They said at the time "Don't worry, this will expire in a few years." You would think people know better. Once a government has a power it didn't previously have, it never relinquishes it.
What about independent artists that sell directly on ITMS? They don't get a record contract, but they get money for selling music directly on ITMS. If they were a traditional retail music selling store, they would carry cd's from like 5 local bands with no contract. That's small potatos. They have thousands of artists selling directly through them. They're either in the music business or setting them selves up as an alternative to the music business. Either one I think violates their court agreement by creating confusion about the Apple trademark. If instead of Apple stores selling computers, they were selling cd's - don't you think a reasonable person might be confused about the trademark differences between Apple (who sells cds) and Apple (who makes cds)?
That's pushing it. Apple computer is on extremely shaky ground as it is. When sued by Apple music they promised to stay out of the music biz, so the trademarks wouldn't conflict. And now they're hugely into music.
ITunes offers new distribution models. Apple records is a traditional record label. They got the Beatles to sign the same old "you don't own your own music" agreements as all the other labels, and now Michael Jackson owns a large chunk of the Beatles repetoire.
The only independent radio station still around DC (not counting college stations) is 103.1 WRNR out of Annapolis. Which is a great station, but I can only listen to it for about 15 minutes out of my hour drive due to location.
So I listen to NPR mostly now. Crap, I'm my parents already.
Dude I know. They killed WHFS which was the modern rock station in DC for the last 20 years. One day, modern rock. The next day I turn it on and it's in Spanish. No prior announcement, nothing. And not even fun mariachi music, it's like crappy low-grade spanish hip-hop or something.
An co-worker at my former job had one of those portable XM radios. We never listened to music on it. Just a non-stop stream of the different comedy channels on XM. I never saw the point of XM until then.
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The **AA might support that, but if the ISP starts policing their traffic they lose their protection as a common carrier, and immediately have to be 100% effective at policing their network, or they face legal liability.
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On http://www.cachelogic.com/products/cachepliance.ph p/ they sell several configurations of a P2P file caching server, saying it will save the ISP money in bandwidth. But wouldn't it also remove their protection as a common provider? I mean the ISP would actually be hosting the files going around on P2P, which would mostly be copyrighted works.
It sounds fine to me personally, the ISP saves bandwidth and I get sent the file from a server hosted right at my ISP, but it seems like an insanely risky thing for an ISP to do. A general purpose caching machine would be fine -HTTP, FTP, Bittorrent, etc. indiscriminately stored, but picking just p2p traffic.... what do you think?
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When I looked I only saw two zombies, one on mindspring, one on adelphia. I feel real sorry for the guy having this sent from his mindspring account:
Subject: MSOOT ILEELGAL Ch!ld P0rn0 SITEES IN NET IP address: 69.81.140.120 DNS Name: user-12l333o.cable.mindspring.com Location: Mansfield, OH, US Emails: 100
I know. My first thought was "Wow, that's every video game I own". Then I thought... how can you show a REAL depiction of physical injuries of a video game character?
OK, who's ready for the next wave of fighting games featuring cute, fuzzy animals ripping each other apart in super-gory, but legal, ways? Or maybe the next sniper game will be Sniper3:Duck Hunt Extreme.
From the website: Buy Shake for Mac OS X Full Version Upgrade $2999.00 $999.00 Shake 4 for Linux retails for $4999. Render-only Linux version retails for $1499.
A basic wiki can run on anything. Geeks tend not to throw out old machines, just repurpose them as something else: a router, host for project you support, etc.
Have hope my friend. After realizing I didn't want to do what I went to college for, I went to the Computer Learning Center for 10 months. Lowly as you can get, no degree in it at all. Started out working at an ecommerce company doing a stupid surfing the web and spamming sites to join our affiliate program job. It took 3 months to get into the tech department.
So my first development job, with no experience, I started at 32. Five years later I make 67. I would make more if I'd gone the Java route, or hopped jobs more often, but I prefer to like what I do than to grub money too much. Three years ago when I told my company I was quitting they offered 70 to stay (when I was making 55 at the time), but it was consulting at the State Department and I hated it there so I left.
