But the poster of such information could be held liable as aiding and abetting to a crime. If DVD's start being pirated, couldn't MPAA start suing all the distributors of DeCSS?
I guess the various Gun manufactures must be in a lot of trouble then. And car manufactures.
The various gun manufacturers are in trouble. Several states attorneys-general are suing them for making their products in such a way as to encourage violence (the was Saturday night specials are marketed to urban communities is the commonly cited example). Here is a fairly old article about that. I'm not sure if it's been settled.
There's also the Paladin Press case, where the publisher of the book "Hit Man" was successfully sued when a reader followed the instructions contained within in committing a murder. This article has a fairly biased summary of the case.
The point is the First Amendment does not absolve you of responsibility for the consequences of your speech, and some could interpret DeCSS as an invitation to violate copyright law.
The NYTimes article should be availabe at this link. But it's the result of a search, so there might be weird session issues. (Free registration required, as always.)
They reported this on Saturday as an idea that would not go forward. But the company they hired to do it specializes in this kind of marketing.
I used to work at an Office Depot that was about a block away from an Office Max. There wasn't anything secret about our secret shoppers. The Office Max people would wave at us when we wrote down their prices and we would say "hi" when they came to our place.
It turns out these kind of arrangements actually contribute to price fixing, i.e., they constitute a form of collusion. Because if you (as a retailer) know your competition is constantly aware of your pricing and quick to match it, there is no competetive advantage in offering your customers discounts. Think about it: in a normal market, decreased prices lead to decreased profits, but increased volume; if your competitor matches the discount, volume remains flat while total profits decline. So both stores maintain artificially high prices (in theory).
My company does ASP business, so we wanted to be able to support both multiple languages and multiple brands (skins, essentially) on top of the same site code. Our solution is JSPs with method calls conditionally including all brand- and language-specific content.
This makes the site wonderfully customizable, but the result is lots of little HTML fragments in lots of scattered subdirectories. I.e., it is a nightmare for the non-technical who generate content. And maintaining it as the site changes is nigh impossible.
XML-based solutions (like Cocoon) are elegant, but they require skills that nobody has yet (XSL, etc.). Does anybody have a solution that gracefully degrades for non-technical minds?
>After initially failing the signup process I just tried yesterday to re-apply for the Redhat IPO >stock - this time describing my net worth and trading experience... er... more accuratly.
>No problemo, it let me right in and I signed up for 200 shares.
Where are you filling out this form. The only one I can find is explicitly labeled as a sample, just below "Note: E*TRADE expects to begin accepting indications of interest in this offering in early to mid August, 1999."
If the invitation from Red Hat was so "special" and they really did allot a certain number of shares for "the community," why do offer recipients have to go through the "expression of interest" process? It seemed like Red Hat was extending a kind of "friends and family" offer, but instead I guess they were saying "Hey, if you want you can get in on the IPO at the same level as everybody else in the world."
I did not receive the letter, but the announcement of the IPO induced me to open an E*Trade account and I'm in pretty much the same boat as all those other guys. So what was the big deal Red Hat was offering?
Everybody keeps complaining about the moderation, but it's not as if the moderators are killing posts -- they just score them. I almost never look at or notice the scores. If you don't sort by them, they are practically meaningless. Who needs to loosen their panties?
>I've said it before and I'll say it again: Say >anything about the GPL or Linux other than "GPL >r00lz" or "Linux is k-RAD" and you are labeled a >troll and moderated down. Slashdot >moderators make me sick.
Trashing the GPL or Linux on a forum like this is the definition of a troll. There's a big difference between saying "GPL is not my preferred license" and "GPL is worthless."
I thought the first part of this article was interesting. It *is* ridiculous when a parent can't make a decision about what his or her child is allowed to see. But I don't see where sneaking other people's kids into R-rated movies is a righteous act.
I think what we need is a slightly different system. Movies like South Park and American Pie are vulgar but not truly adult. They would be better served by something like a 14 or 15 rating (no children or preteens allowed), whereas films like Eyes Wide Shut are very much adult and should be restricted to those over 18. And any parent should be able to take their child to any movie they see fit (of course, it gets tricky when you start taking 10-year-olds to see anything in the EWS -> porn spectrum).
Kook9 out.
Re:Improvement over Netscape, but barely
on
Mozilla M8 Released
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· Score: 1
1) I've always been frustrated that I could not download Navigator + mail/news (which I use) without Composer (does anybody use that?), Calender, the push client (RIP) and AIM. At the very least they should allow you to select which components you want at install-time. But I guess that didn't fit in with the whole Communicator strategy...
2) In my experience, the back button takes you back to the original link in Nav4.x, but it often fails on certain websites (Slashdot being a notable one).
3) When is Mozilla going to acquire an interface that doesn't feel clunky? I hope Netscape is coming up with a sleek skin, because write now it looks and feels horrible.
