I read the title of that article and the first thing I thought was that Sun had developed a new piece of networking hardware and were actively interviewing it.
"Candy Chan ultimately testified that she had a conversation with Brittany Chan in which Britanny Chan admitted to using the 'Spicybrnweyedgirl' name associated with the copyright infringement.
(1) Don't post something on Slashdot about how piracy is hurting people and industries. You'll just get modded to -1000. You can't fight it, so just give it up.
(2) I've seen this post before somewhere. Did you cut and paste it? Do you repost it everytime an RIAA/Music piracy article pops up? If you do, that's kinda lame. Sorry.
That's not too different to Japan. Firstly, the biggest "eikaiwa" (english conversation) school is run by the yakuza AFAIK. They have a high staff turnover to keep the faces fresh and just-off-the-boat.
The Japanese haven't gone as far as the Koreans in the robot department (yet, but it's only a matter of time), nor are they having surgery to their mouths so that they can pronounce English yet. To me, the problem has never been pronounciation - but simple lack of ability to socialize, even in their own language. The pronunciation is not THAT important as long as the message gets across. Their conversation only ever gets as far as "do you like sushi?" because in Japanese, that's one of the only safe topics you can start a conversation with. Asking them to have an opinion on something, introduce themselves, talk about what they like, stand out from the crowd, or provide debate usually leads most students to panic because all these things are unwritten taboo in Japanese culture. They tend to believe that self-expression causes conflict with other people's feelings, although how they rationalize this I don't know. End result is that in class they just sit there in muted silence, unable to say anything for fear of insulting somebody, or getting the pronounciation wrong for the first 100 times as you normally would during the learning process. At the end, most teachers pull their hair out in frustration, as getting angry and forcing discipline on the students only makes them run away.
The other problem with English in Japan as I see it, is that English is treated as a status symbol (for job prospects, or showing off that you have a hobby, or for meeting a foreign guy for marriage, etc) rather than as an actual form of communication. That, and the Japanese are jealous that we are more outgoing and sociable people than they are - and have blonde hair and blue eyes.
Sorry, I've been here too long.... must stop being so cynical....
Considering English teachers in Japan and Korea are basically treated like human tape recorders (yes, I've been there, and I've done that) I've often felt that we could be replaced by robots.... we've joked about it, and now they've done it!
I'm speechless...
I know Japan keeps complaining that it can't learn English well despite all the teachers, but hell.... this isn't the solution. I dunno about Koreans, but the reason why the Japanese can't learn English is because generally speaking they lack the social skills required to meet foreign people in the first place. The Japanese culture never seems to give them a chance to meet strangers, display self-confidence or exuberance, or speak their minds enough to communicate on a different level othen than their own langauge in their own culture. We could argue all day about how speaking with robots, for anyone of any culture, isn't going to help anyone achieve the goal of improved human interaction skills.
I was talking to a guy who had a small group which had a contract with a music label. Fact is, P2P swapping is hurting the music labels badly - to the point where smaller artists have just been cut off the roster. From the guy I was talking to, he didn't like the situation much at all. He had to look for other work. So not all artists are happy with the state of affairs. I mention this cause I doubt many other posters on Slashdot are going to look the other way for a minute.
In some way P2P is causing smaller artists to fend for themselves more it seems - without the teat and gravy train of the music label. In a way they are more free to conduct business, but in other way they aren't free in the sense that they can simply concentrate on their music anymore - because they have to fend for themselves in the marketing arena as well, which is quite difficult and time consuming. So in one way they are free from the music labels, but not free from the extra work they have to put in... and from the POV that I got from the guy I was speaking to, he liked the old way better.
In one way I guess it means that only the best of the best will ever get a music contract these days.
When I see the POS acronym, and when someone mentions a POS system, my very first thought is to image a system that is literally a piece of $#!+
I know what POS is supposed to mean here. Really, I do.
an uploader not only engages in reproduction (because copies are made within their computer) but also in distribution, which does occur if someone downloads the file.
