In the US, there is no burden of proof in civil lawsuits, the "proof" is based upon preponderence of evidence or, in some cases, clear and convincing evidence. The plaintiff has to show why they they believe that should win, they must convince the judge or jury that what they are asserting is substantially more likely than not to be true. The defendant is also trying to convince the judge or jury that their side of the story is more likely to be true. The defendant is also able to subpoena the plantiff to obtain information, a deep pockets defendant could definatately use this to their advantage.
I am not a lawyer and this is a civil case, not a criminal case. The MPAA does not have to "prove" their case, both sides present the facts as they know them to the judge or jury and the outcome is based upon "preponderance of evidence". The whole winner/loser can be a sliding scale. If the judge or jury rules in favor of the MPAA, he would have to pay whatever the judge or jury deems proper.
Of course the MPAA is going to try to show that they should be awarded beaucoup dollars -- an amount that is guaranteed to make normal people shit all over themselves. It is entirely possible that the jury could rule in the MPAA's favor and then award the MPAA one dollar. Even if the MPAA prevails, unless the MPAA were actually awarded a HUGE sum of money, it is hard to tell if the MPAA would gain any sort of pysychological or legal advantage in subsequent cases.
Some grocery stores in the US weigh and mark produce in the produce department. In the US, I don't think that it is a matter of trust so much as it is cheaper to have the cashier weigh produce than to have people continuously staff the produce section every day from store open to close. I suspect that the US stores that weigh and price in the produce department have union contracts that require the division of labor. It seems that many US grocery stores are moving away from selling produce by customer selected weight; they are selling more produce items in pre-weighed or pre-measured bags, bunches, or containers -- or by the piece. At the same time that less produce is being sold by weight, more self service salad bars are popping up in supermarkets -- and the salad bar items are sold by weight.
The content providers haven't done anything that makes me believe that they won't do all they can to exploit the DRM enabling features of Trusted Computing. Two good examples is the mentality behind software and content providers are the Sony/BMG rootkit DRM and Microsoft Genuine Advantage. I suspect that lots of induhviduals would be clueless enough to buy a computer like that. People who had the Sony/BMG rootkit installed on their computer held the master keys to their computer -- and the DRM installation program exploited that fact. I feel that Trusted Computing will be a very bad thing for the average computer user and that content providers will endeavor to fully exploit the DRM possibilities of Trusted Computing.
I fervently hope that Trusted Computing dies a horrible death. As far as "years of work being wasted", the work shouldn't have been done in the first place. I don't care if my computer or any software that I have legally obtained trusts me. Remote attestation and sealed storage are especially treacherous features of Trusted Computing. I should be the one controlling my computer, not the computer manufacturers, software publishers, and content providers who wish to control my computer using the friendly little name "Trusting Computing".
The Brent O. Hatch that is representing SCO in this lawsuit is the son of Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. Another son of Senator Orrin Hatch, Scott D. Hatch, is a lobbyist with Walker Martin & Hatch.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has suggested that people who download copyrighted materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed.
I don't know why the interface was mentioned in TFA, but RS232 was not a bad choice.
RS232 (does anybody actually call it TIA232-F in conversation?) is robust, easily interfaced, well supported, commonly available, and cheap. RS232 is also quite fast enough for human-world device interfacing.
Many things have changed since RS-232-C was revised in 1969; there has been a name change and it is up to revision -F.
The man trap in TFA is not the same as the man trap as described in the Wikipedia and I find a bit odd that the Wikipedia doesn't include an entry about the sort of man trap described in TFA. There websites that sell man traps such as are described in TFA at http://www.secureaccessportals.com/ and http://www.koubasystems.com/mantrapsys.html
It is taking all of my willpower not to say something snarky about MS Messenger, add-ons, adware, and adservers. Just as you can configure Adblock you can also edit the hosts file to remove the adservers that you wish to see. The hosts file and Adblock have overlapping uses and each has it's own advantages in certain cases. The hosts file can be used to block sites that Adblock does not care about, such as directly typed URLs (typos happen); the hosts file also works with ALL applications, not just Firefox. Assuming that the ads are not obnoxious, why do you insult the site for wanting to make money by serving ads in exchange for software that you consider to be useful?
