The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that developers of software violate federal copyright law when they provide computer users with the means to share music and movie files downloaded from the internet.
From the AP wire: The unanimous decision sends the case back to lower court, which had ruled in favor of file-sharing services Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc. on the grounds that the companies couldn't be sued. The justices said there was enough evidence of unlawful intent for the case to go to trial.
"We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by the clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties... [t]here is substantial evidence in MGM's favor on all elements of inducement," Justice David H. Souter wrote for the court.
>You can only make a Steam engine so big but you cannot connect them together to get more power.
Who told you that? That's just plain wrong, and was obviously made up by someone who knows little railroad history.
It's was not uncommon at all to connect 2 or more steam engines together. In fact Union Pacific used to do it for nearly all of their freight trains, especailly the express produce delivery trains.
There are also rail lines in Africa, China and Russia where coal is plentyful and old is not, and which **still use steam engines** and often use multiple steam engines(heads).
Search google for "double headed steam" or "triple headed steam" for examples.
I say we take a copy of the BSD Kernel and GPL-it, you think of a name for it BSGPL or something cute like that
Then more people will start to contribute to it who care about their work staying free and maybe we can have a BSD kernel that has the size of community as a GPL project.
The BSD license lets us do that you know...its soo much more free than GPL yadda.
Hell, I say take a whole copy of the latest FreeBSD distro and we make it GPL and we all start working on it from now on.
Who's with me!! Lets get bsgpl.sourceforge.net going soon!
Call me when Python has CPAN's 7848 modules. Then we can talk about "productivity".
ENOUGH! ALREADY!
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From the Wikipedia "April Fool's Day" entry: Traditionally, pranks are supposed to end by noon. Those done afterwards are supposed to bring bad luck to the perpetrator.
Curse the/. editors!..for not having enough sense to stop the 4/1 torture at the appointed hour.
From the Wikipedia "April Fool's Day" entry: Traditionally, pranks are supposed to end by noon. Those done afterwards are supposed to bring bad luck to the perpetrator.
Curse the/. editors. for not having enought sense to stop the 4/1 torture at the appointed hour.
IF there was a way to convert old PS1 games that you can get for like $3 a peice at the pawn shop down the street, THEN I would be interested.
AND if there was a burner for that stupid propeitary media format they used on purpose to try to thwart this sort of thing then I would be interested.
Seems to me like a way to sell the exact same games but in a different format... Imagine that you bought a bunch of music CD's, but in order to play them in your car you had to REBUY them all in a different type of CD format...same thing.
In doing some research on Google, I came across the Wikipedia entry for Cantor Fitzgerald, which... well, I'll just give you the thing in its entirety:
Cantor Fitzgerald Securities is an investment bank specializing in bond trading. It owns the eSpeed network.
Its New York office, on the 101st-105th floors of One World Trade Center, lost 685 employees in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack, considerably more than any other employer, including the FDNY. This was about 2/3 of its employees.
eSpeed had sponsored the U.S. Naval War College "NewRuleSets" research program, which used the two towers of the World Trade Center with a lightning bolt through them as its logo. It had been known since an earlier attack on the WTC in 1993 (the World Trade Center bombing) that it was a major target of asymmetric warfare and terrorism.
Sez who? But that's always the question with Wikipedia.
Here's what Cantor's own Web site says about eSpeed:
In 1999, Cantor announced its intentions to migrate the company's robust inter-dealer and voice brokering global fixed income business to the eSpeed electronic trading platform. In December of 1999, eSpeed became a publicly traded, and separately run, business in its own right.
Seems like a straight-up business venture. A faster way to make trades. I found a bit about NewRuleSets here:
The NewRuleSets.Project was a multi-year research effort designed to explore how globalization and the rise of the New Economy are altering the basic "rules of the road" in the international security environment, with special reference to how these changes may redefine the U.S. Navy's historic role as security enabler of America's commercial network ties with the world. The project was hosted by the online securities broker-dealer firm, eSpeed (an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald LP), and involved personnel from the Decision Strategies Department of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies. Adm. William Flanagan, USN (Ret.), and Philip Ginsberg of Cantor Fitzgerald (then-senior managing director and executive vice president, respectively) served as informal advisers to the project, actively participating in all planning and design. The joint Wall Street-Naval War College workshops in the series involved energy, environmental issues and foreign direct investment in Asia.
And here. It was a once-and-done attempt to learn something to refine the U.S. Navy's role (inherited from the British Navy of old) of policing the high seas and passively protecting international commerce. It was an instance of the military asking a business to help it do a better job of protecting the global economy.
It certainly doesn't seem to rate its dominant position in the Wikipedia entry on this company. Read this, and all you know is 1. they did something in conjunction with the U.S. military; 2. they got hit hard on 9-11.
Yet by clumsy innuendo, the writer of the Wikipedia entry (which is reproduced almost verbatim at some radical sites) suggests the reader connect the dots and make CF part of some shadowy U.S. military cabal, that knew it was a target of terrorists (and, perhaps, deserved to be?).
