I have to disagree here. It's not your music, it's (in effect) his.
I bought it, it's mine. The only thing that limits what I can do with my music are copyright laws (incl. the DMCA) Your sentiment is a result of propoganda and not law.
There's no law by which you can demand that he allow you to listen to that music on any arbitrary device;
There is no law that forbids it either. On top of this, fair use is an affirmative defense in the case of a copyright infringement case. No court in the land would fine you for ripping a cd you own to your mp3 player.
you have to negotiate that privilege with him
No you don't. You don't actually understand copyright law do you?
, and pay the price he demands.
given..
If he sells you a disk with the understanding that you are not to play it on a Mac (or to cover it with cheese sauce) and you choose to do so anyway, you're breaking your end of the agreement.
This might be an argument the day you are required to sign such an agreement before purchasing the disc. Of course, the DMCA does back any technological restrictions put in place by the manufacturer.
In the U.S., compulsory license laws (whereby a tax is added onto the cost of blank media and paid to the music publishers to cover the cost of copying you might do) force you to give money to the music publishers even if you don't like their product, or are incapable of using it. (Deaf people pay this compulsory license tax on CD-R media and audio tapes used for data storage only.)
This is not really the case in the US. I think "audio" cd-r's may have such a tax but that is it. Maybe you are thinking of Canada.
Heh, whats really funny is that experiment you linked to generates up to 2 volts of electricity. Lets find our own VC and try and get the voltage on that one up instead!
At least we would have a proven business plot...er..plan.
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If the user bothered to read the features list they would know it was there. You're absolving the end user from personal responsibility.
Well, by your definition Claria/Gator etc. are all in the clear then as well. I mean, it says what they are doing right in the EULA so its ok right?
Only two-thirds of the pop-up cartoons were relevant to the storyline.
A day after the exercise, children were asked to recall the story and the characters in it. The findings showed that 90 per cent of the group that used the first program had good or excellent recall of the story.
This figure dropped to 30 per cent with the children who had used the interactive program.
Hmm, one program had 2/3 superfluous material and their story retention dropped by 2/3. What a coincidence.
The movie industry hates DVD for the same reason it hates unadulterated CD: the pirates have cracked it so thoroughly that the studios might as well post the disk images on mininova themselves.
Which, conversely, is why it is so popular. The funny part is that the first format to be easily cracked will be the one that wins this format "war". Of course, that is exactly what they are trying to stop.
This is what the "greenies" forget. they get all up in arms about there being more storms in a hurricane season when we never used to record storms. we only used to record hurricanes.
How did I know this would be modded up? From the article:
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the busiest on record, with 27 tropical storms, besting the old record of 21 set in 1933. Fourteen of them grew into hurricanes, among the Katrina, beating the record of 12 set in 1969. Hurricanes Dennis, Rita and Wilma also caused significant damage in the U.S.
Now we're dying from genetically modified foods that are feeding millions of starving people (who happen to be starving because of the socialist government they live under, not because of lack of opportunities).
Sub-Saharan Africans are all commies? I was under the impression it was a lack of cohesive government that was causing a lot of problems over there? But regardless, there is enough food on the planet already to feed everyone, the problem is getting it where it's needed. If there is no profit in it Capitalism isn't going to do a whole lot of good either.
Evolution within a species occurs when a great crisis happens: the particular survivor with the resistant genetics to the herbicide will breed with those genes intact. I don't believe that there was any cross-pollination or contamination from the genetically modified foods -- all I see is rhetoric that makes that assumption.
This is the only part that I actually somewhat agree with. If you read the article they don't try and show how they have proven that it is in fact cross-polination. In fact this excerpt is rather interesting: The new plants were dubbed superweeds because they proved resistant to three herbicides while the crops they were growing among had been genetically engineered to be resistant to only one.
Where in evolutionary theory does it tell me that I have to or even necessarily should be 'nice' to anyone?
Cooperation and "civilization" are both successful survival mechanisms. You don't have to do anything, but something that helps the race to survive tends to be selected for.
I haven't played a video game in years, aside from ones that can be learned in 5 minutes. I just don't have the time to spend hours every day attaining levels and learning complex controls and commands.
Pick up one of the Katamari games or Rez if you have a ps2. Both are very original (which is lacking in a lot of games these days), simple, and fun.
This isn't a buffer overflow, its a design flaw that allows metafiles to register callbacks with GDI32. And I fail to see what language a programmer uses has anything to do with it. Bad programmers are bad programmers reguardless of the language used. To the CPU its all instructions, it doesn't care if its issued by the crt or the java_vm.