It was my understanding that Red Hat's problem with CentOS was because the Red Hat trademarks weren't completely scrubbed -- there were Red Hat trademarks and logos left in the distributed code and the CentOS web site was liberal in it's use of the Red Hat name and logos. The Red Hat letter was specific: "While Red Hat permits others to redistribute the software that constitutes Red Hat Linux, Red Hat does not authorize any person to use the RED HAT marks in association with such redistribution in any fashion, except by express agreement". I don't think that Red Hat was harrassing CentOS. Other Red Hat Enterprise clones are not receiving letters from Red Hat.
The White Box Linux website states that it is derived from Red Hat and it appears that Red Hat is cool with that. The White Box Linus website says: This product is derived from the Free/Open Source Software made available by Red Hat, Inc but IS NOT produced, maintained or supported by Red Hat. Specifically, this product is forked from the source code for Red Hat's _Red Hat Enterprise Linux_ products under the terms and conditions of its EULA.
The Scientific Linux (SL) web site is a bit more terse and avoids the use of the Red Hat name: "The base SL distribution is basically Enterprise Linux, recompiled from source."
This may be better than regular home schooling because it is taught by real teachers and there are more resources available. Some parents do a good job at home schooling their kids, many parents -- not so much. There are potential socialization problems with regular school, home school, and on-line school. This would eliminate the bullying and harassment problems for "nerds" or gay students. If done properly, this could help those students who would normally lose interest in a class because they are more advanced than the rest of the class. I understand that music (and art) education has already been squeezed out of many traditional schools, this could be an opportunity to expose students to musical (and art) history at a modest cost to the school district.
That advice didn't work very well for a great many people who installed the Sony/BMG rootkit simply by following the instructions on what they thought was an Audio Compact Disk from a trusted vendor.
The average computer user has NO concept about computer security, they are the same group of people that the safety warnings on common household appliances are written for. It is much easier to remind them not use a blow dryer while taking a shower that
The test scores show that Oakland schools truly do suck (even worse than LA schools), but that the other SF Bay Area schools are doing pretty well. What is it about Oakland that makes their schools so much worse than other SF Bay Area schools? Would giving laptops to Oakland students be a cost effective way to improve test scores?
According to an article in the SF Chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/ a/2006/01/22/BAG5QGRAK21.DTL&type=printable the San Francisco schools (which includes many Bay Area innercity schools) are doing quite well. Many parents have a problem with a lottery system which can mean that kids don't attend their neighborhood school and there is a perceived quality problem, but the schools themselves seem to actually be pretty good. San Francisco scored 745 on the last Academic Performance Index, with 800 considered excellent; San Jose and Berkeley both scored 737 and Los Angeles scored 649. It wasn't in the article, Oakland scored 634.
"However, the line must be drawn somewhere. Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins, and many believe that abortion is included in this."
I would agree with you if somebody was trying to give you an abortion or a member of your family an abortion against their will. If the abortion does not involve you or your family, then it is not affecting you -- get over it.
BTW, the only choice that gay people are making is whether to follow their natural instincts and urges or to go against their natural instincts. Most gay people find the idea of having sex with a member of the opposite sex just as abhorant as straight people find the idea of having sex with a member of the same sex.
I do not know what Shuttelworth's plans, intentions, or motivaiosns are; except for what is on the Conical and Ubuntu web sites, and they state that Ubuntu will never be charged for. There are no indications that Shuttleworth is planning to commercalise Ubuntu, however, there are indications that Ubuntu is striving to become a viable enterrprise Linux. Enterprise level Linux does not have to mean a commercialized version of Linux . Even if Ubuntu were to become the basis for a commercialised enterprise level Linux, (perhaps like Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux) I don't see how this would be a dishonest thing, it would simply be another competitor for Red Hat.
The major cologne and perfume makers, such as Estee Lauder, Chanel, Coty, Procter & Gamble, Henkle, Unilever, and Lalique are major corporations with major financial backing and lawyers.
You may be correct that copying air freshener would probably not be an issue, they all pretty much suck anyway. Air freshers are made by a few very large international chemical companies with very deep pockets and legions of lawyers; Reckitt Benckiser (Air Wick, Lysol, Neutra-Air, Wizard), S. C. Johnson & Son (Glade), Henkel (Renuzit).
