The articles quite interesting, new antibiotics , a rebreather letting someone say underwater for 10 -12 hours at a time and then theres the nasa mission to europa...
making a movie is the least interesting thing mentioned.
We are semi agreeing here I think, yes he does have a right to be a dick under current copyright law.
However the girl doesn't have to write her own music just choose music which is availably legal because it is out of copyright, creatively commons licensed or similar, or just whose copyright owner chooses to allow non commercial use and being reasonable an audition isn't really commercial use even if it gets the singer a gig. She can write her own if she wishes of course.
Secondly the composer views out of print but not out of copyright music as a gray area. So his belief is that we should respect his copyrights under the law but not other composers work. I wonder how he views his own out of print work. Welcome to civilization where in reality people obey the laws that suit them.
Maybe a classic example is prohibition, a law was put in place it was largely ignored and it was repealed. Not even mentioning the laws companies and governments break when it suits.
Millions if not billions of people infringe on copyrights which is demonstrating a lack of respect for copyright and if the people will not respect copyright as it stands, then it requires reform.
Just because the law says so doesn't mean it will be obeyed or even enforced. I live in Ireland and it works that way. Interestingly Irish Law seems to allow for restitution I have seen a number of cases where the defendant will bring money into the court for the victim of their own accord, ( appears the judge doesn't order this payment). Usually this results in a minimal or suspended sentence.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_parks_1.html Rosa Parks broke the law when she sat down in a bus but the law wasn't just and caused a change in the law to be made. Recent copyright cases in the US have had damages awarded slashed. Civil disobedience is one method to apply pressure to get laws changed.
For a final thought the composer was willing to use and publish the girls correspondence with him which under the law is copyright to her without any payment. He could easily have given her a copy of the music she wanted. Actually she probably had it already under the circumstances she just wanted his permission to use it.
That would have been a fair trade, she probably spent a good deal of time writing to him. Her words obviously have some value he published them and his selling price $3.99 .
You ignore two important issues length and quality of life.
Why don't you kill yourself tomorrow? your dead what ever happens. Because you will not kill yourself tomorrow it shows you see your life as worthwhile ( or potentially worthwhile) and worth extending.
A reasonably long and healthy life are good things to aim for.
Cheap tasty food tends to be high in fat which raises cholesterol levels which narrows arteries and leads to heart attacks and strokes but thats not a serious problem is it because lots of people eat cheap tasty food without any problem at all, oh wait they don't it's one of the biggest killers in the USA.
not saying all cheap tasty food is bad but you do need to make good choices if quality of life and longevity mean anything to you.
I wasn't going to comment in this thread but as I have been through the lot and not seen any comments refer to alternatives.
I don't run windows i run Linux, I don't use photoshop I do use the gimp amongst others. I play guitar and if you care to listen I don't charge you (if I went to the expense of hiring a venue then I would).
I make my own songs and also use ideas' from others. I create websites and give almost everyone free access. I contribute to wiki's and forums, and bug-track and make the odd insightful or interesting comment on slashdot (heck i even posted a story which got accepted after years of trying) and usually I have more mod points than i can use. I browse at -1 so you don't have too.
There is a lot of creative commons music, pictures, photo's, video's , Youtubes full of video's that are created and shared legally.
So really i take a lot thats freely offered but I give back too my only objection is if you are making money out of my activity / work and I get nothing for it (Phorm spidering my websites and tracking my visitors and then advertising competitors products to my sites visitors annoys me, google doesn't because they drive traffic to my websites).
Now the original article is by a composer who until today I have never heard of, today he has gotten lots of free exposure without his music being downloaded which he may be pleased with. Most of this exposure is to people who have no interest in his work.
However it is a double edged sword that he wields, any one who cares to look now knows that he doesn't want his music shared unless he is getting paid for it. He naively assumes that people will pay for his music if they can't get it for free, however he ignores the huge back catalog of music which is out of copyright or creative commons licensed which can be used for free and without any guilt.
I was going to say he has some right to dictate how his music is used its really quite limited, his songs could be sung at KKK meetings and at best he can collect royalties... His music could be enjoyed by ide amim or osama bin laden , nothing he can do about it once its published.
Instead he has chosen to go to his young fan base who love his music are awestruck by him and now rather than being fans they think "what a dick". His success depends on his popularity and he's shot himself in the foot by his actions. "Adam" in one of the comments above says there are clips of his films on youtube uploaded without permission but i think he sees it as exposure for his work rather than blatant piracy which needs to be stamped out.
The only real difference is attitude and this composer is demonstrating you reap what you sow. Anyone care to guess if his revenues will improve as a result of his actions or decline or stay the same.
If the kids respect his copyrights and don't use his music at auditions he's losing out. His ego might say he is the best thing since sliced bread but he is no Beethoven or Lennon or McCartney or Cole Porter or...
Interestingly in the article comments even he says that out of print music is in a gray area, copyrights are far too long. In a 150 years if people respect his copyright will his lifes work be forgotten will he be forgotten?
Copyrights are too long and to attempt to collect every single cent that is legally due to you is futile, it creates bad will, where a more relaxed attitude creates good will. Discount rates for students/ educational use would encourage a positive attitude towards him and his work and reap rewards later.
He has a right to be a dick, but that doesn't mean increased commercial success.