Getting your foot in the door is the hard part. If you have trouble getting in as a straight developer, look for something still somewhat technical and try for that with the goal of moving over to development later.
What if you want to use a short snippet in an article or scholarly work? You're allowed to under copyright law. So fine, you buy the cd, write a review, want to post a 15 second sample on your site and..... you can't. You're taking a film class, and are putting together a multimedia presentation analyzing the film.... except you can't grab snippets of it to show in class. Thank goodness you can't DRM books, or book reviews wouldn't be able to include snippets anymore.
Those are rights that you have. They're prevented by DRM. I'm sure there are others, but one or two examples demolishes your premise that the DRM'ing of the work doesn't infringe your rights. Oh, and why would you assume it's the "artist's decision" to DRM the work? It's not the artist's decision, it's the decision of the record label/film studio/etc.
Why would a novelist care about DRM? When's the last time you, or anyone you actually know, ever bought an e-book? DRM is useless for books, which points up the absurdity of the whole thing since copyright was created to apply to books.
The parent's point was that you have a fair use right to archive a cd, so you can replace it if it's damaged. Copyright law allows that. DRM doesn't. And if you break the DRM, you violate the DMCA, even though what you're doing is legal under copyright law in general.
I think rescuing citizens who are drowning is a definite government imperative. Building a 14 billion dollar road is not, foreign adventure wars are not.
We haven't yet spent a cent rebuilding New Orleans, only on search and rescue. When they get it drained in about a month, I'm sure people will be talking about 'how do we make sure this never happens again'. Definitely a cost effective idea to prevent it happening again. I don't know the best way to go about that. You cannot close down one of our largest ports. There will always be a city of some kind there. How they go about preventing a reoccurence I don't know, but I doubt that they'll take the approach of forcibly resettling every resident to boston or arizona. By the way there are also large government structures in New Orleans and Mississippi wiped out - interstates amongh them. It's not just people's houses.
My point about the big expenditures in the war/big dig wasn't that they were ok. It was that they were more stupid than what FEMA does. Go after the biggest, stupidest wastes of money first. FEMA's not that bad a waste of money. We have natural disasters of some sort every year. We've had one major terrorist attack, ever. But where do the dollars go? All to homeland security.
Why the hell should the federal government pay for a freaking ROAD in Boston, which it hasn't needed for the past two hundred years, and they shouldn't pay for food, shelter, and clean water for citizens who have just had their life savings and home destroyed?
If you're serious, why don't you propose that Boston impose a 30% sales tax increase to pay for its own road and give the money back to the feds? I'm sure they could resettle a lot fo people from New Orleans for that amount of money.
By the way, I live near DC, and DC and Alexandria have had several problems with flooding due to hurricanes in the past few years. Not 'evacuate' problems, but problems that cost a lot of money.
Socialism is not communism. The USA is a socialist country: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, environmental impact studies before construction, etc., just not to the extent that many European countries are. Those european countries, though more socialist than us, also have absolutely nothing to do with communism. Pure capitalism has never been practiced anywhere in the world. I personally wish we paid for universal health care, as we as a country spend enough on medicine to provide it and don't.
And where are you getting that water from? From neighboring states that didn't used to mind, but are now asserting their water rights more often. No you won't get many natural disasters, but saying "Hey, let's all live in the desert" isn't a viable option, there isn't enough water to go around.
So where is a safe place to live? East coast - hurricanes. West coast - earthquakes. Midwest - tornadoes. New England - 4' of snow. Alaska - 8' of snow. Hawaii - volcanoes.
Where exactly is safe?
And exactly how much money will be spent on this disaster relief effort, as a percentage of the cost of the Iraq war? 2%? Maybe? If you're complaining about federal spending, look at the military first.
It's a branch of FEMA. I don't know why FEMA would encourage people to stay in flood prone areas though, when they know they'll just have to come rescue them when it floods.
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They said at the time "Don't worry, this will expire in a few years." You would think people know better. Once a government has a power it didn't previously have, it never relinquishes it.
I know. Family vacations are illegal? Going to the pub with your friends is illegal? Sheesh.
Uh, maybe if you commute in Hollywood. In DC it would make the commute horrifying.