Any programming language that implements bounds checking should be immune to buffer overflows. C is not one of those languages, Java is.
Hand it to the waiter, and you have your card with all of the security numbers printed thereon in the clear. I'm not defending Apple's system, just pointing out that parties interested in getting your credit card information can do so with better fidelity and ease than attempting to break into a POS (point of sale) system.
Credit fraud scheme #1: Get a job at a restaurant where they require your home contact info., SS#, etc for taxes. Manage to grab a customers card and sneak off to make a quick copy of the data and get it back to them quick enough not to be suspicous and not have your manager see it. Wait long enough to use the data so they don't realize where it was stolen from and trace you.
Credit fraud scheme #2. Sit outside the store anonymously with a laptop and netstumbler.
Of course assuming the encryption was bad per the GP premise.
1) The constitution prevents the establishment of religion in the First Amendment, and 2) Congress has no power except that which is explicitly granted to it, therefore it can neither support nor discourage religion.
You don't consider teaching one particular sect's creation story in a science class support?
The theory of ID...
ID is not a theory, at most it is a hypothesis
...on its own makes no claim as to whom this being might be, what its motives were, or how we should regard it.
Except (by your own words) that it must be a being in the first place. That is a pretty specific claim
Acknowledging an opposing viewpoint is not anti-science; rather it is the very foundation of science. To blindly follow any hypothesis or theory without regard to alternatives is the definition of bad science.
All opinions are not equally valid in science. Only those opinions that can be tested in some way count. To blindly posit a hypothesis with no way to verify it and call it a theory is the (literal) definition of bad science in that it does not follow the scientific method.
On the second point, sociology is science, and religion is part of sociology. Sociology is not hard science like chemistry or physics, but it's science nonetheless.
Sociology class is not Biology class. People would not be nearly so upset it they were suggesting it for the sociology curriculum.
On the third point, Congress only has powers which are granted to it by the Constitution.
And converselty cannot wield powers that are specifically denied it. Of course, we are talking about the judiciary branch re: the article. To get to the heart of the matter (FTA): We find that the secular purposes claimed by the board amount to a pretext for the board's real purpose, which was to promote religion.
What is interesting is how the retraction itself has made front page news. Yet when retractions that would be favorable to "liberals" or whatever always get buried on the back page. The Democrats really need to get their PR machine into the frickin game if they ever want to regain their influence.
it's still our internet, not theirs. This is just another example of the kind of government interference the high-minded international community would do if the UN took over the administration of the internet.
Or see how the IQ 130+ ers will try to control the 'lower' classes of people by flaunting a number based on a flawed testing scheme biased towards assumed and outdated cultural norms. Speaking as a 152'er (now who's got the bigger IQ, eh?), I know better than to rely on something as simple as a number to measure any sort of worth. Everything makes sense when you pull your head out of the sand and realize human interaction isn't about logic.
We just had municipal elections here in British Columbia and I used a 'voting machine'. You mark off your votes on a letter size piece of paper by darkening the circles. Then you feed it face down into a scanner, which deposits the page in the ballot box after tallying it.
Election results are available quickly from the machine.
Hand recounts are perfectly possible because of the hard copy record.
What is so difficult about requiring hard copy records? Votes are worth one sheet of paper.
The thing with the US is that it is state by state. In WA we do exactly the same thing. The funny part is that the machines are made by Diebold! I guess it is re-countable but we still don't get to see the source.
No kidding, what a flamebait article too. I could only find reference to two actual bugs in the article: notes (or comments, as Word users call them) don't have word wrap; and spaces typed at the end of a line won't show.
The rest is some rant about OS people saying users can submit bug patches but hardly anybody does.
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I have to disagree here. It's not your music, it's (in effect) his.
I bought it, it's mine. The only thing that limits what I can do with my music are copyright laws (incl. the DMCA) Your sentiment is a result of propoganda and not law.
There's no law by which you can demand that he allow you to listen to that music on any arbitrary device;
There is no law that forbids it either. On top of this, fair use is an affirmative defense in the case of a copyright infringement case. No court in the land would fine you for ripping a cd you own to your mp3 player.
you have to negotiate that privilege with him
No you don't. You don't actually understand copyright law do you?
, and pay the price he demands.
given..
If he sells you a disk with the understanding that you are not to play it on a Mac (or to cover it with cheese sauce) and you choose to do so anyway, you're breaking your end of the agreement.
