It seems to me that according to the homestead principle one could claim parts of the moon
The homestead principle has nothing to do with it. It's the force principle. If you're the strongest entity around (and that's pretty much guaranteed if you're the only entity there), then you have total authority.
This brings to mind some major privacy concerns too
It's good that it brings those concerns to mind. Just remember that it didn't create those concerns. Your conversations were already insecure.
Nothing is ever going to happen -- phone calls routed through your worst enemy, government listening to every single conversation without a warrant, Qeng Ho traders lurking at L1 checking out how much alien Viagra our planets needs, or p2p telecom systems -- which makes things worse. We already have this problem.
From apple's perspective, does it make sense to take this risk?
If it doesn't, then they might as well not produce any software at all. Apple probably doesn't have a single program that doesn't violate countless patents. Nobody does. If you can't handle the indeterminate risks that go with the whole patent mess, then you might as well get out of the software business.
They can license mp3 and aac playback, and the risks are relatively known
The risks are never known. Their MP3 and AAC playback could just as easily violate some obscure patent held by some patent troll. You just don't know, until someone sues you.
I haven't seen the Windows version, but iTunes (on MacOS 10.4.8) seriously sucks, or at least it is horribly documented at best.
I use a Mac at work, and I started bringing in music. iTunes didn't even recognize the files as music; it didn't know what to do.
I finally figured out what was wrong: iTunes for MacOS doesn't know how to handle Vorbis files! In 2007, still no Vorbis?! Fortunately, I poked around the net and found a plugin that sort of worked.
But it only sort of worked, and it fails to detect track numbers (so albums would play out of order) and every once in a while it just flakes out and sucks 100% CPU without doing anything. While I don't really blame Apple for someone else's plugin flakiness, it is a pretty shocking oversight for a plugin to be needed at all. At least if it were proprietary, I would understand how they could omit one of the top audio codecs, but Vorbis is free. There's just no excuse.
Oh, and the UI is confusing.
I switched to Cog. Cog just works, never blows my mind with some kind of weird stubborn defects, has an easy-to-understand UI, and makes iTunes look like some kind of Microsoft atrocity by comparison.
I don't object to using an open format, I object to your implication that doing so automatically means players will be available for people to listen/view material in that format.
It looks like what he's really arguing is that the "copyright notice" would become impractically long, if it listed all the possible Fair Uses.
The problem I have with that, is that it's already impractically wrong by dishonestly listing prohibited uses.
Replace the copyright notice with "Copyright 2007 Major League Baseball." Maybe even say "All rights reserved" if you want to make a point about how you won't take shit from anyone.
But if you're going to play legislator+judge and actually try to explain copyright law inside the copyright notice, then you have to accept the consequences when people bitch that you're explaining it incorrectly.
I think CCIA is really just making a point through absurdity (perhaps unintentionally), and it has subconsciously gotten through to this guy but he still doesn't quite get it. Yes, you can't really change the copyright notices to explain Fair Use. Alas, you also can't really have the copyright notice accurately explain all the restrictions. To do it right, the notice is going to include many many hours of case law. So just leave out the details, say "copyright" and leave it to the consumer to research what that really means, if they want to. I know what Patrick Ross is thinking: the consumer doesn't want to. Well, that's too bad. Your desire to explain it to the consumer against against the consumer's will, doesn't give you the right to lie.
And your electric bill will go through the roof if you're growing under lights. . Police have gotten warrants based on electric bills
Your honor, imagine a Beowulf cluster...
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A few months ago, my ex-girlfriend was training to become a hypnotherapist, and would come home and tell me little things about it. One of the things I remember, is that hypnotic suggestions should always be positive and they don't work very well if you try to put a negative into them. For example, "You want to be thin" is far better than "you don't want to be fat."
But another part of it, was that people don't take suggestions that they don't want anyway. If people believe Saddam was related to 9/11, it's probably because they wanted Saddam to get his ass kicked. Tell me what I want to hear.
Yep, a strong pattern indeed. Intel is saying, "Buy an Intel processor," whereas AMD is saying, "Buy an Intel processor." Anyone who can't spot the pattern in that, has to be pretty dense. I wonder why AMD's stockholders haven't noticed it.
I think what he meant to say, was that the entrails predicted spectacularly clear skies. Stupid anchormen, getting their scientician terms mixed up. But don't let some idiot's malapropism get you down. What's important is that shuttle did get off, and deployed a telescope which has done wonders for astrology.
More in-depth reporting on this amazing and lightning-paced story, as it develops!
Wow, somebody got paid for this, as an innovative product. People's tax money was spent on a "technology" for storing files on a remote server. Does anyone else feel a feint impulse to just give up, turn evil, and start fleecing suckers like this? They're out there, and they're waving their money around, jumping up and down, yelling, "Do me! Do meeeeee!!"
As the attorney for Isaac Silverberg, it has come to my attention that you have posted a comment on Slashdot which infringes the intellectual property of my client. We demand that you immediately remove the offending material, and cease and desist in any future violation(s).
I don't understand it either, but it's not relevant to the RIAA or this article. (Did you RTFA?) The RIAA is suing people who aren't sharing. Copyright infringement is not the topic at hand. Thuggery and abuse of the court system, abuse that is costing innocent people shitloads of money, is.
