I bolded the key word: "normal" is not part of the test.
Not part of the test as written by one slashdot poster.
As others have posted, "normal" is indeed part of the test. Otherwise why even bother talking about scope if it is just going to mean anything and everything an employee does on company time?
It's not that simple. Copyright law says a work-for-hire is "a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment." Court cases have determined that an employee that gets time off from other duties, and is provided work space and IT resources by the employer, can be commissioning a work-for-hire, whether a formal agreement exists or not.
Nor is it that simple either. A key word here is "scope." One important test is whether or not the employer is in business to create such works. So, a programmer employed by a software house and writing software is probably creating a work for hire. But the police are not in the business of creating software. So, even when provided resources and paid time to do the work, it does not necessarily follow that the result is a work for hire.
Unless his employment contract specifies that his employer owns any work product he produces while on company time and/or resources, then he owns it, not the employer. It comes down to a simple question - was source code a "work for hire" or not. If the contract does not spell it out as a "work for hire" then it defaults to not and he owns it, even if he developed it 100% on company and using 100% company resources.
However, if his employment contract does contain a work for hire clause, then he screwed himself by giving them all that free overtime developing it at home.
Such work for hire clauses are standard in the computer industry. I bet there is a good chance they are not standard in the LE industry since they typically don't produce any copyrightable works.
Last time I checked, QuantumG doesn't have a sense of humor, although it can feel that way. I know Fyre didn't define "funny" but he figured he was talking to fellow human beings that didn't need a definition of every joke he used in a statement. Just for the robots out there: funny == a joke. Now back to cleaning the kitchen Robbie.
These can revoke both disk and hardware keys, so you'd have to replace your copy of serenity
I call bullshit. What possible value could there be in revoking a "disk key?" The consequences are that all legitimate owners could not play it, while all pirate copies would continue to play just fine.
Truth is, you are just making things up. Not only is there no mechanism for revoking "disk keys" - the only way player keys are revoked is by simply not including that player's key in the list on new titles, there is no "blacklisting" and no disabling of ability to play previously purchased titles.
Damn! I think there must be at least 3 different "scene releases" of Serenity in various flavors of high-def by now (1080i mpeg2 cropped to 16:9, 1080i mpeg2 OAR, 1080i h264 and 25fps OAR) So now there will yet another version floating around the net soon. These greedy pirates, always double-dipping or worse to try and get people to download the same movie multiple times!
And if you can't convince someone to pay you more than minimum wage, you're probably not doing anything that's of great value to anyone else.
You forget that scarcity is as much a driver of price as value. Our society would break down in less than a month if there were no people working as garbage men or even just janitors - I've seen it myself on the small scale when janitors went on strike at a school district, even with parents coming in to do the cleaning the schools had to close down until the strike was settled.
Yet those jobs pay very little despite their absolutely critical nature. The reason they pay so little has nothing to do with their value to society, it is almost solely an effect of the supply of people who are capable of doing those jobs.
I think you do understand the harm that can be done by looking at a female nipple. Ok, seeing people get shot might be pretty bad, but a female nipple is much worse. People should be SHOT if they willingly expose them or look at them.
Didn't Janet Jackson eventually get the death penalty for exposing her pasty-covered nipple to the world of American Football?
Because the people working for minimum wage don't contribute much to the economy. If they did, they'd be able to earn more money -- that's what money is, it's an abstraction of the value of the contribution you make to the economy.
Ayn Rand called, she wants her Atlas back.
What someone is paid has only a fleeting connection with "the value of their contribution to the economy." Just look at all those golden parachutes for CEO's that fuck up their companies and have to be pushed out by the board - how do you reconcile the fact that Frank Nardelli gets a $210M golden parachute while under his ~6 year watch, the share value of Home Depot was just about halved? Especially considering the unprecedented housing boom during that period - Home Depot should have been raking it in if Nardelli had been even remotely valuable, Lowes' share price almost doubled during the same period.
The only thing a wage represents is how much one person is able to convince another person to pay them, nothing more significant than that.
By blocking it, you become a free loader, absolutely useless for them as a customer.
The math is nowhere near that simple.
You neglect one important factor - the network effect. It took a lot of eyeballs for a site like Yahoo to become successful, and it takes a lot of eyeballs to maintain that critical mass and stay successful - especially online where barrier to entry is low and users are notoriously capricious.
Every user of Yahoo's services tends to drag in other users - through popularity and word of mouth. Each 1 of those freeloaders may just very well be responsible for 2 ad-viewing, or even better, paying customers.