You can pirate, you can pay, you can find an alternative. DRM tends to decrease the value of the paid for product.
obviously this man has achieved some degree of commercial success he is likely to be approached when someone is looking to produce a new broadway show. I think he forgets what its like to be young I can't believe he never photocopied or transcribed any music when he was younger, he obviously didnt have the internet but I bet he frequented the library a lot. Also that gray area of out of print music seems he is just as guilty as his fans.
DansGuardian http://dansguardian.org/ web filtering not something I'm bothered with for myself but anyone with kids should be concerned with what their children see.
Its built into ubuntu christian edition along with bible study software and other religious junk but obviously would work for any ubuntu edition.
http://ubuntusatanic.org/screenshots.php ubuntu satanic edition has some really nice art work not mentioned in the article but in the comments also there is sabily A muslim edition of ubuntu. Other religions are available even one designed to run Amiga software on, http://www.xamiga.net/
musix is a fully open source multimedia debian based distro caine is for digital forensics
DVL might be interesting if you have an interest in security
Microsoft has made significant investments to help consumers make better shopping decisions online, including our groundbreaking launch of the Bing(TM) cashback program two years ago. Bing cashback was a uniquely innovative advertising opportunity that helped advertisers partner with Microsoft to give cash back to customers and drive new sales, while deepening consumer engagement with Bing. We introduced Bing cashback to shake up the search space, and while we had some good results and some great learnings, the program just did not produce the change in user behavior we had hoped to see.
For these reasons, Microsoft has decided to evolve Bing cashback. After July 30, 2010, we will no longer offer the Bing cashback Search or Shopping advertising programs on the Bing search results or Bing Shopping pages. This will also be the last day consumers will be able to earn cashback rewards.
guess that means even paying people to use Bing didn't bring users to Bing.
Microsoft seems to have an image problem these days even this reward program feels sneaky and underhanded. Can't be good for advertisers either giving discounts to some of your customers is really going to upset the ones who didn't get the discount.
hows it feel to be the mug who paid extra...
sneaky and underhanded is becoming a common meme when you think of Microsoft. whats with the, Windows 7 crappiest version, crappy version, and the you going to pay thru the nose version because its got the features you need version. everyone knows that the difference between versions is what Microsoft chooses to disable and thats crappy behavior as is treating all your customers as thieves.
Seems a major reason that people use microsoft products is because they "have to" or for a simple life at least.
Google on the other hand have great services and software for free which most of us use everyday which enables them to make money through the ad revenue.
BENEFITS Savings: 180 burn deaths, 180 serious burn injuries, 2,100 burned vehicles. Unit Cost: $200,000 per death, $67,000 per injury, $700 per vehicle. Total Benefit: 180 X ($200,000) + 180 X ($67,000) + $2,100 X ($700) = $49.5 million. COSTS Sales: 11 million cars, 1.5 million light trucks. Unit Cost: $11 per car, $11 per truck. Total Cost: 11,000,000 X ($11) + 1,500,000 X ($11) = $137 million.
Trouble for ford was killing and maiming customers becomes a lot more expensive when its known you are aware of the problem.
presumably SEGA took this lesson on board and discontinued development.
"Games makers warned they might be forced to leave Scotland as a result of the move.
Manufacturers in Dundee have led the world when it comes to making hi-tech games. The previous Labour government had offered them tax relief they felt would increase spending on research and development in the UK by £457 million and create 3,000 jobs.
The industry is estimated to contribute £1 billion to the UK's GDP each year.
Colin MacDonald, from Realtime Worlds, which created the Grand Theft Auto series, said he was "hugely, hugely frustrated and disappointed".
He added: "We would hate to move away, but we're a business. When Canada is 40 per cent cheaper and France has built-in tax credits, you're looking at saving millions a year. We have to take that seriously."
Mr MacDonald said without the tax incentive many gaming companies would not be able to experiment and innovate, which would leave them falling behind in a global industry worth billions."
The video games industry is of value, it is skilled work. Perhaps the UK Government is confusing developing games with playing games.
It makes sense to make the UK attractive to Video Game Companies, there is the technical skill. When development finishes the game brings in world wide revenues for a cost of pennies per copy. They are a fantastic export practically a license to print money.
It might seem as if Video games are just fluff but looking at the rest of the software industry its largely a market defining leader and possibly some free alternatives. Theres very little demand for commercial software that isn't the industry standard or free.
Video games are unique, like books or films there isn't really a substitute for the real thing for anything but simple games.
The current British government seems determined to make everybody scrimp to try and reduce the deficit. But the effect will be to reduce everybody's spending to the minimum and increase unemployment by reducing local demand. By growing the economy, increasing employment, increasing production and exports the tax base is increased and the revenues will increase and the deficit will be reduced.
So what is going to happen to these skilled developers who are out of a job because other countries have made it more attractive for companies to do their development there. Maybe some will find alternative work in the UK or perhaps move to other EU countries either way Britain isn't making best use of its assets.
10.04 has simplescan nice and clean and easy to use. Does what's needed acquires images and uses libsane.
5 minutes with shotwell
Shotwell photo manager is a very simple and generally fast viewer, for some reason rotating a picture to the right is a lot faster than the same operation to the left.
Theres no keyboard shortcuts for the rotate feature instead its mouse orientated using the right mouse button a lot.
There is an enhance command but what it does I don't know. other tools are available once you select a single photo for editing. It's crop tool is pretty good but other adjustments are pretty basic and easy to make pictures appear worse. The export to picassa feature is useful too.
shotwell isn't as good as f-spot but doesnt use mono picassa wipes the floor with both of them but isn't native using wine.
picassa is my preference but shotwell can catch up its also available on windows
I think thats a case of least resistance unless someone was pushing for something like that nothing will happen. I don't think an actual policy is necessary, there is probably a general understanding anyway.
