I think if someone goes to the store, buys a CD. RIPs the CD to MP3s. Returns to the store for a refund. Should be illegal resulting in community service.
I think if the person turns around and sells the MP3s or posts them on the NET, there should be some sort of fine. The fine should go to the state where the crime was committed. The profit shouldn't go to the RIAA or music industry.
So you are telling me that you've never played an MP3 you haven't purchased? As long as you don't have any pirated software on your computer right now, then you aren't a hypocrite. Did your machine come with Windows XP? Ok sorry I peaked, your post was IP logged...
> That and, let's be honest/realistic here, many of the students really were infringing on the copyight.
That's just trying to rationalize that it's ok to sue and student and screw up their life. If a student rips off 0.001% percent of profits from the music industry then take 0.001% from their paycheck.
Realistically students are being sued for more than they can realistically pay. And most likely end up dropped out.
I've heard Fraud isn't Fraud unless it's investigated. Who investigates RIAA practices? All the cases have been corporate layers versus starving students. The student is usually getting sued for 6x to 100x tuition they cannot afford in every case, I think there is something worth investigating there. I even heard that the RIAA attempts to recruit the student to pay off their debt.
How can they patent a Microsoft technology? If anyone gets the patent it would Microsoft.
You can generate web services in Microsoft Visual Studio within 5 clicks. Web services are nothing more than an API. So they want to make a patent in which they can charge for content using an API, hmmm... Everybody does that already.
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The greatest firewall in the world isn't going to stop your employees from opening attachments and running exe's they downloaded from the net. It's simple to write something that can infultrate your network that runs on port 80. Because if you close port 80, your employees can't surf the net without a proxy server.
Thanks even slimer and more brilliant. I had assumed the Bush campaign paid for extra booths in likely areas. But instead they spoofed volunteers in loosing districts. So multi-cultural areas thought they had volunteers to run their booths when they didn't. Big suprise on election day. Brilliant!
Where does the money come from... most likely the WTO.
The last thing I heard were that the elections weren't actually fraud. Instead the scheme was brilliant. I'm not sure how all the extra convicts even voted, that wasn't part of the plan. In areas where Bush was predicted to win, they just added extra polling boths. In areas where he expected to loose, limit the polling boths so people would more likely not want to wait and line and walk away.
And this strategy is completely legal. I think we need a few ammendments to fix this...
How is this different than what the USA does? True the USA let's its citizens speak freely. However, the government does control the flow of information to its citizens via the media. Just pick up a newspaper in Canada and the USA and you can see differences.
Maybe its a ploy to institute a draft because they don't have enough men in combat after the women are removed...
How many years are left before Bush is out of office... And then of course they'll get his Bro from floridia elected, twice.
So we have another, what 12 years of potential misery... sounds great...
I heard on the BBC yesterday, that the next campaign issue has become women in the military. Somehow, after having women in the military since '91, now they want the 9000 women that are in... out.
I've already seen Windows 95, and Longhorn doesn't look to much degree any different. The desktop has always been themable, but it looks like the new theme is harder to navigate. Looks like 10 years in the wrong direction, compared with OSX and Tiger.
I noticed while at the Starbucks T-Mobile would like to charge either $10/day or $30/month to get Internet access.
They should have made it free. I might be oblidged to buy bad coffee if it were free.
Anyway, if you have a wireless laptop, the T-mobile network is autodetected. If you launch Internet Explorer or Firefox, the T-Mobile page comes up where you pay by credit card and log into their network.
Try an NSLOOKUP for some domain. And it works. The DNS UDP port is open. The only problem is your browser typically likes to run on the TCP port.
No problem LO!.
If you install the SQUID proxy server, it will route your browsers HTTP port 80 traffic along that DNS UDP port and you can gain Internet Access for free. http://www.squid-cache.org/
You just need to install another publically available squid server to use as your proxy that will convert DNS UDP back to TCP 80.
It might be slow as heck, but I'm not paying for Internet Access.
Now, the main problem with today's story is just the fact some one went into a Starbucks and broadcast a server that looks like the T-mobile page. People mistakenly entered their login info or their credit card.
If T-Mobile Internet Access was free, no personal information could have been stolen so easily. Although, you still have to worry about packet sniffing.
Way too dangerous. There is potential to drink the coffee while its cold before the temp has peaked at 145. In effect, you would severely burn your insides. Sounds like a great idea!
Excel Pivot tables pretty much suck. With Excel 2000 you can only pivot on a tiny 8k maximum worth of unique records. With Excel 2003 it goes up to 32k unique records. I have 1G of RAM, so this is a useless amount.
Pivot tables are useless for everything but a grocery list for a block party.
I've been working on an Open Source 3d model editor called TagCMA. I have a contact that knows a patent lawyer that says you can't get a patent for an Open Source project. I'm not willing to spend any extra cash to investigate if we have OS experts here. Can you get a patent on an Open Source project?
Warner Brothers needs to appear to do what it can since it's hard enough being a Hollywood based company. If Warner Brothers screws it up, they could loose out on the next harry potter film and loose mega dollars.
Disclaimer: I'm just guessing WB is a USA based company. J. K. Rowlings is quite particular about who post-produces her work.
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>I grew up respecting IP... I grew up with sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Stick it to the Man!
I think if someone goes to the store, buys a CD. RIPs the CD to MP3s. Returns to the store for a refund. Should be illegal resulting in community service. I think if the person turns around and sells the MP3s or posts them on the NET, there should be some sort of fine. The fine should go to the state where the crime was committed. The profit shouldn't go to the RIAA or music industry.
