What the parent DIDN'T tell you is that he never showed up to most of his classes, and when he did he majored in sleeping. Just ask my shoulder. He fell asleep on it in automata a few times. And not at the back of the room.
Seriously, though, the classes at our alma mater were quite good, when taken with the right professor. With the math requirements for computer science there, all it would take is one more math class (calculus 3) to give any comp sci student a minor in mathematics. I know quite a few, though, who achieved the double major in math and computer science without too many complications (Diff-Eq is required in that case, as are certain other high-level classes).
No, uploading is illegal. Should the industry have received your actual name and number, you would have been sued and could have been easily. However, all they had was a KaZaa name and that is not sufficient for that. (Could they really sue me with the KaZaa name of BobDole? I would like to see them sue Bob Dole for it...)
They did not provide enough evidence to turn over the names of the individuals through the ISPs. If they can prove the sharing, though, apart from someone just leaving the file in a shared directory to be searched on, then and only then could the judge rule the ISP to turn over the name of the sharer.
It shouldn't matter where they keep it. Should the information be obtained within Canada, then Canadian law applies to the company and they must hold that information true to Canadian law. Should they not do so, they are in violation of the law and lawsuits may be enforced.
Now, should the information be obtained on a Canadian outside of Canada, then there is a gray spot. Canadians now presume that their information would remain confidential, and any company that does business in Canada must follow that law, which (I would assume) also covers a multinational corporation that does business in Canada. I do think, though, that there is somewhat of a gray area when dealing with a Canadian providing information in another country...
Bear in mind that this "hunt" by the "industry" is only for those who are uploading the music. They have to hold true to the fact that us Canadians may legally download files for our own personal use, but it is the distribution of the copyrighted materials in the first place that is causing the uproar. So, fellow Canadians, download until your heart's content. Just be warned that if you upload, you may be in for it in the future (depending on this ruling).
It's amazing... Darl seems to actually be honest about some of his reasoning why they did this. The company was failing and they needed money. He is now in charge of the money. Where is the potential for money? Though everyone not paying them. 'Nuff said.
I think part of the problem is, and please correct me if I am wrong, anyone can patent an idea. You do not have to have a final, working product in order to get the patent, you just have to have the ABILITY to make it happen.
So, if I were to come up with a new way to do function A, I do not have to implement it. Just the methodology is owned by me. Perhaps a variation in new patent applications for software and algorithms is in order?
It would be nice to put something in the open community there, but not everyone will follow it since right now they don't have to. But the parent's idea of charging for use of ideas only when you profit off of someone else's ideas, but free otherwise when using a GPL-like license, is a great one.
Douglas Adams, when he was the script editor for Who during the Tom Baker era, did a great job in making sure the stories were fun and exciting at the same time. Hell, he tossed in some of his own humor from time to time as well...
Remember the episode with the Movellans vs the Daleks during the Tom Baker era? The Doctor is trapped under a pillar, and decides to pass the time reading a book. What book? The title eludes me but it was written by Oolun Caluphid (sp?), Douglas Adams' famous philosopher from THHGTTG - you know, the guy who wrote such famous books as "Where God Went Wrong", "Some More Of God's Greatest Mistakes", and "Who Is This God Person Anyway".
Just a correction for the initial post: SCO has claimed that they have submitted much of the material to IBM, just not all (this is verified by the statements of Mr Tibbitts). The information they do not yet have are for those managers who were on vacation and couldn't get the papers to their legal dep't before they went away for, what, a month??? But definitely keep an eye on the Groklaw site. They get all the information as soon as it is available and is a great site to find all the SCO info. (For those who don't get enough at/.)
If possible, before reading the books, try to find an audio copy of the original radio show. Although the books are amazing, the radio show is the original.. what the books are based on. Nothing can beat Douglas Adams' use of humor here, as everything is left to the listener's imagination, with some twisted sound effects thrown in from time to time. (Oh, and the second "series" of it (episodes 7 thru 12) of the radio show mostly differ from what you will find in the books anyways!)
Although this may make some people upset, I agree with the parent as to some of reasoning, if not the method with which he expressed his views. There are differences in security, and it should not be up to specialized security companies to do all of the policing. They are infallible, as the testers are human; they will not catch everything, everytime.
