Not really. Wwhn you look at the 50s through to the 70s when people communicate the sociopaths are exposed for who they are. Without the cover of corrupt mass media, and bullshit PR, democracy can quite readily handle them.
However as demonstrated by the eighties and nineties as well as the early 2000s corrupt centralised mass media is used yo effectively camouflages the sociopaths and allow them to remain in positions and gain even higher positions where they can do extreme harm. The internet is starting to become the most effective tool in exposing them and bringing them down.
Stalin and Mao where sociopaths with complete autocratic control and the only place a socipath belongs is in an institution that can restrict their behaviour and prevent them from doing harm to others. Society simply needs to make the effort to detect them as early as possible, so that the cheneys, bushes and ballmers of the world are restricted to occupational therapy in controlled environments, weaving baskets, crocheting beanies or something similar.
Now as it turns out, I can and have designed houses, commercial and industrial buildings and as long as I get paid for the initial effort in producing the first set, I absolutely do not care how many times it is copied there in after.
So even your case still reflects myopic endless greed, people demanding to get paid for nothing.
So if I was designing for myself for my own use, I achieve my reward by access to my own efforts, there in after, I would be quite content to only have the appreciation of those who would 'share' that work. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, does that me bugger the other greedy arse holes.
Reason the technology was given away was stupidity driven by greed. When you put a bunch of sociopaths in control of government and corporations it is all about how well their immediate lusts can be satisfied, their greed and desire for more money, power and self gratification.
They do not care about anything at all except themselves, even the families are nothing more than accoutrements and decorations, pets to fulfil their own egos.
Just the same in this case, the people who cam up with this technology absolutely do not care how the technology will be abused in future, as long as they perceive it will feed their immediate myopic greed.
They are going to get the cheapest contractors, who absolutely can not be trusted, to supply the chips at the lowest possible price. Those contractors of course do this by paying workers slave wages, cheating their own suppliers and having an absolutely disregard for how much they pollute the environment with their production processes. Of course these contractors also currently supplement their income by producing additional chips and distributing them via alternate more profitable channels.
Now that sounds far more logical, SCO don't have $100 million they just an imaginary possible access to $100 million worth of credit subject to a range of conditions. So stretch out the case while spending nothing on lawyers, bury the evidence of collusion between SCO and outside companies in the interim. A way of escaping from all those liabilities that resulted from the behaviour when a public company.
So all of it basically a lie, they are not even in reality going to pursue anything in court, except to extend everything out for a many years as possible, get an appeal and go for adjournment after adjournment, bleed as much money out of SCO assets as they can during the process and, then declare bankrupt. All whilst giving SCO the absolute bare minimum of finance to achieve that goal, and nothing like the fantasy of throwing away $100 million or even any real attempt to win the civil suites.
That still doesn't even touch the idea of seizing any computer networked at any time to the computer the police are looking to seize. In affect a search warrant that states that they are entitled to seize each and every computer in Australia, that has been connected to the internet while the computer they are targeting with a warrant was connected to the internet. Every personal, private and government computer. So a crazily far ranging warrant.
Some body with no understanding of technology clutching at straws. The search warrant should be clearly and narrowly defined, so going crazy of the perceived crimes of transferring of digital data is just going to have to take a back seat to the concept of purely pursuing that digital data as evidence for the prosecution of the original crime.
The reality is they are going to have to adapt to the technology of memory cards, which when it comes to hiding them, requires the virtual demolition of a residence and the sifting of the rubble to find them. They can be dumped in a crack in the wall, or floor, quite readily flushed, slipped in gaps in furniture, hidden in other devices with ventilation openings, and even swallowed, gigabytes of storage in something no bigger of thicker than a thumb nail on top of that they can be encrypted and when erased they are erased http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_memory_cards just for a quick reminder of what is already available and the reality is that is just the start.
trying to create search warrants to cover the problem is crazy, so the law simply has to be adjusted to what is realistically feasible, let alone attempting to seize every computer that could possibly have been connected to the computer that is the actually target of the search warrant.
So digital photos can be legally 'naughty' but the reality is treat it like evidence and pursue the photographer with a vengeance.
This should cheer them up, how long will it be before the environmentalists demand that disposable memory storage cards be biodegradable, swallow that evidence and it will really be gone.
