You've just learned why the free preview feature in Amazon's store is worth a second glance. Click for a free download of a few chapters of material, read through to verify the content styling and presentation before purchasing. Amazon lets you treat each digital book almost as you would the physical store version, flipping through the first bit before buying it.
Unfortunately I tend to judge books by the middle chapters when browsing at a brick & mortar store, but still, free preview is a great feature.
Actually they're being allowed to control the content. We have laws preventing certain uses of content owned by another (Copyright) and we need laws preventing the control of content beyond legal limits (restrictive DRM). It should be illegal for a company to sell me a digital file that ceases working on its own unless that was the exact feature I paid for.
If you followed the case closely you'd realize it has nothing to do with judicial intelligence but with procedure. At no point did the judge in the case have the wool pulled over their eyes, but the entire process had to be dealt with properly or it opens venues for retrials. At what point do you believe the judge was being stupid? Feel free to cite a day on Groklaw for easy lookups.
You seem to be confused. The key prevents Copyright violations (ie running copied games) therefore revealing it is the bypassing of a digital Copyright system, which falls under the DMCA.
The key doesn't need to itself be Copyrighted for this to apply.
The fun one is when you buy your car on your credit card because it has a better interest rate than the car dealer is offering (on used cars; I would never purchase new).
First lesson of having a credit card: call the company and ask for a rate reduction. Second lesson: do it again.
Credit cards can be very cost-efficient for long term purchases, such as when buying a car or appliances.
I do however cringe at friends who have 29% rates and carry a balance.
Sales tax is an evenhanded tax that charges all people equivalently based on their purchasing power.
As a percentage of income it may not be equal, but that's only because the very rich don't spend all of their income each month, at least not locally.
That said, people who earn $30,000 a year do not typically get taxed on $100,000 a year in purchases, as they do not have access to that amount of money to spend. Meanwhile, the local CEO may spend well in excess of $100,000 a year, and is taxed equivalently on those purchases.
Sales tax is paid by citizens to the retailer who collects it on behalf of the state, then sends it to the state.
The retailer acts as a middleman for the state in this case. If the retailer doesn't charge you taxes, whether accidentally or on purpose ("tax-free" weekend sale, etc.), they still owe the state the taxes they were supposed to collect. You may have got off scott free on having to pay those taxes, but Amazon owes the state for the taxes they were obligated by law to collect.
If I may, I don't believe GeoHot is being charged with cracking his PS3 but with distributing said crack to the rest of the Internet.
You'll find I believe that in the USA, the DMCA prevents both behaviours anyway. That's a congressional problem, not a corporate one. Call your representatives and have these laws changed or repealed if you don't like how they're applied.... lives in Canada
Sony does the proper thing and requests a court order. The court has the obligation to do the right thing, not Sony. If you're upset with the judge's decision, blame the judge. There's nothing whatsoever wrong with a company seeking such an injunction against someone harming their business.
How many peering links are there between Canada and the United States? How hard would it be to set up a few more with high route cost in case of such a thing happening?
The Internet is designed to route around blackholes. Purposely breaking the Internet is pretty hard.
Sure you can. You're banning access to a private network the user does not own. The user can do what they like to the console, but they may not access Microsoft's XBL. Plain and simple -- you don't own or have ANY rights to Sony's or Microsoft's online services. They get to revoke those anytime they want.
Its amazing to me how many people lambast Sony when neither Microsoft nor Nintendo has ever offered the option to use their consoles as legitimate computing hardware running Linux, and Sony's done it twice (PS2 and PS3).
Sigh. To rebut someone else's comment, Sony only removed OtherOS after it was apparent that GeoHot was using it to figure out his workarounds for the system. OtherOS was still enabled back when he did that work. As soon as he published his findings on his blog, Sony announced removal of OtherOS. I blame GeoHot, and yes, I'm pro-hacker, but if you're laying blame, its at his feet.
Since when is Bill Gates a scientist? I don't give a SCO share what he thinks on the subject.
I'd like to point out also that this entire story has been misreported. The researcher in question lost his medical license over things he never claimed and didn't say in his research.
I've heard him speak repeatedly, and he has never claimed that there is a link, but that there seems to be a correlation which deserves more research.
Actually the "elementary evolution" part is the problem you have. That's the part that isn't yet demonstrable and while it makes sense mathematically, from a biological perspective, it doesn't. Agree with it or not, major evolutionary leaps are still a major problem in the field.
We want a society where kids are taught logic and science such that they apply them in their lives and the theory of evolution, like most any other very well supported theory, is a no-brainer.
Dollar for dollar, I'd rather have a society of kids who want to vote, get involved with people in need and don't want to kill each other.
Remind me again how evolution plays into that? Thanks.
Much like the iphone, which was based off smart phones before it and then given a few twists that made it successful, the Kinect is based on technology that's been floating around for a long time now, technology that has been looked into by their competitors as much as ten years ago.
That said, I've yet to see a single raving or significantly positive review of a Kinect title. Its neat, and cool, and interesting from a geek perspective, but I don't see it as a gaming add-on worth getting until some really interesting games come out for it.
Seriously? You'd rather code on a MS than Logitech keyboard? I use a combination of Logitech and Dell keyboards, and find both more appealing to my hands than anything by MS.
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You've just learned why the free preview feature in Amazon's store is worth a second glance. Click for a free download of a few chapters of material, read through to verify the content styling and presentation before purchasing. Amazon lets you treat each digital book almost as you would the physical store version, flipping through the first bit before buying it.
Unfortunately I tend to judge books by the middle chapters when browsing at a brick & mortar store, but still, free preview is a great feature.