My only reservation about the parent's post is that the assumption (from my reading of the post) is that Best Buy did nothing about that security flaw once it was notified of it. We do not know that for sure; they could have addressed it immediately and patched the security flaw. However, it is entirely possible that the individual who broke into the system already had a copy of all of the information from this flaw (if, in fact, the flaw was as bad as he indicated). If so, then even though Best Buy would find out about the flaw and corrected it, it is too late; the information is gone. Had this individual not asked for money, I think he still would have received some kind of attention from the government or at least local officials, but not to this extent. If he knew enough to gain access to Best Buy's system, is it not possible he should have also known that they could trace it back to him? Maybe he just got lucky in getting into the system...
Security is of tantamount concern to both businesses and individuals, as the individual is responsible for creating the business. Should a company not take the proper, sometimes paranoid steps in order to ensure the security of the individual on their site/product, then there really is no winner in the situation at all.
Most of your post I agree with in its entirety. However, I do not agree with the comparison of downloaded music to that of warez.
Someone says they downloaded a full version "to evaluate it" is full of crap, unless there *IS* no demo version available. If you were wanting to switch from MS Office to another alternative, you would want to try out WordPerfect Suite, Star Office, OpenOffice, etc. But, which ones of those have free demos? I know OpenOffice is free, but to see if the others meet your needs, would you have to purchase a full version to do the testing? (This is just an example, BTW.)
Personally, I do download some music. I find smaller, independent artists that I hear on alternative or college radio shows, stuff that is definitely not mainstream, and I get it. If ever I see the band's CD, I would purchase it. Because I have heard what is on that CD and I support that music. However, with music, I *DO* use it for evaluation purposes, since a majority of the CDs out today release pure garbage. When I do purchase the CD, the digital copies are usually gone off my system, since my stereo has 10 times the sound quality of my computer, and I know I am getting guaranteed (usually) sound quality off of my CD as opposed to an MP3.
I think the whole point of my argument here is, yes, I think the RIAA is wrong. Their arguments are ridiculous against this number of consumers. Do I think they have a point, though? Definitely. These are copyrighted works. But I pose a question: If an artist under one of the big labels, let us just say Smashing Pumpkins for example, decides to allow their copyrighted materials to be downloaded on Kazaa or other P2P, where is the RIAA argument? Who owns the copyright: the artist, or the label? Exactly who is the RIAA supporting in this case?
My only other concern is this: movies, audio, books, etc. all state the copyright code. When we buy movies we get that long copyright code indicating that that article is protected under international copyright law, and yet it is only in the US that these laws are being enforced. The warning states that the FBI will get involved otherwise for violations of the international act. Has anyone heard any stories of the RIAA attempting to go outside of the US jurisdiction, representing the artists they say they represent, and start attempting to obtain damages elsewhere in the world? Just curious.
Good point. Now isn't it too bad that many end users who currently use Windows XP and only have one box use the default Firewall system in XP? Now who could have created that firewall, hmm? So would that not then make MS responsible as their firewall that they have provided in their OS would allow problematic bugs and worms through? At least somewhat responsible?
It's not really up in arms over the the copyright violations. The community is more or less now going to follow SCO's lead, should the need arise: you are using our copyrighted information, without our permission, so we sue you. If SCO says that they are not breaking copyright law, then their own case has no merit by their own argument.
Everything can be looked at from several perspectives, no matter what it is. In this case, there are the two obvious ones: SCO is right in their argument, or SCO is wrong. If SCO is right, then they deserve to be sued back via their own stance on the issue. If they are wrong, then they have to drop the lawsuit and everything is done and gone.
Fox News is satire. Plain and simple. How many legitimate truths have you gotten from them? Hell, I have seen more real news on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart than I have on Fox News!
It all depends on how quickly China decides to do all of its actions. It took the US space program more or less an entire decade in order to go from sub-orbital to orbital to the moon. How quickly is China going to push things? If they can learn from the past mistakes and go forth with a solid program, why wouldn't the space race come back? It may not be the best thing for the US right now, but wait until they have their new vehicle designed, built, and then redesigned and rebuilt due to the beuracracy, and then the race will be back on.
My entire post was, although focusing on Canada, that inventors and scientists worldwide who come up with ideas or discover something amazing do not always get the recognition they deserve. This includes many individuals in the US.
