Motorola is a good company, but I'm already familiar with another project called High Availability Linux that's been well developed by somebody I know through the Boulder Linux User's Group. I think Motorola should rename their distribution to reduce the amount of confusion on the matter.
Check this guy's work out, by the way. He's been working on this for quite some time, and his work is well designed.
I'd really like to see a lawyer say this. I have a feeling that the "personal copy" thing is one of the biggest urban legends going these days. Everyone has heard about it from a friend who heard about it....
Although you are right that erasing within 24 hours is no defense. Warez is Warez, and fair use is fair use.
If fair use is suddenly thrown out, on the grounds that the RIAA can't guarantee people won't be able to prevent 'pirating' of music, it sets a horrible precedent for the academic world. Remember the legal issues with hyperlinks almost being considered copyright violations a few months ago? Imagine every bibliography for any text ever written being illegal. It's absurd and morally WRONG.
Although I suppose I'm preaching to the choir. Most slashdotters would probably agree with me that fair use is necessary and justifiable for personal backups, quotes, links, bibliographic references, and similar purposes. It's definitely time to move our rants from the slashdot choir into letters to our technology and common-sense impaired representatives...
Sorry, but I haven't taken a class in quantum physics yet. I wish I could understand what this means, particularly without all the star trek refrences. I like star trek, but I've accepted that it's fiction (and rather good fiction, at that) so I try to think of real physics separately from star trek.
Could somebody explain this bit of science news in a way I could understand? Thanks!
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Check this guy's work out, by the way. He's been working on this for quite some time, and his work is well designed.
(defun intel-names ()
;)
"Function to generate random names for Intel's next processor:"
(let ((prefix '("Pent" "It" "Max" "Ath" "Cort" "Trit"))
(suffix '("ium" "alon" "ex" "anium" "oricon" "on" "eres" "obos"
"ymede" "itan" "erion"))
(tag '("II" "III" "IV" "Pro" "MMX" "Deluxe")))
(concatenate 'string
(nth (random (length prefix)) prefix)
(nth (random (length suffix)) suffix)
" " (nth (random (length tag)) tag))))
;Hey, you knew *someone* was going to do it.
Urban legend? Have a look at Stanford's fair use site before you go making those claims.
Although you are right that erasing within 24 hours is no defense. Warez is Warez, and fair use is fair use.
If fair use is suddenly thrown out, on the grounds that the RIAA can't guarantee people won't be able to prevent 'pirating' of music, it sets a horrible precedent for the academic world. Remember the legal issues with hyperlinks almost being considered copyright violations a few months ago? Imagine every bibliography for any text ever written being illegal. It's absurd and morally WRONG.
Although I suppose I'm preaching to the choir. Most slashdotters would probably agree with me that fair use is necessary and justifiable for personal backups, quotes, links, bibliographic references, and similar purposes. It's definitely time to move our rants from the slashdot choir into letters to our technology and common-sense impaired representatives...
Just as soon as I finish finals.
Could somebody explain this bit of science news in a way I could understand? Thanks!