Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy- Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided: (1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner
I'd say that copying a program into memory, cache, registers, etc. is an essential step in the utilization of the program.
That's the cost of relying on someone else's code.
I'm not trying to be an ass. I'm just saying that if you're depending on code that you don't have control over, you've already anchored yourself to that code. And, of course, the alternative (rewriting the libraries yourself or paying someone to do it) is worse.
I will jump in and preempt any discussion about copies made in memory during the course of ordinary use of the program. This has already been addressed in US copyright law.
Copies made in the course of ordinary use of the program is not infringing.
I figured out about 2.5 years in that I couldn't code to save my life. Now I can tell you when to use a binary tree or a linked list, etc., but it'd take me forever to code one up.
I switched to the mathematics program and enjoyed it immensely. The only problem now is that I don't have a degree in something that people acknowledge as being "technical".
And then, of course, I get the brush-off because I don't have This Month's Must-Have Certification, even though I have the experience from previous jobs.
I'd be more than happy to do something related to math/stats rather than IT, but then I have zero experience in those jobs, so I can't get my foot in the door.
So with you...I'd say that you probably aren't going to be able to get much in the way of non-programming except the IT stuff that people are mentioning here. If you have the wherewithal, you may want to look at a master's degree in Physics, Applied Math, or something along those lines.
First, no ISP has common carrier status. They never did. The confusion is due to the fact that AT&T the phone company is a common carrier while AT&T the ISP is not.
Second, a good many (most?) ISPs are not statutory monopolies, but natural ones. It simply isn't profitable to have more than one cable company in most areas. Which brings us to your vision of forming a new ISP to compete with the monopolists. Yeah right. The barriers to entry are about as high as they get in telecommunications.
I know it's not the popular opinion around here but telcos and cable companies need to be regulated as public utilities or (and this is my favorite option) the government needs to buy up the last mile infrastructure and allow non-discriminatory access to everyone who wants to provide services over the infrastructure. There isn't and never was a free market in cable television or internet services (well there was when dial-up was popular, but i digress).
ISPs can hold you over a barrel because you're lucky if you have two choices for access -- either the cable monopoly or the phone monopoly. The same anti-consumer BS would occur at your local power/water company without regulation. They could easily say "Well, water is $10/gal; don't like it? Have fun hauling water from the river."
Obama's just doing what every Democrat does after the primary season -- running to the center.
If you look at it from his perspective, he knows he's already got the liberal vote, so why should he try and speak to their issues anymore? He has to go after the "swing vote". You know, the people who pay attention to the elections starting sometime around late October and vote based on network news reports and campaign commercials. It really gets me that ignorant, low information voters are courted more than people who actually try to make a reasoned and informed decision. That's just the nature of one man, one vote.
If we had more than two major parties, Obama (and McCain on the other side) couldn't get away with simply flip-flopping on important issues because the farther left and farther right parties would step in to fill the void.
I agree with you in part, but only because your average American doesn't think things through.
A President Obama is not likely to have the chance of replacing any of the 5 in the 5-4 decision. He's probably going to get Stevens and maybe Ginsburg. That still leaves 5-4.
Kennedy and Scalia seem to be in good health despite their age. Alito, Thomas, and Roberts are all very young for SCOTUS justices.
In terms of changing the partisanship of the court, Obama can only hold the line. McCain is the one who can really roll back decisions of the Berger and Warren courts.
Dude, I'd really, really rather it be this way than the alternative.
Without a "despotic" court, Bush et al. would have looked at Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and just said "well, we don't agree, so fuck you!"
If judges are really overstepping their bounds, Congress always has the remedy of impeachment. If they're too afraid to pull the trigger, that's their problem in not asserting themselves.
But then again no one looks at the patents because if you did and then implemented the invention, you're liable for willful infringement. And as we all know, you can get patents for pretty trivial things.
Patents might as well be secret until they expire.
Granted that he might not do what you want him to or is not representing your interests, but I don't think he's owned by any corporations (you did mention "corporate whores").
As you mention, in a cloture motion there needs to be exactly 60 senators voting in the affirmative to close debate.
Sure, the vote can be 59 for and 41 abstaining and the motion doesn't carry, but usually the whips make sure everyone is on the floor to cast votes on cloture motions that may be close.
The left flank of the Democratic Party aren't whores. I'm talking about Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Lee (who voted against going to Afghanistan), Pete Stark, etc.
There are a few libertarian Republicans who aren't whores but tend to vote in such a way that one could construe them to be whores. Ron Paul, Jeff Flake, and others come to mind.
And last I checked getting "blacklisted" isn't considered being brought up on charges.
I'll kindly STFU if anyone can provide court cases where the federal government brought criminal charges against Qwest or its executives for failing to help with the spying program.
It only has to go to conference committee if the Senate amends the bill.
The retroactive immunity (yes it is) will not be voted down. Dodd et al. may try to filibuster it, but I doubt they can find 40 senators to keep a filibuster.
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Don't people who have 2nd homes rent them out for part of the year?
You'll have to pardon me because I don't know anyone who has a "summer home" or what have you.
Touche, salesman.
Wow. I'm surprised AOL still has that many customers.
Come on guys, let's get grandma off AOL.
Use a non-admistrator account in Windows XP/Vista for all non-administrator usage.
Right.
I think the v2 and v3 will both be used going forward.
If v3 is too restrictive for some people, they can always maintain v2 versions of the tools or switch to BSD/MIT-licensed variants.
17 USC 117a, to wit:
Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy- Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner
I'd say that copying a program into memory, cache, registers, etc. is an essential step in the utilization of the program.
That's the cost of relying on someone else's code.
