Microsoft obviously has significant experience in finding kiddie-porn. I'm sure their developers were eager to submit to this project. Not sure how they managed to get it released as OSS, though - isn't that more evil than child abuse?
No. Compulsory licencing does not restrict anyone's speech in any way. It does not compel the copyright holder to do anything.
Yes it does - it compels them to license their "speech" (software) to certain users. Why should a company be compelled to license their material to anyone it doesn't want to license it to?
By law you do not require any licence at all to install and run software you bought. This is directly addressed in US code title 17 section 117, and I'm pretty sure there's an essentially identical statement in EU law.
All EULAs are contract offers. You are always free to decline a contract.
How is this relevant? How does this enable me to run Quark XPress without a dongle? Or run a product-activated, DRM-protected piece of software without going through the activation process?
The courts see circumventing dongles and other DRM as being illegal under the DMCA. Are you saying that Quark should be forced to ship its product without a dongle, or license it to another company? Or Microsoft and Adobe are not allowed to use Product Activation to restrict use of their software?
How is the iTunes DRM different to any of these technological methods of access control?
All EULAs are contract offers. You are always free to decline a contract. Of course if you decline a contract then you receive nothing it offers. However an EULA generaly offers you nothing you'd ever want, much less anything you actualy *need*.
What the heck does any of this have to do with companies' technological rstrictions on how their products may be used? Why should Apple be forced to license their software to anyone?
I think there's quite a difference between a decent society, and one where many of its members are completely inter-dependent. In fact, I'd call that a form of systemic dysfunction.
That's not dysfunctional. That's how the world works. We are ALL interdependent on others. You are dependent on your parents to raise you as a child. You are dependent on an environment to sustain you. You are dependent on industry to grow your food.
The original colonists survived because they were hearty, self-reliant people.
Sorry, but that's a bunch of crap. They had a very small population, and exploited vast natural resources. They weren't very efficient at all. remember the Buffalo? They also succeeded because they co-operated. Do you think they did things as individuals? Of course not - things were organized in groups, and people did a lot for one another, and the greater good.
If they were self-reliant, then why did they need so many external inputs to survive? A lone person relying purely on his/her own resources would be dead in the colonial world, before you could blink.
Now we're fat, lazy, and expect everyone else to shoulder the burden associated with the choices that we make.
Well, I'm not fat and lazy, nor do I expect others to shoulder the burdens of my decisions. But the fact is that we now live in massive populations, and you can't just manage large societies as an individual, nor survive on your own.
How, exactly, do we do things like build roads or develop modern medicine, as individuals?
So I should be able to download music from iTunes and play it on any MP3 player I have, iPod or not.
You can. Just burn your iTunes-purchased music to a CD, then play that CD on any CD-player, or rip it to MP3.
If you had actually RTFA, you would discover that this case is about Realnetworks wanting to force Apple to support their songs on the iPod, not the other way around. By that logic, every MP3 player manufacturer should be obligated to play AAC files with Apple's Fairplay DRM.
IT IS YOUR FAULT AND I SHOULDN'T PAY FOR IT. USE FUCKIN' CONDOM YOU IDIOTS!
Do you drive a car? Well, that's YOUR FAULT, YOU IDIOT! Why should I pay for your roads?
The fact is that you are paying for poor health-care and education, anyway. Do you really want to walk through streets full of diseased, sick people and criminals who want to rob you? Do you want your government and society dominated by criminals and fucktards? It's a hell of a lot cheaper to build a society with a decent safety net, than to pay the costs of not building a decent society. Why do countries with free public health care, have much better efficiency, and lower costs than countries without good public health care? America has the highest medical costs in the world, due to the lack of public health-care.
Condoms are cheap and effective. Abortions and unwanted children are an expensive burden to everybody.
The Congress could easily force NON-DRM-encumbered compulsory licensing of recordings on the music industry
Wouldn't that be contrary to the First Amendment? And if Apple has to do this - then wouldn't software vendors and DVD vendors also have to remove all copy-protection and DRM from their products?
Why is this just about Apple? There have been DRM and licensing restrictions in software for many years. So why are they using Apple as a test-case?
Yeah, this is exactly what I want to know. I want to build a cheap "video projector" by removing the LCD from a laptop, removing the rear of the display and backlight. Then, put the LCD on an old overhead projector.
Anyone have instructions for a laptop-to-VGA conversion? or for that matter, any info on disassembling laptop screens?
That's right and today's new improved doubleplusgood American liberals are for lower taxes in the form of increased federal spending,
Huh? If that's the case, then why do liberals want to waste less government money than the Bush administration? It's the Republicans who have increased federal spending and the deficit by massive amounts.
more privacy in the form of abortion on demand,
Not quite correct. Abortion is about freedom more than privacy - although it has the side-effect of increasing privacy by getting the government's nose out of personal decisions over one's body.
