Walking into a bank and pretending to be someone else does not scale very well, you can only walk into so many banks each day.
But online scams like pishing makes it posible to scam hundreds even thousands bank customers in just a few days. Now, which problem do you think the bank is most worried about?
Also most banks today have surveillance cameras recording everything, so it is somewhat easier to track you down afterwards compared to only having an IP address to go on.
Yeah, punish them for their fathers sins. Dirty bastards, should teach them!
I agree with you that parents that willingly and knowingly takes this kind of risk are irresponsible to say the least. However the actual children that gets born with this genetic defect can hardly be blamed, non the less you seem to be suggesting that society should punish them for their parents wrong doings.
This condition usually gets very expensive, unless the parents are filthy rich it is not likely they could aford to pay for proper care if one of their children gets the disease.
>The whole point of patents is to keep the big companies from steamrolling the little guy who comes up with a great idea.
Not entirely true.
The whole point of patents where to stimulate innovation and development of new technologies by giving protection to inventors in the form of a time limited monopoly to the implementation of an idea.
Protection of the little guy against large companies where never the goal.
Cases like this arguable demonstrates that the patent system is somewhat flawed and often stimulates lawyers and costly "IP-property" litigation instead of creativity.
>Ever heard about Softman versus Adobe? (assuming you live in the US)
hmm, seems I was a bit quick there. I have read up some on your first sale doctrine and it seems the US court system is a bit confused on the issue of if it is valid for software sales or not. In fact there have been rulings both for and against first sale doctrine as related to software sales and this has yet to be resolved by a superior court.
That is correct, there was a difference, the dell oem version asked for my product key when used on the HP/Compaq laptop, had to type it in manually and also activate windows xp. I have reinstalled a few dell pc's at work (same oem version) and they did not ask for the key.
>So I suppose you could theoriticly sell your OEM diesk to someone who has another >manufacturer's computer, and certianly someone who has the same, but they are jsut buying >media. If it installs, it's because the system already has a license on it.
Ever heard about Softman versus Adobe? (assuming you live in the US)
Anyway, that kind of restrictions are not legal where I live (Norway).
Oh? Is downloading by torrent actually a service provided by HBO? I dont think you can steal a service that does not exist:-)
This is not about theft but Copyright Infringement, notice that even Media Sentry/HBO recognizes this fact by titling their letter Notice of Claimed Infringement.
Theft of service would be if you tapped the cable/cracked the encryption without paying HBO their subscription fee.
Correct, that would be "Criminal conversion", which is related to theft but not quite the same. (No removal of property involved). It is perhaps trespassing as well.
>I am probably not the only one to come back to an old file saved years ago only to find a >glitch in it. I noticed it with a couple of movies. Movies I know were perfect as I watched >them without copying them. So the only explanation is that part of the disk got corrupted.
Make sure you test them with an equally old version of the video codec and/or player. I have seen this happen with old divx and xvid coded movies, playing with old codec fixed the problem.
>They used to take D&B numbers as proof of identity, or in lieu of that, notorized copies of incorporation documents on letterhead, but I don't think they even bother checking anymore. At least, they didn't when I bought an SSL cert in December.
We bought a code signing certificate from Thawte last week, they still did the check.
>And if a cop is writing you a ticket and some lady dials 911 because her ex-husband is busting down her door, who's gonna be there to respond for her? > >http://smith-wesson.com/ [snip, lots of gun sites] > >What makes you think a woman can't respond for herself?
Did you know that a gun purchased to protect the household is THIRTY-SEVEN (37) times more likely to be used against someone in the household than against an intruder.
>The key here is that if somebody writes a third-party player with a compatible API, Microsoft should not throw any legal or techinical hurdles in front of anybody (OEM or consumer) who wants to remove WMP and install the replacement.
And if anyone did this then it would have worked, but no one has written such a beast yet.
I suppose that mean I could title myself "Professional Open Source developer", since I have several times been paid to both write new and modify existing GPL licensed code.
That may be the way they rate your credit in the US, but it is not in the rest of the world.
In fact in most european countries the scheme you are describing would be illegal because of more stringent rules on how private companies are allowed to handle sensitive customer and credit information.
