I'm thinking Orrin's just trying to justify the US invading Canada & annexing it. Too bad, it was a nice place to visit once upon a time in the 70's...
For example, in the US software cannot be patented (although they could be copyrighted),
Somebody ought to call up IBM and Microsoft and warn them their lawyers are screwing up, since software algorithms ARE quite patentable here in the US.
I disagree. The RIAA would drop this case ages ago if it was about money. it is not. It is clearly about sending signals out there to people that this is breaking the law, you can get caught and you will get fined.
It's not theft, it's copyright infringement. If I infringe on a copyright by downloading a movie, the studio still has their movie and they still make money on it through their sales. Show me something tangible that I 'took' from them. How is it different than turning on the VCR during the movie when it plays on HBO? Do the studios really believe I need to pay every damned time I watch the movie, listen to a song, turn on the TV? And if so, WHY?
This is Slashdot. Anything is more exciting than sports.
Except Redwings Hockey isn't a sport, it's a religon. And they'll bring home the Cup on Friday night.
But I like the idea of RIAA getting a dose of its own medicine. This day has been a long time coming, just like that other case we've been watching from the peanut gallery. Almost makes you wish you could sell tickets & popcorn at it. It's gonna be a helluva show...
I am curious about the investment Disney and others are prepared to make in games like Pirates of Caribbean.
Free to play.
Period.
And probably every penny of running the game is written off as an advertising expense. Since the 'cost of doing business' comes right off the top, it's not taxed. Add to this some Hollywood accounting and you have the potential to create a profit center from something that looks like a loss from the outside, if you don't look close...
My 5 year old homebuilt machine still runs Linux like it did when I first built it. Although, I will admit to upgrading from Fedora to Ubuntu when Dapper was released. Current version of Ubuntu? Jaunty, of course.
These would be the Independence Day aliens. Not everyone can place a virus into the mother ship, but there's a reason that the Independence Day aliens chose earth and not Mars.
Yeah, it's called a plot hook. If the aliens took over Mars & the asteroid belt, it would have been a completely different (and most likely, boring as hell) movie.
mind you if a Ferengi minded species would show up, it would be interesting how certain human-looking entities on earth would be working out in relations to these new business partners
They'd get along well with the RIAA, I'm sure.
Except the *AA really don't have the lobes for business. If they did, they'd figure out how to make filesharing pay.
We couldn't kill all humans with a biological weapon with our current level of technology. Maybe 90%, maybe 99% because society breaks down, but there would be survivors.
I'm thinking David Gerrold made the case that if you kill off enough people, you can pretty much kill off the rest by 'natural causes'. Think about it a bit. Kill off most of the medical profession in the plagues. Now there's nobody to set bones, take out a bad apendix, and so forth. Kill off the people who tend the machines. High tech civilisation falls apart, there's nobody to repair things. About the only survivors are going to be semi-Stone Age people with the skills to survive without high tech civilisation. The 'survivalists'? Dead as soon as they run out of ammo in their compounds, and their electricity fails.
So I downloaded a couple of episodes to see if it was any good. I actually enjoyed them and I ended up buying the entire Joss Whedon collection, including the Angel series and Firefly. At $50 a season, for the seven seasons of Buffy, Five of Angel, and one of Firefly you are looking at $650, not including a few collectibles and various promo stuff from the shows that my late sister bought me. All told probably close to $1000 was spent on a show that I never would have bought if it wasn't for P2P, because after seeing the movie I honestly didn't see how they could make it not suck.
But hairy, Buffy was hunting vampires. By definition, vampires suck.
My guess is that 99% of the stuff "illegally" downloaded would never actually be bought if it wasn't there to download.
I was gonna say you can't buy Coronation Street, but they list it on Amazon.com for 50 cents an episode. I doubt they have all the episodes from '61 when it started, since The Beeb used to recycle tapes (which is why you just can't find early Dr Who episodes that easily), but you can still watch it if you're that strung out on it...
1.7 million people downloading Coronation Street? Why bother? I'm not much for Brit soaps. I downloaded a couple once to get my ratio up on The Box, but nobody hooked into me when I seeded them.
How is the Firefox team liable for something a 3rd party developer puts in their plugin? Isn't it up to the 3rd party developer to make the damned thing compatible?
If a 3rd party created a Firefox plugin that you can't turn off in Firefox, there sure as hell would be a bug or even a severe flaw in the design of the security sytem in Firefox. How can you claim anything else?
OK, the API is documented. If a developer decides to not follow the API, then Firefox is at fault? How so? Did the Mozilla Development Team stick a gun in his face and tell him "Hey, don't follow the API!' or something? I'm sorry, it's sounding like if I go get hammered at the bar then try to drive home while at 5-8 times the allowable blood alcohol level, it's not my fault, it's the fault of General Motors for building the Cavalier I drive.
How is the Firefox team liable for something a 3rd party developer puts in their plugin? Isn't it up to the 3rd party developer to make the damned thing compatible?
