managing a classroom of people is hard enough without having some rogue student thinking
ok, I know I'm dropping vital words to re-context your quote, but this is what's wrong with education today.
In a world where every fact is just a click on the InterTube(tm) away, we don't need kids who have memorized facts without meaning. We need to teach critical thinking and allow the kids to explore the world and find their own path. And sometimes that means they'll find something that the teacher isn't aware of. This kind of behaviour needs to be encouraged, not stifled with detention.
We're so busy protecting our precious IP, while we stifle the very people who we count on to produce tomorrows innovations.
Public documents are public domain, not Microsoft's (or any other company's) hostage.
The problem is that most people believe that MS Word is a public data-exchange format (ie: that if you write something in MS Word that anyone can read it, edit it etc.)
So the fundamental issue is that most people aren't even aware that there is a problem to deal with.
That is one advantage the For Profit Companies have, Management can get good developers to work on Code they don't think is 7337 or fun or interesting but needed to get the job done.
As absurd as it might sound, in Canada you'd be wrong:
Another use of the song comes from the song being played in a restaurant. Playing the radio in a restaurant is seen under the Copyright Act as communicating a work to the public which is a separate communication from the radio station playing the song. Communicating a work to the public without authorization is infringement. The restaurant, therefore, must compensate the band for their copyright in the performance of the song this is done through having a performance licence granted by SOCAN to play music in their venue.
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I know of this second/third hand: An accountant I know has a client (restaurant) who took this to court and lost...It is very possible and realistic that the garage in TFA will lose as well.
As the content owners continue to clamp down, the noise bylaw ticket will pale in comparison to the copyright infringement lawsuit you will face if you blare your music on the deck...
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Maybe what you're doing, in the hysterical spirit of the times, is confusing lobbying ("speaking up about what you want to your elected officials") with campaign contributions.(bribing elected officials). They're not the same...
and if that MAC address can be certainly confirmed as belonging to the accused
then we would still not know who committed the recorded infringement: just who is the current owner of a piece of hardware that is allegedly used in an infringement.
And so unless they plan to take a network interface card to court, they still know nothing.
they were actively sitting on the back stoop giving other people's stuff away.
No, if we insist on this lousy analogy (it doesn't even have a car in it!), they were blasting their cd-player on the back stoop (playing music to which they don't hold copyright), and possibly accepting requests from neighbours over which cd/song to play next. That's maybe about as close as you can get with this car-less analogy. The bottom line is that "making available" is not the same as "distribution". If it were, then FedEx wouldn't have anything to do.
I think a better measure would be just to look at the drop in music sales over each year.
You need to factor in the bundling effect of the album or cd.
CDs are (typically) 8-12 songs, and many people would buy all 8-12 just for the 1-3 they liked. (often there was no real alternative: the 'single', or a couple of singles cost as much as the full album!)
With iTunes et-al, many (most?) people are buying only the 1-3 they like.
I'd love to see some kind of break-down for buying patterns on these sites: how many 'album' sales are there relative to 'singles'. And if 'singles' sales were converted to album sales at CD prices, would total sales still be down?
Personally, I doubt it...I suspect sales are actually up once this is factored.
This happens all the time. We arrived to arrange our first cooking classes at a store around here to find bulldozers disassembling the place
No, this is having taken your cooking class, and then they show up a little while later and suck the knowledge back out with the Hoover BrainSucker (tm) aka: DRM-Enforcer. Sure they offer you some coupons to buy other things that you previously didn't want to buy (when you had the actual cash in your hand and elected to buy the cooking class!) but on a happy note your newly lobotomized brain can't tell what it wants anymore...so you're happy.
Has anybody ever thought about capturing/OCRing the digital guide itself? My cable-co provides a listing that I can cycle through... could this be automated and 'scraped' (OCR'd) on a scheduled daily basis? This would always give you seven days of future listings...
taking the work of someone else and using it in a way that the creators don't want (the creators have made their desires clear through the license.)