I am not sure what your problem is with well funded offshore corporations. The founder of Ubuntu is quite wealthy and experienced with both Linux and with internet businesses. Canonical Limited is owned by Mark Shuttleworth, who was the founder of Thawte (which was purchased by VeriSign). Shuttleworth was also the first citizen of an African country to be in space (Russian Soyuz TM-34 mission). Shuttleworth was a Debian developer in the 1990s and in 2004 he funded the development of Ubuntu.
There are indications that Canonical Limited is positioning Ubuntu to compete with Red Hat in the enterprise Linux arena. This could be interesting because the Canonical Limited site states "[Ubuntu] will always be free of charge; Canonical will never charge licence fees for Ubuntu or any component thereof.", the Ubuntu site says a similar thing.
Use the same principle as custom tinted paint. Have unscented bases that contain the proper vehicle and scent fixatives to which the scent (and possibly color) is added, e.g.; soap, shampoo, aftershave, cologne, air freshener, lube, body oil, whatever.
If this sort of technology works, it would be great for the air freshener industry. My first question is, if "they" still can't make strawberry air freshers that actually smell like strawberrys, how can they claim to be able to create other smells on demand? The next question is, if this does work, how long before we see copy protection technology applied to perfume? Seriously, if it works, this technology could be very disruptive to the perfume industry, which has the money to buy whatever laws it wants.
It seems quite silly to require that a user have to purchase a CD-R, and to pay royalties in many cases, in order to convert a music file from one format to another. What's wrong with using ISO AAC? ISO AAC is a recognized international standard, and iPod and Quicktime will play AAC natively. AAC is readily converted to other formats -- without having to burn a CD-R.
I have had a few people find out first hand that my truck's trailer hitch bumper tears the hell out of car hoods. I didn't roll back into them, I think that they just slowly rolled into my bumper. I wonder if these people also nudge other cars.
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In the US, there is no burden of proof in civil lawsuits, the "proof" is based upon preponderence of evidence or, in some cases, clear and convincing evidence. The plaintiff has to show why they they believe that should win, they must convince the judge or jury that what they are asserting is substantially more likely than not to be true. The defendant is also trying to convince the judge or jury that their side of the story is more likely to be true. The defendant is also able to subpoena the plantiff to obtain information, a deep pockets defendant could definatately use this to their advantage.
I am not a lawyer and this is a civil case, not a criminal case. The MPAA does not have to "prove" their case, both sides present the facts as they know them to the judge or jury and the outcome is based upon "preponderance of evidence". The whole winner/loser can be a sliding scale. If the judge or jury rules in favor of the MPAA, he would have to pay whatever the judge or jury deems proper.
Of course the MPAA is going to try to show that they should be awarded beaucoup dollars -- an amount that is guaranteed to make normal people shit all over themselves. It is entirely possible that the jury could rule in the MPAA's favor and then award the MPAA one dollar. Even if the MPAA prevails, unless the MPAA were actually awarded a HUGE sum of money, it is hard to tell if the MPAA would gain any sort of pysychological or legal advantage in subsequent cases.
Some grocery stores in the US weigh and mark produce in the produce department. In the US, I don't think that it is a matter of trust so much as it is cheaper to have the cashier weigh produce than to have people continuously staff the produce section every day from store open to close. I suspect that the US stores that weigh and price in the produce department have union contracts that require the division of labor. It seems that many US grocery stores are moving away from selling produce by customer selected weight; they are selling more produce items in pre-weighed or pre-measured bags, bunches, or containers -- or by the piece. At the same time that less produce is being sold by weight, more self service salad bars are popping up in supermarkets -- and the salad bar items are sold by weight.
The content providers haven't done anything that makes me believe that they won't do all they can to exploit the DRM enabling features of Trusted Computing. Two good examples is the mentality behind software and content providers are the Sony/BMG rootkit DRM and Microsoft Genuine Advantage. I suspect that lots of induhviduals would be clueless enough to buy a computer like that. People who had the Sony/BMG rootkit installed on their computer held the master keys to their computer -- and the DRM installation program exploited that fact. I feel that Trusted Computing will be a very bad thing for the average computer user and that content providers will endeavor to fully exploit the DRM possibilities of Trusted Computing.
