Guess what. You won't get a shot of anything in the arm unless you're a health care worker, working with the government or at the top of the government's important people list. We have no capacity for producing flu vaccine because pills that let old people get hardons are more important.
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It is completely correct to calculate the chance of an event given a SET of events that have or have not occurred.
That's okay, but it does give them cause to take you to court and squeeze a settlement out of you long before a judge gets to tell them the EULA isn't binding.
Actually, you distributed the NOT across the logical operations incorrectly. The original statement would've been ( !user.hasCD || !user.hasRightToMusic() ) to combine them, you would use DeMorgan's and come out with ( !(user.hasCD() && user.hasRightToMusic()) ) which says that unless you have the CD and have the right to the music, you must delete the digital copies. If someone steals the disc, they don't have the right to the music and would be in violation of the EULA if they made digital copies AND the original owner would have to delete their digital copies because they'd be in violation without the physical disc. This is probably exactly what Sony intended. If they caught you with digital copies and you don't have the original media, they could sue you for either pirating (you stole it) or violating the EULA (you were robbed and failed to delete).
No, if the EULA is enforcable and the CD is destroyed in a fire, then you no longer possess the CD and according to the EULA, you lose all rights to the music. It's doubtful that it could be enforced, but that is what the EULA indicates.
The next thing you know, we'll find out that the poor Vaio users suing Sony are receiving cease and desist letters for violating their Vaio EULA by suing Sony!;o Of course, then everyone would probably get letters because we're violating an obscure Sony patent by using a PC capable or working with their DRMed discs:O
You don't see how those cases are different. I'd rather have my DRM come as part of the OS than an invasive exploitable addon that could potentially crash my computer if I tried to restore it to its original condition.
Like suing under the new patent because the only change to the formula was trivial and had no real function? "Lawyer (to Judge): It's quite obvious that the defendant copied the formula and simply left out the 'marker' that was placed in the formula to detect theft!"
The suggested retail price of Windows 98 UPGRADE was ~$99 (which ended up being $90 from Wal-Mart and the like) which is still true of Windows XP Home UPGRADE last I checked.
That's why it was in the form of a rootkit. They didn't want anyone finding to make any waves at all. Their next rootkit will probably even call the police if it detects attempts to remove it by the user;)
What he's talking about is people that spent too much time in the sun, got skin cancer and then turned around and sued the nuke plant claiming their cancer came from the plant... Their peers (idiots) would be sitting on the jury for that...
They made a proposal that would've allowed consumers to get any player they wanted and just use one peice of software for any of them. If it weren't for the fact that there were competing products, this could've been a good thing for the music player manufactureres. The player manufacturers might've been perfectly okay with it, but developers of competing software would not be.
Nearly everything is subject to legislation. It's called checks and balances;) Perhaps the legislature isn't happy that THEY might be forced to change their software and learn OOo on a whim from the executive branch?
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Guess what. You won't get a shot of anything in the arm unless you're a health care worker, working with the government or at the top of the government's important people list. We have no capacity for producing flu vaccine because pills that let old people get hardons are more important.
It is completely correct to calculate the chance of an event given a SET of events that have or have not occurred.
That's okay, but it does give them cause to take you to court and squeeze a settlement out of you long before a judge gets to tell them the EULA isn't binding.
Actually, you distributed the NOT across the logical operations incorrectly. The original statement would've been ( !user.hasCD || !user.hasRightToMusic() ) to combine them, you would use DeMorgan's and come out with ( !(user.hasCD() && user.hasRightToMusic()) ) which says that unless you have the CD and have the right to the music, you must delete the digital copies. If someone steals the disc, they don't have the right to the music and would be in violation of the EULA if they made digital copies AND the original owner would have to delete their digital copies because they'd be in violation without the physical disc. This is probably exactly what Sony intended. If they caught you with digital copies and you don't have the original media, they could sue you for either pirating (you stole it) or violating the EULA (you were robbed and failed to delete).
No, if the EULA is enforcable and the CD is destroyed in a fire, then you no longer possess the CD and according to the EULA, you lose all rights to the music. It's doubtful that it could be enforced, but that is what the EULA indicates.
The next thing you know, we'll find out that the poor Vaio users suing Sony are receiving cease and desist letters for violating their Vaio EULA by suing Sony! ;o Of course, then everyone would probably get letters because we're violating an obscure Sony patent by using a PC capable or working with their DRMed discs :O
I was under the impression that linking LGPL libraries with propriety software was allowed.. Am I wrong?
You don't see how those cases are different. I'd rather have my DRM come as part of the OS than an invasive exploitable addon that could potentially crash my computer if I tried to restore it to its original condition.
I think the easier explanation is that unintentionally crappy software doesn't concern them, but intentionally invasive software does. ;p
Like suing under the new patent because the only change to the formula was trivial and had no real function? "Lawyer (to Judge): It's quite obvious that the defendant copied the formula and simply left out the 'marker' that was placed in the formula to detect theft!"
The addition of proprietary DRM makes the DRMed version no less proprietary than WMA.
It's called checking buffer lengths rather than trusting the file itself... it's something we didn't used to think about ;)
Yes, heaven forbid users be allowed to install software on their own computer. Jesus Christ, what were we thinking?
The suggested retail price of Windows 98 UPGRADE was ~$99 (which ended up being $90 from Wal-Mart and the like) which is still true of Windows XP Home UPGRADE last I checked.
Probably because MySQL is missing features present in other databases?
Hmm, the freedom to not turn over information required by law or living on the street...
You do realize that most of the world will go right along with us, do you?
That's why it was in the form of a rootkit. They didn't want anyone finding to make any waves at all. Their next rootkit will probably even call the police if it detects attempts to remove it by the user ;)
Wouldn't removing the DRM be a violation of the DMCA?
What he's talking about is people that spent too much time in the sun, got skin cancer and then turned around and sued the nuke plant claiming their cancer came from the plant... Their peers (idiots) would be sitting on the jury for that...
because windows runs them automatically?
The article is about speech translation, not text translation.
They made a proposal that would've allowed consumers to get any player they wanted and just use one peice of software for any of them. If it weren't for the fact that there were competing products, this could've been a good thing for the music player manufactureres. The player manufacturers might've been perfectly okay with it, but developers of competing software would not be.
Nearly everything is subject to legislation. It's called checks and balances ;) Perhaps the legislature isn't happy that THEY might be forced to change their software and learn OOo on a whim from the executive branch?
We all know civilians on /. know more about the Navy than people in the Navy or even the Navy itself. Perhaps not...