How ever, that is not the reality, for example the windows task bar location is not at the bottom of the screen, that is just the default generic, it can be at the op, the left side or the right side. Now as it turns out exactly the same applies to gnome and KDE. This also applies to the default icons on the desktop as well as quick launch applications in the task bar, the only real difference is KDE has far better access to multiple desktops.
OS to OS comparison , Linux has the best advantage imaginable, ctrl, alt, funckey, gets you to a text screen where you can get the GUI kicking over again and fix a errant gui boot and correct any configuration faults, things that often require a re-install in windows because of a dead registry.
So a cheap budget second laptop with FOSS, operating system, office suite, media player, photo editor, browser and email or a proprietary solution that unlike the lie doesn't cost $200 extra but in fact because of having to pay for the office suite, and because of an inherently bloated and sluggish (P)OS having to supply more hardware, if fact it costs more like $500 dollars extra, or to put it simply you can buy three of the FOSS solutions for the price of the 'complete' proprietary solution.
So the real choice is computers for every member of the family or family fights and squabbles over a shared computer, the hair pulling, kicking, punching and screaming reality. Now will this dawn on the mega rich from M$, hell no, their families can afford to spend on technology solutions for a year what the average family earns in total.
The other thing to do is to review the whole system of development of the web site. If it is so difficult to find a person capable of doing the full development, break it down into separate development areas, contract out some of the development to external coders and do some internally and get the internal developer to carry out other tasks to make up a full day, including the contracting and supervision of external developers.
If you have some much trouble and it took so long to find a replacement do not set yourself up for another fall, restructure your problem so that you can find alternate solutions.
In this case it how ever has very little to do with the law. Whilst the principles of the law are clearly being abused, that is not the real focus of what is going on and how it is being challenged. This is all about late twentieth century mass marketing, and public relations and using the law as a delaying and silencing tactic.
So in this case the bank wanted to temporarily silence it critic whilst it own public relations and marketing teams created a lie to cover it over and via mass media define their lie as the truth and the accusations against them and their corrupt clients as lies.
So the court case would be extended with out resolution to bleed the witness and their supporters dry, while a counter message smearing the witness and its supporters was spread and a cloak was created over the corrupt practices.
Now of course the witness to the corruption and those that assist and support the witness in the disclosure of the truth, now via the internet have direct access to the greater community. A community that can now directly access a review the 'all' the information and not just the lies available via mass media. A community that will also do the most damaging thing imanginable, demand a full an open investigation, demand prosection and penalties be applied for any criminal activities, a community that will basically demand that the law as it is applied to the poor will also be applied to the rich.
But again you lie. I if they were to make a copy you would not complain but if they where to sell tickets you would. Typical of the copyright lies. How about if a million copies were made, of course a greedy arse hole would complain, a million happy children, can't have that;P. Now greedy people will always complain, they demand to get things for nothing and be able to charge an unlimited price for them when they sell them. Greedy people without qualm or conscience will steal from the community and demand to be able to sell back to the community what they have stolen.
So lets tear you analogy to shreds, how would the rest of society feel, what in reality would they consider reasonable, if anybody can make a free copy of Disneyland and the real estate underneath, what earthly benefit is achieved by preventing it from happening. Would a society deem it self humane, if it thought it appropriate to allow people to starve rather than allow for the free copying of farms, land and produce.
So what it all boils down to, is the ability for anybody to readily self publish, to globally distribute that content and in affect for the content to self distribute by support from the community, kind of kills the need for publishers, publishers who have now become nothing more than parasites upon the content, parasites upon a US constitutional amendment. So publishers no longer serve a real purpose, other than to generate marketing bullshit, be a viable market for cocaine dealers, bribe politicians via corrupt lobbyists, promote antisocial content, corrupt youth so that they can be 'used' by publishing executives and all in all be nothing but a drain upon the community, a black hole sucking up money and producing nothing essential.
Singularity is just a M$ fishing expedition, a means by which M$ hopes to suck the greater community into giving away ideas, and concepts for free, which M$ can turn around and patent, of course claim as their innovations.
Sorry but not thanks, nothing to M$ for free and to be honest I would rather give it away to the FOSS community that sell it to M$, let alone be stupid enough to give it away to M$ so they can try to charge me for it in the future.
Let's put it this way for you then. I own a piece of land and the house on top. If somebody were to make a copy of it so they could live in it, seriously what kind of arse hole would I be to complain. I still have my land and my house and my use of it is not affected in anyway.