To what one poster has said, yes, many individuals from Canada go elsewhere to get the money breaks, etc. However, it is not because some of those things can not be found in Canada and their own countries; it is because the individuals with the idea work for a large corporation or another company of some kind and their names are obscured. Yes, the company may have contributed significantly to the research, but it is ultimately the researchers and the scientists who do the work and achieve the successes. It is to these people that everyone should show some gratitude, alongside the companies.
Indeed I am. Although he is American, his work was done in Montreal when it came to his work on neurosurgery. His Canadiant Heritage vignette is both informative and amusing, with the catch phrase of "Doctor, I smell burnt toast!" being known to most Canadians who watch television. The vignette is also available online here in a QuickTime format. Many other vignettes are listed along the left, some interesting, some funny, some damned obvious. Enjoy!
We never said that bad things ALSO come out of Canada. You just managed to list the top two of them, though. Congratulations for knowing your neighbors to the north so well!
Unfortunately, some of what the article says is true: many great Canadian inventors do not get the recognition that they deserve. It appears that Mr. Kutt had created the first computer, which was great.
How many other people do know that a Canadian doctor was the first man to map sections of the brain that indicate smell and other senses in an order to discover what causes seizures? (For the Canadians on here think: "Doctor, I smell burnt toast!")
There are many others worldwide who, unfortunately, do not get the recognition they so richly deserve because companies with more money and power take all of the credit and force the creators into obscurity around their own inventions. This is actually a great story about how an inventor, even though it was 30 years later, is finally receiving the recognition he so richly deserved.
My key word is "bottleneck"? I think I heard more specific information a few weeks back at a tarot card reader than I am in the IT horoscope. I am waiting to see when they announce the IT layoffs will be in someone's future...
Probably not, since McFarlane took Gaiman's character if Angela and made his own changes, even though Gaiman owned all rights to her. When Gaiman wanted McFarlane to pay the royalties, McFarlane killed her character off to avoid having to do so.
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What the parent DIDN'T tell you is that he never showed up to most of his classes, and when he did he majored in sleeping. Just ask my shoulder. He fell asleep on it in automata a few times. And not at the back of the room.
Seriously, though, the classes at our alma mater were quite good, when taken with the right professor. With the math requirements for computer science there, all it would take is one more math class (calculus 3) to give any comp sci student a minor in mathematics. I know quite a few, though, who achieved the double major in math and computer science without too many complications (Diff-Eq is required in that case, as are certain other high-level classes).
No, uploading is illegal. Should the industry have received your actual name and number, you would have been sued and could have been easily. However, all they had was a KaZaa name and that is not sufficient for that. (Could they really sue me with the KaZaa name of BobDole? I would like to see them sue Bob Dole for it...)
They did not provide enough evidence to turn over the names of the individuals through the ISPs. If they can prove the sharing, though, apart from someone just leaving the file in a shared directory to be searched on, then and only then could the judge rule the ISP to turn over the name of the sharer.
Of course it's a good idea! Now listen...
Oh wait, wrong Python movie...
It shouldn't matter where they keep it. Should the information be obtained within Canada, then Canadian law applies to the company and they must hold that information true to Canadian law. Should they not do so, they are in violation of the law and lawsuits may be enforced.
Now, should the information be obtained on a Canadian outside of Canada, then there is a gray spot. Canadians now presume that their information would remain confidential, and any company that does business in Canada must follow that law, which (I would assume) also covers a multinational corporation that does business in Canada. I do think, though, that there is somewhat of a gray area when dealing with a Canadian providing information in another country...
Bear in mind that this "hunt" by the "industry" is only for those who are uploading the music. They have to hold true to the fact that us Canadians may legally download files for our own personal use, but it is the distribution of the copyrighted materials in the first place that is causing the uproar. So, fellow Canadians, download until your heart's content. Just be warned that if you upload, you may be in for it in the future (depending on this ruling).
No, it would be a metaphor. A simile is a comparison which uses the word "like" or "as", neither of which are used above.
It's amazing... Darl seems to actually be honest about some of his reasoning why they did this. The company was failing and they needed money. He is now in charge of the money. Where is the potential for money? Though everyone not paying them. 'Nuff said.
