Let me ask you this, why can't I offer them to someone else for use? How about the non technical people out their that do not know how (or are to lazy) to rip songs from a CD. Why can't someone download a song from someone else if they have already purchased the music? If I already own the music where is the harm in downloading it from a P2P network? Maybe I do not understand the copyright laws, but the way I see it, it is perfectly legal under those circumstances.
No, it's not perfectly legal, and no, you do not understand copyright laws.
Let's take two people, X and Y. X and Y each have one copy of a particular CD, which they each purchased legally. Now let's assume that X has made some MP3s from his CD, which he uses to play on his MP3 player. He also brings a copy of those MP3s to work so that he can listen to them with his work PC. So far, everything is legal.
You're assuming that since Y also owns a copy of the same CD, that X can give his MP3s to Y legally. That is not correct. Y is allowed to make MP3s from his own CD but not X's. I know what you're thinking - they're identical files, but that's irrelevant. This is the fundamental flaw that most P2P advocates make.
It's kind of like you bought the same CD as me. Now you want a backup copy and don't have a burner/cd burners broken/you don't own a computer/place you execuse here. So I now burn my purchased copy and give it to you.
Again, this is not legal. You can burn a copy of his CD, but not yours. Yes, it's true that no one would know the difference, but again, that's not relevant. Your friend can make a backup copy of only his CD, not yours.
Linus will not integrate the kernel debugger into the main kernel tree, forcing SGI to keep updating the patches, and forcing everyone to re-apply them whenever they download a new kernel.
Getting a.o file and a source-code wrapper that needs to be recompiled does not make a driver easy to install!
Contrary to what you believe, you have only strengthend my argument, not weakened it.
I agree completely. I've worked as both a Windows and a Linux driver developer. Developing a driver for Windows is way easier. Linus doesn't even want anyone to use a kernel debugger! How stupid is that?
Then of course, there is the problem of not supporting binary-only drivers. Not only does it make it almost impossible to protect a company's IP by closing the source, but it's extremely difficult to ship just a driver and have someone just install it on his system. If the user is using a lesser-known distribution, or has compiled his own kernel, the only way he can add your driver is to recompile it himself!
That's because in America, there is a real problem with recently-dismissed employees taking revenge on their former companies. If they're not immediately escorted out of the building, there's a chance they might "do something" right before they leave.
If you disable all logging, a properly configured laptop with enough memory should almost never go to disk. The laptop will then power down the hard drive. Some exceptions would be if you had a POP3 and/or SMTP server.
Hmmm... that would be a useful FAQ: How to configure a Linux server to minimize/eliminate disk I/0.
However, just because an employee makes a deal outside of their authority doesn't automatically reverse the deal.
You're right. It doesn't reverse the deal, it invalidates it. WASTE is not under the GPL, since the copyright owner (AOL) never released it under the GPL.
Hmm.. it appears the NYT has gotten smart and deleted the cypherphunks account? I guess all those slashdotters logging in with that account made them notice. Oh well.
IF ISPs go back to metered bandwith almost universally, they are going to be INNUNDATED with complaints that spam and getting hacked with viruses and worms are eating all the customers bandwith.
Easy solution: exclude transfers from the ISP's POP3/IMAP server from the bandwith caps. The customer can then receive as much email as he wants without paying extra for any of it, even the spam. All other transfers (sending email, using an outside POP/IMAP server, ftp, http, p2p, news) are metered.
How about declaring that if access requires the user to specify a password, and the user is not "authorized" to know the password, then that access is not authorized. If no password is required, then there's no way the access can be unauthorized.
No, what he's saying is that if Apple builds a system based on Opteron or any other non-PPC chip, it will not be based on commodity PC hardware. For instance, the BIOS will be completely different than what PCs have today. And since the BIOS won't be PC-compatible, it won't be able to boot DOS or any other OS that uses PC BIOSes in any way (i.e. all of them).