Which is what I said, but you're making it sound like I'm saying something different. Assuming that the uploader actually has rights to the copyrighted file in question (let's say for arguments sake that the uploader downloaded something from itunes and neglectfully configured a P2P application to share the itunes download). Your second point assumes that somebody actually downloads the shared file, and you have verifiable evidence.
but you can infringe a copyright accidentally and still be sued and found liable ...but not without proof, which is the issue at hand here. The question is who is responsible. Perhaps it's safe to say that the uploader is negligent because of the P2P configuration and deserves to get sued though.
So basically it appears to me that this means that putting a file in a directory, available to whoever is looking to download the file, is not essentially breaking the law if it cannot be proven beyond reasonable doubt that the file was downloaded or disseminated in any way. Furthermore even if it was, then it is not the uploader's fault. By simply placing the file in an available directory it does not constitute illegal copying (assuming that the uploader has a right to the file in the first place)
They'll have a hard time trying to prove intent as well. Simply by placing a file in a directory does not assume intent or conspiracy to commit infringement any more than leaving a Harry Potter book you own lying around so someone can steal it and scan the pages.
It seems that the burden of piracy is then on the downloader... but even then the downloader has no real way of knowing what they are downloading - and if it is a legit file or not.
Sorry, I forgot to mention - it was a Japanese cell phone which doesn't have a SIM card... meaning that the data may as well have been stored in the screen because that's the only place I could view it.
The thing is, the nano is thin like a cell phone. I've already snapped two non-clamshell model cell phones in half by sitting on them - taking the screens out with them and losing all my data. Fortunately the cell phone was free and I cared more for the data than the phone itself. I don't think you can say the same thing for the nano.
Thin electronic items just snap. Period. That's why the clam-shell cell phone design became more popular IMHO. It was thicker and didn't snap in half unless you really made an effort.
Companies are more willing to buy something faulty, but supported, rather than something technologically superior but unsupported. The reasoning is that in both cases, things can still go bad, but with support there's always somebody to take the blame.
Windows, no matter how flawed the OS is, is always going to win out here because MS is a huge company with enough money to buy their own small country and support everyone who runs their OS - or at least, this is the image that businesses buy into.
It's only in specialty areas where you are going to find customers who are Unix geeks. These people are unfamiliar with the mouse, GUI, razorblades, social skills, and showering, and are going to actively encourage you to hack things - support be damned. Unfortunately this does not represent most customers of IT services.
To tell the truth, most Linux installs are a nightmare because of the lack of cooperation between Linux vendors, hardware vendors, support vendors, and software vendors. To make matters worse, most software Linux installs aren't a matter of point and click, and room for error is abundant is such cases.
This whole "Copy protection management" thing is getting ridiculous. What I want to know is how they can check for DRMed content without some kind of massive database.
Speaking of which, what on earth is next? Will we be having DRM scanners next to virus scanners and spamassassin? Will W32.Boyband_somecrap be part of a new wave of definition file? Will we need to upgrade our servers to deal with the extra load on DRM scanning?
Oh who cares anyway? As long as it all makes money for somebody......... oh wait:)
Although it looks like it on the outside, Japan is not open about sex at all. Otherwise all my Japanese colleagues would be having orgies every second week - but none of them can even get a date. In fact, it's not very open socially much at all. Non-comformity is flattened by society as it ignores anyone loud who dares stick out. Anyone trying to get attention is viewed as an attention whore and is summarily ignored. Anyone who truly NEEDS attention is ignored as well - which is the sad part.
IMHO the whole sex perversion thing is basically due to hordes of men not being able to get laid. Pure and simple. That frustration has got to come out somewhere. The reason they can't get laid is that most of the men are unromantic, selfish, uncaring, and have no respect for women basically. The only reason why foreigners get laid is because they are the exact opposite of Japanese men, and have blonde hair.