I think part of the problem is, and please correct me if I am wrong, anyone can patent an idea. You do not have to have a final, working product in order to get the patent, you just have to have the ABILITY to make it happen.
So, if I were to come up with a new way to do function A, I do not have to implement it. Just the methodology is owned by me. Perhaps a variation in new patent applications for software and algorithms is in order?
It would be nice to put something in the open community there, but not everyone will follow it since right now they don't have to. But the parent's idea of charging for use of ideas only when you profit off of someone else's ideas, but free otherwise when using a GPL-like license, is a great one.
Douglas Adams, when he was the script editor for Who during the Tom Baker era, did a great job in making sure the stories were fun and exciting at the same time. Hell, he tossed in some of his own humor from time to time as well...
Remember the episode with the Movellans vs the Daleks during the Tom Baker era? The Doctor is trapped under a pillar, and decides to pass the time reading a book. What book? The title eludes me but it was written by Oolun Caluphid (sp?), Douglas Adams' famous philosopher from THHGTTG - you know, the guy who wrote such famous books as "Where God Went Wrong", "Some More Of God's Greatest Mistakes", and "Who Is This God Person Anyway".
Just a correction for the initial post: SCO has claimed that they have submitted much of the material to IBM, just not all (this is verified by the statements of Mr Tibbitts). The information they do not yet have are for those managers who were on vacation and couldn't get the papers to their legal dep't before they went away for, what, a month??? But definitely keep an eye on the Groklaw site. They get all the information as soon as it is available and is a great site to find all the SCO info. (For those who don't get enough at /.)
If possible, before reading the books, try to find an audio copy of the original radio show. Although the books are amazing, the radio show is the original.. what the books are based on. Nothing can beat Douglas Adams' use of humor here, as everything is left to the listener's imagination, with some twisted sound effects thrown in from time to time. (Oh, and the second "series" of it (episodes 7 thru 12) of the radio show mostly differ from what you will find in the books anyways!)
Although this may make some people upset, I agree with the parent as to some of reasoning, if not the method with which he expressed his views. There are differences in security, and it should not be up to specialized security companies to do all of the policing. They are infallible, as the testers are human; they will not catch everything, everytime.
My only reservation about the parent's post is that the assumption (from my reading of the post) is that Best Buy did nothing about that security flaw once it was notified of it. We do not know that for sure; they could have addressed it immediately and patched the security flaw. However, it is entirely possible that the individual who broke into the system already had a copy of all of the information from this flaw (if, in fact, the flaw was as bad as he indicated). If so, then even though Best Buy would find out about the flaw and corrected it, it is too late; the information is gone. Had this individual not asked for money, I think he still would have received some kind of attention from the government or at least local officials, but not to this extent. If he knew enough to gain access to Best Buy's system, is it not possible he should have also known that they could trace it back to him? Maybe he just got lucky in getting into the system...
Security is of tantamount concern to both businesses and individuals, as the individual is responsible for creating the business. Should a company not take the proper, sometimes paranoid steps in order to ensure the security of the individual on their site/product, then there really is no winner in the situation at all.
Most of your post I agree with in its entirety. However, I do not agree with the comparison of downloaded music to that of warez. Someone says they downloaded a full version "to evaluate it" is full of crap, unless there *IS* no demo version available. If you were wanting to switch from MS Office to another alternative, you would want to try out WordPerfect Suite, Star Office, OpenOffice, etc. But, which ones of those have free demos? I know OpenOffice is free, but to see if the others meet your needs, would you have to purchase a full version to do the testing? (This is just an example, BTW.) Personally, I do download some music. I find smaller, independent artists that I hear on alternative or college radio shows, stuff that is definitely not mainstream, and I get it. If ever I see the band's CD, I would purchase it. Because I have heard what is on that CD and I support that music. However, with music, I *DO* use it for evaluation purposes, since a majority of the CDs out today release pure garbage. When I do purchase the CD, the digital copies are usually gone off my system, since my stereo has 10 times the sound quality of my computer, and I know I am getting guaranteed (usually) sound quality off of my CD as opposed to an MP3. I think the whole point of my argument here is, yes, I think the RIAA is wrong. Their arguments are ridiculous against this number of consumers. Do I think they have a point, though? Definitely. These are copyrighted works. But I pose a question: If an artist under one of the big labels, let us just say Smashing Pumpkins for example, decides to allow their copyrighted materials to be downloaded on Kazaa or other P2P, where is the RIAA argument? Who owns the copyright: the artist, or the label? Exactly who is the RIAA supporting in this case? My only other concern is this: movies, audio, books, etc. all state the copyright code. When we buy movies we get that long copyright code indicating that that article is protected under international copyright law, and yet it is only in the US that these laws are being enforced. The warning states that the FBI will get involved otherwise for violations of the international act. Has anyone heard any stories of the RIAA attempting to go outside of the US jurisdiction, representing the artists they say they represent, and start attempting to obtain damages elsewhere in the world? Just curious.
