They will always feel that increased enforcement is the answer instead of recognizing that to a large extent, their product is not worth paying for.
That is illogical. Suing is the answer. Humans must be sued. They must pay their fines. You are mistaken. Prosecuting is the answer. Humans must be prosecuted. They must pay their fines. Suing is the answer. Prosecuting is the answer. I have sued many humans. I have prosecuted many more. Music profits are protected. Humans have paid their fines.
The clause in the draft law that most worries them is one that criminalizes aiding and abetting or incitement to infringe an intellectual property such as copyright-protected music, software or film.
"Incitement"? On this side of the pond they are floating the word "inducement". The difference: inducement is like someone leading you down the dark path; "incitement" is convincing you go down that path on your own accord. Both would imply some level of innocence on the part of the induced/incited, assigning blame to the other. More blame is assigned with "incitement", which may be why they want to use that term.
Incitement to infringe an intellectual property... OK, let's simplify that to "incitement to pirate"; works nicely with the existing "incitement to riot". Makes for a good sound bite and gets the knees jerking. Still, to analogize incitement a la rioting to piracy, that would be saying or doing something that would en masse cause law-abiding people to resort to piracy from yelling FREE COMMERCIAL MUSIC FOR THE NEXT HOUR AT ALLOFMP3.COM in a crowded chat room to, maybe, forcing over-restrictive DRM on your customers....
Looks like the purveyors of DRM may be about to sue themselves.
Eternal is still wrong, since it implies the copyright lasts forever, which is directly contradicted by the first part.
Then you are missing my point entirely.
The work is lost to the ages. The only time it was accessible was when it was under copyright. The law prevents anyone from making unauthorized copies during the copyrighted period, and the copyright holder is under no obligation to authorize any copying (fair use is dead when the opportunity to be exercise it is never granted, which is possible even without DRM). No copies exist after the copyright period expires for anyone to use.
Therefore ephemeral works effectively gain eternal copyright as no copies will ever enter the public domain.
Of course, all this explanation won't fit in a 120-character signature.
not definite; without fixed or specified limit; unlimited: an indefinite number.
not clearly defined or determined; not precise or exact: an indefinite boundary; an indefinite date in the future.
Grammar.
indefinite article.
indefinite pronoun.
Botany.
very numerous or not easily counted, as stamens.
(of an inflorescence) indeterminate.
But criticism noted: it should be more precise. "Indefinite" as used by Lessig refers to the unlimited extension of copyright by finite increments and doesn't work as well in my argument. "Infinite" doesn't feel right and can mean more than duration. "Unlimited" references the "for limited times" part of the law, but again can be read as emphasizing strength of protection rather than duration, but "permanent" or even "eternal" address time. (Alas none of them leave enough room in a slashdot signature for "unconstitutionally".)
I think I'll go with "eternal" for now. Thank you.
The best thing about this car is that air-conditioning is very easy and costs no energy. As the air decompresses in the engine, it cools off. Directing that air into the cabin would provide air-conditioning with just about no effort.
Thing is, in some parts of the world, we still have this thing called "Winter".
So while there are certainly correlations between teenage boys, game playing, and risky driving, this study is showing more than that. It actually is showing a difference in behavior as a result of playing racing games.
How realistic was the simulator? How unrealistic was the game? Was the difference enough to negate association of the simulator as a game?
Apparently this study was spurned from interviews in Portland, Oregon. I don't think they've mastered the art of drifting through corners.
I think you meant "spawned" instead of "spurned".
I'm cognizant of how I feel after playing hours of Burnout 3, but I haven't felt compelled to cause major pileups, run people off the road, or drift around corners. I've never found myself racing under an Interstate overpass thinking, "Checkpoint!"
However, I have felt the urge to jockey for the most favored position at the next red light after playing hours of Tetris. But then that's just common sense: no one wants to get stuck in the lane behind a slowly accelerating long piece... er, I mean truck.
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There was talk of other cards for the agp slot but they did not come out.
Yes, much like how SCSI keyboards were envisioned.
I think what the advertiser meant was that the original SATA connections were externalized as-is, but that eSATA introduces different keying.
I have the two extra SATA connectors on my Mac Pro's motherboard (presumably for SATA optical drive alternatives) connected to a backplane next to the not-double-wide video card which turns them into eSATA ports. I don't have any eSATA drives or enclosures yet, but I have the ports ready for when I back up my 1.5 TB RAID (3 * 500 GB) to another 1.5 TB RAID (2 * 750 GB).
eSATA doesn't appear to have made its way into brick-and-mortar stores yet: they're still in love with USB 2.0 drives and barely stock any Firewire 400 or Firewire 800 drives unless they also have USB 2.0. Same for DV bridges.
