The bit at the end of the story -- the occurrence that the author supposedly quit their job over -- sounds like a cookie-cutter "social engineering"-type attempt to recover some poor loser's account info.
(Did you hear? They took "gullible" out of the dictionary.)
If anyone needs professional psychological help, it's that person.
Ah... the smell of the closed minds vanishing in the early morning mist...
"[...] remains a more attractive business model to a lot of bands" - Would this be because musicians shopping for contracts can't do the math? Or, because it really is economically better?
... because you believe everything you read in slashdot articles wholeheartedly, but never bother following the links. Did you know that they took "gullible" out of the dictionary?
Well, it compensates the rights holders. If you _are_ a rights holder to your recordings, then find out what the appropriate agency is (the RIAA might even tell you, if you contact them).
Hello in there? Get at least 1 clue about what a patent is. If you haven't read the patent, how would you know what it covers? You obviously haven't...
"[...] not allowed to work in English". Are you trying to coin a new usage of the preposition "in"? English is not a place, or a language... Do you mean say, working with documents in English (which isn't illegal), or communicating with co-workers in English (not illegal), or perhaps providing service to customers in English (not illegal, provided that service is also available in French)?
"I'm breaking the law right now by posting this to slashdot at work!" You communicate with your customers via slashdot? That post was intended for your customers, or something? =)
Or is it just that you don't quite know what you're talking about when it comes to Quebec law? =)
This is all available online from the gov't of Quebec (and, yes, in English as well as French).
And, I would assume that Slashdot posting example you mention would be expressly protected by the freedom of expression provisions of Quebec's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms even if the Quebec gov't decided to short circuit the horribly weak Canadian charter for some reason...)
"Konqueror can do pretty much everything Nautilus does" -- Really? Because Nautilus does everything from ID3 tag reading to folder wallpaper to mind-numbingly watered down (IMHO) newbie settings..
Heh... Have you run a search on freshmeat recently? =)
Although, while there's much more software available for windows, a whole lot more of it costs more than $0 (and doesn't have open source code, if you care about such things).
However the Linux-kernel-based distribution world (or "Linux", for all of you non-RMS-friendly people =) ) need (1) more documentation and (2) some kind of extremely-context-sensitve help system, where informational and how-to type "documents" run scripts to automagically tune their instructions to the system.
"They can never find the file because it is not very intuitive to start finding in the Windows directory" Huh? Virtually all application programs and recent versions of windows default to the user's "My Documents" directory -- which is essentially a home directory.
Although the general lack of security is kind of annoying (e.g. the whole drive being world writeable), this isn't really a factor in ease-of-use for users who don't know what files and directories are.
The levy isn't about illegal piracy... The rate is selected in an attempt to compensate rights holders for new consumer rights made legal when the law was introduced (e.g. unlimited copying of any works for personal use). Hint: News media (major and minor, e.g./.) don't care about getting the facts right. This should be obvious if you know anything about anything.
Now I remember why I stopped reading/. on a regular basis. =)
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The bit at the end of the story -- the occurrence that the author supposedly quit their job over -- sounds like a cookie-cutter "social engineering"-type attempt to recover some poor loser's account info.
(Did you hear? They took "gullible" out of the dictionary.)
If anyone needs professional psychological help, it's that person.
Ah... the smell of the closed minds vanishing in the early morning mist...
"they are liable for any damage to their customer's trust infrastructure."
Heh... Did you read their liability disclaimer? =)
Would you consider the SPP a viable alternative?
"[...] remains a more attractive business model to a lot of bands" - Would this be because musicians shopping for contracts can't do the math? Or, because it really is economically better?
They can't. It's a derivative work. Flame them into submission. =)
... because you believe everything you read in slashdot articles wholeheartedly, but never bother following the links. Did you know that they took "gullible" out of the dictionary?
Point taken. Show us your English composition-related Ph.D., and we won't mod you to -1. =)
Well, it compensates the rights holders. If you _are_ a rights holder to your recordings, then find out what the appropriate agency is (the RIAA might even tell you, if you contact them).
Taco needs a psych evaluation, methinks...
Why would transactions matter? Doesn't it violate claim 1 of the "Portable Personal Devices [...]" patent without transactions ever being involved?
How would that fall under one of the patents? It's not even electronic...
How isn't it? Claim 1 of the PPD... patent covers it pretty exactly.
What claim does etcha sketch infringe? An etcha-sketch doesn't have a touchscreen!
Hello in there? Get at least 1 clue about what a patent is. If you haven't read the patent, how would you know what it covers? You obviously haven't...
"[...] not allowed to work in English". Are you trying to coin a new usage of the preposition "in"? English is not a place, or a language... Do you mean say, working with documents in English (which isn't illegal), or communicating with co-workers in English (not illegal), or perhaps providing service to customers in English (not illegal, provided that service is also available in French)?
"I'm breaking the law right now by posting this to slashdot at work!" You communicate with your customers via slashdot? That post was intended for your customers, or something? =)
Or is it just that you don't quite know what you're talking about when it comes to Quebec law? =)
This is all available online from the gov't of Quebec (and, yes, in English as well as French).
And, I would assume that Slashdot posting example you mention would be expressly protected by the freedom of expression provisions of Quebec's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms even if the Quebec gov't decided to short circuit the horribly weak Canadian charter for some reason...)
"Database"? You're being hopelessly generic. Any tree-based filesystem (for instance) is already a database. What do you mean?
"Konqueror can do pretty much everything Nautilus does" -- Really? Because Nautilus does everything from ID3 tag reading to folder wallpaper to mind-numbingly watered down (IMHO) newbie settings..
Heh... Have you run a search on freshmeat recently? =)
Although, while there's much more software available for windows, a whole lot more of it costs more than $0 (and doesn't have open source code, if you care about such things).
However the Linux-kernel-based distribution world (or "Linux", for all of you non-RMS-friendly people =) ) need (1) more documentation and (2) some kind of extremely-context-sensitve help system, where informational and how-to type "documents" run scripts to automagically tune their instructions to the system.
"They can never find the file because it is not very intuitive to start finding in the Windows directory" Huh? Virtually all application programs and recent versions of windows default to the user's "My Documents" directory -- which is essentially a home directory.
Although the general lack of security is kind of annoying (e.g. the whole drive being world writeable), this isn't really a factor in ease-of-use for users who don't know what files and directories are.
"an MMORPG needs a centralised server"
Why? Sure, the servers need to be synchronized... But not necessarily on the same system.
Same to you. =)
Wal-mart?
"slashdot consensus". Time to switch drugs, my man. =)
How would this work, statistically speaking? How could they predict the number of personal (covered) recordings made?
Well, you can only blame the general population for bad taste. =)
The levy isn't about illegal piracy... The rate is selected in an attempt to compensate rights holders for new consumer rights made legal when the law was introduced (e.g. unlimited copying of any works for personal use). Hint: News media (major and minor, e.g. /.) don't care about getting the facts right. This should be obvious if you know anything about anything.
/. on a regular basis. =)
Now I remember why I stopped reading