If the cop was was able to sufficiently disengage from the performance of his primary duties to threaten the bystander, then he certainly had the time to succunctly state his badge number.
Note that nowhere in those examples does it say wholesale copying of a document.
You have the concept backwards. We have the right to do ANYTHING with copyrighted material not explicitly denied. Copy it, smoke it, shingle our roof with it. The natural state of ALL "Intellectual Property" is the public domain. Greedy congresscritters have sold us out by repeatedly extending the original and reasonable limited times to be effectively forever. Their bastardization of the patent limits with the dodgy "new use" clause are equally pusillanimous. The MAFIAA and the patent trolls are trying hard to whittle our original rights away, and your stance only serves to further their nefarious schemes.
I see your piddly "Report of the Register of Copyrights" and raise you the Constitution wherein the limited exception of Copyright is promogulated by Article I, Section 8, Clause 8
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
and the Ninth Amendment:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
P2P distribution is infringement and should be punishible where proven. But, as another poster put it, the right to time shift, format shift and shingle is PAID for and they have no justification to rescind those rights.
Maybe you just created the "bink" sub-catagory of bint, defining it as describing a tart of the watery persuasion. Hop over to Wikipedia and create your own article to start the process.
This is the reason I have always been against term limits. It's cynical and shortsighted to say that if we keep rotating "them", elected officials, then we will always have a fresh, responsive, uncorrupted set of representatives.
I am a firm believer in 1 term.
I do not see what you cite as anything close to the goal. Have no illusions that a politician is anything but the mud beneath the slime. Sturgeon's law of "90% of everything is crap" leaves us optimistically with possibly 10 senators, 40 representatives and 2 presidents whose ability can be classified merely as "not crappy". (yeah, I'm mixing metrics, sue me). The point of term limits is based on "politicians are like underpants, change them frequently for best odor control". Other advantages, lobbyists are forced into negotiating favor exchanges from scratch. Newbies might initially be busy learning the ropes, hopefully reducing their effectiveness and providing fewer opportunities to interfere with their electorates lives. Since they have no need to raise campaign contributions, contributions to any incumbent can be outlawed. Instead of campaigning they might actually have to stay in their in their office and actually learn something about their position for their salary. No need for "special" retirement benefits, there is no contiguous career path, set up their own IRA like the majority of us. If they actually do a good job (*snort*), they should be welcomed to run on the subsequent election. In the interim they get the opportunity to live as a citizen under whatever changes they did manage to weasel through and we get an opportunity to judge the value of them (the changes or the politician, take your pick). I have yet to see anyone enumerate two positive aspects to allowing a politician to serve consecutive terms other than the community pork advantages of being able to obtain and retain leadership roles in committees. Absent such positive aspects, maybe someone could point what negative aspects of a "no sequential terms" policy might be?
The only people SW patents and patents in general protect are the trolls and the uber corporations with thousands of patents already in a portfolio to be swapped with other portfolios.
The major expenditures for software, both up front and ongoing is not R&D, but marketing and support. A company with such a non-trivial peoce of software is much better off to keep its development under wraps and trade secret. The advantage lies in being first to market, capturing and keeping mindshare and not an artifical constraint on competition. Your rogue employee is kept in check by NDA and yellow-dog contracts enforced by the legal department of a company large enough to undertake such a non-trivial project.
If you cant kick it, you cant patent it.
If you don't have something generating revenue using it in 2 years, you loose it.
I remember that show. Something about David Bowie and spiders from mars leaping back and forth within their own lifetimes earning merit badges or something like that.
Paraphrasing Spider Robinson from his short story "God is an Iron" If someone who commits a felony is a felon, then somone who writes irony is an iron.
> smash his computer into little bits
I thought bits were dimensionless like a point in a line, or the protagonist in "Points on a Plane" (still in production).
Some sophisticated hacking involved, but the iSCSI driver is going to come from Microsoft, the file server can be a customized iSCSI implementation on a Linux box that will present the legitimate file for signature checking and substitute a different file when called for loading.
Nobody's discussed firmware, the drivers good, the validation procedure can test till the cows come home, but days after release the soundcard firmware has been subverted. What about AMD promotion of using Socket M for hardware add-ons.
Somehow, I believe, that MS does not have all the bases covered. Even if they actually have people talented and smart enough to do DRM right, the PHB and bean counters will never give them the time or money needed to totally accomplish the goal. As usual, corners will be cut and hand waving substituted for functionality, it is the Microsoft way. They are far from owning the trust channel end-to-end and eventually someone will leverage a hardware or emulation or man in the middle exploit and those poor souls that are required to run Twisted Computing environments will probably be willing to pay bucks, possibily BIG bucks to recover some of their freedoms. MS will NEVER "get it right" and unlike virus exploits, these exploits stand a good chance of being kept close to the chest, empowering the end user for extended periods of time. How about a clever little snippet that automatically uninstalls a needed security patch. MS has to be perfect, while the freedom fighters can flail away at the problem until they find the inevitable imperfection.
