To even get slightly looked at, you have to be an uploader. Apparently the legal argument is that just having a file available to upload, does not qualify as uploading (ie, having 10,000 files in your shared folder does not show that you upload), so unless the canadian version of RIAA can prove that you actually initiated the upload yourself (as opposed to someone requesting it from you), they can not prove a crime, and cannot request your identity.
Just out of curiosity, what do you think this means for something like BitTorrent, where you're basically initiating an upload at the same time?
Also, considering that during the download, you're uploading something you don't even have, at least in entirety.
There was something like this here in Rochester, NY, some time ago. It failed horribly and the company has long since disappeared.
Plus, their channel lineup SUCKS. Really, you only get six channels you didn't get before. Disney, Lifetime, ESPN, Discovery, HGTV, and Food. Just because you get two channels of the same shit doesn't make it different.
Then again, now that I look back on it.. this is actually a perfect channel lineup for Utah, where every family is like some stereotype out of a 50's sitcom - you're unamerican if you're a woman and you're not a stay-at-home wife, or a man that doesn't care about sports, because that means you're a fag...
I'd always figured that by now, pretty much everyone has a friend or a friend of a friend that can fix a computer. But, even for people who don't, there are way too many people that can fix computers to make a living doing this sort of thing. The most i've seen anyone be able to do is get a little extra money on the side.
It's not like plumbing/electrical where you need a licence to do it. Anyone willing to claim that they know what they're doing can go ahead and do it, whether or not they actually do know what they're doing.
I have a chemistry degree, and I fail to see how it applies to industrial construction. In fact, the only "job" i've been able to get with it is graduate school. I'm still kicking myself for going to college in 1996 instead of cleaning up in the IT field for the late 90's, then going to school now instead.
In a few years, the US will be just as much of a scumhole as India, the whole world will pretty much look that way. All the rich people in the world will live on say, Bermuda or something, and everything else will just be a huge slum.
Regarding the packaging of channels, Charlie said that he wishes Dish could do ala carte, but they can't because companies like Viacom won't let them. Viacom (and Disney, and all the rest) explicitly lay out in their contracts with distributors which channels have to be bundled with other specific channels. It's not a matter of Charlie having double standards - he's simply not allowed to break up packages any more than you can.
This is absolute nonsense. It's the same as when the state raises cigarette taxes by 20 cents a pack and the price goes up a dollar. Sure, Viacom requires all their channels to be bundled, which is a bummer, but last I checked, DISH's cheapest package had 60 channels, and there weren't 60 channels in dispute here.
There's no reason they couldn't offer separate content provider packages - a Viacom package, a TimeWarner package, etc. It would also completely remove the pressure from DISH for having to explain why they need to sell you all the crap they don't want, and direct public anger towards Viacom, etc.
Some projects seem to use "-ux" or "-ix" at the end for this purpose, e.g. Knoppix.
On an interesting side note, I've seen trucks around here (Rochester, NY) that have Tux on the side. It's a completely unrelated local business, I think it was some sort of fire safety supplier. Sorry I don't have more information about it.
It looks like they just saw the logo on some website, thought it was cool, and started plastering it on their trucks. I haven't seen any lately, maybe they got into trouble.
Any information on how long it takes to burn the picture? I assume it'll take just as long as burning the data, even longer if you're not using all of the data side (The images will probably take up the entire image side). Plus, you have to get up and flip the disc over.
Which, even with the fastest drives today, takes a lot longer than just writing it with a sharpie.
Bongs are legal for "tobacco use only." You probably have just as many people using their bongs to smoke tobacco as smart card programmers to not decode satellite.
However, it's usually the case that Product B is deliberately made incompatible with Product A. Microsoft, and I'm sure many other companies, do this all the time.
He's not in jail, but he's not doing ads for Hertz anymore. Which is the issue here. Linux will always exist, but will any company be willing to use it given the situation?