I would find it hard to imagine anybody the would begrudge someone making a 'copy' of their piece or real estate, oh, I'm sorry, I take that back. Yes, unfortunately I can imagine exactly the kind of greedy ass hats that would, slime who would rather see people freezing on the streets and begging for scraps from the tables of the rich, the RIAA/MPAA staff and the publishers that support them.
Yes, but the reality is the Cuban embargo has nothing to do with politics, but has everything to do with Americans and American companies recovering the assets that they lost when the assets were nationalised. So the embargo will remain until the American organised crime families can get back the casinos that the Cubans people nationalised.
So Cuban will not be accepted as a democracy by the US until, they turn themselves back into the working poor for American corporations. Of course whether the Cubans actually elect a leader or a military coup takes place establishing an autocracies, makes absolutely not the slightest bit of difference to the end of the embargo.
All this does is highlight why other countries do not trust the current US administration with the central domain register, because as far as the current US administration is concerned, US corporate law is international law.
Hmm, troll, from the way you keep using this word I do not think you know what it means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_troll. So by your and the parents and grandparents reference, these topics are in fact 'popular' and accepted topics of ill repute. So quick review of the definition, will basically define yourselves as trolls rather than those posters who are making sound criticisms of the social network forums and M$ active X controls and, perversely enough I could be accused of feeding the trolls. So to get back on topic.
What the hackers are doing is clearly targeting the same user base that the social networks are targeting, the young, immature and willing gullible marketing victims. So unlike the lie the social book marketing sites are not targeting those who are too young to enter into legally binding contracts and capable of making mature higher risk behaviour decisions, the crackers (criminal hackers?) success clearly defines the main consumer base of those web sites, those that are the most susceptible to modern corporate mass marketing techniques.
The lessons of the day are, use social networking sites with extreme care and that you are a bloody idiot if you load active-x controls into firefox;).
In this case it has a whole lot less to do with Hasbro and much more to do with EA. EA have spent a huge amount of money to gain access to the Hasbro game licences, which in turn has pretty much swallowed up pretty much every other game board manufacturer from the past.
They are expecting to make huge amounts of money from those old fashioned games, unfortunately reality is setting and and old fashioned board games, are really just bored games, games people play when they are truly bored but have absolutely no desire to pay for them ie. once a request for payment is made, people just shift to another free web based game.
So as it turns out the oldest board games that managed to survive have also mostly lost or are about to lose their copyright protection and of course there a very of those that even marginally succeed. Most of the titles only get the odd free nostalgia play and EA is already starting to feel the bite of money going out and very little returns and is forcing the issue via Hasbro.
Of course there is the other issue. How they go about choosing which person they will pursue. How many request for client data based upon an IP address have been sent out without an attempt to sue the named account holder. What was the basis for the selection, the persons inability to pay for a legal defence or a preponderance of evidence.
Based upon their history, the ability of their chosen victim to financially support a defence against their criminal actions, apart from the odd glitch, seems to be the main factor in deciding who they will attempt to extort a payment from.
I wonder if they also searched for infected PCs as that is a viable defence for the owner of the PC, but they failed to advise those people that their PC was infected, technically making the investigators an accessory after the fact, a criminal offence.
More accurately, after 3 to 6 months of free beta testing by clients and end users, and when M$ sorts out the 'discoveries', from the 'disclosures' and then the patching, it will really actually start to approach standards compliance, and hence to fit with M$ speak, it will be 'more' standards compliant than the previous version.
The floor directly below the seat, can be lowered with the seat supported upon rails, and basically as the tall person, it is your choice how much of that space you take up. More foot space or more carry on luggage or you can even leave great clod hopping footprints all over your own carry on luggage.
The big benefit is each storage compartment is unique to each seat, and a mock up can be used at the xray point to ensure your carry on-board luggage will readily fit. You need more leg room, then don't bring on board too much carry on luggage and of course with a lowered floor below the seat in front, you will get better thigh support and be able to stretch your legs out a bit further.
Leaving the craft will also be more efficient as you can remove your luggage from your storage compartment whilst still seated and not obstructing the aisle, so a soon as you enter the aisle you can immediately disembark, many minutes saved entering and exiting the aircraft, reduced volume of carry on luggage for additional savings and improved safety. No clumsy idiot is trying to pull a heavy item out of the overhead compartment directly above your head in mid-flight, and as an airline allows that unsafe behaviour you should be able to sue if you get injured as a result of some unscheduled turbulence, and overhead storage shuffles.
