An affirmative defense that the First Amendment requires courts to recognize. When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a second successive extension of a subsisting copyright term in Eldred v. Ashcroft, it also held that fair use and the unprotectability of ideas constitute the implementation of the First Amendment in copyright law. So you're both right: free speech is protected, and an affirmative defense is how this protection is asserted.
The userland of Darwin is based on that of FreeBSD.
Moreover, there are far more AAA games for Linux than there are for Mac OS X.
As of April 2014, twice as many Steam games were available for OS X as for Linux. Is there a source for this having changed in the past two years? Which statistics should I be looking at, or which Google queries should I be using to find them?
The file command uses a library called libmagic. It turns out that libmagic tries to distinguish QuickTime-flavor ISO Media files from MPEG-4-flavor ISO Media files by what chunk type comes first. But does this difference cause incompatibility in practice?
If anything, tearing up the same street again and again means more work for city employees and more money handed out to contractors, both of which the city likes.
Not if the city is running out of money due to tax cuts.
Unless the city planned ahead and buried extra conduits in advance, the cost of 'just adding another wire' is the cost of tearing up and rebuilding the roads and/or sidewalks, as well as the cost of the inconvenience to commuters affected by the construction.
My Nikon SLR camera produces mov files for videos, but fortunately they're playable by pretty much everything, so it's not really a big issue.
If the mov files have MPEG-4 video and audio inside, you can rename them to mp4 and they'll still work. The MPEG-4 container is compatible with the QuickTime container.
If the browser is secure, OS flaws won't be exposed.
Flaws in the IP or TCP implementation, in other services that the same machine exposes, or in system libraries that the browser uses can still be exposed. For example, computers have been broken into through web fonts that exploit defects in the operating system's font parser. (Google: truetype exploit)
Provided the OS is behind a working firewall
That's a big "provided". How many users of home or small office firewall appliances keep said appliances' system software updated?
In Open Source land you can run full-blown desktop environments with fancy 3D effects (check out Compiz or modern KDE-Plasma) and all the bells and whistles. You can also run minimalist window managers. You can do anything in-between. "I updated my system and now it's slow" generally doesn't happen, not unless you go out of your way to actually add a new service or the like.
Or unless an operating system update adds it for you, as Ubuntu 11.10 did to people who had been happily using GNOME 2. After a month of wrangling with Un(usabil)ity, 11.10's replacement for GNOME 2, I said F it and installed Xfce, one of said "minimalist window managers": sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
The general case is that a user can start off with a mainstream window manager, but as time passes, the mainstream window manager will bloat up with Wirth's law, and the user will need to retrain himself on a minimalist window manager. And eventually, later versions of Xfce and LXDE are likely to become bloated, after which point no supported free GUI will be available for the hardware.
Is that a machine you need the latest browser on, though?
Probably not. Like Windows XP, OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" is no longer supported. Security updates to a web browser won't help if the operating system itself has forever-day vulnerabilities.
Vista has such a small number of users who care about upgrading so why bother with them.
Yet Microsoft is continuing to support these users for one more year, with support ending in mid-April 2017. This will just push users back onto Internet Explorer 9 for this final year.
As SMS-only or two-factor authentication becomes more common, you will likely end up receiving several text messages per day, one for each service that you're logging in to. Then you might not be able to count on it still costing you $6 per month.
Which carrier, if I might ask? I too am on a la carte service, but Virgin raised its minimum payment to keep an account going from $16.something to $22.something per 90 days, or equivalently about $5.50 to $7.50 per month.
In the United States, the cell phone subscriber is charged for airtime whether making or receiving a call. This was done to preserve land line subscribers' expectations that calls from land lines to local numbers will remain without charge, as airtime is considered more scarce than time on a local land line.
More often than not when I get someones cell number its from their home-town where they got their first cell phone 10 years ago... and no longer has any relation to where they are living presently.
But without a local number, it's more expensive for land line users "where they are living presently" to call them. Perhaps they keep the old number because family members back home still have a land line and friends "where they are living presently" have switched to cell-only.
That and even people who do have a phone may not be able to receive SMS on a land line. I tried associating my roommate's land line with my Twitter account but got a message that its carrier is not supported.
And even people who specifically have a cell phone are unlikely to be willing to pay upwards of 10 cents per received message.
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The first amendment only protects you from government. Sanders campaign is not a government entity and can act as they are acting within their rights.
Said "rights" were created by the government.
THAT COURT can not prevent speech, but can uphold trademark.
A court cannot uphold a trademark if upholding a trademark would unduly prevent speech.
there is no parody exception to trademark law
Then how did Fox get away with MADtv's iRack sketch? Was it the addition of a stem to the logo?
Has anyone actually called Trump 'Hitler' ?
You mean other than Adam Tod Brown in his article "5 Ways Donald Trump Perfectly Mirrors Hitler's Rise To Power"?
Calling Sanders a Marxist is a crime because you are accusing him falsely of engaging in criminal behaviour.
Which U.S. law considers Marxism to be "criminal behaviour" and hasn't been ruled unconstitutional?
Freedom of speech only protects you from your government, not from a private person or corporation
Protecting a citizen from the government includes protecting a citizen from enforcement of copyright or trademark laws enacted by the government.
