Blizzard allows multiboxing, and people abuse the crap out of this in battlegrounds.
Try gaining territory when you're one-shotted by some guy with 5 shamans wired together on some frankensteinian setup. No you can't cc him, there are 5 tremor totems up.
When blizzard refuses to act on this, which is a serious impediment to a vast majority of peoples' contractual relationship with them, I have no sympathy for their little "bot problem".
here's hoping they lose the appeal and walk away with egg on their face.
Derivative works; fair use. However, the copy that's being stored in the amplifier for a split-second between the needle and the speaker absolutely needs a license, as does each wall in the room unless they're certified to be 100% reflective to audio waves.
The license for your pants' copy of the song is, of course, easily avoided. Though it does drastically change the nature of public performance.
Most people suck at whistling and humming. I think they clearly qualify as parody.
It would make any and all internet sites very weary of allowing any user interaction what soever.
A youtube decision for Viacom will immediately be picked up by the RIAA and other media companies and used to shutter myspace, facebook, and every other social networking site. Those things are chock full of media, and it's pretty much impossible that it's all "non-infringing".
Such a ruling could also be applied to p2p programs which accept any user generated shared materials. The Azureus program can and will be issued takedown notices, and you can say goodbye to usenet.
This ruling would render the internet into "TV 2.0"
Google not only provided a very easy method of permanently removing clips from youtube, they even took their suggestion to make the proactive "filtering" they've been lobbying so hard for on the general internet.
They are not after their own content on youtube because they have the capacity to easily remove it.
they want you tube shut down, and they want a precedent which will be used as a cudgel to prevent any end user participation online
If they get the ruling they want against youtube, it will apply to everything from other video sharing sites, to ebay, to slashdot.
That's right, slashdot will be in very real danger if (or should i say when in this graft/corruption rich environment) this ruling goes Viacom's way.
because we all know movie studios are special, holy, blameless businesses who are utterly 'entitled' to profit.
The viability of these industries' business models is gone, kaput, byebye.
The continued facilitation of their nuking every potentially viable replacement off the economic map is orders of magnitude worse than the proverbial "welfare queen".
Not only are they leeching money off our economy directly through legalized extortion, they are strangling new sectors which could actually create jobs in the cradle.
this is good because google can throw clout into a fight where the little guy can only hope to be popped like a zit. so precedents can fly out of this that can protect the little guy
or precedents which utterly destroy the big guys who provide what little clout there is for the little guy.
being innovation leader for restriction maybe? you cant (normally) install a custom program or use an ipod for data storage out of the box. maybe design leader but not innovation leader oh no!
This is just not true.
The first thing I do with any macs I lay hands on is drop mplayer SVN builds onto them, and the first thing I do after plugging in an ipod is to "enable disk use". I've had ipods since the second generation (the 10 gb brick), and still have the latest 2. 60% of both of these are occupied by normal everyday data.
Do I agree with itunes music store? no! Luckily I can go into parental controls in itunes and turn every hint of it off.
Do I wish they would remove the horrid bloat from itunes? Yes. Do I think they're moving in the wrong direction? Yes.
They're not quite where you are asserting they are yet though.
The problem with supporting DRMed solutions is it lends them legitimacy, when they are nothing more than a spit in the face to what most people actually want (convenient, high quality tracks which still allow them fair use--no.. 128kilobit aac isn't high quality).
People have been trading freedom for security for decades now - whether it's in the form of expanded FISA powers, or in the form of restrictive gun control, Social Security, etc. People set up the slippery slope whenever they decided that the Constitution should be ignored for their benefit, and now we all pay the price.
You're just a "conspiracy theorist nutjob" for saying this, the holy government and it's blameless corporate cronies are good for all of us! (a special shout out to the DHS people monitoring this post)
is the one who deserves the worst president title. Sorry Clinton kept the economy humming after GW's dad screwed it up. I seriously doubt *anyone* will be capable of fixing the current bush's economic disaster for a decade or more. Clinton was no god, but bush is the devil.
Everyone on capital hill is still parroting that dot-bomb era bullshit about how selling bits is the future.
