The ruling is a German ruling, not a European ruling (Europe has it's own court). German rulings do not apply to Europe or any part of Europe other than Germany.
We're not talking about breaking into an author's house, stealing a transscript and copying it many times. We're talking about buying a legitimate copy from the author and passing that single, original medium along to somebody else.
Authors have right to be paid for their work. They do not have a right to be paid for paying customers selling the customers' property.
If they voluntarily pool their resources to protect themselves, that is libertarianism.
Sounds like "maffia" to me.
If the voluntary pool becomes large enough, we call it "government".
Libertarianism is one of those things that only works in small groups (and then only helps that small group), but fails on a nation-wide scale. Kinda like how marxism works in small communes but turns into communism when applied on a nation-wide scale.
Reading the Wikipedia article, it doesn't seem all that negative. There are some negative details in there, but these are simple facts, stated in a short and factual manner. If you don't want people to know of your extortion practices, then either don't extort people or do a better job at it so you don't get convicted for it in a public court.
In my country, the owner of a router can be held liable for the data transmitted throught it. If some anonymous user uses an open WiFi connection to download child pornography or hacks the pentagon servers, the owner of the router can be held atleast partly responsible. I don't know about regulations in the USA, but I'd damn well make certain the law protects the owner of a router before advising them to open up the connection.
There is a lot of stuff not everyone knows. Should we only study things everyone already knows? Should news only be reported if everyone already knows?
According to this page: http://www.economicmodeling.co... At the very best, females make up 30.4% of IT graduates. The workforce is 35% female, so on average females are more likely to be hired for IT positions than men.
How about unemployment rates for female and black tech workers? Given the outrage I would expect atleast 35% of the unemployed tech workers being female and atleast 1% being black,.
Baby YouTube; "Our users can put whatever video they want on our site, we're not responsible if it's copyrighted music". Pubescent YouTube; "We'll remove copyrighted music videos, but only if the copyright owner complains". Mature YouTube; "We'll remove any video containing your music if you don't let us sell your music".
Standard consumer goods practice; always make sure you have atleast one ridiculously expensive version. Doesn't need to be any better, just far more expensive. There's always people who associate "expensive" with "good" and some can even afford it. Same goes for TV's, Hifi equipment, musical instruments, tools, sports equipment, cars, etc...
Second, that we have learned over time that the Turing test doesn't really mean much of anything. We are capable of creating a machine that holds its own in limited conversation, but in the process we have learned that it has little to do with "AI".
I disagree. All we've learned is that chatbots barely manage to fool a human, even when cheating the rules. If anything, it demonstrates that chatbots simply aren't capable of holding a normal conversation and we need something better.
More specifically this is about 3rd parties tracking you, without paying Apple. All this does is close up the tracking options that compete with Apple's tracking options. As for Google, I suspect we'll see this happening on Android phones soon enough as MAC tracking competes with Google as well.
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The ruling is a German ruling, not a European ruling (Europe has it's own court).
German rulings do not apply to Europe or any part of Europe other than Germany.
We're not talking about breaking into an author's house, stealing a transscript and copying it many times. We're talking about buying a legitimate copy from the author and passing that single, original medium along to somebody else.
Authors have right to be paid for their work. They do not have a right to be paid for paying customers selling the customers' property.
I for one am constantly aching for a CLI that can play musical notes. It's an essential feature and one I cannot possibly do without.
If they voluntarily pool their resources to protect themselves, that is libertarianism.
Sounds like "maffia" to me.
If the voluntary pool becomes large enough, we call it "government".
Libertarianism is one of those things that only works in small groups (and then only helps that small group), but fails on a nation-wide scale.
Kinda like how marxism works in small communes but turns into communism when applied on a nation-wide scale.
Reading the Wikipedia article, it doesn't seem all that negative.
There are some negative details in there, but these are simple facts, stated in a short and factual manner.
If you don't want people to know of your extortion practices, then either don't extort people or do a better job at it so you don't get convicted for it in a public court.
Being legally right does not mean being morally right in the eyes of those who pay your bills.
Agreed.
Thinking "What would be the most retarded way to do this?" and finding the answer is exactly what they did, is very intuitive.
Newsflash; not every Windows 8 user is a system administrator.
It's even worse that the cops didn't escalate the issue after two days had passed and they were running out of time.
Problem #2: Liability
In my country, the owner of a router can be held liable for the data transmitted throught it. If some anonymous user uses an open WiFi connection to download child pornography or hacks the pentagon servers, the owner of the router can be held atleast partly responsible. I don't know about regulations in the USA, but I'd damn well make certain the law protects the owner of a router before advising them to open up the connection.
What's your point?
There is a lot of stuff not everyone knows.
Should we only study things everyone already knows?
Should news only be reported if everyone already knows?
According to this page: http://www.economicmodeling.co...
At the very best, females make up 30.4% of IT graduates.
The workforce is 35% female, so on average females are more likely to be hired for IT positions than men.
How about unemployment rates for female and black tech workers?
Given the outrage I would expect atleast 35% of the unemployed tech workers being female and atleast 1% being black,.
Baby YouTube; "Our users can put whatever video they want on our site, we're not responsible if it's copyrighted music".
Pubescent YouTube; "We'll remove copyrighted music videos, but only if the copyright owner complains".
Mature YouTube; "We'll remove any video containing your music if you don't let us sell your music".
Let's hope it dies before it gets any worse.
Sorry, Sony.
No reason to feel sorry.
If you've ever put a music CD in your computer, you're probably running Sony software too.
No /. commenter will ever have the ability to use a tandem, regardless of whether they want to.
For multiple reasons.
As long as I don't get an ad for a funeral parlor, I'm okay with either.
There are far too many choices now.
JavaScript and VBScript.
I agree there is atleast one choice too many.
Isn't Phonegap/Cordova effectively for making downloadable, offline web applications?
Neither of those claim it to be a drop-in replacement for all the properties of steel.
Of in fact for ANY property of steel.
Standard consumer goods practice; always make sure you have atleast one ridiculously expensive version.
Doesn't need to be any better, just far more expensive.
There's always people who associate "expensive" with "good" and some can even afford it.
Same goes for TV's, Hifi equipment, musical instruments, tools, sports equipment, cars, etc...
And I'd like to suggest that this is a tricky qualifier, given the number of people reading Gawker and watching "Keeping up with the Kardashians".
No, seriously. Given some of the stupid things people say and do, it would make more sense if they were poorly written AIs.
Hence the qualifier;
the computer must convince the judge it is a human with it's full mental capacity,
Asking somebody to repeat their name on a text-interface tends to get that kind of response even from humans.
It was just being sarcastic, Jennifer.
Second, that we have learned over time that the Turing test doesn't really mean much of anything. We are capable of creating a machine that holds its own in limited conversation, but in the process we have learned that it has little to do with "AI".
I disagree. All we've learned is that chatbots barely manage to fool a human, even when cheating the rules.
If anything, it demonstrates that chatbots simply aren't capable of holding a normal conversation and we need something better.
More specifically this is about 3rd parties tracking you, without paying Apple.
All this does is close up the tracking options that compete with Apple's tracking options.
As for Google, I suspect we'll see this happening on Android phones soon enough as MAC tracking competes with Google as well.