Besides why should anyone be restrained from publishing with a particular organization. That there is little regard given to some publications is always true, which ones well that varies.
Nobody really wants a target on their back which is why an understanding works. A credible peer reviewed paper needs to be published in an appropriate publication to have an appropriate level of respect.
The zotero (a firefox extension that can read and convert endnote hosted by George Mason University) lawsuit initiated in 2008 was thrown out of court in 2009 when it reached court, but you knew that having blogged about it at the time.
I don't know why GMU fighting the case against them counts as no reaction in your eyes thou. There seems to be a fair bit written about it at the time. What else do you expect?
I would have modded you informative but you were too selective with the evidence you provided.
Elsevier, long term readers here remember the allegations and thats enough isn't it?
Ministers have always insisted the 2003 Extradition Act is fair and balanced. But figures slipped out by a Home Office minister last night under cover of the Pre-Budget Report show that between 2004 and 2008, 68 people were sent to the U.S. while only 34 people were sent to the UK.
I guess my google search could be wrong but I couldn't find anything to suggest more americans have been sent to the UK.
http://extradition.org.uk/ a couple facing 98 years for legally exporting chemicals that were later used to manufacture crystal meth. (The back story on this seems quite interesting especially the part where an appeal can be made to the court of european rights but only after scotland has granted extradition and thus making the appeal impossible).
AMERICA has told Britain that it can "kidnap" British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States.
A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.
Finally in an attempt to be balanced I found some american (or is it irish) opposition to the treaty.
This document [Treaty Doc. 108-23] -- signed under cover of great secrecy on March 31st, 2003 by US Attorney General John Ashcroft, and Britain's Home Secretary David Blunkett-- permanently erases America's symbolic image as a land where the oppressed of the world can escape to as a haven of freedom from foreign oppression.
This treaty will make possible the extradition and imprisonment of any American deemed to be "anti-Britain" or opposed to British military rule in Ireland. Under the terms of this Extradition Treaty, American citizens will be eligible for extradition to Britain to stand trial without proof of guilt and without judicial review. There is no statute of limitations to these offenses, which can be lodged on the word of a sole witness. The document at first glance upholds, but then proceeds to decimate, the political exemption clause; a cornerstone of America's diplomatic relations since Thomas Jefferson refused the extradition of an opponent of the French Revolution. This document is by far the most extreme US Treaty yet and will have drastic effect on any person who has ever spoken out against British human rights abuses at any time in their lives.
Ok thas my google search results , please show yours.
Linux is easy enough on the desktop for anyone to use and ordinary people can use it as easy as windows. Personally I have set up Ubuntu on a couple of non-technical users computers and they are fine with it and are using it in preference to windows.
Hardware compatibility tends to being excellent, ok some devices might be unsupported but most you plug them in and they work, where on the windows side, drivers have to be found and downloaded.
What Linux doesn't have is marketing and third party commercial software. There is no boxed software for Linux and any computer shop will generally sell windows software and sometimes a little for OSX.
Theres no services to sell cleaning malware reimaging harddrives as such. Very little in the way of commercial games. This all adds up to very little presence in the eyes of ordinary consumers.
So while it doesn't get much visible use from ordinary consumers it has nothing to do with how ready it is for the consumer desktop.
There is more to the question than, does it kill you?
It doesn't, however chronic marijuana use is as debilitating as chronic alcohol use. It's very easy to spend weeks months even years stoned. That is harmful to the individual and society however being dosed up with antidepressants or Valium or other prescribed drugs can be just as bad if not worse and although legal they are not such a great alternative, marijuana is often used in place of prescribed drugs .
On the whole legalization makes sense, the people who abuse marijuana will continue to do so regardless of the legality. There are times where a little self medicating with marijuana helps (toothache for one) I have been advised by my Doctor to avoid more than 2 units of alcohol a week. Marijuana could be an alternative for me, it might help my arthritis in my hands too certainly would reduce the pain.
obviously you need to address issues such as driving while stoned, it does impair driving and before anyone starts an argument that it doesn't then i'd like to point out that if you have ever got stoned enough to not be able to stand up without holding on to something , then what makes you think you are a better driver in that state. Obviously its a judgment call as to your fitness to drive but as your judgment is impaired you are not fit to call it. Alcohol wins out in that situation because its a measured quantity of alcohol one beer is almost certain to be below the limit 2 may be but any more and your almost certain to be over the legal limit and impaired. There is no easy way to judge how much marijuana you have consumed and the strength.
However for marijuana to be legalized it first needs to be voted on by american politicians who really can't bring themselves to vote in favor of drugs.
The brotherhood of mankind has ancient roots. In the remote shadows of human pre-history, there was only a single primitive culture. "Genetic tracking" is a new science but it indicates that "modern" man existed as a hunter-gatherer in eastern Africa around 150,000 years ago, with evidence of these same people discovered in the Middle East dated from around 80,000 years ago. A well-researched hypothesis that all humans are descended from a "mitochondrial" Eve (a reference to the mitochondrial DNA traced to a female ancestor living in east Africa 150,000 years, or about 7,000 generations, ago) emphasizes the "commonality" of all humans and our descent from a single "race." At one point, there were probably only around 10,000 humans in the world, and they gradually migrated, leaving a DNA trail behind them.