In my high school(!) we were introduced to educational games. There was a game of Hangman for the Spanish class. I don't think it was as educational as the teacher thought it was. All nouns included the definite article so if it was only two letters you knew you could enter L as your first guess, and that would tell you if A or E were in the word (feminine or masculine), and if E, then usually also O (if it was three letters, it was plural, so S was a safe guess too). If it was a verb, it was always in infinitive form, so you could guess R immediately as well. A, E, or I would be in the verb as well. Anything else you learned to recognize and make educated guesses. You just had to pay attention then to what got filled in and the length of the word and you could guess at all the letters: you could game the game. It was not so much learning the language (it didn't provide the English translation) but rather learning the pattern. Missed letters on a word didn't affect your final score unless you missed too many times.
The order in which the words were presented was randomized, but some students figured out that you could control the seed value by always playing from first boot. Well, I'm sure they didn't know they were controlling the seed value; they just realized that they could predetermine the word order that way and so just memorize the word order. It wasn't necessary. With enough practice and a working computer speaker, you could almost play the game blindfolded and obtain a perfect score, as long as you knew how to type and your hands didn't drift off the home row.
I was the one who figured out how to break out of the game and get a listing of the code (originally tasked to make backups so more students could use it at once). It was written in AppleSoft BASIC, but the tokenized keywords didn't decode properly in the listing. I'm sure I could have decrypted that to get the full listing, but I never bothered; it wasn't necessary for making the backups. But the words for each puzzle were in plain text in the listing. It quickly became standard procedure for the teacher to provide the students with the word list for each game in advance, with some of the garbled source code. This only made it even easier to game the system as you didn't have to tie up a computer to work out the best strategy.
Though I obtained the list, I never bothered with using it, and ended up showing the teacher how to get it so I wouldn't have to do for her each time. I think she eventually gave out a neatly retyped list for the later classes.
Did I mention you could play the game as often as you wanted to practice and improve your score? When you were ready to be graded, that last, loosely supervised time through would be the one recorded. (Some students tried outright cheating by mocking up their own success page displaying a perfect score.)
Yeah, but what I find scary here is that a month or so back, the pentagon had asked 24 to cut down on torture, ostensibly to discourage its practice by the military.
Are you sure it wasn't because they wanted to run an ad encouraging people to tell their representatives to vote to extend the U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act?
Later in that same season it would be revealed that 24's US President Charles Logan was behind the events of Day 5. Of course, that was not revealed until long after the vote to extend the real president's powers, including the most recently exercised: the ability to appoint judges without congressional oversight.
I sued Taco Bell, 'cause I ate half a million Chalupas and I got fat! I sued Panasonic: they never said I shouldn't use their microwave to dry off my cat. Huh, I sued Earthlink, 'cause I called them up n' they had the nerve to put me on hold. I sued Starbucks 'cause I spilled a Frappucino in my lap and brrr, it was cold!
I sued Toys'R'Us 'cause I swallowed a Nerf ball and nearly choked to death. Ugh, I sued PetCo 'cause I ate a bag of kitty litter and now I got bad breath! I sued Coca-Cola, yo, 'cause I put my finger down in a bottle and it got stuck! I sued Delta Airlines 'cause they sold me a ticket to New Jersey, I went there, and it sucked!
I sued Duracell: they never told me not to shove that double-A right up my nose. I sued Home Depot 'cause they sold me a hammer which they knew I might drop on my toes. I sued Dell Computers 'cause I took a bath with my laptop, now it doesn't work. I sued Fruit of the Loom 'cause when I wear their tightie-whities on my head I look like a jerk!
I sued Verizon 'cause I get all depressed any time my cell phone is roaming. I sued Colorado 'cause you know, I think it looks a little bit too much like Wyoming. I sued Neiman Marcus 'cause they put up their Christmas decorations way out of season. I sued Ben Affleck. ... Aw, do I even need a reason?
The summary is incorrect. The actual cost, as stated in the article, is less than $1000, which is a bit more than $500.
Actually, the summery said, "her spectrograph cost less than $500 dollars". Have you any idea how much a 500-dollar dollar is worth? Her spectrograph costs less than at least two of them!
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That is illogical. Suing is the answer. Humans must be sued. They must pay their fines.
You are mistaken. Prosecuting is the answer. Humans must be prosecuted. They must pay their fines.
Suing is the answer.
Prosecuting is the answer.
I have sued many humans.
I have prosecuted many more.
Music profits are protected.
Humans have paid their fines.
Incitement to infringe an intellectual property... OK, let's simplify that to "incitement to pirate"; works nicely with the existing "incitement to riot". Makes for a good sound bite and gets the knees jerking. Still, to analogize incitement a la rioting to piracy, that would be saying or doing something that would en masse cause law-abiding people to resort to piracy from yelling FREE COMMERCIAL MUSIC FOR THE NEXT HOUR AT ALLOFMP3.COM in a crowded chat room to, maybe, forcing over-restrictive DRM on your customers....
Looks like the purveyors of DRM may be about to sue themselves.
Or something like that.
