Well, fact that they went out of their way to make it invisble to a user, and that the only way to know its there is to have read the documentation, shows that they clearly do not expect end users to read the documentation. Does this not invalidate their EULA? Much like a return policy in a store must be clearly posted? In essence if you put the terms in a place that the other party will not find them, then they certainly did not agree to them. I assume that this is why any updates to the terms of my credit card are sent with the bill instead of just posted on their web site.
We might also want to notifiy companies that Sony's Music CDs infect Windows machines if played, and that they should immediatly notify their employees that it is against company policy to play Sony CDs in any company computer.
Yes, but you are paying to skip those commercials. Both in the cost of the DVR, and in the cost of the cable/Sat service. If Google Actually gave away the service, many people would be ok with the commercials. I'm paying ~$75 a month for TV. Thats not counting the ~1000 I spent on the DVRs. If I could cut out that $75 a month fee, I might consider turning off the Commercial Advance. I would consider it even more if they would reduce the commercial time from 15 minutes out of the hour to something more like 5. Given that the ads would be targeted, they should be able to get 3 times more revenue per ad than what regular TV offers.
Uh, no reality shows? How about, the news, game shows, sports, documenteries and so forth. Reality TV is a new term, not a new idea. Most of the "Reality TV" are simply multi episode game shows.
Just to stir the pot....Couldn't this be considered terrism by the Korean government? It seems that threatening to cut off part of the national infrestructure should be considered terrorism. Do the terrorism laws, or copyright laws take presidence on an international level?
The right way to do this is to count the number of DVDs that have been damaged. The grassroots movement needs to fight money with money. While the **aa makes up numbers on how much "piracy" has cost them, we need to start counting up how much they have stolen from us by licensing us media, that we can not access because the media is damaged, and the **ia intentinally prevented us from securing via backup. We should also list the costs to industry for the media players and hard drives we did not buy because we could not copy our movies to video jukeboxes. We just need to show that the DMCA is more expensive than the increase of "piracy" without it.
Do you also smelt your own iron for your pots and pans just to make sure your dinner turns out right? What about those tires on your car? They are a safety device you know. Do you vulcanize your own rubber? The parents example is very good, in that it is safe to assume that factory produced products from reputable companies are going to be made with at a reasonable level of quality. If IKEA desks were "falling over without warning the first time your friend, who doesn't 'get' desks, tries to use it...", even one in a thousand, you would hear about the class action lawsuits. IKEA would be out of business, and the parent wouldn't have used that example.
So, given that your example simply doesn not happen, we can assume that the parent made a very good and valid example.
Well, I would find songs the same way I do with my CDs. I would first look for Band, then filter down to Album, finally finding the Song I wanted. The lack of disk space has been one of the reasons I have not bought a player. I don't want my music in the lossy MP3 or or WMA format. I want Lossless Flac. Having ripped my 400+ (no, not copies) CD's to my hard drive for in home play, I found that I need a little ~250gigs to handle todays music. Of course I have many friends who's music collections dwarf mine, so no, 60 gigs is not even close to what is needed.
To be fair, I MIGHT consider a player that could hold my whole collection in mp3 format, but I would feel the same way I did when I bought my first digital camera at 1.3mp. It was ok, but has a ways to go to before it becomes my primary device.
Which is why we all need to start refering to the act of making and supporting 100 year copyrights as "Child Molestation". That way, in 200 years, our decendents can find 200 year old references to our copyrights system that legitimizes calling RIAA type organizations "Child Molesters". I don't say this tounge in cheek. If someone using an unfair comparison a very long time ago legitimizes its use in our language. (which is not totally unreasonable) Then we must keep in mind that someone must coin the term. So, I hereby coin the term "Child Molester" to refer to companies that rape our inner child by abusing copyright/patant/trademark systems.
Ok, I have to ask...Given how recently the iPod mini was introduced, how are you going through so many? Are they breaking, or are you just buying new ones because you just like new toys, so you buy new iPod mini's when you need a new toy fix.