In other words we are all a mixture sharing common genes there is no master race so no matter how white you think you are you still have genes of black people in your DNA. Wack jobs white black muslim or christian need a little education but if that fails prison is probably the best place for them.
It isn't the literature that is a problem it is what people do with that information. I don't need an instruction book to make some sort of bomb and neither do most other people however there is no real desire to make a bomb either. I believe that the anarchists cookbook is reckoned to be flawed and the recipes likely to harm the cook to a greater or lesser extent which tends to suggest its safer to leave the cook book in circulation.
lets be honest here plausible deny-ability is one reason for keeping wifi open, it sucks that this guy seems to be breaking a law by allowing access too easily.
As bad analogy's go its like someone stealing tools from your back yard which are then used to break into other houses and you getting prosecuted for the burglaries. With DNA being the magic science quite possible your DNA could be at the crime scene since your tools were used perhaps you might be prosecuted.
Anyway even with the issues you mention with encryption, whats stopping you from white listing your device mac addresses it is probably enough to stop 99% of unauthorized use.
I used to use 2 routers one filtered the other not and the open wifi was throttled back to around 10% of my connection speed. A nice compromise of openness but without allowing my connection to get hammered.
It is a bad law alright but acta will probably worse and we all know eventually every action you take on the internet will be monitored and recorded and stored for at least your lifetime.
To make British politics work for its citizens a system of proportional representation is needed. The current system forces you to vote for the party you think can defeat the party you really detest.
Luckily for me I chose non of the above and left the UK however as I found out a couple of days ago I can vote in British Elections for fifteen years after leaving where I was last registered.
In a system of proportional representation you finally get the chance to have a representative that more closely aligns with your views. Labour would probably lose my vote unless I had faith in the particular candidate and that realistically means he/she will have experience in local politics in the city or county councils.
Dumping a candidate on an area by the national party will become more difficult again a plus point.
The trouble is like turkeys the labour and conservative parties will not want to vote for christmas but here's my take on the current situation.
The conservatives have the most number of seats so the liberals have to be prepared to talk to them but the conservatives will not agree to proportional representation which they know will result in they never having a majority government again.
Having offered to attempt to form a government with the conservatives but failing due to no proportional representation. Nick Cleg is forced to work with the labour party who will go for proportional representation (at least they set up regional assemblies). It is unlikely that Gordon Brown can remain as prime minister , he makes a better chancellor to be honest.
The smaller parties will go along with this at least until PR becomes law before declaring a vote of no confidence and getting a fresh general election.
I don't think Nick Cleg can form an alliance with the conservatives without a deal for PR on the table his party will not let him blow this chance for real reform.
His party cannot allow him because without a deal they will hemorrhage seats in the next general election.
The current system largely splits the population into the rich and the poor and both parties kick the oppositions supporters in the nuts when they come to power. Thats not really strong government , whats needed is leadership that works for the country as a whole.
I really hope PR is introduced as it will muzzle MP's any get greedy and they can be replaced with a number of alternative candidates.
it is not just Eastern Europe which has issues, for example paypal doesn't accept Irish debit cards, credit cards it does but if you haven't one there are companies like 3v which issue you a virtual one off visa card. for a price.
Then you also have companies like Pcworld/currys and maplin who will not list prices on their irish sites and particularly annoying will not ship to the Republic of Ireland from the UK.
Although the pricing structure reveals that £12 on maplins uk site translates to 25 in the irish store or perhaps £30 for a usb midi interface is 50 in ireland or less than 10 including postage via ebay and a 3v card.
Companies like tesco's slipped up when their clothing was dual marked at £5 = 7.50 when sterling and the euro were worth about the same. these days its closer to 5.88
On the other hand apple has factories here, although looking for an apple store i am referred to PC World. which are more best buy than apple care.
shipping from china has proved to be problematic With 2 or 3 failed attempts to get a battery shipped to Ireland over 3 months finally shipped it to England in 5 days and then on to Ireland via a relative.
UK sellers can be interesting when it comes to postage, apparently paypal insist on registered delivery to ireland but maybe thats a lie i was told some places ship for £3 regular post others £8 registered. for goods of similar weights and values.
Seems that the reality is that there are a lot of companies which are out of their comfort zone once it involves shipping outside national borders and everywhere is third world except where they are. Multinationals seem to be the worst.
(slashdot stripped out the euro symbol obviously currencies other than $ or £ are suspect...)
Slashdot Mirror
You are losing me. Why are you going to sites that you hate?
Adblocking can be enabled or disabled on a site basis, adblockplus gives me the option to disable for news.slashdot.org or just this page,
Isnt that enough control?
The articles quite interesting, new antibiotics , a rebreather letting someone say underwater for 10 -12 hours at a time and then theres the nasa mission to europa...
making a movie is the least interesting thing mentioned.
couldn't find anything on the 60's but this page from 2009 was interesting.
http://www.brianrwright.com/Coffee_Coaster/01_Columns/2009/090609_Liberty_Dollar_Game_On.htm
with the currency being made of precious metal and not being legal tender the worst that happens is you go for scrap value.
We are semi agreeing here I think, yes he does have a right to be a dick under current copyright law.
However the girl doesn't have to write her own music just choose music which is availably legal because it is out of copyright, creatively commons licensed or similar, or just whose copyright owner chooses to allow non commercial use and being reasonable an audition isn't really commercial use even if it gets the singer a gig.