You're confusing "creator" with "publisher" and this is becoming increasingly important as more bands self-publish and whoa! surprise! give away their music.
Do not confuse the wishes of a dying middle-man with those who actually create.
It takes more than 3 years to pay back your monetary investment.
"Three years" should not be a 'too long' perdiod to re-coup your investment.
That's less than 4% of an average lifetime.
I'd take an investment that was guaranteed to pay back 100% every three years.
I don't see energy getting any cheaper on this planet, and I don't see energy consumption decreasing.
The problem is it's not just the solar panels: it's the batteries and other infrastructure (and then maintenance!), and the last time I looked at it, it was closer to 20-yrs to pay back a whole system, and the system had a 20-yr life expectancy. That's break-even assuming it makes it to life expectancy.
What I am interested in is directly attaching an AC unit to a solar panel. Where I live it's generally only hot when it's sunny, so the AC would run for free. Since the AC is one of the most expensive things to run it's win-win-win-win:
I can run it guilt-free
It runs whenever it's hot
I don't need the other infrastructure
I will still pay for the panel in a relatively short time.
Maybe because your man-about-the-town Wilkin (US Ambasador to Canada) makes speaches where he states that he is going to ask for Canadians to pass laws, and the MPAA (the US group representing Hollywood) wants Canada on the watch list and the USTR puts Canada on the watch list citing specifically cam'ing as an issue. (More details are here)
So before you act all indignant-like better double-check the actions of your representatives.
I can't verify it now (damn firewall!), but I'm pretty sure this is the video explaining how to get Canadian legislation passed...
I'd rather be inconvenienced and safe then killed in an avoidable plane crash...
And I would rather die a free man.
And your forefathers* made the same decision; and for them it was not even "would" but "did".
It's terrible how many take our freedoms for granted, and how many willingly trade very real freedom for the illusion of security.
*Assumes US-ian, or one of many other countries where the ancestry fought for (and won!) their freedom, securing a very different and much better life for you.
The only really ligitimate use of that "feature" is to hide what your program is doing, which a ligitmate process shouldn't need to do anyway.
How about making temp files actually be temporary?
Create a file, open it, delete it and work with it to the end of your session. When you close the file, it's gone. Perfect temp file.
As opposed to Windows Temp files that hang around forever because they failed to get deleted at the end of their usage (possibly because windows still had it listed as in use). And no ordinary user dares delete files in/temp 'cause, errm, is it still in use by something?
Isn't that just the normal form of democracy in a capitalist nation?
No. This is the normal form in a corrupt system. Public Officials taking money used to be called "bribery", now it's called "lobbying".
Really, Politicians run the country in the way that they think is best for the people.
These days, they run the country in the way that they think best lines their pockets. This has nothing to do with the interests of the common person.
The final problem/answer is in the form of a quote:
In France the government is afraid of the people,
In the US the people are afraid of the government.
-- French Doctor in "Sicko"
I've thought about this before... anyone have any kind of inkling as to
- how many patents does MS have? or how/where to find out? can they be electronically leached somehow?
- how easy are they to turn from legalease technojumbo to english?
- what kind of effort it might take to review each one?
Maybe an MS patent wiki is in order.
Start with (hopefully) an automated dump of all patents into a wiki of some sort where people can read them, and link to prior art, and/or state whether this might be in use by OSS somewhere... that way we can work to invalidate on one side and assess and remove possible risks on the other.
If this becomes a community effort then perhaps it can be dealt with more manageably... anyone know how to get it started?
The people making these laws and procedures seem to have no idea how computers actually work.
It continues to amaze me how the same people that accept that their computer crashes for no reason also accept anything printed by a computer is pure truth.
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In a world where every fact is just a click on the InterTube(tm) away, we don't need kids who have memorized facts without meaning. We need to teach critical thinking and allow the kids to explore the world and find their own path. And sometimes that means they'll find something that the teacher isn't aware of. This kind of behaviour needs to be encouraged, not stifled with detention.