If you are buying them when the old ones are still good, I can understand that. It's a new millenium, men can like shopping too. If you are buying them because of problems with the old ones, I have to wonder what is going wrong with them. Are you unusually rough on them, or are they just really delicate.
The creative Muvo that my 1 1/2 year old has had for the last 6 months is holding up fine. I would be suprised if the apple product were dramatically less durable.
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Since when does reporting the problems up the chain of command to the police department, followed by reporting it to the cities Mayor, who after telling me I will recieve a call from the police department, that when it comes has threats against me, "rogue cop"? While I realize I didn't write a novel detailing each and every conversation/email/letter that went back and forth, I did say that the mayor was involved. That certainly makes it more than "one rogue cop".
When the mayor of a city has police threaten you, it is certainly more than "some form of petty intimidation". Why? Because after you and your family are dead, it gets reported as a "random home invasion". Since the problem involved the police covering up crimes that they didn't commit, it is safe to assume that they would be willing to cover up crimes that they did commit.
So, you can call me ball-less if you want, but I did in fact choose to move and keep my mouth shut.
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"We only have your side of this personal account"
Are you kidding me? I was threatened by armed men, and your asking me to invite them to Slashdot for a rebuttle?
"and it sounds like thats not the whole story"
No, it is not the whole story. I originally approached the problem not realizing that there was a cover-up going on in my neighborhood. As I worked my way through the system, and found that at each level it was made clear that that level already knew about the problem, and was not going to address it. It wasn't until I broke out a camera that I was threatened. If I wanted to write a book, I would have done that. Here I summed up.
"Your post jumped straight to political assassination as a possible solution in just a few sentences"
Either you cannot read, or cannot comprehend what you read. I never made any comment about political assassination. I said that the government would attack YOU, and if you don't take the other options of hiding and keeping your mouth shut, you might need to defend yourself physically.
"which is a strong hint to me that maybe its not the first time you've resorted to implied threats of violence"
Again, either you cannot read, or cannot comprehend what you read. There is not even a hint of threat of violence from me. In fact, I specifically stated "My solution was to move to a new area where I was under the radar and keep my mouth shut." Did you missread, or do you consider moving away and keeping your mouth quite to be a "veiled" threat.
"Dissenting speech is tolerated just fine"
Clearly that is not always the case.
"and plenty examples of both can be encountered on a daily basis"
plenty examples of both can be encountered on a daily basis
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No, I tried the media before going to the Mayors office. The media outside my city wasn't interested, and the media inside the city was afraid of the reprecussions. Yes, the local media told me so. The non-local media simply would not respond.
Yes, the local government is unnamed. While I see little risk in talking about it without detail. You must keep in mind. Armed men told me to drop it.
As for "you'd rather blame corruption in your (unnamed) local government on a failure of the entire republican system of the USA", you have got to be kidding! I certainly don't think that I am so important that I lived in the only corrupt part of the entire US. And given that I spoke with a state representative about it, and her was "nothing will ever be done about it", I know that government corruption goes at least up to the state level. This is just my first hand personal information. Of course, the question is... who is to blame, if not the total system, when local governments are allowed to take this kind of behavior to keep it's local population under control?
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The last time I criticized a government official/agency, I got a call from the police making it clear that "they know who I am", and I should just drop the who thing. This was a complaint to the Mayor that the police were refusing to take reports on hit and runs in my neighborhood. It was made clear that discussions on car crashes in my neighborhood would not be tolorated.
So, I can tell you first hand. You can only criticize in the US if you have the power to take the person and their entire organization on with guns, OR if your complaint carries no weight.
My solution was to move to a new area where I was under the radar and keep my mouth shut.
It amazes me how many people are falling for this "Only the government can violate your rights" line. If we allow this to become an accepted idea, the government will just privatize all interaction with the population, and then can do anything they want to anyone they want because "Only the government can violate your rights", and the strip searches, property seizures, and imprisonments will be done by "private" companies.
