Ya that's what Intel said about the Pentium bug...people should send in physical letters to Sony (not emails) by millions. This will make them see light of day.
Not in UK. As a parent pointed out, UK does not have any First amendment. Actually the BBC and also the Govt. can sue the owner of the AP for being a radio transmitter and/or an ISP without a license. UK is a country where you need a license to watch TV or listen to radio. So all people from land of the FreedomFries can forget about suing, since you would be sued back to bankruptcy. (Disclaimer: Much as i hate the TV License, it keeps the BBC from toeing the admin line and keeps Blair on his toes...i love them for it).
If that's the case, then why doesn't EU go after RIAA? Why come after Apple which is only a re-seller which does not own rights. As per existing contract law and sale law, the consignee cannot be held for a consignor's or owner's illegality. Apple is just an intermediary. After all UK propounded modern law, don't they know it?
I think EU is delibrately targeting US companies. They don't target chinese or japanese companies, or even Arcelor/Mittal combo. The US should start investigating AirBus and Volkswagen for anti-trust, and sic the RICO on them.
Mod me as flamebait or anything, i have karma to burn, but i still think EU is targeting US companies, while bush-idiot is warmongering with his single digit IQ elsewhere.
All this removing DRM is fine, but if i download from iTunes, will i be able to drag-drop the same into a Rio? Or am i still locked into iTunes iPod combination? I own only an iPod, so i would not notice it even, but for some who own a Rio/some other music player, can i buy from iTunes, and then listen to it on Rio? If not, then iam moving from a closer jail to a bigger jail.
isnt't it ironic? On one hand all the copyright owners want everyone to buy their content, but on the other hand, they would not allow even promotion of their copyrighted material by readers posting snippets of their copyrighted material for all to read. Why can't these short sighted guys think beyond the next quarter? Why do they always assume if i watch a snippet of their precious copyrighted material, iam pirating? Have they ever read a book in a bookshop before buying? Have they ever sampled a cookie before buying?
HEY ! I still buy a lot of DVDs. Movies i like, for instance Cars, Earth vs Flying Saucers, Enron, Used Cars, DS-9, 1st season of LOST (not the current crap after they killed off michelle) etc., these are movies you want to watch.
OK, time to invade Sweden on the pretext of "freeing" the people from the tyranny of the swedish monarchy. i see Dick cheney presenting a report to UNSC: "... it is with grave concern for the safety of the rest of the scandinavian countries and EU, i bring you these facts; Sweden is building weapons of mass destruction using its 20% of stockpile of uranium. Instead of joining hands with the rest of the community in fighting against terror, it is supporting terror by being a part of Axis of evil (replace Iraq with Sweden)." Bush: "... i have ordered 33,000 troops to invade sweden, and bring freedom and justice to the opressed. congress and senate should pass my war bills, else they too are supporting terror. By continuing to host Pirate bay, they sure are supporting terrorists." 5 years later, heard somewhere in swedish wasteland: "Damn man ! Are u sure its only 0.02% uranium? and we wasted so much time and money to get this low a spread?" [forgetting another 7000 troops killed].
OK cheney, u have got your case, now go duck hunting with the unbending swedish defence minister.
So, once it has evolved beyond a certain point, will it start rejecting Windows Vista stating its crap? Will it continue to evolve and state that humans by definition are dumb users and go and make a collect-call to the Borg? (i read in a ST:TNG Novel)? Will it obey the 4-laws of robotics (The zeroth law included)? What about a Beowulf cluster of those?
The Govt. has ALWAYS been about wasting money that was not theirs in first place. Our senators talk about "allotting" 1 billion to a small airbase since it was never their money in the first place. We must make a zero-based budget an amendment. Congress can vote to spend money only what they receive as taxes. It should be silently slipped into some relatively unknown bill (like statue of liberty maaintenance), and once they realize what has happened, they should be prevented from changing it by mass protests which point to them that if they change it, they would certainly be recalled.
Yup. That would have ended lex's career. Make it a point to do that next time. That's what my boss used to do everytime he wanted a truthful bid which did not junk old machines. I remember the higher-ups cribbing since Eps*n or others could not make a crack, since they would end up being sued by Xer*x.
