'How the heck can they do this, given that Honeycomb is licensed under the Apache Software License v2?"
Well, see, anyone who would fight them uses google mail....
That's a bit short-sighted, don't you think? Do you similarly think we shouldn't attempt to preserve the works of Beethoven or Picasso? There may not be a great cosmic truth contained in many different works of art but that doesn't mean there isn't irreplaceable creative value in it.
That's not to say that every game was noteworthy, but there are some that are worthy of preservation, not because of nostalgia but because they have value inof themselves.
You're right, people who don't understand the difference between open source and a licensing agreement might make bad decisions, but those people aren't^H^H^H^H^H shouldn't be making decisions about that sort of thing without imput from their tech/IP folks.
...except not all open source software is licensed with the GPL. If anything the issue is less with OSS as a concept and more with the licensing wordpress uses.
This is a non-issue. Blizzard isn't forcing you to use your real First Last name, it's just forcing you to provide *a* first/last name. Put another way, with time codes it's impossible to prove your identity to blizzard, so you can pretend to be anyone you want with little chance they can enforce ULA or other contractual obligations.
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If you wish to responsibly disclose a vulnerability through full
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We do have a vetting process by the way, for any Microsoft
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I wonder how they are going to determine *that*......
"It is a shame that someone with so much ability chose to use it in a manner that hurt many people," Dembosky said in an e-mail message."
That in light of
"Butler served an 18-month prison term for the crime and fell on hard times after his 2002 release, he said in a sentencing memorandum filed Thursday. "I was homeless, staying on a friends couch. I couldn't get work," he wrote. In desperation, he turned again to cybercrime."
I'm not saying he's right, but it does highlight something interesting about finding work as an ex-con.
I was up in Fargo, ND visiting family for Christmas (yah shoor ya betcha) and a traffic light was out on a 6-lane intersection. Guess what? Everyone was calmly proceeding as if it was a 4-way stop. No drama, no retardation.
This whole thing is a non-problem. It's just that lazy journalists love it because it's "irony". It's not really ironic unless you're Alanis Morissette, but it makes for an easy, shitty space filler. Notice how in that story the SIGN is also covered in snow? ZOMG! We need heated road signs! Woe is me! Signs can sometimes become obscured by snow, the horror! The HORROR!
You don't get it. The problem here is *one* direction is out or misleading. The drivers coming from any other direction have no idea that there's a problem, thus the issue.
Frankly, to some degree I think the current cost of games is a bargain, especially if you compare the price point versus development costs of games of even 5-10 years ago. Paying $60 for a 40-100 hour RPG experience complete with full score, FMV and incredible rendering that took thousands of man-hours to produce is actually pretty cheap.
Copyright law exist to protect the original author from abuses, so that the result of their hard working and sweating aren't used without proper compensation.
This isn't the case.
Wrong
Keep in mind Company A (Fox) originally paid for the transferal of rights for exclusive publication, the original author being the beneficiary of that transaction.
If you don't protect the rights of Company A, you're restricting the free market and causing author's selling of their publication rights to have much less value. Just because company B is willing to pay for that franchise *now* doesn't mean that if company A hadn't footed the original bill in return for future profits that there'd even be anything to sell at this point.
Wrong:
ex post facto adj. Formulated, enacted, or operating retroactively. [Med Lat., from what is done afterwards] Source: AHD
In U.S. Constitutional Law, the definition of what is ex post facto is more limited. The first definition of what exactly constitutes an ex post facto law is found in Calder v Bull (3 US 386 [1798]), in the opinion of Justice Chase:
1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime, when committed. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less, or different, testimony, than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense, in order to convict the offender.
I don't know if their motion is all that interesting, really.... Isn't there some precedent for this sort of behavior in civil cases (defendant was actually shielding another party)?
That's not, of course, to say that they should have filed the suit in the first place.
Yes, this exactly. Nothing is "free" in the sense that you get something for nothing. The market is not free in this sense, nor should it be. The market is "free" in the sense that (in theory) you are not beholden to do business with anyone you don't wish to. The reality is far different (infrastructure related costs for example, as well as government "protection") than the theory, but misstating that a lack of "free" in the free market because you have to pay taxes is patently idiotic.
The market is "free" in the sense that you're free to spend your money anyway you wish, and to earn it anyway you can. "Free Market" doesn't mean that things are free, or even cheap. Free means that anyone can do business (in theory).
You are right that there are sickening excesses at the top of our system, but your post and the logic behind it are at best sloppy.
Brilliant!
Bribery didn't work, so let's make it about national security. Why, precisely, is this any more dangerous than "ssh encrypted file transfers" (aka sftp), or this newfangled thing called FedEx and "paper"?
Sure, because it's an information-sharing protocol you can (drum roll) share information. That, in of itself is not a heinous thing.
. It was released in May of 2002, the first cross-platform RPG (PS2 and PC).
What? Ignoring all other examples, FFVIII was released for both PS1 and PC.
This..... would be why banks are using those goofy pictures to authenticate the site - basically if you don't see the image you normally do, you shouldn't type in your password.
It won't work for someone targeting someone individually, but they're banking (pun, sorry) on most phishers not going after all the images or detecting them if they do.
It won't work forever, but banks -are- working on better ways of doing things.
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'How the heck can they do this, given that Honeycomb is licensed under the Apache Software License v2?" Well, see, anyone who would fight them uses google mail....
I find it quite hard to believe that anything he does *now* on his trusty Apple IIe is ahead of it's time ;)
That's a bit short-sighted, don't you think? Do you similarly think we shouldn't attempt to preserve the works of Beethoven or Picasso? There may not be a great cosmic truth contained in many different works of art but that doesn't mean there isn't irreplaceable creative value in it.