I fervently hope that Trusted Computing dies a horrible death. As far as "years of work being wasted", the work shouldn't have been done in the first place. I don't care if my computer or any software that I have legally obtained trusts me. Remote attestation and sealed storage are especially treacherous features of Trusted Computing. I should be the one controlling my computer, not the computer manufacturers, software publishers, and content providers who wish to control my computer using the friendly little name "Trusting Computing".
The Brent O. Hatch that is representing SCO in this lawsuit is the son of Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. Another son of Senator Orrin Hatch, Scott D. Hatch, is a lobbyist with Walker Martin & Hatch.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has suggested that people who download copyrighted materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed.
I don't know why the interface was mentioned in TFA, but RS232 was not a bad choice.
RS232 (does anybody actually call it TIA232-F in conversation?) is robust, easily interfaced, well supported, commonly available, and cheap. RS232 is also quite fast enough for human-world device interfacing.
Many things have changed since RS-232-C was revised in 1969; there has been a name change and it is up to revision -F.
The man trap in TFA is not the same as the man trap as described in the Wikipedia and I find a bit odd that the Wikipedia doesn't include an entry about the sort of man trap described in TFA. There websites that sell man traps such as are described in TFA at http://www.secureaccessportals.com/ and http://www.koubasystems.com/mantrapsys.html
It is taking all of my willpower not to say something snarky about MS Messenger, add-ons, adware, and adservers. Just as you can configure Adblock you can also edit the hosts file to remove the adservers that you wish to see. The hosts file and Adblock have overlapping uses and each has it's own advantages in certain cases. The hosts file can be used to block sites that Adblock does not care about, such as directly typed URLs (typos happen); the hosts file also works with ALL applications, not just Firefox. Assuming that the ads are not obnoxious, why do you insult the site for wanting to make money by serving ads in exchange for software that you consider to be useful?
It was my understanding that Red Hat's problem with CentOS was because the Red Hat trademarks weren't completely scrubbed -- there were Red Hat trademarks and logos left in the distributed code and the CentOS web site was liberal in it's use of the Red Hat name and logos. The Red Hat letter was specific: "While Red Hat permits others to redistribute the software that constitutes Red Hat Linux, Red Hat does not authorize any person to use the RED HAT marks in association with such redistribution in any fashion, except by express agreement". I don't think that Red Hat was harrassing CentOS. Other Red Hat Enterprise clones are not receiving letters from Red Hat.
The White Box Linux website states that it is derived from Red Hat and it appears that Red Hat is cool with that. The White Box Linus website says: This product is derived from the Free/Open Source Software made available by Red Hat, Inc but IS NOT produced, maintained or supported by Red Hat. Specifically, this product is forked from the source code for Red Hat's _Red Hat Enterprise Linux_ products under the terms and conditions of its EULA.
The Scientific Linux (SL) web site is a bit more terse and avoids the use of the Red Hat name: "The base SL distribution is basically Enterprise Linux, recompiled from source."
This may be better than regular home schooling because it is taught by real teachers and there are more resources available. Some parents do a good job at home schooling their kids, many parents -- not so much. There are potential socialization problems with regular school, home school, and on-line school. This would eliminate the bullying and harassment problems for "nerds" or gay students. If done properly, this could help those students who would normally lose interest in a class because they are more advanced than the rest of the class. I understand that music (and art) education has already been squeezed out of many traditional schools, this could be an opportunity to expose students to musical (and art) history at a modest cost to the school district.
That advice didn't work very well for a great many people who installed the Sony/BMG rootkit simply by following the instructions on what they thought was an Audio Compact Disk from a trusted vendor. The average computer user has NO concept about computer security, they are the same group of people that the safety warnings on common household appliances are written for. It is much easier to remind them not use a blow dryer while taking a shower that
The test scores show that Oakland schools truly do suck (even worse than LA schools), but that the other SF Bay Area schools are doing pretty well. What is it about Oakland that makes their schools so much worse than other SF Bay Area schools? Would giving laptops to Oakland students be a cost effective way to improve test scores?
/ a/2006/01/22/BAG5QGRAK21.DTL&type=printable the San Francisco schools (which includes many Bay Area innercity schools) are doing quite well. Many parents have a problem with a lottery system which can mean that kids don't attend their neighborhood school and there is a perceived quality problem, but the schools themselves seem to actually be pretty good. San Francisco scored 745 on the last Academic Performance Index, with 800 considered excellent; San Jose and Berkeley both scored 737 and Los Angeles scored 649. It wasn't in the article, Oakland scored 634.
