The RIAA will send a settlement letter to your parents to forward to you. For only $5000 you can continue to live with your current DNA.
You won't get a dime as you're not the creator of the work - your parents are. So it'll fund their retirement and then you'll get it as an inheritance in the postmortem payments to their estate.
Remember, it's the artist that gets paid, not the work.
...where do parents apply for copyright protection of the DNA they assembled to make their children? After all, they own the copyright for the next few decades thanks to Disney, the RIAA, MPAA, and all those other leech organizations. Why should parents be left out of the mix?
Next thing you know it'll be sibling rivalries over who has the better DNA for music, and Johnny will complain when Susie makes #1 and he can't get on the charts. Either way, their parents will be rich.
So when you actually analyze the data in the report you find that the safest speed to drive on the freeway is 10 to 15 mph faster then the general flow of traffic. This won't improve revenue generation so they aren't going to advertise this. If they really wanted to improve safety they would become hardcore about little right-of-way violations or lack of attention, but they are too hard to enforce. Remember... Your government thinks you are their source of income. You are giving Them money instead of Them spending Your money. If as a group we don't stop them we will be living in a fascist state beyond anything that Orwell could have imagined.
Why? Because it will be economically possible for your government to do it.
So may be we need to get several groups together to put forth a popular amendment that blocks that state and federal governments from doing any kind of tracking. Certainly could be done - use the ability of getting something on a state ballot and put forth the effort to get it on all the ballot in all the states so that it can be done as part of a regular election.
It would be problematic to get the States themselves or even Congress to do such an amendment as they are, as you say, motivated by the economics, and won't cut their own purse strings if they can't help it.
Heck, why not do an amendment to limit congressional terms too while we're at it. Kill two birds with one stone.
recommending that parents of high school students upgrade their home computers to Microsoft Office 2007.
(1) It is, at least by the summary, a recommendation. However...
(2) To the school district: (a) Please provide the cost for a Windows computer, and (b) please provide the cost of the software you are requiring. If 'a' and 'b' are not satisfactory, then remove the requirement/recommendation.
Honestly, I believe the was something else stating that Illinois was a Microsoft state; so this is really another ploy by Microsoft to get OOXML approved as a standard.
It's possible that it could be impregnated with some sort of resin, making it more of a carbon fiber, just a ton stronger.
So now we'll be using hairspray on structures and vehicles too? Guess they'll have to automate that one, otherwise people may get high or overwhelmed by those fumes...
n fairness, I don't think anyone saw the Wii coming or could have planned on the fact that simpler game play, with less intense graphics, that actually involved moving around would have captivated so many people.
You're probably right when it comes to the game developers; however, as others have pointed out, there are a fair number of us did predict it would. You can check the dates on these, but here are a number of my own posts related to the subject:
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I'm sure they go back well over a year. FYI - that was simply a google search for my slashdot name and "Wii". I didn't even both to search for the Wii's original name - Revolution - so there could be more out there.
any contracts limit your ability to sue in a real court. They exist in everything from vehicle purchase contracts to fitness club contracts. The best thing consumers can do is to read the contracts, know their rights, reject contracts where such provisions can't be removed and tell the salespeople why this isn't acceptable.
What about employers? They do this too to their employees. Mine did not have it when I started, but then later added it saying "your continued employment after [insert date] gives your consent to this change". Who knew it was even being considered?! If one couldn't afford to go find a job by that date, then they were forced to accept the terms. Granted, I'm not sure that is legal; but like most other things, they do it any way.
can be analyzed mathematically to be proved 'correct.'
What do you mean by 'correct'? If you mean it will guarantee that every compilation of the code by any compiler will result in the same exact executable? Then no. The only language that can really be proven correct in that manner is Assembly. Not even C qualifies. This is why certain kinds of programs are written in pure assembly for security purposes - so that the program can be proven to be 100% what the source code says it will be, which can then be proven to be 100% what the author intended it to be, and if there is a disconnect then the program is reworked until that disconnect is fixed.
Now, $1k for a decade would be workable. Cheap enough that if still in print it's not that big of a fee, but still enough, especially as a lump sump, to make the auther consider renewal carefully.
I'll grant you that for books. The "it is not that big of a fee, but still enough to make the author consider renewal carefully" is the important part, and what I was trying to point to better.