She can write her own if she wishes of course.
Secondly the composer views out of print but not out of copyright music as a gray area. So his belief is that we should respect his copyrights under the law but not other composers work. I wonder how he views his own out of print work. Welcome to civilization where in reality people obey the laws that suit them.
Maybe a classic example is prohibition, a law was put in place it was largely ignored and it was repealed. Not even mentioning the laws companies and governments break when it suits.
Millions if not billions of people infringe on copyrights which is demonstrating a lack of respect for copyright and if the people will not respect copyright as it stands, then it requires reform.
Just because the law says so doesn't mean it will be obeyed or even enforced. I live in Ireland and it works that way. Interestingly Irish Law seems to allow for restitution I have seen a number of cases where the defendant will bring money into the court for the victim of their own accord, ( appears the judge doesn't order this payment). Usually this results in a minimal or suspended sentence.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_parks_1.html Rosa Parks broke the law when she sat down in a bus but the law wasn't just and caused a change in the law to be made. Recent copyright cases in the US have had damages awarded slashed. Civil disobedience is one method to apply pressure to get laws changed.
For a final thought the composer was willing to use and publish the girls correspondence with him which under the law is copyright to her without any payment. He could easily have given her a copy of the music she wanted. Actually she probably had it already under the circumstances she just wanted his permission to use it.
That would have been a fair trade, she probably spent a good deal of time writing to him. Her words obviously have some value he published them and his selling price $3.99 .
You ignore two important issues length and quality of life.
Why don't you kill yourself tomorrow? your dead what ever happens. Because you will not kill yourself tomorrow it shows you see your life as worthwhile ( or potentially worthwhile) and worth extending.
A reasonably long and healthy life are good things to aim for.
Cheap tasty food tends to be high in fat which raises cholesterol levels which narrows arteries and leads to heart attacks and strokes but thats not a serious problem is it because lots of people eat cheap tasty food without any problem at all, oh wait they don't it's one of the biggest killers in the USA.
not saying all cheap tasty food is bad but you do need to make good choices if quality of life and longevity mean anything to you.
I just want to avoid Monsanto's products GM food might be 100% harmless but Monsanto isn't.
I wasn't going to comment in this thread but as I have been through the lot and not seen any comments refer to alternatives.
I don't run windows i run Linux, I don't use photoshop I do use the gimp amongst others. I play guitar and if you care to listen I don't charge you (if I went to the expense of hiring a venue then I would).
I make my own songs and also use ideas' from others. I create websites and give almost everyone free access. I contribute to wiki's and forums, and bug-track and make the odd insightful or interesting comment on slashdot (heck i even posted a story which got accepted after years of trying) and usually I have more mod points than i can use. I browse at -1 so you don't have too.
There is a lot of creative commons music, pictures, photo's, video's , Youtubes full of video's that are created and shared legally.
So really i take a lot thats freely offered but I give back too my only objection is if you are making money out of my activity / work and I get nothing for it (Phorm spidering my websites and tracking my visitors and then advertising competitors products to my sites visitors annoys me, google doesn't because they drive traffic to my websites).
Now the original article is by a composer who until today I have never heard of, today he has gotten lots of free exposure without his music being downloaded which he may be pleased with. Most of this exposure is to people who have no interest in his work.
However it is a double edged sword that he wields, any one who cares to look now knows that he doesn't want his music shared unless he is getting paid for it. He naively assumes that people will pay for his music if they can't get it for free, however he ignores the huge back catalog of music which is out of copyright or creative commons licensed which can be used for free and without any guilt.
I was going to say he has some right to dictate how his music is used its really quite limited, his songs could be sung at KKK meetings and at best he can collect royalties... His music could be enjoyed by ide amim or osama
bin laden , nothing he can do about it once its published.
Instead he has chosen to go to his young fan base who love his music are awestruck by him and now rather than being fans they think "what a dick". His success depends on his popularity and he's shot himself in the foot by his actions. "Adam" in one of the comments above says there are clips of his films on youtube uploaded without permission but i think he sees it as exposure for his work rather than blatant piracy which needs to be stamped out.
The only real difference is attitude and this composer is demonstrating you reap what you sow. Anyone care to guess if his revenues will improve as a result of his actions or decline or stay the same.
If the kids respect his copyrights and don't use his music at auditions he's losing out. His ego might say he is the best thing since sliced bread but he is no Beethoven or Lennon or McCartney or Cole Porter or ...
Interestingly in the article comments even he says that out of print music is in a gray area, copyrights are far too long. In a 150 years if people respect his copyright will his lifes work be forgotten will he be forgotten?
Copyrights are too long and to attempt to collect every single cent that is legally due to you is futile, it creates bad will, where a more relaxed attitude creates good will. Discount rates for students/ educational use would encourage a positive attitude towards him and his work and reap rewards later.
He has a right to be a dick, but that doesn't mean increased commercial success.
You can pirate, you can pay, you can find an alternative. DRM tends to decrease the value of the paid for product.
obviously this man has achieved some degree of commercial success he is likely to be approached when someone is looking to produce a new broadway show. I think he forgets what its like to be young I can't believe he never photocopied or transcribed any music when he was younger, he obviously didnt have the internet but I bet he frequented the library a lot. Also that gray area of out of print music seems he is just as guilty as his fans.
you really don't need video's sent into space on any physical medium either.
Russia Today said after this first ever failure to dock that a second attempt will be made on Sunday.
