"Public domain" is not a license. It is the absense of copyright. This, strange as it may seem, can be less free than copyrighted with a liberal license: some countries don't permit authors to disclaim copyrights. If a country doesn't, the material is copyrighted, and no license is granted to distribute and/or modify it. The same effect as what is intended by simply "public domain" can be got using the WTFPL, Wikipedia's approach, or something similar.
If there was no dispensation to copy the material to make use of it, copyright would be violated by simply playing the CD or DVD.
That is a "ludicrous" result (and yet some people have been prosecuted for making such an illicit copy -- of licensed material. There is precedent here.)
Rulings mean a lot more than prosecutions. Perhaps you should refer to, for example, this, where part of the reason mod chips are ruled illegal in the UK is because to play imported games, an unauthorised and illegal copy of some of the data is made in RAM. (I don't disagree with most of your message, by the way.)
Not really. The wireless broadcast simply says, "I'm here" to other wireless equipment (in a way humans cannot detect directly) and your computer translates that for you.
You left out the "Hello, I'm <...>. Can I come in?" "Sure." (Yes, the messages actually correspond to that.)
I'm pretty sure most of us can detect an idling car, with the door open, unassisted.
Does the car say "I'm here"? And even if it did, does it say "Come in"?
You discover that your neighbours are using your unsecured wireless network without your permission.
If your wireless network is unsecured, permission to use it is implied, and there are operating systems that will automatically use such networks, are there not?
Actually, this doesn't surprise me at all. From MS's point of view,
I disagree with MS's point of view. That's why I took a quote from the article that came from Windows's license, and stated one implied assumption seems ridiculous to me. If I did that to show I agree with it, it would be I who was being ridiculous.
(I do think you're misrepresenting MS's point of view, and I wouldn't try distributing a hard disk image containing a full installation of Windows.)
Customers who deploy Windows Vista Enterprise have the ability to install up to four (4) copies of the operating system in a virtual machine for a single user on a single device.
Am I the only one who finds it completely ridiculous that using the software by a single user on a single machine could ever require multiple licenses?
(you know, the one that tells you that you are full of shit when you say that downloading music that you have not paid for in any form is perfectly acceptable)
You are full of shit. There is nothing wrong with downloading music without paying for it. There may be something wrong with downloading music without the copyright holder's permission, but that is often enough unrelated that you can't reasonably ignore it. It's both possible to download music for free with the copyright holder's permission, and to pay to download music without the copyright holder's permission.
(Note: "copyright holder's permission" includes any Fair Use actions; as I see it, the author/s implicitly permitted this by relying on copyright laws.)
You're modded as funny, and you may have meant it as a joke, but is it actually possible? Could a virus modify the BIOS settings to always boot from the hard disk (or even re-flash the BIOS to do so), have the hard disk boot manager load the virus, then search for bootable floppy's / CDs / DVDs ?
I've never in my life downloaded any copyrighted music or software.
Ever used Windows Update, or if you don't use Windows, the equivalent for your operating system? Maybe you even downloaded your whole operating system? Downloading copyrighted material is neither illegal nor immoral. Downloading copyrighted material without the copyright holder's permission can be.
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I hate this, but its true. If you design something that looks great in Firefox/Opera/Other superior browser, if it doesn't work in IE then thats 85% of the people on the internet that can't/won't use the website.
Perhaps, but does that matter if they wouldn't use the website anyway? (Obviously, this depends on the site's target audience.)
Pop-ups ads? That pop-up bubble is annoying and is just as bad.
So it doesn't actually display any pop-up ad?
Collects info about user? Collecting info about my hardware and my installation without my consent is close enough.
So it doesn't actually collect any info about the user?
You can't legitimately claim it's spyware by MS's definition if you're going to distort that definition, regardless of what your personal definition of spyware may make it.
Yes, FFX's system was better than ATB is, because you don't have any pointless pauses while waiting for bars to fill,
Nit: you did have pointless pauses between turns. In specially constructed situations, you can end up waiting longer than you would in an ATB game at even slow speed. It's just that the pause is very short during normal gameplay, so short that you didn't even notice.:) And I like CTB more than ATB myself too.