The reason of course why it should be a criminal offence for your ISP to interfere with your service is. If they set up a subsidiary company, or say your competitor has better contacts with your ISP then you do, they can simply kill your service and VOIP for a week or so with a claimed copyright violation, which can cause enormous harm to your business whilst giving your competitor and enormous boost. The RIAA/MPAA have absolutely no care for anybody else or even their own future. Random disconnects can be the death of a business and due to the nature of the internet everybody commits copyright infringement nearly every day.
To have everybody treated the same under law, all copyright content must be treated the same, so a copied photo, or web page design, by law would have to be treated the same. You could not even send birthday or wedding videos if they contain copyrighted music in the sound track. This gives enormous power to ISP to basically govern upon a profit basis, who will get a stable service, who will get an business destructive service and who can via a system of questionable complaints detsroy a competitors service.
This is of course beyond the horridly privacy invasive concept that the ISP should legally be able to continuously, monitor, analyse, filter and of course record your internet use (it has to record your use should it need to prove it's case). The privatised police state which the RIAA/MPAA will be forcing upon their own children and grandchildren in their myopic greed for their own personal profits now.
For a fact I saw the Vista DRM in operation. There was a service that monitored the Hard disk drive contents (assumed copyrighted contents) and if the service was shut down, Vista immediately went into reduced functionality mode, re-enable the service and Vista went out of reduced functionality mode (minutes after that the hard disk was reformatted and a different OS installed).
As for the major patch the occurred very soon after the release of Vista, I was likely a DRM patch, to fix a typical M$ failure. Whilst they had spent lot of time money and effort trying to secure the DRM so the public couldn't break it, they did nothing to protect it from false activation hence a major security flaw.
of course M$ really doesn't care about other peoples content, DRM for them was to be a two step process, first pay to protect your copyrighted content, and then in a future version pay to allow your content to run. This of course was a way to allow them to shift to a free OS ie., you pay for the OS by paying a tax upon every bit of content you play and for every application that you use and of course it is designed to specifically target FOSS.
The reason of course the go to so much trouble trolling forums, blogs and websites, about the DRM in Vista,is that it is all so extremely monopolistic, leverage their existing monopoly to establish an even more severe and exploitative monopoly.
Your reasoning fails. You do not just replace the widget, what happens is the widget fails, your lose time, your then waste time and money not only paying for the new widget but also the exercise of researching it and getting it back to the location where it will be used. Now multiply that by a several failures and your now spending way more, not just a bit more. So it is never $4 versus $3 a couple of times, the reality is it is $5 (real quality) versus $3 plus the hidden $10 several times, so $5 versus the reality of $50.
Plus of course the additional impact upon the environment of the extra energy required to produce and obtain the goods and the waste of failed products. Big profits for corporations and marketers, for which every citizens and future generations pay an extreme price.
Unfortunately this kind of idiotic for profit logic, destroys the environment, You try toi build the best, ensure it last a life time and even can be passed onto the next generation.
The whole disposable, recycled marketing scam, is just that, buy the latest most fashionable unreliable piece of crap that will die with in days of the end of the warranty period, so it doesn't matter if it is not reliable or if it is not repaireable or in the case of software, as per EULA, we designed it to be third rate on purpoase so that you will be the next upgrade.
Case in pint, how reliable would win2kpro be by now if greed obsessed M$ had not stuffed about with XO and Vista. Face it it does take them ten years or so to debug their programs and we should really be forcing them to, after all they have 75 years of copyright protection, so they should continue to fix the product or lose copyright on it.
Me, I am really sick of products where the greatest cost is advertising, it's crap, it's a pig's ear, but with enough advertising and the support of corrupt anti consumer governments, the can force you to believe it is a silk purse.
So you want change, then you have to demand government funded consumer protection agencies, with some real teeth and perhaps prison sentences for those people who fraudulently misrepresent their products.
Which brings to point the most important feature of public libraries. The knowledge and intelligence of the librarian. Which is one of biggest features of a public library. Some one who understands and can assist you with your research on a personal basis.
