Both. It's a license or a sale depending on which benefits the RIAA more. Apparently, music files are like photons being waves or particles. They're both until observed (brought into a court of law) when they collapse into a single (RIAA-benefiting) state.
Right
Whether or not you own or license that copy of your your media when you get it online is something that the MAFIAA would like to remain vague. If it ever gets defined in court, one way or the other, big media is going to get sued all over the place. Currently they call it whatever works best for whatever court case they are involved in.
Owned, or licensed? You can't have it both ways. Not forever anyways.
... turns casual and innocent drug users into liars because they have to protect themselves from the horribly ill-informed and paranoid power structure.
This is what bad laws do, turn everyone into a criminal. Once you're a criminal, deservedly or not, you lose at least some level of respect for the law. It's somewhat self defeating.
But then, what do I know, I don't like Star Wars much.
I'm pissed at him for being silly enough to want to give up a paying job in the current economy. I have many friends out of work right now that are highly experienced and very good at what they do. It's a matter of job availability, and there aren't quite as many available jobs as there are people to fill them.
Why would you get pissed at him for wanting to quit a job that he doesn't like? Regardless of that, he didn't say he quit, he said he wanted to change jobs.
If it were me, I'd just quit. No working with MS stuff is actually in my job description, not a problem though, because our clients have stated they don't want it.
Hi! Skilled people can find jobs. If you can't find one, it's because you suck, you're not trying or you have unreasonable expectations.
Have a nice day.
Nice post. Asshole.
Except that he's absolutely right. This guy quit his job because they are switching to MS products. If he was any good he could learn the new system and continue his work, however he has decided to quit and come appeal to Slashdot's anti-MS mentality. He has unreasonable expectations and probably lacks the skillset to do the new job. He didn't even try.
I didn't answer to the content of the post, merely the tone. However, if the company that he works for changed his job description, I see no reason to debase him for wanting to change his job as a result. No point in being unhappy because you don't like what you are doing, or because the shills on/. think that everyone should be happy to work with MS products.
But why are insurance premiums at rates that border on insane? Did all insurances somehow magically agree to form a cartel so you can't escape their clutches? While not impossible, I think there's another reason: Litigation.
<snip...>
I'm talking no fault insurance here. There is no litigation.
You sound like an economist, but I agree with you anyway.
From TFA:
“If you say copying other people’s copyright is an OK thing to do, then you are saying that theft is OK. Everyone is very keen on sharing until it is their stuff that is being shared.”
He said that there was a lot of misinformation about the agreement. “It does not alter the underlying law. It is an agreement, not an Act.
“It is more like a convention of mutual support between signatory countries that they will work to enforce intellectual property rights of individuals or businesses who can prove their rights have been infringed.”
The problem with copyright is that it is too severe. Copyright originally existed to limit the power of private individuals to own what belonged in the commons. To answer to this, a limit was placed on the amount of time that works that should be considered culture and a benefit to society, could remain private property.
The problem being that they (The booksellers) owned all culture, and if you could not afford to pay their prices, then that culture, your culture, was not available to you. Under these conditions, culture is restricted from society rather than being a benefit to it.
Modern lobbying to extend the length and breadth of copyright is taking us back to that very same situation, where all works are owned privately by big media, and public ownership of culture (the commons) is fading away.
You must pay!
The response to this by the public has been to ignore copyright altogether. It isn't so much that the concept of copyright is viewed as wrong, it's that it has become too restrictive.
Any law that would have the majority of society guilty is a bad law. If it doesn't look bad on the surface, then maybe you have to look deeper, but the fact remains that it is a bad law.
Of course, a human life was calculated at what 5 million or something? While if you have a RIAA lawyer, they can find a way to calculate out each song as worth a few million each.
Are you suggesting that a song is worth less than a human life? That, sir, is libelous. You will be hearing from MAFIAA lawyers in the near future.
Exactly my thoughts. If you are creating a product that harms people, whether or not you have the legal right to create that product in the first place is a totally separate matter.
There are approved medicines killing people all the time. Big Pharma only cares about your money, not your health. In this case the law is not concerned with your health either, only that Big Pharma gets your money and not someone else. It has nothing to do with how dangerous the drug is.
If anybody has any bad feelings towards Wikileaks, let the ACTA serve as a reminder that the only reason we even know of it is because somebody on the inside provided it and Wikileaks released it.
Yes. At the end of the day, if a law exists that makes a criminal out of the majority, then it does not serve society, rather it serves to subjugate.
In a free society the primary intent of law is to safeguard the freedom of the people.
In a totalitarian society laws primarily exist to protect the ruling class from the people.
It is unlikely that a law will be passed in a free society without the consent of the governed. No such considerations are required in a totalitarian state. Wikileaks is a threat only to governments that have something to hide.
That was the advantage of growing up with muscle cars. Sure you destroyed a lot of shit, but all that asshole driving as a teenager does tend to sharpen up those driving skills.
... one would think that accelometers would make a better case here than gps, can't imagine their gps being accurate enough for determining how hard you step on the brakes every now and then and how wild accelerations you make and how hard you take the corners...