I've often wondered about this. I'm of the opinion that most people are not just willing to pay, but that they WANT to pay. I think the best solution, hypothetically, would be a website where you can donate money directly. The virtue of having no set price is that people will feel more like they're contributing and less like they're being taxed.
But, I have no idea how this would happen. I'm assuming that by having a record contract, the artists are not allowed to take these sort of payments.
End users who have MP3s and have not passed them on to others have been left alone, regardless of whether those MP3s were obtained legitimately or not. There's little to reason to believe the RIAA would change tack on that.
This is probably the smartest thing the RIAA has done. Having a large number of non-contributing downloaders is fatal to a P2P network.
Bush wasn't AWOL, he got an honorable discharge. However, that doesn't mean that he didn't get a lot of special treatment because of his family connections that allowed him to weasel out of active duty and pretty much get away with doing absolutely nothing and still be considered to have "fulfilled his duty."
Am I the only person that finds black-on-white text incredibly irritating? I try to set my apps to grey-on-black text whenever possible, at the expense of appearance. White backgrounds give me a headache after looking at them for a few minutes.
Deleting the music file would be more like breaking a CD (DRM doesn't make a difference in this case anyway), and if you do that, it's your own dumbass fault. This is more like having your entire CD collection stop playing because the record store you bought them from went out of business.
I was going to make a smartass reply to this, since networks are often carried over copper, it should be the melting point of copper... Fahrenheit 1984... I didn't even know. Creepy.
considering 99% of the viruses and spam comes from outside the US, we should put a big firewall between us and the rest of the world. Sorry, access denied!!!!
Unfortunately, So does 99% of trustworthy news about the US. This article notwithstanding, of course.
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To even get slightly looked at, you have to be an uploader. Apparently the legal argument is that just having a file available to upload, does not qualify as uploading (ie, having 10,000 files in your shared folder does not show that you upload), so unless the canadian version of RIAA can prove that you actually initiated the upload yourself (as opposed to someone requesting it from you), they can not prove a crime, and cannot request your identity.
Just out of curiosity, what do you think this means for something like BitTorrent, where you're basically initiating an upload at the same time?
Also, considering that during the download, you're uploading something you don't even have, at least in entirety.
There was something like this here in Rochester, NY, some time ago. It failed horribly and the company has long since disappeared.
Plus, their channel lineup SUCKS. Really, you only get six channels you didn't get before. Disney, Lifetime, ESPN, Discovery, HGTV, and Food. Just because you get two channels of the same shit doesn't make it different.
Then again, now that I look back on it.. this is actually a perfect channel lineup for Utah, where every family is like some stereotype out of a 50's sitcom - you're unamerican if you're a woman and you're not a stay-at-home wife, or a man that doesn't care about sports, because that means you're a fag...
Awesome. I'm going to install a C-band dish on my balcony now!
I'd always figured that by now, pretty much everyone has a friend or a friend of a friend that can fix a computer. But, even for people who don't, there are way too many people that can fix computers to make a living doing this sort of thing. The most i've seen anyone be able to do is get a little extra money on the side.
It's not like plumbing/electrical where you need a licence to do it. Anyone willing to claim that they know what they're doing can go ahead and do it, whether or not they actually do know what they're doing.
I have a chemistry degree, and I fail to see how it applies to industrial construction. In fact, the only "job" i've been able to get with it is graduate school. I'm still kicking myself for going to college in 1996 instead of cleaning up in the IT field for the late 90's, then going to school now instead.
In a few years, the US will be just as much of a scumhole as India, the whole world will pretty much look that way. All the rich people in the world will live on say, Bermuda or something, and everything else will just be a huge slum.
Weird, I thought you were talking about "keming"...
Regarding the packaging of channels, Charlie said that he wishes Dish could do ala carte, but they can't because companies like Viacom won't let them. Viacom (and Disney, and all the rest) explicitly lay out in their contracts with distributors which channels have to be bundled with other specific channels. It's not a matter of Charlie having double standards - he's simply not allowed to break up packages any more than you can.
