My understanding is that your DMCA takedown notice requires that you swear under penalties of purjury that you won the copyright in question.
So what's the penalty for purjury?
It's not really purjury. Since you're not required to register a work (in the US) in order to have a copyright over it, there is room for some gray area. While it's probably not going to be upheld in court, it would be difficult to prove that he's actually lying when he says he has a copyright on the dance move...he could very well believe that he does. Unless you can show that not only did somebody else do it first, but that he had some prior knowledge that it was done before him...
Not only will it keep you up to date with the latest updates from Microsoft, it will also keep software and drivers from other vendors updated. However, that functionality is currently missing.
Er...so it will, but it won't...Why not just say "Not only will it keep you up to date with the latest updates from Microsoft" then?
It's hardly an exclusively liberal process. Conservative activist judges have got their interpretive licks in as well.
Conservative justices too...Anyone looking for an activist judiciary should take a long look at the *appointment* of George W. Bush to the presidency while votes were still being counted in Florida.
usually ascribed to by liberals who cannot achieve their will through the legislative process. It is this philosophy that has lead to the incredible divisiveness that currently infects the US.
So the current mess we're in is the liberals fault?
How exactly are these characteristics based on appearance rather than function?
* A detachable magazine holding more than 10 rounds.
* A folding or telescoping stock
* Attached grenade launchers
* A bayonet lug
* Threaded barrel capable of accepting a flash suppressor
* any rifle chambered to fire the.50 BMG cartridge
Those all seem like pretty functional characteristics to me.
It's generally understood that assault weapons is a term used by people who know nothing about guns, don't want people to have scary looking guns, and think that it's trivial to convert a civilian model semi-automatic rifle into a fully automatic model.
Really? "Generally understood" by whom? Gun lobbyists?
When you say "assault weapons" what do you mean? Weapons that can be used to assault people? Is that something like a baseball bat? A knife? A taser? Or did you mean to say assault rifle?
How you managed to search Wikipedia for "assault weapons", and not come up with this, I'll never know:
In case that didn't clear it up, I'm referring mainly to the types of weapons that were banned during the Clinton administration, but which became legal again under the Bush administration. Weapons that really have no place being in the hands of civilians.
The size of the military is pretty small compared to the number of Gov't workers in other jobs, plus the majority of the military right now are Reservists who go back to public sector jobs after serving so you can't count them as permanent.
Possibly, but the military budget absolutely eclipses everything else...
Traditionally Democrats want Big Government to take away your rights, while the Republicans want to keep the government as small as possible.
This is so far from the truth with the current party of Republicans, it's amazing that anybody would even *consider* mentioning it. And actually, unless you're talking about the right to have assault weapons or pollute the environment, Democrats generally aren't the ones trying to take away your rights. And as far as "big government" is concerned, regardless of what the world was like 20 years ago, today it's the Republicans that want to build a gigantic government, spend all of our money (mostly on the military), and take away as many of our rights as they can.
Umm..yea it does. Remember the Dems hold the House now, and a Bill Sponsor (Fienstein) and House Speaker Pelosi are close political buddies and both come from California where Hollywood calls the shots. And Hollywood wants this.
True, but the democrats are generally somewhat more pro-civil liberties...at the very least, it stands a somewhat better chance of failing than it would have with an all-republican "our votes are for sale" congress...
disney.xxx
You can make 100m easy extorting... er offering them buying it back.
Until they sue you because they have a trademark on the name...Whether or not they're in the right doesn't matter too much, because you stand no chance of defending yourself against Disney without going broke...
I haven't yet seen anyone on slashdot say it is "cool" or put a happy spin on it.
I think it has the potential to be cool. Imagine if you could leave comments on the world just like you do on/. or any other forum. Advertising would be a problem, yes, but that's where user-based moderation would come in. If somebody placed an advert, anybody who came along to it would have the opportunity to vote it down. Funny or insiteful comments would get moderated up. I really think that would be cool.
