Unlike copyrights, patents in the US are only good for 20 years. Therefore randomly patenting a bunch of ideas that have no use now may not be too great of an idea. If They can't be used for another 10 years in an application and then that may take 5 years to implement, then you only have to wait another 5 before the patent is a non-issue.
II'm surprised many college students haven't decided to stick it to the book publishers. I figure some group somewhere would have started scanning the major textbooks and distributing them P2P. Many books could be scanned and probably be less than 20MB. If most of those $150 books were freely downloadable from Kazaa or a torrent I suspect bookstores and publishers would start to feel the hurt. I've had many classes that required a book, but few actually required you to have it in class.
If the.xxx ever gets implemented, this will be a good learning experience. You know there will be a massive dash for millions of xxx domains. Whoever gets to some first may become instant millionaires! I know I'll be going for bbqplate.xxx so I can show bbq porno to the masses!
While it does seem true that most governments are using technology as an aid to keep closer tabs on citizens, what exactly is the "physical controll problem" you speak of?
What are you wanting to do that is legal but you feel your government is preventing?
I like to speed and acknowlege it is illegal. If the streets were monitored 24/7 and all speeding was trackable I'd accept it. I'd push to change traffic laws but I understand there needs to be some rules in place when people are yielding 1-2 ton projectiles up to 70mph.
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I was a big pine user until my hi-tech friend turned me on to this undergrould email client called outlook. It is sweet. It runs on nearly any OS(MS based) and is free(with purchase of MS office). I use it daily. If I get stuck there is even a cool paperclip dude who helps me out!
A masters in digital forensics isn't too different than a paper MCSE. You need lots of real world hands on. As anyone who has a BS in Comp Sci will tell you, much of what you learn in college isn't too useful in the real world.
If you are about to have a CS degree, apply to the FBI, DEA, Secret Service, ICE, or some other federal agency. They are begging for people with technical degrees. You will likely be the resident tech guru and quickly get an assignment and trainig in forensics. If you like it you can then likely get them to pay for your masters.
MIT's site states... "Our estimated cost of attendance for 2006-2007 is $46,350, plus travel. "
If she can somehow swing $46k/year while a student you would think she could come up with $4000 without dropping out. I'm not saying she should pay the RIAA, but saying you can't come up with $4000 just seems like a negotiation tactic on the supposed pirate's part.
One patent "covers a method for subscription-based online rental that allows subscribers to keep the DVDs they rent for as long as they wish without incurring any late fees, to obtain new DVDs without incurring additional charges and to prioritize and reprioritize their own personal dynamic queue -- of DVDs to be rented,"
This seems easy to fix. They could charge a late fee if you keep a movie over 5 years. Frankly it seems funny that the patent specifically excludes late fees. It is not like they are inherrently necessary when renting anything.
They could also add a minimal fee to rent additional DVDs. It could be like $19.99/month plus $0.01 for each additional DVD rented. No one would care and they could even have a policy that they will not charge the additional fee until the account is canceled or it reaches 1000 DVDs. At that point it would only be an additional $10 and they could waive that fee by saying those customers are valued in some way.
With only 3500 items you could keep track easily in an Excel spreadsheet! You don't need a database. You could have columns for title, author, and location in your house. Problem solved in 1 night!
I am a U of Memphis student. As others have stated, few people I've seen in class actually take notes with their laptops. Usually they are surfing, working on other homework, looking at facebook, etc. I've even seen people playing poker in class and heard people say they've seen people surf porn while in class. Obviously those students are not paying attention.
I admit I don't always pay 100% attention in class but I don't make it so obvious when I'm not. It is rude to the teacher and distracting to others. I've had many classes that required attendence but the teacher goes straight from power point. They are very boring but I still go and do what I have to do to get through them.
If I were a teacher I'd either ban them outright or walk around the classroom and harass students who are using them as a toy and not as a tool.