>The problem is that Open Source Software has been manipulated into the anti-property rights corner. If you have no rights to any of the code you write, then there is no way you can sell it and you go bankrupt.
This is complete and utter Bullshit! How come this ignorant troll got moderated insightful?
What exactly do you mean by "property rights"? I suppose your thinking of the corporate buzzword "intellectual property rights" or just IP for short.
There is actually no such thing as intellectual property. IANAL but as far as I know the law (US, European and most other countries) recognizes only copyright, patents and trademarks. These are three *very* different beasts and putting them all in one sack labeled property rights is missinformation to say the least.
When it comes to OSS it is not a person or an organisation so you cannot say that OSS supports this or that.
However I suppose one could argue that it seems like most people in the OSS community is pro copyright and against software patents.
After all the GPL license would be worthless if copyright was invalidated.
Also it seems that you are very confused about what open source really means. There is nothing in the GPL or any other commonly used OSS license that prevents you from selling your software, OSS is about free as in "free speach" not as in "free beers".
-- Please forgive any bad english on my part it is after all not my native language.
>Remmeber, black holes are all about density, not mass. For any given density, there is a size at which a black hole would be seen to an outsider
I seem to remember from my physics class that in fact the only thing that mattered after the creation off a black hole was its mass, electric charge and rotation. All other properties like density, and shape got lost or meaningless afterwards.
Of course in the time *before* the singularity is created the density would be very important, since it would be needed to create a strong enough gravity field for an event horizon to be created. Once you have the event horizon it is difficult (at least with todays understanding of math and physics) to have a meaningful discussion about how "dense" the matter inside it is.
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Walking into a bank and pretending to be someone else does not scale very well, you can only walk into so many banks each day.
But online scams like pishing makes it posible to scam hundreds even thousands bank customers in just a few days. Now, which problem do you think the bank is most worried about?
Also most banks today have surveillance cameras recording everything, so it is somewhat easier to track you down afterwards compared to only having an IP address to go on.
>You seem to just be saying this problem is intractable.
And the worst thing is that he is propably correct. People in general are incredibly gullible.
>I think the taxpayers have the right, morally, to say no.
Well, then I guess we just have to agree that we disagree...
Yeah, punish them for their fathers sins. Dirty bastards, should teach them!
I agree with you that parents that willingly and knowingly takes this kind of risk are irresponsible to say the least. However the actual children that gets born with this genetic defect can hardly be blamed, non the less you seem to be suggesting that society should punish them for their parents wrong doings.
This condition usually gets very expensive, unless the parents are filthy rich it is not likely they could aford to pay for proper care if one of their children gets the disease.
>The whole point of patents is to keep the big companies from steamrolling the little guy who comes up with a great idea.
Not entirely true.
The whole point of patents where to stimulate innovation and development of new technologies by giving protection to inventors in the form of a time limited monopoly to the implementation of an idea.
Protection of the little guy against large companies where never the goal.
Cases like this arguable demonstrates that the patent system is somewhat flawed and often stimulates lawyers and costly "IP-property" litigation instead of creativity.
>Ever heard about Softman versus Adobe? (assuming you live in the US)
hmm, seems I was a bit quick there. I have read up some on your first sale doctrine and it seems the US court system is a bit confused on the issue of if it is valid for software sales or not. In fact there have been rulings both for and against first sale doctrine as related to software sales and this has yet to be resolved by a superior court.
That is correct, there was a difference, the dell oem version asked for my product key when used on the HP/Compaq laptop, had to type it in manually and also activate windows xp. I have reinstalled a few dell pc's at work (same oem version) and they did not ask for the key.
>So I suppose you could theoriticly sell your OEM diesk to someone who has another
>manufacturer's computer, and certianly someone who has the same, but they are jsut buying
>media. If it installs, it's because the system already has a license on it.
Ever heard about Softman versus Adobe? (assuming you live in the US)
Anyway, that kind of restrictions are not legal where I live (Norway).
>Your OEM copy of Windows will not work on a non-Dell box.
When did this happen? I have successfully installed a Windows XP ENG SP1 OEM from Dell on a HP/Compaq laptop without any troble.
Oh? Is downloading by torrent actually a service provided by HBO? I dont think you can steal a service that does not exist :-)
This is not about theft but Copyright Infringement, notice that even Media Sentry/HBO recognizes this fact by titling their letter Notice of Claimed Infringement.