Funny thing is, part of the graduation gift bag they gave us at the end of it all included one of the bulbs they used in our apartments. I gave it to my brother and he loves it.
Heh, my "graduation gift" from my landlord was a letter stating that they'd be keeping my security deposit...
I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that the reason I don't use them has nothing to do with their cost. I had one once, and the delay between the time that I switched on the light and the time the light actually turned on really annoyed me. I know it's stupid, but that's why I haven't bought any more. That, and it didn't really last all that much longer than other regular bulbs that I have. It didn't ever burn out, but it started flickering to the point that it would give just about anybody a headache.
Personally, I'm hoping LED-based lightbulbs become more common in the near future...
I'd say so...I mean, they're very small, and not under the thumb of any major publisher...they pretty much do whatever they want. They just happen to be an incredibly successful indie company...
Actually, I remember way back when that the SNES Kiosk in Babbages (anyone remember that store) would simply reset after 5 minutes of game play
Yeah, pretty much all game system in-store demos have done this. I think the difference here is that the PS3's are actually freezing up, not resetting, requiring an employee to wander over and reset the system. Too bad they don't just have a little push button connected to the reset button, like the old NES in-store demos had...
It's actually very difficult to bring your own phone in for new service with most carriers
No, you can't usually bring your own phone in, but you could pay the full purchase price on their phone, rather than opting for the contract-based discount.
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My understanding is that your DMCA takedown notice requires that you swear under penalties of purjury that you won the copyright in question.
So what's the penalty for purjury?
It's not really purjury. Since you're not required to register a work (in the US) in order to have a copyright over it, there is room for some gray area. While it's probably not going to be upheld in court, it would be difficult to prove that he's actually lying when he says he has a copyright on the dance move...he could very well believe that he does. Unless you can show that not only did somebody else do it first, but that he had some prior knowledge that it was done before him...
The "Happy Birthday to You" song, however, is still under copyright...
http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp
From http://www.windizupdate.com/
Not only will it keep you up to date with the latest updates from Microsoft, it will also keep software and drivers from other vendors updated. However, that functionality is currently missing.
Er...so it will, but it won't...Why not just say "Not only will it keep you up to date with the latest updates from Microsoft" then?
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The video cameras? Not a fun idea to entertain, as far as a citizens point of view would go.
Chicago has these on some street corners already. I'm surprised New York doesn't already have them.
It's hardly an exclusively liberal process. Conservative activist judges have got their interpretive licks in as well.
Conservative justices too...Anyone looking for an activist judiciary should take a long look at the *appointment* of George W. Bush to the presidency while votes were still being counted in Florida.
usually ascribed to by liberals who cannot achieve their will through the legislative process. It is this philosophy that has lead to the incredible divisiveness that currently infects the US.
So the current mess we're in is the liberals fault?
Yeah, right. Pull the other one...
How exactly are these characteristics based on appearance rather than function?
.50 BMG cartridge
* A detachable magazine holding more than 10 rounds.
* A folding or telescoping stock
* Attached grenade launchers
* A bayonet lug
* Threaded barrel capable of accepting a flash suppressor
* any rifle chambered to fire the
Those all seem like pretty functional characteristics to me.
It's generally understood that assault weapons is a term used by people who know nothing about guns, don't want people to have scary looking guns, and think that it's trivial to convert a civilian model semi-automatic rifle into a fully automatic model.
Really? "Generally understood" by whom? Gun lobbyists?
It will be interesting to see what else is under the ice. The melting is definitely something we should be concerned about
Hopefully that icy place that superman goes too.
When you say "assault weapons" what do you mean? Weapons that can be used to assault people? Is that something like a baseball bat? A knife? A taser? Or did you mean to say assault rifle?
How you managed to search Wikipedia for "assault weapons", and not come up with this, I'll never know:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_weapons
In case that didn't clear it up, I'm referring mainly to the types of weapons that were banned during the Clinton administration, but which became legal again under the Bush administration. Weapons that really have no place being in the hands of civilians.