The patents go on to 'describe a technique for aiming ultrasonic pulses at specific areas of the brain to induce sensory experiences such as smells, sounds and images'
I've always wondered what Sony smells like. I'm guessing it's something like the Osaka Seafood Concern. Or, for that matter, what does the inside of a motorman's glove smell like? Do chicks like it? There must be some pheromones in there somewhere.
In today's other top stories, Fox News just went liberal, and hired Al Gore as their director of programming. Michael Moore also decided to become a warblogger, and said he was wrong about everything he said about the Bush administration.
1. microsoft windows is crappy
2. microsoft windows are crappy
huh?
Neither. Correct options would be:
1. Microsoft Windows(tm/r/patent pending/mark of evil) is crappy.
2. Microsoft's windows are crappy.
That being said, I don't know what the hell "Apple's Windows" means. I guess it means "Apple's GUI."
However, this is particularly perplexing in combination with "based on Linux" - as there is no Linux heritage in Apple's GUI - it is based on MacOS "Classic" and NeXTstep. Yes, the underlying OS is largely based on a BSD variant, but that's not the GUI or "Windows" by any means.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English Language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
And I wouldn't have it any other way. However, the secret to being a pompous and literate English user is to absorb all the arcane standard, including the stuff that contradicts the other stuff. Similar to being a good Windows support techie, or understanding the Registry, I guess.
Some view the geek as a less technically skilled nerd.
I didn't know it took much technical skill to bite the heads off chickens. Are geeks ranked by how clean the bite is, and the amount of blood? Or is it more to do with style and artistic elements of the performance?
I highlighted the faulty "is" in my previous reply. You said "the Apple windows" and then followed that with "is." "Windows" is plural - so you should use "are" instead of "is."
Not to mention that "the Apple windows" doesn't even make sense in the first place. And, of course, MacOS X is not based on Linux. I'm not sure why you think it is.
since everyone knows the Apple Windows is based on Linux
I'm not sure which makes the reality you live in more bizarre: that you believe MacOS X is "based on Linux," or the strange alternate-reality grammar that you use.
I used to respect Jon to a degree, while disagreeing with him in others. But then I read this article, and it revealed something new to me. Jon Johansen actually uses emoticons. So, now I have to change my position. Jon Johansen is an evil fucking bastard. Not because he wrote DeCSS or PyMusique - but this fucker thinks it's OK to use fucking emoticons. He must be worse than Hitler.
Actually, it is objective. It is looking at Jon from two point of views.
Wow... welcome to 'Fair and Balanced' America - where "objectivity" means quoting from two opposing extremes. In reality, being objective means... being objective... not just quoting two sides. Often there are more than two sides to a story. Often there is only one side to a story. Objectivity involves reporting the facts, not falling for the hyperbole that there are "two sides" to every story. Because that's bullshit.
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If they want more money, why don't they just put a PayPal link up?
Correction: police investigations (via the judiciary) often execute people who did nothing wrong.
I like my women like my cigars. Strong, Cuban, with a ring size of 54.
Microsoft obviously has significant experience in finding kiddie-porn. I'm sure their developers were eager to submit to this project. Not sure how they managed to get it released as OSS, though - isn't that more evil than child abuse?
Mind you, if there was a government-mandated DRM standard, you would probably get the death penalty for circumventing it ...
Yes it does - it compels them to license their "speech" (software) to certain users. Why should a company be compelled to license their material to anyone it doesn't want to license it to?
By law you do not require any licence at all to install and run software you bought. This is directly addressed in US code title 17 section 117, and I'm pretty sure there's an essentially identical statement in EU law. All EULAs are contract offers. You are always free to decline a contract.
How is this relevant? How does this enable me to run Quark XPress without a dongle? Or run a product-activated, DRM-protected piece of software without going through the activation process?
The courts see circumventing dongles and other DRM as being illegal under the DMCA. Are you saying that Quark should be forced to ship its product without a dongle, or license it to another company? Or Microsoft and Adobe are not allowed to use Product Activation to restrict use of their software?
How is the iTunes DRM different to any of these technological methods of access control?
All EULAs are contract offers. You are always free to decline a contract. Of course if you decline a contract then you receive nothing it offers. However an EULA generaly offers you nothing you'd ever want, much less anything you actualy *need*.
What the heck does any of this have to do with companies' technological rstrictions on how their products may be used? Why should Apple be forced to license their software to anyone?
That's not dysfunctional. That's how the world works. We are ALL interdependent on others. You are dependent on your parents to raise you as a child. You are dependent on an environment to sustain you. You are dependent on industry to grow your food.
The original colonists survived because they were hearty, self-reliant people.
Sorry, but that's a bunch of crap. They had a very small population, and exploited vast natural resources. They weren't very efficient at all. remember the Buffalo? They also succeeded because they co-operated. Do you think they did things as individuals? Of course not - things were organized in groups, and people did a lot for one another, and the greater good.
