No, that's about right. Remember when Jimmy Carter was president, and we started converting the highway speed and distance signs over to metric, but had Miles too? Sort of a transition/educational period for drivers to get used to metric. Well, Ronnie Raygun came in and put a stop to THAT. Spent millions rippin' those 'bilingual' signs out of the ground and replacin' 'em with good old 'Merican miles signs.
Oh, you mean this law was written just for Amazon, and doesn't apply to every other business selling on the internet? My little indie t-shirt and jewelry making friends in oth states will be glad to hear that we're writing one-business-only laws now.
"The local mom & pop" have to deal with ONE tax rate. California has 1700 separate tax jurisdictions.
And for all the other businesses out there, it's not even collecting the taxes that's the hard part, it's FILING, quarterly, in every state where you make a sale. The paperwork nightmares for small businesses would, I think, be enough to shut a lot of them down.
Did you warn them about 9/11, Katrina, The Sumatra, China, Pakistan, Haiti & Japan earthquakes, and all the other disasters they could prepare for? YOU DIDN'T?!? WHY NOT!!!
Apple doesn't have to allow apps showing photos of kittens if it chooses to ban those. It's a privately owned business. Yes, Apple has a leg to stand on.
So let's block it because they *might* benefit financially. There's no benefit to the public in having all those wonderful but not-worth-reprinting books from the 60's, 70's, 80's digitized and made available for very cheap if not free.
I'd LOVE to get my hands on a copy of T.J. Bass ("The Godwhale") or some of Thomas Burnett Swann's mythology stories, or the REST of Leonard Wibberley's "Mouse" books for my reader.
But no, it's much better that they just disappear from memory, from anyone even knowing they exist, isn't it?
The problem isn't the cross-pollination, it's the patents on the seeds themselves. Once a farmer plants Monsanto seeds, they are forever giving up the right to seed-harvest their own crops and have to buy new seeds from Monsanto every year. http://goo.gl/C5RwG
"Monsanto controls roughly 90 percent of GE soy, cotton and canola seed markets and has a large piece of the corn seed market. "
UPDATE 3/31/11: Samsung has issued a statement saying that the finding is false. The statement says the software used to detect the keylogger, VIPRE, can be fooled by Microsoft's Live Application multi-language support folder. This has been confirmed at F-Secure and two other publications, here and here. Still no explanation for why Samsung originally confirmed the keylogger's existence to Hassan, as seen below.
UPDATE 3/31/11: GFI Labs, the maker of VIPRE, has issued an explanation and apology for generating the false positives that led to these articles: "We apologize to the author Mohamed Hassan, to Samsung, as well as any users who may have been affected by this false positive."
Tell that to Timothy Vernon. He was selling the retail packages of Autocad, second-hand, in violation of Autodesk's "license"
"A software company has won the right to stop a man from re-selling second hand copies of software because the programs are licensed to users and not owned by them.
A US appeal court ruled in favour of software company Autodesk follows a long running dispute with Timothy Vernon who sells products on Ebay. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said software producers who clearly impose restrictions on buyers and make it clear that buyers are only licensing material rather than owning it outright do have the right to restrict second hand sales of the material."
Amazon is calling theirs the Amazon "appstore". One word. Lower case. Apple's is the Apple "App Store". Two words. Capitalized. How can there be any confusion?
I do that quite a bit... I'm quite happy to kick in for a book I liked, fiction or non-fiction. I don't WANT the dead-tree copy, and there are quite a few authors who are doing 'donate' or 'pay what you want' for their work.
What I won't do is pay a stupid (to me) price for a book I can read on one device, for as long as the publisher deigns to allow me to read it on that one device.
I won't pay hardback prices for a limited license to read a book.
Using Firefox 3.6.15, I google "how do i convert perl to python" (no quotes) and click on the experts-exchange link, and I see the "This question has been solved./..30 day free trial..." box, and when I scroll down, no answers anywhere.
With the Greasemonkey script, I see what you're talking about...
yah, I saw where the administration aide said that too, and it didn't make any sense then either. "The Department of Administration blocks all new websites shortly after they are created, until they go through a software approval program that unblocks them." I call total BS on that one. The admins must be kept REALLY busy if they're manually whitelisting every new site that comes up in a Google search. Do you have any idea how many "new sites" are created every day?
As I read it it was music they had gotten from the artists, (not the studio) and therefore iffy legally, but nothing imported, hence, nothing involving customs. No bling, nothing foreign at all.
OK, I'll try again. What does an American hip-hop site, having music tracks provided by the American bands, whose domain was seized by ICE for copyright infringement, have to do with Customs? Isn't Customs related to bringing goods INTO the US? http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/30/eff-on-us-domain-cop.html
You're headline is true. Your statement is incorrect.
That's what Sony DID do. Take a look at the screenshots from the Sony app status page. http://ebookstore.sony.com/rme/ The Reader store screenshot looks an awful lot like mobile Safari..