This might be an argument the day you are required to sign such an agreement before purchasing the disc. Of course, the DMCA does back any technological restrictions put in place by the manufacturer.
In the U.S., compulsory license laws (whereby a tax is added onto the cost of blank media and paid to the music publishers to cover the cost of copying you might do) force you to give money to the music publishers even if you don't like their product, or are incapable of using it. (Deaf people pay this compulsory license tax on CD-R media and audio tapes used for data storage only.)
This is not really the case in the US. I think "audio" cd-r's may have such a tax but that is it. Maybe you are thinking of Canada.
Heh, whats really funny is that experiment you linked to generates up to 2 volts of electricity. Lets find our own VC and try and get the voltage on that one up instead!
At least we would have a proven business plot...er..plan.
If the user bothered to read the features list they would know it was there. You're absolving the end user from personal responsibility.
Well, by your definition Claria/Gator etc. are all in the clear then as well. I mean, it says what they are doing right in the EULA so its ok right?
Only two-thirds of the pop-up cartoons were relevant to the storyline.
A day after the exercise, children were asked to recall the story and the characters in it. The findings showed that 90 per cent of the group that used the first program had good or excellent recall of the story.
This figure dropped to 30 per cent with the children who had used the interactive program.
Hmm, one program had 2/3 superfluous material and their story retention dropped by 2/3. What a coincidence.
The movie industry hates DVD for the same reason it hates unadulterated CD: the pirates have cracked it so thoroughly that the studios might as well post the disk images on mininova themselves.
Which, conversely, is why it is so popular. The funny part is that the first format to be easily cracked will be the one that wins this format "war". Of course, that is exactly what they are trying to stop.
This is what the "greenies" forget. they get all up in arms about there being more storms in a hurricane season when we never used to record storms. we only used to record hurricanes.
How did I know this would be modded up? From the article:
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the busiest on record, with 27 tropical storms, besting the old record of 21 set in 1933. Fourteen of them grew into hurricanes, among the Katrina, beating the record of 12 set in 1969. Hurricanes Dennis, Rita and Wilma also caused significant damage in the U.S.
A few decades ago they were crying about how we'd have no food to feed the overpopulated earth (Malthusians).
If by couple decades you mean 200 years...
Now we're dying from genetically modified foods that are feeding millions of starving people (who happen to be starving because of the socialist government they live under, not because of lack of opportunities).
Sub-Saharan Africans are all commies? I was under the impression it was a lack of cohesive government that was causing a lot of problems over there? But regardless, there is enough food on the planet already to feed everyone, the problem is getting it where it's needed. If there is no profit in it Capitalism isn't going to do a whole lot of good either.
Evolution within a species occurs when a great crisis happens: the particular survivor with the resistant genetics to the herbicide will breed with those genes intact. I don't believe that there was any cross-pollination or contamination from the genetically modified foods -- all I see is rhetoric that makes that assumption.
This is the only part that I actually somewhat agree with. If you read the article they don't try and show how they have proven that it is in fact cross-polination. In fact this excerpt is rather interesting: The new plants were dubbed superweeds because they proved resistant to three herbicides while the crops they were growing among had been genetically engineered to be resistant to only one.
Where in evolutionary theory does it tell me that I have to or even necessarily should be 'nice' to anyone?
Cooperation and "civilization" are both successful survival mechanisms. You don't have to do anything, but something that helps the race to survive tends to be selected for.
I haven't played a video game in years, aside from ones that can be learned in 5 minutes. I just don't have the time to spend hours every day attaining levels and learning complex controls and commands.
Pick up one of the Katamari games or Rez if you have a ps2. Both are very original (which is lacking in a lot of games these days), simple, and fun.
This isn't a buffer overflow, its a design flaw that allows metafiles to register callbacks with GDI32. And I fail to see what language a programmer uses has anything to do with it. Bad programmers are bad programmers reguardless of the language used. To the CPU its all instructions, it doesn't care if its issued by the crt or the java_vm.
Any programming language that implements bounds checking should be immune to buffer overflows. C is not one of those languages, Java is.
Hand it to the waiter, and you have your card with all of the security numbers printed thereon in the clear. I'm not defending Apple's system, just pointing out that parties interested in getting your credit card information can do so with better fidelity and ease than attempting to break into a POS (point of sale) system.
Credit fraud scheme #1: Get a job at a restaurant where they require your home contact info., SS#, etc for taxes. Manage to grab a customers card and sneak off to make a quick copy of the data and get it back to them quick enough not to be suspicous and not have your manager see it. Wait long enough to use the data so they don't realize where it was stolen from and trace you.
