I mean, they're charging twenty bucks again to download the Solaris ISOs for which all my Sparc machines already possess a license (yes download, not a mail order CD). The Mac guy on the next cubibcle is sounds like she's griping about having to pay for OSX downloads from Apple.
Could you remind me again what does RedHat charge for their product, in downloadable form? Refresh my memory, would you?
Of course we have Haiku
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Picked my nose instead of going to a college. Now I send out spam.
So am I to understand that this system depends on actual spammers respecting trademarks and copyrights, so that only the "good" mass mailers mark their mail this way? If this thing gets any traction, spammers will begin marking their spew just like Habeas does, and Habeas will go out of business trying to sue East Asia. Yeah. Right.
If government-developed software is released to the public domain, then you can end up paying for it twice: Once when you are taxed to fund the development, and again when you pay a license fee to the software vendor that incorporated the public domain code. You pay twice, the vendor only pays once, and the vendor also benefits from selling licenses to non-taxpayer customers, perhaps overseas.
It's quite all right. Whenever someone resorts to "red-baiting" like you did, it achieves much the same effect for that speaker - loss of credibility/objectivity. So it all equals out.
Jack Valenti, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, has said that without proper security measures, the industry won't allow its movies to be broadcast.
Fine with me, Jack. Don't play your movies on TV, see if I care.
Since mere citizens are unable to buy laws that exempt them from prosecution for criminal acts, the thought occurred to me that we should all refrain from committing criminal acts.
An ICMP echo packet sent to www.riaa.org every 5 seconds could not possibly be considered an attack of any kind. I mean, people quite often ping prominent websites at regular intervals in order to keep tabs on their Internet connection, and to keep tabs on their upstream's peering performance. These things are easy to setup and forget, just a one-liner in the crontab, you know. It might be a problem if 100,000 people did it, but what can you do about it if people just picked your site outof the blue as one to monitor?
Just something to think about... no suggestion is intended.
If they seem to be telling you they do not like having you as a customer, oblige them. If everyone did this, the MPAA/RIAA tune will change faster than you can say "bankruptcy."
And if no one but you boycotts them, then everyone one but you will have to live with their restrictions. Boycotting movies and music is drop-dead easy, precisely because no one is going to drop dead from not listening to Eminem or from failing to see Minority Report. This is not like boycotting Monsanto or Exxon-Mobil.
Let me know when you've transcoded to a reasonable format. I don't do Quicktime anymore. I'd rather miss the trailer. It's not like I'm not going to see the movie, after all.
When I first saw The Matrix, I thought they did the opening scene's jump-kick with tweening, and thought it was too cool. Then I saw The Making of The Matrix, and that they did it with the multiple computer-timed still cameras, and was not as impressed as I was before.
If the 2nd movie uses tweening, and the result is better looking than the timed cameras used in the first, I will be impressed again.
The ICANN attorney speaks
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The notion that not enough happens at ICANN in public, and that the answer to ICANN's problems is more transparency, illustrates a profound lack of understanding about what ICANN really does, and how it really does it.
Did it ever cross anyone's mind over there in East Timbuktu, or whatever remote jungle ICANN is meeting at this month, that if ICANN were more transparent, people wouldn't have so many questions about what it does and how it does it?
Discovering small asteroids is an activity well within the reach of amateurs. A 12-16" telescope and a large pixel, large format CCD camera are typically employed in amateur search programs. Most of the Minor Planet Center's registered observatories are operated by amateurs.
LINEAR has a huge advantage over amateurs because its CCD detectors are 100mm square, and its telescopes are 1 meter class instruments. CCD cameras affordable by dedicated individuals are at best 25mm square, and that's an expensive camera (Honda Accord price range). I just received shipment of my new imaging camera and its sensor is only 10.4mm square, and it cost as much as a new motorcycle.
I've read the proposal that passed the European Parliament, and if the policy the Bush administration is attempting to put in place is similar, then it won't pass Constitutional muster.
DMCA?
USA Patriot Act?
2000 Presidential Elections?
Since when has not passing constitutional muster been a barrier to the government doing whatever it wants? The only barrier these days are the poll numbers, and they can just make those up and put it on the news, and most people will fall into line. So the only effective barrier is what they think they can spin in the media and get away with.
. Don't you agree that it is hypocritical to cry foul regarding CD copy-protection, but not the guards built into VHS and DVD works?
Yes I agree. But I don't fail to cry foul on the VHS and DVD copy interference methods. So there is no hypocrisy.
Why the double-standard? Why do we just accept that any VHS tape we buy will be uncopyable thanks to Macrovision (barring any specialized hardware to bypass it that's beyond the reach of the lay consumer), but we so vigorously oppose those similar protections on CDs? I can't copy my VHS tapes, even if I own them and want to make a copy to take on the road in my van, or to preserve the slowly-degrading quality inherent in repeated playing of such media. But we don't cry about it - we just accept it. Why?
