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The idea of a Shaolin Monk 'considering' legal action, in order to defend himself against a single bulletin board poster, just doesn't have the same impact, when we live in a day and age where another group of religious fighters abduct real reporters, cut of their heads, and post the video with all gurgling noises included, to the internet.
At first I thought you were kidding, but your sig really does link to a misandry site. If you were kidding, then you got me. If not, then I can hope that kind will be called out for being the bigots you are, just as other bigots have been in the past.
"In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor." - Warren Farrell
What an insensitive summary, but I guess that's to be expected from the patriarchal and male-dominated Slashdot blog. So for the last time you unenlightend masoginists, Bloggers are male, and Bloghers are female. Sheesh.
While Microsofts methods were perhaps immoral, they DID follow the protocol. Do we really want a situation where votes can be nullified in spite of the fact that they were obtained by following the rules?
Sweden was not disqualified for 'following the rules', but for violating the rules by voting more than once. Don't buy the spin from the anti-M$ trolls.
I find it's easier to take an existing program, and alter it a bit here and there, than to start writting completly from scratch. If they are successful though, I'm willing to bet they won't be in a 'sharing' mood. (more likely a 'patent' mood)
Um, what do you think campaign contributions are ? Seen from the outside, the US appears extremely corrupted to me.
You would be right if they came from the outside. Because governments are limited to national boundries, so votes and contributions are to come from citizens. But companies are global, they market globally and are responsible globally, so a country may decide to participate with any company they chooose, and ban any company they choose. Microsoft doesn't get banned because too many people love them.
While Americans consider graft to be wrong, many American companies find the only way to access foreign markets is to pay off the corrupt gatekeepers. This doesn't neccessarily mean the people of those countries are inferior for failing to erradicate corruption, it just means their culture holds 'different' values.
The BBC has a nice page of links to key reports regarding how various countries and politicians around the world held 'different' cultural values in the Oil-For-Food scandal.
companies don't want the bad press of sueing a kid.
I don't believe you're counting the RIAA on this bit of opinion are you?
Yes and No, the RIAA is more like a representative for many companies, they really don't sell anything to consumers that consumers could decide to boycott if there was bad press. Hmm, but they do work for the music labels, so if one did want to show disapproval of their behavior, they could stop buying their crappy music.
1.) DVD Jon was actualy a pretty knowledgeable hardcore geek way before he did the CSS crack.
2.) He actually DID get sued. By big companies. On several occasions. ...what was your point again? :-)
My point was I haven't read a thing, but don't believe anything from the press. Nothing against the kid, he is probably smarter than I am, but every sound byte I hear focuses on the wonderment of a hacker genius kid that did that cured cancer, when all that was accomplished was breaking the latest pathetic artificial DRM lock down on a product. I'm just ranting thanks for listening.:-)
Maybe I'm just being cynical, but without reading a single article, I feel fairly confident concluding that the kid may be smart for his age but that he didn't do this.
Like that DVD Jon guy, other people did the work, but they are adults, adults with jobs, and they don't want to get sued to death, so they let an underage person take the credit and press. Who would dare sue a kid, because the press luv the fantasy story of some hacker kid sticking it to the man, and companies don't want the bad press of sueing a kid.
Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules.
My favorite example is about those 2 SouthPark guys. When they made Orgazmo for an independant studio that couldn't afford to pay the MPAA, they had to accept the NC-17 rating. But when they made Bigger, Longer, & Uncut and revcieved another NC-17 rating they accepted it, but Paramount wouldn't and had the MPAA to give it a R rating without a single edit to the film, zip.
Hardly arbitrary or 'willy-nilly', the MPAA knows who pays the bills. The MPAA (and the RIAA for that matter) are paid to protect the big guys from competition from the upcoming smaller guys. If the big guys have less competition, then they can produce crap, and you'll pay anyway because it's all that's available. Thank you MPAA & RIAA.
Just like Falun Gong people are all given medical checkups and then entered into a database, the same will happen to anyone guilty of unlawful reincarnation. Infanticide would be a terrible waste. Waste Not, Want Not.
If you google Tiananmen does a little animated tank come out and crush your cursor?
I laughed at first too, because the whole idea seems pointless and annoying, as if we don't have enough unwanted pop-ups and such. But then I realize I'm free, so I can only imagine how creepy, and how sad it is to be reminded every half hour that you are so subjugated.
Federal mandatory sentences were found unconstitutional in 2005 and are now interpreted merely as guidelines. The district and appeals courts now have full discretion over sentencing. So even if your claim was once correct, it's not so correct anymore.
Looks like you right, I missed that recent ruling. But it looks like judges are for the most part still following them and if they don't they are required to produce a written explanation. Funny how the DEA page may not say 'mandatory' but says 'no less than' under penalties
If firing a Star Wars movie prop into space, is what it takes, to get the next generations attention and acceptance of continued funding of NASA programs, then perhaps we should rethink the whole thing. Isn't teaching the truth about outer-space enough? because I don't think another Lance Bass is the way to save NASA.
