No, you can't sue a minor, but then again the minor doesn't own the computer, does she? They're suing her parents, the actual owners of the computer, and as far as the law is concerned, the infringers.
Every time I read stories like this, I feel an extreme sense of paranoia that the RIAA is going to come busting down my door and demand money for my songs. Then I realize...I turned off file sharing, which makes the penalties MUCH, MUCH less. The penalties for DISTRIBUTING music run about 750$ per file. The penalties for downloading music run about 99c/file (You just have to reimburse them for the cost of buying), under Title 17, Chapter 5, S504, b. If bad comes to worst, I'll sort through my selection of 400 some-odd files, count out how many are indie or not coverred by the RIAA, which will be around 300, and then pay them their $1,000 and be on my way, having beaten the music industry. Then I realize once again, they're not coming for me because I don't use FastTrack. [Note, IANAL]
Have you ever watched Star Wars and been amazed that Human beings could understand what R2D2 is saying?
No.
Could this type of language be used in the future to ease natural language processing pains?"
No.
However, I particularly liked the MP3. Hey, Servando!
What?
Look, go tell Julio to bring the castanets.
OK.
Hey, Julio!
What?
Lili says you should go get the kids and have them bring the castanets for the party.
OK.OK.OK.
Why is this funny? The MP3 is 57 seconds, that's why. Everybody wants streamlined things, and that includes language.
I think it should carry a hefty fine to use that defense. I think a good solution would be a law created that can fine users if their computer is left open to the world. There would be no way to bring someone in on this charge, because the only way to find out that it's open is to hack it, and that's illegal search and seizure. The only way this law would apply would be to people using the "My computer was hijacked" defense, since they're essentially admitting guilt to that charge.
I'm not a troll, I have legitimate concerns. I didn't just boot up for two hours into a LiveEval, I downloaded and tried SIX DIFFERENT DISTROS on my other box.
These included:
Gentoo Linux. I couldn't get it setup because of some errors in install.
Debian Linux. The install didn't detect my video card (It's an Intel810 integrated).
Slackware Linux. It installed fine, but startx wouldn't load XWindows (I'm pretty sure because my card wasn't detected)
SuSE. LiveEval version, worked perfectly except for the aforementioned problems
Mandrake 7.0. I had this lying around. Did not detect my video card.
RedHat 7.2. I also had this lying around. Was the only distro to actually get through the install and work.
So RedHat is installed on my dad's box that I was reformatting to install Win2k on later in the day. Good, right? It didn't detect my networking settings, and DHCP didn't work. I couldn't get online, and needless to say, a computer without the internet is as useful as a toaster.
Next, I installed SuSE. It detected my ethernet and DHCP worked fine. Everything ran like a charm. I tried for the longest time to get either gAIM or aim.com's linux version running. AIM.com offered a.tar.gz precompiled which wouldn't install and I don't even remember the problem with gAIM. I'm pretty sure it was the gcc missing though. I also installed OpenOffice 1.0.1 (Had the CD lying around). It didn't install correctly. Everytime I loaded it up and told it I was registered already, it crashed. Finally, frustrated, I installed Win2k and went back to working on my box. The SuSE story mentioned previously was on my good box, running WinXP.
I'm not a computer newbie. I code C. I code java. I code PHP. I code VB. I know how stuff works and why it works. I have Windows memorized like the back of my hand, probably better. Linux should NOT have been a difficult task, but it was. I wanted to use Linux so I could say I knew how, that was my only motivation. I finally realized that it just wasn't worth that.
The author discusses usability issues with Fedora. This is the number one reason I don't use Linux, I just couldn't get the damn thing to ever work right. I started out on SuSE LiveEval, I wanted to use AIM. Linux AIM didn't work right, gAIM wouldn't compile since I didn't have GCC, and GCC Binaries were 144 megs large. I ended up playing nethack for two hours and rebooting back into Windows. I still love the idea behind Linux, but maybe, just maybe they were right in taking RedHat off the desktop market and saying it just ISN'T READY for desktops...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Almost no one in America would admit to being overpaid, but many of us take home bloated paychecks far beyond what's deserved.
Fair compensation is a relative term, yet human-resource consultants and executive headhunters agree some jobs command excessive compensation that can't be explained by labor supply-and-demand imbalances.
And while it's easy to argue that chief executives, lawyers and movie stars are overpaid, reality is not that cut and dry.
