Keeping American dollars inside of America's economy is a very good thing. The next thing we need to do is to overhaul the much abused H1-B Visa program and severely cut back the number of H1-B visa's given out.
Back in 1993 or 1994 I was working for a company that was the first company to put computers with CD roms in libraries to replace card catalogs. In 93 or 94 Compton's was granted a patent for using a computer to retrieve information off of a CD rom and they tried to get everyone that used CD roms to pay them 1% of their gross profits on each CD product as a "licensing fee". This patent was over turned and Compton's should have been fined by the government. Nintendo's patents are basically the same thing as this. They're trying to patent using a disk drive, modem and look up tables. This should be thrown out and Nintendo should be heavily fined for this.
The whole patent process needs to be completely overhauled. It should be impossible to own a patent for reading information off a hard drive and transmitting it over a modem. Those are basic functions of the devices. This is no different than if I try to patent writing letters and numbers on paper using a writing utensil such as a pen or pencil.
The only instances I saw in the article that were legimate complaints were the Spanish word that means "bitch" in Nicaragua, and Korea's flag being backwards.
If I ran a company I wouldn't bow to the whims of countries like Saudia Arabia or China. I also wouldn't take into consideration laws in backwards countries about what could be printed on a map. Making a map that doesn't accurately reflect the real world is ridiculous. Countries that cruely subjugate their people (women in particular) should not be given special consideration ever.
I have less respect now for Microsoft than I ever did since they conformed.
It would be nice to see a detailed explaination of how to do this. In the past when I had a blocked number I noticed a credit card company authenticated my ID via caller ID even though I had a blocked number. If I'm paying for a service, such as blocking my number I expect it to always work.
Actually there is a need in the business world for ethical hacking. I know companies that do ethical hacks against sites that host their products every time they offer a new product to the public via the web. Having a working knowledge of cryptography and knowing how to apply it when trying to hack into a site and/or database is beyond a pimple-faced 15 year old sitting on daddy's computer tweaking existing virus code.
You can still enjoy safe hobbies that involve owning assault rifles. Start an organization called The National Rocket Association (NRA) and write your congressment telling them that the NRA is very disappointed in their actions. That might actually get some results as long as you just use the acronym.
If it's not, it should be. It should also be illegal to purposely eave ANYTHING on a users' computers when you do an uninstall (ie leaving things in the registry).
I think the people sharing thousands of copyrighted items will be a lot happier to pay a few thousand dollars to the RIAA than face real jail time. If you were running a warehouse that was printing thousands of bootleg CDs and selling them you'd go to jail. If you download music, make sure you aren't sharing copyrighted material and you'll be safe.
to my knowledge the only people being sued are people that are offering copyrighted works to other people via file sharers. Turn off your file sharing options if you have copyrighted material in your share directories and you won't get sued.
The daily postings by music pirates on Slashdot upset about having to pay for music really tarnishes the Slashdot image in my opinion. I'm sick of seeing the constant whining like "aren't you glad you started paying for downloaded music?" You don't like the price, don't buy it. That's how the economy works.
Besides the daily rantings of "reformed" music pirates on Slashdot and the incredibly retarded Bill Gates as a borg logo on Microsoft articles, Slashdot is near the top of my daily news sources. There are a lot of Linux enthusiasts out there that don't necessarily hate Microsoft. And there are a lot of people out there that actually own CDs.
What is wrong with MGM asking Comcast to contact the criminal using Comcast's servers to distribute MGM's copyrighted material? I'd come down on them like the hammer of god if someone stole something from me and then blatantly tried to sell or give away something that was clearly my property. The users are lucky that they're getting the chance to apologize in a letter instead of open court.
If MGM or Comcast was monitoring what you downloaded that would be another thing altogether.
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Keeping American dollars inside of America's economy is a very good thing. The next thing we need to do is to overhaul the much abused H1-B Visa program and severely cut back the number of H1-B visa's given out.
Back in 1993 or 1994 I was working for a company that was the first company to put computers with CD roms in libraries to replace card catalogs. In 93 or 94 Compton's was granted a patent for using a computer to retrieve information off of a CD rom and they tried to get everyone that used CD roms to pay them 1% of their gross profits on each CD product as a "licensing fee". This patent was over turned and Compton's should have been fined by the government. Nintendo's patents are basically the same thing as this. They're trying to patent using a disk drive, modem and look up tables. This should be thrown out and Nintendo should be heavily fined for this. The whole patent process needs to be completely overhauled. It should be impossible to own a patent for reading information off a hard drive and transmitting it over a modem. Those are basic functions of the devices. This is no different than if I try to patent writing letters and numbers on paper using a writing utensil such as a pen or pencil.
The only instances I saw in the article that were legimate complaints were the Spanish word that means "bitch" in Nicaragua, and Korea's flag being backwards. If I ran a company I wouldn't bow to the whims of countries like Saudia Arabia or China. I also wouldn't take into consideration laws in backwards countries about what could be printed on a map. Making a map that doesn't accurately reflect the real world is ridiculous. Countries that cruely subjugate their people (women in particular) should not be given special consideration ever. I have less respect now for Microsoft than I ever did since they conformed.
It would be nice to see a detailed explaination of how to do this. In the past when I had a blocked number I noticed a credit card company authenticated my ID via caller ID even though I had a blocked number. If I'm paying for a service, such as blocking my number I expect it to always work.
This is a blatant communist plot sponsored by Pepsi (everyone knows they're in bed with the Chinese and North Koreans).
Actually there is a need in the business world for ethical hacking. I know companies that do ethical hacks against sites that host their products every time they offer a new product to the public via the web. Having a working knowledge of cryptography and knowing how to apply it when trying to hack into a site and/or database is beyond a pimple-faced 15 year old sitting on daddy's computer tweaking existing virus code.
You can still enjoy safe hobbies that involve owning assault rifles. Start an organization called The National Rocket Association (NRA) and write your congressment telling them that the NRA is very disappointed in their actions. That might actually get some results as long as you just use the acronym.
If it's not, it should be. It should also be illegal to purposely eave ANYTHING on a users' computers when you do an uninstall (ie leaving things in the registry).
I think the people sharing thousands of copyrighted items will be a lot happier to pay a few thousand dollars to the RIAA than face real jail time. If you were running a warehouse that was printing thousands of bootleg CDs and selling them you'd go to jail. If you download music, make sure you aren't sharing copyrighted material and you'll be safe.
to my knowledge the only people being sued are people that are offering copyrighted works to other people via file sharers. Turn off your file sharing options if you have copyrighted material in your share directories and you won't get sued.
The daily postings by music pirates on Slashdot upset about having to pay for music really tarnishes the Slashdot image in my opinion. I'm sick of seeing the constant whining like "aren't you glad you started paying for downloaded music?" You don't like the price, don't buy it. That's how the economy works. Besides the daily rantings of "reformed" music pirates on Slashdot and the incredibly retarded Bill Gates as a borg logo on Microsoft articles, Slashdot is near the top of my daily news sources. There are a lot of Linux enthusiasts out there that don't necessarily hate Microsoft. And there are a lot of people out there that actually own CDs.
What is wrong with MGM asking Comcast to contact the criminal using Comcast's servers to distribute MGM's copyrighted material? I'd come down on them like the hammer of god if someone stole something from me and then blatantly tried to sell or give away something that was clearly my property. The users are lucky that they're getting the chance to apologize in a letter instead of open court. If MGM or Comcast was monitoring what you downloaded that would be another thing altogether.