Now that you mention it, it might have been the outer limits. From memory, I believe the video quality looked like it was taped rather than filmed, and I believe Bradbury's show was filmed. I think the point of the alians being dinosours was that they just wanted non-huminoid alieans.
We are currently living in the golden age of television. There is literally more educational television airing that even if you watched 24/7 you couldn't watch it all. The quality of the educational television is also dramatically better than those in the past. Heck, there are at least half a dozen channels that have 100% educational programming, and another half dozen that have at least 50% educational programming.
Heck, even the entertainment programming is far and above what has been available in the past. There are dozons of quality programs airing. (No I don't define, "I like it" as the same as "quality", and no I don't count BSG and SG:Atlantis as "Quality" even though I do watch them.)
While you are absolutly correct for a good many of the people talking about the WAF, there are some of us that use it as our quality control. My wife has no problems with any toys I install. Her only thing is that if it isn't 'magic', she just won't use it. No complaints. She just won't use it. Now, my goal when adding a new toy is to make it's UI simple enough that it just works. When I started putting X10 devices around the house, it became clear pretty quick that some places it just gets in the way. When my wife went out to the garage and got an old lamp and plugged it in in the living room, I knew it had not passed the WAF test. In the bedroom on the other hand, she will now complain if there is not an x10 switch on the bedroom light. That switch did pass the WAF test.
The ReplayTV scored the best with the WAF though. If we split up today, she would go buy one tomorrow. Well, ok, indoor plumbing scored higher than the ReplayTV, but most of you probably won't have to go three months without it due to remodling.
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Well, fact that they went out of their way to make it invisble to a user, and that the only way to know its there is to have read the documentation, shows that they clearly do not expect end users to read the documentation. Does this not invalidate their EULA? Much like a return policy in a store must be clearly posted? In essence if you put the terms in a place that the other party will not find them, then they certainly did not agree to them. I assume that this is why any updates to the terms of my credit card are sent with the bill instead of just posted on their web site.
We might also want to notifiy companies that Sony's Music CDs infect Windows machines if played, and that they should immediatly notify their employees that it is against company policy to play Sony CDs in any company computer.
Yes, but you are paying to skip those commercials. Both in the cost of the DVR, and in the cost of the cable/Sat service. If Google Actually gave away the service, many people would be ok with the commercials. I'm paying ~$75 a month for TV. Thats not counting the ~1000 I spent on the DVRs. If I could cut out that $75 a month fee, I might consider turning off the Commercial Advance. I would consider it even more if they would reduce the commercial time from 15 minutes out of the hour to something more like 5. Given that the ads would be targeted, they should be able to get 3 times more revenue per ad than what regular TV offers.
Uh, no reality shows? How about, the news, game shows, sports, documenteries and so forth. Reality TV is a new term, not a new idea. Most of the "Reality TV" are simply multi episode game shows.
Just to stir the pot....Couldn't this be considered terrism by the Korean government? It seems that threatening to cut off part of the national infrestructure should be considered terrorism. Do the terrorism laws, or copyright laws take presidence on an international level?
The right way to do this is to count the number of DVDs that have been damaged. The grassroots movement needs to fight money with money. While the **aa makes up numbers on how much "piracy" has cost them, we need to start counting up how much they have stolen from us by licensing us media, that we can not access because the media is damaged, and the **ia intentinally prevented us from securing via backup. We should also list the costs to industry for the media players and hard drives we did not buy because we could not copy our movies to video jukeboxes. We just need to show that the DMCA is more expensive than the increase of "piracy" without it.
Kill da wabbits...Kill da wabbits...Kill da WABBITS!!!
Do you also smelt your own iron for your pots and pans just to make sure your dinner turns out right? What about those tires on your car? They are a safety device you know. Do you vulcanize your own rubber? The parents example is very good, in that it is safe to assume that factory produced products from reputable companies are going to be made with at a reasonable level of quality. If IKEA desks were "falling over without warning the first time your friend, who doesn't 'get' desks, tries to use it...", even one in a thousand, you would hear about the class action lawsuits. IKEA would be out of business, and the parent wouldn't have used that example.