You have a point, but when unions and political interests push people like Homer Simpson into jobs like Nuclear Safety Engineer, the general public will always be concerned.
It has been documented multiple times that he has been caught sleeping at his desk, causing meltdowns, and dropping radioctive materials.
"[NASA's budget] calculates to about $3 per taxpayer per year."
Last I heard, their budget was $15 billion and there are about 300 million people in the US. Not everyone pays taxes, but assuming they did, NASA gets about $50 per person.
I am going to create a game with 1 free level and 5 levels once registered that is VERY easy to crack. The cracked version will likely get traded/shared/burned. Then I'm going to ask $10000 per registered copy. If I can show that I am having $1M of my software pirated per year and burned then I should be able to get a share of that action!
"We purchased five brand new Dell rackmountable servers last month. When we got them, we burned in some linux and threw the windows disks in the trash..."
"Seeing as Dell doesn't force you to buy an operating system with their servers, why did you bother buying them in the first place?"
It seems the least you could have done was to sell them on eBay or somewhere. They could have helped out the coffee fund for a year or two.
In the US, you can easaily buy a DVD player for $30-40. If someone in Europe wanted to view US movies, it seems they could easily and cheaply buy a US DVD player and watch all they want. I'm sure they could buy a new one off ebay and have it shipped for $50. They could also have a euro DVD player for playing DVDs from their region. For such a small price and effort, is banning DVD region free player be worth the effort?
If I were Disney or a major content owner, I'd be more concerned with bitorrent and other file sharing sites.
Aomeone should start a movement to fight this. They should be well organized to show how many people feel this is wrong. Probably the best way to organize would be to but its members in some sort of database. When those people meet they should be able to prove they are who they say they are. Perhaps the organizers could issue some type of document they could distribute to those members. That would show the government who's in charge!
Is it the user's responsibility to keep their music secure? If I park my watermarked mp3s on a PC and there is a security breach, am I responsible if someone takes the music I've paid for and shares it on a p2p network?
If I'm not mistaken, the RIAA was OK with you sharing music with friends. They just didn't like you sharing it with your 5000 closest "friends". If I pay for a song and give it to a friend who puts it out on a p2p network, am I liable if it gets shared across the world?
Watermarking sounds good in theory, but what are they really going to do to someone who only shares one song. The RIAA really wants to get those people serving up 1000s of songs. Its not likely that someone is going to purchase 1000s of songs and share them with the world.
In then end, what does this accomplish? Knowing that Bob downloaded a song 2 years ago. That he put it on a mp3 player that he pawned, lost or was stolen. That whoever got the player shared the song and now we know that Bob was the original purchaser.
"If you feel your CS degree is wasted, work on open source projects or try to bring open source into your organization."
Why do most people on here take it for granted that anyone with programming skills wants to do open source projects? Why can't you suggest he work on whatever he wants and maybe even sell it for a few bucks? Is that so wrong? Again, why should he be tasked to bring OS into his organization? Perhaps they are already there or it isn't the answer for what they need. I'm not bashing OS here, I run Linux on my toaster and serve Apache pages from my fridge. That doesn't mean I want to do a bunch of work and distribute it to the world for free.
I have actually put a few snippets of code out in the public domain and don't have a problem with doing it. Nonetheless, why do so many here feel like that will make the OP and others feel more satisfied with their lives?
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Unlike copyrights, patents in the US are only good for 20 years. Therefore randomly patenting a bunch of ideas that have no use now may not be too great of an idea. If They can't be used for another 10 years in an application and then that may take 5 years to implement, then you only have to wait another 5 before the patent is a non-issue.
II'm surprised many college students haven't decided to stick it to the book publishers. I figure some group somewhere would have started scanning the major textbooks and distributing them P2P. Many books could be scanned and probably be less than 20MB. If most of those $150 books were freely downloadable from Kazaa or a torrent I suspect bookstores and publishers would start to feel the hurt. I've had many classes that required a book, but few actually required you to have it in class.