Short answer: None. for Both ATM and voting machines.
Long Answer: I pity diebold. They used to make the world's most secure ATMs. Better than NCR.
Unfortunately the joke of a new CEO, thought that they could follow the success into election voting machines since congress mandated e-voting after the election-stealer Bush won due to hanging chads because hurricane-shocked floridans did not have enough IQ to vote paper votes better and instead spent time spray-painting walls "Go Away Isabel", as if that would make the hurricane go away by magic (the result of living near DisneyLand).
Seeing the "heck of a job" to be done by Diebold in e-voting, the CEO went about buying AccuVote even though internal auditors of Diebold pointed out issues in AccuVote, Inc. The problems of AccuVote did not go away magically when Deibold bought it (IT problems do not go away like financial problems magically). Add to that the "foot-in-mouth" Diebold joker who claimed to "Deliver Florida" to bush since he donated to Bush campaign.
End Result: Non working machines, MS Access using machines (AccuVote was in process of moving to SQL Server when Diebold bought it and scuttled the money donation to MSFT [all ye MSFT haters rejoice]), lotsa smoke due to the chairman's "foot-in-mouth" disease, etc., all conspired to bring Diebold down as a company in both sales and reputation.
What to do: Sell the AccuVote to Carlyle and watch them do an LBO. Concentrate on ATMs and get that oldie Rep. chairman to go hunting quails with Cheney and give Cheney a shotgun filled with steel pellets (not birdshot).
Well, clinton claims she represents new yorkers interests. Why doesn't she do any thing about this wasteful expenditure. I say lets wash the old cobwebs away (clinton, bush, etc) and bring in a fresh new view: Obama. Atleast he would be as fresh as Kennedy was and do something useful rather than pandering to special interest lobbies.
I still wonder where does he get his 30%-40% rating from? Are these texans and other Southerners still SO blind? Can't they see he is not a cowboy like them? that wearing cowboy boots, a 10-gallon Hat, does not make you brave and smart? Maybe we SHOULD have let the civil war succeed so that texas and other southern bush states were a separate country. That way, bush would be today the prez for these S.U.S.A which the North would invade for oil.
I don;t think politicians will EVER worry about bullying tactics of RIAA. They have enough on their hands at present, without some joke getting sued by RIAA...and a 0.5% of the 50% population of a nerd website raising noise about it. Its like fa*ting in a ship's boiler room. There are more important things: Impeaching bush as wanted by Hagel (a GOP. politician), reducing our deaths in Iraq, avoiding a confrontation with iran, ethanol versus hydrogen issues, illegal migration, etc. Maybe if 20,000 constituents signed separate letters about RIAA and sent them by Post to their congressman, that guy would discuss a word or two about RIAA in congress/senate. Otherwise forget about it. The 0.5% minority refusing to RIAA music does not prevent the crushing majority of the iPod owners from plunging into iTunes to download latest hit tracks. You are NOT changing the world/making it worse for RIAA.
McDonalds foods satisfy hunger and the probability of you dying from their food is as low as dying from your mama's home cooked greasy food than 3% unless you already weigh 120 kilos. However the probability of dying from cigarattes is over 90%. Atleast you can burn off Big Mac's calories by jogging or cycling. Cigars? Nope.