Congratulations, to those people so shallow, that they think they can replace a qualified librarian with a university degree with somebody who can make coffee. Obviously the motive is not learning and education, but selling coffee at a profit.
Digitise a library, and you reduce the amount of space required to store books, but you still provide public access for viewing the content, wireless network digital readers and of course a librarian to assist people.
This of course is not the intent, the intent is purely to sell off any and all public services that compete in any way shape or form profit based services, so they are really just fishing for excuses. No public parks, you can go to a pay for space amusement centre, no public libraries, you can pay to rent content, no public beaches, you can pay to access private beaches and if ypu remain standing to long in one spot on a privatised footpath, you should pay rent, a public footpath is a privilege not a right.
Either that or re-egineer aircraft and rather than overhead, use below the seat in front storage, that way you can store your carry on luggage as you are sitting down. This also clearly limits the amount of carry on luggage.
Of course you did point out the major difference between defamation in the US and a lot of other countries. In the US you need only establish that you believed it to be the truth, in a lot of other countries you must prove it to be the truth if you declare it as a statement of fact. So when you comment in a global sense, it is far safer to hedge you bets and put everything in the safer format of a opinion. Now likely the law in Italy follows the harsher defamation laws, so the onus is upon the defendant to prove the truth of any allegations made as statements of fact rather than opinion or appearance.
Perhaps you just don't understand the parliamentary system. You vote for all minister and between themselves the nominate and vote for who will be the prime minister, normally of course along party lines. Whilst you actually do not vote for who will be the actual prime minister, the parties declare well before hand whom they will nominate to be prime minister, so there are no real surprises.
The big advantage, is if a lying, deceitful, blatantly corrupt and falsely religious scum bag get's to be prime minister, you can pressure your local ministers to remove him, no impeachment, no great travail, he can be gone with in a day, one quick vote and it is all over, then once they elect a new prime minister, the old one who has now lost their administrative powers can be readily prosecuted, it puts a powerful restraint upon excessive behaviour by any prime minister, as they can readily be fired if their behaviour threatens the electability of the other ministers in their own party.
So to express in a manner that reflects the American system, it would be as if the speaker of the house of congress governed the country and all of speakers decisions were subject to constant reveue by congress and the President would basically be a empty figure with no real power at all. So no autocratic 'Weasel in Chief', no out of control 'Decider', it really does put the brakes on what some out of control fool can or can't do, as there are always members within their own party looking to replace them if the get to far out of line. So if their public approval rating drops below 30% they are basically gone within that week, no one wants a loser leading them to the next election.
So in fact it really empowers the populace, and continually puts the prime minister under pressure to maintain their approval rating and major projects are subject to a continual system of approval because if it generates to much negative feedback from the populace, it lowers the prime minister approval rating to the point where members in the party feel threatened and immediately seek to replace the prime minister with a more popular figure who will then kill any excessively controversial projects in order to boost popularity, and yes there is always some minister ready willing and able to back stab the prime minister to take the top job, it really keeps them on their toes.
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However as demonstrated by the eighties and nineties as well as the early 2000s corrupt centralised mass media is used yo effectively camouflages the sociopaths and allow them to remain in positions and gain even higher positions where they can do extreme harm. The internet is starting to become the most effective tool in exposing them and bringing them down.
Stalin and Mao where sociopaths with complete autocratic control and the only place a socipath belongs is in an institution that can restrict their behaviour and prevent them from doing harm to others. Society simply needs to make the effort to detect them as early as possible, so that the cheneys, bushes and ballmers of the world are restricted to occupational therapy in controlled environments, weaving baskets, crocheting beanies or something similar.
So even your case still reflects myopic endless greed, people demanding to get paid for nothing.
So if I was designing for myself for my own use, I achieve my reward by access to my own efforts, there in after, I would be quite content to only have the appreciation of those who would 'share' that work. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, does that me bugger the other greedy arse holes.
They do not care about anything at all except themselves, even the families are nothing more than accoutrements and decorations, pets to fulfil their own egos.
Just the same in this case, the people who cam up with this technology absolutely do not care how the technology will be abused in future, as long as they perceive it will feed their immediate myopic greed.
They are going to get the cheapest contractors, who absolutely can not be trusted, to supply the chips at the lowest possible price. Those contractors of course do this by paying workers slave wages, cheating their own suppliers and having an absolutely disregard for how much they pollute the environment with their production processes. Of course these contractors also currently supplement their income by producing additional chips and distributing them via alternate more profitable channels.