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No, it's not perfectly legal, and no, you do not understand copyright laws.
Let's take two people, X and Y. X and Y each have one copy of a particular CD, which they each purchased legally. Now let's assume that X has made some MP3s from his CD, which he uses to play on his MP3 player. He also brings a copy of those MP3s to work so that he can listen to them with his work PC. So far, everything is legal.
You're assuming that since Y also owns a copy of the same CD, that X can give his MP3s to Y legally. That is not correct. Y is allowed to make MP3s from his own CD but not X's. I know what you're thinking - they're identical files, but that's irrelevant. This is the fundamental flaw that most P2P advocates make.
It's kind of like you bought the same CD as me. Now you want a backup copy and don't have a burner/cd burners broken/you don't own a computer/place you execuse here. So I now burn my purchased copy and give it to you.
Again, this is not legal. You can burn a copy of his CD, but not yours. Yes, it's true that no one would know the difference, but again, that's not relevant. Your friend can make a backup copy of only his CD, not yours.
No shit. livegoats just made it to my foes list. What a moron.
Are you kidding? He's doesn't need a self-spanking monkey. He just spanks his own monkey. All freakin' day long too, probably.
- Linus will not integrate the kernel debugger into the main kernel tree, forcing SGI to keep updating the patches, and forcing everyone to re-apply them whenever they download a new kernel.
- Getting a
.o file and a source-code wrapper that needs to be recompiled does not make a driver easy to install!
Contrary to what you believe, you have only strengthend my argument, not weakened it.Then of course, there is the problem of not supporting binary-only drivers. Not only does it make it almost impossible to protect a company's IP by closing the source, but it's extremely difficult to ship just a driver and have someone just install it on his system. If the user is using a lesser-known distribution, or has compiled his own kernel, the only way he can add your driver is to recompile it himself!
IDEOts?
That's because in America, there is a real problem with recently-dismissed employees taking revenge on their former companies. If they're not immediately escorted out of the building, there's a chance they might "do something" right before they leave.
How do you recycle DVDs?
Hmmm... that would be a useful FAQ: How to configure a Linux server to minimize/eliminate disk I/0.
You're right. It doesn't reverse the deal, it invalidates it. WASTE is not under the GPL, since the copyright owner (AOL) never released it under the GPL.
Hmm.. it appears the NYT has gotten smart and deleted the cypherphunks account? I guess all those slashdotters logging in with that account made them notice. Oh well.
God, you people are such morons. Just use the userid/password of cypherphunks/cypherphunks like everyone else and be done with it!
The pronouns for "you" and "they" are the same. I know, it sucks.
I have a 120GB drive and I get about 37 hours with everything recorded at best.
I'm making a DVD collection of every episode of Good Eats because it's not possible to buy DVDs of every episode.
Easy solution: exclude transfers from the ISP's POP3/IMAP server from the bandwith caps. The customer can then receive as much email as he wants without paying extra for any of it, even the spam. All other transfers (sending email, using an outside POP/IMAP server, ftp, http, p2p, news) are metered.
That was very well written, but I want to point out that "irregardless" is not a word. You meant to say "regardless".
There is a space between the "*" and the ".0" in the original post. I can select it with my mouse.
I think he is. God, I feel sorry for him.
Dumbass, vending machines don't take $20 bills!
How about declaring that if access requires the user to specify a password, and the user is not "authorized" to know the password, then that access is not authorized. If no password is required, then there's no way the access can be unauthorized.
Definitely not.
If the channel is added to a cable package that you subscribe to, your rates will go up, even if you don't watch that channel.
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No, what he's saying is that if Apple builds a system based on Opteron or any other non-PPC chip, it will not be based on commodity PC hardware. For instance, the BIOS will be completely different than what PCs have today. And since the BIOS won't be PC-compatible, it won't be able to boot DOS or any other OS that uses PC BIOSes in any way (i.e. all of them).