“We have not changed our developer terms or guidelines,” Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller told Ars Technica. “We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app with in-app purchase.” http://bit.ly/i133FF
I'd be kinda curious as to how that fits in with Apple's censorship inclinations... Wouldn't this mean that the entire Amazon catalog would have to submit to Apple's morality filter? Not to mention filtering out any books that promote Android.
Or to put it another way, "Now that we've sold however many iPads to Kindle users with the understanding that they can use the Amazon book store and the Kindle app, well, we changed our minds."
Versatility is the reason we BOUGHT the freakin' things.
Let's see, what was Gruber's response when Apple made the big deal about not allowing Flash on Apple mobile devices?
Something like "If you don't like it, use something else. Nobody's forcing you to use our product."
My proposed answers to his questions (since he's asking questions on a site that doesn't allow comments)
1.... will Flash Player support be dropped as well? If not, why? - Because we can. Bite me. 2. Android currently supports H.264. Will this support be removed from Android? If not, why not? - Because we can. Bite me 3. YouTube uses H.264 to encode video. Presumably, YouTube will be re-encoding its entire library using WebM. When this happens, will YouTube’s support for H.264 be dropped, to "enable open innovation"? If not, why not? - Because we can. Bite me. 4. Do you expect companies like Netflix, Amazon, Vimeo, Major League Baseball, and anyone else who currently streams H.264 to dual-encode all of their video using WebM? If not, how will Chrome users watch this content other than by resorting to Flash Player’s support for H.264 playback? - Apple expected half the web to reencode their video to suit Apple's demands... what's the difference?...Oh... right... also, because we can. Bite me. 5. Who is happy about this? - Not Apple or Gruber... Bite me.
The whole "enable open innovation" thing is no different than Apple's Facetime "Open Standard" that, amazingly, still hasn't been released. What ever happened to that?
Everybody talks open standards when they're trying to convince you to do it their way.
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No, that's about right.
Remember when Jimmy Carter was president, and we started converting the highway speed and distance signs over to metric, but had Miles too?
Sort of a transition/educational period for drivers to get used to metric.
Well, Ronnie Raygun came in and put a stop to THAT. Spent millions rippin' those 'bilingual' signs out of the ground and replacin' 'em with good old 'Merican miles signs.
Oh, you mean this law was written just for Amazon, and doesn't apply to every other business selling on the internet?
My little indie t-shirt and jewelry making friends in oth states will be glad to hear that we're writing one-business-only laws now.
"The local mom & pop" have to deal with ONE tax rate. California has 1700 separate tax jurisdictions.
And for all the other businesses out there, it's not even collecting the taxes that's the hard part, it's FILING, quarterly, in every state where you make a sale. The paperwork nightmares for small businesses would, I think, be enough to shut a lot of them down.
B&N is going to snap up a whole lot of business in what, banner ads?
Did you warn them about 9/11, Katrina, The Sumatra, China, Pakistan, Haiti & Japan earthquakes, and all the other disasters they could prepare for?
YOU DIDN'T?!?
WHY NOT!!!
Not as long as you don't have to buy in iPhone/iPad and can choose to buy Android or Blackberry or whatever.
Go look up "monopoly".
Apple doesn't have to allow apps showing photos of kittens if it chooses to ban those. It's a privately owned business.
Yes, Apple has a leg to stand on.
So let's block it because they *might* benefit financially. There's no benefit to the public in having all those wonderful but not-worth-reprinting books from the 60's, 70's, 80's digitized and made available for very cheap if not free.
I'd LOVE to get my hands on a copy of T.J. Bass ("The Godwhale") or some of Thomas Burnett Swann's mythology stories, or the REST of Leonard Wibberley's "Mouse" books for my reader.
But no, it's much better that they just disappear from memory, from anyone even knowing they exist, isn't it?
The problem isn't the cross-pollination, it's the patents on the seeds themselves. Once a farmer plants Monsanto seeds, they are forever giving up the right to seed-harvest their own crops and have to buy new seeds from Monsanto every year. http://goo.gl/C5RwG
"Monsanto controls roughly 90 percent of GE soy, cotton and canola seed markets and has a large piece of the corn seed market. "
the "Part two" on the story has been updated. http://bit.ly/ib5R38
UPDATE 3/31/11: Samsung has issued a statement saying that the finding is false. The statement says the software used to detect the keylogger, VIPRE, can be fooled by Microsoft's Live Application multi-language support folder. This has been confirmed at F-Secure and two other publications, here and here. Still no explanation for why Samsung originally confirmed the keylogger's existence to Hassan, as seen below.
UPDATE 3/31/11: GFI Labs, the maker of VIPRE, has issued an explanation and apology for generating the false positives that led to these articles: "We apologize to the author Mohamed Hassan, to Samsung, as well as any users who may have been affected by this false positive."
