was copying 28Gb of music from my iPod to my laptop,
Cut a long story short, I love Vista over XP...for games...and running my network printer. I love Suse Linux for work!
You OBVIOUSLY are not playing the right games...you tried Battlefield or World of Warcraft, maybe even Planetside (at a push)? Definitely wars going on there!
Hey, the code is the companies, the knowledge is yours. Unless they have patented the functionality of the code, they can not stop you re-writing the application. You need to make sure that you do not look at the current code once you start coding your new version so as to prevent code sneak into your new code and thereby infringing on their copyright.
At least that's how I understand copyright to be...Just cause I write a book that has the same plot as another (man murders woman, policeman chases murderer, policeman gets murderer) doesn't mean I breach copyright. Patent and IP is different though and if the code is under IP/Patent then kiss goodbye unless you can get the company to agree.
I am not a lawyer, seek legal clarity from someone who knows the law.
"Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines, their telephones, their lawnmowers, throw them into darkness for a few hours, and then sit back and watch the pattern."
Isn't this from the FBI's handbook for terrorist/hostage situations? (At least that's what the "Die Hard" documentary I watched a few years back said).
Not enough. If they get $1.5 million per CD, you can bet you bottom dollar that each infringer will be liable for at least 20-100 albums. Ergo the return for the RIAA for breaching consumer rights should be at least (max albums held by infringer) * $1.5 million. 100 (low estimate) * 1.5 = $150 million per civil infringement, straight to the little man, who then, hopefully, uses it to help others fight the RIAA (yes, I know, not likely) and can actually afford the inflated prices of albums now.
But lets not get off track here...Where in the hell is a little guy going to get $1.5 million? This is just outrageous. This is ruining your life for life stakes that even a minor can get embroiled in...RIAA should be shut down, dismantled and all its funds given to charity. Record labels should be told to do their own dirty work (after all, we blame RIAA, but who bank rolls them?) and artists to return to what being an artist really means...
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Freedom of speech is a right
the right of people to express their opinions publicly without governmental interference, subject to the laws against libel, incitement to violence or rebellionDemocracy does not give you the right to freedom of speech, and your shifting of blame to India for having a law that they consider "libel, incitement to violence or rebellion" is telling them to do something that the western world do not! In this country (and my guess in the US too) is that I am not allowed to stand on a box in the street shouting "Down the US, kill them wherever they stand, women, children, we don't care, Jihad blah blah"...
India says DITTO.
Karem
Seriosuly, download Kettle http://kettle.pentaho.org/ and create a transformation of the required data only into a new DB on a seperate server (while you are at it, make it a star or snowflake schema). Give them all the access they want telling them that the data will be updated regularly but is not live. If you need live data, I think Oracle has a product that creates a direct image of the DB live (i.e. one row changes in DB1, changes in DB2 etc). I think this is expensive though (isn't Oracle always?). Karem
And this is equally true of the lawyers.
Actually, he does have a right to know, from his ISP, the details unde the data protection act of what they supplied, this is a basic UK right. And if the ISP is deemed to have profited from an unsolicited sale of your personal details (which your name and address is), then this is taken very seriously. Lastly, if this does go to court, the prosecutors are required to hand over all the information they have on you prior to the case before the judge, so that your lawyers can mount a defense. If they don't, they risk the case being thrown out for withholding information from the defense. I am no lawyer, but I know more about my rights than most people because I ask.
And what if the files were downloaded and never used, is that still infringement? For example, If I randomly say download everything from newsgroup a.b.c, and the game is in there and I delete it after seeing it, have I actually infringed on copyright? I don't think so, just like I don't believe having an mp3 is copyright infringement...Distributing and listening (or broadcasting) it is, but actually having the bits on my computer...questionable IMHO
Karem
Do you realise the disruption going to court over something like this is, including the cost of lawyers? Besides, since when has it been the job of lawyers to inflict fines and penalties? Surely this is the job for the police and judiciary. Karem
I would ask them for their forensic evidence it was you that downloaded the game. I would also request your ISP for the information that they provided to the company against the Data Protection Act and politely inform them that if they did provide this information then they would be next in line for divulging your personal details. I would request from the lawyers copies of all the details provided by your ISP. I would also be informing them that their collection and use of your personal details without your approval will be met by even more stringent regulations under British law. I would also contact the Citizen's Advice Bureau to discuss with them how you should proceed and for them to put you in touch with a lawyer/association. At the brunt of this, you have to pay for your ISP to have provided the information. This means that your ISP charged for providing them the information, ergo they sold the information to a third-party. I would have their necks if my ISP did this. Karem
You'd be surprised at how resourceful Cuban people are...I am amazed at how they make some of those old cars still work with no parts available...