I would be surprised if modern GPS devices did not have accelerometers. Smart phones have them.
It's not a bias. Javascript has inferior abstractions. Fact.
I may lower my standards and use it when forced, but I am painfully aware that I am stooping low to do so.
The OP will have his arse reamed by JS over and over because a real language does not do the things JS does. And that's just the published spec. What any actual browser does is pretty much completely random. Trying to use JS for anything real is a hopeless task.
I find JavaScript to be very powerful when used intelligently. I've used about every language out there and I've been programming for over 30 years.
If you think jquery makes your life easier, you're clearly using it wrong.
That doesn't make any sense. Aside from that I agree with you. I don't use jQuery either.
Javascript is an extremely powerful language. The problem you have coming from c, c++ and (ugh) Java is that these languages are strictly typed and Javascript lets you do whatever you wish. A few weeks ago I made a statement that JavaScript was like c in that you had the power to soundly shoot yourself in the foot. Then I took it back. You can still do more damage with c.
First thing you have to do is learn what can be done in JavaqScript, then, you have an OO background, apply OO principles in your design and stick with them.
A few points:
- create a heirarchy mechanism and use it.
- global variables are BAD in javascript, I try to keep it down to one and have everything that isn't local belong to it.
- use jslint, javascript is horrible at telling you where problems are (like a missing semicolon)
I currently program in c, Python and JavaScript. Because I'm building web interfaces, but I am fluent in C++, Java, Perl, Lisp, assembly and a host of others. Except for Perl, which is the dogs breakfast, each of them have qualities that I like.
JavaScript is an interesting and powerful language. It does NOT hold your hand.
They had already committed the crime, the sting was to get them to give away their identity so they could be prosecuted for it. It's a legitimate tactic.
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I may have had a shot at reading it if it was French.
Both. It's a license or a sale depending on which benefits the RIAA more. Apparently, music files are like photons being waves or particles. They're both until observed (brought into a court of law) when they collapse into a single (RIAA-benefiting) state.
Right
Whether or not you own or license that copy of your your media when you get it online is something that the MAFIAA would like to remain vague. If it ever gets defined in court, one way or the other, big media is going to get sued all over the place. Currently they call it whatever works best for whatever court case they are involved in.
Owned, or licensed? You can't have it both ways. Not forever anyways.
This is what bad laws do, turn everyone into a criminal. Once you're a criminal, deservedly or not, you lose at least some level of respect for the law. It's somewhat self defeating.
But then, what do I know, I don't like Star Wars much.
Please don't feed the troll
I'm pissed at him for being silly enough to want to give up a paying job in the current economy. I have many friends out of work right now that are highly experienced and very good at what they do. It's a matter of job availability, and there aren't quite as many available jobs as there are people to fill them.
Why would you get pissed at him for wanting to quit a job that he doesn't like? Regardless of that, he didn't say he quit, he said he wanted to change jobs.
If it were me, I'd just quit. No working with MS stuff is actually in my job description, not a problem though, because our clients have stated they don't want it.
Hi! Skilled people can find jobs. If you can't find one, it's because you suck, you're not trying or you have unreasonable expectations.
Have a nice day.
Nice post. Asshole.
Except that he's absolutely right. This guy quit his job because they are switching to MS products. If he was any good he could learn the new system and continue his work, however he has decided to quit and come appeal to Slashdot's anti-MS mentality. He has unreasonable expectations and probably lacks the skillset to do the new job. He didn't even try.
I didn't answer to the content of the post, merely the tone. However, if the company that he works for changed his job description, I see no reason to debase him for wanting to change his job as a result. No point in being unhappy because you don't like what you are doing, or because the shills on /. think that everyone should be happy to work with MS products.
Hi! Skilled people can find jobs. If you can't find one, it's because you suck, you're not trying or you have unreasonable expectations.
Have a nice day.
Nice post. Asshole.
But why are insurance premiums at rates that border on insane? Did all insurances somehow magically agree to form a cartel so you can't escape their clutches? While not impossible, I think there's another reason: Litigation.
<snip ...>
I'm talking no fault insurance here. There is no litigation.
I more or less spoke to that below... http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2662779&cid=38982065
You sound like an economist, but I agree with you anyway.
From TFA:
“If you say copying other people’s copyright is an OK thing to do, then you are saying that theft is OK. Everyone is very keen on sharing until it is their stuff that is being shared.”
He said that there was a lot of misinformation about the agreement. “It does not alter the underlying law. It is an agreement, not an Act.
“It is more like a convention of mutual support between signatory countries that they will work to enforce intellectual property rights of individuals or businesses who can prove their rights have been infringed.”
The problem with copyright is that it is too severe. Copyright originally existed to limit the power of private individuals to own what belonged in the commons. To answer to this, a limit was placed on the amount of time that works that should be considered culture and a benefit to society, could remain private property.
The problem being that they (The booksellers) owned all culture, and if you could not afford to pay their prices, then that culture, your culture, was not available to you. Under these conditions, culture is restricted from society rather than being a benefit to it.