This is absolute nonsense. It's the same as when the state raises cigarette taxes by 20 cents a pack and the price goes up a dollar. Sure, Viacom requires all their channels to be bundled, which is a bummer, but last I checked, DISH's cheapest package had 60 channels, and there weren't 60 channels in dispute here.
There's no reason they couldn't offer separate content provider packages - a Viacom package, a TimeWarner package, etc. It would also completely remove the pressure from DISH for having to explain why they need to sell you all the crap they don't want, and direct public anger towards Viacom, etc.
Because the airwaves are technically our property anyway.
The company is http://www.penguinlifesafety.com. They also apparently have permission from Larry Ewing to use it. :)
Yes, the site runs linux.
They install fire insulation.
Some projects seem to use "-ux" or "-ix" at the end for this purpose, e.g. Knoppix.
On an interesting side note, I've seen trucks around here (Rochester, NY) that have Tux on the side. It's a completely unrelated local business, I think it was some sort of fire safety supplier. Sorry I don't have more information about it.
It looks like they just saw the logo on some website, thought it was cool, and started plastering it on their trucks. I haven't seen any lately, maybe they got into trouble.
This is really stupid.
Any information on how long it takes to burn the picture? I assume it'll take just as long as burning the data, even longer if you're not using all of the data side (The images will probably take up the entire image side). Plus, you have to get up and flip the disc over.
Which, even with the fastest drives today, takes a lot longer than just writing it with a sharpie.
Bongs are legal for "tobacco use only." You probably have just as many people using their bongs to smoke tobacco as smart card programmers to not decode satellite.
However, it's usually the case that Product B is deliberately made incompatible with Product A. Microsoft, and I'm sure many other companies, do this all the time.
He's not in jail, but he's not doing ads for Hertz anymore. Which is the issue here. Linux will always exist, but will any company be willing to use it given the situation?
You can't mod and reply on the same thread. Which is why I usually lose my mod points.
I've often wondered about this. I'm of the opinion that most people are not just willing to pay, but that they WANT to pay. I think the best solution, hypothetically, would be a website where you can donate money directly. The virtue of having no set price is that people will feel more like they're contributing and less like they're being taxed.
But, I have no idea how this would happen. I'm assuming that by having a record contract, the artists are not allowed to take these sort of payments.
End users who have MP3s and have not passed them on to others have been left alone, regardless of whether those MP3s were obtained legitimately or not. There's little to reason to believe the RIAA would change tack on that.
This is probably the smartest thing the RIAA has done. Having a large number of non-contributing downloaders is fatal to a P2P network.
Bush wasn't AWOL, he got an honorable discharge. However, that doesn't mean that he didn't get a lot of special treatment because of his family connections that allowed him to weasel out of active duty and pretty much get away with doing absolutely nothing and still be considered to have "fulfilled his duty."
Am I the only person that finds black-on-white text incredibly irritating? I try to set my apps to grey-on-black text whenever possible, at the expense of appearance. White backgrounds give me a headache after looking at them for a few minutes.
Apple is a touch more clueful than Palm, particularly about consumer behavior.
I'll be sure to make a note of that on my Newton.
Because you forgot to hold down the shift key when you put the CD in?
Deleting the music file would be more like breaking a CD (DRM doesn't make a difference in this case anyway), and if you do that, it's your own dumbass fault. This is more like having your entire CD collection stop playing because the record store you bought them from went out of business.
I was going to make a smartass reply to this, since networks are often carried over copper, it should be the melting point of copper... Fahrenheit 1984...
I didn't even know. Creepy.
considering 99% of the viruses and spam comes from outside the US, we should put a big firewall between us and the rest of the world. Sorry, access denied!!!!
Unfortunately, So does 99% of trustworthy news about the US. This article notwithstanding, of course.