Regarding the DMCA: you can't fault Apple for using a law on the books - passed by Congress (unanimously by the Senate), and signed into law by President Clinton - to protect its own business interests. If you don't like the DMCA, or aspects of copyright law in general, work to change the law(s), but don't fault companies or individuals for conducting themselves within the bounds of those laws while they are in force.
Then I guess we can't fault SCO for suing "Linux". I mean all they are doing is using laws that are already on the books. It is perfectly legal to sue anyone for anything after all.
no kidding, if your work monitors web access and you REALLY need a porn fix just sign up for a few of those "free offers" you see so often on the net....
If it is new tech or portable get the service deal! portable mp3 players come to mind fairly new and untested. Even if you break it yourself by dropping it they will fix or replace.
If it is older, tried and true technology just skip it.
I have had portable cd players replaced multiple times when they were still fairly expensive, and I have already had my mp3 player replaced (and upgraded) through a service plan. I wish I had gotten a plan for my first 1X external cd burner way back in the day, the technology was just not mature enough to create something reliable.
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there it is:
well, well, well, if it isn't my old friend, underrage drinking....
Son, if we dont enforce the drinking age the excitement of sneaking around to get wasted might disappear forever! Do you want that on your shoulders pal?
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well, two down, one to go, before you know it we might end up legitimate. But where is the fun in that?
Well, possibly the Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act. There is a section on installing or running software without the owners permission, but like most laws you would have to prove some sort of data. Maybe if it crashed an expensive HD or something...
In an unfree society, we would not be able to debate this. In an unfree society, you would be unable to go here and see naked breasts. In an unfree society, I would not be able to post this.
I beg to differ, even China is having a hard time keeping people off the internet and they are not exactly a bastion of freedom.
hmm... I wonder if it could be argued that 'exclusive' could be taken to mean untransferrable. It would be really funny to see this argued to the supreme court and all the copyrights held by companies nullified.
Friend/magazine/random slashdotter suggests some band I might like.
I d/l it from kazza/whatever
It sucks ass
I then delete said sucky music.
Not saying that the percentage of sucky music is more or less than it used to be(but deep down I do believe more), but the vast majority of music has always been sucky(to me at least)
When the artists do make a buck is when I discover a band I do like in this way and drop cash on concerts, posters, the vinyl version, the CD or whatever.
it is just as much a copout to ask why people d/l it if it sucks.
I thought I read fairly recently that custom software development for specific businesses was still the largest paying sector in the IT world in the US. Open standards mean more jobs for us slashdot nerds! Case in point: I wrote the first version of the Quality Assurance database at my work in VB because I already knew it, and it was fast and easy. I got promoted (largely because of my badass database!) and got my own desk and everything! Guess what, that desk had it's own computer, I wouldn't want to piss off the BSA, and I certainly didn't want to buy another copy of VB (one of the techs was making nicer UI's for the DB so I couldn't just uninstall) so I went python(I friggin love that lang BTW) and now I am writing version 3.0(don't ask) entirely in Python and it will friggin rock. I could confidently say that open source software has not only provided me with the tools to be incredibly productive, but given my employer a productivity boost to go along with it.(we used to write the test data on paper and have the night tech enter it into an Access DB which took at least an hour a night) Not to mention that it will ensure that some python kiddie gets a job when I leave. How could this possibly be a bad thing???
I hate reposting my own shit, and I hate people who do it even more, but I must since the misinformation is so rampant.
Go check out the Third Geneva Convention. The Taliban and Al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan did not meet all of the conditions in 4A(2)
Even a cursory scanning of the actual text would reveal that they only need to meet ONE of the conditions to be considered a POW. I would say that the condition about having a superior officer (paraphrasing) would definately fit with the whole "international network of terror" we are supposed to be fighting
wow, I was going to say something clever but your own post adequately proves my point
A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories
(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
I would say this characterizes the "terrorist network" we are so afraid of.
Al Qaeda and its associates fail at least three of the four tests...
I think you misread the law, they only need to pass ONE of the tests to be considered a POW.
all of this is bullshit anyway. GW has publicly and often stated that we are at war with terrorists, so it seems somewhat retarded to use the rhetoric of war, but not the convention of it. Would it really be so bad to give the "enemy combatants" the protection we would give "prisoners of war".
Prisoners of war shall, as far as possible, be associated with the preparation of their meals; they may be employed for that purpose in the kitchens. Furthermore, they shall be given the means of preparing, themselves, the additional food in their possession.
Do you want fanatical terrorists who are often ready to kill themselves deliberately in the pursuit of their goals to have full access to a kitchen with its many potential bladed weapons and chemicals?
Holy crap, I would hope that the guards would be equipped with guns and could adequately deal with a deadly salt and butter knife outbreak....
The Detaining Power shall grant all prisoners of war a monthly advance of pay, the amount of which shall be fixed by conversion, into the currency of the said Power, of the following amounts:
Is this even an argument? I guess since we don't have to pay them until the war is over, and that terrorism will never end, and since it is a war on terrorism we will never have to pay them right?