I could have sworn that Steve Gibson wrote an article quite awhile ago on using DSP to join the words in a more natural sounding manner. Can't seem to find it with a search of "Steve Gibson" speech DSP words Did turn up this reference though "world gay escort dating free of charge", heh. A result of keyword stuffing in the linked site rather than a legitimate hit. Steve must be proud that his name is deemed such a valuable search keyword.
Yes! I relate to it because I was one of those rollerskaters!
Well, that's certainly understandable. As long as you did not have anything to do with writing the script;) My sister was enamored of it back when my family had only the one TV, it was her turn to choose and the possiblity of proximity to her teenage girlfriends was enough to override a natural male avoidance of musicals and I was subjected to it in it's entirety, hence my incredulity. Hope you still "beleive in magic".
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If the cop was was able to sufficiently disengage from the performance of his primary duties to threaten the bystander, then he certainly had the time to succunctly state his badge number.
he is free to do another Firefly sequel?
I see your piddly "Report of the Register of Copyrights" and raise you the Constitution wherein the limited exception of Copyright is promogulated by Article I, Section 8, Clause 8
and the Ninth Amendment:
P2P distribution is infringement and should be punishible where proven. But, as another poster put it, the right to time shift, format shift and shingle is PAID for and they have no justification to rescind those rights.
Make me wonder what ol' monkeyboy thinks about buggy whips.
Maybe you just created the "bink" sub-catagory of bint, defining it as describing a tart of the watery persuasion. Hop over to Wikipedia and create your own article to start the process.
The only people SW patents and patents in general protect are the trolls and the uber corporations with thousands of patents already in a portfolio to be swapped with other portfolios.
The major expenditures for software, both up front and ongoing is not R&D, but marketing and support. A company with such a non-trivial peoce of software is much better off to keep its development under wraps and trade secret. The advantage lies in being first to market, capturing and keeping mindshare and not an artifical constraint on competition.
Your rogue employee is kept in check by NDA and yellow-dog contracts enforced by the legal department of a company large enough to undertake such a non-trivial project.
If you cant kick it, you cant patent it.
If you don't have something generating revenue using it in 2 years, you loose it.
What an absurd concept!
I remember that show. Something about David Bowie and spiders from mars leaping back and forth within their own lifetimes earning merit badges or something like that.
If someone who commits a felony is a felon, then somone who writes irony is an iron.
I wasn't confused, merely trying to spread confusion. But hopefully you managed to educate someone else.
> smash his computer into little bits
I thought bits were dimensionless like a point in a line, or the protagonist in "Points on a Plane" (still in production).
You mis-spelled zotlots. This kind of error is frequently reduced by frobbing with just 1 tentacle.
Some sophisticated hacking involved, but the iSCSI driver is going to come from Microsoft, the file server can be a customized iSCSI implementation on a Linux box that will present the legitimate file for signature checking and substitute a different file when called for loading. Nobody's discussed firmware, the drivers good, the validation procedure can test till the cows come home, but days after release the soundcard firmware has been subverted. What about AMD promotion of using Socket M for hardware add-ons. Somehow, I believe, that MS does not have all the bases covered. Even if they actually have people talented and smart enough to do DRM right, the PHB and bean counters will never give them the time or money needed to totally accomplish the goal. As usual, corners will be cut and hand waving substituted for functionality, it is the Microsoft way. They are far from owning the trust channel end-to-end and eventually someone will leverage a hardware or emulation or man in the middle exploit and those poor souls that are required to run Twisted Computing environments will probably be willing to pay bucks, possibily BIG bucks to recover some of their freedoms. MS will NEVER "get it right" and unlike virus exploits, these exploits stand a good chance of being kept close to the chest, empowering the end user for extended periods of time. How about a clever little snippet that automatically uninstalls a needed security patch. MS has to be perfect, while the freedom fighters can flail away at the problem until they find the inevitable imperfection.
Too many syllables, "IceVole" perhaps?
I could have sworn that Steve Gibson wrote an article quite awhile ago on using DSP to join the words in a more natural sounding manner. Can't seem to find it with a search of
"Steve Gibson" speech DSP words
Did turn up this reference though "world gay escort dating free of charge", heh. A result of keyword stuffing in the linked site rather than a legitimate hit. Steve must be proud that his name is deemed such a valuable search keyword.
My sister was enamored of it back when my family had only the one TV, it was her turn to choose and the possiblity of proximity to her teenage girlfriends was enough to override a natural male avoidance of musicals and I was subjected to it in it's entirety, hence my incredulity. Hope you still "beleive in magic".
The 70's one with ONJ and rollerskating?