Good point. Now isn't it too bad that many end users who currently use Windows XP and only have one box use the default Firewall system in XP? Now who could have created that firewall, hmm? So would that not then make MS responsible as their firewall that they have provided in their OS would allow problematic bugs and worms through? At least somewhat responsible?
It's not really up in arms over the the copyright violations. The community is more or less now going to follow SCO's lead, should the need arise: you are using our copyrighted information, without our permission, so we sue you. If SCO says that they are not breaking copyright law, then their own case has no merit by their own argument.
Everything can be looked at from several perspectives, no matter what it is. In this case, there are the two obvious ones: SCO is right in their argument, or SCO is wrong. If SCO is right, then they deserve to be sued back via their own stance on the issue. If they are wrong, then they have to drop the lawsuit and everything is done and gone.
Fox News is satire. Plain and simple. How many legitimate truths have you gotten from them? Hell, I have seen more real news on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart than I have on Fox News!
It all depends on how quickly China decides to do all of its actions. It took the US space program more or less an entire decade in order to go from sub-orbital to orbital to the moon. How quickly is China going to push things? If they can learn from the past mistakes and go forth with a solid program, why wouldn't the space race come back? It may not be the best thing for the US right now, but wait until they have their new vehicle designed, built, and then redesigned and rebuilt due to the beuracracy, and then the race will be back on.
My entire post was, although focusing on Canada, that inventors and scientists worldwide who come up with ideas or discover something amazing do not always get the recognition they deserve. This includes many individuals in the US.
To what one poster has said, yes, many individuals from Canada go elsewhere to get the money breaks, etc. However, it is not because some of those things can not be found in Canada and their own countries; it is because the individuals with the idea work for a large corporation or another company of some kind and their names are obscured. Yes, the company may have contributed significantly to the research, but it is ultimately the researchers and the scientists who do the work and achieve the successes. It is to these people that everyone should show some gratitude, alongside the companies.
These people should not be forgotten.
Indeed I am. Although he is American, his work was done in Montreal when it came to his work on neurosurgery. His Canadiant Heritage vignette is both informative and amusing, with the catch phrase of "Doctor, I smell burnt toast!" being known to most Canadians who watch television. The vignette is also available online here in a QuickTime format. Many other vignettes are listed along the left, some interesting, some funny, some damned obvious. Enjoy!
We never said that bad things ALSO come out of Canada. You just managed to list the top two of them, though. Congratulations for knowing your neighbors to the north so well!
Unfortunately, some of what the article says is true: many great Canadian inventors do not get the recognition that they deserve. It appears that Mr. Kutt had created the first computer, which was great.
How many other people do know that a Canadian doctor was the first man to map sections of the brain that indicate smell and other senses in an order to discover what causes seizures? (For the Canadians on here think: "Doctor, I smell burnt toast!")
There are many others worldwide who, unfortunately, do not get the recognition they so richly deserve because companies with more money and power take all of the credit and force the creators into obscurity around their own inventions. This is actually a great story about how an inventor, even though it was 30 years later, is finally receiving the recognition he so richly deserved.
Very carefully... And from a distance.
My key word is "bottleneck"? I think I heard more specific information a few weeks back at a tarot card reader than I am in the IT horoscope. I am waiting to see when they announce the IT layoffs will be in someone's future...
Probably not, since McFarlane took Gaiman's character if Angela and made his own changes, even though Gaiman owned all rights to her. When Gaiman wanted McFarlane to pay the royalties, McFarlane killed her character off to avoid having to do so.
With frigging laser beams on their heads!