That's not to say that every game was noteworthy, but there are some that are worthy of preservation, not because of nostalgia but because they have value inof themselves.
You're right, people who don't understand the difference between open source and a licensing agreement might make bad decisions, but those people aren't^H^H^H^H^H shouldn't be making decisions about that sort of thing without imput from their tech/IP folks.
Perhaps you should post on your blog rather than wasting your valuable comments here?
...except not all open source software is licensed with the GPL. If anything the issue is less with OSS as a concept and more with the licensing wordpress uses.
That's obviously because they censored it.
This is a non-issue. Blizzard isn't forcing you to use your real First Last name, it's just forcing you to provide *a* first/last name. Put another way, with time codes it's impossible to prove your identity to blizzard, so you can pretend to be anyone you want with little chance they can enforce ULA or other contractual obligations.
FTA: Current MSRC Members (alphabetical order!): XX XXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXX XXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXX
;-)
If you wish to responsibly disclose a vulnerability through full disclosure or want to join our team, fire off an email to: msrc- disclosure () hushmail com We do have a vetting process by the way, for any Microsoft employees trying to join
I wonder how they are going to determine *that*......
"It is a shame that someone with so much ability chose to use it in a manner that hurt many people," Dembosky said in an e-mail message."
That in light of
"Butler served an 18-month prison term for the crime and fell on hard times after his 2002 release, he said in a sentencing memorandum filed Thursday. "I was homeless, staying on a friends couch. I couldn't get work," he wrote. In desperation, he turned again to cybercrime."
I'm not saying he's right, but it does highlight something interesting about finding work as an ex-con.
"How is less than 10 inches perfect?"
That's what she said!
I was up in Fargo, ND visiting family for Christmas (yah shoor ya betcha) and a traffic light was out on a 6-lane intersection. Guess what? Everyone was calmly proceeding as if it was a 4-way stop. No drama, no retardation.
This whole thing is a non-problem. It's just that lazy journalists love it because it's "irony". It's not really ironic unless you're Alanis Morissette, but it makes for an easy, shitty space filler. Notice how in that story the SIGN is also covered in snow? ZOMG! We need heated road signs! Woe is me! Signs can sometimes become obscured by snow, the horror! The HORROR!
You don't get it. The problem here is *one* direction is out or misleading. The drivers coming from any other direction have no idea that there's a problem, thus the issue.
Frankly, to some degree I think the current cost of games is a bargain, especially if you compare the price point versus development costs of games of even 5-10 years ago. Paying $60 for a 40-100 hour RPG experience complete with full score, FMV and incredible rendering that took thousands of man-hours to produce is actually pretty cheap.
Copyright law exist to protect the original author from abuses, so that the result of their hard working and sweating aren't used without proper compensation. This isn't the case.
Wrong Keep in mind Company A (Fox) originally paid for the transferal of rights for exclusive publication, the original author being the beneficiary of that transaction. If you don't protect the rights of Company A, you're restricting the free market and causing author's selling of their publication rights to have much less value. Just because company B is willing to pay for that franchise *now* doesn't mean that if company A hadn't footed the original bill in return for future profits that there'd even be anything to sell at this point.
Wrong: ex post facto adj. Formulated, enacted, or operating retroactively. [Med Lat., from what is done afterwards] Source: AHD In U.S. Constitutional Law, the definition of what is ex post facto is more limited. The first definition of what exactly constitutes an ex post facto law is found in Calder v Bull (3 US 386 [1798]), in the opinion of Justice Chase: 1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime, when committed. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less, or different, testimony, than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense, in order to convict the offender.
Any reason there isn't a linux binary for this?
You would think the Tolkien estate would be able to afford laywers up-front to advise them on the stupidity of that contract.
I don't know if their motion is all that interesting, really.... Isn't there some precedent for this sort of behavior in civil cases (defendant was actually shielding another party)? That's not, of course, to say that they should have filed the suit in the first place.
Well.... tere's -lots- of background radiation, etc. If anything, it's more of a "grey".
Yes, this exactly. Nothing is "free" in the sense that you get something for nothing. The market is not free in this sense, nor should it be. The market is "free" in the sense that (in theory) you are not beholden to do business with anyone you don't wish to. The reality is far different (infrastructure related costs for example, as well as government "protection") than the theory, but misstating that a lack of "free" in the free market because you have to pay taxes is patently idiotic.
How, exactly, does this make sense?
The market is "free" in the sense that you're free to spend your money anyway you wish, and to earn it anyway you can. "Free Market" doesn't mean that things are free, or even cheap. Free means that anyone can do business (in theory).
You are right that there are sickening excesses at the top of our system, but your post and the logic behind it are at best sloppy.
I'm pretty sure I also saw someone tell this guy the same thing in the story yesterday......
Brilliant! Bribery didn't work, so let's make it about national security. Why, precisely, is this any more dangerous than "ssh encrypted file transfers" (aka sftp), or this newfangled thing called FedEx and "paper"? Sure, because it's an information-sharing protocol you can (drum roll) share information. That, in of itself is not a heinous thing.
. It was released in May of 2002, the first cross-platform RPG (PS2 and PC). What? Ignoring all other examples, FFVIII was released for both PS1 and PC.
This..... would be why banks are using those goofy pictures to authenticate the site - basically if you don't see the image you normally do, you shouldn't type in your password. It won't work for someone targeting someone individually, but they're banking (pun, sorry) on most phishers not going after all the images or detecting them if they do. It won't work forever, but banks -are- working on better ways of doing things.