The whole octopus thing extends farther back than mere penis censoring. I have seen old Japanese art depicting Japanese women being mauled by octopus. Why octopus, you may ask? I don't know, but since the Japanese eat so much of it I figure "you are what you eat".
I can't believe some people get off on that stuff.
My girlfriend knows such a Japanese lady who draws tentacle hentai and gets off on it. She's cute, but has many imaginary boyfriends apparently. We always joke that she has a octopus for a boyfriend. She thinks that men and women holding hands and kissing is disgusting though (?!) - which as you can imagine, tends to turn most guys off her, probably causing her to fantasize about poor octopi.
On a seperate note, I think Freud would have had a field day over in Japan.
I'm curious if twin CPUs is enough to handle the likes of Doom and Quake full speed. I'm using a Sharp Zaurus (Linux PDA) with a 400Mhz+ ARM processor. On it, Doom is a bit jagged around the edges. A Gameboy Advance ROM barely gets off the ground.
I'm sure the likes of a Commodore 64 is possible though, but I'd hope the thing is fast.
Please let me know when we no longer need hard drives, and we no longer need to "boot" our PCs every time we switch them on.
Also drop me a line when we can store the world's music on a small memory cube and download it at the speed of light, virtually killing the RIAA overnight.
Amazing, the tech just keeps getting better and better.
Starter Edition, Sloth Home Basic Edition, Anger Home Premium Edition, - Pride Professional Edition, - Lust Small Business Edition, - Envy Enterprise Edition, and Greed Ultimate Edition.- Gluttony
I think these are better names for the editions.
I'll take a Windows Vista Gluttony Edition, thanks
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Interview with Sun's Florian Reuter
I read the title of that article and the first thing I thought was that Sun had developed a new piece of networking hardware and were actively interviewing it.
It's late here, I should go home.
Looks like a negative value Windows XP beats a free Linux.
Whoops! Mommy, did I say something wrong?
Two things for you:-
(1) Don't post something on Slashdot about how piracy is hurting people and industries. You'll just get modded to -1000. You can't fight it, so just give it up.
(2) I've seen this post before somewhere. Did you cut and paste it? Do you repost it everytime an RIAA/Music piracy article pops up? If you do, that's kinda lame. Sorry.
That's not too different to Japan. Firstly, the biggest "eikaiwa" (english conversation) school is run by the yakuza AFAIK. They have a high staff turnover to keep the faces fresh and just-off-the-boat.
The Japanese haven't gone as far as the Koreans in the robot department (yet, but it's only a matter of time), nor are they having surgery to their mouths so that they can pronounce English yet. To me, the problem has never been pronounciation - but simple lack of ability to socialize, even in their own language. The pronunciation is not THAT important as long as the message gets across. Their conversation only ever gets as far as "do you like sushi?" because in Japanese, that's one of the only safe topics you can start a conversation with. Asking them to have an opinion on something, introduce themselves, talk about what they like, stand out from the crowd, or provide debate usually leads most students to panic because all these things are unwritten taboo in Japanese culture. They tend to believe that self-expression causes conflict with other people's feelings, although how they rationalize this I don't know. End result is that in class they just sit there in muted silence, unable to say anything for fear of insulting somebody, or getting the pronounciation wrong for the first 100 times as you normally would during the learning process. At the end, most teachers pull their hair out in frustration, as getting angry and forcing discipline on the students only makes them run away.
The other problem with English in Japan as I see it, is that English is treated as a status symbol (for job prospects, or showing off that you have a hobby, or for meeting a foreign guy for marriage, etc) rather than as an actual form of communication. That, and the Japanese are jealous that we are more outgoing and sociable people than they are - and have blonde hair and blue eyes.
Sorry, I've been here too long.... must stop being so cynical....
I did and got a nasty NSFW image of a huge asshole.