The private sector got real in 1999, and congress is preventing our recovery by helping copyright interests lay waste to anything that dares to grow in the information age.
I predict a victory for youtube in this circuit court, and an appeal to the USSC, where the same activist judges who passed the "induce act" via court ruling will kill youtube 8-1.
After this, hollywood will quickly swoop in like those dragons from reign of fire, reducing pretty much the entire internet as we know it to fine ash.
Thanks to the new innovation of gaming the system via "outrage politics", the governments of the western world will simply cover it up by immediately acting even more egregiously in a new direction.
weighing the good of ALL the people they represent against the good of the commonwealth, against the good of the planet...
and what subjective means are used to identify this? This is why meta-parties are such a good thing.
Enlightenment groups like the freemasons were vilified and persecuted as the bane of civil society by royalty and the pope because they recognized the tyranny and provided points of organization against....get this.. royalty and the pope.
Again, loaded, but I'll concede I do favor the compromises outlined in this bill over the iron-clad adhesion to YOUR interpretation of the constitution.
ROFL
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
what perverse interpretation would allow the government to engage in broad domestic spying without a warrant?
just keep repeating the same old rhetoric, i'm sure one day, when corporations turn into the honest, holy, blameless creatures you characterize them as, it might actually be true.
the server is done - you hear me, guys ? the server is done, move to improving the desktop !
So far, I have not been impressed with the efforts to "improve" the desktop. With every new iteration of the various popular distributions, it seems like more and more functionality is tied to GNOME and/or KDE with fewer and fewer features available through the command line.
When last I checked commands were not "either-or".
Additionally, That's kinda the point...
I don't want to have to drop to a shell every time I want to do file management because every graphical manager lacks a "sudo" dialogue.
2 other important things on my wishlist besides this and color management, an OSS version of "column view" from finder, and I want gnome to integrate true next style navigation. In an era where vertical real estate is at a premium, slapping a menubar into each window is a huge waste. Additionally, many websites use the browser "pallet" as DRM to keep you from accessing certain addresses or viewing source. True mac menubars allow quick, easy access to those functions.
-legislated morality? yes -big government? yes -imperialistic, continuous wars? yes -government imposed creationism? yes -dictating what a woman isn't allowed to do with her own body? yes -crushing any individual freedoms or pesky amendments in the bill of rights which get in the way of our corporate masters? yes
yep... fascism.
PLEASE, I BEG YOU, MOVE TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA! THEY WILL LIKE YOU THERE!
D. vs R. They are two sides of the same coin. They are both only out to gain power and screw the people they are supposed to service.
I'm tiered of seeing this crap all day on TV. Now I get to get it in my face on a TECHNOLOGY site.
Blame the DMCA.
I'm sure a great many of us were happy ignoring these bastards, then suddenly the very basis for competitive pressure in the CE and Computing sectors, reverse engineering, was illegal.
Now politics is in our faces, and the crusade against technology is on the forefront of political agendas, because the internet is the source for every embarrassing correction of their propaganda.
There is nothing "centerist", "left", or "right" about the establishment of the stasi in the USA.
By the way, I grew up "centerist", and stayed "centerist", which means, thanks to fox news, i'm "OMGGODLESSCOMMIETERRORIST".
At this point, the media has been pulled so far off to the right they're in their own world, the same way they're in their own world when they claim certain songs are popular (yet in a neighborhood full of teenagers i NEVER HEAR THEM).
Slashdot Mirror
that's not a limitation of computer hardware, but of the game designers' effort and time.
Sorry, Viacom is still waiting on the ruling which will allow them to do this.
oh, and at least TFA doesn't lump p2p in there.
It is a hack to circumvent the resilience mechanic and 1 and 2 shot people.
When you can prove 5 separate people can cast chain lightning at the exact same millisecond like a multiboxer can, then i'll concede your point.
Blizzard allows multiboxing, and people abuse the crap out of this in battlegrounds.
Try gaining territory when you're one-shotted by some guy with 5 shamans wired together on some frankensteinian setup. No you can't cc him, there are 5 tremor totems up.