It all looks like a lot of conspiracy theory hoo-ha. Perhaps someone will step out from the Wikipedia shadows and be brave enough to go the next step and say Osama knew all about this, or that the death pilots were aiming for certain floors of the building because they knew who worked there. Anyone, anyone? Ward?
Conspiracy theories have a place, and they may even have a place in a Wikipedia. But this seems a curiously incomplete full entry for a major company that has been around since 1945.
Good idea, lets promote and assist the "industry" in deciding to use this tool by NOT POINTINT OUT there is a better cross-platform tool out there but BY HELPING to legatimize this propietary toolset by allowing Microsoftzilla to say "see its multi-platform too" in their marketing materials.
What don't you people see about that??? Can't you see the fools your playing?
All it does is to legitimize microsofts attempt at monoplizing another market with yet another windows-only product exactly similar to an exsisting multi-platform product....it's their modus-operandi.
I can't imagine how GNOME which was FOUNDED strictly because of the POSSIBILITY of some licensing problems with Qt(KDE), would go head-long into this licensing minefield created by Miguel.
Its part of the cygwin project, BUT they have instructions for doing a native compile with other native Windows compilers such as Borland, Microsoft C++ etc..
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If you want to read more info about this case, the EFF has a large amount of information about it on their website.. There are copies of documents, filings, articles, press conference audio etc.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that developers of software violate federal copyright law when they provide computer users with the means to share music and movie files downloaded from the internet.
... [t]here is substantial evidence in MGM's favor on all elements of inducement," Justice David H. Souter wrote for the court.
From the AP wire: The unanimous decision sends the case back to lower court, which had ruled in favor of file-sharing services Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc. on the grounds that the companies couldn't be sued. The justices said there was enough evidence of unlawful intent for the case to go to trial.
"We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by the clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties
From the Urban Dictionary:
1. scrilla
Money, One who spends a lot of money
"Yo, shes got mad scrilla, we're gonna rock the mall later."
"Scrilla in Manila, shlong in Hong Kong"
Source: studtaco, Feb 25, 2003
Whoa! They discovered an intact, 20th Century pizzeria! Just like the one I used to work at!\
>You can only make a Steam engine so big but you cannot connect them together to get more power.
Who told you that? That's just plain wrong, and was obviously made up by someone who knows little railroad history.
It's was not uncommon at all to connect 2 or more steam engines together. In fact Union Pacific used to do it for nearly all of their freight trains, especailly the express produce delivery trains.
There are also rail lines in Africa, China and Russia where coal is plentyful and old is not, and which **still use steam engines** and often use multiple steam engines(heads).
Search google for "double headed steam" or "triple headed steam" for examples.
> too much Anti-M$ sentiment
Bah... there is no such think as "too much"
XBOX IS HUGE!!! LOL!
Come on...thow this guy a mod point bone... I got a good chukle.
nope. He's probably a school shop teacher.
Jesus a Homo and Pedo????
Nah.. I think Mohammad pretty much has those two things claimed already as his own.
http://www.terroristalerts.org/mohammad.html
I say we take a copy of the BSD Kernel and GPL-it, you think of a name for it BSGPL or something cute like that
Then more people will start to contribute to it who care about their work staying free and maybe we can have a BSD kernel that has the size of community as a GPL project.
The BSD license lets us do that you know...its soo much more free than GPL yadda.
Hell, I say take a whole copy of the latest FreeBSD distro and we make it GPL and we all start working on it from now on.
Who's with me!! Lets get bsgpl.sourceforge.net going soon!
I don't want a G5 mini...
I just want a little more clock speed, FW800, and the same Radeon9600 they put in everything else and not the crappy 9200 the mini has now.
Heck they are even upgrading the eMac to a 9600 now and getting rid of its 9200.
Personally, I would have to bet we see a 9600 mini once they start another production run of them, possibly late summer.
It would seem that Microsoft thinks they can get people on the ole upgrade cycle just like they do for their other products.
Whats next?
XBOX 2006, XBOX.net 2007, XBOX.sp2 2008?
XBOXse 2009?
I wonder if people will fall for it? I mean are there not people who still use their PS1? and Gamecubes and expect a few more years out of their PS2?
Call me when Python has CPAN's 7848 modules. Then we can talk about "productivity".
From the Wikipedia "April Fool's Day" entry:
/. editors!..for not having enough sense to stop the 4/1 torture at the appointed hour.
Traditionally, pranks are supposed to end by noon. Those done afterwards are supposed to bring bad luck to the perpetrator.
Curse the
From the Wikipedia "April Fool's Day" entry:
/. editors. for not having enought sense to stop the 4/1 torture at the appointed hour.
Traditionally, pranks are supposed to end by noon. Those done afterwards are supposed to bring bad luck to the perpetrator.