Corporate attorneys earning $500 an hour and plaintiffs lawyers pocketing a third of a class-action or personal-injury settlement certainly don't go hungry. Yet many local prosecutors and public defenders are hard-pressed to pay off law-school loans.
Hollywood stars, making $20 million a movie or $10 million per TV-season, qualify for many people's overpaid list. But for every one of those actors and actresses, there are a thousand waiting tables and taking bit movie parts or regional theater roles awaiting a big break that never comes.
A lot of people are overpaid because there are certain things consumers just don't want screwed up, said Bill Coleman, senior vice president of compensation for Salary.com. You wouldn't want to board a plane flown by a second-rate pilot or hire a cheap wedding photographer to record an event you hope happens once in your lifetime.
With pro athletes, one owner is willing to pay big money for a star player and then all the other players want to keep up with the Joneses, Coleman said. The art with CEO pay is making sure your CEO is above the median -- and you see where that goes.
What follows is a list of the 10 most overpaid jobs in the U.S., in reverse order, drafted with input from compensation experts:
10) Wedding photographers
Photographers typically charge $2,000 to $5,000 to shoot a wedding, for what amounts to a one-day assignment plus processing time. Some get $15,000 or more. Yet many mope through the job, bumping guests in their way without apology, with the attitude: I'm just doing this for the money until Time or National Geographic calls.
They must cover equipment and film-development costs. Still, many in major metropolitan areas who shoot two weddings each weekend in the May-to-October marrying season pull in $100,000 for six months' work.
Yet let's face it; much of their work is mediocre. Have you ever really been wowed flipping the pages of a wedding album handed you by recent newlyweds? Annie Leibovitz and Richard Avedon they're not, but some charge fees as if they're in the same league.
9) Pilots for major airlines
Captains with 12 years of experience earn up to $265 an hour at Delta, United, American and Northwest, which translates to $250,000 a year and more for a job that technology is making almost fully automated.
By comparison, senior pilots at low-fare carriers like Southwest and Jet Blue make about 40 percent less. That helps explain why their employers are profitable while several of the majors are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
The pilot's union is the most powerful in the industry. It commands premium wages as if still in the glory days of long-gone Pan Am and TWA, rather than the cutthroat, deregulated market of under-$200 coast-to-coast roundtrips. Because we entrust our lives to them, consumers accept the excessive sums paid them, when it's airplane mechanics who really hold our fate in their hands.
8) West Coast longshoremen
In early 2002, West Coast ports shut down as the longshoremen's union fought to preserve generous health-care benefits that would make most Americans drool. The union didn't demand much in wage hikes for good reason: Its members already were making a boatload of money.
Next year, West Coast dockworkers will earn an average of $112,000 for handling cargo, according to the Pacific Maritime Association, their employer. Office clerks who log shipping records into comput
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Almost no one in America would admit to being overpaid, but many of us take home bloated paychecks far beyond what's deserved.
"Fair compensation" is a relative term, yet human-resource consultants and executive headhunters agree some jobs command excessive compensation that can't be explained by labor supply-and-demand imbalances.
And while it's easy to argue that chief executives, lawyers and movie stars are overpaid, reality is not that cut and dry.
Corporate attorneys earning $500 an hour and plaintiffs lawyers pocketing a third of a class-action or personal-injury settlement certainly don't go hungry. Yet many local prosecutors and public defenders are hard-pressed to pay off law-school loans.
Hollywood stars, making $20 million a movie or $10 million per TV-season, qualify for many people's overpaid list. But for every one of those actors and actresses, there are a thousand waiting tables and taking bit movie parts or regional theater roles awaiting a big break that never comes.
"A lot of people are overpaid because there are certain things consumers just don't want screwed up," said Bill Coleman, senior vice president of compensation for Salary.com. "You wouldn't want to board a plane flown by a second-rate pilot or hire a cheap wedding photographer to record an event you hope happens once in your lifetime.
"With pro athletes, one owner is willing to pay big money for a star player and then all the other players want to keep up with the Joneses," Coleman said. "The art with CEO pay is making sure your CEO is above the median -- and you see where that goes."
What follows is a list of the 10 most overpaid jobs in the U.S., in reverse order, drafted with input from compensation experts:
10) Wedding photographers
Photographers typically charge $2,000 to $5,000 to shoot a wedding, for what amounts to a one-day assignment plus processing time. Some get $15,000 or more. Yet many mope through the job, bumping guests in their way without apology, with the attitude: "I'm just doing this for the money until Time or National Geographic calls."