But still too low. Something like the following might be better:
Media | Copyright Term | +10 | 11 to 20 | 20+
Book | Free | $1,000 | $1,500 | $10,000 Music | Free | $10,000 | $15,000 | $100,000 Video | Free | $15,000 | $20,000 | $150,000
Other medias would need to be incorporated too.
Now, why did I break it down that way? Books don't generate a lot of money, but even $10/yr. is too low. Music makes a lot more money, but probably not as much as video. In either case, this would be for original works - e.g. Star Wars Ep. 4 would be original work, while Star Wars Ep. 4 Special Edition would not necessarily be an original work. (It would be a derived work.) Derived works would not be allowed extensions, unless they are different enough to be an original work (believe law defines that as no more than 10% carry over).
Any how...good idea; but amounts need to be something that actually make an impact. The numbers above might still be too low for music & movies - which might need to be 10x's or 100x's higher still.
A better way, however, might be to have: the greater of the above or 10 percent earnings.
(Also note that the $10 DVD is a myth - yes some are sold for $10, but the average price is about the same as a music CD.)
I would say that this is not the case at all for DVDs in general. What you have to distinguish between is newly released DVDs versus DVDs that have been on the market for a while. Newly released DVDs usually cost in the $20 to $30 dollar range, and this is likely what the numbers you quoted are based on. However, DVDs that have been out for a while are lower cost.
From my personal observations, the costs change about as follows:
New release: $20 to $30
6 months to 1.5 years from initial release: $15 to $25
1 year to 5 years from initial release: $10 to $20
Older or clearance: $5 to $10, sometimes less
BTW, I've got quite a few receipts - or records of receipts - to show the last two. For that matter, just go to your local WalMart, FYE, or other locations - or just go to Amazon.com.
Of course, some DVDs will buck this trend. But it's probably a good estimate.
pretty much (lose more performance, than economy, since rolling resistance isn't changed much, just have to allow the extra momentum to carry you up the hills, avoid using brakes when possible.) But I figure it is our duty as free market consumers to reward stations for being competitive. IE if no one shopped around for the cheaper fuel, then their would be little incentive for their to be low cost stations that reduce their costs, and lower their prices.
I do shop around for gas prices, but I also take into account the quality of gas at different stations. For example, I stay away from stations that are on the really cheap end (Citgo, Sunoco, etc.) because they are using more ethanol to keep the price lower, which not only destroys the car faster, but also means I have to fill up more often - thus not saving anything in the long run - and actually costing more. So, I typically will shop around between BP, Shell, and a few others. Where I am now is mostly BP and Sheetz - not really any other choice.
Still, I do pay attention to the quality of the gas for the price.
Just about all of my customers, family and friends would love their computers to be even faster, but 80% of them aren't even using 20% of their drives. And not a one of the latter group has balked at the price of an external HD, to say nothing of DVD burning options.
Are they also the ones that associate the speed of Internet access with the speed of the computer, and they use dial-up to access the Internet? Seriosly - my wife's grandmother does just that. The "Internet" was slow (since she used dial-up - 56k), so she bought a new computer - and still used dial-up. Only thing it did for her was get rid of the junk - nothing a simple re-install/refresh of the system wouldn't have cleared up.
Prince: "I am going to put a CD in all the newspapers distributed by X for free." RIAA: "You don't own the CD, or any of the songs on it. See here, you signed your soul and everything you produce to us. So we own it all." Prince: " Too bad. I'm doing it." RIAA: "So we'll pull all your stuff from the shelves. Then see how much money you get from your blood contract." Prince: " Ooo...I'm scared." (Takes bath in money.)
f the guy can't get above the 3.0 by retaking the classes, just forget it and move on. Besides, it's a gamble anyway, since something else might come up and he might be MORE Cs and Ds in the classes he's retaking!
I know at least where I graduated from, if you retook a class and got a better grade, it replaced your previous grade; if you did worse, they did not count it. (It might have shown up under extra courses or something, I'm not sure. But I know better grades flat out replaced the grades.) So, retaking a class might be in his interest as it could raise the GPA more than might be possible through taking other classes.
For those that only want the executive summary, here is a key chart that shows the publicly disclosed High severity vulnerabilities during the first 90 days of availability, broken down by vulns fixed and vulns unfixed. Note that this chart is showing the reduced Linux builds that exclude non-default and optional components without equivalents on WIndows. (clicking the chart also gets you to the full report.)