When blizzard refuses to act on this, which is a serious impediment to a vast majority of peoples' contractual relationship with them, I have no sympathy for their little "bot problem".
here's hoping they lose the appeal and walk away with egg on their face.
Derivative works; fair use. However, the copy that's being stored in the amplifier for a split-second between the needle and the speaker absolutely needs a license, as does each wall in the room unless they're certified to be 100% reflective to audio waves.
The license for your pants' copy of the song is, of course, easily avoided. Though it does drastically change the nature of public performance.
Most people suck at whistling and humming. I think they clearly qualify as parody.
In this case, a loss is a very real loss.
It would make any and all internet sites very weary of allowing any user interaction what soever.
A youtube decision for Viacom will immediately be picked up by the RIAA and other media companies and used to shutter myspace, facebook, and every other social networking site. Those things are chock full of media, and it's pretty much impossible that it's all "non-infringing".
Such a ruling could also be applied to p2p programs which accept any user generated shared materials.
The Azureus program can and will be issued takedown notices, and you can say goodbye to usenet.
This ruling would render the internet into "TV 2.0"
you don't seem to get it.
Google not only provided a very easy method of permanently removing clips from youtube, they even took their suggestion to make the proactive "filtering" they've been lobbying so hard for on the general internet.
They are not after their own content on youtube because they have the capacity to easily remove it.
they want you tube shut down, and they want a precedent which will be used as a cudgel to prevent any end user participation online
If they get the ruling they want against youtube, it will apply to everything from other video sharing sites, to ebay, to slashdot.
That's right, slashdot will be in very real danger if (or should i say when in this graft/corruption rich environment) this ruling goes Viacom's way.
Is the writer's strike still going on?
I ask this because the trailers for this film, like most of the others this season, have boiled down to "come see the amazing special effects!"
because we all know movie studios are special, holy, blameless businesses who are utterly 'entitled' to profit.
The viability of these industries' business models is gone, kaput, byebye.
The continued facilitation of their nuking every potentially viable replacement off the economic map is orders of magnitude worse than the proverbial "welfare queen".
Not only are they leeching money off our economy directly through legalized extortion, they are strangling new sectors which could actually create jobs in the cradle.
this is good because google can throw clout into a fight where the little guy can only hope to be popped like a zit. so precedents can fly out of this that can protect the little guy
or precedents which utterly destroy the big guys who provide what little clout there is for the little guy.
These people at viacom remind me of those ultra-extremist conspiracy nutcases.
When OJ was on trial, they'd say things like "They took contracts out on themselves to cash in on their own life insurance!!11one"
After 9/11, they'd be talking about how the greys are trying to stir up conflict on earth so they can move in quietly and take over.
The fact these people's fishing expedition is being entertained in court is quite scary.
being innovation leader for restriction maybe?
you cant (normally) install a custom program or use an ipod for data storage out of the box.
maybe design leader but not innovation leader oh no!
This is just not true.
The first thing I do with any macs I lay hands on is drop mplayer SVN builds onto them, and the first thing I do after plugging in an ipod is to "enable disk use". I've had ipods since the second generation (the 10 gb brick), and still have the latest 2. 60% of both of these are occupied by normal everyday data.
Do I agree with itunes music store? no! Luckily I can go into parental controls in itunes and turn every hint of it off.
Do I wish they would remove the horrid bloat from itunes? Yes. Do I think they're moving in the wrong direction? Yes.
They're not quite where you are asserting they are yet though.
The problem with supporting DRMed solutions is it lends them legitimacy, when they are nothing more than a spit in the face to what most people actually want (convenient, high quality tracks which still allow them fair use--no.. 128kilobit aac isn't high quality).
People have been trading freedom for security for decades now - whether it's in the form of expanded FISA powers, or in the form of restrictive gun control, Social Security, etc. People set up the slippery slope whenever they decided that the Constitution should be ignored for their benefit, and now we all pay the price.