Yep, nothing like seeing my coworkers fired to make me excited about my job.
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What about independent artists that sell directly on ITMS? They don't get a record contract, but they get money for selling music directly on ITMS. If they were a traditional retail music selling store, they would carry cd's from like 5 local bands with no contract. That's small potatos. They have thousands of artists selling directly through them. They're either in the music business or setting them selves up as an alternative to the music business. Either one I think violates their court agreement by creating confusion about the Apple trademark. If instead of Apple stores selling computers, they were selling cd's - don't you think a reasonable person might be confused about the trademark differences between Apple (who sells cds) and Apple (who makes cds)?
Ahem. You may want to change your venues. I'm sure your lice are quite fascinating to you, but I have no interest in them.
That's pushing it. Apple computer is on extremely shaky ground as it is. When sued by Apple music they promised to stay out of the music biz, so the trademarks wouldn't conflict. And now they're hugely into music.
ITunes offers new distribution models. Apple records is a traditional record label. They got the Beatles to sign the same old "you don't own your own music" agreements as all the other labels, and now Michael Jackson owns a large chunk of the Beatles repetoire.
The only independent radio station still around DC (not counting college stations) is 103.1 WRNR out of Annapolis. Which is a great station, but I can only listen to it for about 15 minutes out of my hour drive due to location.
So I listen to NPR mostly now. Crap, I'm my parents already.
Dude I know. They killed WHFS which was the modern rock station in DC for the last 20 years. One day, modern rock. The next day I turn it on and it's in Spanish. No prior announcement, nothing. And not even fun mariachi music, it's like crappy low-grade spanish hip-hop or something.
An co-worker at my former job had one of those portable XM radios. We never listened to music on it. Just a non-stop stream of the different comedy channels on XM. I never saw the point of XM until then.
The **AA might support that, but if the ISP starts policing their traffic they lose their protection as a common carrier, and immediately have to be 100% effective at policing their network, or they face legal liability.
On http://www.cachelogic.com/products/cachepliance.ph p/ they sell several configurations of a P2P file caching server, saying it will save the ISP money in bandwidth. But wouldn't it also remove their protection as a common provider? I mean the ISP would actually be hosting the files going around on P2P, which would mostly be copyrighted works.
It sounds fine to me personally, the ISP saves bandwidth and I get sent the file from a server hosted right at my ISP, but it seems like an insanely risky thing for an ISP to do. A general purpose caching machine would be fine -HTTP, FTP, Bittorrent, etc. indiscriminately stored, but picking just p2p traffic.... what do you think?
When I looked I only saw two zombies, one on mindspring, one on adelphia. I feel real sorry for the guy having this sent from his mindspring account:
Subject: MSOOT ILEELGAL Ch!ld P0rn0 SITEES IN NET
IP address: 69.81.140.120
DNS Name: user-12l333o.cable.mindspring.com
Location: Mansfield, OH, US
Emails: 100
I know. My first thought was "Wow, that's every video game I own". Then I thought... how can you show a REAL depiction of physical injuries of a video game character?
OK, who's ready for the next wave of fighting games featuring cute, fuzzy animals ripping each other apart in super-gory, but legal, ways? Or maybe the next sniper game will be Sniper3:Duck Hunt Extreme.
From the website:
Buy Shake for Mac OS X
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$2999.00 $999.00
Shake 4 for Linux retails for $4999. Render-only Linux version retails for $1499.
A basic wiki can run on anything. Geeks tend not to throw out old machines, just repurpose them as something else: a router, host for project you support, etc.
Have hope my friend. After realizing I didn't want to do what I went to college for, I went to the Computer Learning Center for 10 months. Lowly as you can get, no degree in it at all. Started out working at an ecommerce company doing a stupid surfing the web and spamming sites to join our affiliate program job. It took 3 months to get into the tech department.
So my first development job, with no experience, I started at 32. Five years later I make 67. I would make more if I'd gone the Java route, or hopped jobs more often, but I prefer to like what I do than to grub money too much. Three years ago when I told my company I was quitting they offered 70 to stay (when I was making 55 at the time), but it was consulting at the State Department and I hated it there so I left.