No, mostly perl, but the same rules apply.
Tell that to Timothy Vernon. He was selling the retail packages of Autocad, second-hand, in violation of Autodesk's "license"
"A software company has won the right to stop a man from re-selling second hand copies of software because the programs are licensed to users and not owned by them.
A US appeal court ruled in favour of software company Autodesk follows a long running dispute with Timothy Vernon who sells products on Ebay. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said software producers who clearly impose restrictions on buyers and make it clear that buyers are only licensing material rather than owning it outright do have the right to restrict second hand sales of the material."
http://goo.gl/1ODKZ [goo.gl]
Amazon is calling theirs the Amazon "appstore". One word. Lower case.
Apple's is the Apple "App Store". Two words. Capitalized.
How can there be any confusion?
I do that quite a bit... I'm quite happy to kick in for a book I liked, fiction or non-fiction.
I don't WANT the dead-tree copy, and there are quite a few authors who are doing 'donate' or 'pay what you want' for their work.
What I won't do is pay a stupid (to me) price for a book I can read on one device, for as long as the publisher deigns to allow me to read it on that one device.
I won't pay hardback prices for a limited license to read a book.
Thanks for the Greasemonkey mention.
Using Firefox 3.6.15, I google "how do i convert perl to python" (no quotes) and click on the experts-exchange link, and I see the "This question has been solved./..30 day free trial..." box, and when I scroll down, no answers anywhere.
With the Greasemonkey script, I see what you're talking about...
Very nice. Thank you.
yah, I saw where the administration aide said that too, and it didn't make any sense then either.
"The Department of Administration blocks all new websites shortly after they are created, until they go through a software approval program that unblocks them."
I call total BS on that one.
The admins must be kept REALLY busy if they're manually whitelisting every new site that comes up in a Google search. Do you have any idea how many "new sites" are created every day?
I don't either.
As I read it it was music they had gotten from the artists, (not the studio) and therefore iffy legally, but nothing imported, hence, nothing involving customs. No bling, nothing foreign at all.
OK, I'll try again.
What does an American hip-hop site, having music tracks provided by the American bands, whose domain was seized by ICE for copyright infringement, have to do with Customs?
Isn't Customs related to bringing goods INTO the US?
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/30/eff-on-us-domain-cop.html
Where exactly is the smuggling here?
And what prompted all the hostility?
There are a whooooooole bunch of "if"s in that statement, big guy.
And who said anything about smuggling?
Customs.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
so once again... what does that have to do with child porn?
or websites?
I haven't seen ANY mention of that yet. Do you have a link?
Wouldn't 11.3 mean that if you DO use IAP in a Kindle app to purchase books from Amazon, you can't read them on your Kindle, or your PC, or your Mac?
You're headline is true. Your statement is incorrect.
That's what Sony DID do.
Take a look at the screenshots from the Sony app status page. http://ebookstore.sony.com/rme/
The Reader store screenshot looks an awful lot like mobile Safari..
“We have not changed our developer terms or guidelines,” Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller told Ars Technica. “We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app with in-app purchase.”
http://bit.ly/i133FF
I'd be kinda curious as to how that fits in with Apple's censorship inclinations...
Wouldn't this mean that the entire Amazon catalog would have to submit to Apple's morality filter?
Not to mention filtering out any books that promote Android.
Or to put it another way, "Now that we've sold however many iPads to Kindle users with the understanding that they can use the Amazon book store and the Kindle app, well, we changed our minds."
Versatility is the reason we BOUGHT the freakin' things.
Let's see, what was Gruber's response when Apple made the big deal about not allowing Flash on Apple mobile devices?
Something like "If you don't like it, use something else. Nobody's forcing you to use our product."
My proposed answers to his questions (since he's asking questions on a site that doesn't allow comments)
1. ... will Flash Player support be dropped as well? If not, why? ...Oh... right... also, because we can. Bite me.
- Because we can. Bite me.
2. Android currently supports H.264. Will this support be removed from Android? If not, why not?
- Because we can. Bite me
3. YouTube uses H.264 to encode video. Presumably, YouTube will be re-encoding its entire library using WebM. When this happens, will YouTube’s support for H.264 be dropped, to "enable open innovation"? If not, why not?
- Because we can. Bite me.
4. Do you expect companies like Netflix, Amazon, Vimeo, Major League Baseball, and anyone else who currently streams H.264 to dual-encode all of their video using WebM? If not, how will Chrome users watch this content other than by resorting to Flash Player’s support for H.264 playback?
- Apple expected half the web to reencode their video to suit Apple's demands... what's the difference?
5. Who is happy about this?
- Not Apple or Gruber... Bite me.
The whole "enable open innovation" thing is no different than Apple's Facetime "Open Standard" that, amazingly, still hasn't been released. What ever happened to that?
Everybody talks open standards when they're trying to convince you to do it their way.