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I assume the / at the end of the URL was accidental. How did it happen? I'm curious because you're not the only one I've seen do it.
Did you read the post you replied to? If so, did you understand it?
"Public domain" is not a license. It is the absense of copyright. This, strange as it may seem, can be less free than copyrighted with a liberal license: some countries don't permit authors to disclaim copyrights. If a country doesn't, the material is copyrighted, and no license is granted to distribute and/or modify it. The same effect as what is intended by simply "public domain" can be got using the WTFPL, Wikipedia's approach, or something similar.
Rulings mean a lot more than prosecutions. Perhaps you should refer to, for example, this, where part of the reason mod chips are ruled illegal in the UK is because to play imported games, an unauthorised and illegal copy of some of the data is made in RAM. (I don't disagree with most of your message, by the way.)
You left out the "Hello, I'm <...>. Can I come in?" "Sure." (Yes, the messages actually correspond to that.)
Does the car say "I'm here"? And even if it did, does it say "Come in"?
As I posted before your message, wireless networks advertise themselves. Your analogy is flawed.
Not if you don't invite anyone to use it as such. Wireless networks advertise themselves.
Agreed. There's nothing illegal about inviting people over for dinner and serving them bugs either. Doesn't mean it's nice.
If your wireless network is unsecured, permission to use it is implied, and there are operating systems that will automatically use such networks, are there not?
I see a non-loading image's alternate text "Visual verification", and the accessibility link takes me to "Page Not Found".
I disagree with MS's point of view. That's why I took a quote from the article that came from Windows's license, and stated one implied assumption seems ridiculous to me. If I did that to show I agree with it, it would be I who was being ridiculous.
(I do think you're misrepresenting MS's point of view, and I wouldn't try distributing a hard disk image containing a full installation of Windows.)
You are full of shit. There is nothing wrong with downloading music without paying for it. There may be something wrong with downloading music without the copyright holder's permission, but that is often enough unrelated that you can't reasonably ignore it. It's both possible to download music for free with the copyright holder's permission, and to pay to download music without the copyright holder's permission.
(Note: "copyright holder's permission" includes any Fair Use actions; as I see it, the author/s implicitly permitted this by relying on copyright laws.)
Very interesting link. Drop the /
You're modded as funny, and you may have meant it as a joke, but is it actually possible? Could a virus modify the BIOS settings to always boot from the hard disk (or even re-flash the BIOS to do so), have the hard disk boot manager load the virus, then search for bootable floppy's / CDs / DVDs ?
Ever used Windows Update, or if you don't use Windows, the equivalent for your operating system? Maybe you even downloaded your whole operating system? Downloading copyrighted material is neither illegal nor immoral. Downloading copyrighted material without the copyright holder's permission can be.
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I hate this, but its true. If you design something that looks great in Firefox/Opera/Other superior browser, if it doesn't work in IE then thats 85% of the people on the internet that can't/won't use the website.
Perhaps, but does that matter if they wouldn't use the website anyway? (Obviously, this depends on the site's target audience.)
Pop-ups ads? That pop-up bubble is annoying and is just as bad.
So it doesn't actually display any pop-up ad?
Collects info about user? Collecting info about my hardware and my installation without my consent is close enough.
So it doesn't actually collect any info about the user?
You can't legitimately claim it's spyware by MS's definition if you're going to distort that definition, regardless of what your personal definition of spyware may make it.
Indeed. I did say I was nit-picking. :)
Yes, FFX's system was better than ATB is, because you don't have any pointless pauses while waiting for bars to fill,
:) And I like CTB more than ATB myself too.
Nit: you did have pointless pauses between turns. In specially constructed situations, you can end up waiting longer than you would in an ATB game at even slow speed. It's just that the pause is very short during normal gameplay, so short that you didn't even notice.
Shame on you, such a big corporation not spending a little bit of time on making your site interoperable. :)