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Why is Google doing this? Is it really just about the founders' dreams, or is there actually an angle here, where Google somehow ends up making money?
This is so a hoax. Think for a second: Microsoft overloading the existing BSOD acronym, would alienate millions of users.
It's good that it brings those concerns to mind. Just remember that it didn't create those concerns. Your conversations were already insecure.
Nothing is ever going to happen -- phone calls routed through your worst enemy, government listening to every single conversation without a warrant, Qeng Ho traders lurking at L1 checking out how much alien Viagra our planets needs, or p2p telecom systems -- which makes things worse. We already have this problem.
Before 1991, most of the servers on the Internet ran stuff like sendmail and bind on Unix.
Nowdays, most of the servers on the Internet run stuff like sendmail and bind on a Unix-like OS.
Thanks, article, for going into such detail about what changed. It's like a whole different world now!
Cop turns out to be your girlfriend!
I haven't seen the Windows version, but iTunes (on MacOS 10.4.8) seriously sucks, or at least it is horribly documented at best.
I use a Mac at work, and I started bringing in music. iTunes didn't even recognize the files as music; it didn't know what to do.
I finally figured out what was wrong: iTunes for MacOS doesn't know how to handle Vorbis files! In 2007, still no Vorbis?! Fortunately, I poked around the net and found a plugin that sort of worked.
But it only sort of worked, and it fails to detect track numbers (so albums would play out of order) and every once in a while it just flakes out and sucks 100% CPU without doing anything. While I don't really blame Apple for someone else's plugin flakiness, it is a pretty shocking oversight for a plugin to be needed at all. At least if it were proprietary, I would understand how they could omit one of the top audio codecs, but Vorbis is free. There's just no excuse.
Oh, and the UI is confusing.
I switched to Cog. Cog just works, never blows my mind with some kind of weird stubborn defects, has an easy-to-understand UI, and makes iTunes look like some kind of Microsoft atrocity by comparison.
It looks like what he's really arguing is that the "copyright notice" would become impractically long, if it listed all the possible Fair Uses.
The problem I have with that, is that it's already impractically wrong by dishonestly listing prohibited uses.
Replace the copyright notice with "Copyright 2007 Major League Baseball." Maybe even say "All rights reserved" if you want to make a point about how you won't take shit from anyone.
But if you're going to play legislator+judge and actually try to explain copyright law inside the copyright notice, then you have to accept the consequences when people bitch that you're explaining it incorrectly.
I think CCIA is really just making a point through absurdity (perhaps unintentionally), and it has subconsciously gotten through to this guy but he still doesn't quite get it. Yes, you can't really change the copyright notices to explain Fair Use. Alas, you also can't really have the copyright notice accurately explain all the restrictions. To do it right, the notice is going to include many many hours of case law. So just leave out the details, say "copyright" and leave it to the consumer to research what that really means, if they want to. I know what Patrick Ross is thinking: the consumer doesn't want to. Well, that's too bad. Your desire to explain it to the consumer against against the consumer's will, doesn't give you the right to lie.
Vagueness (or deferment) is preferable to fraud.
I just found 1300 iPhones in a dumpster. That's $130,000!
A few months ago, my ex-girlfriend was training to become a hypnotherapist, and would come home and tell me little things about it. One of the things I remember, is that hypnotic suggestions should always be positive and they don't work very well if you try to put a negative into them. For example, "You want to be thin" is far better than "you don't want to be fat."
But another part of it, was that people don't take suggestions that they don't want anyway. If people believe Saddam was related to 9/11, it's probably because they wanted Saddam to get his ass kicked. Tell me what I want to hear.
And that's a shame, because people probably really ought to keep their hats on.
Yep, a strong pattern indeed. Intel is saying, "Buy an Intel processor," whereas AMD is saying, "Buy an Intel processor." Anyone who can't spot the pattern in that, has to be pretty dense. I wonder why AMD's stockholders haven't noticed it.
Global wha--? Oh, you mean climate change.
I think what he meant to say, was that the entrails predicted spectacularly clear skies. Stupid anchormen, getting their scientician terms mixed up. But don't let some idiot's malapropism get you down. What's important is that shuttle did get off, and deployed a telescope which has done wonders for astrology.
Alright, good tip, and I'll try to remember that when I Go Evil. I'll have the PR department explain, "We're only ripping off private funds."
if your employer just shoots you from a helicopter with a tranquilizer dart, and then staples the chip to your ear while you're still groggy?
More in-depth reporting on this amazing and lightning-paced story, as it develops!
Wow, somebody got paid for this, as an innovative product. People's tax money was spent on a "technology" for storing files on a remote server. Does anyone else feel a feint impulse to just give up, turn evil, and start fleecing suckers like this? They're out there, and they're waving their money around, jumping up and down, yelling, "Do me! Do meeeeee!!"
As the attorney for Isaac Silverberg, it has come to my attention that you have posted a comment on Slashdot which infringes the intellectual property of my client. We demand that you immediately remove the offending material, and cease and desist in any future violation(s).
It's ok, don't worry about it. Similes are kind of like metaphors. Metaphors are the similes of analogies.
I don't understand it either, but it's not relevant to the RIAA or this article. (Did you RTFA?) The RIAA is suing people who aren't sharing. Copyright infringement is not the topic at hand. Thuggery and abuse of the court system, abuse that is costing innocent people shitloads of money, is.