looks like a legitimate case. the DMCA does enforce some issues that do need to be enforced. I agree that these people were in the wrong...but on the whole I still think the DMCA needs some serious re-writing.
cnn reviewing games? how about they stick to what they're good at and speculate on how this game is going to cause violence in our schools.....of course it will have to air during the 15 minutes out of the day they arent speculating on our coming war with iraq...
this mess is getting out of hand....next down the line, some major company like SBC will claim rights to another trivial piece of web-browsing....maybe frames...yeah, SBC will claim rights to frames! how stupid and frivolus will that be?....oh wait, im too late...
For transit to work people need to be offered a product that is better than their car
or perhaps dissuade them from using their cars over public transportation by....lets just say CHARGE THEM 5 POUNDS for argument's sake (dont know how i thought of that one...it just came to me). now, the people with the mentality of "if im going to have to sit in traffic, it might as well be in my own car instead of a smelly, crowded bus" will now have to pay for that convienience that is causing this whole mess.....seems like a great idea to me. either do that or set up traditional toll roads.
You think that affects how many millions the executives get payed?
yes, instead of back-handed-cockloads of money, they just get cockloads....its sad, really.
by the way, its paid
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first: a one in fifty chance of total failure isn't exactly stellar
shortly after: Those things are flying gas bombs that we lob into orbit, and then try to bring back in one piece. That we have a working re-usable spacecraft at all is still impressive
so.....to recap what you've said:
1. 1 in 50 failure rate is bad
2. 1 in 50 failure rate is miraculous
thanks. i could have gotten better sensational, catch-phrase-riddled, bullshit from any news station.
i was still in college when this all went down (SLU) and the word around campus was that they were the ones who bought it out. But, like I've said in other replies, Im not 100 percent sure its true, its just the only explanation I've ever heard.
here at work we leased the 600e laptops for our users until the T series laptops came out and i have to agree that the batteries dont last long at all....NONE of them (we have around 2000 laptops leased at any one time, so we dealt with this problem A LOT). the problem is the fucking "trickle charge" that these things are set up with: when plugged in, the laptop still goes on battery power, meaning that the battery charge is always fluctuating between 99 and 100 percent (very VERY horrible for battery life). the newer T series actually switch off of battery power when plugged in, so this problem has pretty much gone away.
well, i have no problem admitting that im wrong. this is simply what i heard when the station was shut down. i didnt look into it very hard (a sellout station i detested is shutting down, im too busy being happy to wonder why) and this is simply what i heard from someone...i do understand that it may have been just a rumor...and thats why i said "i think" in my previous post. i have nothing against mormons, this is just what i heard.
CC and the others put on that type of radio BECAUSE IT MAKES THEM MONEY.
yes, EXACTLY! as an example, here in st. louis, there used to be two "alternative" radio stations about 6 years ago. one of them, the obvious sellout, would do the whole 5 song playlist (a few of them clearly NOT EVEN CLOSE TO ALTERNATIVE) and split it up with 40 minutes of commercials per hour. the other one was more of an "underground" station that did more of what it wanted. their playlist was huge and had lots of great music and few commercials. then one dark day a group (i think it was a mormon group out of utah...i think the same one that bought walgreens so they could stop it from selling alcohol) bought out the popular station to shut it down! all of the sudden the lesser station was the only one in town of its kind. can you guess what happened? you got it, that station has since become the sellout, bringing me such alternative hits as emminem's song from 5-mile, "because i got high", avril's new one and many more. and YES they claim to be alternative. "st. louis' new rock alternative" to be exact. as soon as they were able to pull in the big advertizers from the other station, they went straight to the money, forsaking their great station's integrity...its sad really
the idea of music being sold as a periphreal product of a bigger brand, rather than a brand itself is pretty interesting.
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now....would you like to hear THAT before, during and after every song you listen to? didnt think so......
boy, was gannon robbed for superbowl mvp or what? i mean, by throwing 5 interceptions (new superbowl record) the only way he could have helped the bucs any more would be running the ball to the in-zone himself before turning it over!
also, i think the refs deserve honorable mention...heh
...but other than saving the riaa, what is "next generation secure computing" going to fix security-wise? am i correct to assume that this scenario can take place?
NGSCserver: incoming request! are you a NGSC computer?
NGSCcomuter: why, yes. as a matter of fact, i am!
NGSCserver: great! what can i do for you now that i know you are a trusted platform?
NGSCcomputer: i would like to exploit one of your bugs, causing you to blow your brains out and bring you to a screeching halt.
