No, most kids are not as wise as they think they are. I remember being a kid and being very frustrated about no one believing what I was capable of. I was smart enough to do just about anything I wanted. I had enough common sense to realize most of the time that knowing how to do something and it being I good idea to do weren't the same. Most of my friends had a lot more trouble with that relationship. The consequence is that I could tell them how to do it, and they would do it. Even I didn't have the common sense to see that one comming when I was 16.
Anything the kids don't know, they can get off the internet. They will have at least one friend that knows how.
How many of those states have goverment lotteries, church run bingos, or allow internet transactions for the Stock market? If only a select few (goverment, certain religions, and the wealthy) are allowed and others are not, then somebodies rights are being trampled.
It seems to me that the people running the elections don't want a system that is verifiable to the person voting even more than not having something verifiable in a recount. They want to be able to throw out votes because of mistakes. If you run a printout that the voter can read, they can demand to cancel and recast the vote if you push a button that doesn't do what it appeared to. Butterfly ballots and overly complicated voting menus and procedures tend to be benificaly to the one pushing the new machines. They can't let the new technology work againt them.
It actually was set up to throw your vote away. That is the main problem with a plurality vote instead of a majority vote. If they let us rank the order of people that we wanted, we could have officials that the majority of people like instead of the one that is so far off base, that none of the other canidates will get part of their votes. This would be the one good thing that electronic voting was good for. Do some kind of weighted vote count instead of vote for one person. The system we have is set up to be the easiest, not the best. A plurality vote is known to have problems associated with the least popular person winning. I think that everyone needs to vote for the person they believe in, but the system was set up so that most people feel they have to vote against someone they don't like most of the time. I can't remeber all the different ways to count a vote, but wikipedia is a good place to start. I spent days going through it once, and it really opened my eyes into how screwed up our current system is. A lot of other countries use different systems that match a lot more of the "fair" criteria that a voting system is based on.
Second of all, voting for the person that will cast a vote for you is a Rebpublic not a democracy.
We need serious reform. We need a voting system that allows for the best canidate to win, and we need to be able to easily put a controversial item to a public vote. This BS about wiretapping and unclassified prisoners needs to be on the Nov ballot, not being pushed through for a campaign slogan.
No, No, No You have it all backwards. We are sending all are young kids overseas to learn real violence so that when they come back and miss all the killin' they will buy more video games. Why do you think that sony thinks they will get so much for a PS3. Sony will be financed off of enlistment bonuses.
And that my friend is why it is so important to this goverment that they can lock up anyone suspected of supporting a terrorist. Get them out of the way before they can explain to anyone else why someone else might feel so strongly about something that they are willing to kill or die for it. You can't even claim "for security" with a strait face when you pass a bill that allows you to hold associates of suspects without a trial or civil rights.
More like he got from Point A to Point B wich are 60 miles apart, but he must have been speeding because everyone gets slowed down somewhere your honor.
Seriously, lets look at who doesn't own a computer:
1. Econmically challenged - Probably not buying CDs by the truck load
2. People that don't like new technology - Maybe LP sales are down too
3. Kids who's mommy/daddy won't buy them a computer - Will buy whatever junk you put on the radio with their lunch money
Most people that can afford a computer on their own have probably figured out that buying a new CD once a week is money better spent elsewhere. The kids who's mommy/daddy did buy the computer are going to download everything they can, and spend all thier lunch money buying video games. Give you on guess what the video game comes on - A CD. If the record company is going to say that CD sales are down, they need to include the sales off all blank CDs, software CDs, and music CDs. Any money left over is going to the music store or the GAP.
I use to work on a lot of embeded controls. Ones with lots of different plug in boards to do different things, including all kinds of control signal inputs and outputs of various voltages. The best design I saw was a 50Khz 48VAC power supply. At those frequencies, even a good wattage xfmr is small enough to be soldered to the board. Every where they needed power they installed a xfmr, bridge, and votage regulator. Had to be a little careful about seperating the power from the signals, but all the power connectors were on one side, and the signal bus was on the other. If you use a switch mode power supply, and don't worry about cleaning the pulses to a sine wave it is very efficient.