Honestly, how can one really compare Windows against Linux when Microsoft is patching things silently? It's not a fair comparison to any vendor because you don't know what got fixed; let alone what was actually problematic. When you have one community disclosing every bug, and another disclosing only those that become high-profile for them - or likely to become high-profile since they were disclosed by others or something like that - you will not get a fair comparison.
So, if he really wants to do a fair comparison, he should get internal reports from Microsoft about their bugs, security and otherwise. Yes, CVE and similar hold the security vulnerability bugs; and you can do a comparison iff you get the security bugs that Microsoft found internally and didn't bother to report - then you would have a level set of reports.
Never noticed, but then again I use the cartridge until things start to not print right - e.g. lines, missing chunks/colors/etc, runs out of in the the middle of a print, too light of a shade to be legible, etc. However, I probably use the notice as a sign that I need to get a cartridge set for standby so that I can print when I want/need to instead of having to run out at the last minute to get something.
You can say 'wrong' all you want, but my bank does this. If I write someone a check, and they go to my bank to cash it, my bank charges five dollars.
All you people saying 'No they don't'...have you actually done this in the last year or two, or did you miss the point where I said they started doing this?
Your bank may. To my knowledge, neither of my 2 Federal Savings banks, nor my Michigan based credit union do. Nor did Sun Trust - the bank that I went to and did that at back in 2004; may be they have started since then, but I would still gather that that is not standard practice.
Or go to the company's bank, and they'll cash it for free. No account needed.
Wrong. Banks have started charging fees on cashing their own checks at their counter.
wrong I've done it. If you just go to any bank, then yes - they will charge a fee. If, however, you go to the bank that the company holds an account with, who issued the check, then at least typically they will not charge a fee. And yes - I have done this. I went to open an account, had a paycheck but needed some of the money back (for expenses); the bank I was opening an account was going to put a hold on the check due it coming from another bank, and advised that I go cash the check at the issuing bank and return; I did - and got it in full without an account there.
Do you know few of the things you CAN do with cash?
Get a cashiers check.
Open a checking account.
Pay for groceries, gas, newspaper, bills, etc.
Pay for hotel, rent, deposits, jewelry, weaponry, etc.
You can do pretty much anything in the "real" world with cash. You should try it sometimes.
Note: I said "real" world. It would be hard to use cash to operate in the on-line world; not necessarily impossible, but hard. One could buy something off eBay with cash (just mail them the cash) - not necessarily the wisest thing to do, but possible.
Reality is, that the world does use cash. Go to another country - especially second & third "world" countries - and you can use cash even easier, or in some cases are even forced to.
Also, it's usually good to have some cash about. Power outages and the likes don't do too well for using credit cards, debit cards, etc. (Checks ok, but nothing electronic.) And yes - I have seen that even while traveling. (Stopped to get gas, and they didn't have power at the time, so the credit card system was out. They did, fortunately, have a manual, non-electronic credit card entry system that they could use though. Cash would have been better AND easier, but I didn't have any on that trip.)
Indeed. I'd like to know just what the problem with banks is - do they make a habit of running off with people's money is the US?
Personally I can't remember the last time I touched a bank note - I do everything on credit or debit cards (or online, natch). I have a small pot of change for carparks etc. but that's about it.
It's all in the fees. A lot of accounts require that you keep a minimum balance ($300, $500, $1000 is typical) and if you cannot maintain that balance, then you get charged a fee to keep the account open ($5 is typical). Now, Federal Savings Banks are required by law to charge you a fee if you perform more than 6 account transactions; Credit Unions can avoid this. These fees are all required to be published, but they do not necessarily bring them to your attention; so just ask to see the "Fee Service Schedule" (aka "Fees Schedule") to see what they are.
Now a lot of banks offer different levels of service - e.g. basic, preferred, vip - and at the lowest level you get charged all the fees, and each level up you get some fees waived, or a certain number of them. What service level you are at usually depends upon (a) your balance with the bank, and (b) your standing with them - which directly translates to credit score material, though not necessarily counted towards your credit score.
Yeah, it sucks. And worse yet - it's all backed by Congress.
Also, he may not have enough cash at any given time to keep an account open. May be after his paycheck and expenses he only has $50 dollars left over, so he pocket it for some time, and then it all goes away at some point (e.g. the big day for paying the college bills). A scenario that may not be as uncommon as you may think among the poorer in the US.