They must cover equipment and film-development costs. Still, many in major metropolitan areas who shoot two weddings each weekend in the May-to-October marrying season pull in $100,000 for six months' work.
Yet let's face it; much of their work is mediocre. Have you ever really been wowed flipping the pages of a wedding album handed you by recent newlyweds? Annie Leibovitz and Richard Avedon they're not, but some charge fees as if they're in the same league.
9) Pilots for major airlines
Captains with 12 years of experience earn up to $265 an hour at Delta, United, American and Northwest, which translates to $250,000 a year and more for a job that technology is making almost fully automated.
By comparison, senior pilots at low-fare carriers like Southwest and Jet Blue make about 40 percent less. That helps explain why their employers are profitable while several of the majors are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
The pilot's union is the most powerful in the industry. It commands premium wages as if still in the glory days of long-gone Pan Am and TWA, rather than the cutthroat, deregulated market of under-$200 coast-to-coast roundtrips. Because we entrust our lives to them, consumers accept the excessive sums paid them, when it's airplane mechanics who really hold our fate in their hands.
8) West Coast longshoremen
In early 2002, West Coast ports shut down as the longshoremen's union fought to preserve generous health-care benefits that would make most Americans drool. The union didn't demand much in wage hikes for good reason: Its members already were making a boatload of money.
Next year, West Coast dockworkers will earn an average of $112,000 for handling cargo, according to the Pacific Maritime Association, their employer. Office clerks who log shipping records into computers will earn $136,000. And unionized foremen who oversee the rank-and-file will pull dow
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This isn't theft (The felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it). This is infringement.
No, you can't sue a minor, but then again the minor doesn't own the computer, does she? They're suing her parents, the actual owners of the computer, and as far as the law is concerned, the infringers.
The key to being safe from the RIAA: Don't listen to music owned by the RIAA.
Every time I read stories like this, I feel an extreme sense of paranoia that the RIAA is going to come busting down my door and demand money for my songs. Then I realize...I turned off file sharing, which makes the penalties MUCH, MUCH less. The penalties for DISTRIBUTING music run about 750$ per file. The penalties for downloading music run about 99c/file (You just have to reimburse them for the cost of buying), under Title 17, Chapter 5, S504, b. If bad comes to worst, I'll sort through my selection of 400 some-odd files, count out how many are indie or not coverred by the RIAA, which will be around 300, and then pay them their $1,000 and be on my way, having beaten the music industry. Then I realize once again, they're not coming for me because I don't use FastTrack. [Note, IANAL]
The constitution says you can't sue the government. Shucks, eh?
Have you ever watched Star Wars and been amazed that Human beings could understand what R2D2 is saying?
No.
Could this type of language be used in the future to ease natural language processing pains?"
No.
However, I particularly liked the MP3.
Hey, Servando!
What?
Look, go tell Julio to bring the castanets.
OK.
Hey, Julio!
What?
Lili says you should go get the kids and have them bring the castanets for the party.
OK.OK.OK.
Why is this funny? The MP3 is 57 seconds, that's why. Everybody wants streamlined things, and that includes language.
My board has a backslash.
Typematrix
aoeuhtns > *
Maybe it's hinting that you should be cool and learn dvorak like the rest of us l33t guys.
Futurama?
"Yes, it's a perfect scale model of the universe's largest bottle. I put a tiny spaceship inside to keep it from being boring."
Don't you get off work around 5PM? Stop by McDonalds, grab some food, and open those torrent files you set to download last night.
I'm getting .3k/sec. I think you=slashdotted.
I think it should carry a hefty fine to use that defense. I think a good solution would be a law created that can fine users if their computer is left open to the world. There would be no way to bring someone in on this charge, because the only way to find out that it's open is to hack it, and that's illegal search and seizure. The only way this law would apply would be to people using the "My computer was hijacked" defense, since they're essentially admitting guilt to that charge.
Get the law passed on basis of negligence.
Walmart already has the invisible variety of these.
I copied and pasted the compiler error into google and found the solution. You don't think I tried that over and over and over with Linux?
I'm not a troll, I have legitimate concerns. I didn't just boot up for two hours into a LiveEval, I downloaded and tried SIX DIFFERENT DISTROS on my other box.
.tar.gz precompiled which wouldn't install and I don't even remember the problem with gAIM. I'm pretty sure it was the gcc missing though. I also installed OpenOffice 1.0.1 (Had the CD lying around). It didn't install correctly. Everytime I loaded it up and told it I was registered already, it crashed. Finally, frustrated, I installed Win2k and went back to working on my box. The SuSE story mentioned previously was on my good box, running WinXP.
