The ultimate rulings on Florida law are made in Tallahassee, not Washington. The Supreme Court of the United States made a ruling where it had no jurisdiction. That is probably the worst ruling they've made since Plessy v. Ferguson.
It's a shame that I'm out of mod points, because this is the exact type of comment that needs to be modded down. The poster clearly hasn't ever been to Jacksonville.
To apply the anti-hacking law to defendant in this case is the same as jailing a man who was being beaten by an enraged mob for violating the laws against assault in his effort to protect himself.
Absolutely not. Don't begin trying to equate property crimes to crimes on persons; you'll always fail.
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In Texas, you can shoot someone who's trespassing without even warning them. If they're not part of a government agency, they're trespassing. The end.
The proper analogy would require the engine of your car to be replaceable by the user. The fact that the dealer has to install the new engine seems to make it OK that the manufacturer has to replace the iPod battery.
My main concern is how he was just able to go somewhere and buy heavy water. That's not something you should be able to up and buy. Also, it's damned expensive, IIRC.
So you advocate the artificial creation of scarcity? So the owner of an otherwise non-scarce product can artificially create scarcity so that something that wouldn't otherwise have value has value?
The Congress shall have power...[t]o promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries...
That's right: as you would have us believe, our founding fathers were out to suppress the little man. Funny, I always thought that we had just gotten done with being suppressed when the Constitution was written.
Just because something requires time to create doesn't automatically mean they are entitled to money.
No, but they are entitled to have exclusive control over all copies made of their intellectual property. If they want to charge money for it, they're also entitled to that.
You aren't entitled to get something for free just because you want it. Deal with it.
Do you seriously believe the bands are going to see $.10 out of that buck we send Apple for that song?
I don't have any evidence to the contrary, and my guess is that you don't either, so why should I trust your conjecture? The answer, of course, is that I shouldn't.
I do know something about the technology involved in a professional recording studio. I know that it is all being replaced big-time by computers
Good. If you know all this, then I shouldn't have to explain why a computer can't really make up for low-quality microphones. Good microphones cost money.
I never once bought an album because of the advertising.
That's pretty sad. I've taken exactly one computer science course at my university, and we spent about a good deal of time where not knowing pointers would mean horrible grades.
There's a difference?a large one, actually?between considering college degrees based on the quality of the college (i.e., not giving so much weight to degrees from colleges that aren't so strong) and ignoring all college degrees. To do the latter is nothing short of foolish.
The idea that anything below a M.A. or Ph.D. is useless regardless of who issued is almost as foolish.
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And that's all the machines really have to do!
You're wrong. The machines must be able to recount the vote, or they are illegal in Florida.
The ultimate rulings on Florida law are made in Tallahassee, not Washington. The Supreme Court of the United States made a ruling where it had no jurisdiction. That is probably the worst ruling they've made since Plessy v. Ferguson.
Software auditing software? Alan Turing would like to have a word with you.
The n-tv article in the other Slashdot article already mentioned that the Phatbot author had been captured.
Are you saying that they should opt for keeping the status quo instead of continuously trying to improve their software?
Being complacent with inferior software is reminiscent of Redmond, not Cupertino.
their are three good restaurants in town
It's a shame that I'm out of mod points, because this is the exact type of comment that needs to be modded down. The poster clearly hasn't ever been to Jacksonville.
Where were you? Not Jacksonville, from your description of the airport.
HyperCard wasn't ever free. HyperCard Player was free, but you couldn't go past level 3 (i.e., no Scripting/Authoring).
To apply the anti-hacking law to defendant in this case is the same as jailing a man who was being beaten by an enraged mob for violating the laws against assault in his effort to protect himself.
Absolutely not. Don't begin trying to equate property crimes to crimes on persons; you'll always fail.
In Texas, you can shoot someone who's trespassing without even warning them. If they're not part of a government agency, they're trespassing. The end.
The proper analogy would require the engine of your car to be replaceable by the user. The fact that the dealer has to install the new engine seems to make it OK that the manufacturer has to replace the iPod battery.
Do you pay to listen to the radio? No, you buy the radio, and there you go, you get your music.
Do you get to choose what's on the radio? No. This analogy doesn't hold up under any level of scrutiny.
If I got the letter, the one condition of my settlement would be that I get an invoice of who gets what ammount of the payment.
You could try making that a condition all you want, but you'd either fold, entirely on their terms, or lose a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from them.
You're not going to force them to give you an account of what money goes where, because you're not powerful enough to do so.
One of the clubs at my university beat this guy by a year. I remember them having a special Skittlebrau night about a year and a week ago.
Oklahoma does not, however, have trees.
My main concern is how he was just able to go somewhere and buy heavy water. That's not something you should be able to up and buy. Also, it's damned expensive, IIRC.
So you advocate the artificial creation of scarcity? So the owner of an otherwise non-scarce product can artificially create scarcity so that something that wouldn't otherwise have value has value?
The Constitution sure does:
The Congress shall have power...[t]o promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries...
That's right: as you would have us believe, our founding fathers were out to suppress the little man. Funny, I always thought that we had just gotten done with being suppressed when the Constitution was written.
Just because something requires time to create doesn't automatically mean they are entitled to money.
No, but they are entitled to have exclusive control over all copies made of their intellectual property. If they want to charge money for it, they're also entitled to that.
You aren't entitled to get something for free just because you want it. Deal with it.
You need to get out of the mindset that ideas can be property.
The mindset isn't that ideas are property. The mindset is that expressions of ideas are property.
think the name refers to something like "my prrrecious torrentses".
You are incorrect.
Do you seriously believe the bands are going to see $.10 out of that buck we send Apple for that song?
I don't have any evidence to the contrary, and my guess is that you don't either, so why should I trust your conjecture? The answer, of course, is that I shouldn't.
I do know something about the technology involved in a professional recording studio. I know that it is all being replaced big-time by computers
Good. If you know all this, then I shouldn't have to explain why a computer can't really make up for low-quality microphones. Good microphones cost money.
I never once bought an album because of the advertising.
Holy anecdotal [and therefore irrelevant] evidence, Batman!
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That's pretty sad. I've taken exactly one computer science course at my university, and we spent about a good deal of time where not knowing pointers would mean horrible grades.
those question marks should be em dashes ()
There's a difference?a large one, actually?between considering college degrees based on the quality of the college (i.e., not giving so much weight to degrees from colleges that aren't so strong) and ignoring all college degrees. To do the latter is nothing short of foolish. The idea that anything below a M.A. or Ph.D. is useless regardless of who issued is almost as foolish.
You can't be serious when you imply that college degrees are irrelevant. If you are, I weep for the fate of your company's products.