Curse the
IF there was a way to convert old PS1 games that you can get for like $3 a peice at the pawn shop down the street, THEN I would be interested.
AND if there was a burner for that stupid propeitary media format they used on purpose to try to thwart this sort of thing then I would be interested.
Seems to me like a way to sell the exact same games but in a different format... Imagine that you bought a bunch of music CD's, but in order to play them in your car you had to REBUY them all in a different type of CD format...same thing.
In doing some research on Google, I came across the Wikipedia entry for Cantor Fitzgerald, which ... well, I'll just give you the thing in its entirety:
a -w eirdness.html
Cantor Fitzgerald Securities is an investment bank specializing in bond trading. It owns the eSpeed network.
Its New York office, on the 101st-105th floors of One World Trade Center, lost 685 employees in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack, considerably more than any other employer, including the FDNY. This was about 2/3 of its employees.
eSpeed had sponsored the U.S. Naval War College "NewRuleSets" research program, which used the two towers of the World Trade Center with a lightning bolt through them as its logo. It had been known since an earlier attack on the WTC in 1993 (the World Trade Center bombing) that it was a major target of asymmetric warfare and terrorism.
Sez who? But that's always the question with Wikipedia.
Here's what Cantor's own Web site says about eSpeed:
In 1999, Cantor announced its intentions to migrate the company's robust inter-dealer and voice brokering global fixed income business to the eSpeed electronic trading platform. In December of 1999, eSpeed became a publicly traded, and separately run, business in its own right.
Seems like a straight-up business venture. A faster way to make trades. I found a bit about NewRuleSets here:
The NewRuleSets.Project was a multi-year research effort designed to explore how globalization and the rise of the New Economy are altering the basic "rules of the road" in the international security environment, with special reference to how these changes may redefine the U.S. Navy's historic role as security enabler of America's commercial network ties with the world. The project was hosted by the online securities broker-dealer firm, eSpeed (an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald LP), and involved personnel from the Decision Strategies Department of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies. Adm. William Flanagan, USN (Ret.), and Philip Ginsberg of Cantor Fitzgerald (then-senior managing director and executive vice president, respectively) served as informal advisers to the project, actively participating in all planning and design. The joint Wall Street-Naval War College workshops in the series involved energy, environmental issues and foreign direct investment in Asia.
And here. It was a once-and-done attempt to learn something to refine the U.S. Navy's role (inherited from the British Navy of old) of policing the high seas and passively protecting international commerce. It was an instance of the military asking a business to help it do a better job of protecting the global economy.
It certainly doesn't seem to rate its dominant position in the Wikipedia entry on this company. Read this, and all you know is 1. they did something in conjunction with the U.S. military; 2. they got hit hard on 9-11.
Yet by clumsy innuendo, the writer of the Wikipedia entry (which is reproduced almost verbatim at some radical sites) suggests the reader connect the dots and make CF part of some shadowy U.S. military cabal, that knew it was a target of terrorists (and, perhaps, deserved to be?).
It all looks like a lot of conspiracy theory hoo-ha. Perhaps someone will step out from the Wikipedia shadows and be brave enough to go the next step and say Osama knew all about this, or that the death pilots were aiming for certain floors of the building because they knew who worked there. Anyone, anyone? Ward?
Conspiracy theories have a place, and they may even have a place in a Wikipedia. But this seems a curiously incomplete full entry for a major company that has been around since 1945.
http://vernondent.blogspot.com/2005/02/wikipedi
Man... still getting some of those new popups.
I was hoping they fixed it.
Here for example and you get some:
http://www.drudgereport.com
Good idea, lets promote and assist the "industry" in deciding to use this tool by NOT POINTINT OUT there is a better cross-platform tool out there but BY HELPING to legatimize this propietary toolset by allowing Microsoftzilla to say "see its multi-platform too" in their marketing materials.
What don't you people see about that??? Can't you see the fools your playing?
its not the "software" that is "threating".. its the army of lawyers in readmond.
Mono is a scourge on the Open Source community.
All it does is to legitimize microsofts attempt at monoplizing another market with yet another windows-only product exactly similar to an exsisting multi-platform product....it's their modus-operandi.
I can't imagine how GNOME which was FOUNDED strictly because of the POSSIBILITY of some licensing problems with Qt(KDE), would go head-long into this licensing minefield created by Miguel.
GNOME has certainly lost its way.
FYI.. Season 4 starts on Star Trek Enterprise tonite too. .......anyone care? *crickets*
Actually there is a version of the GPL QT ported to Win32. In fact its been out for quite a while.
l e-mingw.php
The Windows version of the ultra excellent lyx editor used it for their windows port in fact. See: http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/
Here is the home for the Win32 port of the GPL QT:
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/compi
Its part of the cygwin project, BUT they have instructions for doing a native compile with other native Windows compilers such as Borland, Microsoft C++ etc..
Real men don't do backups... they post their stuff to public FTP sites and let the world make copies.