These included:
Gentoo Linux. I couldn't get it setup because of some errors in install.
Debian Linux. The install didn't detect my video card (It's an Intel810 integrated).
Slackware Linux. It installed fine, but startx wouldn't load XWindows (I'm pretty sure because my card wasn't detected)
SuSE. LiveEval version, worked perfectly except for the aforementioned problems
Mandrake 7.0. I had this lying around. Did not detect my video card.
RedHat 7.2. I also had this lying around. Was the only distro to actually get through the install and work.
So RedHat is installed on my dad's box that I was reformatting to install Win2k on later in the day. Good, right? It didn't detect my networking settings, and DHCP didn't work. I couldn't get online, and needless to say, a computer without the internet is as useful as a toaster.
Next, I installed SuSE. It detected my ethernet and DHCP worked fine. Everything ran like a charm. I tried for the longest time to get either gAIM or aim.com's linux version running. AIM.com offered a
I'm not a computer newbie. I code C. I code java. I code PHP. I code VB. I know how stuff works and why it works. I have Windows memorized like the back of my hand, probably better. Linux should NOT have been a difficult task, but it was. I wanted to use Linux so I could say I knew how, that was my only motivation. I finally realized that it just wasn't worth that.
The author discusses usability issues with Fedora. This is the number one reason I don't use Linux, I just couldn't get the damn thing to ever work right. I started out on SuSE LiveEval, I wanted to use AIM. Linux AIM didn't work right, gAIM wouldn't compile since I didn't have GCC, and GCC Binaries were 144 megs large. I ended up playing nethack for two hours and rebooting back into Windows. I still love the idea behind Linux, but maybe, just maybe they were right in taking RedHat off the desktop market and saying it just ISN'T READY for desktops...
I can't believe I just saw an anti-microsoft comment modded down. Holy jesus.
They are probably ID Verified. Costs a whole five bucks, and you get access to everything.
As luck would have it, my kids would probably get the controls and send it crashing into china, then run screaming "DADDY, WE WON!"
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Almost no one in America would admit to being overpaid, but many of us take home bloated paychecks far beyond what's deserved.
Fair compensation is a relative term, yet human-resource consultants and executive headhunters agree some jobs command excessive compensation that can't be explained by labor supply-and-demand imbalances.
And while it's easy to argue that chief executives, lawyers and movie stars are overpaid, reality is not that cut and dry.
Corporate attorneys earning $500 an hour and plaintiffs lawyers pocketing a third of a class-action or personal-injury settlement certainly don't go hungry. Yet many local prosecutors and public defenders are hard-pressed to pay off law-school loans.
Hollywood stars, making $20 million a movie or $10 million per TV-season, qualify for many people's overpaid list. But for every one of those actors and actresses, there are a thousand waiting tables and taking bit movie parts or regional theater roles awaiting a big break that never comes.
A lot of people are overpaid because there are certain things consumers just don't want screwed up, said Bill Coleman, senior vice president of compensation for Salary.com. You wouldn't want to board a plane flown by a second-rate pilot or hire a cheap wedding photographer to record an event you hope happens once in your lifetime.
With pro athletes, one owner is willing to pay big money for a star player and then all the other players want to keep up with the Joneses, Coleman said. The art with CEO pay is making sure your CEO is above the median -- and you see where that goes.
What follows is a list of the 10 most overpaid jobs in the U.S., in reverse order, drafted with input from compensation experts:
10) Wedding photographers
Photographers typically charge $2,000 to $5,000 to shoot a wedding, for what amounts to a one-day assignment plus processing time. Some get $15,000 or more. Yet many mope through the job, bumping guests in their way without apology, with the attitude: I'm just doing this for the money until Time or National Geographic calls.
They must cover equipment and film-development costs. Still, many in major metropolitan areas who shoot two weddings each weekend in the May-to-October marrying season pull in $100,000 for six months' work.
Yet let's face it; much of their work is mediocre. Have you ever really been wowed flipping the pages of a wedding album handed you by recent newlyweds? Annie Leibovitz and Richard Avedon they're not, but some charge fees as if they're in the same league.
9) Pilots for major airlines
Captains with 12 years of experience earn up to $265 an hour at Delta, United, American and Northwest, which translates to $250,000 a year and more for a job that technology is making almost fully automated.