Credit fraud scheme #2. Sit outside the store anonymously with a laptop and netstumbler.
Of course assuming the encryption was bad per the GP premise.
Hmm perhaps but first they need something more substantial than "Bush Is Bad!" to do PR on.
No kidding, everybody already knows it so it just isn't that exciting.
I kid, I kid. Hell, I am a Malthusian, I like Bush!
(insert generic "mods will probably..." statement here to notify everyone that this is a joke)
1) The constitution prevents the establishment of religion in the First Amendment, and 2) Congress has no power except that which is explicitly granted to it, therefore it can neither support nor discourage religion.
...on its own makes no claim as to whom this being might be, what its motives were, or how we should regard it.
You don't consider teaching one particular sect's creation story in a science class support?
The theory of ID...
ID is not a theory, at most it is a hypothesis
Except (by your own words) that it must be a being in the first place. That is a pretty specific claim
Acknowledging an opposing viewpoint is not anti-science; rather it is the very foundation of science. To blindly follow any hypothesis or theory without regard to alternatives is the definition of bad science.
All opinions are not equally valid in science. Only those opinions that can be tested in some way count. To blindly posit a hypothesis with no way to verify it and call it a theory is the (literal) definition of bad science in that it does not follow the scientific method.
On the second point, sociology is science, and religion is part of sociology. Sociology is not hard science like chemistry or physics, but it's science nonetheless.
Sociology class is not Biology class. People would not be nearly so upset it they were suggesting it for the sociology curriculum.
On the third point, Congress only has powers which are granted to it by the Constitution.
And converselty cannot wield powers that are specifically denied it. Of course, we are talking about the judiciary branch re: the article. To get to the heart of the matter (FTA): We find that the secular purposes claimed by the board amount to a pretext for the board's real purpose, which was to promote religion.
Case closed (thank God).
What is interesting is how the retraction itself has made front page news. Yet when retractions that would be favorable to "liberals" or whatever always get buried on the back page. The Democrats really need to get their PR machine into the frickin game if they ever want to regain their influence.
Well that certainly explains.....er....no.....seriously, wtf is he talking about!
it's still our internet, not theirs. This is just another example of the kind of government interference the high-minded international community would do if the UN took over the administration of the internet.
Tell 2600 magazine about how much more "free" it is over here.
Or see how the IQ 130+ ers will try to control the 'lower' classes of people by flaunting a number based on a flawed testing scheme biased towards assumed and outdated cultural norms. Speaking as a 152'er (now who's got the bigger IQ, eh?), I know better than to rely on something as simple as a number to measure any sort of worth. Everything makes sense when you pull your head out of the sand and realize human interaction isn't about logic.
Who is flaunting what now??
So has JT suddenly become a financial supporter of the company he's long campaigned against? Not a chance.
Despite his reasoning he has in fact become a financial supporter of Take Two by investing in their stock.
Seriously people! This is an expirement in collecting knowledge! who do you think you are, the primary experts on your lives?
Tell me again how regulations help and anarchy hurts?
I assume deregulation would allow me to go out into my backyard and dig up all that copper for recycling right?
Mona Lisa doesn't have emotions. She's made of paint.
Neither do you. You are just some text on a screen.
EMPs can do the trick.
Besides, the fine for owning a tactical nuclear device is probably less than the the copyright suit to begin with!
We just had municipal elections here in British Columbia and I used a 'voting machine'. You mark off your votes on a letter size piece of paper by darkening the circles. Then you feed it face down into a scanner, which deposits the page in the ballot box after tallying it.
Election results are available quickly from the machine.
Hand recounts are perfectly possible because of the hard copy record.
What is so difficult about requiring hard copy records? Votes are worth one sheet of paper.
The thing with the US is that it is state by state. In WA we do exactly the same thing. The funny part is that the machines are made by Diebold! I guess it is re-countable but we still don't get to see the source.
Why do we keep using that phrase, "computer literate" when what we mean is "computer savy?" If we let ths poor analogy to be codified...
Explain what WWW, RAM, email, web, google, etc mean and tell me why it isn't an apt analogy.
No kidding, what a flamebait article too. I could only find reference to two actual bugs in the article: notes (or comments, as Word users call them) don't have word wrap; and spaces typed at the end of a line won't show.
The rest is some rant about OS people saying users can submit bug patches but hardly anybody does.