Getting your foot in the door is the hard part. If you have trouble getting in as a straight developer, look for something still somewhat technical and try for that with the goal of moving over to development later.
What if you want to use a short snippet in an article or scholarly work? You're allowed to under copyright law. So fine, you buy the cd, write a review, want to post a 15 second sample on your site and ..... you can't. You're taking a film class, and are putting together a multimedia presentation analyzing the film.... except you can't grab snippets of it to show in class. Thank goodness you can't DRM books, or book reviews wouldn't be able to include snippets anymore.
Those are rights that you have. They're prevented by DRM. I'm sure there are others, but one or two examples demolishes your premise that the DRM'ing of the work doesn't infringe your rights. Oh, and why would you assume it's the "artist's decision" to DRM the work? It's not the artist's decision, it's the decision of the record label/film studio/etc.
Why would a novelist care about DRM? When's the last time you, or anyone you actually know, ever bought an e-book? DRM is useless for books, which points up the absurdity of the whole thing since copyright was created to apply to books.
The parent's point was that you have a fair use right to archive a cd, so you can replace it if it's damaged. Copyright law allows that. DRM doesn't. And if you break the DRM, you violate the DMCA, even though what you're doing is legal under copyright law in general.
I think rescuing citizens who are drowning is a definite government imperative. Building a 14 billion dollar road is not, foreign adventure wars are not.
We haven't yet spent a cent rebuilding New Orleans, only on search and rescue. When they get it drained in about a month, I'm sure people will be talking about 'how do we make sure this never happens again'. Definitely a cost effective idea to prevent it happening again. I don't know the best way to go about that. You cannot close down one of our largest ports. There will always be a city of some kind there. How they go about preventing a reoccurence I don't know, but I doubt that they'll take the approach of forcibly resettling every resident to boston or arizona. By the way there are also large government structures in New Orleans and Mississippi wiped out - interstates amongh them. It's not just people's houses.
My point about the big expenditures in the war/big dig wasn't that they were ok. It was that they were more stupid than what FEMA does. Go after the biggest, stupidest wastes of money first. FEMA's not that bad a waste of money. We have natural disasters of some sort every year. We've had one major terrorist attack, ever. But where do the dollars go? All to homeland security.
You live in Boston? I assume you are familiar with the federally supported Big Dig http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article431 8.html/, which has so far cost $14,600,000,000.00? 14 billion dollars for a road?
Why the hell should the federal government pay for a freaking ROAD in Boston, which it hasn't needed for the past two hundred years, and they shouldn't pay for food, shelter, and clean water for citizens who have just had their life savings and home destroyed?
If you're serious, why don't you propose that Boston impose a 30% sales tax increase to pay for its own road and give the money back to the feds? I'm sure they could resettle a lot fo people from New Orleans for that amount of money.
By the way, I live near DC, and DC and Alexandria have had several problems with flooding due to hurricanes in the past few years. Not 'evacuate' problems, but problems that cost a lot of money.
Socialism is not communism. The USA is a socialist country: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, environmental impact studies before construction, etc., just not to the extent that many European countries are. Those european countries, though more socialist than us, also have absolutely nothing to do with communism. Pure capitalism has never been practiced anywhere in the world. I personally wish we paid for universal health care, as we as a country spend enough on medicine to provide it and don't.
And where are you getting that water from? From neighboring states that didn't used to mind, but are now asserting their water rights more often. No you won't get many natural disasters, but saying "Hey, let's all live in the desert" isn't a viable option, there isn't enough water to go around.
So where is a safe place to live? East coast - hurricanes. West coast - earthquakes. Midwest - tornadoes. New England - 4' of snow. Alaska - 8' of snow. Hawaii - volcanoes.
Where exactly is safe?
And exactly how much money will be spent on this disaster relief effort, as a percentage of the cost of the Iraq war? 2%? Maybe? If you're complaining about federal spending, look at the military first.
Flood insurance is only offered by the federal government: http://www.floodsmart.gov/floodsmart/pages/index.j sp/.
It's a branch of FEMA. I don't know why FEMA would encourage people to stay in flood prone areas though, when they know they'll just have to come rescue them when it floods.