By the way, what rank is a "suicide bomber"?
private, infantry? I would say a private in the infantry....(military nerds correct my improper use of rank at will)...I am trying to find the correct term for cannon fodder.
Now, you have a choice to make. Are you intellectually honest enough to stop claiming the terrorists of Al Qaeda have rights under the Geneva Conventions now what you can easily see that claim is false?
I dunno, are we at war or not? If we are fighting a war we need to treat the enemy to the rules of war. If we are not at war why does our president keep telling us we are?
I thought we were talking about Iraq.... Oh yeah, I forgot, all Mumslims, Arabs, and Terrorists (the Union of the disparate sets I should say) have some sort of super forum they use to communicate with each other. I hear it is a lot like slashdot where they all get together and plan blowing up the USAA.
Someday you'll stop slurping off society's tit, and actually produce something. At that precise moment, your attitude will change from "everything should be free" to "show me the money muthafucker".
Yeah, 'cause no good art was ever created without a government granted monopoly over said work. Oh wait, copyright law is younger than my grandma. I would say the the converse is much more true. Artists think about art first and money later. Yeah, being paid to do what you love is great, we all want that deal, but if your shit is good enough to make it big you were most likely doing it for the love of doing it first. And yes, I am an artist, and a nerd, I have been paid for comissioned work and sold originals and prints(have you?), but I paint for fun.
somewhat OT by now, but I find removing the credits a million times more reprehensible than any form of copyright infringement. And keeping them in but playing them on fastforward doesn't count either goddamnit!!!!
LOL. Of course it is. I don't even know where to begin arguing it because I can't imagine what makes you think it isn't fair use...
heh, I actually did laugh out loud when I read the GP...
The only interpretation I can think of is that by adding your own "creative"(menus and whatnot) content you are somehow creating a derivative work instead of just timeshifting. Why that makes it no longer "fair" is beyond me however.
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Regarding the DMCA: you can't fault Apple for using a law on the books - passed by Congress (unanimously by the Senate), and signed into law by President Clinton - to protect its own business interests. If you don't like the DMCA, or aspects of copyright law in general, work to change the law(s), but don't fault companies or individuals for conducting themselves within the bounds of those laws while they are in force.
Then I guess we can't fault SCO for suing "Linux". I mean all they are doing is using laws that are already on the books. It is perfectly legal to sue anyone for anything after all.
thats why I listen to mc chris. I prefer my rappers to be short, white, chunky, and more nerdy than myself.
no kidding, if your work monitors web access and you REALLY need a porn fix just sign up for a few of those "free offers" you see so often on the net....
Well, perhaps MS will cause the services to standardize on a protocol which could be reverse engineered to make an open client.
My rule of thumb for "Stacking the Deck":
If it is new tech or portable get the service deal! portable mp3 players come to mind fairly new and untested. Even if you break it yourself by dropping it they will fix or replace.
If it is older, tried and true technology just skip it.
I have had portable cd players replaced multiple times when they were still fairly expensive, and I have already had my mp3 player replaced (and upgraded) through a service plan. I wish I had gotten a plan for my first 1X external cd burner way back in the day, the technology was just not mature enough to create something reliable.
there it is:
well, well, well, if it isn't my old friend, underrage drinking....
Son, if we dont enforce the drinking age the excitement of sneaking around to get wasted might disappear forever! Do you want that on your shoulders pal?
Clone High
well, two down, one to go, before you know it we might end up legitimate. But where is the fun in that?
searching for quote....
Well, possibly the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. There is a section on installing or running software without the owners permission, but like most laws you would have to prove some sort of data. Maybe if it crashed an expensive HD or something...
In an unfree society, we would not be able to debate this. In an unfree society, you would be unable to go here and see naked breasts. In an unfree society, I would not be able to post this.
I beg to differ, even China is having a hard time keeping people off the internet and they are not exactly a bastion of freedom.
hehe, do think they made it look like a nose on purpose??
wait, how does having my SS# effect the operation of metal detectors again??
hmm... I wonder if it could be argued that 'exclusive' could be taken to mean untransferrable. It would be really funny to see this argued to the supreme court and all the copyrights held by companies nullified.
If you can prove negligence you can win the case regardless of what you sign.
Well, there you go then, apparently all you have to do is put a disclaimer on it and you are no longer a terrorist!
Kind of nullifies the point of a 5 disc changer if you have to get up to push the damn button for every cd....
I pirate bad music all the time:
Friend/magazine/random slashdotter suggests some band I might like.
I d/l it from kazza/whatever
It sucks ass
I then delete said sucky music.
Not saying that the percentage of sucky music is more or less than it used to be(but deep down I do believe more), but the vast majority of music has always been sucky(to me at least)
When the artists do make a buck is when I discover a band I do like in this way and drop cash on concerts, posters, the vinyl version, the CD or whatever.
it is just as much a copout to ask why people d/l it if it sucks.