Modern lobbying to extend the length and breadth of copyright is taking us back to that very same situation, where all works are owned privately by big media, and public ownership of culture (the commons) is fading away.
You must pay!
The response to this by the public has been to ignore copyright altogether. It isn't so much that the concept of copyright is viewed as wrong, it's that it has become too restrictive.
Any law that would have the majority of society guilty is a bad law. If it doesn't look bad on the surface, then maybe you have to look deeper, but the fact remains that it is a bad law.
Of course, a human life was calculated at what 5 million or something? While if you have a RIAA lawyer, they can find a way to calculate out each song as worth a few million each.
Are you suggesting that a song is worth less than a human life? That, sir, is libelous. You will be hearing from MAFIAA lawyers in the near future.
There are approved medicines killing people all the time. Big Pharma only cares about your money, not your health. In this case the law is not concerned with your health either, only that Big Pharma gets your money and not someone else. It has nothing to do with how dangerous the drug is.
If anybody has any bad feelings towards Wikileaks, let the ACTA serve as a reminder that the only reason we even know of it is because somebody on the inside provided it and Wikileaks released it.
Yes. At the end of the day, if a law exists that makes a criminal out of the majority, then it does not serve society, rather it serves to subjugate.
In a free society the primary intent of law is to safeguard the freedom of the people.
In a totalitarian society laws primarily exist to protect the ruling class from the people.
It is unlikely that a law will be passed in a free society without the consent of the governed. No such considerations are required in a totalitarian state. Wikileaks is a threat only to governments that have something to hide.
... actual ability to handle a vehicle...
That was the advantage of growing up with muscle cars. Sure you destroyed a lot of shit, but all that asshole driving as a teenager does tend to sharpen up those driving skills.
... one would think that accelometers would make a better case here than gps, can't imagine their gps being accurate enough for determining how hard you step on the brakes every now and then and how wild accelerations you make and how hard you take the corners...
I would be surprised if modern GPS devices did not have accelerometers. Smart phones have them.
If driving insurance wasn't mandatory, driving insurance would be too expensive for anyone to afford...
When I was young insurance was not mandatory, now it is. Even considering inflation, insurance costs are 2 to 3 times what they were then.
It's government sanctioned extortion.
For tracking your purchasing habits they just use your credit cards.
I use cash, though I'm not sure they don't track that.
Dude, stop trying to use jquery as an OO tool, and use it as a functional programming tool and it'll make a lot more sense.
jquery is a monad. Treat it that way, and you'll see its a very elegant tool for dealing with whats ultimately a retarded underlying language.
I'm not trying to use jQuery at all, nor criticize it. I have code of my own that I have been using for ages.
Well, I'm glad you don't feel like you are entitled to words like "the", "a", or "do". Just think, the arrogance of some people!
I predict that he's Russian.
It's not a bias. Javascript has inferior abstractions. Fact.
I may lower my standards and use it when forced, but I am painfully aware that I am stooping low to do so.
The OP will have his arse reamed by JS over and over because a real language does not do the things JS does. And that's just the published spec. What any actual browser does is pretty much completely random. Trying to use JS for anything real is a hopeless task.
I find JavaScript to be very powerful when used intelligently. I've used about every language out there and I've been programming for over 30 years.
You probably just suck.
If you think jquery makes your life easier, you're clearly using it wrong.
That doesn't make any sense. Aside from that I agree with you. I don't use jQuery either.
Javascript is an extremely powerful language. The problem you have coming from c, c++ and (ugh) Java is that these languages are strictly typed and Javascript lets you do whatever you wish. A few weeks ago I made a statement that JavaScript was like c in that you had the power to soundly shoot yourself in the foot. Then I took it back. You can still do more damage with c.
First thing you have to do is learn what can be done in JavaqScript, then, you have an OO background, apply OO principles in your design and stick with them.
A few points:
- create a heirarchy mechanism and use it.
- global variables are BAD in javascript, I try to keep it down to one and have everything that isn't local belong to it.
- use jslint, javascript is horrible at telling you where problems are (like a missing semicolon)
I currently program in c, Python and JavaScript. Because I'm building web interfaces, but I am fluent in C++, Java, Perl, Lisp, assembly and a host of others. Except for Perl, which is the dogs breakfast, each of them have qualities that I like.
JavaScript is an interesting and powerful language. It does NOT hold your hand.
I concur. I didn't RTFA, TFS is contradictory.
Here's a tree that's 80,000 years old. Kind of conflicts with the 43,000 year number in TFA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
Watching Catherine Zeta-jones flex around a bunch of lasers ... Yeah maybe I missed the definition myself
Hmm, I haven't seen that.
Shannon Elizabeth, Eliza Dushku, Ali Larter, Jennifer Smith
Dressed in latex, about to flex around a bunch of lasers... http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1965725696/tt0261392
They had already committed the crime, the sting was to get them to give away their identity so they could be prosecuted for it. It's a legitimate tactic.
Absolutely!