Considering English teachers in Japan and Korea are basically treated like human tape recorders (yes, I've been there, and I've done that) I've often felt that we could be replaced by robots.... we've joked about it, and now they've done it!
I'm speechless...
I know Japan keeps complaining that it can't learn English well despite all the teachers, but hell.... this isn't the solution. I dunno about Koreans, but the reason why the Japanese can't learn English is because generally speaking they lack the social skills required to meet foreign people in the first place. The Japanese culture never seems to give them a chance to meet strangers, display self-confidence or exuberance, or speak their minds enough to communicate on a different level othen than their own langauge in their own culture. We could argue all day about how speaking with robots, for anyone of any culture, isn't going to help anyone achieve the goal of improved human interaction skills.
I was talking to a guy who had a small group which had a contract with a music label. Fact is, P2P swapping is hurting the music labels badly - to the point where smaller artists have just been cut off the roster. From the guy I was talking to, he didn't like the situation much at all. He had to look for other work. So not all artists are happy with the state of affairs. I mention this cause I doubt many other posters on Slashdot are going to look the other way for a minute.
In some way P2P is causing smaller artists to fend for themselves more it seems - without the teat and gravy train of the music label. In a way they are more free to conduct business, but in other way they aren't free in the sense that they can simply concentrate on their music anymore - because they have to fend for themselves in the marketing arena as well, which is quite difficult and time consuming. So in one way they are free from the music labels, but not free from the extra work they have to put in... and from the POV that I got from the guy I was speaking to, he liked the old way better.
In one way I guess it means that only the best of the best will ever get a music contract these days.
When I see the POS acronym, and when someone mentions a POS system, my very first thought is to image a system that is literally a piece of $#!+ I know what POS is supposed to mean here. Really, I do.
an uploader not only engages in reproduction (because copies are made within their computer) but also in distribution, which does occur if someone downloads the file.
...but not without proof, which is the issue at hand here. The question is who is responsible. Perhaps it's safe to say that the uploader is negligent because of the P2P configuration and deserves to get sued though.
Which is what I said, but you're making it sound like I'm saying something different.
Assuming that the uploader actually has rights to the copyrighted file in question (let's say for arguments sake that the uploader downloaded something from itunes and neglectfully configured a P2P application to share the itunes download). Your second point assumes that somebody actually downloads the shared file, and you have verifiable evidence.
but you can infringe a copyright accidentally and still be sued and found liable
So basically it appears to me that this means that putting a file in a directory, available to whoever is looking to download the file, is not essentially breaking the law if it cannot be proven beyond reasonable doubt that the file was downloaded or disseminated in any way. Furthermore even if it was, then it is not the uploader's fault. By simply placing the file in an available directory it does not constitute illegal copying (assuming that the uploader has a right to the file in the first place)
They'll have a hard time trying to prove intent as well. Simply by placing a file in a directory does not assume intent or conspiracy to commit infringement any more than leaving a Harry Potter book you own lying around so someone can steal it and scan the pages.
It seems that the burden of piracy is then on the downloader... but even then the downloader has no real way of knowing what they are downloading - and if it is a legit file or not.
Sorry, I forgot to mention - it was a Japanese cell phone which doesn't have a SIM card... meaning that the data may as well have been stored in the screen because that's the only place I could view it.
The thing is, the nano is thin like a cell phone. I've already snapped two non-clamshell model cell phones in half by sitting on them - taking the screens out with them and losing all my data. Fortunately the cell phone was free and I cared more for the data than the phone itself. I don't think you can say the same thing for the nano.
Thin electronic items just snap. Period. That's why the clam-shell cell phone design became more popular IMHO. It was thicker and didn't snap in half unless you really made an effort.
