The point of feeds is to get just the content without all the crap (including ads and CSS). If more people would make their feeds right, this wouldn't really be a problem. There's no point in using more than links via the "a" element, images via the "img" element in a feed, separating paragraphs via the "p" element, and the occasional semantic elements like "strong", "em", "ins", and "del".
What sensible feed aggregator allows javascript?
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That's like allowing javascript in HTML email. Any sensible aggregator (and mail cient) disables all javascript by default.
Someone please reassure me that Vista's aggregator does so as well. In fact, can anyone even refer to an aggregator that parses and enables javascript? I can't begin to think of where to find one.
Because they're always different people talking about it. One group will refer to closed code as "stolen", while another group will refer to copyright infringement as such.
Either you use only private keys for authentication, or you rate limit password attempts (and how many are allowed within a certain amount of time). Both work quite well, but the private key method is the most secure way possible.
Actually, they'd probably go after the writers of Usenet programs (e.g. Thunderbird, KNode, gnus), even if they don't support yEnc and easy gathering of binaries.
LimeWire has plenty of functionality for sharing and downloading legal content (typically Creative Commons licensed or public domain, but GPL and other open source software is available as well). In fact, I'd say it's easier to use for CC and PD content than illegal content.
I do think that pirating intellectual property is theft.
And of course, since you aren't a lawyer, your opinion wouldn't hold up in a court of law. Even the term "pirating" when applied to copyright infringement doesn't hold up as a legal definition.
By the way, a search in 17 USC (Copyright) finds one result for the word "theft" (only mentions that theft of a phonorecord does not count as voluntary distribution in 17 USC 115), and "steal" doesn't even appear. Phrases like "IP theft" were made up by PR for the **AA organisations.
Stealing intellectual property seems more like a situation like this:
You're a record company, and you find a new band that seems quite promising. You record a few albums for them, and decide to let them off, lying to them about how much they suck. Then you go and sell their music for shittons of money. They can't do anything about it because they signed their copyright off to you. You just effectively stole their IP from them, and now you are the only one who can make money off of it.
Copying something doesn't deprive the copyright holder of their copyright, so it is not theft. You should also note that words like "theft" have strict legal meanings, and interweaving it with concepts like IP is not a good idea. Theft can only legally happen with physical items ("theft of services" is a different topic as far as I recall), not copies of ideas.
Of course, I am not a Bar-certified lawyer, but I have lawyer friends and a good background in law (not enough to be a lawyer without more schooling, but enough to know what the hell I'm talking about).
Since the artist will be making most of their money from concerts and tours, I don't think they'd disagree with all that extra publicity with cheap albums.
LimeWire's free software (GPL), so it won't be going anywhere anytime soon. Even if the RIAA somehow extorts money out of the LimeWire company, anyone else (especially in other countries) can pick up on the development and continue to release new versions.
Just one improvement to that list: use Ogg/Speex for recording messages. It records at a very good quality for speech at an extremely small file size. One of the biggest users of Speex? Microsoft with Xbox Live headset communication. Yes, it's so good that even Microsoft decided to use an open standard rather than developing their own.
Harddrives aren't as good for long-term backup. You can't just toss a harddrive in a safe and expect it to still be magnetised enough to be read later on.
Remember DIVX? It's nice to see that they're having a change of heart when it comes to DRM. Kudos to them if this takes off with minimal noise in the legal department.
I know this probably falls under significant tweaking, but you can replace Wine's DLLs that don't provide all the necessary functionality for AutoCAD. You just take them from another Windows install, and it's pretty easy to configure from Wine. To find out which DLLs you need to replace, however, is the hard part. Check Wine's app database to see if they mention what needs to be done (AutoCAD is a popular program, so you'll definitely find it there).
Actually, a theory (or theorem) is a provable statement. Postulates are unprovable, but widely accepted as fact. Theories can be disproven, but many widely accepted theories are so because of all the attempts at discreditting them failing.
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Hmm, I've been doing that for a while, even after Firefox got its @-moz-document thing. I'd like to see the @-moz-document get standardised somehow (or at least added to KHTML).
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Well, I'm just saying that you don't really need a lossless format for VoIP or related.
The point of feeds is to get just the content without all the crap (including ads and CSS). If more people would make their feeds right, this wouldn't really be a problem. There's no point in using more than links via the "a" element, images via the "img" element in a feed, separating paragraphs via the "p" element, and the occasional semantic elements like "strong", "em", "ins", and "del".