Let me clarify a few details: Enron's CEO was not acquitted BECAUSE he was innocent. He was acquitted because of a technicality that if you die between appeals, the law allows you to be removed of all convictions, much like annulment of a marriage. So he was not innocent. SA= Saudi Arabia. You should really stop watching only Fox news. We invaded saddam's Iraq because none of our oil majors could get a cut like the europe's oil companies. And we could not do another S.Arabia against them (using their own oil to build roads at inflated cost). Have U noticed any EU major company bidding and winning major contracts in SA? (You should read the books "Corporation" and "Confessions of an economic hit-man") As regards the intelligence, it is well known cheney and his cronies delibrately twisted intelligence to claim a white lie that saddam HAD nukes capable of launching in 30 mins, even when EU intelligence agents did not say so. Why did we withdraw our motion to the UN Sec Council to invade Iraq? Because bush feared it would be vetoed and attacking a nation after a UN veto would mean violating laws locally (See US laws). Do you remember companies like halliburton claiming Iraq could pay for its own reconstruction? A country which had the most advanced infrastructure (roads, telephones, hotels, museums, etc) before 1991, which were built by EU companies which rankled US corporations a lot. An advanced modern society where girls wore short skirts before 1991 and even christians prayed freely (unlike SA). In fact cheney even lied (lies now) that saddam had a link in 9/11. However the truth was a SA charity linked to an SA princess of the ruling family had donated substantial amounts to it, and that charity was used to fund 9/11 (read the 9/11 comissions' report). Even today why do all rebuilding contracts go to US companies only? Do EU companies have no ability? Why can't iraq's constitution allow open bidding where EU companies to win bids to reconstruct. Bush claimed he liberated the people. In truth he liberated them from one dictator to a group of corp dictators. NKorea: We very well knew they were far more dangerous than saddam since they had already sold missiles to other countries. If we were so hell-bent on cleansing this world of dictators, we should have attacked them first. And don't give reasons about China. Are we a bully that can't fight an equally armed adversary? Are we so fragile that a mighty army which defeated the SS Waffen cant rid the world of another dictator?
I may not be old, and i may not be well read, but i do know we once had a mighty army which fought against equals and not against a weakened ragtag band of poor guys. Since our prez (president) seems to be guided by hand of God and actually "talks" to God (both candidates for being declared mentally ill), then the God should have told him to fight like a man, and attack an equal.
HEY !! Will you all please STOP talking about allofmp3.com ? I just refilled my subscription with 20 dollars and i hope to download that many songs (Mozart, etc) before they are killed totally. With you guys bringing it up here, is enough initiative for any RIAA cronies to report back to their parents to renew shutdown. Damn you guys!
Yup. Saddam was also reelected with a 98% majority before US invaded. The fact that you are not convicted is not a case you are not guilty. Enron's ex-CEO's conviction was overturned once he died between appeals. Does that mean he was as innocent as a feather? Does it mean all the people who he led down the drain were figments of their imaginations? Is lying to your own people about reasons for a war and then justifying it with a lame excuse OK for you? And don't go countering "oh, so removing a dictator is not good?" , because SA has a king, who is not even elected. Did we do a "regime-change?" Heck closer, NKorea has known dictator. What did we do to him? Paid him $25 million to "probably" destroy his nukes....
If you are that illiterate, then you should not be let loose on the 'net. It is for you guys there's something called AOL. No, am serious. If i don't know to read STOP signs and road signs, i would not be given a driving license. Same way, if i don't know how to manage my system, i should be knocked off the 'net. Anyways AOL thrives on people like these and send them cute bills for $129.99 every month.
Kim Jong II, oye mama ! I wish RIAA would sue, win a default judgement against Kim and then to collect it, they proceed to Pyongyang, where they "suddenly" end up in Kim's version of Gitmo for enemy combatant. Man, that is one court battle i wish to see.!
...and get sued for millions of dollars for hosting "Shakira"?? No thanks. RIAA/MPAA do not have any idea of technology. They would rather sue you (unwitting hosed guy) rather than sick the Secret Service on bot writers. Good luck trying to explain child porn to a jury by stating that your XP was compromised....
yes. But if the RIAA had silently paid what the judge had originally ordered, then the defendant's lawyers would not have asked for RIAA lawyers fees. However, RIAA refused to pay the bill presented to them stating it was too high. "Too high relative to what?" asked the judge. "Too high according to the fees we normally get" replied RIAA. Next the judge asked 'OK, if so what are your fees?" RIAA: Doh!"
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F*ck GW?
But how did they know the war would be so badly done...
This is JUST a magnetic cover to protect astronauts, not a defense shield to protect you from Phasers.
As usual slashdot misquoted the story.
Ya that's what Intel said about the Pentium bug...people should send in physical letters to Sony (not emails) by millions.