All of the big chain stores have agreements that allow them to ship items back. Usually at a loss, but not so much that I am going to swallow "If you don't buy a PS3, people will lose their job!" Maybe some of the game stores, but most of them do business based on presales that they get paid for before the unit gets shipped with a few extra for stock.
When you go to a web site it downloads the information from their server and places a copy on your computer that your browser then displays. If you want to go with an opt-in method for copyrighted material on the internet (every web pages is copyrighted unless intentionally released to the public domain) you need to write to the web master and get permission (most countries require copyright privlages to be in writing) to download his/her site. If it is in the public domain you might as well write them and ask them anyway, because the notice is probably on their website. Opt-in works for a lot of things, web pages is not one of them. Yes, it is the law, but it is a nonfuctioning law, and needs to be changed. This is probably the only law that doesn't work when you add "on the internet"
This is based on how much sony will lose based on cost to manufacture vs. sell price. $750 - $400 = $350 in the hole. They will be spitting these things out like no tomorrow near the release date. They have to pay to manufacture the unit if you buy one or not. $750 - $0 = $750 in the hole. If you want to see sony go down for all their stupid behavior then Don't buy a unit. They will probably cut off production when they don't sell, but it should be too late by then.
If we can find out who is making all the decisions it probably wont be hard to convince him that they aren't selling because they need to manufacture more units, maybe add a root kit to every box and recall the old ones.
What happens when you go to a friends house to play. I want to play "x" car on "y" track. I only have "z" car on "a" track. Doesn't sound like too much fun to me. If I had that kind of money to blow, I could definately find better waste of time.
A lot of people think this is extremem, but they just don't understand that once someone has established your SSN, there is nothing you can do that works. You can get letters to show people that run a credit check, but it will not come off your record for 7 years, and most people that are running a credit check won't give you the chance to explain. This includes housing, employers, and your car insurance. If you can get by without those, you probably don't need to worry about ID theft anyway.
I went to rent my first apartment, and they said I couldn't because of my outstanding loans. I had turned 18 that week. It was obvious that ther was no way for me to have accumulated and defaulted on loans 5 years prior, but that is what the paper said, so that is what happened.
You can not get a new SSN. The social security department does not support using your SSN for credit checks, and so does not see that it is a problem. I have heard several people that worked for the social security department say that the best bet is to move out of the country and start over. At least then you have a blank credit history instead of a negative one. Creditors will most likely not help you, because if the agree that it is fraud, they have to swallow the loss. At the very least monitor everything, and be ready to cancel all cards, pins, and have all your creditors numbers on hand to call and tell them not to add anything to the account unless it is in person. They will usually do everything to prevent fraudulent charges, it is after they are charged that they have an interest in not helping.
Or they could just "take you out", or dig up enough information on you so that they could enact some clause that does not allow you to get your retirement. Putting the extra money back into the coffers should raise the stock some. Maybe they could just get your whole identity, open up a few credit cards in your name, and use them to pay everyone a dividen.
Stealing peoples idenities and hacking into their computer systems to obtain private information is a crime. If they could find the leak using leagal methods fine, if not they should have been more careful of who they hired. Have you checked the worth of their stock lately?
I don't see them flocking to Linux, but I think the ones that do switch will be the ones that got infected on the net. Since it is no longer supported, some script kiddy will eventually get bored and write the virus microsoft won't patch. Some will go buy a new Vista machine, but some just can't afford it. When they wine to the kids/grandkids and one of them has a liveCD to show them that they can surf the web and check hotmail with no expense they will be intrested.
I found this out by accident when I booted a live CD on my dad's computer to backup some personal files before reinstalling windows. When I explained it to him, including that if you get a virus you just reboot and it's gone, he was hooked. Now he does all his normal stuff in windows, but boots to a live CD to surf and check his mail. I haven't had a "support call" since.
Does anyone know if there is anything in DMCA that might be used. I thought it was illegal to make a device that allowed the circumvention of copyright. CC has it's protection in NOT have DRM. Building a device that automatically installs it would be a violation. Just a thought and probably has quite a few holes, but can the holes be patched.