Or go to the company's bank, and they'll cash it for free. No account needed.
get a loan...get a mortgage
Okay, this is a little harder as you need the credit score, and by using cash only one does not get a credit score. However, if one is wise about their spending, than this can be circumvented by either paying in full in cash (e.g. thereby avoiding the loan), or by co-signing with someone who does have a credit score and making all the payments in cash - thereby getting your own credit score, though not necessarily a very good one. (Also, be careful on that second one as some may not count it for your credit score, only the person co-signing with you.)
So, yes - it is indeed possible to do everything in life with cash and cash alone. May be a little harder, but doable. It all depends on what you want to do to. If you are willing to pay rent for the rest of your life, then you can avoid the mortgage issue; if you can save enough at a time to pay in full, then you can avoid loans - and be better off for it. Though, car dealers and others will still sell you a car if you have no credit history, you just won't get as good a rate or they may require a co-signer or larger initial deposit; after a few such transactions, then you'll have a credit score and it won't be a problem.;-)
Where's your data for that? From a skewed poll? Likely because that is flat-out wrong. The majority may be unhappy, but unhappy does not equal impeach.
Nor does wanting a change in government equal impeachment, you know.
True, I probably should have captured his next sentence too in my quote, which is as follows:
A majority have favored impeachment for some many months now.
That's what I was really talking about in that line. Sorry about that. My mistake for missing an important part of the quote.
Rabbit Ears! That's what I use. Picks up approximately 10 stations. That's more than I can handle. If I want more, I go to the library and borrow it. Cable offers little for quite a lot.
I'm with you on that. Unfortunately, there are some places - like where I currently live - that simply do not get the over-the-air waves, this is mostly the mountainous places. Oddly, I live within 2 miles of a TV station, and can't get their signal at all.
I have also seen what others saw about the TV+Internet being cheaper than Internet alone. In college I was off campus and we had gotten AT&T Cable Internet at the time. Comcast bought up the service area, and we were faced with an additional $15/month. We found a TV plan that was $2/month cheaper than the additional cost; so we ordered that - saved $2/month and got TV as well. Pretty sweet. Wish we could do it here too, but we already get the discount by getting VOIP service.
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Remember, it's the artist that gets paid, not the work.
...where do parents apply for copyright protection of the DNA they assembled to make their children? After all, they own the copyright for the next few decades thanks to Disney, the RIAA, MPAA, and all those other leech organizations. Why should parents be left out of the mix?
Next thing you know it'll be sibling rivalries over who has the better DNA for music, and Johnny will complain when Susie makes #1 and he can't get on the charts. Either way, their parents will be rich.
It would be problematic to get the States themselves or even Congress to do such an amendment as they are, as you say, motivated by the economics, and won't cut their own purse strings if they can't help it.
Heck, why not do an amendment to limit congressional terms too while we're at it. Kill two birds with one stone.
(2) To the school district: (a) Please provide the cost for a Windows computer, and (b) please provide the cost of the software you are requiring. If 'a' and 'b' are not satisfactory, then remove the requirement/recommendation.
Honestly, I believe the was something else stating that Illinois was a Microsoft state; so this is really another ploy by Microsoft to get OOXML approved as a standard.
It does work pretty well on artwork, though.
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I'm sure they go back well over a year. FYI - that was simply a google search for my slashdot name and "Wii". I didn't even both to search for the Wii's original name - Revolution - so there could be more out there.
But still too low. Something like the following might be better:
Media | Copyright Term | +10 | 11 to 20 | 20+
Book | Free | $1,000 | $1,500 | $10,000
Music | Free | $10,000 | $15,000 | $100,000
Video | Free | $15,000 | $20,000 | $150,000
Other medias would need to be incorporated too.
Now, why did I break it down that way? Books don't generate a lot of money, but even $10/yr. is too low. Music makes a lot more money, but probably not as much as video. In either case, this would be for original works - e.g. Star Wars Ep. 4 would be original work, while Star Wars Ep. 4 Special Edition would not necessarily be an original work. (It would be a derived work.) Derived works would not be allowed extensions, unless they are different enough to be an original work (believe law defines that as no more than 10% carry over).
Any how...good idea; but amounts need to be something that actually make an impact. The numbers above might still be too low for music & movies - which might need to be 10x's or 100x's higher still.
A better way, however, might be to have: the greater of the above or 10 percent earnings.
