You can't legally take a work and change it just enough to be unrecognizable then call it your own. That's creating a derivative work and is still infringing copyright if you don't have the permission of the copyright holder. What you can do is create your own that does the same thing from scratch and/or with components you have permission to use.
And anyone who places huge amounts of business logic in client-side code isn't thinking about their application's design well enough. Certain things need to be done client-side like Flash and AJAXy special effects but when any large amount of processing needs to be done it should be done server-side with few exceptions.
You could probably create a clickable link if you could use Javascript as the onclick to postback to the URL in question. I know, an ugly hack, but it could work.
I knew someone would say that a few minutes after I posted the GP. Magnatune is awesome; I haven't looked at eMusic personally yet. But I am in general referring to members of the RIAA with my comments above.
Unfortunately, by doing so, you've implicitly sent the message that you accept DRM being placed on music.
Now, I'm not saying that in the absence of any other way of obtaining music I really wanted I wouldn't do the same, but in general I avoid purchasing anything with DRM on it even if there's a way to strip it.
CDs have the convenience of being able to access the music without having to search through a peer to peer filesharing service. Yet people do that anyway, because they want the music on their computers, and nobody offers legal MP3 downloads of music. (I won't accept AllOfMP3 as a "legal" service.)
Here's a thought: If CD sales are being hurt, it's not because of online downloading.
It's because the music industry won't cater to what their customers are asking for.
And that means death to any business. Recording companies shouldn't get a bye simply because they're big.
And I'm pretty Office does have publically registered COM components (.NET at least, those I have used). Whether or not unregistering them would break Office itself I don't know, but it would certainly break anything that tried to use it.
The first line of my comment was meant to be a summary of D-Link's position as if they were speaking it, not Slashdot's. Hence the link to D-Link's terms of use.
Through a bit of a fluke we recently got all the channels on our digital cable box, including G4 TechTV, which I hadn't previously been able to see. I was somewhat excited to finally be able to see it... only to find out that they were playing some crappy "games-sports-wedon'tknowwhattocover" show with annoying hosts who think they're funny and/or cool EVERY FUCKING TWO HOURS with very, very little else to offer. I was disappointed.
From reading the manual earlier it looks like you have to input -1 to actually get to the login screen, and I haven't seen a control key on any ATM keypads in a while. It sounds like there's another one inside the case.
ffdshow has crashed my player (Winamp) a few times, enough that I disabled it for the format I was trying to play. (And it was ffdshow, not Winamp; files played fine once it was out of the picture.)
Any software can be dangerous. Most codec packs are not, however, unless they include spyware with them. From personal experience, to my knowledge the Kazaa Lite codec pack in its various incarnations as downloaded from the edskes mirrors don't contain any.
Calm down! Geez, I was just replying to the parent. In no way am I saying ZOMG SLASHDOT SUCKS IF THEY DON'T FIX THIS or anything. I'm just saying that ignoring a browser because it doesn't completely follow standards isn't a great idea when many people are indeed locked to using it in certain environments and it still has a large share of users.
By the way, I haven't had the misfortune of being locked to using IE for a few years now. I've been almost entirely using Firefox except when I need to test something in IE so I know it works. Yep, I'm a web developer, and unlike your brazen assumption earlier, I have a standards-compliant browser that I use 99.9% of the time.
Maybe you were just having a bad day or something.
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You can't legally take a work and change it just enough to be unrecognizable then call it your own. That's creating a derivative work and is still infringing copyright if you don't have the permission of the copyright holder. What you can do is create your own that does the same thing from scratch and/or with components you have permission to use.
And anyone who places huge amounts of business logic in client-side code isn't thinking about their application's design well enough. Certain things need to be done client-side like Flash and AJAXy special effects but when any large amount of processing needs to be done it should be done server-side with few exceptions.
You could probably create a clickable link if you could use Javascript as the onclick to postback to the URL in question. I know, an ugly hack, but it could work.