That's like allowing javascript in HTML email. Any sensible aggregator (and mail cient) disables all javascript by default.
Someone please reassure me that Vista's aggregator does so as well. In fact, can anyone even refer to an aggregator that parses and enables javascript? I can't begin to think of where to find one.
Moral of the story: don't trust 4chan.
Because they're always different people talking about it. One group will refer to closed code as "stolen", while another group will refer to copyright infringement as such.
Either you use only private keys for authentication, or you rate limit password attempts (and how many are allowed within a certain amount of time). Both work quite well, but the private key method is the most secure way possible.
Not a very viable solution for teens at school.
Oh well, I guess I need to start studying that code. I HATE the C language too >=(
Good news! It's written in Java.
They're way ahead of you on that one. LimeWire's been free software (GPL as a matter of fact) since it was first released.
Actually, they'd probably go after the writers of Usenet programs (e.g. Thunderbird, KNode, gnus), even if they don't support yEnc and easy gathering of binaries.
Someone who works at Google is going to have to program it, so they're paying someone regardless.
LimeWire has plenty of functionality for sharing and downloading legal content (typically Creative Commons licensed or public domain, but GPL and other open source software is available as well). In fact, I'd say it's easier to use for CC and PD content than illegal content.
I do think that pirating intellectual property is theft.
And of course, since you aren't a lawyer, your opinion wouldn't hold up in a court of law. Even the term "pirating" when applied to copyright infringement doesn't hold up as a legal definition.
By the way, a search in 17 USC (Copyright) finds one result for the word "theft" (only mentions that theft of a phonorecord does not count as voluntary distribution in 17 USC 115), and "steal" doesn't even appear. Phrases like "IP theft" were made up by PR for the **AA organisations.
Stealing intellectual property seems more like a situation like this:
You're a record company, and you find a new band that seems quite promising. You record a few albums for them, and decide to let them off, lying to them about how much they suck. Then you go and sell their music for shittons of money. They can't do anything about it because they signed their copyright off to you. You just effectively stole their IP from them, and now you are the only one who can make money off of it.
Copying something doesn't deprive the copyright holder of their copyright, so it is not theft. You should also note that words like "theft" have strict legal meanings, and interweaving it with concepts like IP is not a good idea. Theft can only legally happen with physical items ("theft of services" is a different topic as far as I recall), not copies of ideas.
Of course, I am not a Bar-certified lawyer, but I have lawyer friends and a good background in law (not enough to be a lawyer without more schooling, but enough to know what the hell I'm talking about).
Since the artist will be making most of their money from concerts and tours, I don't think they'd disagree with all that extra publicity with cheap albums.
LimeWire's free software (GPL), so it won't be going anywhere anytime soon. Even if the RIAA somehow extorts money out of the LimeWire company, anyone else (especially in other countries) can pick up on the development and continue to release new versions.
Just one improvement to that list: use Ogg/Speex for recording messages. It records at a very good quality for speech at an extremely small file size. One of the biggest users of Speex? Microsoft with Xbox Live headset communication. Yes, it's so good that even Microsoft decided to use an open standard rather than developing their own.
Wait, you mean you don't really want all that stuff? :(
Harddrives aren't as good for long-term backup. You can't just toss a harddrive in a safe and expect it to still be magnetised enough to be read later on.
Remember DIVX? It's nice to see that they're having a change of heart when it comes to DRM. Kudos to them if this takes off with minimal noise in the legal department.
I know this probably falls under significant tweaking, but you can replace Wine's DLLs that don't provide all the necessary functionality for AutoCAD. You just take them from another Windows install, and it's pretty easy to configure from Wine. To find out which DLLs you need to replace, however, is the hard part. Check Wine's app database to see if they mention what needs to be done (AutoCAD is a popular program, so you'll definitely find it there).
Punching someone in the face when they don't want you to is battery. Doesn't take a law degree to know that (so I'm not noting I'm not anal).
Actually, a theory (or theorem) is a provable statement. Postulates are unprovable, but widely accepted as fact. Theories can be disproven, but many widely accepted theories are so because of all the attempts at discreditting them failing.
Hmm, I've been doing that for a while, even after Firefox got its @-moz-document thing. I'd like to see the @-moz-document get standardised somehow (or at least added to KHTML).