It is a common assumption that The American Dream is alive and well. If it is, then income inequality is good. If it is not, then increasing income inequality is dangerous.
The American dream is definitely ill. You can find discussion of this at www.economist.com, I'm too lazy to dig up the exact articles. But, in summary the rate of movement from the economic bottom 3rd to the economic top 3rd has slowed by over 30% in the last 30 years and the trend is towards even more economic stasis.
Part of the problem is that in the past, there was a general "enlightened self-interest" among the top of economic ladder that acknowledged that fresh blood, hungry for success was good for society in general and that a meritocracy was the best way to encourage that.
But today the people at the top are already in a highly competitive environment, starting with pre-school and up through college with SATs, extra-curricular activities, etc. These people see that competition and at a subconscious sort of level they feel that if there is lots of competition, so the system must be working. They don't realize that as competitive as their environment is, it is very insular and that the lower economic classes are increasingly being locked out before they even get a chance to compete.
You can and will be hauled off to gitmo for what you write or publish if the powers-that-be deem that it should be so.
Please let us into your world by at least explaining this statement (with some kind of back up besides cries of sheeple). I can think of a few others around the world where this isn't true, but it sure doesn't fit the USA.
Well, it ain't exactly gitmo. But while once may be a conincidence, twice - Kabul and Baghdad plus certain comments and it really doesn't look very good.
I have a dual layer dvd+/-r burner in my powermac. It came equipped with this drive well over a year ago when I bought it.
You might want to double-check that drive of yours - chances are it only supports dual-layer DVD+R, not DVD-R like the OP was talking about. Dual-layer DVD-R discs are a much newer spec than DL DVD+R.
Nearly all consistent high achievers do not red-shift the moment they can, they move away quietly after a time to do different things and usually succeed again in the new thing they do.
That's contractual. When a start-up is acquired, they typically keep the owner on in a mgmt role for 9-12 months and then he bails. It is a standard part of such acquisition agreements to reduce the risk to the buyer that the place will just fall apart after they've forked over a load of cash. Don't make more of it than what it is - golden handcuffs.
No, I'm not being a dick. I am illustrating that the OP is indeed correct - unlike all other forms of media from the last 5,000 years, itunes is effectively music rental, not music purchase. There is nothing inherent about music as a medium that requires such elaborate restrictions. If I buy a CD, and my player breaks, and I lose the receipt for the CD, lose the case and lose the credit card it was purchased with, it still works. As you have admitted, the same is not true for Itunes.
The fact that you think I am being a dick is almost certainly your own cognitive dissonance at being drawn out by my didactics.
PS - when was the last time anyone RESOLD their itunes music? If you can't exercise right of first sale, it ain't a sale, its a rental.
You sure are a dumbfuck arentcha? You just did an absolutely great job of illustrating my point about your propensity for exaggeration.
Yelling about doing my research, yet you didn't even read the linked article where the top of the entire front cabin got ripped off at 25,000 ft and yet no one died of apoxia, and the only one to "blow out of the plane to their deaths" was a single stewardess - even another stewardess who was in the aisle in the front cabin remained onboard and survived.
Your mistake is believing that is EXCLUSIVELY what is happening, instead of realizing that there are thousands of dedicated people, some extremely educated and skilled, at all levels of government, who really do value their jobs of safeguarding the country and doing their own little parts to help secure something like an airplane.
The path to hell is paved with good intentions. Just because some people believe they are doing important and valuable work does not in any way make it so.
Showing ID at an airport (which is something almost all people did before 9/11 for years anyway)
Why do you think 9/11 is such an important date for the commencement of stupidity? The rest of us have been bitching about the ID requirement since it was first implemented back in the mid-90s as a way to force us into paying full fares. Even then it was all a big secret security order that airport personnel could actually cite because of "national security" bogeymen. Obviously it didn't stop 9/11, why do you think it will make a difference the next time?
I don't know about you, but I'm glad that scalping and black-marketing are uncommon with airline tickets. It means I can still afford to fly. In other words, it's about saving more money for me.
Lol, you are a dumbshit, aren't you?
There was no "scalping" of tickets. It isn't like airline flights are unique - if you can't take the morning flight because it is full, you get a ticket for the afternoon flight.
Typically people would purchase tickets with their frequent flyer miles and then resell them at BELOW MARKET prices. It was a way to convert frequent flyer miles into cash, not some scheme to buy up all the available seats and then auction them off to the highest bidder.
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I bolded the key word: "normal" is not part of the test.
Not part of the test as written by one slashdot poster.
As others have posted, "normal" is indeed part of the test. Otherwise why even bother talking about scope if it is just going to mean anything and everything an employee does on company time?