Stop projecting your own state of acquiescence on the rest of the world, it's quite annoying. I haven't bought a pre-recorded VHS in years, partly because without the ability to copy it, I am not interested in owning one. That, and the fact that DVDs have better pitcture and sound quality and are more durable, even though movies still suck by and large, and the movie makers suck even more. I stopped buying DVDs in the past couple years, too. So I don't buy them, and there is no double-standard, either.
Re:Local Warming != Global Warming
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Ever wonder why Greenland is called Greenland? Hint: it used to be a greener when they named it a few centuries back.
Bzzzzzt! Try again. Erik the Red called it Greenland in an attempt to make it sound more attractive to the settlers he was trying to convince to migrate there.
Somehow I don't think that a game publisher needs to be held to quite the same interoperatibility standards as an operating systems publisher... because it's a game. Odds are, no matter how much they sue or how inoperable they are, they're not going to push all other games out of the market.
How is this relevant to fair use? Fair use is not about market share. It doesn't matter if a game has one player or 10 million players, it is still legal to reverse engineer it to achieve compatibility with your own creation.
Besides, what exactly is the benefit of playing on a rogue server instead of one of the official Battle.net servers?
None of the problems with cheating that you mentioned exist on private, closed community Bnet servers that are selective about who they let in. Blizzard lets every snot-nosed kid with a valid CD key play. Some people don't want to play with them. Blizzard offers these people no choice. Bnetd offers them a choice. Why is this so hard to understand? If Battle.net wasn't already overrun with cheaters and lamers, there'd be no need for Bnetd.
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I mean, they're charging twenty bucks again to download the Solaris ISOs for which all my Sparc machines already possess a license (yes download, not a mail order CD). The Mac guy on the next cubibcle is sounds like she's griping about having to pay for OSX downloads from Apple.
Could you remind me again what does RedHat charge for their product, in downloadable form? Refresh my memory, would you?
Picked my nose instead
of going to a college.
Now I send out spam.
So am I to understand that this system depends on actual spammers respecting trademarks and copyrights, so that only the "good" mass mailers mark their mail this way? If this thing gets any traction, spammers will begin marking their spew just like Habeas does, and Habeas will go out of business trying to sue East Asia. Yeah. Right.
If government-developed software is released to the public domain, then you can end up paying for it twice: Once when you are taxed to fund the development, and again when you pay a license fee to the software vendor that incorporated the public domain code. You pay twice, the vendor only pays once, and the vendor also benefits from selling licenses to non-taxpayer customers, perhaps overseas.
Ummm, it's free without buying a Dell PC, too.
It's quite all right. Whenever someone resorts to "red-baiting" like you did, it achieves much the same effect for that speaker - loss of credibility/objectivity. So it all equals out.
HAND.
Jack Valenti, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, has said that without proper security measures, the industry won't allow its movies to be broadcast.
Fine with me, Jack. Don't play your movies on TV, see if I care.
Since mere citizens are unable to buy laws that exempt them from prosecution for criminal acts, the thought occurred to me that we should all refrain from committing criminal acts.
An ICMP echo packet sent to www.riaa.org every 5 seconds could not possibly be considered an attack of any kind. I mean, people quite often ping prominent websites at regular intervals in order to keep tabs on their Internet connection, and to keep tabs on their upstream's peering performance. These things are easy to setup and forget, just a one-liner in the crontab, you know. It might be a problem if 100,000 people did it, but what can you do about it if people just picked your site outof the blue as one to monitor?
Just something to think about... no suggestion is intended.
We won't own CDs and DVDs any more.
This of course, is the solution to the whole mess: stop buying CDs and DVDs. Problem solved.
Music will not die for lack of corporate sponsorship. Only corporate-sponsored music will die.
Anyone have any ideas?
Stop going to movies.
Stop buying DVDs.
Stop buying CDs.
If they seem to be telling you they do not like having you as a customer, oblige them. If everyone did this, the MPAA/RIAA tune will change faster than you can say "bankruptcy."
And if no one but you boycotts them, then everyone one but you will have to live with their restrictions. Boycotting movies and music is drop-dead easy, precisely because no one is going to drop dead from not listening to Eminem or from failing to see Minority Report. This is not like boycotting Monsanto or Exxon-Mobil.
I refer to the hobby of not collecting stamps as Aphilately.
I am a aphilatelist.
How will you make a copy of your un-flagged footage to send to the Home Video TV Show, if your flag-ready VCR won't copy unflagged content?
I believe that was his point.
When the Microsoft accounting scandal breaks, as it will eventually, there'll hopefully be very little more of this crap.
I just hope you're all in money market funds in your 401K. DOW to 5000, Nasdaq to 700, that's my guess.