According to an article in the SF Chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c
No more screwed up than the approximately same percentage of people in the US that have green eyes with little or no specks in the iris.
"However, the line must be drawn somewhere. Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins, and many believe that abortion is included in this."
I would agree with you if somebody was trying to give you an abortion or a member of your family an abortion against their will. If the abortion does not involve you or your family, then it is not affecting you -- get over it.
BTW, the only choice that gay people are making is whether to follow their natural instincts and urges or to go against their natural instincts. Most gay people find the idea of having sex with a member of the opposite sex just as abhorant as straight people find the idea of having sex with a member of the same sex.
http://www.officemuseum.com/copy_machines.htm
In the 1800's letter copying presses that could make (poor) copies of letters or other documents was commonly available.
Photographic document copiers, trademarked "Photostat" and "Rectigraph", were available in the 1910's.
Why haven't cell phones been banned from school grounds as being disruptive and placed in the same classification as fingernail files and aspirin?
All ABC needs to do is get the MSoft version loaded on more boxes and do the same thing
All you need to do is to get a box that doesn't allow Comcast to load Microsoft software, perhaps TiVo or other fine Linux based system.
I do not know what Shuttelworth's plans, intentions, or motivaiosns are; except for what is on the Conical and Ubuntu web sites, and they state that Ubuntu will never be charged for. There are no indications that Shuttleworth is planning to commercalise Ubuntu, however, there are indications that Ubuntu is striving to become a viable enterrprise Linux. Enterprise level Linux does not have to mean a commercialized version of Linux . Even if Ubuntu were to become the basis for a commercialised enterprise level Linux, (perhaps like Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux) I don't see how this would be a dishonest thing, it would simply be another competitor for Red Hat.
The major cologne and perfume makers, such as Estee Lauder, Chanel, Coty, Procter & Gamble, Henkle, Unilever, and Lalique are major corporations with major financial backing and lawyers.
You may be correct that copying air freshener would probably not be an issue, they all pretty much suck anyway. Air freshers are made by a few very large international chemical companies with very deep pockets and legions of lawyers; Reckitt Benckiser (Air Wick, Lysol, Neutra-Air, Wizard), S. C. Johnson & Son (Glade), Henkel (Renuzit).
I am not sure what your problem is with well funded offshore corporations. The founder of Ubuntu is quite wealthy and experienced with both Linux and with internet businesses. Canonical Limited is owned by Mark Shuttleworth, who was the founder of Thawte (which was purchased by VeriSign). Shuttleworth was also the first citizen of an African country to be in space (Russian Soyuz TM-34 mission). Shuttleworth was a Debian developer in the 1990s and in 2004 he funded the development of Ubuntu.
There are indications that Canonical Limited is positioning Ubuntu to compete with Red Hat in the enterprise Linux arena. This could be interesting because the Canonical Limited site states "[Ubuntu] will always be free of charge; Canonical will never charge licence fees for Ubuntu or any component thereof.", the Ubuntu site says a similar thing.
Use the same principle as custom tinted paint. Have unscented bases that contain the proper vehicle and scent fixatives to which the scent (and possibly color) is added, e.g.; soap, shampoo, aftershave, cologne, air freshener, lube, body oil, whatever.
If this sort of technology works, it would be great for the air freshener industry. My first question is, if "they" still can't make strawberry air freshers that actually smell like strawberrys, how can they claim to be able to create other smells on demand? The next question is, if this does work, how long before we see copy protection technology applied to perfume? Seriously, if it works, this technology could be very disruptive to the perfume industry, which has the money to buy whatever laws it wants.
It seems quite silly to require that a user have to purchase a CD-R, and to pay royalties in many cases, in order to convert a music file from one format to another. What's wrong with using ISO AAC? ISO AAC is a recognized international standard, and iPod and Quicktime will play AAC natively. AAC is readily converted to other formats -- without having to burn a CD-R.
I have had a few people find out first hand that my truck's trailer hitch bumper tears the hell out of car hoods. I didn't roll back into them, I think that they just slowly rolled into my bumper. I wonder if these people also nudge other cars.