The highlights
DansGuardian http://dansguardian.org/ web filtering not something I'm bothered with for myself but anyone with kids should be concerned with what their children see.
Its built into ubuntu christian edition along with bible study software and other religious junk but obviously would work for any ubuntu edition.
http://ubuntusatanic.org/screenshots.php ubuntu satanic edition has some really nice art work not mentioned in the article but in the comments also there is sabily A muslim edition of ubuntu. Other religions are available even one designed to run Amiga software on, http://www.xamiga.net/
musix is a fully open source multimedia debian based distro
caine is for digital forensics
DVL might be interesting if you have an interest in security
Bing Cash back? whats that I googled it, naturally.
And find it ends today at 9pm (talk about missing the boat its been running 2 years apparently).
http://advertising.microsoft.com/advertising/bing-cashback
Microsoft has made significant investments to help consumers make better shopping decisions online, including our groundbreaking launch of the Bing(TM) cashback program two years ago. Bing cashback was a uniquely innovative advertising opportunity that helped advertisers partner with Microsoft to give cash back to customers and drive new sales, while deepening consumer engagement with Bing. We introduced Bing cashback to shake up the search space, and while we had some good results and some great learnings, the program just did not produce the change in user behavior we had hoped to see.
For these reasons, Microsoft has decided to evolve Bing cashback. After July 30, 2010, we will no longer offer the Bing cashback Search or Shopping advertising programs on the Bing search results or Bing Shopping pages. This will also be the last day consumers will be able to earn cashback rewards.
guess that means even paying people to use Bing didn't bring users to Bing.
Microsoft seems to have an image problem these days even this reward program feels sneaky and underhanded.
Can't be good for advertisers either giving discounts to some of your customers is really going to upset the ones who didn't get the discount.
hows it feel to be the mug who paid extra ...
sneaky and underhanded is becoming a common meme when you think of Microsoft.
whats with the, Windows 7 crappiest version, crappy version, and the you going to pay thru the nose version because its got the features you need version.
everyone knows that the difference between versions is what Microsoft chooses to disable and thats crappy behavior as is treating all your customers as thieves.
Seems a major reason that people use microsoft products is because they "have to" or for a simple life at least.
Google on the other hand have great services and software for free which most of us use everyday which enables them to make money through the ad revenue.
This article on the Pinto defects explains it well
http://www.engineering.com/Library/ArticlesPage/tabid/85/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/166/Ford-Pinto.aspx
BENEFITS
Savings: 180 burn deaths, 180 serious burn injuries, 2,100 burned vehicles. Unit Cost: $200,000 per death, $67,000 per injury, $700 per vehicle.
Total Benefit: 180 X ($200,000) + 180 X ($67,000) + $2,100 X ($700) = $49.5 million.
COSTS
Sales: 11 million cars, 1.5 million light trucks.
Unit Cost: $11 per car, $11 per truck.
Total Cost: 11,000,000 X ($11) + 1,500,000 X ($11) = $137 million.
Trouble for ford was killing and maiming customers becomes a lot more expensive when its known you are aware of the problem.
presumably SEGA took this lesson on board and discontinued development.
Ireland might be one option Microsoft and Apple seem to see an advantage. Artists do pretty well too and theres no need to learn a second language.
http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Taxbreak-loss-may-push-video.6377787.jp
"Games makers warned they might be forced to leave Scotland as a result of the move.
Manufacturers in Dundee have led the world when it comes to making hi-tech games. The previous Labour government had offered them tax relief they felt would increase spending on research and development in the UK by £457 million and create 3,000 jobs.
The industry is estimated to contribute £1 billion to the UK's GDP each year.
Colin MacDonald, from Realtime Worlds, which created the Grand Theft Auto series, said he was "hugely, hugely frustrated and disappointed".
He added: "We would hate to move away, but we're a business. When Canada is 40 per cent cheaper and France has built-in tax credits, you're looking at saving millions a year. We have to take that seriously."
Mr MacDonald said without the tax incentive many gaming companies would not be able to experiment and innovate, which would leave them falling behind in a global industry worth billions."
The video games industry is of value, it is skilled work. Perhaps the UK Government is confusing developing games with playing games.
It makes sense to make the UK attractive to Video Game Companies, there is the technical skill. When development finishes the game brings in world wide revenues for a cost of pennies per copy. They are a fantastic export practically a license to print money.
It might seem as if Video games are just fluff but looking at the rest of the software industry its largely a market defining leader and possibly some free alternatives. Theres very little demand for commercial software that isn't the industry standard or free.
Video games are unique, like books or films there isn't really a substitute for the real thing for anything but simple games.
The current British government seems determined to make everybody scrimp to try and reduce the deficit. But the effect will be to reduce everybody's spending to the minimum and increase unemployment by reducing local demand. By growing the economy, increasing employment, increasing production and exports the tax base is increased and the revenues will increase and the deficit will be reduced.
So what is going to happen to these skilled developers who are out of a job because other countries have made it more attractive for companies to do their development there. Maybe some will find alternative work in the UK or perhaps move to other EU countries either way Britain isn't making best use of its assets.
I'd settle for whats it for? and why i'd want to spend time learning how to use it?
Apparently its for beginners but beginners who already have a foundation to build on.
10.04 has simplescan nice and clean and easy to use. Does what's needed acquires images and uses libsane.