Let me know when you've transcoded to a reasonable format. I don't do Quicktime anymore. I'd rather miss the trailer. It's not like I'm not going to see the movie, after all.
...is an ignorant consumer.
That right Moby? Is that the rationalization for your decline? Dumb people who can't copy tracks don't like your music?
How about: people who know better find little value in your latest rehash of past neo-saccharine throbfests?
When I first saw The Matrix, I thought they did the opening scene's jump-kick with tweening, and thought it was too cool. Then I saw The Making of The Matrix, and that they did it with the multiple computer-timed still cameras, and was not as impressed as I was before.
If the 2nd movie uses tweening, and the result is better looking than the timed cameras used in the first, I will be impressed again.
The notion that not enough happens at ICANN in public, and that the answer to ICANN's problems is more transparency, illustrates a profound lack of understanding about what ICANN really does, and how it really does it.
Did it ever cross anyone's mind over there in East Timbuktu, or whatever remote jungle ICANN is meeting at this month, that if ICANN were more transparent, people wouldn't have so many questions about what it does and how it does it?
Hmmmm?
Discovering small asteroids is an activity well within the reach of amateurs. A 12-16" telescope and a large pixel, large format CCD camera are typically employed in amateur search programs. Most of the Minor Planet Center's registered observatories are operated by amateurs.
LINEAR has a huge advantage over amateurs because its CCD detectors are 100mm square, and its telescopes are 1 meter class instruments. CCD cameras affordable by dedicated individuals are at best 25mm square, and that's an expensive camera (Honda Accord price range). I just received shipment of my new imaging camera and its sensor is only 10.4mm square, and it cost as much as a new motorcycle.
- Canon IS
- Zeiss
- Fujinon
I can hardly wait for the article about refrigeration. Did you know you can actually chill your perishable foods without buying any ice? Amazing!I've read the proposal that passed the European Parliament, and if the policy the Bush administration is attempting to put in place is similar, then it won't pass Constitutional muster.
DMCA?
USA Patriot Act?
2000 Presidential Elections?
Since when has not passing constitutional muster been a barrier to the government doing whatever it wants? The only barrier these days are the poll numbers, and they can just make those up and put it on the news, and most people will fall into line. So the only effective barrier is what they think they can spin in the media and get away with.
So the patent system encourages innovation after all! These guys have come up with an innovation that makes certain patents irrelevant!
Now if only someone could do the same for software patents, and release it under the GPL.
. Don't you agree that it is hypocritical to cry foul regarding CD copy-protection, but not the guards built into VHS and DVD works?
Yes I agree. But I don't fail to cry foul on the VHS and DVD copy interference methods. So there is no hypocrisy.
Why the double-standard? Why do we just accept that any VHS tape we buy will be uncopyable thanks to Macrovision (barring any specialized hardware to bypass it that's beyond the reach of the lay consumer), but we so vigorously oppose those similar protections on CDs? I can't copy my VHS tapes, even if I own them and want to make a copy to take on the road in my van, or to preserve the slowly-degrading quality inherent in repeated playing of such media. But we don't cry about it - we just accept it. Why?
Stop projecting your own state of acquiescence on the rest of the world, it's quite annoying. I haven't bought a pre-recorded VHS in years, partly because without the ability to copy it, I am not interested in owning one. That, and the fact that DVDs have better pitcture and sound quality and are more durable, even though movies still suck by and large, and the movie makers suck even more. I stopped buying DVDs in the past couple years, too. So I don't buy them, and there is no double-standard, either.
Ever wonder why Greenland is called Greenland? Hint: it used to be a greener when they named it a few centuries back.
Bzzzzzt! Try again. Erik the Red called it Greenland in an attempt to make it sound more attractive to the settlers he was trying to convince to migrate there.
Considering your post, the +1 Funny, and my reply, I would say there's a good chance that at least three ex-Navy ELT's read/post to Slashdot.
Somehow I don't think that a game publisher needs to be held to quite the same interoperatibility standards as an operating systems publisher ... because it's a game. Odds are, no matter how much they sue or how inoperable they are, they're not going to push all other games out of the market.
How is this relevant to fair use? Fair use is not about market share. It doesn't matter if a game has one player or 10 million players, it is still legal to reverse engineer it to achieve compatibility with your own creation.
Besides, what exactly is the benefit of playing on a rogue server instead of one of the official Battle.net servers?
None of the problems with cheating that you mentioned exist on private, closed community Bnet servers that are selective about who they let in. Blizzard lets every snot-nosed kid with a valid CD key play. Some people don't want to play with them. Blizzard offers these people no choice. Bnetd offers them a choice. Why is this so hard to understand? If Battle.net wasn't already overrun with cheaters and lamers, there'd be no need for Bnetd.