Your Constitutional Rights have freed you from morality.
Freed me from morality? How is killing someone EVER the moral thing to do? I don't care what the convicted person did -- killing someone is never the moral thing to do. As many other people have already said, two wrongs don't make a right. "An eye for an eye" is a rather barbaric way of exacting justice.
Perhaps I misunderstand what you're getting at here, but I don't see how my constitutional rights free me from morality here at all.
Oklahoma didn't realize anything wouldn't pass muster. They were shocked and horrified by a gruesome sight.
After reading a few other articles on this subject, I don't even think they were shocked and horrified. They've only stayed the other execution for two weeks. Does anyone really think they can conduct a full investigation into what happened here in two weeks?
Sure, the crime was absolutely horrific, but how does that give the state the right to violate his constitutional and legal rights and torture him to death with an untested method of execution?
Obviously Oklahoma realized that what they did wouldn't pass muster, or they'd have gone ahead with the second execution on the schedule for the day.
They want an injunction to ban the devices the court found to be infringing. They could then use that to argue in a future case that new devices are essentially the same as the old devices (thus still infringing the same patents) and use that to support a new injunction banning the newer devices.
So they should go after the sites that host ROMs and such. Emulators are legal, regardless of how people may use them to do illegal things. Courts have stated this in many cases in the past.
As long as the emulator authors don't go so far as telling people where to get ROMs and the like, I don't see how Atari would have a leg to stand on.
What I'd love to see would be an update of the original Phantasy Star Online... Updated graphics, including Episode 1, 2, and 4 (a new episode after those would be a nice bonus), and a solid online community (preferably with all the hacks fixed). Even if its a pipe-dream, I'd also like to see them make it an available option to connect to unofficial servers for when the servers that would be put up would inevitably be taken down.
This emulator is a deriative work of PCSX (see the linked forum post), as well as the P.E.Op.S Soft SDL driver, and SDL itself. It violates the license of all three of those by not releasing source or an offer to get the source. (Heck, it doesn't even acknowledge that its a deriative work of any of them.)
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They already did release him. That's a big part of the recent thawing of relations between the US and Cuba...
Your Constitutional Rights have freed you from morality.
Freed me from morality? How is killing someone EVER the moral thing to do? I don't care what the convicted person did -- killing someone is never the moral thing to do. As many other people have already said, two wrongs don't make a right. "An eye for an eye" is a rather barbaric way of exacting justice. Perhaps I misunderstand what you're getting at here, but I don't see how my constitutional rights free me from morality here at all.
Oklahoma didn't realize anything wouldn't pass muster. They were shocked and horrified by a gruesome sight.
After reading a few other articles on this subject, I don't even think they were shocked and horrified. They've only stayed the other execution for two weeks. Does anyone really think they can conduct a full investigation into what happened here in two weeks?
Sure, the crime was absolutely horrific, but how does that give the state the right to violate his constitutional and legal rights and torture him to death with an untested method of execution? Obviously Oklahoma realized that what they did wouldn't pass muster, or they'd have gone ahead with the second execution on the schedule for the day.
They want an injunction to ban the devices the court found to be infringing. They could then use that to argue in a future case that new devices are essentially the same as the old devices (thus still infringing the same patents) and use that to support a new injunction banning the newer devices.
It seems like its broad enough. Here's the actual bill itself.
So they should go after the sites that host ROMs and such. Emulators are legal, regardless of how people may use them to do illegal things. Courts have stated this in many cases in the past. As long as the emulator authors don't go so far as telling people where to get ROMs and the like, I don't see how Atari would have a leg to stand on.
What I'd love to see would be an update of the original Phantasy Star Online... Updated graphics, including Episode 1, 2, and 4 (a new episode after those would be a nice bonus), and a solid online community (preferably with all the hacks fixed). Even if its a pipe-dream, I'd also like to see them make it an available option to connect to unofficial servers for when the servers that would be put up would inevitably be taken down.
A new open source *nix server for PSO was unofficially released today (I think BlueCrab will mame me if I say too much more :P)
I probably wouldn't be all that harsh. Probably.
Statically linking with a library (in terms of the LGPL) makes the resulting binary a deriative work.
This emulator is a deriative work of PCSX (see the linked forum post), as well as the P.E.Op.S Soft SDL driver, and SDL itself. It violates the license of all three of those by not releasing source or an offer to get the source. (Heck, it doesn't even acknowledge that its a deriative work of any of them.)