Check out this gem of American history: the Communist Control Act of 1954
From the article: "In 1973 a federal district court in Arizona decided that the act was unconstitutional".
Parodies are protected speech
Not quite. Parodies are an affirmative defense.
An affirmative defense that the First Amendment requires courts to recognize. When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a second successive extension of a subsisting copyright term in Eldred v. Ashcroft, it also held that fair use and the unprotectability of ideas constitute the implementation of the First Amendment in copyright law. So you're both right: free speech is protected, and an affirmative defense is how this protection is asserted.
Nowadays every idiot and his dog, coming over from DOS (perhaps via OSX [1]) has the irresistible urge to name his shell scripts "foo.sh".
Especially when a script to back up the day's work to a remote server is called pu.sh.
How is OS X FreeBSD-based?
The userland of Darwin is based on that of FreeBSD.
Moreover, there are far more AAA games for Linux than there are for Mac OS X.
As of April 2014, twice as many Steam games were available for OS X as for Linux. Is there a source for this having changed in the past two years? Which statistics should I be looking at, or which Google queries should I be using to find them?
Cities (and governments in general) have no incentives to save money and operate cost efficiently because they are not rewarded for that.
By whom? I was under the impression that Republican voters valued a mayor who runs a city like a business.
You can play AAA games on a FreeBSD-based operating system, be it OS X or PlayStation 4.
The file command uses a library called libmagic. It turns out that libmagic tries to distinguish QuickTime-flavor ISO Media files from MPEG-4-flavor ISO Media files by what chunk type comes first. But does this difference cause incompatibility in practice?
If anything, tearing up the same street again and again means more work for city employees and more money handed out to contractors, both of which the city likes.
Not if the city is running out of money due to tax cuts.
Unless the city planned ahead and buried extra conduits in advance, the cost of 'just adding another wire' is the cost of tearing up and rebuilding the roads and/or sidewalks, as well as the cost of the inconvenience to commuters affected by the construction.
"ISO Media" is the MPEG-4 container. What does that version of file output when given the name of an MPEG-4 file? And what codecs are used in each?
My Nikon SLR camera produces mov files for videos, but fortunately they're playable by pretty much everything, so it's not really a big issue.
If the mov files have MPEG-4 video and audio inside, you can rename them to mp4 and they'll still work. The MPEG-4 container is compatible with the QuickTime container.
If the browser is secure, OS flaws won't be exposed.
Flaws in the IP or TCP implementation, in other services that the same machine exposes, or in system libraries that the browser uses can still be exposed. For example, computers have been broken into through web fonts that exploit defects in the operating system's font parser. (Google: truetype exploit)
Provided the OS is behind a working firewall
That's a big "provided". How many users of home or small office firewall appliances keep said appliances' system software updated?
In Open Source land you can run full-blown desktop environments with fancy 3D effects (check out Compiz or modern KDE-Plasma) and all the bells and whistles. You can also run minimalist window managers. You can do anything in-between. "I updated my system and now it's slow" generally doesn't happen, not unless you go out of your way to actually add a new service or the like.
Or unless an operating system update adds it for you, as Ubuntu 11.10 did to people who had been happily using GNOME 2. After a month of wrangling with Un(usabil)ity, 11.10's replacement for GNOME 2, I said F it and installed Xfce, one of said "minimalist window managers": sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
The general case is that a user can start off with a mainstream window manager, but as time passes, the mainstream window manager will bloat up with Wirth's law, and the user will need to retrain himself on a minimalist window manager. And eventually, later versions of Xfce and LXDE are likely to become bloated, after which point no supported free GUI will be available for the hardware.
Is that a machine you need the latest browser on, though?
Probably not. Like Windows XP, OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" is no longer supported. Security updates to a web browser won't help if the operating system itself has forever-day vulnerabilities.
Vista has such a small number of users who care about upgrading so why bother with them.
Yet Microsoft is continuing to support these users for one more year, with support ending in mid-April 2017. This will just push users back onto Internet Explorer 9 for this final year.
I read the complaint as there not being a safe "reinstall" button that sets the installer to use the same partitions and not format anything.
As SMS-only or two-factor authentication becomes more common, you will likely end up receiving several text messages per day, one for each service that you're logging in to. Then you might not be able to count on it still costing you $6 per month.
Which carrier, if I might ask? I too am on a la carte service, but Virgin raised its minimum payment to keep an account going from $16.something to $22.something per 90 days, or equivalently about $5.50 to $7.50 per month.
In the United States, the cell phone subscriber is charged for airtime whether making or receiving a call. This was done to preserve land line subscribers' expectations that calls from land lines to local numbers will remain without charge, as airtime is considered more scarce than time on a local land line.
More often than not when I get someones cell number its from their home-town where they got their first cell phone 10 years ago... and no longer has any relation to where they are living presently.
But without a local number, it's more expensive for land line users "where they are living presently" to call them. Perhaps they keep the old number because family members back home still have a land line and friends "where they are living presently" have switched to cell-only.
That and even people who do have a phone may not be able to receive SMS on a land line. I tried associating my roommate's land line with my Twitter account but got a message that its carrier is not supported.
And even people who specifically have a cell phone are unlikely to be willing to pay upwards of 10 cents per received message.