This will make them see light of day.
Not in UK. As a parent pointed out, UK does not have any First amendment. Actually the BBC and also the Govt. can sue the owner of the AP for being a radio transmitter and/or an ISP without a license.
UK is a country where you need a license to watch TV or listen to radio. So all people from land of the FreedomFries can forget about suing, since you would be sued back to bankruptcy.
(Disclaimer: Much as i hate the TV License, it keeps the BBC from toeing the admin line and keeps Blair on his toes...i love them for it).
If that's the case, then why doesn't EU go after RIAA? Why come after Apple which is only a re-seller which does not own rights.
As per existing contract law and sale law, the consignee cannot be held for a consignor's or owner's illegality.
Apple is just an intermediary.
After all UK propounded modern law, don't they know it?
I think EU is delibrately targeting US companies. They don't target chinese or japanese companies, or even Arcelor/Mittal combo.
The US should start investigating AirBus and Volkswagen for anti-trust, and sic the RICO on them.
Mod me as flamebait or anything, i have karma to burn, but i still think EU is targeting US companies, while bush-idiot is warmongering with his single digit IQ elsewhere.
All this removing DRM is fine, but if i download from iTunes, will i be able to drag-drop the same into a Rio?
Or am i still locked into iTunes iPod combination?
I own only an iPod, so i would not notice it even, but for some who own a Rio/some other music player, can i buy from iTunes, and then listen to it on Rio?
If not, then iam moving from a closer jail to a bigger jail.
isnt't it ironic? On one hand all the copyright owners want everyone to buy their content, but on the other hand, they would not allow even promotion of their copyrighted material by readers posting snippets of their copyrighted material for all to read.
Why can't these short sighted guys think beyond the next quarter? Why do they always assume if i watch a snippet of their precious copyrighted material, iam pirating? Have they ever read a book in a bookshop before buying? Have they ever sampled a cookie before buying?
HEY ! I still buy a lot of DVDs.
Movies i like, for instance Cars, Earth vs Flying Saucers, Enron, Used Cars, DS-9, 1st season of LOST (not the current crap after they killed off michelle) etc., these are movies you want to watch.
OK, time to invade Sweden on the pretext of "freeing" the people from the tyranny of the swedish monarchy.
i see Dick cheney presenting a report to UNSC: "... it is with grave concern for the safety of the rest of the scandinavian countries and EU, i bring you these facts; Sweden is building weapons of mass destruction using its 20% of stockpile of uranium. Instead of joining hands with the rest of the community in fighting against terror, it is supporting terror by being a part of Axis of evil (replace Iraq with Sweden)."
Bush: "... i have ordered 33,000 troops to invade sweden, and bring freedom and justice to the opressed. congress and senate should pass my war bills, else they too are supporting terror. By continuing to host Pirate bay, they sure are supporting terrorists."
5 years later, heard somewhere in swedish wasteland: "Damn man ! Are u sure its only 0.02% uranium? and we wasted so much time and money to get this low a spread?" [forgetting another 7000 troops killed].
OK cheney, u have got your case, now go duck hunting with the unbending swedish defence minister.
So, once it has evolved beyond a certain point, will it start rejecting Windows Vista stating its crap?
Will it continue to evolve and state that humans by definition are dumb users and go and make a collect-call to the Borg? (i read in a ST:TNG Novel)?
Will it obey the 4-laws of robotics (The zeroth law included)?
What about a Beowulf cluster of those?
So U claiming 2GB+64MB > 4GB???
Hmmm... i always thought our school system taught us bad math. I didn't know it was this bad.
The Govt. has ALWAYS been about wasting money that was not theirs in first place.
Our senators talk about "allotting" 1 billion to a small airbase since it was never their money in the first place.
We must make a zero-based budget an amendment. Congress can vote to spend money only what they receive as taxes.
It should be silently slipped into some relatively unknown bill (like statue of liberty maaintenance), and once they realize what has happened, they should be prevented from changing it by mass protests which point to them that if they change it, they would certainly be recalled.