"would cause a drop worldwide of between 20 and 400 million tonnes in cereal crops"
Luckily, I don't like cereal. Kellogs and Post are the one's who should be worrying! Just me know when global warming starts to affect BBQ!
If the .xxx ever gets implemented, this will be a good learning experience. You know there will be a massive dash for millions of xxx domains. Whoever gets to some first may become instant millionaires! I know I'll be going for bbqplate.xxx so I can show bbq porno to the masses!
While it does seem true that most governments are using technology as an aid to keep closer tabs on citizens, what exactly is the "physical controll problem" you speak of?
What are you wanting to do that is legal but you feel your government is preventing?
I like to speed and acknowlege it is illegal. If the streets were monitored 24/7 and all speeding was trackable I'd accept it. I'd push to change traffic laws but I understand there needs to be some rules in place when people are yielding 1-2 ton projectiles up to 70mph.
I was a big pine user until my hi-tech friend turned me on to this undergrould email client called outlook. It is sweet. It runs on nearly any OS(MS based) and is free(with purchase of MS office). I use it daily. If I get stuck there is even a cool paperclip dude who helps me out!
Wow, I didn't think of it that way. I guess most people who can afford a reoccurring $46k debt couldn't swing an one time extra 8.7% increase.
I'm sure there are many people who can afford a $46k car but can't quite finance that nicer $50k ride.
Who are these people trading apples? I don't know them! I'm not even sure how many apples $4000 will buy.
"This seems to me to be a system that actually prevents compliance with a Constitutional mandate"
The mandate doesn't say that every copy ever released while under copyright has to be accessable without restrictions after the copyright expires.
A masters in digital forensics isn't too different than a paper MCSE. You need lots of real world hands on. As anyone who has a BS in Comp Sci will tell you, much of what you learn in college isn't too useful in the real world.
If you are about to have a CS degree, apply to the FBI, DEA, Secret Service, ICE, or some other federal agency. They are begging for people with technical degrees. You will likely be the resident tech guru and quickly get an assignment and trainig in forensics. If you like it you can then likely get them to pay for your masters.
MIT's site states...
"Our estimated cost of attendance for 2006-2007 is $46,350, plus travel. "
If she can somehow swing $46k/year while a student you would think she could come up with $4000 without dropping out. I'm not saying she should pay the RIAA, but saying you can't come up with $4000 just seems like a negotiation tactic on the supposed pirate's part.
One patent "covers a method for subscription-based online rental that allows subscribers to keep the DVDs they rent for as long as they wish without incurring any late fees, to obtain new DVDs without incurring additional charges and to prioritize and reprioritize their own personal dynamic queue -- of DVDs to be rented,"
This seems easy to fix. They could charge a late fee if you keep a movie over 5 years. Frankly it seems funny that the patent specifically excludes late fees. It is not like they are inherrently necessary when renting anything.
They could also add a minimal fee to rent additional DVDs. It could be like $19.99/month plus $0.01 for each additional DVD rented. No one would care and they could even have a policy that they will not charge the additional fee until the account is canceled or it reaches 1000 DVDs. At that point it would only be an additional $10 and they could waive that fee by saying those customers are valued in some way.
With only 3500 items you could keep track easily in an Excel spreadsheet! You don't need a database. You could have columns for title, author, and location in your house. Problem solved in 1 night!
I am a U of Memphis student. As others have stated, few people I've seen in class actually take notes with their laptops. Usually they are surfing, working on other homework, looking at facebook, etc. I've even seen people playing poker in class and heard people say they've seen people surf porn while in class. Obviously those students are not paying attention.
I admit I don't always pay 100% attention in class but I don't make it so obvious when I'm not. It is rude to the teacher and distracting to others. I've had many classes that required attendence but the teacher goes straight from power point. They are very boring but I still go and do what I have to do to get through them.