So all of it basically a lie, they are not even in reality going to pursue anything in court, except to extend everything out for a many years as possible, get an appeal and go for adjournment after adjournment, bleed as much money out of SCO assets as they can during the process and, then declare bankrupt. All whilst giving SCO the absolute bare minimum of finance to achieve that goal, and nothing like the fantasy of throwing away $100 million or even any real attempt to win the civil suites.
Some body with no understanding of technology clutching at straws. The search warrant should be clearly and narrowly defined, so going crazy of the perceived crimes of transferring of digital data is just going to have to take a back seat to the concept of purely pursuing that digital data as evidence for the prosecution of the original crime.
The reality is they are going to have to adapt to the technology of memory cards, which when it comes to hiding them, requires the virtual demolition of a residence and the sifting of the rubble to find them. They can be dumped in a crack in the wall, or floor, quite readily flushed, slipped in gaps in furniture, hidden in other devices with ventilation openings, and even swallowed, gigabytes of storage in something no bigger of thicker than a thumb nail on top of that they can be encrypted and when erased they are erased http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_memory_cards just for a quick reminder of what is already available and the reality is that is just the start.
trying to create search warrants to cover the problem is crazy, so the law simply has to be adjusted to what is realistically feasible, let alone attempting to seize every computer that could possibly have been connected to the computer that is the actually target of the search warrant.
So digital photos can be legally 'naughty' but the reality is treat it like evidence and pursue the photographer with a vengeance.
This should cheer them up, how long will it be before the environmentalists demand that disposable memory storage cards be biodegradable, swallow that evidence and it will really be gone.
OS to OS comparison , Linux has the best advantage imaginable, ctrl, alt, funckey, gets you to a text screen where you can get the GUI kicking over again and fix a errant gui boot and correct any configuration faults, things that often require a re-install in windows because of a dead registry.
So a cheap budget second laptop with FOSS, operating system, office suite, media player, photo editor, browser and email or a proprietary solution that unlike the lie doesn't cost $200 extra but in fact because of having to pay for the office suite, and because of an inherently bloated and sluggish (P)OS having to supply more hardware, if fact it costs more like $500 dollars extra, or to put it simply you can buy three of the FOSS solutions for the price of the 'complete' proprietary solution.
So the real choice is computers for every member of the family or family fights and squabbles over a shared computer, the hair pulling, kicking, punching and screaming reality. Now will this dawn on the mega rich from M$, hell no, their families can afford to spend on technology solutions for a year what the average family earns in total.
If you have some much trouble and it took so long to find a replacement do not set yourself up for another fall, restructure your problem so that you can find alternate solutions.
So in this case the bank wanted to temporarily silence it critic whilst it own public relations and marketing teams created a lie to cover it over and via mass media define their lie as the truth and the accusations against them and their corrupt clients as lies.
So the court case would be extended with out resolution to bleed the witness and their supporters dry, while a counter message smearing the witness and its supporters was spread and a cloak was created over the corrupt practices.
Now of course the witness to the corruption and those that assist and support the witness in the disclosure of the truth, now via the internet have direct access to the greater community. A community that can now directly access a review the 'all' the information and not just the lies available via mass media. A community that will also do the most damaging thing imanginable, demand a full an open investigation, demand prosection and penalties be applied for any criminal activities, a community that will basically demand that the law as it is applied to the poor will also be applied to the rich.
So lets tear you analogy to shreds, how would the rest of society feel, what in reality would they consider reasonable, if anybody can make a free copy of Disneyland and the real estate underneath, what earthly benefit is achieved by preventing it from happening. Would a society deem it self humane, if it thought it appropriate to allow people to starve rather than allow for the free copying of farms, land and produce.
So what it all boils down to, is the ability for anybody to readily self publish, to globally distribute that content and in affect for the content to self distribute by support from the community, kind of kills the need for publishers, publishers who have now become nothing more than parasites upon the content, parasites upon a US constitutional amendment. So publishers no longer serve a real purpose, other than to generate marketing bullshit, be a viable market for cocaine dealers, bribe politicians via corrupt lobbyists, promote antisocial content, corrupt youth so that they can be 'used' by publishing executives and all in all be nothing but a drain upon the community, a black hole sucking up money and producing nothing essential.