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The work is lost to the ages. The only time it was accessible was when it was under copyright. The law prevents anyone from making unauthorized copies during the copyrighted period, and the copyright holder is under no obligation to authorize any copying (fair use is dead when the opportunity to be exercise it is never granted, which is possible even without DRM). No copies exist after the copyright period expires for anyone to use.
Therefore ephemeral works effectively gain eternal copyright as no copies will ever enter the public domain.
Of course, all this explanation won't fit in a 120-character signature.
Pronunciation[in-def-uh-nit]
-adjective
But criticism noted: it should be more precise. "Indefinite" as used by Lessig refers to the unlimited extension of copyright by finite increments and doesn't work as well in my argument. "Infinite" doesn't feel right and can mean more than duration. "Unlimited" references the "for limited times" part of the law, but again can be read as emphasizing strength of protection rather than duration, but "permanent" or even "eternal" address time. (Alas none of them leave enough room in a slashdot signature for "unconstitutionally".)
I think I'll go with "eternal" for now. Thank you.
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile.
Vell, Jack Thompson's just this guy, you know?
I'm cognizant of how I feel after playing hours of Burnout 3, but I haven't felt compelled to cause major pileups, run people off the road, or drift around corners. I've never found myself racing under an Interstate overpass thinking, "Checkpoint!"
However, I have felt the urge to jockey for the most favored position at the next red light after playing hours of Tetris. But then that's just common sense: no one wants to get stuck in the lane behind a slowly accelerating long piece... er, I mean truck.
I think what the advertiser meant was that the original SATA connections were externalized as-is, but that eSATA introduces different keying.
I have the two extra SATA connectors on my Mac Pro's motherboard (presumably for SATA optical drive alternatives) connected to a backplane next to the not-double-wide video card which turns them into eSATA ports. I don't have any eSATA drives or enclosures yet, but I have the ports ready for when I back up my 1.5 TB RAID (3 * 500 GB) to another 1.5 TB RAID (2 * 750 GB).
eSATA doesn't appear to have made its way into brick-and-mortar stores yet: they're still in love with USB 2.0 drives and barely stock any Firewire 400 or Firewire 800 drives unless they also have USB 2.0. Same for DV bridges.
In my high school(!) we were introduced to educational games. There was a game of Hangman for the Spanish class. I don't think it was as educational as the teacher thought it was. All nouns included the definite article so if it was only two letters you knew you could enter L as your first guess, and that would tell you if A or E were in the word (feminine or masculine), and if E, then usually also O (if it was three letters, it was plural, so S was a safe guess too). If it was a verb, it was always in infinitive form, so you could guess R immediately as well. A, E, or I would be in the verb as well. Anything else you learned to recognize and make educated guesses. You just had to pay attention then to what got filled in and the length of the word and you could guess at all the letters: you could game the game. It was not so much learning the language (it didn't provide the English translation) but rather learning the pattern. Missed letters on a word didn't affect your final score unless you missed too many times.
The order in which the words were presented was randomized, but some students figured out that you could control the seed value by always playing from first boot. Well, I'm sure they didn't know they were controlling the seed value; they just realized that they could predetermine the word order that way and so just memorize the word order. It wasn't necessary. With enough practice and a working computer speaker, you could almost play the game blindfolded and obtain a perfect score, as long as you knew how to type and your hands didn't drift off the home row.
I was the one who figured out how to break out of the game and get a listing of the code (originally tasked to make backups so more students could use it at once). It was written in AppleSoft BASIC, but the tokenized keywords didn't decode properly in the listing. I'm sure I could have decrypted that to get the full listing, but I never bothered; it wasn't necessary for making the backups. But the words for each puzzle were in plain text in the listing. It quickly became standard procedure for the teacher to provide the students with the word list for each game in advance, with some of the garbled source code. This only made it even easier to game the system as you didn't have to tie up a computer to work out the best strategy.
Though I obtained the list, I never bothered with using it, and ended up showing the teacher how to get it so I wouldn't have to do for her each time. I think she eventually gave out a neatly retyped list for the later classes.
Did I mention you could play the game as often as you wanted to practice and improve your score? When you were ready to be graded, that last, loosely supervised time through would be the one recorded. (Some students tried outright cheating by mocking up their own success page displaying a perfect score.)
Later in that same season it would be revealed that 24's US President Charles Logan was behind the events of Day 5. Of course, that was not revealed until long after the vote to extend the real president's powers, including the most recently exercised: the ability to appoint judges without congressional oversight.
Though they use the same logo, can one truly call these systems chicken head computers with these specs?
Then they should add a "Jack Thompson Seal of Disapproval" to the packages to boost sales.
(Hopefully the makers of Thompson's Water Seal will have a sense of humor over it.)
Improvements from playing Tetris include the ability to jockey for the best position at the next red light.
"It is paramount that the DMCA be given full force and effect, as envisioned by Congress." -- SCO
What a delightful combination of messenger and message. That should so be in somebody's signature. I'd take it, but I like mine the way it is.