I'm not trying to be an ass. I'm just saying that if you're depending on code that you don't have control over, you've already anchored yourself to that code. And, of course, the alternative (rewriting the libraries yourself or paying someone to do it) is worse.
Well, if I buy a book, I have the right to use it in any way I see fit because it's my property, my copy of the book.
If I buy (or otherwise legally obtain) computer software, I have the right to use it because it's my property, my copy of the software.
I will jump in and preempt any discussion about copies made in memory during the course of ordinary use of the program. This has already been addressed in US copyright law.
Copies made in the course of ordinary use of the program is not infringing.
I figured out about 2.5 years in that I couldn't code to save my life. Now I can tell you when to use a binary tree or a linked list, etc., but it'd take me forever to code one up.
I switched to the mathematics program and enjoyed it immensely. The only problem now is that I don't have a degree in something that people acknowledge as being "technical".
And then, of course, I get the brush-off because I don't have This Month's Must-Have Certification, even though I have the experience from previous jobs.
I'd be more than happy to do something related to math/stats rather than IT, but then I have zero experience in those jobs, so I can't get my foot in the door.
So with you...I'd say that you probably aren't going to be able to get much in the way of non-programming except the IT stuff that people are mentioning here. If you have the wherewithal, you may want to look at a master's degree in Physics, Applied Math, or something along those lines.
That's rich.
First, no ISP has common carrier status. They never did. The confusion is due to the fact that AT&T the phone company is a common carrier while AT&T the ISP is not.
Second, a good many (most?) ISPs are not statutory monopolies, but natural ones. It simply isn't profitable to have more than one cable company in most areas. Which brings us to your vision of forming a new ISP to compete with the monopolists. Yeah right. The barriers to entry are about as high as they get in telecommunications.
I know it's not the popular opinion around here but telcos and cable companies need to be regulated as public utilities or (and this is my favorite option) the government needs to buy up the last mile infrastructure and allow non-discriminatory access to everyone who wants to provide services over the infrastructure. There isn't and never was a free market in cable television or internet services (well there was when dial-up was popular, but i digress).
ISPs can hold you over a barrel because you're lucky if you have two choices for access -- either the cable monopoly or the phone monopoly. The same anti-consumer BS would occur at your local power/water company without regulation. They could easily say "Well, water is $10/gal; don't like it? Have fun hauling water from the river."
Yeah, it's zero optimism, but it also happens to be the truth.
10 years? We should be so lucky.
We'd get sent to a white-collar, minimum security resort!
Obama's just doing what every Democrat does after the primary season -- running to the center.
If you look at it from his perspective, he knows he's already got the liberal vote, so why should he try and speak to their issues anymore? He has to go after the "swing vote". You know, the people who pay attention to the elections starting sometime around late October and vote based on network news reports and campaign commercials. It really gets me that ignorant, low information voters are courted more than people who actually try to make a reasoned and informed decision. That's just the nature of one man, one vote.
If we had more than two major parties, Obama (and McCain on the other side) couldn't get away with simply flip-flopping on important issues because the farther left and farther right parties would step in to fill the void.
The Ohio DMV gave me "FA66ET".
While it wasn't spelled correctly, I still got looks from quite a few passersby and fellow motorists.
After I couldn't take it any more, I went down and reported the plates stolen.
I agree with you in part, but only because your average American doesn't think things through.
A President Obama is not likely to have the chance of replacing any of the 5 in the 5-4 decision. He's probably going to get Stevens and maybe Ginsburg. That still leaves 5-4.
Kennedy and Scalia seem to be in good health despite their age. Alito, Thomas, and Roberts are all very young for SCOTUS justices.
In terms of changing the partisanship of the court, Obama can only hold the line. McCain is the one who can really roll back decisions of the Berger and Warren courts.
Dude, I'd really, really rather it be this way than the alternative.
Without a "despotic" court, Bush et al. would have looked at Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and just said "well, we don't agree, so fuck you!"
If judges are really overstepping their bounds, Congress always has the remedy of impeachment. If they're too afraid to pull the trigger, that's their problem in not asserting themselves.
But then again no one looks at the patents because if you did and then implemented the invention, you're liable for willful infringement. And as we all know, you can get patents for pretty trivial things.
Patents might as well be secret until they expire.
Granted that he might not do what you want him to or is not representing your interests, but I don't think he's owned by any corporations (you did mention "corporate whores").
Otherwise I pretty much agree with you.
As you mention, in a cloture motion there needs to be exactly 60 senators voting in the affirmative to close debate.
Sure, the vote can be 59 for and 41 abstaining and the motion doesn't carry, but usually the whips make sure everyone is on the floor to cast votes on cloture motions that may be close.
The left flank of the Democratic Party aren't whores. I'm talking about Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Lee (who voted against going to Afghanistan), Pete Stark, etc.
There are a few libertarian Republicans who aren't whores but tend to vote in such a way that one could construe them to be whores. Ron Paul, Jeff Flake, and others come to mind.
Actually, this gentleman's rights under the GPL are being violated. He demands a copy of the source (to which he is entitled) and is not getting it.
He is harmed by this action.
And last I checked getting "blacklisted" isn't considered being brought up on charges.
I'll kindly STFU if anyone can provide court cases where the federal government brought criminal charges against Qwest or its executives for failing to help with the spying program.
To the gentleman who modded me "troll":
DC has shadow senators which are elected just as US Senators are, but are not recognized as such by the United States.
For your edification.
It only has to go to conference committee if the Senate amends the bill.
The retroactive immunity (yes it is) will not be voted down. Dodd et al. may try to filibuster it, but I doubt they can find 40 senators to keep a filibuster.
I'm pretty sure it'll get 70 votes or so.