Companies are more willing to buy something faulty, but supported, rather than something technologically superior but unsupported. The reasoning is that in both cases, things can still go bad, but with support there's always somebody to take the blame. Windows, no matter how flawed the OS is, is always going to win out here because MS is a huge company with enough money to buy their own small country and support everyone who runs their OS - or at least, this is the image that businesses buy into. It's only in specialty areas where you are going to find customers who are Unix geeks. These people are unfamiliar with the mouse, GUI, razorblades, social skills, and showering, and are going to actively encourage you to hack things - support be damned. Unfortunately this does not represent most customers of IT services. To tell the truth, most Linux installs are a nightmare because of the lack of cooperation between Linux vendors, hardware vendors, support vendors, and software vendors. To make matters worse, most software Linux installs aren't a matter of point and click, and room for error is abundant is such cases.
This whole "Copy protection management" thing is getting ridiculous. What I want to know is how they can check for DRMed content without some kind of massive database.
..... oh wait :)
Speaking of which, what on earth is next? Will we be having DRM scanners next to virus scanners and spamassassin? Will W32.Boyband_somecrap be part of a new wave of definition file? Will we need to upgrade our servers to deal with the extra load on DRM scanning?
Oh who cares anyway? As long as it all makes money for somebody....
as the old joke goes..... only in Japan!
Although it looks like it on the outside, Japan is not open about sex at all. Otherwise all my Japanese colleagues would be having orgies every second week - but none of them can even get a date. In fact, it's not very open socially much at all. Non-comformity is flattened by society as it ignores anyone loud who dares stick out. Anyone trying to get attention is viewed as an attention whore and is summarily ignored. Anyone who truly NEEDS attention is ignored as well - which is the sad part.
IMHO the whole sex perversion thing is basically due to hordes of men not being able to get laid. Pure and simple. That frustration has got to come out somewhere. The reason they can't get laid is that most of the men are unromantic, selfish, uncaring, and have no respect for women basically. The only reason why foreigners get laid is because they are the exact opposite of Japanese men, and have blonde hair.
The whole octopus thing extends farther back than mere penis censoring. I have seen old Japanese art depicting Japanese women being mauled by octopus. Why octopus, you may ask? I don't know, but since the Japanese eat so much of it I figure "you are what you eat".
I can't believe some people get off on that stuff.
My girlfriend knows such a Japanese lady who draws tentacle hentai and gets off on it. She's cute, but has many imaginary boyfriends apparently. We always joke that she has a octopus for a boyfriend. She thinks that men and women holding hands and kissing is disgusting though (?!) - which as you can imagine, tends to turn most guys off her, probably causing her to fantasize about poor octopi.
On a seperate note, I think Freud would have had a field day over in Japan.
If I actually had to literally run around as much as I do when playing an FPS or GTA, then I think I'd be very fit indeed by now.
I'm curious if twin CPUs is enough to handle the likes of Doom and Quake full speed. I'm using a Sharp Zaurus (Linux PDA) with a 400Mhz+ ARM processor. On it, Doom is a bit jagged around the edges. A Gameboy Advance ROM barely gets off the ground. I'm sure the likes of a Commodore 64 is possible though, but I'd hope the thing is fast.
Want a new computer?
What don't you all just go to Dell!
Easy as Hell! (whoops!)
Please let me know when we no longer need hard drives, and we no longer need to "boot" our PCs every time we switch them on.
Also drop me a line when we can store the world's music on a small memory cube and download it at the speed of light, virtually killing the RIAA overnight.
Amazing, the tech just keeps getting better and better.
Starter Edition, Sloth
Home Basic Edition, Anger
Home Premium Edition, - Pride
Professional Edition, - Lust
Small Business Edition, - Envy
Enterprise Edition, and Greed
Ultimate Edition.- Gluttony
I think these are better names for the editions.
I'll take a Windows Vista Gluttony Edition, thanks
Yes, and the quiz is the new and improved MCSE. (well, they have to make it difficult somehow)
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?gameID=22
It would be sad for Darwinia to be overlooked simply because it plays originally.