I vote for B. Feel free to build it in my "backyard".
I thought I read fairly recently that custom software development for specific businesses was still the largest paying sector in the IT world in the US. Open standards mean more jobs for us slashdot nerds! Case in point: I wrote the first version of the Quality Assurance database at my work in VB because I already knew it, and it was fast and easy. I got promoted (largely because of my badass database!) and got my own desk and everything! Guess what, that desk had it's own computer, I wouldn't want to piss off the BSA, and I certainly didn't want to buy another copy of VB (one of the techs was making nicer UI's for the DB so I couldn't just uninstall) so I went python(I friggin love that lang BTW) and now I am writing version 3.0(don't ask) entirely in Python and it will friggin rock. I could confidently say that open source software has not only provided me with the tools to be incredibly productive, but given my employer a productivity boost to go along with it.(we used to write the test data on paper and have the night tech enter it into an Access DB which took at least an hour a night) Not to mention that it will ensure that some python kiddie gets a job when I leave. How could this possibly be a bad thing???
I hate reposting my own shit, and I hate people who do it even more, but I must since the misinformation is so rampant.
Go check out the Third Geneva Convention. The Taliban and Al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan did not meet all of the conditions in 4A(2)
Even a cursory scanning of the actual text would reveal that they only need to meet ONE of the conditions to be considered a POW. I would say that the condition about having a superior officer (paraphrasing) would definately fit with the whole "international network of terror" we are supposed to be fighting
wow, I was going to say something clever but your own post adequately proves my point
A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories
(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
I would say this characterizes the "terrorist network" we are so afraid of.
Al Qaeda and its associates fail at least three of the four tests...
I think you misread the law, they only need to pass ONE of the tests to be considered a POW.
all of this is bullshit anyway. GW has publicly and often stated that we are at war with terrorists, so it seems somewhat retarded to use the rhetoric of war, but not the convention of it. Would it really be so bad to give the "enemy combatants" the protection we would give "prisoners of war".
Prisoners of war shall, as far as possible, be associated with the preparation of their meals; they may be employed for that purpose in the kitchens. Furthermore, they shall be given the means of preparing, themselves, the additional food in their possession. Do you want fanatical terrorists who are often ready to kill themselves deliberately in the pursuit of their goals to have full access to a kitchen with its many potential bladed weapons and chemicals?
Holy crap, I would hope that the guards would be equipped with guns and could adequately deal with a deadly salt and butter knife outbreak....
The Detaining Power shall grant all prisoners of war a monthly advance of pay, the amount of which shall be fixed by conversion, into the currency of the said Power, of the following amounts:
Is this even an argument? I guess since we don't have to pay them until the war is over, and that terrorism will never end, and since it is a war on terrorism we will never have to pay them right?
By the way, what rank is a "suicide bomber"?
private, infantry? I would say a private in the infantry....(military nerds correct my improper use of rank at will)...I am trying to find the correct term for cannon fodder.
Now, you have a choice to make. Are you intellectually honest enough to stop claiming the terrorists of Al Qaeda have rights under the Geneva Conventions now what you can easily see that claim is false?
I dunno, are we at war or not? If we are fighting a war we need to treat the enemy to the rules of war. If we are not at war why does our president keep telling us we are?
I thought we were talking about Iraq.... Oh yeah, I forgot, all Mumslims, Arabs, and Terrorists (the Union of the disparate sets I should say) have some sort of super forum they use to communicate with each other. I hear it is a lot like slashdot where they all get together and plan blowing up the USAA.
Also, I'm no expert on Iraqi culture, but having a bunch of kids at a party at 3am seems very unlikely to me.
In plenty of places this is quite common.
Only on slashdot could the idea of partying until 3 AM be considered unlikely.
Geek tip: In college, some (cute)girls actually like smart guys, but it does require the occasional all night(and most of next day) party
Someday you'll stop slurping off society's tit, and actually produce something. At that precise moment, your attitude will change from "everything should be free" to "show me the money muthafucker".
Yeah, 'cause no good art was ever created without a government granted monopoly over said work. Oh wait, copyright law is younger than my grandma. I would say the the converse is much more true. Artists think about art first and money later. Yeah, being paid to do what you love is great, we all want that deal, but if your shit is good enough to make it big you were most likely doing it for the love of doing it first. And yes, I am an artist, and a nerd, I have been paid for comissioned work and sold originals and prints(have you?), but I paint for fun.
If I want to edit out the intro and the credits
somewhat OT by now, but I find removing the credits a million times more reprehensible than any form of copyright infringement. And keeping them in but playing them on fastforward doesn't count either goddamnit!!!!
LOL. Of course it is. I don't even know where to begin arguing it because I can't imagine what makes you think it isn't fair use...
heh, I actually did laugh out loud when I read the GP...
The only interpretation I can think of is that by adding your own "creative"(menus and whatnot) content you are somehow creating a derivative work instead of just timeshifting. Why that makes it no longer "fair" is beyond me however.