Car alarms beat all the rest put together. With most of the so-called annoying products listed in the article, if you are not fool enough to use them the annoyance is minimal or non-existent. However I don't even own a car and I still find car alarms annoying.
The USA was never supposed to be an unbridled democracy. Democracy easily degenerates into tribal conflict and suppression of unpopular groups and ideas. The USA was supposed to be about freedom from oppression, protection from government, thus the idea of rights that can't be taken away on a whim by politicians. However in real life a government once strong enough will always be able to find a way around such restrictions.
I expect that MMORPGs will evolve into the second most popular form of entertainment within ten years. It is likely that the developers of MMORPGs will become as significant as television content creators (studios) are.
In what way are television content creators significant?
You do not define "bullshit", "actions", "scrutiny", nor any of the actions which supposedly "prove" your point. Come back when you have something that can withstand the scrutiny of even the simplest of armchair philosophers.
Weeeee, this is fun!
The BBC article already suggests something even better:
If everyone had a single internet identity for life, like a National Insurance number, this would make it far easier to track people, he said. Child internet safety expert John Carr, of children's charity NCH, said: "This is a very welcome move.
It wouldn't work at all on a system like IRC where "screen names" are not even preserved across sessions. Imagine the usefulness of trying to track somebody who had logged five hundred common names as a "screen name I sometimes use."
This is interesting, although I wasn't thinking of US law specifically. I hope such provisions exist in copyright legislation elsewhere.
The "Making of Additional Copy" is a bit ambiguous to me. I have to assume that it authorises multiple copies, e.g., a copy to a hard disk when the software is installed and another to RAM when it's executed. However in this case, it also seems to authorise installing copies on every computer you own, which is not an unreasonable thing to want to do, but it seems to be somewhat at variance with what software companies would have you believe.
I also notice that the archival copies in (2) need to be destroyed if you no longer possess the computer program, but the hard disk copy apparently authorised by (1) does not ?
The theory, that I've heard, is that if you don't have a license from the software publisher then it would be copyright violation to load the software onto a hard drive or into a computer's memory. Thus, the legal choices you have are to reject the license and not install the software, or accept the license and all of its terms and install it.
If you install the software, claim the license agreement was not legally binding and you didn't accept it, what stops the publisher from suing you for copyright infringement?
Exchange compatibility is a non-negotiable, non-finesseable, titanium-clad, gotta-have-it-no-kidding, requirement.
I would never work on Exchange compatibility in Linux. You would always be chasing Microsoft who can change their protocols at the slightest wim. Reverse engineering the work of Microsoft is no sane persons idea of fun, or perhaps not even for money.
The thing actually worth doing would be an Exchange replacement. Perhaps it already exists.
Just a moment, if this was correct, SSL would be pointless because any untrusted link on the Internet would be vulnerable.
Just because you control everything the browser sees, doesn't mean you can generate an SSL certificate for an arbitrary domain and get the browser to accept it as genuine.
It depends on the copyright laws of the country. In the USA, the DMCA gives the hosting site protection for 3rd party content if they provide a "take down" process. There may be no equivalent in Germany. The work around for Germans would be to use web hosting services in the USA.
I think it is an absolutely horrid thing of current American society that so many people always run after new stuff and never even bother to think about others when dumping old stuff.
Not always, e.g., freecycle.org seems to have originated in the USA.
Nobody can claim "ownership" of public domain code.
Somebody who is "Sick of this Shit" is hardly likely to chose a license that places all kinds of restrictions and obligations on their licensees, since they don't want to be bothered with suing the licensees when they violate it.
Had he just spent a little more time at the pub, he could have waited for events like this to happen, and finally open up that Northwest Passage he was hired to look for. Just got impatient, I guess.
But where would the USA be without Henry Hudson, and where would global warming be without the USA?
Finally, an up-to-date way to make money out of your kids. Hardly anybody in the developed world sends them out pickpocketting and chimney sweeping any more.
Why could they not? They already do the same thing with real world foreign currencies. Make money in US dollars, get taxed in Australian dollars. It happens all the time.
That's absurd. Saying "I hate Jews/blacks/whites/beef jurkey" is completly different from saying "I will kill [whoever]". Do you kill whatever you hate and see the terms as synomonous?
Saying "I will kill [whoever]" is completely different from actually killing somebody. It's all just speech, after all.
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Car alarms beat all the rest put together. With most of the so-called annoying products listed in the article, if you are not fool enough to use them the annoyance is minimal or non-existent. However I don't even own a car and I still find car alarms annoying.
Such considerations are actually completely irrelevant to politics.
The USA was never supposed to be an unbridled democracy. Democracy easily degenerates into tribal conflict and suppression of unpopular groups and ideas. The USA was supposed to be about freedom from oppression, protection from government, thus the idea of rights that can't be taken away on a whim by politicians. However in real life a government once strong enough will always be able to find a way around such restrictions.
Define "fun".
The BBC article already suggests something even better:
It wouldn't work at all on a system like IRC where "screen names" are not even preserved across sessions. Imagine the usefulness of trying to track somebody who had logged five hundred common names as a "screen name I sometimes use."
This is interesting, although I wasn't thinking of US law specifically. I hope such provisions exist in copyright legislation elsewhere.
The "Making of Additional Copy" is a bit ambiguous to me. I have to assume that it authorises multiple copies, e.g., a copy to a hard disk when the software is installed and another to RAM when it's executed. However in this case, it also seems to authorise installing copies on every computer you own, which is not an unreasonable thing to want to do, but it seems to be somewhat at variance with what software companies would have you believe.
I also notice that the archival copies in (2) need to be destroyed if you no longer possess the computer program, but the hard disk copy apparently authorised by (1) does not ?
If you install the software, claim the license agreement was not legally binding and you didn't accept it, what stops the publisher from suing you for copyright infringement?
It's OK up to "easier for businesses to use Linux", but goes bad after that.
The thing actually worth doing would be an Exchange replacement. Perhaps it already exists.
Just because you control everything the browser sees, doesn't mean you can generate an SSL certificate for an arbitrary domain and get the browser to accept it as genuine.
Presumably commercial law isn't going to be an issue if you are not selling anything.
Somebody who is "Sick of this Shit" is hardly likely to chose a license that places all kinds of restrictions and obligations on their licensees, since they don't want to be bothered with suing the licensees when they violate it.
Finally, an up-to-date way to make money out of your kids. Hardly anybody in the developed world sends them out pickpocketting and chimney sweeping any more.
Why could they not? They already do the same thing with real world foreign currencies. Make money in US dollars, get taxed in Australian dollars. It happens all the time.
An $11 billion surplus is one of the reasons why the country is in a death spiral? Are you old enough to remember the Muldoon years?
Is hate speech not in the same category as threats of murder, or extortion? Is there any government in the world that tolerates absolute free speech?
Sorry, I misquoted. It's "installed or used" in the legislation. See http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2003/30021--l.htm# 363