You're just a "conspiracy theorist nutjob" for saying this, the holy government and it's blameless corporate cronies are good for all of us! (a special shout out to the DHS people monitoring this post)
is the one who deserves the worst president title. Sorry Clinton kept the economy humming after GW's dad screwed it up. I seriously doubt *anyone* will be capable of fixing the current bush's economic disaster for a decade or more. Clinton was no god, but bush is the devil.
Everyone on capital hill is still parroting that dot-bomb era bullshit about how selling bits is the future.
The private sector got real in 1999, and congress is preventing our recovery by helping copyright interests lay waste to anything that dares to grow in the information age.
I predict a victory for youtube in this circuit court, and an appeal to the USSC, where the same activist judges who passed the "induce act" via court ruling will kill youtube 8-1.
After this, hollywood will quickly swoop in like those dragons from reign of fire, reducing pretty much the entire internet as we know it to fine ash.
Thanks to the new innovation of gaming the system via "outrage politics", the governments of the western world will simply cover it up by immediately acting even more egregiously in a new direction.
Isn't that quote good enough to qualify as defamation. He's basically calling everyone who uses the NTTP protocol a pedophile.
I personally am incensed.
weighing the good of ALL the people they represent against the good of the commonwealth, against the good of the planet...
and what subjective means are used to identify this? This is why meta-parties are such a good thing.
Enlightenment groups like the freemasons were vilified and persecuted as the bane of civil society by royalty and the pope because they recognized the tyranny and provided points of organization against....get this.. royalty and the pope.
Sound like certain technologies to me.
Again, loaded, but I'll concede I do favor the compromises outlined in this bill over the iron-clad adhesion to YOUR interpretation of the constitution.
ROFL
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
what perverse interpretation would allow the government to engage in broad domestic spying without a warrant?
just keep repeating the same old rhetoric, i'm sure one day, when corporations turn into the honest, holy, blameless creatures you characterize them as, it might actually be true.
BTW: TLDR
the server is done - you hear me, guys ? the server is done, move to improving the desktop !
So far, I have not been impressed with the efforts to "improve" the desktop. With every new iteration of the various popular distributions, it seems like more and more functionality is tied to GNOME and/or KDE with fewer and fewer features available through the command line.
When last I checked commands were not "either-or".
Additionally, That's kinda the point...
I don't want to have to drop to a shell every time I want to do file management because every graphical manager lacks a "sudo" dialogue.
2 other important things on my wishlist besides this and color management, an OSS version of "column view" from finder, and I want gnome to integrate true next style navigation. In an era where vertical real estate is at a premium, slapping a menubar into each window is a huge waste. Additionally, many websites use the browser "pallet" as DRM to keep you from accessing certain addresses or viewing source. True mac menubars allow quick, easy access to those functions.
The last sentence in this post says it all. A lot of people in this response column alone are talking about staying home or voting green.
A 'Liberal republican' .. let me think..
-legislated morality? yes
-big government? yes
-imperialistic, continuous wars? yes
-government imposed creationism? yes
-dictating what a woman isn't allowed to do with her own body? yes
-crushing any individual freedoms or pesky amendments in the bill of rights which get in the way of our corporate masters? yes
yep... fascism.
PLEASE, I BEG YOU, MOVE TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA! THEY WILL LIKE YOU THERE!
D. vs R. They are two sides of the same coin. They are both only out to gain power and screw the people they are supposed to service.
I'm tiered of seeing this crap all day on TV. Now I get to get it in my face on a TECHNOLOGY site.
Blame the DMCA.
I'm sure a great many of us were happy ignoring these bastards, then suddenly the very basis for competitive pressure in the CE and Computing sectors, reverse engineering, was illegal.
Now politics is in our faces, and the crusade against technology is on the forefront of political agendas, because the internet is the source for every embarrassing correction of their propaganda.
There is nothing "centerist", "left", or "right" about the establishment of the stasi in the USA.
By the way, I grew up "centerist", and stayed "centerist", which means, thanks to fox news, i'm "OMGGODLESSCOMMIETERRORIST".
At this point, the media has been pulled so far off to the right they're in their own world, the same way they're in their own world when they claim certain songs are popular (yet in a neighborhood full of teenagers i NEVER HEAR THEM).