Sorry but not thanks, nothing to M$ for free and to be honest I would rather give it away to the FOSS community that sell it to M$, let alone be stupid enough to give it away to M$ so they can try to charge me for it in the future.
I would find it hard to imagine anybody the would begrudge someone making a 'copy' of their piece or real estate, oh, I'm sorry, I take that back. Yes, unfortunately I can imagine exactly the kind of greedy ass hats that would, slime who would rather see people freezing on the streets and begging for scraps from the tables of the rich, the RIAA/MPAA staff and the publishers that support them.
So Cuban will not be accepted as a democracy by the US until, they turn themselves back into the working poor for American corporations. Of course whether the Cubans actually elect a leader or a military coup takes place establishing an autocracies, makes absolutely not the slightest bit of difference to the end of the embargo.
All this does is highlight why other countries do not trust the current US administration with the central domain register, because as far as the current US administration is concerned, US corporate law is international law.
What the hackers are doing is clearly targeting the same user base that the social networks are targeting, the young, immature and willing gullible marketing victims. So unlike the lie the social book marketing sites are not targeting those who are too young to enter into legally binding contracts and capable of making mature higher risk behaviour decisions, the crackers (criminal hackers?) success clearly defines the main consumer base of those web sites, those that are the most susceptible to modern corporate mass marketing techniques.
The lessons of the day are, use social networking sites with extreme care and that you are a bloody idiot if you load active-x controls into firefox ;).
They are expecting to make huge amounts of money from those old fashioned games, unfortunately reality is setting and and old fashioned board games, are really just bored games, games people play when they are truly bored but have absolutely no desire to pay for them ie. once a request for payment is made, people just shift to another free web based game.
So as it turns out the oldest board games that managed to survive have also mostly lost or are about to lose their copyright protection and of course there a very of those that even marginally succeed. Most of the titles only get the odd free nostalgia play and EA is already starting to feel the bite of money going out and very little returns and is forcing the issue via Hasbro.
Based upon their history, the ability of their chosen victim to financially support a defence against their criminal actions, apart from the odd glitch, seems to be the main factor in deciding who they will attempt to extort a payment from.
I wonder if they also searched for infected PCs as that is a viable defence for the owner of the PC, but they failed to advise those people that their PC was infected, technically making the investigators an accessory after the fact, a criminal offence.
More accurately, after 3 to 6 months of free beta testing by clients and end users, and when M$ sorts out the 'discoveries', from the 'disclosures' and then the patching, it will really actually start to approach standards compliance, and hence to fit with M$ speak, it will be 'more' standards compliant than the previous version.
The big benefit is each storage compartment is unique to each seat, and a mock up can be used at the xray point to ensure your carry on-board luggage will readily fit. You need more leg room, then don't bring on board too much carry on luggage and of course with a lowered floor below the seat in front, you will get better thigh support and be able to stretch your legs out a bit further.
Leaving the craft will also be more efficient as you can remove your luggage from your storage compartment whilst still seated and not obstructing the aisle, so a soon as you enter the aisle you can immediately disembark, many minutes saved entering and exiting the aircraft, reduced volume of carry on luggage for additional savings and improved safety. No clumsy idiot is trying to pull a heavy item out of the overhead compartment directly above your head in mid-flight, and as an airline allows that unsafe behaviour you should be able to sue if you get injured as a result of some unscheduled turbulence, and overhead storage shuffles.
To have everybody treated the same under law, all copyright content must be treated the same, so a copied photo, or web page design, by law would have to be treated the same. You could not even send birthday or wedding videos if they contain copyrighted music in the sound track. This gives enormous power to ISP to basically govern upon a profit basis, who will get a stable service, who will get an business destructive service and who can via a system of questionable complaints detsroy a competitors service.
This is of course beyond the horridly privacy invasive concept that the ISP should legally be able to continuously, monitor, analyse, filter and of course record your internet use (it has to record your use should it need to prove it's case). The privatised police state which the RIAA/MPAA will be forcing upon their own children and grandchildren in their myopic greed for their own personal profits now.