Yup. That would have ended lex's career.
Make it a point to do that next time.
That's what my boss used to do everytime he wanted a truthful bid which did not junk old machines.
I remember the higher-ups cribbing since Eps*n or others could not make a crack, since they would end up being sued by Xer*x.
Short answer: None. for Both ATM and voting machines.
Long Answer: I pity diebold. They used to make the world's most secure ATMs. Better than NCR.
Unfortunately the joke of a new CEO, thought that they could follow the success into election voting machines since congress mandated e-voting after the election-stealer Bush won due to hanging chads because hurricane-shocked floridans did not have enough IQ to vote paper votes better and instead spent time spray-painting walls "Go Away Isabel", as if that would make the hurricane go away by magic (the result of living near DisneyLand).
Seeing the "heck of a job" to be done by Diebold in e-voting, the CEO went about buying AccuVote even though internal auditors of Diebold pointed out issues in AccuVote, Inc. The problems of AccuVote did not go away magically when Deibold bought it (IT problems do not go away like financial problems magically). Add to that the "foot-in-mouth" Diebold joker who claimed to "Deliver Florida" to bush since he donated to Bush campaign.
End Result: Non working machines, MS Access using machines (AccuVote was in process of moving to SQL Server when Diebold bought it and scuttled the money donation to MSFT [all ye MSFT haters rejoice]), lotsa smoke due to the chairman's "foot-in-mouth" disease, etc., all conspired to bring Diebold down as a company in both sales and reputation.
What to do: Sell the AccuVote to Carlyle and watch them do an LBO. Concentrate on ATMs and get that oldie Rep. chairman to go hunting quails with Cheney and give Cheney a shotgun filled with steel pellets (not birdshot).
Enjoy Deibold.
Well, clinton claims she represents new yorkers interests. Why doesn't she do any thing about this wasteful expenditure. I say lets wash the old cobwebs away (clinton, bush, etc) and bring in a fresh new view: Obama.
Atleast he would be as fresh as Kennedy was and do something useful rather than pandering to special interest lobbies.
I still wonder where does he get his 30%-40% rating from?
Are these texans and other Southerners still SO blind?
Can't they see he is not a cowboy like them? that wearing cowboy boots, a 10-gallon Hat, does not make you brave and smart?
Maybe we SHOULD have let the civil war succeed so that texas and other southern bush states were a separate country. That way, bush would be today the prez for these S.U.S.A which the North would invade for oil.
I don;t think politicians will EVER worry about bullying tactics of RIAA. They have enough on their hands at present, without some joke getting sued by RIAA...and a 0.5% of the 50% population of a nerd website raising noise about it. Its like fa*ting in a ship's boiler room.
There are more important things: Impeaching bush as wanted by Hagel (a GOP. politician), reducing our deaths in Iraq, avoiding a confrontation with iran, ethanol versus hydrogen issues, illegal migration, etc.
Maybe if 20,000 constituents signed separate letters about RIAA and sent them by Post to their congressman, that guy would discuss a word or two about RIAA in congress/senate.
Otherwise forget about it.
The 0.5% minority refusing to RIAA music does not prevent the crushing majority of the iPod owners from plunging into iTunes to download latest hit tracks.
You are NOT changing the world/making it worse for RIAA.
McDonalds foods satisfy hunger and the probability of you dying from their food is as low as dying from your mama's home cooked greasy food than 3% unless you already weigh 120 kilos.
However the probability of dying from cigarattes is over 90%.
Atleast you can burn off Big Mac's calories by jogging or cycling. Cigars? Nope.
Let me clarify a few details: Enron's CEO was not acquitted BECAUSE he was innocent. He was acquitted because of a technicality that if you die between appeals, the law allows you to be removed of all convictions, much like annulment of a marriage. So he was not innocent.
SA= Saudi Arabia. You should really stop watching only Fox news.