Slashdot Mirror
But the poster of such information could be held liable as aiding and abetting to a crime. If DVD's start being pirated, couldn't MPAA start suing all the distributors of DeCSS?
I guess the various Gun manufactures must be in a lot of trouble then. And car manufactures.
The various gun manufacturers are in trouble. Several states attorneys-general are suing them for making their products in such a way as to encourage violence (the was Saturday night specials are marketed to urban communities is the commonly cited example). Here is a fairly old article about that. I'm not sure if it's been settled.
There's also the Paladin Press case, where the publisher of the book "Hit Man" was successfully sued when a reader followed the instructions contained within in committing a murder. This article has a fairly biased summary of the case.
The point is the First Amendment does not absolve you of responsibility for the consequences of your speech, and some could interpret DeCSS as an invitation to violate copyright law.
Kook9 out.
The NYTimes article should be availabe at this link. But it's the result of a search, so there might be weird session issues. (Free registration required, as always.)
They reported this on Saturday as an idea that would not go forward. But the company they hired to do it specializes in this kind of marketing.
Kook9 out.
If it's not Adam West or David Schwimmer, I just give up. (OK, I'd accept Garry Shandling.)
Kook9 out.
It turns out these kind of arrangements actually contribute to price fixing, i.e., they constitute a form of collusion. Because if you (as a retailer) know your competition is constantly aware of your pricing and quick to match it, there is no competetive advantage in offering your customers discounts. Think about it: in a normal market, decreased prices lead to decreased profits, but increased volume; if your competitor matches the discount, volume remains flat while total profits decline. So both stores maintain artificially high prices (in theory).
Kook9 out.
Wired Magazine did a piece on this several years ago: click here
My company does ASP business, so we wanted to be able to support both multiple languages and multiple brands (skins, essentially) on top of the same site code. Our solution is JSPs with method calls conditionally including all brand- and language-specific content.
This makes the site wonderfully customizable, but the result is lots of little HTML fragments in lots of scattered subdirectories. I.e., it is a nightmare for the non-technical who generate content. And maintaining it as the site changes is nigh impossible.
XML-based solutions (like Cocoon) are elegant, but they require skills that nobody has yet (XSL, etc.). Does anybody have a solution that gracefully degrades for non-technical minds?
>After initially failing the signup process I just tried yesterday to re-apply for the Redhat IPO
>stock - this time describing my net worth and trading experience... er... more accuratly.
>No problemo, it let me right in and I signed up for 200 shares.
Where are you filling out this form. The only one I can find is explicitly labeled as a sample, just below "Note: E*TRADE expects to begin accepting indications of interest in this offering in early to mid August, 1999."
Chris
If the invitation from Red Hat was so "special" and they really did allot a certain number of shares for "the community," why do offer recipients have to go through the "expression of interest" process? It seemed like Red Hat was extending a kind of "friends and family" offer, but instead I guess they were saying "Hey, if you want you can get in on the IPO at the same level as everybody else in the world."
I did not receive the letter, but the announcement of the IPO induced me to open an E*Trade account and I'm in pretty much the same boat as all those other guys. So what was the big deal Red Hat was offering?
Kook9 out.
Everybody keeps complaining about the moderation, but it's not as if the moderators are killing posts -- they just score them. I almost never look at or notice the scores. If you don't sort by them, they are practically meaningless. Who needs to loosen their panties?
Kook9 out.
>I've said it before and I'll say it again: Say
>anything about the GPL or Linux other than "GPL
>r00lz" or "Linux is k-RAD" and you are labeled a
>troll and moderated down. Slashdot
>moderators make me sick.
Trashing the GPL or Linux on a forum like this is the definition of a troll. There's a big difference between saying "GPL is not my preferred license" and "GPL is worthless."
Kook9 out.
I thought the first part of this article was interesting. It *is* ridiculous when a parent can't make a decision about what his or her child is allowed to see. But I don't see where sneaking
other people's kids into R-rated movies is a righteous act.
I think what we need is a slightly different system. Movies like South Park and American Pie are vulgar but not truly adult. They would be better served by something like a 14 or 15 rating (no children or preteens allowed), whereas films like Eyes Wide Shut are very much adult and should be restricted to those over 18. And any parent should be able to take their child to any movie they see fit (of course, it gets tricky when you start taking 10-year-olds to see anything in the EWS -> porn spectrum).
Kook9 out.
1) I've always been frustrated that I could not download Navigator + mail/news (which I use) without Composer (does anybody use that?), Calender, the push client (RIP) and AIM. At the very least they should allow you to select which components you want at install-time. But I guess that didn't fit in with the whole Communicator strategy...
2) In my experience, the back button takes you back to the original link in Nav4.x, but it often fails on certain websites (Slashdot being a notable one).
3) When is Mozilla going to acquire an interface that doesn't feel clunky? I hope Netscape is coming up with a sleek skin, because write now it looks and feels horrible.
KookOut.