By comparison, senior pilots at low-fare carriers like Southwest and Jet Blue make about 40 percent less. That helps explain why their employers are profitable while several of the majors are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
The pilot's union is the most powerful in the industry. It commands premium wages as if still in the glory days of long-gone Pan Am and TWA, rather than the cutthroat, deregulated market of under-$200 coast-to-coast roundtrips. Because we entrust our lives to them, consumers accept the excessive sums paid them, when it's airplane mechanics who really hold our fate in their hands.
8) West Coast longshoremen
In early 2002, West Coast ports shut down as the longshoremen's union fought to preserve generous health-care benefits that would make most Americans drool. The union didn't demand much in wage hikes for good reason: Its members already were making a boatload of money.
Next year, West Coast dockworkers will earn an average of $112,000 for handling cargo, according to the Pacific Maritime Association, their employer. Office clerks who log shipping records into comput
This was taken from http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1016490/posts SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Almost no one in America would admit to being overpaid, but many of us take home bloated paychecks far beyond what's deserved. "Fair compensation" is a relative term, yet human-resource consultants and executive headhunters agree some jobs command excessive compensation that can't be explained by labor supply-and-demand imbalances. And while it's easy to argue that chief executives, lawyers and movie stars are overpaid, reality is not that cut and dry. Corporate attorneys earning $500 an hour and plaintiffs lawyers pocketing a third of a class-action or personal-injury settlement certainly don't go hungry. Yet many local prosecutors and public defenders are hard-pressed to pay off law-school loans. Hollywood stars, making $20 million a movie or $10 million per TV-season, qualify for many people's overpaid list. But for every one of those actors and actresses, there are a thousand waiting tables and taking bit movie parts or regional theater roles awaiting a big break that never comes. "A lot of people are overpaid because there are certain things consumers just don't want screwed up," said Bill Coleman, senior vice president of compensation for Salary.com. "You wouldn't want to board a plane flown by a second-rate pilot or hire a cheap wedding photographer to record an event you hope happens once in your lifetime. "With pro athletes, one owner is willing to pay big money for a star player and then all the other players want to keep up with the Joneses," Coleman said. "The art with CEO pay is making sure your CEO is above the median -- and you see where that goes." What follows is a list of the 10 most overpaid jobs in the U.S., in reverse order, drafted with input from compensation experts: 10) Wedding photographers Photographers typically charge $2,000 to $5,000 to shoot a wedding, for what amounts to a one-day assignment plus processing time. Some get $15,000 or more. Yet many mope through the job, bumping guests in their way without apology, with the attitude: "I'm just doing this for the money until Time or National Geographic calls." They must cover equipment and film-development costs. Still, many in major metropolitan areas who shoot two weddings each weekend in the May-to-October marrying season pull in $100,000 for six months' work. Yet let's face it; much of their work is mediocre. Have you ever really been wowed flipping the pages of a wedding album handed you by recent newlyweds? Annie Leibovitz and Richard Avedon they're not, but some charge fees as if they're in the same league. 9) Pilots for major airlines Captains with 12 years of experience earn up to $265 an hour at Delta, United, American and Northwest, which translates to $250,000 a year and more for a job that technology is making almost fully automated. By comparison, senior pilots at low-fare carriers like Southwest and Jet Blue make about 40 percent less. That helps explain why their employers are profitable while several of the majors are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. The pilot's union is the most powerful in the industry. It commands premium wages as if still in the glory days of long-gone Pan Am and TWA, rather than the cutthroat, deregulated market of under-$200 coast-to-coast roundtrips. Because we entrust our lives to them, consumers accept the excessive sums paid them, when it's airplane mechanics who really hold our fate in their hands. 8) West Coast longshoremen In early 2002, West Coast ports shut down as the longshoremen's union fought to preserve generous health-care benefits that would make most Americans drool. The union didn't demand much in wage hikes for good reason: Its members already were making a boatload of money. Next year, West Coast dockworkers will earn an average of $112,000 for handling cargo, according to the Pacific Maritime Association, their employer. Office clerks who log shipping records into computers will earn $136,000. And unionized foremen who oversee the rank-and-file will pull dow
I like microwaves! They give me a nice warm feeling during the dead of winter.
For the less brilliant (or military, as you would have it) people out here, what would the water frequency do?
There would be ways around this. I would code and start using IP-to-IP pagers so that it doesn't go through a major entity except as a single packet.
Dot dies? Does Megabyte finally win, then?