This is all purely a well-thought out ploy to find out who is screwing the state. They did the same with hotels. They opened up the hotels and of the 26 people I know that booked in, at least 16 have now been arrested to determine where they got the money to go to a hotel from...
You don't get money in Cuba outside the few CUC per month legally, unless it is being sent from outside. You can bet your bottom dollar that the buyers of these computers will be put under investigation.
Karem
ME TOO! I have lost $94 million dollars last Friday ,and countless billions over the last few years, due to some other euromillions lottery players...
Erm, maybe you should use a dictionary before you make comments like this: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eclectic%20
Specifically:
2. made up of what is selected from different sources.
3. not following any one system, as of philosophy, medicine, etc., but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems.
Karem
In the UK they are trying to get everyones DNA, irrelevant of whether they are arrested or not. And they want to put the details on an ID card too. Identity theft will flourish, innocent people will be jailed...At least we don't have the death penalty.
Ergo, if the BBC pays we are effectively paying through our license, but we would have to pay that if we wanted a TV anyway. So getting the BBC to do this would effectively just be, IMHO, a better use of our TV license payments...
Karem
sitting in the field.
100 billion barrels of oil,
sitting in the field.
And if one barrel of oil,
should be extracted from the earth.
There'd be 999,999,999 million barrels of oil,
sitting in the field.
You can guess where the song ends...what happens then?
Tell you what, if you had to drive 100 miles on the roads we have here, you would think its a long way. All your roads are straight...you put your cruise control and watch the miles drop off...Most places here in the UK cruise control is completely useless as your are forever turning it on and off...and the roads are a POS.
Even Bill has put his "or so" doubt in his speech.
I also just got a Dell D830 that had Windows XP on it and I HATED it. It was slow (new install, admittedly the Dell tools and other rubbish had been added) and un-usable. Upon booting, the load splash screen would switch to graphic mode and then stay black for a good 2-4 minutes before getting to the login screen (clean and new remember). I vowed last week to remove XP and Vista was not a choice on this machine (I have seen it on a quad-core with 4Gb). Ergo I went linux, Suse to be exact...I used to work in a FreeBSD environment and loved that, but Suse Linux went on my D830 with hardly a hiccup. I had to update via a wire to get wireless working (although this may have been not necessary and my own doing)...Oh yeah, my ipod won't connect to Amarok without running in root...My whole working life is in Linux now. I got my VPN to my office, my wireless connection, my openoffice...Fantastic and I don't regret it for a second...I had a little slow-down recently when I was copying 28Gb of music from my iPod to my laptop,
Cut a long story short, I love Vista over XP...for games...and running my network printer. I love Suse Linux for work!
Karem
Your a month early...April's fool is NEXT month!
Make everyone fly naked...
You OBVIOUSLY are not playing the right games...you tried Battlefield or World of Warcraft, maybe even Planetside (at a push)? Definitely wars going on there!
At least that's how I understand copyright to be...Just cause I write a book that has the same plot as another (man murders woman, policeman chases murderer, policeman gets murderer) doesn't mean I breach copyright. Patent and IP is different though and if the code is under IP/Patent then kiss goodbye unless you can get the company to agree.
I am not a lawyer, seek legal clarity from someone who knows the law.
Karem
At first reading I read "be taken with a boxcar-load of shit"...Just goes to show what word is in my head when RIAA is in the title.
Isn't this from the FBI's handbook for terrorist/hostage situations? (At least that's what the "Die Hard" documentary I watched a few years back said).
But lets not get off track here...Where in the hell is a little guy going to get $1.5 million? This is just outrageous. This is ruining your life for life stakes that even a minor can get embroiled in...RIAA should be shut down, dismantled and all its funds given to charity. Record labels should be told to do their own dirty work (after all, we blame RIAA, but who bank rolls them?) and artists to return to what being an artist really means...
Karem
Can't you just produce another one?
Point to self: Another reason to stop smoking
Hello sir, anything to declare?
Karem