Magazines in general are printed in colour on glossy paper. Books are not. There is a cost differential there as well.
I recommend kijiji to sell video games.
Actually they're being allowed to control the content. We have laws preventing certain uses of content owned by another (Copyright) and we need laws preventing the control of content beyond legal limits (restrictive DRM). It should be illegal for a company to sell me a digital file that ceases working on its own unless that was the exact feature I paid for.
If you followed the case closely you'd realize it has nothing to do with judicial intelligence but with procedure. At no point did the judge in the case have the wool pulled over their eyes, but the entire process had to be dealt with properly or it opens venues for retrials. At what point do you believe the judge was being stupid? Feel free to cite a day on Groklaw for easy lookups.
You seem to be confused. The key prevents Copyright violations (ie running copied games) therefore revealing it is the bypassing of a digital Copyright system, which falls under the DMCA.
The key doesn't need to itself be Copyrighted for this to apply.
When did Arduino or this article about it ever claim to be for people who "do this for a living?"
PS for that $100 you could've made more than 10 Arduino boards, or bought three retail. Its hardly a comparable price.
I know people who live "in poverty" and have bigger televisions and nicer furniture than I do.
There are certainly people who have chosen not to get out of their circumstances due to bad financial choices instead of external factors.
The fun one is when you buy your car on your credit card because it has a better interest rate than the car dealer is offering (on used cars; I would never purchase new).
First lesson of having a credit card: call the company and ask for a rate reduction.
Second lesson: do it again.
Credit cards can be very cost-efficient for long term purchases, such as when buying a car or appliances.
I do however cringe at friends who have 29% rates and carry a balance.
Sales tax is an evenhanded tax that charges all people equivalently based on their purchasing power.
As a percentage of income it may not be equal, but that's only because the very rich don't spend all of their income each month, at least not locally.
That said, people who earn $30,000 a year do not typically get taxed on $100,000 a year in purchases, as they do not have access to that amount of money to spend. Meanwhile, the local CEO may spend well in excess of $100,000 a year, and is taxed equivalently on those purchases.
Sales tax is paid by citizens to the retailer who collects it on behalf of the state, then sends it to the state.
The retailer acts as a middleman for the state in this case. If the retailer doesn't charge you taxes, whether accidentally or on purpose ("tax-free" weekend sale, etc.), they still owe the state the taxes they were supposed to collect. You may have got off scott free on having to pay those taxes, but Amazon owes the state for the taxes they were obligated by law to collect.
If I may, I don't believe GeoHot is being charged with cracking his PS3 but with distributing said crack to the rest of the Internet.
You'll find I believe that in the USA, the DMCA prevents both behaviours anyway. That's a congressional problem, not a corporate one. Call your representatives and have these laws changed or repealed if you don't like how they're applied. ... lives in Canada
Sony does the proper thing and requests a court order. The court has the obligation to do the right thing, not Sony. If you're upset with the judge's decision, blame the judge. There's nothing whatsoever wrong with a company seeking such an injunction against someone harming their business.
Just redirect all movie title searches away from legitimate result pages and all to torrent search engines.
That ought to get some blood boiling.
There aren't a lot of regulations on GPS but I hope you're right.
From the inverse situation: FCC on GPS regulation
How many peering links are there between Canada and the United States? How hard would it be to set up a few more with high route cost in case of such a thing happening?
The Internet is designed to route around blackholes. Purposely breaking the Internet is pretty hard.
Judges aren't that stupid, and the law isn't that black and white.
Doing things on purpose and doing them by accident really is different in a courtroom. That's why we have both manslaughter and murder charges.
Sure you can. You're banning access to a private network the user does not own. The user can do what they like to the console, but they may not access Microsoft's XBL. Plain and simple -- you don't own or have ANY rights to Sony's or Microsoft's online services. They get to revoke those anytime they want.
Its amazing to me how many people lambast Sony when neither Microsoft nor Nintendo has ever offered the option to use their consoles as legitimate computing hardware running Linux, and Sony's done it twice (PS2 and PS3).
Sigh. To rebut someone else's comment, Sony only removed OtherOS after it was apparent that GeoHot was using it to figure out his workarounds for the system. OtherOS was still enabled back when he did that work. As soon as he published his findings on his blog, Sony announced removal of OtherOS. I blame GeoHot, and yes, I'm pro-hacker, but if you're laying blame, its at his feet.
Since when is Bill Gates a scientist? I don't give a SCO share what he thinks on the subject.
I'd like to point out also that this entire story has been misreported. The researcher in question lost his medical license over things he never claimed and didn't say in his research.
I've heard him speak repeatedly, and he has never claimed that there is a link, but that there seems to be a correlation which deserves more research.
Actually the "elementary evolution" part is the problem you have. That's the part that isn't yet demonstrable and while it makes sense mathematically, from a biological perspective, it doesn't. Agree with it or not, major evolutionary leaps are still a major problem in the field.
Dollar for dollar, I'd rather have a society of kids who want to vote, get involved with people in need and don't want to kill each other.
Remind me again how evolution plays into that? Thanks.
Its more obvious you never used Eyetoy or the more recent Eye.
Successful yes, innovative, no.
Much like the iphone, which was based off smart phones before it and then given a few twists that made it successful, the Kinect is based on technology that's been floating around for a long time now, technology that has been looked into by their competitors as much as ten years ago.
That said, I've yet to see a single raving or significantly positive review of a Kinect title. Its neat, and cool, and interesting from a geek perspective, but I don't see it as a gaming add-on worth getting until some really interesting games come out for it.
Seriously? You'd rather code on a MS than Logitech keyboard? I use a combination of Logitech and Dell keyboards, and find both more appealing to my hands than anything by MS.