NGSCserver: okay! youre the boss! ::crash::
If something's fairly priced, nobody's going to take the time to copy...
and here's the funny part:
what explanation would you be likely to hear from a suit in the recording industry about how freakishly expensive cds are considering the content? offsetting their bastard consumers who pirate the music and cost them sales!
and what would a someone who pirates say is their reason for it? because cds are so freakishly expensive!
yes, folks. we have ourselves a nice little delimma here...
well, you would get one. thats fine....but my point is that i dont think there would have been all that many people zooming around to cause a problem...im guessing that they wouldnt have been any more common that mopeds or gas scooters. should they outlaw those too?
i think they did this in anticipation of them becoming extremely common and causing problems, whereas i dont think too many of them are EVER going to sell. its a fun idea, but i dont think they're as practical as many people think.
youre not supposed to ride bikes on sidewalks! youre supposed to ride them in the street!
as for the segway, i think they should wait for it to be a problem before wasting their time banning it....i mean, how many of these things did they anticipate being on the sidewalks anyway?
sure, they're supposed to be human...blah blah blah...morality of x-men...blah blah blah. but if you get to the heart of the ruling, it is EXTREMELY relieving to know that for all of these years Ive been playing with toys and not dolls!
I don't see anyone saying that people should be allowed to hack popular windows only games to run on liniux, so why should movies be different?
uhhhhh, havent you heard of wine before? there are most certainly people trying to get windows games to linux. oh, and you dont hack the games, you write software to properly use them...which is exactly what decss does for linux....jeez man, wine is all over slashdot. go read up!
you sure there isn't a cold war?
afgahnistan? iraq? korea?
um, afgahnistan's space program isnt exactly ready to compete with NASA...and neither are iraq's and korea's. maybe if we give korea an assload of money and a couple of decades to catch up then they'd have a chance (fat chance of that happening), and iraq....well its going to be hard to launch ANYTHING, let alone spacecraft, when your country is one giant blast crater...
...that they are driving BMWs. Music is an art, not a business. The poeple involved shouldn't be concerned with money. What they should be concerned with right now is the low quality of music out there....oh and MAYBE the fact that the ECONOMY IS SHIT RIGHT NOW. Just my opinion in this whole mess.
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looks like a legitimate case. the DMCA does enforce some issues that do need to be enforced. I agree that these people were in the wrong...but on the whole I still think the DMCA needs some serious re-writing.
Though if someone decides to do a version of Pitfall I may have to sway a bit
i believe that a re-make of pitfall has already been done....tho i never played it, i think i remember reviews for it were terrible
cnn reviewing games? how about they stick to what they're good at and speculate on how this game is going to cause violence in our schools.....of course it will have to air during the 15 minutes out of the day they arent speculating on our coming war with iraq...
/sarcasm
this mess is getting out of hand....next down the line, some major company like SBC will claim rights to another trivial piece of web-browsing....maybe frames...yeah, SBC will claim rights to frames! how stupid and frivolus will that be?....oh wait, im too late...
For transit to work people need to be offered a product that is better than their car
or perhaps dissuade them from using their cars over public transportation by....lets just say CHARGE THEM 5 POUNDS for argument's sake (dont know how i thought of that one...it just came to me). now, the people with the mentality of "if im going to have to sit in traffic, it might as well be in my own car instead of a smelly, crowded bus" will now have to pay for that convienience that is causing this whole mess.....seems like a great idea to me. either do that or set up traditional toll roads.
You think that affects how many millions the executives get payed?
yes, instead of back-handed-cockloads of money, they just get cockloads....its sad, really.
by the way, its paid
first:
a one in fifty chance of total failure isn't exactly stellar
shortly after:
Those things are flying gas bombs that we lob into orbit, and then try to bring back in one piece. That we have a working re-usable spacecraft at all is still impressive
so.....to recap what you've said:
1. 1 in 50 failure rate is bad
2. 1 in 50 failure rate is miraculous
thanks. i could have gotten better sensational, catch-phrase-riddled, bullshit from any news station.
i was still in college when this all went down (SLU) and the word around campus was that they were the ones who bought it out. But, like I've said in other replies, Im not 100 percent sure its true, its just the only explanation I've ever heard.
please see my reply to the wooden badger, thanks
here at work we leased the 600e laptops for our users until the T series laptops came out and i have to agree that the batteries dont last long at all....NONE of them (we have around 2000 laptops leased at any one time, so we dealt with this problem A LOT). the problem is the fucking "trickle charge" that these things are set up with: when plugged in, the laptop still goes on battery power, meaning that the battery charge is always fluctuating between 99 and 100 percent (very VERY horrible for battery life). the newer T series actually switch off of battery power when plugged in, so this problem has pretty much gone away.
well, i have no problem admitting that im wrong. this is simply what i heard when the station was shut down. i didnt look into it very hard (a sellout station i detested is shutting down, im too busy being happy to wonder why) and this is simply what i heard from someone...i do understand that it may have been just a rumor...and thats why i said "i think" in my previous post. i have nothing against mormons, this is just what i heard.