We're so busy protecting our precious IP, while we stifle the very people who we count on to produce tomorrows innovations.
So the fundamental issue is that most people aren't even aware that there is a problem to deal with.
this is /.
I know of this second/third hand: An accountant I know has a client (restaurant) who took this to court and lost...It is very possible and realistic that the garage in TFA will lose as well.
As the content owners continue to clamp down, the noise bylaw ticket will pale in comparison to the copyright infringement lawsuit you will face if you blare your music on the deck...
sharing is communism.
I think it's pretty clear what is being taught.
there. ...fixed it for you.
And so unless they plan to take a network interface card to court, they still know nothing.
That's maybe about as close as you can get with this car-less analogy.
The bottom line is that "making available" is not the same as "distribution". If it were, then FedEx wouldn't have anything to do.
2) Receive packages for shipping at 'dock-A'
3) ?
4) Profit!
Thank you judge, I finally have the missing step:
3) Don't actually move them to the destination address, but make them available at 'dock-A'
CDs are (typically) 8-12 songs, and many people would buy all 8-12 just for the 1-3 they liked. (often there was no real alternative: the 'single', or a couple of singles cost as much as the full album!)
With iTunes et-al, many (most?) people are buying only the 1-3 they like.
I'd love to see some kind of break-down for buying patterns on these sites: how many 'album' sales are there relative to 'singles'. And if 'singles' sales were converted to album sales at CD prices, would total sales still be down?
Personally, I doubt it...I suspect sales are actually up once this is factored.
Do not confuse the wishes of a dying middle-man with those who actually create.
I don't see energy getting any cheaper on this planet, and I don't see energy consumption decreasing.
The problem is it's not just the solar panels: it's the batteries and other infrastructure (and then maintenance!), and the last time I looked at it, it was closer to 20-yrs to pay back a whole system, and the system had a 20-yr life expectancy. That's break-even assuming it makes it to life expectancy.
What I am interested in is directly attaching an AC unit to a solar panel. Where I live it's generally only hot when it's sunny, so the AC would run for free.
Since the AC is one of the most expensive things to run it's win-win-win-win:
So before you act all indignant-like better double-check the actions of your representatives.
I can't verify it now (damn firewall!), but I'm pretty sure this is the video explaining how to get Canadian legislation passed...
And your forefathers* made the same decision; and for them it was not even "would" but "did".
It's terrible how many take our freedoms for granted, and how many willingly trade very real freedom for the illusion of security.
*Assumes US-ian, or one of many other countries where the ancestry fought for (and won!) their freedom, securing a very different and much better life for you.
Create a file, open it, delete it and work with it to the end of your session. When you close the file, it's gone. Perfect temp file.
As opposed to Windows Temp files that hang around forever because they failed to get deleted at the end of their usage (possibly because windows still had it listed as in use). And no ordinary user dares delete files in
but does it run linux?
No. This is the normal form in a corrupt system. Public Officials taking money used to be called "bribery", now it's called "lobbying".
These days, they run the country in the way that they think best lines their pockets. This has nothing to do with the interests of the common person.The final problem/answer is in the form of a quote:
In France the government is afraid of the people,
In the US the people are afraid of the government.
-- French Doctor in "Sicko"
IBM included a set of GPLd binaries (like echo, ls etc) under /opt/freeware on our servers
You would think IBM would know the difference.
- how many patents does MS have? or how/where to find out? can they be electronically leached somehow?
- how easy are they to turn from legalease technojumbo to english?
- what kind of effort it might take to review each one?
Maybe an MS patent wiki is in order.
Start with (hopefully) an automated dump of all patents into a wiki of some sort where people can read them, and link to prior art, and/or state whether this might be in use by OSS somewhere... that way we can work to invalidate on one side and assess and remove possible risks on the other.
If this becomes a community effort then perhaps it can be dealt with more manageably ... anyone know how to get it started?
I'm not saying it's a good strategy, but in their death throes monsters can kill people...