If they were self-reliant, then why did they need so many external inputs to survive? A lone person relying purely on his/her own resources would be dead in the colonial world, before you could blink.
Now we're fat, lazy, and expect everyone else to shoulder the burden associated with the choices that we make.
Well, I'm not fat and lazy, nor do I expect others to shoulder the burdens of my decisions. But the fact is that we now live in massive populations, and you can't just manage large societies as an individual, nor survive on your own.
How, exactly, do we do things like build roads or develop modern medicine, as individuals?
You can. Just burn your iTunes-purchased music to a CD, then play that CD on any CD-player, or rip it to MP3.
If you had actually RTFA, you would discover that this case is about Realnetworks wanting to force Apple to support their songs on the iPod, not the other way around. By that logic, every MP3 player manufacturer should be obligated to play AAC files with Apple's Fairplay DRM.
Do you drive a car? Well, that's YOUR FAULT, YOU IDIOT! Why should I pay for your roads?
The fact is that you are paying for poor health-care and education, anyway. Do you really want to walk through streets full of diseased, sick people and criminals who want to rob you? Do you want your government and society dominated by criminals and fucktards? It's a hell of a lot cheaper to build a society with a decent safety net, than to pay the costs of not building a decent society. Why do countries with free public health care, have much better efficiency, and lower costs than countries without good public health care? America has the highest medical costs in the world, due to the lack of public health-care.
Condoms are cheap and effective. Abortions and unwanted children are an expensive burden to everybody.
Wouldn't that be contrary to the First Amendment? And if Apple has to do this - then wouldn't software vendors and DVD vendors also have to remove all copy-protection and DRM from their products?
Why is this just about Apple? There have been DRM and licensing restrictions in software for many years. So why are they using Apple as a test-case?
Anyone have instructions for a laptop-to-VGA conversion? or for that matter, any info on disassembling laptop screens?
Huh? If that's the case, then why do liberals want to waste less government money than the Bush administration? It's the Republicans who have increased federal spending and the deficit by massive amounts.
more privacy in the form of abortion on demand,
Not quite correct. Abortion is about freedom more than privacy - although it has the side-effect of increasing privacy by getting the government's nose out of personal decisions over one's body.
You've got the 4:30 Autogyro to Siam!
I've always wondered what Sony smells like. I'm guessing it's something like the Osaka Seafood Concern. Or, for that matter, what does the inside of a motorman's glove smell like? Do chicks like it? There must be some pheromones in there somewhere.
And why isn't this thing being released in September?
In today's other top stories, Fox News just went liberal, and hired Al Gore as their director of programming. Michael Moore also decided to become a warblogger, and said he was wrong about everything he said about the Bush administration.
Neither. Correct options would be:
1. Microsoft Windows(tm/r/patent pending/mark of evil) is crappy.
2. Microsoft's windows are crappy.
That being said, I don't know what the hell "Apple's Windows" means. I guess it means "Apple's GUI."
However, this is particularly perplexing in combination with "based on Linux" - as there is no Linux heritage in Apple's GUI - it is based on MacOS "Classic" and NeXTstep. Yes, the underlying OS is largely based on a BSD variant, but that's not the GUI or "Windows" by any means.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English Language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
And I wouldn't have it any other way. However, the secret to being a pompous and literate English user is to absorb all the arcane standard, including the stuff that contradicts the other stuff. Similar to being a good Windows support techie, or understanding the Registry, I guess.
MTV has music now??
... you're GNU here?
Your ideas intriuge me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I didn't know it took much technical skill to bite the heads off chickens. Are geeks ranked by how clean the bite is, and the amount of blood? Or is it more to do with style and artistic elements of the performance?
I highlighted the faulty "is" in my previous reply. You said "the Apple windows" and then followed that with "is." "Windows" is plural - so you should use "are" instead of "is."
Not to mention that "the Apple windows" doesn't even make sense in the first place. And, of course, MacOS X is not based on Linux. I'm not sure why you think it is.
I'm not sure which makes the reality you live in more bizarre: that you believe MacOS X is "based on Linux," or the strange alternate-reality grammar that you use.
I used to respect Jon to a degree, while disagreeing with him in others. But then I read this article, and it revealed something new to me. Jon Johansen actually uses emoticons. So, now I have to change my position. Jon Johansen is an evil fucking bastard. Not because he wrote DeCSS or PyMusique - but this fucker thinks it's OK to use fucking emoticons. He must be worse than Hitler.
Wow ... welcome to 'Fair and Balanced' America - where "objectivity" means quoting from two opposing extremes. In reality, being objective means ... being objective ... not just quoting two sides. Often there are more than two sides to a story. Often there is only one side to a story. Objectivity involves reporting the facts, not falling for the hyperbole that there are "two sides" to every story. Because that's bullshit.