So, given that your example simply doesn not happen, we can assume that the parent made a very good and valid example.
Hate to break it to you, but setting the time on a VCR microwave is generally harder than using Linux.
Well, I would find songs the same way I do with my CDs. I would first look for Band, then filter down to Album, finally finding the Song I wanted. The lack of disk space has been one of the reasons I have not bought a player. I don't want my music in the lossy MP3 or or WMA format. I want Lossless Flac. Having ripped my 400+ (no, not copies) CD's to my hard drive for in home play, I found that I need a little ~250gigs to handle todays music. Of course I have many friends who's music collections dwarf mine, so no, 60 gigs is not even close to what is needed.
To be fair, I MIGHT consider a player that could hold my whole collection in mp3 format, but I would feel the same way I did when I bought my first digital camera at 1.3mp. It was ok, but has a ways to go to before it becomes my primary device.
Which is why we all need to start refering to the act of making and supporting 100 year copyrights as "Child Molestation". That way, in 200 years, our decendents can find 200 year old references to our copyrights system that legitimizes calling RIAA type organizations "Child Molesters". I don't say this tounge in cheek. If someone using an unfair comparison a very long time ago legitimizes its use in our language. (which is not totally unreasonable) Then we must keep in mind that someone must coin the term. So, I hereby coin the term "Child Molester" to refer to companies that rape our inner child by abusing copyright/patant/trademark systems.
Ok, I have to ask...Given how recently the iPod mini was introduced, how are you going through so many? Are they breaking, or are you just buying new ones because you just like new toys, so you buy new iPod mini's when you need a new toy fix.
If you are buying them when the old ones are still good, I can understand that. It's a new millenium, men can like shopping too. If you are buying them because of problems with the old ones, I have to wonder what is going wrong with them. Are you unusually rough on them, or are they just really delicate.
The creative Muvo that my 1 1/2 year old has had for the last 6 months is holding up fine. I would be suprised if the apple product were dramatically less durable.
Since when does reporting the problems up the chain of command to the police department, followed by reporting it to the cities Mayor, who after telling me I will recieve a call from the police department, that when it comes has threats against me, "rogue cop"? While I realize I didn't write a novel detailing each and every conversation/email/letter that went back and forth, I did say that the mayor was involved. That certainly makes it more than "one rogue cop".
When the mayor of a city has police threaten you, it is certainly more than "some form of petty intimidation". Why? Because after you and your family are dead, it gets reported as a "random home invasion". Since the problem involved the police covering up crimes that they didn't commit, it is safe to assume that they would be willing to cover up crimes that they did commit.
So, you can call me ball-less if you want, but I did in fact choose to move and keep my mouth shut.
"We only have your side of this personal account"
Are you kidding me? I was threatened by armed men, and your asking me to invite them to Slashdot for a rebuttle?
"and it sounds like thats not the whole story"
No, it is not the whole story. I originally approached the problem not realizing that there was a cover-up going on in my neighborhood. As I worked my way through the system, and found that at each level it was made clear that that level already knew about the problem, and was not going to address it. It wasn't until I broke out a camera that I was threatened. If I wanted to write a book, I would have done that. Here I summed up.
"Your post jumped straight to political assassination as a possible solution in just a few sentences"
Either you cannot read, or cannot comprehend what you read. I never made any comment about political assassination. I said that the government would attack YOU, and if you don't take the other options of hiding and keeping your mouth shut, you might need to defend yourself physically.
"which is a strong hint to me that maybe its not the first time you've resorted to implied threats of violence"
Again, either you cannot read, or cannot comprehend what you read. There is not even a hint of threat of violence from me. In fact, I specifically stated "My solution was to move to a new area where I was under the radar and keep my mouth shut." Did you missread, or do you consider moving away and keeping your mouth quite to be a "veiled" threat.