Theft of service would be if you tapped the cable/cracked the encryption without paying HBO their subscription fee.
Correct, that would be "Criminal conversion", which is related to theft but not quite the same. (No removal of property involved). It is perhaps trespassing as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_conversion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trespass
>I am probably not the only one to come back to an old file saved years ago only to find a
>glitch in it. I noticed it with a couple of movies. Movies I know were perfect as I watched
>them without copying them. So the only explanation is that part of the disk got corrupted.
Make sure you test them with an equally old version of the video codec and/or player. I have seen this happen with old divx and xvid coded movies, playing with old codec fixed the problem.
>They used to take D&B numbers as proof of identity, or in lieu of that, notorized copies of incorporation documents on letterhead, but I don't think they even bother checking anymore. At least, they didn't when I bought an SSL cert in December.
We bought a code signing certificate from Thawte last week, they still did the check.
>And if a cop is writing you a ticket and some lady dials 911 because her ex-husband is busting down her door, who's gonna be there to respond for her?
>
>http://smith-wesson.com/
[snip, lots of gun sites]
>
>What makes you think a woman can't respond for herself?
Did you know that a gun purchased to protect the household is THIRTY-SEVEN (37) times more likely to be used against someone in the household than against an intruder.
Nice summary
>The key here is that if somebody writes a third-party player with a compatible API, Microsoft should not throw any legal or techinical hurdles in front of anybody (OEM or consumer) who wants to remove WMP and install the replacement.
And if anyone did this then it would have worked, but no one has written such a beast yet.
Nice :-)
I suppose that mean I could title myself "Professional Open Source developer", since I have several times been paid to both write new and modify existing GPL licensed code.
That may be the way they rate your credit in the US, but it is not in the rest of the world.
In fact in most european countries the scheme you are describing would be illegal because of more stringent rules on how private companies are allowed to handle sensitive customer and credit information.
Anything that speaks PS or PCL should work fine even with stone age windows versions like 95, 98 etc.
This means all their (lexmark) business line (optra) models at least.
>The problem is that Open Source Software has been manipulated into the anti-property rights corner. If you have no rights to any of the code you write, then there is no way you can sell it and you go bankrupt.
This is complete and utter Bullshit! How come this ignorant troll got moderated insightful?
What exactly do you mean by "property rights"? I suppose your thinking of the corporate buzzword "intellectual property rights" or just IP for short.
There is actually no such thing as intellectual property. IANAL but as far as I know the law (US, European and most other countries) recognizes only copyright, patents and trademarks. These are three *very* different beasts and putting them all in one sack labeled property rights is missinformation to say the least.
When it comes to OSS it is not a person or an organisation so you cannot say that OSS supports this or that.
However I suppose one could argue that it seems like most people in the OSS community is pro copyright and against software patents.
After all the GPL license would be worthless if copyright was invalidated.
Also it seems that you are very confused about what open source really means. There is nothing in the GPL or any other commonly used OSS license that prevents you from selling your software, OSS is about free as in "free speach" not as in "free beers".
--
Please forgive any bad english on my part it is after all not my native language.
>So how come all I can remember is the name? I can't seem to recall the OS at all.
Probably because it was renamed to Windows NT 4.0 before released.
That person would not have to modify it, the GPL would allow redistribution anyway.
Please show me where he even hinted at that?
It is generally a good idea to read the posts before you answer.
But it would still not be a plagiate no matter what the university says in their rules.
Then they should grade him down for lousy quoting/reference skills, not plagiarism (sp?) since you cannot by definition plagiate yourself.
>Remmeber, black holes are all about density, not mass. For any given density, there is a size at which a black hole would be seen to an outsider
I seem to remember from my physics class that in fact the only thing that mattered after the creation off a black hole was its mass, electric charge and rotation. All other properties like density, and shape got lost or meaningless afterwards.
Of course in the time *before* the singularity is created the density would be very important, since it would be needed to create a strong enough gravity field for an event horizon to be created. Once you have the event horizon it is difficult (at least with todays understanding of math and physics) to have a meaningful discussion about how "dense" the matter inside it is.