As for the major patch the occurred very soon after the release of Vista, I was likely a DRM patch, to fix a typical M$ failure. Whilst they had spent lot of time money and effort trying to secure the DRM so the public couldn't break it, they did nothing to protect it from false activation hence a major security flaw.
of course M$ really doesn't care about other peoples content, DRM for them was to be a two step process, first pay to protect your copyrighted content, and then in a future version pay to allow your content to run. This of course was a way to allow them to shift to a free OS ie., you pay for the OS by paying a tax upon every bit of content you play and for every application that you use and of course it is designed to specifically target FOSS.
The reason of course the go to so much trouble trolling forums, blogs and websites, about the DRM in Vista,is that it is all so extremely monopolistic, leverage their existing monopoly to establish an even more severe and exploitative monopoly.
Plus of course the additional impact upon the environment of the extra energy required to produce and obtain the goods and the waste of failed products. Big profits for corporations and marketers, for which every citizens and future generations pay an extreme price.
The whole disposable, recycled marketing scam, is just that, buy the latest most fashionable unreliable piece of crap that will die with in days of the end of the warranty period, so it doesn't matter if it is not reliable or if it is not repaireable or in the case of software, as per EULA, we designed it to be third rate on purpoase so that you will be the next upgrade.
Case in pint, how reliable would win2kpro be by now if greed obsessed M$ had not stuffed about with XO and Vista. Face it it does take them ten years or so to debug their programs and we should really be forcing them to, after all they have 75 years of copyright protection, so they should continue to fix the product or lose copyright on it.
Me, I am really sick of products where the greatest cost is advertising, it's crap, it's a pig's ear, but with enough advertising and the support of corrupt anti consumer governments, the can force you to believe it is a silk purse.
So you want change, then you have to demand government funded consumer protection agencies, with some real teeth and perhaps prison sentences for those people who fraudulently misrepresent their products.
Congratulations, to those people so shallow, that they think they can replace a qualified librarian with a university degree with somebody who can make coffee. Obviously the motive is not learning and education, but selling coffee at a profit.
Digitise a library, and you reduce the amount of space required to store books, but you still provide public access for viewing the content, wireless network digital readers and of course a librarian to assist people.
This of course is not the intent, the intent is purely to sell off any and all public services that compete in any way shape or form profit based services, so they are really just fishing for excuses. No public parks, you can go to a pay for space amusement centre, no public libraries, you can pay to rent content, no public beaches, you can pay to access private beaches and if ypu remain standing to long in one spot on a privatised footpath, you should pay rent, a public footpath is a privilege not a right.
Either that or re-egineer aircraft and rather than overhead, use below the seat in front storage, that way you can store your carry on luggage as you are sitting down. This also clearly limits the amount of carry on luggage.
Of course you did point out the major difference between defamation in the US and a lot of other countries. In the US you need only establish that you believed it to be the truth, in a lot of other countries you must prove it to be the truth if you declare it as a statement of fact. So when you comment in a global sense, it is far safer to hedge you bets and put everything in the safer format of a opinion. Now likely the law in Italy follows the harsher defamation laws, so the onus is upon the defendant to prove the truth of any allegations made as statements of fact rather than opinion or appearance.
The big advantage, is if a lying, deceitful, blatantly corrupt and falsely religious scum bag get's to be prime minister, you can pressure your local ministers to remove him, no impeachment, no great travail, he can be gone with in a day, one quick vote and it is all over, then once they elect a new prime minister, the old one who has now lost their administrative powers can be readily prosecuted, it puts a powerful restraint upon excessive behaviour by any prime minister, as they can readily be fired if their behaviour threatens the electability of the other ministers in their own party.
So to express in a manner that reflects the American system, it would be as if the speaker of the house of congress governed the country and all of speakers decisions were subject to constant reveue by congress and the President would basically be a empty figure with no real power at all. So no autocratic 'Weasel in Chief', no out of control 'Decider', it really does put the brakes on what some out of control fool can or can't do, as there are always members within their own party looking to replace them if the get to far out of line. So if their public approval rating drops below 30% they are basically gone within that week, no one wants a loser leading them to the next election.
So in fact it really empowers the populace, and continually puts the prime minister under pressure to maintain their approval rating and major projects are subject to a continual system of approval because if it generates to much negative feedback from the populace, it lowers the prime minister approval rating to the point where members in the party feel threatened and immediately seek to replace the prime minister with a more popular figure who will then kill any excessively controversial projects in order to boost popularity, and yes there is always some minister ready willing and able to back stab the prime minister to take the top job, it really keeps them on their toes.