I think that he was asking about personal use, not shared files. If another country allows a certain type of copy to be made legally, but the country of residence does not, is it legal to purchase that copy over the internet? In the case of allmymp3s they are using a Russian law that allows them to make copies for distribution by paying for a broadcast license. Something that is clearly not allowed by the provisions of a broadcast license in the USA. To my knowledge a Russian court has upheld that the company is not violating Russian copyright law, but is the person in the US violating American laws? I think it is such a grey area that it will take a precise court decision and several appeals to decide, and do not expect an answer until then; but I think the answer to the original question comes of as being a sarcastic answer to the question as I have stated, instead of a resonable answer to the question as it would apply to music in a shared folder.
I think you missed the point. It would be one thing if it was a settlement, however there was nothing to settle. There was no lawsuit. If they had filed a lawsuit, and then reached an agreement it would be a settlement. This was more along the lines of pay us what we want or we will sue you. If you happen to think that the threat of getting sued is justice, you have not been in court with someone that outmatched you financially. It is more like poker than justice. If you can match the bet you can call thier bluff, otherwise you have to fold.
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Anything the kids don't know, they can get off the internet. They will have at least one friend that knows how.
How many of those states have goverment lotteries, church run bingos, or allow internet transactions for the Stock market? If only a select few (goverment, certain religions, and the wealthy) are allowed and others are not, then somebodies rights are being trampled.
It seems to me that the people running the elections don't want a system that is verifiable to the person voting even more than not having something verifiable in a recount. They want to be able to throw out votes because of mistakes. If you run a printout that the voter can read, they can demand to cancel and recast the vote if you push a button that doesn't do what it appeared to. Butterfly ballots and overly complicated voting menus and procedures tend to be benificaly to the one pushing the new machines. They can't let the new technology work againt them.
Second of all, voting for the person that will cast a vote for you is a Rebpublic not a democracy.
We need serious reform. We need a voting system that allows for the best canidate to win, and we need to be able to easily put a controversial item to a public vote. This BS about wiretapping and unclassified prisoners needs to be on the Nov ballot, not being pushed through for a campaign slogan.
No, No, No You have it all backwards. We are sending all are young kids overseas to learn real violence so that when they come back and miss all the killin' they will buy more video games. Why do you think that sony thinks they will get so much for a PS3. Sony will be financed off of enlistment bonuses.
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And that my friend is why it is so important to this goverment that they can lock up anyone suspected of supporting a terrorist. Get them out of the way before they can explain to anyone else why someone else might feel so strongly about something that they are willing to kill or die for it. You can't even claim "for security" with a strait face when you pass a bill that allows you to hold associates of suspects without a trial or civil rights.
You got robbed on Karma, that is the funniest thing I have read in a while!!
Death and Taxes you can't avoid.
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More like he got from Point A to Point B wich are 60 miles apart, but he must have been speeding because everyone gets slowed down somewhere your honor.
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A lot depends on how you define a computer, but think about what this would have been like in 1970?
Seriously, lets look at who doesn't own a computer:
1. Econmically challenged - Probably not buying CDs by the truck load
2. People that don't like new technology - Maybe LP sales are down too
3. Kids who's mommy/daddy won't buy them a computer - Will buy whatever junk you put on the radio with their lunch money
Most people that can afford a computer on their own have probably figured out that buying a new CD once a week is money better spent elsewhere. The kids who's mommy/daddy did buy the computer are going to download everything they can, and spend all thier lunch money buying video games. Give you on guess what the video game comes on - A CD. If the record company is going to say that CD sales are down, they need to include the sales off all blank CDs, software CDs, and music CDs. Any money left over is going to the music store or the GAP.
I use to work on a lot of embeded controls. Ones with lots of different plug in boards to do different things, including all kinds of control signal inputs and outputs of various voltages. The best design I saw was a 50Khz 48VAC power supply. At those frequencies, even a good wattage xfmr is small enough to be soldered to the board. Every where they needed power they installed a xfmr, bridge, and votage regulator. Had to be a little careful about seperating the power from the signals, but all the power connectors were on one side, and the signal bus was on the other. If you use a switch mode power supply, and don't worry about cleaning the pulses to a sine wave it is very efficient.