5 minutes with shotwell
Shotwell photo manager is a very simple and generally fast viewer, for some reason rotating a picture to the right is a lot faster than the same operation to the left.
Theres no keyboard shortcuts for the rotate feature instead its mouse orientated using the right mouse button a lot.
There is an enhance command but what it does I don't know.
other tools are available once you select a single photo for editing.
It's crop tool is pretty good but other adjustments are pretty basic and easy to make pictures appear worse.
The export to picassa feature is useful too.
shotwell isn't as good as f-spot but doesnt use mono
picassa wipes the floor with both of them but isn't native using wine.
picassa is my preference but shotwell can catch up its also available on windows
I think thats a case of least resistance unless someone was pushing for something like that nothing will happen.
I don't think an actual policy is necessary, there is probably a general understanding anyway.
Besides why should anyone be restrained from publishing with a particular organization. That there is little regard given to some publications is always true, which ones well that varies.
Nobody really wants a target on their back which is why an understanding works. A credible peer reviewed paper needs to be published in an appropriate publication to have an appropriate level of respect.
does anything more need to be said.
The zotero (a firefox extension that can read and convert endnote hosted by George Mason University) lawsuit initiated in 2008 was thrown out of court in 2009 when it reached court, but you knew that having blogged about it at the time.
I don't know why GMU fighting the case against them counts as no reaction in your eyes thou. There seems to be a fair bit written about it at the time. What else do you expect?
I would have modded you informative but you were too selective with the evidence you provided.
Elsevier, long term readers here remember the allegations and thats enough isn't it?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234669/Twice-suspects-extradited-U-S--fair-Gary-McKinnon.html
Ministers have always insisted the 2003 Extradition Act is fair and balanced. But figures slipped out by a Home Office minister last night under cover of the Pre-Budget Report show that between 2004 and 2008, 68 people were sent to the U.S. while only 34 people were sent to the UK.
I guess my google search could be wrong but I couldn't find anything to suggest more americans have been sent to the UK.
http://extradition.org.uk/ a couple facing 98 years for legally exporting chemicals that were later used to manufacture crystal meth. (The back story on this seems quite interesting especially the part where an appeal can be made to the court of european rights but only after scotland has granted extradition and thus making the appeal impossible).
mind who needs extradition
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2982640.ece
AMERICA has told Britain that it can "kidnap" British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States.
A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.
Finally in an attempt to be balanced I found some american (or is it irish) opposition to the treaty.
http://www.irishfreedomcommittee.net/IFC_INFO/CAMPAIGNS/USUK_EXTRADITIONTREATY/extradition_treaty_ACTION.htm
This document [Treaty Doc. 108-23] -- signed under cover of great secrecy on March 31st, 2003 by US Attorney General John Ashcroft, and Britain's Home Secretary David Blunkett-- permanently erases America's symbolic image as a land where the oppressed of the world can escape to as a haven of freedom from foreign oppression.
This treaty will make possible the extradition and imprisonment of any American deemed to be "anti-Britain" or opposed to British military rule in Ireland. Under the terms of this Extradition Treaty, American citizens will be eligible for extradition to Britain to stand trial without proof of guilt and without judicial review. There is no statute of limitations to these offenses, which can be lodged on the word of a sole witness. The document at first glance upholds, but then proceeds to decimate, the political exemption clause; a cornerstone of America's diplomatic relations since Thomas Jefferson refused the extradition of an opponent of the French Revolution. This document is by far the most extreme US Treaty yet and will have drastic effect on any person who has ever spoken out against British human rights abuses at any time in their lives.
Ok thas my google search results , please show yours.
Linux is easy enough on the desktop for anyone to use and ordinary people can use it as easy as windows. Personally I have set up Ubuntu on a couple of non-technical users computers and they are fine with it and are using it in preference to windows.
Hardware compatibility tends to being excellent, ok some devices might be unsupported but most you plug them in and they work, where on the windows side, drivers have to be found and downloaded.
What Linux doesn't have is marketing and third party commercial software. There is no boxed software for Linux and any computer shop will generally sell windows software and sometimes a little for OSX.
Theres no services to sell cleaning malware reimaging harddrives as such. Very little in the way of commercial games. This all adds up to very little presence in the eyes of ordinary consumers.
So while it doesn't get much visible use from ordinary consumers it has nothing to do with how ready it is for the consumer desktop.
many countries? according to the article two , the usa and south korea
There is more to the question than, does it kill you?
It doesn't, however chronic marijuana use is as debilitating as chronic alcohol use. It's very easy to spend weeks months even years stoned. That is harmful to the individual and society however being dosed up with antidepressants or Valium or other prescribed drugs can be just as bad if not worse and although legal they are not such a great alternative, marijuana is often used in place of prescribed drugs .
On the whole legalization makes sense, the people who abuse marijuana will continue to do so regardless of the legality. There are times where a little self medicating with marijuana helps (toothache for one) I have been advised by my Doctor to avoid more than 2 units of alcohol a week. Marijuana could be an alternative for me, it might help my arthritis in my hands too certainly would reduce the pain.
obviously you need to address issues such as driving while stoned, it does impair driving and before anyone starts an argument that it doesn't then i'd like to point out that if you have ever got stoned enough to not be able to stand up without holding on to something , then what makes you think you are a better driver in that state. Obviously its a judgment call as to your fitness to drive but as your judgment is impaired you are not fit to call it. Alcohol wins out in that situation because its a measured quantity of alcohol one beer is almost certain to be below the limit 2 may be but any more and your almost certain to be over the legal limit and impaired. There is no easy way to judge how much marijuana you have consumed and the strength.