In the case of Flash, I can certainly see pushing a stake through its heart. But Silverlight is just more of the same..Net? Microsoft's Java replacement. Somebody wanna explain to me why all the sites I might wanna build need Java, Silverlight, Flash, or.Net? And why I can't use Apache and must now use the Microsoft mandated webserver?
Suck it..NET has to be allowed by the user to install *anything* on your computer, jackass.
If you mean, allowed when you set Updates to automatic, then yes, you 'allow' it to be installed when you fail to click that button (updates are allowed by default and have to be specifically turned off to disable it) to shut it off. How else are you to keep up with bug and security fixes in your Windows OS?
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I'm thinking Orrin's just trying to justify the US invading Canada & annexing it. Too bad, it was a nice place to visit once upon a time in the 70's...
Orrin Hatch is about as 'modern' a Republican as Abraham Lincoln. IIRC, Orrin used to crib off Abe's homework.
Dinosaur? Absolutely.
Somebody ought to call up IBM and Microsoft and warn them their lawyers are screwing up, since software algorithms ARE quite patentable here in the US.
It's not theft, it's copyright infringement. If I infringe on a copyright by downloading a movie, the studio still has their movie and they still make money on it through their sales. Show me something tangible that I 'took' from them. How is it different than turning on the VCR during the movie when it plays on HBO? Do the studios really believe I need to pay every damned time I watch the movie, listen to a song, turn on the TV? And if so, WHY?
They're already on /., how much more do they need to do before hanging the 'Mission Acomplished' sign?
Heretic!!!!!!
Hint: It has nothing to do with Sonny & Cher...
Except Redwings Hockey isn't a sport, it's a religon. And they'll bring home the Cup on Friday night.
But I like the idea of RIAA getting a dose of its own medicine. This day has been a long time coming, just like that other case we've been watching from the peanut gallery. Almost makes you wish you could sell tickets & popcorn at it. It's gonna be a helluva show...
And probably every penny of running the game is written off as an advertising expense. Since the 'cost of doing business' comes right off the top, it's not taxed. Add to this some Hollywood accounting and you have the potential to create a profit center from something that looks like a loss from the outside, if you don't look close...
So THAT'S why they say 'and sheep are nervous'...
No, that's on the SATs. IQ tests are different.
My 5 year old homebuilt machine still runs Linux like it did when I first built it. Although, I will admit to upgrading from Fedora to Ubuntu when Dapper was released. Current version of Ubuntu? Jaunty, of course.
Yeah, it's called a plot hook. If the aliens took over Mars & the asteroid belt, it would have been a completely different (and most likely, boring as hell) movie.
Except the *AA really don't have the lobes for business. If they did, they'd figure out how to make filesharing pay.
I'm thinking David Gerrold made the case that if you kill off enough people, you can pretty much kill off the rest by 'natural causes'. Think about it a bit. Kill off most of the medical profession in the plagues. Now there's nobody to set bones, take out a bad apendix, and so forth. Kill off the people who tend the machines. High tech civilisation falls apart, there's nobody to repair things. About the only survivors are going to be semi-Stone Age people with the skills to survive without high tech civilisation. The 'survivalists'? Dead as soon as they run out of ammo in their compounds, and their electricity fails.
That's gotta be damned near the funniest comment by an AC that I've heard all hour!
But hairy, Buffy was hunting vampires. By definition, vampires suck.
I was gonna say you can't buy Coronation Street, but they list it on Amazon.com for 50 cents an episode. I doubt they have all the episodes from '61 when it started, since The Beeb used to recycle tapes (which is why you just can't find early Dr Who episodes that easily), but you can still watch it if you're that strung out on it...
1.7 million people downloading Coronation Street? Why bother? I'm not much for Brit soaps. I downloaded a couple once to get my ratio up on The Box, but nobody hooked into me when I seeded them.
OK, the API is documented. If a developer decides to not follow the API, then Firefox is at fault? How so? Did the Mozilla Development Team stick a gun in his face and tell him "Hey, don't follow the API!' or something? I'm sorry, it's sounding like if I go get hammered at the bar then try to drive home while at 5-8 times the allowable blood alcohol level, it's not my fault, it's the fault of General Motors for building the Cavalier I drive.
How is the Firefox team liable for something a 3rd party developer puts in their plugin? Isn't it up to the 3rd party developer to make the damned thing compatible?
+1 Flamebait? Oy, the fanbois are out in force today...
In the case of Flash, I can certainly see pushing a stake through its heart. But Silverlight is just more of the same. .Net? Microsoft's Java replacement. Somebody wanna explain to me why all the sites I might wanna build need Java, Silverlight, Flash, or .Net? And why I can't use Apache and must now use the Microsoft mandated webserver?
If you mean, allowed when you set Updates to automatic, then yes, you 'allow' it to be installed when you fail to click that button (updates are allowed by default and have to be specifically turned off to disable it) to shut it off. How else are you to keep up with bug and security fixes in your Windows OS?
No, if it's impossible to disable, the author of the plugin got some 'splainin to do...