We invaded saddam's Iraq because none of our oil majors could get a cut like the europe's oil companies. And we could not do another S.Arabia against them (using their own oil to build roads at inflated cost). Have U noticed any EU major company bidding and winning major contracts in SA? (You should read the books "Corporation" and "Confessions of an economic hit-man")
As regards the intelligence, it is well known cheney and his cronies delibrately twisted intelligence to claim a white lie that saddam HAD nukes capable of launching in 30 mins, even when EU intelligence agents did not say so.
Why did we withdraw our motion to the UN Sec Council to invade Iraq? Because bush feared it would be vetoed and attacking a nation after a UN veto would mean violating laws locally (See US laws).
Do you remember companies like halliburton claiming Iraq could pay for its own reconstruction? A country which had the most advanced infrastructure (roads, telephones, hotels, museums, etc) before 1991, which were built by EU companies which rankled US corporations a lot. An advanced modern society where girls wore short skirts before 1991 and even christians prayed freely (unlike SA).
In fact cheney even lied (lies now) that saddam had a link in 9/11. However the truth was a SA charity linked to an SA princess of the ruling family had donated substantial amounts to it, and that charity was used to fund 9/11 (read the 9/11 comissions' report).
Even today why do all rebuilding contracts go to US companies only? Do EU companies have no ability? Why can't iraq's constitution allow open bidding where EU companies to win bids to reconstruct.
Bush claimed he liberated the people. In truth he liberated them from one dictator to a group of corp dictators.
NKorea: We very well knew they were far more dangerous than saddam since they had already sold missiles to other countries. If we were so hell-bent on cleansing this world of dictators, we should have attacked them first. And don't give reasons about China. Are we a bully that can't fight an equally armed adversary? Are we so fragile that a mighty army which defeated the SS Waffen cant rid the world of another dictator?
I may not be old, and i may not be well read, but i do know we once had a mighty army which fought against equals and not against a weakened ragtag band of poor guys.
Since our prez (president) seems to be guided by hand of God and actually "talks" to God (both candidates for being declared mentally ill), then the God should have told him to fight like a man, and attack an equal.
HEY !! Will you all please STOP talking about allofmp3.com ? I just refilled my subscription with 20 dollars and i hope to download that many songs (Mozart, etc) before they are killed totally.
With you guys bringing it up here, is enough initiative for any RIAA cronies to report back to their parents to renew shutdown.
Damn you guys!
Yup. Saddam was also reelected with a 98% majority before US invaded.
The fact that you are not convicted is not a case you are not guilty.
Enron's ex-CEO's conviction was overturned once he died between appeals.
Does that mean he was as innocent as a feather?
Does it mean all the people who he led down the drain were figments of their imaginations?
Is lying to your own people about reasons for a war and then justifying it with a lame excuse OK for you?
And don't go countering "oh, so removing a dictator is not good?" , because SA has a king, who is not even elected. Did we do a "regime-change?"
Heck closer, NKorea has known dictator. What did we do to him? Paid him $25 million to "probably" destroy his nukes....
If you are that illiterate, then you should not be let loose on the 'net. It is for you guys there's something called AOL.
No, am serious. If i don't know to read STOP signs and road signs, i would not be given a driving license. Same way, if i don't know how to manage my system, i should be knocked off the 'net.
Anyways AOL thrives on people like these and send them cute bills for $129.99 every month.
Kim Jong II, oye mama !
I wish RIAA would sue, win a default judgement against Kim and then to collect it, they proceed to Pyongyang, where they "suddenly" end up in Kim's version of Gitmo for enemy combatant.
Man, that is one court battle i wish to see.!
...and get sued for millions of dollars for hosting "Shakira"?? No thanks.
RIAA/MPAA do not have any idea of technology. They would rather sue you (unwitting hosed guy) rather than sick the Secret Service on bot writers.
Good luck trying to explain child porn to a jury by stating that your XP was compromised....
yes. But if the RIAA had silently paid what the judge had originally ordered, then the defendant's lawyers would not have asked for RIAA lawyers fees.
However, RIAA refused to pay the bill presented to them stating it was too high. "Too high relative to what?" asked the judge. "Too high according to the fees we normally get" replied RIAA. Next the judge asked 'OK, if so what are your fees?"
RIAA: Doh!"