However, the software is designed to handle policework, which is his business.
Do cops build their own service pistols?
Do cops build their own patrol cars?
Do cops build their own holding cells?
Building software for policework is no more in the normal scope of employment than the building of any of those others.
It's not that simple. Copyright law says a work-for-hire is "a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment." Court cases have determined that an employee that gets time off from other duties, and is provided work space and IT resources by the employer, can be commissioning a work-for-hire, whether a formal agreement exists or not.
Nor is it that simple either. A key word here is "scope." One important test is whether or not the employer is in business to create such works. So, a programmer employed by a software house and writing software is probably creating a work for hire. But the police are not in the business of creating software. So, even when provided resources and paid time to do the work, it does not necessarily follow that the result is a work for hire.
Unless his employment contract specifies that his employer owns any work product he produces while on company time and/or resources, then he owns it, not the employer. It comes down to a simple question - was source code a "work for hire" or not. If the contract does not spell it out as a "work for hire" then it defaults to not and he owns it, even if he developed it 100% on company and using 100% company resources.
However, if his employment contract does contain a work for hire clause, then he screwed himself by giving them all that free overtime developing it at home.
Such work for hire clauses are standard in the computer industry. I bet there is a good chance they are not standard in the LE industry since they typically don't produce any copyrightable works.
Last time I checked, QuantumG doesn't have a sense of humor, although it can feel that way. I know Fyre didn't define "funny" but he figured he was talking to fellow human beings that didn't need a definition of every joke he used in a statement. Just for the robots out there: funny == a joke. Now back to cleaning the kitchen Robbie.
First release of Ubuntu was October 20, 2004.
Sun was giving away solaris on DVD since at least May of 2002.
These can revoke both disk and hardware keys, so you'd have to replace your copy of serenity
I call bullshit. What possible value could there be in revoking a "disk key?" The consequences are that all legitimate owners could not play it, while all pirate copies would continue to play just fine.
Truth is, you are just making things up. Not only is there no mechanism for revoking "disk keys" - the only way player keys are revoked is by simply not including that player's key in the list on new titles, there is no "blacklisting" and no disabling of ability to play previously purchased titles.
Damn! I think there must be at least 3 different "scene releases" of Serenity in various flavors of high-def by now (1080i mpeg2 cropped to 16:9, 1080i mpeg2 OAR, 1080i h264 and 25fps OAR) So now there will yet another version floating around the net soon. These greedy pirates, always double-dipping or worse to try and get people to download the same movie multiple times!
And if you can't convince someone to pay you more than minimum wage, you're probably not doing anything that's of great value to anyone else.
You forget that scarcity is as much a driver of price as value. Our society would break down in less than a month if there were no people working as garbage men or even just janitors - I've seen it myself on the small scale when janitors went on strike at a school district, even with parents coming in to do the cleaning the schools had to close down until the strike was settled.
Yet those jobs pay very little despite their absolutely critical nature. The reason they pay so little has nothing to do with their value to society, it is almost solely an effect of the supply of people who are capable of doing those jobs.
I think you do understand the harm that can be done by looking at a female nipple. Ok, seeing people get shot might be pretty bad, but a female nipple is much worse. People should be SHOT if they willingly expose them or look at them.
Didn't Janet Jackson eventually get the death penalty for exposing her pasty-covered nipple to the world of American Football?
Because the people working for minimum wage don't contribute much to the economy. If they did, they'd be able to earn more money -- that's what money is, it's an abstraction of the value of the contribution you make to the economy.
Ayn Rand called, she wants her Atlas back.
What someone is paid has only a fleeting connection with "the value of their contribution to the economy." Just look at all those golden parachutes for CEO's that fuck up their companies and have to be pushed out by the board - how do you reconcile the fact that Frank Nardelli gets a $210M golden parachute while under his ~6 year watch, the share value of Home Depot was just about halved? Especially considering the unprecedented housing boom during that period - Home Depot should have been raking it in if Nardelli had been even remotely valuable, Lowes' share price almost doubled during the same period.
The only thing a wage represents is how much one person is able to convince another person to pay them, nothing more significant than that.
By blocking it, you become a free loader, absolutely useless for them as a customer.
The math is nowhere near that simple.
You neglect one important factor - the network effect. It took a lot of eyeballs for a site like Yahoo to become successful, and it takes a lot of eyeballs to maintain that critical mass and stay successful - especially online where barrier to entry is low and users are notoriously capricious.
Every user of Yahoo's services tends to drag in other users - through popularity and word of mouth. Each 1 of those freeloaders may just very well be responsible for 2 ad-viewing, or even better, paying customers.