From my personal observations, the costs change about as follows:
New release: $20 to $30
6 months to 1.5 years from initial release: $15 to $25
1 year to 5 years from initial release: $10 to $20
Older or clearance: $5 to $10, sometimes less
BTW, I've got quite a few receipts - or records of receipts - to show the last two. For that matter, just go to your local WalMart, FYE, or other locations - or just go to Amazon.com.
Of course, some DVDs will buck this trend. But it's probably a good estimate.
Still, I do pay attention to the quality of the gas for the price.
Prince: "I am going to put a CD in all the newspapers distributed by X for free."
RIAA: "You don't own the CD, or any of the songs on it. See here, you signed your soul and everything you produce to us. So we own it all."
Prince: " Too bad. I'm doing it."
RIAA: "So we'll pull all your stuff from the shelves. Then see how much money you get from your blood contract."
Prince: " Ooo...I'm scared." (Takes bath in money.)
Love your post, if I had mod-points I'd mod you up. But I don't (sorry).
Also, might add to your list:
c) The person was very adept at spitting back word for word what a professor wanted to hear.
So, how does he account for all the silent patching that Microsoft is doing?. (Link complements of Groklaw.)
More on Google.
Honestly, how can one really compare Windows against Linux when Microsoft is patching things silently? It's not a fair comparison to any vendor because you don't know what got fixed; let alone what was actually problematic. When you have one community disclosing every bug, and another disclosing only those that become high-profile for them - or likely to become high-profile since they were disclosed by others or something like that - you will not get a fair comparison.
So, if he really wants to do a fair comparison, he should get internal reports from Microsoft about their bugs, security and otherwise. Yes, CVE and similar hold the security vulnerability bugs; and you can do a comparison iff you get the security bugs that Microsoft found internally and didn't bother to report - then you would have a level set of reports.
Never noticed, but then again I use the cartridge until things start to not print right - e.g. lines, missing chunks/colors/etc, runs out of in the the middle of a print, too light of a shade to be legible, etc. However, I probably use the notice as a sign that I need to get a cartridge set for standby so that I can print when I want/need to instead of having to run out at the last minute to get something.
Pay for hotel, rent, deposits, jewelry, weaponry, etc.
You can do pretty much anything in the "real" world with cash. You should try it sometimes.
Note: I said "real" world. It would be hard to use cash to operate in the on-line world; not necessarily impossible, but hard. One could buy something off eBay with cash (just mail them the cash) - not necessarily the wisest thing to do, but possible.
Reality is, that the world does use cash. Go to another country - especially second & third "world" countries - and you can use cash even easier, or in some cases are even forced to.
Also, it's usually good to have some cash about. Power outages and the likes don't do too well for using credit cards, debit cards, etc. (Checks ok, but nothing electronic.) And yes - I have seen that even while traveling. (Stopped to get gas, and they didn't have power at the time, so the credit card system was out. They did, fortunately, have a manual, non-electronic credit card entry system that they could use though. Cash would have been better AND easier, but I didn't have any on that trip.)
Now a lot of banks offer different levels of service - e.g. basic, preferred, vip - and at the lowest level you get charged all the fees, and each level up you get some fees waived, or a certain number of them. What service level you are at usually depends upon (a) your balance with the bank, and (b) your standing with them - which directly translates to credit score material, though not necessarily counted towards your credit score.
Yeah, it sucks. And worse yet - it's all backed by Congress.
Also, he may not have enough cash at any given time to keep an account open. May be after his paycheck and expenses he only has $50 dollars left over, so he pocket it for some time, and then it all goes away at some point (e.g. the big day for paying the college bills). A scenario that may not be as uncommon as you may think among the poorer in the US.
So, yes - it is indeed possible to do everything in life with cash and cash alone. May be a little harder, but doable. It all depends on what you want to do to. If you are willing to pay rent for the rest of your life, then you can avoid the mortgage issue; if you can save enough at a time to pay in full, then you can avoid loans - and be better off for it. Though, car dealers and others will still sell you a car if you have no credit history, you just won't get as good a rate or they may require a co-signer or larger initial deposit; after a few such transactions, then you'll have a credit score and it won't be a problem.
I have also seen what others saw about the TV+Internet being cheaper than Internet alone. In college I was off campus and we had gotten AT&T Cable Internet at the time. Comcast bought up the service area, and we were faced with an additional $15/month. We found a TV plan that was $2/month cheaper than the additional cost; so we ordered that - saved $2/month and got TV as well. Pretty sweet. Wish we could do it here too, but we already get the discount by getting VOIP service.