However for marijuana to be legalized it first needs to be voted on by american politicians who really can't bring themselves to vote in favor of drugs.
As it happens I found a relatively easy to understand link that might help
http://www.bestofsicily.com/genetics.htm
The brotherhood of mankind has ancient roots. In the remote shadows of human pre-history, there was only a single primitive culture. "Genetic tracking" is a new science but it indicates that "modern" man existed as a hunter-gatherer in eastern Africa around 150,000 years ago, with evidence of these same people discovered in the Middle East dated from around 80,000 years ago. A well-researched hypothesis that all humans are descended from a "mitochondrial" Eve (a reference to the mitochondrial DNA traced to a female ancestor living in east Africa 150,000 years, or about 7,000 generations, ago) emphasizes the "commonality" of all humans and our descent from a single "race." At one point, there were probably only around 10,000 humans in the world, and they gradually migrated, leaving a DNA trail behind them.
In other words we are all a mixture sharing common genes there is no master race so no matter how white you think you are you still have genes of black people in your DNA. Wack jobs white black muslim or christian need a little education but if that fails prison is probably the best place for them.
It isn't the literature that is a problem it is what people do with that information. I don't need an instruction book to make some sort of bomb and neither do most other people however there is no real desire to make a bomb either. I believe that the anarchists cookbook is reckoned to be flawed and the recipes likely to harm the cook to a greater or lesser extent which tends to suggest its safer to leave the cook book in circulation.
lets be honest here plausible deny-ability is one reason for keeping wifi open, it sucks that this guy seems to be breaking a law by allowing access too easily.
As bad analogy's go its like someone stealing tools from your back yard which are then used to break into other houses and you getting prosecuted for the burglaries. With DNA being the magic science quite possible your DNA could be at the crime scene since your tools were used perhaps you might be prosecuted.
Anyway even with the issues you mention with encryption, whats stopping you from white listing your device mac addresses it is probably enough to stop 99% of unauthorized use.
I used to use 2 routers one filtered the other not and the open wifi was throttled back to around 10% of my connection speed. A nice compromise of openness but without allowing my connection to get hammered.
It is a bad law alright but acta will probably worse and we all know eventually every action you take on the internet will be monitored and recorded and stored for at least your lifetime.
To make British politics work for its citizens a system of proportional representation is needed.
The current system forces you to vote for the party you think can defeat the party you really detest.
Luckily for me I chose non of the above and left the UK however as I found out a couple of days ago I can vote in British Elections for fifteen years after leaving where I was last registered.
In a system of proportional representation you finally get the chance to have a representative that more closely aligns with your views. Labour would probably lose my vote unless I had faith in the particular candidate and that realistically means he/she will have experience in local politics in the city or county councils.
Dumping a candidate on an area by the national party will become more difficult again a plus point.
The trouble is like turkeys the labour and conservative parties will not want to vote for christmas but here's my take on the current situation.
The conservatives have the most number of seats so the liberals have to be prepared to talk to them but the conservatives will not agree to proportional representation which they know will result in they never having a majority government again.
Having offered to attempt to form a government with the conservatives but failing due to no proportional representation. Nick Cleg is forced to work with the labour party who will go for proportional representation (at least they set up regional assemblies). It is unlikely that Gordon Brown can remain as prime minister , he makes a better chancellor to be honest.
The smaller parties will go along with this at least until PR becomes law before declaring a vote of no confidence and getting a fresh general election.
I don't think Nick Cleg can form an alliance with the conservatives without a deal for PR on the table his party will not let him blow this chance for real reform.
His party cannot allow him because without a deal they will hemorrhage seats in the next general election.
The current system largely splits the population into the rich and the poor and both parties kick the oppositions supporters in the nuts when they come to power. Thats not really strong government , whats needed is leadership that works for the country as a whole.
I really hope PR is introduced as it will muzzle MP's any get greedy and they can be replaced with a number of alternative candidates.
it is not just Eastern Europe which has issues, for example paypal doesn't accept Irish debit cards, credit cards it does but if you haven't one there are companies like 3v which issue you a virtual one off visa card. for a price.
Then you also have companies like Pcworld/currys and maplin who will not list prices on their irish sites and particularly annoying will not ship to the Republic of Ireland from the UK.
Although the pricing structure reveals that £12 on maplins uk site translates to 25 in the irish store or perhaps £30 for a usb midi interface is 50 in ireland or less than 10 including postage via ebay and a 3v card.
Companies like tesco's slipped up when their clothing was dual marked at £5 = 7.50 when sterling and the euro were worth about the same. these days its closer to 5.88
On the other hand apple has factories here, although looking for an apple store i am referred to PC World.
which are more best buy than apple care.
shipping from china has proved to be problematic With 2 or 3 failed attempts to get a battery shipped to Ireland over 3 months finally shipped it to England in 5 days and then on to Ireland via a relative.
UK sellers can be interesting when it comes to postage, apparently paypal insist on registered delivery to ireland but maybe thats a lie i was told some places ship for £3 regular post others £8 registered. for goods of similar weights and values.
Seems that the reality is that there are a lot of companies which are out of their comfort zone once it involves shipping outside national borders and everywhere is third world except where they are. Multinationals seem to be the worst.
(slashdot stripped out the euro symbol obviously currencies other than $ or £ are suspect...)