It is a common assumption that The American Dream is alive and well. If it is, then income inequality is good. If it is not, then increasing income inequality is dangerous.
The American dream is definitely ill. You can find discussion of this at www.economist.com, I'm too lazy to dig up the exact articles. But, in summary the rate of movement from the economic bottom 3rd to the economic top 3rd has slowed by over 30% in the last 30 years and the trend is towards even more economic stasis.
Part of the problem is that in the past, there was a general "enlightened self-interest" among the top of economic ladder that acknowledged that fresh blood, hungry for success was good for society in general and that a meritocracy was the best way to encourage that.
But today the people at the top are already in a highly competitive environment, starting with pre-school and up through college with SATs, extra-curricular activities, etc. These people see that competition and at a subconscious sort of level they feel that if there is lots of competition, so the system must be working. They don't realize that as competitive as their environment is, it is very insular and that the lower economic classes are increasingly being locked out before they even get a chance to compete.
(Forgive the ignorance if iTunes sells these only to the US...)
Bingo.
Well, it ain't exactly gitmo. But while once may be a conincidence, twice - Kabul and Baghdad plus certain comments and it really doesn't look very good.
I have a dual layer dvd+/-r burner in my powermac. It came equipped with this drive well over a year ago when I bought it.
You might want to double-check that drive of yours - chances are it only supports dual-layer DVD+R, not DVD-R like the OP was talking about. Dual-layer DVD-R discs are a much newer spec than DL DVD+R.
Nearly all consistent high achievers do not red-shift the moment they can, they move away quietly after a time to do different things and usually succeed again in the new thing they do.
That's contractual. When a start-up is acquired, they typically keep the owner on in a mgmt role for 9-12 months and then he bails. It is a standard part of such acquisition agreements to reduce the risk to the buyer that the place will just fall apart after they've forked over a load of cash. Don't make more of it than what it is - golden handcuffs.
Events outside of our light cones are neither past nor future, and you certainly can't go bandying around the word 'already' when you talk about them.
You have clearly never watch a time-travel movie, not even a bad time-travel movie.
They tore down the Buddhas of Bamyan, so we chased them out of Afghanistan, and where did they go?
Freaking Outer-Space!
And now they are tearing down the Pillars of Creation! Can't those guys just accept that other people have other ideas about religion and Creation?
Geezus!
No, I'm not being a dick. I am illustrating that the OP is indeed correct - unlike all other forms of media from the last 5,000 years, itunes is effectively music rental, not music purchase. There is nothing inherent about music as a medium that requires such elaborate restrictions. If I buy a CD, and my player breaks, and I lose the receipt for the CD, lose the case and lose the credit card it was purchased with, it still works. As you have admitted, the same is not true for Itunes.
The fact that you think I am being a dick is almost certainly your own cognitive dissonance at being drawn out by my didactics.
PS - when was the last time anyone RESOLD their itunes music? If you can't exercise right of first sale, it ain't a sale, its a rental.
Lol! Is that the Mormon gospel on Mark Twain?
You sure are a dumbfuck arentcha? You just did an absolutely great job of illustrating my point about your propensity for exaggeration.
Yelling about doing my research, yet you didn't even read the linked article where the top of the entire front cabin got ripped off at 25,000 ft and yet no one died of apoxia, and the only one to "blow out of the plane to their deaths" was a single stewardess - even another stewardess who was in the aisle in the front cabin remained onboard and survived.
Why do you think 9/11 is such an important date for the commencement of stupidity? The rest of us have been bitching about the ID requirement since it was first implemented back in the mid-90s as a way to force us into paying full fares. Even then it was all a big secret security order that airport personnel could actually cite because of "national security" bogeymen. Obviously it didn't stop 9/11, why do you think it will make a difference the next time?
I don't know about you, but I'm glad that scalping and black-marketing are uncommon with airline tickets. It means I can still afford to fly. In other words, it's about saving more money for me.
Lol, you are a dumbshit, aren't you?
There was no "scalping" of tickets. It isn't like airline flights are unique - if you can't take the morning flight because it is full, you get a ticket for the afternoon flight.
Typically people would purchase tickets with their frequent flyer miles and then resell them at BELOW MARKET prices. It was a way to convert frequent flyer miles into cash, not some scheme to buy up all the available seats and then auction them off to the highest bidder.
the decompression itself would fuck up the plane big time and kill a bunch of people, if not bring the plane itself down.
Hhhm... Exaggerate much, do you?
A little bullet hole ain't going to do anything.