...does that mean that this will come down in price so i can freaking afford it?!??
CC and the others put on that type of radio BECAUSE IT MAKES THEM MONEY.
yes, EXACTLY! as an example, here in st. louis, there used to be two "alternative" radio stations about 6 years ago. one of them, the obvious sellout, would do the whole 5 song playlist (a few of them clearly NOT EVEN CLOSE TO ALTERNATIVE) and split it up with 40 minutes of commercials per hour. the other one was more of an "underground" station that did more of what it wanted. their playlist was huge and had lots of great music and few commercials. then one dark day a group (i think it was a mormon group out of utah...i think the same one that bought walgreens so they could stop it from selling alcohol) bought out the popular station to shut it down! all of the sudden the lesser station was the only one in town of its kind. can you guess what happened? you got it, that station has since become the sellout, bringing me such alternative hits as emminem's song from 5-mile, "because i got high", avril's new one and many more. and YES they claim to be alternative. "st. louis' new rock alternative" to be exact. as soon as they were able to pull in the big advertizers from the other station, they went straight to the money, forsaking their great station's integrity...its sad really
exactly. just like the chewly's gum salesman in Clerks. heh
the idea of music being sold as a periphreal product of a bigger brand, rather than a brand itself is pretty interesting.
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now....would you like to hear THAT before, during and after every song you listen to? didnt think so......
how many games does he get to play until this whole thing is decided?? geez...
boy, was gannon robbed for superbowl mvp or what? i mean, by throwing 5 interceptions (new superbowl record) the only way he could have helped the bucs any more would be running the ball to the in-zone himself before turning it over!
also, i think the refs deserve honorable mention...heh
...but other than saving the riaa, what is "next generation secure computing" going to fix security-wise? am i correct to assume that this scenario can take place?
::crash::
NGSCserver: incoming request! are you a NGSC computer?
NGSCcomuter: why, yes. as a matter of fact, i am!
NGSCserver: great! what can i do for you now that i know you are a trusted platform?
NGSCcomputer: i would like to exploit one of your bugs, causing you to blow your brains out and bring you to a screeching halt.
NGSCserver: okay! youre the boss!
If something's fairly priced, nobody's going to take the time to copy...
and here's the funny part:
what explanation would you be likely to hear from a suit in the recording industry about how freakishly expensive cds are considering the content? offsetting their bastard consumers who pirate the music and cost them sales!
and what would a someone who pirates say is their reason for it? because cds are so freakishly expensive!
yes, folks. we have ourselves a nice little delimma here...
well, you would get one. thats fine....but my point is that i dont think there would have been all that many people zooming around to cause a problem...im guessing that they wouldnt have been any more common that mopeds or gas scooters. should they outlaw those too?
i think they did this in anticipation of them becoming extremely common and causing problems, whereas i dont think too many of them are EVER going to sell. its a fun idea, but i dont think they're as practical as many people think.
youre not supposed to ride bikes on sidewalks! youre supposed to ride them in the street!
as for the segway, i think they should wait for it to be a problem before wasting their time banning it....i mean, how many of these things did they anticipate being on the sidewalks anyway?
sure, they're supposed to be human...blah blah blah...morality of x-men...blah blah blah. but if you get to the heart of the ruling, it is EXTREMELY relieving to know that for all of these years Ive been playing with toys and not dolls!
I don't see anyone saying that people should be allowed to hack popular windows only games to run on liniux, so why should movies be different?
uhhhhh, havent you heard of wine before? there are most certainly people trying to get windows games to linux. oh, and you dont hack the games, you write software to properly use them...which is exactly what decss does for linux....jeez man, wine is all over slashdot. go read up!
you sure there isn't a cold war? afgahnistan? iraq? korea?
um, afgahnistan's space program isnt exactly ready to compete with NASA...and neither are iraq's and korea's. maybe if we give korea an assload of money and a couple of decades to catch up then they'd have a chance (fat chance of that happening), and iraq....well its going to be hard to launch ANYTHING, let alone spacecraft, when your country is one giant blast crater...
...that they are driving BMWs. Music is an art, not a business. The poeple involved shouldn't be concerned with money. What they should be concerned with right now is the low quality of music out there....oh and MAYBE the fact that the ECONOMY IS SHIT RIGHT NOW. Just my opinion in this whole mess.