The size of the military is pretty small compared to the number of Gov't workers in other jobs, plus the majority of the military right now are Reservists who go back to public sector jobs after serving so you can't count them as permanent.
Possibly, but the military budget absolutely eclipses everything else...
Traditionally Democrats want Big Government to take away your rights, while the Republicans want to keep the government as small as possible.
This is so far from the truth with the current party of Republicans, it's amazing that anybody would even *consider* mentioning it. And actually, unless you're talking about the right to have assault weapons or pollute the environment, Democrats generally aren't the ones trying to take away your rights. And as far as "big government" is concerned, regardless of what the world was like 20 years ago, today it's the Republicans that want to build a gigantic government, spend all of our money (mostly on the military), and take away as many of our rights as they can.
Umm..yea it does. Remember the Dems hold the House now, and a Bill Sponsor (Fienstein) and House Speaker Pelosi are close political buddies and both come from California where Hollywood calls the shots. And Hollywood wants this.
True, but the democrats are generally somewhat more pro-civil liberties...at the very least, it stands a somewhat better chance of failing than it would have with an all-republican "our votes are for sale" congress...
At minimum proposals like this should be struck down for their extreme short-sightedness.
Hopefully this bill stands little chance of making its way through the house...
disney.xxx You can make 100m easy extorting... er offering them buying it back.
Until they sue you because they have a trademark on the name...Whether or not they're in the right doesn't matter too much, because you stand no chance of defending yourself against Disney without going broke...
I haven't yet seen anyone on slashdot say it is "cool" or put a happy spin on it.
/. or any other forum. Advertising would be a problem, yes, but that's where user-based moderation would come in. If somebody placed an advert, anybody who came along to it would have the opportunity to vote it down. Funny or insiteful comments would get moderated up. I really think that would be cool.
I think it has the potential to be cool. Imagine if you could leave comments on the world just like you do on
Funny thing is, part of the graduation gift bag they gave us at the end of it all included one of the bulbs they used in our apartments. I gave it to my brother and he loves it.
Heh, my "graduation gift" from my landlord was a letter stating that they'd be keeping my security deposit...
I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that the reason I don't use them has nothing to do with their cost. I had one once, and the delay between the time that I switched on the light and the time the light actually turned on really annoyed me. I know it's stupid, but that's why I haven't bought any more. That, and it didn't really last all that much longer than other regular bulbs that I have. It didn't ever burn out, but it started flickering to the point that it would give just about anybody a headache.
Personally, I'm hoping LED-based lightbulbs become more common in the near future...
Is id considered independent?
I'd say so...I mean, they're very small, and not under the thumb of any major publisher...they pretty much do whatever they want. They just happen to be an incredibly successful indie company...
Actually, I remember way back when that the SNES Kiosk in Babbages (anyone remember that store) would simply reset after 5 minutes of game play
Yeah, pretty much all game system in-store demos have done this. I think the difference here is that the PS3's are actually freezing up, not resetting, requiring an employee to wander over and reset the system. Too bad they don't just have a little push button connected to the reset button, like the old NES in-store demos had...
You had magnetic drums?!? In my day, we stored our data on an onion, because that was the style at the time...
The only thing missing from the Sex.com story is a dead stripper found with a rubber alligator lodged in her throat
Well, that seems easy enough to fix...
Now, where to find a rubber alligator...
I'm sure it can send mail from multiple accounts too, but I haven't tried. Yep, works like a charm. I do that all the time.
Why is the service provider the only place that I'm allowed to by phones?
Because nobody's passed a law yet forcing them to allow you to use whatever phone you might have laying around...
So I can pay the cancelation fee at the start or the end of the contract? That's not much of a choice.
What you're expecting is that they *give* you a phone that costs them a few hundred dollars, without asking anything in return?
It's actually very difficult to bring your own phone in for new service with most carriers
No, you can't usually bring your own phone in, but you could pay the full purchase price on their phone, rather than opting for the contract-based discount.