"Dissenting speech is tolerated just fine"
Clearly that is not always the case.
"and plenty examples of both can be encountered on a daily basis"
plenty examples of both can be encountered on a daily basis
No, I tried the media before going to the Mayors office. The media outside my city wasn't interested, and the media inside the city was afraid of the reprecussions. Yes, the local media told me so. The non-local media simply would not respond.
Yes, the local government is unnamed. While I see little risk in talking about it without detail. You must keep in mind. Armed men told me to drop it.
As for "you'd rather blame corruption in your (unnamed) local government on a failure of the entire republican system of the USA", you have got to be kidding! I certainly don't think that I am so important that I lived in the only corrupt part of the entire US. And given that I spoke with a state representative about it, and her was "nothing will ever be done about it", I know that government corruption goes at least up to the state level. This is just my first hand personal information. Of course, the question is... who is to blame, if not the total system, when local governments are allowed to take this kind of behavior to keep it's local population under control?
The last time I criticized a government official/agency, I got a call from the police making it clear that "they know who I am", and I should just drop the who thing. This was a complaint to the Mayor that the police were refusing to take reports on hit and runs in my neighborhood. It was made clear that discussions on car crashes in my neighborhood would not be tolorated.
So, I can tell you first hand. You can only criticize in the US if you have the power to take the person and their entire organization on with guns, OR if your complaint carries no weight.
My solution was to move to a new area where I was under the radar and keep my mouth shut.
It amazes me how many people are falling for this "Only the government can violate your rights" line. If we allow this to become an accepted idea, the government will just privatize all interaction with the population, and then can do anything they want to anyone they want because "Only the government can violate your rights", and the strip searches, property seizures, and imprisonments will be done by "private" companies.
Well, having been threatened by the police to keep quite, I do worry about this.
No, Elvin is right. So, stay a while...
The movie also used DNA from insects tapped in amber. ...or is the capital A in Amber because they found bugs in some girl named Amber? ;)
Now that you mention it, it might have been the outer limits. From memory, I believe the video quality looked like it was taped rather than filmed, and I believe Bradbury's show was filmed. I think the point of the alians being dinosours was that they just wanted non-huminoid alieans.
I don't remember the name, but I do know that they made a TV episode about it on Bradbury's TV show.
Thank you. I see I am not alone.
We are currently living in the golden age of television. There is literally more educational television airing that even if you watched 24/7 you couldn't watch it all. The quality of the educational television is also dramatically better than those in the past. Heck, there are at least half a dozen channels that have 100% educational programming, and another half dozen that have at least 50% educational programming.
Heck, even the entertainment programming is far and above what has been available in the past. There are dozons of quality programs airing. (No I don't define, "I like it" as the same as "quality", and no I don't count BSG and SG:Atlantis as "Quality" even though I do watch them.)
While you are absolutly correct for a good many of the people talking about the WAF, there are some of us that use it as our quality control. My wife has no problems with any toys I install. Her only thing is that if it isn't 'magic', she just won't use it. No complaints. She just won't use it. Now, my goal when adding a new toy is to make it's UI simple enough that it just works. When I started putting X10 devices around the house, it became clear pretty quick that some places it just gets in the way. When my wife went out to the garage and got an old lamp and plugged it in in the living room, I knew it had not passed the WAF test. In the bedroom on the other hand, she will now complain if there is not an x10 switch on the bedroom light. That switch did pass the WAF test.
The ReplayTV scored the best with the WAF though. If we split up today, she would go buy one tomorrow. Well, ok, indoor plumbing scored higher than the ReplayTV, but most of you probably won't have to go three months without it due to remodling.
If your on a date, there is at least some chance that passions could ignite and sex could happen.
Thus anyone on a date that doesn't have condoms is a complete idiot.
Whether the girl thinks being an idot is a good thing or a bad one is a whole different story.