All of the big chain stores have agreements that allow them to ship items back. Usually at a loss, but not so much that I am going to swallow "If you don't buy a PS3, people will lose their job!" Maybe some of the game stores, but most of them do business based on presales that they get paid for before the unit gets shipped with a few extra for stock.
When you go to a web site it downloads the information from their server and places a copy on your computer that your browser then displays. If you want to go with an opt-in method for copyrighted material on the internet (every web pages is copyrighted unless intentionally released to the public domain) you need to write to the web master and get permission (most countries require copyright privlages to be in writing) to download his/her site. If it is in the public domain you might as well write them and ask them anyway, because the notice is probably on their website. Opt-in works for a lot of things, web pages is not one of them. Yes, it is the law, but it is a nonfuctioning law, and needs to be changed. This is probably the only law that doesn't work when you add "on the internet"
If we can find out who is making all the decisions it probably wont be hard to convince him that they aren't selling because they need to manufacture more units, maybe add a root kit to every box and recall the old ones.
What happens when you go to a friends house to play. I want to play "x" car on "y" track. I only have "z" car on "a" track. Doesn't sound like too much fun to me. If I had that kind of money to blow, I could definately find better waste of time.
I went to rent my first apartment, and they said I couldn't because of my outstanding loans. I had turned 18 that week. It was obvious that ther was no way for me to have accumulated and defaulted on loans 5 years prior, but that is what the paper said, so that is what happened.
You can not get a new SSN. The social security department does not support using your SSN for credit checks, and so does not see that it is a problem. I have heard several people that worked for the social security department say that the best bet is to move out of the country and start over. At least then you have a blank credit history instead of a negative one. Creditors will most likely not help you, because if the agree that it is fraud, they have to swallow the loss. At the very least monitor everything, and be ready to cancel all cards, pins, and have all your creditors numbers on hand to call and tell them not to add anything to the account unless it is in person. They will usually do everything to prevent fraudulent charges, it is after they are charged that they have an interest in not helping.
Stealing peoples idenities and hacking into their computer systems to obtain private information is a crime. If they could find the leak using leagal methods fine, if not they should have been more careful of who they hired. Have you checked the worth of their stock lately?
If he can finish a degree in one year, he might just be able to do a real prior art search for a pending patent in 2 or 3. Let's hire him.
I found this out by accident when I booted a live CD on my dad's computer to backup some personal files before reinstalling windows. When I explained it to him, including that if you get a virus you just reboot and it's gone, he was hooked. Now he does all his normal stuff in windows, but boots to a live CD to surf and check his mail. I haven't had a "support call" since.
Does anyone know if there is anything in DMCA that might be used. I thought it was illegal to make a device that allowed the circumvention of copyright. CC has it's protection in NOT have DRM. Building a device that automatically installs it would be a violation. Just a thought and probably has quite a few holes, but can the holes be patched.
I've heard of "die hard" Republicans, but that's stretching it too far.
I think that he was asking about personal use, not shared files. If another country allows a certain type of copy to be made legally, but the country of residence does not, is it legal to purchase that copy over the internet? In the case of allmymp3s they are using a Russian law that allows them to make copies for distribution by paying for a broadcast license. Something that is clearly not allowed by the provisions of a broadcast license in the USA. To my knowledge a Russian court has upheld that the company is not violating Russian copyright law, but is the person in the US violating American laws? I think it is such a grey area that it will take a precise court decision and several appeals to decide, and do not expect an answer until then; but I think the answer to the original question comes of as being a sarcastic answer to the question as I have stated, instead of a resonable answer to the question as it would apply to music in a shared folder.
I think you missed the point. It would be one thing if it was a settlement, however there was nothing to settle. There was no lawsuit. If they had filed a lawsuit, and then reached an agreement it would be a settlement. This was more along the lines of pay us what we want or we will sue you. If you happen to think that the threat of getting sued is justice, you have not been in court with someone that outmatched you financially. It is more like poker than justice. If you can match the bet you can call thier bluff, otherwise you have to fold.
or 3, check the IP address out and find out if it connects to a TOR server. It would seem that this should be possible without seizing the computer.