Nough said.
I knew someone would say that a few minutes after I posted the GP. Magnatune is awesome; I haven't looked at eMusic personally yet. But I am in general referring to members of the RIAA with my comments above.
Scanned with HouseCall.
See title. ;^)
I opened the file that I had and it didn't seem to contain any spyware or viruses. No idea why it's different from the other one though.
Unfortunately, by doing so, you've implicitly sent the message that you accept DRM being placed on music.
Now, I'm not saying that in the absence of any other way of obtaining music I really wanted I wouldn't do the same, but in general I avoid purchasing anything with DRM on it even if there's a way to strip it.
Wait, you're talking about GIFs here? I thought you were referring to MySpace.
You're right, the fifth time, repetition does make it funny.
Though I prefer insightful cause I get karma for it.
So, what did I get from this article... There's a new tool available that can strip new Windows Media DRM! Thanks, Microsoft!
:^)
It took a bit of searching but I found the program and mirrored it if anybody's interesting. Please be sparing on my bandwidth.
Methinks a judge would not look kindly upon blackmail.
CDs have the convenience of being able to access the music without having to search through a peer to peer filesharing service. Yet people do that anyway, because they want the music on their computers, and nobody offers legal MP3 downloads of music. (I won't accept AllOfMP3 as a "legal" service.)
Here's a thought: If CD sales are being hurt, it's not because of online downloading.
It's because the music industry won't cater to what their customers are asking for.
And that means death to any business. Recording companies shouldn't get a bye simply because they're big.
"We're sorry, your liberal slant is too far left to access this site."
-- Fox News
And I'm pretty Office does have publically registered COM components (.NET at least, those I have used). Whether or not unregistering them would break Office itself I don't know, but it would certainly break anything that tried to use it.
The first line of my comment was meant to be a summary of D-Link's position as if they were speaking it, not Slashdot's. Hence the link to D-Link's terms of use.
We expect people to agree to our Terms of Use but we don't have to obey those from others when we use their products.
How hypocritical!
The team that opened the box were quickly overtaken by giant enemy crabs.
Through a bit of a fluke we recently got all the channels on our digital cable box, including G4 TechTV, which I hadn't previously been able to see. I was somewhat excited to finally be able to see it... only to find out that they were playing some crappy "games-sports-wedon'tknowwhattocover" show with annoying hosts who think they're funny and/or cool EVERY FUCKING TWO HOURS with very, very little else to offer. I was disappointed.
Someone start a good geek channel. Please?
That's the control key, /. treated it as HTML.
From reading the manual earlier it looks like you have to input -1 to actually get to the login screen, and I haven't seen a control key on any ATM keypads in a while. It sounds like there's another one inside the case.
ffdshow has crashed my player (Winamp) a few times, enough that I disabled it for the format I was trying to play. (And it was ffdshow, not Winamp; files played fine once it was out of the picture.)
Any software can be dangerous. Most codec packs are not, however, unless they include spyware with them. From personal experience, to my knowledge the Kazaa Lite codec pack in its various incarnations as downloaded from the edskes mirrors don't contain any.
You can't start thinking like that or the terr\H\H\H\Hgovernment wins.
So send four pics. :^)
Eh, not a problem. I know I've posted things while angry that have been modded down to nothing before. Not a big deal :^)
Calm down! Geez, I was just replying to the parent. In no way am I saying ZOMG SLASHDOT SUCKS IF THEY DON'T FIX THIS or anything. I'm just saying that ignoring a browser because it doesn't completely follow standards isn't a great idea when many people are indeed locked to using it in certain environments and it still has a large share of users.
By the way, I haven't had the misfortune of being locked to using IE for a few years now. I've been almost entirely using Firefox except when I need to test something in IE so I know it works. Yep, I'm a web developer, and unlike your brazen assumption earlier, I have a standards-compliant browser that I use 99.9% of the time.
Maybe you were just having a bad day or something.