Now I'm going to withhold judgment and ask you to clarify what you meant by "punishing people like you". I mean, to me it really sounds like you're insinuating that just because he drew the distinction between "the illegal use of a protocol" and "the use of a protocol" you're calling him a criminal. I really hope that's not what you meant, because that would be short-sighted, ignorant, and just plain wrong. It's a very damaging assumption that holds back progress.
Well, I suppose the top-parent poster most likely was making a tangent-topic statement about the use of terminology, but I certainly wouldn't want to be thought of as 'holding back progress' so I'll expound.:-)
The full statement was 'Strange but true, because accuracy isn't important, punishing people like you is important.' It's comparative, and means that the law wasn't passed to make an accurate distinction between murdering someone with an old rifle, or whether it was the newest model of handgun, the law was passed to punish people that murder.
The reason it seems reasonable to make an objection about accuracy is because copyright infringment != stealing != murder, and without a clear fair-use declaration of peoples' rights then we will continue to see more and more cases like this one.
What laws, please? I'm going to be a prosecutor in less than a year. I'd really like to know about this great boon to my profession.
Without singling out any one state, federal quidelines from the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 redefined mandatory sentances, ammounts as small as 5 grams of crack cocaine automatically get the 5 year minimum (and 50 grams get a 10 year minimum). Note that this if even for first-time offenders, with no history of any crimes, and no evidence but the ammount found. Exactly what is he going to deal? 1 gram each to 5 people?
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(32 bits) x (60 seconds) x (60 minutes) x (24 hours) x (365 days) x (30 years) = (30,274,560,000 bits)
(30,274,560,000 bits) / (8 bits) / (1024 bytes) / (1024 KiB) / (1024 MiB) = (about 3.5 GiB over 30 years)
I don't think a modern computer would help, because it's clear that Comcast is seriously throttling their torrent connection.
The idea of a Shaolin Monk 'considering' legal action, in order to defend himself against a single bulletin board poster, just doesn't have the same impact, when we live in a day and age where another group of religious fighters abduct real reporters, cut of their heads, and post the video with all gurgling noises included, to the internet.
What an insensitive summary, but I guess that's to be expected from the patriarchal and male-dominated Slashdot blog. So for the last time you unenlightend masoginists, Bloggers are male, and Bloghers are female. Sheesh.
I find it's easier to take an existing program, and alter it a bit here and there, than to start writting completly from scratch. If they are successful though, I'm willing to bet they won't be in a 'sharing' mood. (more likely a 'patent' mood)
While Americans consider graft to be wrong, many American companies find the only way to access foreign markets is to pay off the corrupt gatekeepers. This doesn't neccessarily mean the people of those countries are inferior for failing to erradicate corruption, it just means their culture holds 'different' values.
The BBC has a nice page of links to key reports regarding how various countries and politicians around the world held 'different' cultural values in the Oil-For-Food scandal.
Yes and No, the RIAA is more like a representative for many companies, they really don't sell anything to consumers that consumers could decide to boycott if there was bad press. Hmm, but they do work for the music labels, so if one did want to show disapproval of their behavior, they could stop buying their crappy music.
Maybe I'm just being cynical, but without reading a single article, I feel fairly confident concluding that the kid may be smart for his age but that he didn't do this.
Like that DVD Jon guy, other people did the work, but they are adults, adults with jobs, and they don't want to get sued to death, so they let an underage person take the credit and press. Who would dare sue a kid, because the press luv the fantasy story of some hacker kid sticking it to the man, and companies don't want the bad press of sueing a kid.
Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules.
My favorite example is about those 2 SouthPark guys. When they made Orgazmo for an independant studio that couldn't afford to pay the MPAA, they had to accept the NC-17 rating. But when they made Bigger, Longer, & Uncut and revcieved another NC-17 rating they accepted it, but Paramount wouldn't and had the MPAA to give it a R rating without a single edit to the film, zip.
Hardly arbitrary or 'willy-nilly', the MPAA knows who pays the bills. The MPAA (and the RIAA for that matter) are paid to protect the big guys from competition from the upcoming smaller guys. If the big guys have less competition, then they can produce crap, and you'll pay anyway because it's all that's available. Thank you MPAA & RIAA.
Just like Falun Gong people are all given medical checkups and then entered into a database, the same will happen to anyone guilty of unlawful reincarnation. Infanticide would be a terrible waste. Waste Not, Want Not.
If firing a Star Wars movie prop into space, is what it takes, to get the next generations attention and acceptance of continued funding of NASA programs, then perhaps we should rethink the whole thing. Isn't teaching the truth about outer-space enough? because I don't think another Lance Bass is the way to save NASA.
The full statement was 'Strange but true, because accuracy isn't important, punishing people like you is important.' It's comparative, and means that the law wasn't passed to make an accurate distinction between murdering someone with an old rifle, or whether it was the newest model of handgun, the law was passed to punish people that murder.
The reason it seems reasonable to make an objection about accuracy is because copyright infringment != stealing != murder, and without a clear fair-use declaration of peoples' rights then we will continue to see more and more cases like this one.