So you are telling me that you've never played an MP3 you haven't purchased? As long as you don't have any pirated software on your computer right now, then you aren't a hypocrite. Did your machine come with Windows XP? Ok sorry I peaked, your post was IP logged...
Yeah that's a future to be proud of. Money is overrated. Rewind a few thousand years. An aristocracy of IP would be great right now.
> That and, let's be honest/realistic here, many of the students really were infringing on the copyight. That's just trying to rationalize that it's ok to sue and student and screw up their life. If a student rips off 0.001% percent of profits from the music industry then take 0.001% from their paycheck. Realistically students are being sued for more than they can realistically pay. And most likely end up dropped out.
I've heard Fraud isn't Fraud unless it's investigated. Who investigates RIAA practices? All the cases have been corporate layers versus starving students. The student is usually getting sued for 6x to 100x tuition they cannot afford in every case, I think there is something worth investigating there. I even heard that the RIAA attempts to recruit the student to pay off their debt.
Can't a customer buy retail and buy e-bay, swap, and return?
How can they patent a Microsoft technology? If anyone gets the patent it would Microsoft. You can generate web services in Microsoft Visual Studio within 5 clicks. Web services are nothing more than an API. So they want to make a patent in which they can charge for content using an API, hmmm... Everybody does that already.
The greatest firewall in the world isn't going to stop your employees from opening attachments and running exe's they downloaded from the net. It's simple to write something that can infultrate your network that runs on port 80. Because if you close port 80, your employees can't surf the net without a proxy server.
The conspiracy continues. Was this intentional to add monitoring during repairs? IT: Internet to Pakistan Goes Down
What's the difference if the Senators never get your email or read it without a substantial contribution?
Thanks even slimer and more brilliant. I had assumed the Bush campaign paid for extra booths in likely areas. But instead they spoofed volunteers in loosing districts. So multi-cultural areas thought they had volunteers to run their booths when they didn't. Big suprise on election day. Brilliant!
Where does the money come from... most likely the WTO. The last thing I heard were that the elections weren't actually fraud. Instead the scheme was brilliant. I'm not sure how all the extra convicts even voted, that wasn't part of the plan. In areas where Bush was predicted to win, they just added extra polling boths. In areas where he expected to loose, limit the polling boths so people would more likely not want to wait and line and walk away. And this strategy is completely legal. I think we need a few ammendments to fix this...
How is this different than what the USA does? True the USA let's its citizens speak freely. However, the government does control the flow of information to its citizens via the media. Just pick up a newspaper in Canada and the USA and you can see differences.
Maybe its a ploy to institute a draft because they don't have enough men in combat after the women are removed... How many years are left before Bush is out of office... And then of course they'll get his Bro from floridia elected, twice. So we have another, what 12 years of potential misery... sounds great...
I heard on the BBC yesterday, that the next campaign issue has become women in the military. Somehow, after having women in the military since '91, now they want the 9000 women that are in... out.
I've already seen Windows 95, and Longhorn doesn't look to much degree any different. The desktop has always been themable, but it looks like the new theme is harder to navigate. Looks like 10 years in the wrong direction, compared with OSX and Tiger.
Last night I rented the "Sky Captains of the World of Tomorrow" on DVD and the copy protection is so good, I couldn't watch it!
Way to go Microsoft!!!
I noticed while at the Starbucks T-Mobile would like to charge either $10/day or $30/month to get Internet access.
They should have made it free. I might be oblidged to buy bad coffee if it were free.
Anyway, if you have a wireless laptop, the T-mobile network is autodetected. If you launch Internet Explorer or Firefox, the T-Mobile page comes up where you pay by credit card and log into their network.
Try an NSLOOKUP for some domain. And it works. The DNS UDP port is open. The only problem is your browser typically likes to run on the TCP port.
No problem LO!.
If you install the SQUID proxy server, it will route your browsers HTTP port 80 traffic along that DNS UDP port and you can gain Internet Access for free.
http://www.squid-cache.org/
You just need to install another publically available squid server to use as your proxy that will convert DNS UDP back to TCP 80.
It might be slow as heck, but I'm not paying for Internet Access.
Now, the main problem with today's story is just the fact some one went into a Starbucks and broadcast a server that looks like the T-mobile page. People mistakenly entered their login info or their credit card.
If T-Mobile Internet Access was free, no personal information could have been stolen so easily. Although, you still have to worry about packet sniffing.
Way too dangerous. There is potential to drink the coffee while its cold before the temp has peaked at 145. In effect, you would severely burn your insides. Sounds like a great idea!
Excel Pivot tables pretty much suck. With Excel 2000 you can only pivot on a tiny 8k maximum worth of unique records. With Excel 2003 it goes up to 32k unique records. I have 1G of RAM, so this is a useless amount. Pivot tables are useless for everything but a grocery list for a block party.
And what about the reverse.
What if there is already a patent, and your Open Source project infringes on that parent? Since you are making a similar process, can you get sued?
For example, if you wanted to make an Open Source e-bay site?
I've been working on an Open Source 3d model editor called TagCMA. I have a contact that knows a patent lawyer that says you can't get a patent for an Open Source project. I'm not willing to spend any extra cash to investigate if we have OS experts here. Can you get a patent on an Open Source project?
Warner Brothers needs to appear to do what it can since it's hard enough being a Hollywood based company. If Warner Brothers screws it up, they could loose out on the next harry potter film and loose mega dollars.
Disclaimer: I'm just guessing WB is a USA based company. J. K. Rowlings is quite particular about who post-produces her work.
Nice. Might as well try extortion. Charge obscene monthly bills for spammers.