If I were a teacher I'd either ban them outright or walk around the classroom and harass students who are using them as a toy and not as a tool.
"For example there are many average people who will never want to, and arguably never need to, use the Internet. "
I fall into that very category. I have never used the Internet a day in my life.
My mother was right! It will make hair grow on your hands.
You have a point, but when unions and political interests push people like Homer Simpson into jobs like Nuclear Safety Engineer, the general public will always be concerned.
It has been documented multiple times that he has been caught sleeping at his desk, causing meltdowns, and dropping radioctive materials.
"[NASA's budget] calculates to about $3 per taxpayer per year."
Last I heard, their budget was $15 billion and there are about 300 million people in the US. Not everyone pays taxes, but assuming they did, NASA gets about $50 per person.
I am going to create a game with 1 free level and 5 levels once registered that is VERY easy to crack. The cracked version will likely get traded/shared/burned. Then I'm going to ask $10000 per registered copy. If I can show that I am having $1M of my software pirated per year and burned then I should be able to get a share of that action!
"We purchased five brand new Dell rackmountable servers last month. When we got them, we burned in some linux and threw the windows disks in the trash..."
"Seeing as Dell doesn't force you to buy an operating system with their servers, why did you bother buying them in the first place?"
It seems the least you could have done was to sell them on eBay or somewhere. They could have helped out the coffee fund for a year or two.
In the US, you can easaily buy a DVD player for $30-40. If someone in Europe wanted to view US movies, it seems they could easily and cheaply buy a US DVD player and watch all they want. I'm sure they could buy a new one off ebay and have it shipped for $50. They could also have a euro DVD player for playing DVDs from their region. For such a small price and effort, is banning DVD region free player be worth the effort?
If I were Disney or a major content owner, I'd be more concerned with bitorrent and other file sharing sites.
"So what happens if the person who you gave access to does something illegal "
Isn't that the whole idea. They are illegally circumventing their firewall.
"Since magnetic monopoles dont exist"
That hasn't been proven and actually most GUT theories predict that they do exist.
Aomeone should start a movement to fight this. They should be well organized to show how many people feel this is wrong. Probably the best way to organize would be to but its members in some sort of database. When those people meet they should be able to prove they are who they say they are. Perhaps the organizers could issue some type of document they could distribute to those members. That would show the government who's in charge!
Is it the user's responsibility to keep their music secure? If I park my watermarked mp3s on a PC and there is a security breach, am I responsible if someone takes the music I've paid for and shares it on a p2p network?
If I'm not mistaken, the RIAA was OK with you sharing music with friends. They just didn't like you sharing it with your 5000 closest "friends". If I pay for a song and give it to a friend who puts it out on a p2p network, am I liable if it gets shared across the world?
Watermarking sounds good in theory, but what are they really going to do to someone who only shares one song. The RIAA really wants to get those people serving up 1000s of songs. Its not likely that someone is going to purchase 1000s of songs and share them with the world.
In then end, what does this accomplish? Knowing that Bob downloaded a song 2 years ago. That he put it on a mp3 player that he pawned, lost or was stolen. That whoever got the player shared the song and now we know that Bob was the original purchaser.
"If you feel your CS degree is wasted, work on open source projects or try to bring open source into your organization."
Why do most people on here take it for granted that anyone with programming skills wants to do open source projects? Why can't you suggest he work on whatever he wants and maybe even sell it for a few bucks? Is that so wrong? Again, why should he be tasked to bring OS into his organization? Perhaps they are already there or it isn't the answer for what they need. I'm not bashing OS here, I run Linux on my toaster and serve Apache pages from my fridge. That doesn't mean I want to do a bunch of work and distribute it to the world for free.
I have actually put a few snippets of code out in the public domain and don't have a problem with doing it. Nonetheless, why do so many here feel like that will make the OP and others feel more satisfied with their lives?